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Revere Middle School
Monthly Parent Update
February 2013
Revere Middle School
Wins at Power of the Pen District Competition!
The 7th & 8th grade Power of the Pen writing teams attended the district competition at St. Vincent St. Mary’s
high school in Akron on Saturday, January 12th. This tournament had 14 districts competing for points to
move them on to the regional event in February. Revere Middle School had 10 writers who wrote creative
stories in the tournament. This team has been working to develop their creative writing skills in hopes of a
win at districts. The 7th grade team had a fantastic win with an individual award of 8th place for Patrick
Guerreau. On the 8th grade team the individual winners were Serena Juchnowski with a 12th place medallion
and Joci Scott with a 7th place medallion. The 8th grade team earned enough points overall to win the 3rd
place trophy for the competition! In addition to these top winners there are several other team members who
qualified for the upcoming regional tournament which will be held at Kent State University on February 23 rd .
They are: Paige Fritz, Sarah Blake, Madison Umina and Jacob Zimmerman. Congratulations to all the writers!
Pictured are: Mrs. Duke coach. Eighth grade team members in the back row from left to right: Danielle
Kakish, Serena Juchnowski, Sarah Blake, Madison Umina, Jacob Zimmerman, and Joci Scott. Seventh grade
team members in the front row from left to right include: Paige Fritz, Sukhmani Kaur, Mandy Kraynak, and
Patrick Guerreau. (not pictured: Jack Baker & Leah Espinal and Mrs. Shoop) The team is co-coached by
advisors Mrs. Lori Duke and Mrs. Carol Shoop.
Super Spellers
Congratulations to our RMS Spelling Bee Winners!
First place: Sukhmani Kaur
Second Place: Joel Niemi
Third Place: Tiger Du
Fourth Place: Andrew Kosich
Fifth Place: Sonny Kim
“Ancient Civilizations”
Mrs. Stuthard’s 6th grade social studies class is
standing in front of their final project on Ancient
River Civilizations. Students worked for weeks
gathering information about
the
ancient
civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and
China. For each civilization they compared the
following characteristics of a civilization: cities,
government, religion, social structure, job
specialization, public works, writing, and
art/architecture. Their final project was to make
large, poster-sized charts that show the similarities
of the four civilizations within each characteristic.
The charts are on display in the library. Mrs.
Stuthard was extremely proud of the higher-level
thinking skills the students displayed during this
process!
Perfect Regular Season!
The 8th Grade Girls Basketball Team completed
their season this month with a perfect 16-0 record!
In tournament play, they advanced to the
championship game but were unable to claim the
1st place trophy against a feisty Wadsworth team.
In 2 years of Middle School basketball, this team
has finished with a final record of 34-3. The girls
are committed to getting back to work in the offseason and look forward to playing High School
basketball next year. "The most important game is
always the next one!"
Congratulations to all the girls on a great season
and 2 years of success at Revere Middle School
Wrestling Wrap-Up
Our middle school wrestlers had a terrific season and finished the year with a dual meet record of 15
wins and 12 losses. Our 2012-2013 dual meet record contained many outstanding performances as a team.
A couple of our December tournaments produced two second place finishes by the team at the Twinsburg
Duals and the Cardinal Middlefield Duals, and led to our guys bringing home some hardware in the form of
team trophies. Within the Suburban League, our record was a disappointing 2 - 5 with the two wins coming
over Green and Nordonia. But several of the league losses were actually very close and hinged on the fact
that our wrestling team was not able to fill 3 of the 16 weight classes.
Individually, our four team captains, Brody Muir-Johnson, Thomas Baker, Nicholas Kelly, and
Timmy Vlasek provided exceptional leadership and helped the team to improve over the course of three
months. Overall, our 8th graders as a group did a fine job of leading by example, and Coach Laurenzi and
Coach Lockmiller are hopeful that most of them will continue wrestling at the high school level. If we can
get a dozen of these boys to continue wrestling as freshmen, our program will begin to take off. This year we
had 39 boys come out for wrestling and 22 of them were just 7th graders. But considering that many of our
7th graders were able to wrestle in 15 - 25 varsity matches we should have a solid group of experienced
wrestlers that hopefully will occupy most of our 16 weight classes. This obviously bodes well for the
wrestling program and should provide our middle school fans with some entertaining matches next season !!!