Blood Drive coming up! Please sign up here to register for a time to donate blood: https://donate.michigan.versiti.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/159622
When: Tuesday, May 7th
Where: Vandercook Lake Middle School Cafeteria
Time: 11am - 4pm
Congratulations to 8th grader Lilie Benjamin for placing 5th in the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce National Civics Bee regional competition tonight at Spring Arbor University 🥳
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Jackson Reads is May 11 at Ella Sharp. This wonderful event provides FREE NEW BOOKS to everyone from birth-8th grade. It's so much fun. The books are grade level appropriate! Come out!
Our Ned Mindset Mission Assembly is today. With this is the Pay-it forward yo-yo sales that start today. 4/10/2024 - 4/19/24
Reminder to MS/HS students: 7th gd and Seniors-No School 4/10. Good luck to all of our 8th gd, Freshmen, Sophomore, and Juniors taking their PSAT/SAT tests tomorrow, 4/10. Get plenty of sleep, wear comfortable clothes, eat a healthy breakfast, and arrive on time (by 7:40am).
Bus 5 is going to be late due to the traffic jam. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Here are some helpful reminders.
Staff received Moon Pies and CapriSun today and the whole MS/HS used their eclipse glasses to view today's solar eclipse!
Townsend families: your child was sent with a Yearbook form on Friday. YEARBOOKS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN PICTURE PACKETS THIS YEAR. The last day to purchase yearbooks is April 24.
Townsend Weekly Announcements:
Monday is the Solar Eclipse! Every child will receive a pair of approved glasses.
Spring pictures are on Tuesday.
Friday is our Candy Bar Sale Fundraiser, so your child will b coming home with more information on this. Our fundraiser will be from April 15- April 26.
Jayhawk claw machine birthday fun!
If you saw the fire trucks today at Townsend today, they were here to observe our fire drill. We got a great report from them! Thank you Summit Fire for making sure we are staying safe:)
🍿🍿🍿Thank you for all of your support! 🍿🍿🍿
Solar Eclipse information! It is Monday, April 8th. Check out this YouTube video also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJY_ptQW1o
All K-12 students will receive a pair of approved solar eclipse glasses.
Reminder: MS/HS Testing starts next week. All MS/HS students must bring their Chromebooks to school on Monday, April 8th.
A few of the students in Ms. Simpson's 1st/2nd grade classroom chose to share their love of reading by selecting matching books to check out of the library. Their excitement is contagious!
Learning is fun and delicious! Biology students enjoyed their Rice Krispy Protein Synthesis lab today!
Congratulations to our students of the month for March. These students prove themselves in and out of the classroom to be leaders among their peers. Great Job everyone! High School: Matthew Winekoff & Kiara Harris Middle School: David Seaton & Maycie Turner.
April Lunch Menus
Lilie Benjamin, 8th grader at Vandercook Lake Middle School was selected in the top 20 in Jackson to compete in the National Civics Bee local competition. She is competing in a live competition at Spring Arbor University on April 10th at 6pm. If she makes top 5 of those 20 she will move on to the State Civics Bee. Come out and support our Jayhawks!
