April 25 - 29, 2016

Lakeside Lightning,

Lakeside is an opportunity, not an obligation

Lakeside Middle School supports Autism Awareness! 

The weather is finally starting to feel like Spring! Birds are chirping and the flowers are blooming.

Mrs. Schwailik's Earth Day Activities

This is always a special time of year when the beauty of life is evident!

When you look at the calendar of events, you may notice that we are starting 8th grade PARCC a day late. This is because the PARCC website was down this week. The website outage impacted almost all New Jersey School Districts.

This week we are looking forward to Take Your Child to Work Day. Some of our staff will be bringing their children to Lakeside. Student who participate in this event must get a note from their parent's place of work.


Daily Announcements 

LMS students hard at work 

The boys and girls track teams lost a heart breaker to Fernwood yesterday afternoon. However, the Lightning did receive some outstanding performances. Amber Lupton broke the school record in the 1600 meter with a time of 5:50. Nick Schwegel also broke the school record in the 1600 with a time of 5:14. Lakeside also received some individual winning performances from Quasym Cotto, Bryanna Craig, Ciera Bowman, Rebeca Fomich, and Leah Ellis.  The Lightning return to action on Monday afternoon with a home meet versus Hammonton. Hope to see you there.

Student Council will be sponsoring the Semi Formal Dance on May 6 from 7-9:30 We will be selling pre-event tickets with a permission slip from Wednesday, April 20 until May 4th during homeroom only in Y106.  Bring $8 and a permission slip.  Tickets will be distributed May 6 in homeroom.

Also, Great Adventure permission slip due by Friday. There will be no permission slips taken after that time.

Earth Day Clean Up 

Yearbook pre-orders will be taken until Tuesday, May 24th in Mrs. Sooy's room M133.  After that time yearbooks will be sold on a first come first serve basis once they are delivered.  The cost is $25 cash or a check made out to Millville Board of Education.  See Mrs. Sooy with questions.

The Family Friendly Grant is sponsoring a night at the Philadelphia Soul Game on Monday May 9th! Tickets are $25 and includes ticket, bus ride, a hot dog, soda, and popcorn. Bus leaves Lakeside at 5:00 PM and returns at 10:30 PM. The trip is first come first served and families are welcome! Pick up a flyer at your grade level office or the main office today!

End of the Year Activities
Here is a brief overview of some of the major end of the year activities at Lakeside. Please reminded that our calendar information is on this link http://mps.millvillenj.gov/Page/22

Take your Child to Work - April 28 (Details to follow)
8th Grade Semi Formal - May 6 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM in Auxiliary Gym
Art Show and 8th Grade Spring Concert  - May 12, 6:00 PM (7:00 PM Concert)
7th Grade Spring Concert - May 16, 7:00 PM
6th Grade Spring Concert - May 17, 7:00 PM
AVID Awards Dinner (To Be Announced)
8th Grade Class Trip, May 31
6th Grade Class Trip, June 3
7th Grade Class Trip, June 8

8th Grade Step Up, June 14, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Letter will be sent this week with more details)
LMS Awards Ceremony, June 15, 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM (Student Only) (8th Grade will have Yearbook Signing after)

Pictures from around the school

Mr. Hickman's students are studying embryos 

Mr. Hickman's students are studying embryos 

Mr. Hickman's students are studying embryos 

Creating and solving equations in Mrs. DeClementi's class 

BFFs 

Mrs. DeClementi's students creating equations 

Mrs. Schwailik's Earth Day Activities

Mrs. Schwailik's Earth Day Activities

Mrs. Schwailik's Earth Day Activities

Earth Day clean up with Mrs. Tsoplakis and Mrs. Donley's class

Earth Day clean up with Mrs. Tsoplakis and Mrs. Donley's class

Earth Day clean up with Mrs. Tsoplakis and Mrs. Donley's class

Earth Day clean up with Mrs. Tsoplakis and Mrs. Donley's class

AVID Guest Speaker, 

Melody Shoemaker

, C.A.D. Designer

 Pandrol U.S.A

AVID Guest Speaker Melody Shoemaker, C.A.D. Designer Pandrol U.S.A

Mrs. Fry practicing her Selfie skills before the Autism Awareness Picture :) 

Mrs. Sooy's class took learning outside this week 

Mrs. Colon's Earth Day activities included kite flying, and a drawing competition 

Video of the Week
Kid President is back on the campaign trail to help end child hunger with ConAgra. For every view or share of this video, between April 14 through May 9, 2016, ConAgra will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America®, up to 100,000 meals. #childhungerendshere

Weekly Overview
Monday, April 25 - B Day - 7th Grade PARCC; BOE Meeting, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, April 26 - A Day - 7th Grade PARCC; AVID Fundraiser, Stratosphere Trampoline Park, 3:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 27 - B Day - Administrative Professional Day; 8th Grade PARCC; Lunches with the Principal (Selected Students): Staff Meeting, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Thursday, April 28 - A Day - 8th Grade PARCC; Take Your Child to Work Day
Friday, April 29 - B Day - 8th Grade PARCC; Lunches with the Principal (Selected Students)

April 18 - 22, 2016

Lakeside Lightning,

Lakeside is an opportunity, not an obligation

Our Track and Field Trophies 

Teachers and students continue to raise the bar at Lakeside. Each week it gets easier and easier to report out on the opportunities that are presented. We are so excited to share our good news with you! Thank you for connecting!

This week the 6th graders finished up their PARCC testing and the 7th graders started on Friday. Thank you to all of the students who are trying their best.

The Track and Field program is having an amazing season. Our Boys and Girls team recently won 1st Place at the Omega Relays. More importantly, our Lightning won the trophy for Outstanding Team Sportsmanship! Congratulations to the scholar athletes and their amazing coaches Mr. Fry, Mr. Hakula, and Mr. Williams!

There will be a meeting for any 8th grade girl interested in joining the Girls Soccer Team for the Fall 2016 Season. The meeting will be held in the cafeteria at 2:00 pm on Friday, April 22nd.

Show your support for your friends and family with autism by heading down to Y101 to purchase your autism awareness bracelet.  Each bracelet costs $1.00. Get yours before they’re gone!!  If you didn’t get your temporary tattoo on Bubble day they are also on sale for $.25 each.  Dare to be different!

Yearbook pre-orders will be taken until Tuesday, May 24th in Mrs. Sooy's room M133.  After that time yearbooks will be sold on a first come first serve basis once they are delivered.  The cost is $25 cash or a check made out to Millville Board of Education.  See Mrs. Sooy with questions.

Attention all students:  AVID will be sponsoring a trip to Stratosphere Trampoline Park on Tuesday, April 26th after school from 3:30-7:30pm.  The cost is $25 per person and includes a 2 hour jump ticket and bus ride to and from Lakeside.  Pizza and snacks will be available for purchase at the park.  Permission slips and waivers are available in the house offices and can be returned with payment to Mrs. Hallenbeck in the 7th grade office.  No one on the restricted list may attend this trip.  Be sure to return your signed waiver and permission slip as soon as possible, as tickets will sell fast!

8th grade students
Lakeside Middle School’s Student Council is sponsoring its Semi Formal Dance on Friday, May 6, 2016.  The dance will be held in the auxiliary gymnasium from 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.  The cost will be $8.00 for pre event tickets and $10 at the door.  Tickets will go on sale from April 18 - May 4 at Y105Mrs. Kern’s Room.  Students must earn 100 points in order to attend!

Video of the Week - Amazing Magical Square 
This week's video was recommended by Mrs. James.

Pictures from around the school

Track and Field 

AVID students at Cumberland County College 

AVID students at Cumberland County College 

AVID students at Cumberland County College 

AVID students at Cumberland County College 

Warming up! 

Ready to launch 

Soaring to new heights 

Preparing for the Spring Concert 

Dr. Cook met with two students who are making a difference at Lakeside 

Mrs. Richardson's class with some special guests 

Selfie before the 6th grade assembly 

6th grade assembly 

6th grade assembly 

Mr. Godfrey presenting to the 6th graders 

Weekly Overview 
Monday -  A Day - 7th Grade PARCC Testing; ESS Parent Meeting, 6:00 PM
Tuesday - B Day - 7th Grade PARCC Testing;
Wednesday - A Day -7th Grade PARCC Testing; DEAC Meeting, 4:00 PM
Thursday - B Day - 7th Grade PARCC Testing;
Friday - A Day - Earth Day; 7th Grade PARCC Testing;

April 11 - 15, 2016

Lakeside Lightning,

Lakeside is an Opportunity, not an Obligation 

1,200 students entering the Assembly.
"Lakeside is an Opportunity, not an Obligation"

We had another awesome week at Lakeside. It seems that the Spring Break was kind to the students, teachers and administrators. In many ways, we were able to get right back into the swing of things.

On the other hand, everyone is taking notice that there are small changes happening. Hallways have become a little quieter. More kids are walking on the right side of the hallway. More kids are getting to Homeroom on time and watching the announcements! There were less discipline referrals this week than before break.

We have more work to do and we will continue to reward those students who are being safe, responsible and respectful. Thank you to everyone who is working to make Lakeside the premier school in the world!

How about this? Look at how the Lightning Round is growing!

• 2,201 page views! 
• Top referring sites/URLs - Facebook
• Pageviews by Browser - 42% are using Chrome 
• Pageviews by Operating System - 37% are using iPhones
• We have been visited by 10 different countries 
• Most popular post has always been the most recent (So that means we are growing every week)

Missed the assembly or Meet the Principal Night?

Check out Dr. Cook's presentation on Slideshare

All school assembly 4.4.16 from Spike Cook

Different Not Less! 

April is Autism Awareness Month 

Our staff is super excited about this opportunity to change the perception of autism!

The theme for the month is "Different Not Less."

We are also excited about the T-shirts the staff will be wearing every Friday.

Our previous record was 80 shirts sold... This year we sold 125! How amazing is that?






Video of the Week - Autism Awareness 

Security Aides are taking steps in the right direction
Lakeside is by far the largest school in the district. Teachers and students get a lot of steps in during the day by walking around. Did you know our security aides walk between 5 and 7 miles per day? How many steps do you walk?

Lakeside Library announces the Hunger Game series as the winner of the March Madness - Battle of the Book Series.
During the month of March, the students have been voting from 16 series to select their top pick for favorite book series. Thanks to all the Language Arts classes that participated.

Pictures from around the school

Mrs. Bergman redesigning the classroom to promote discussion 

Ms. Hulse putting the final touches on the Autism Bulletin Board 

Parents were treated to healthy snacks at "Meet the Principal" Night 

Dr. Cook presenting to the parents about Lakeside 

Mrs. Lokuta's class debating issues in the hallway! 

Can't hide the Lakeside Pride! 

Students participating in the Bubbles for Autism on April 5 

Mrs. Salvati's class focused on their keyboarding! 

 Dr. Cook was a featured author at the Barnes and Noble Educator Appreciation Week

Dr. Cook has published two books through the Corwin Connected Educator Series 

Dr. Cook being introduced

Mr. Clarke, Ms. Dimattia, and Ms. Grennon came out to support 

Weekly Overview
Monday - B Day - PARCC, 6th Grade; Vice Principal Interviews, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM; BOE Meeting, 7:00 PM
Tuesday - A Day - PARCC, 6th Grade; Vice Principal Interviews, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday - B Day - PARCC, 6th Grade; Security Aide Interviews, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM; Department Meetings, 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Thursday - A Day - PARCC, 6th Grade; SLC Meeting, 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Friday - B Day - PARCC, 7th Grade; RAC Meeting, 9:00 AM; Security Aide Interviews, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM