The Annual South Dakota State Testing has started and runs through Friday, April 11th. Holgate Middle School would greatly appreciate if parents/guardians are willing to donate snacks for students to have while taking their tests. Some possible snack options could include: mints, granola bars, goldfish, fruit snacks, rice krispie bars, etc. We would request that all snacks be individually packaged and peanut free. If your family would like to provide snacks for testing, please have your child bring them to the office. Thank you!!!!
Holgate Middle School April Newsletter
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The tennis match scheduled on April 1 has been postponed to May 5. Aberdeen Central will host Milbank at 2:00 on the HMS courts.
The AC vs Pierre softball games scheduled for April 1 have been postponed to April 22 in Pierre at 4:00pm. Go Eagles!
Congrats to our Rachel's Challenge Kindness Feather winners this week. Emerson S. nominated Shaynna F. "Shaynna is always so funny and positive. She always spreads a good mood!" Great job!!!
What Night! Over 300 people joined us at HMS for PTA Bingo. Congrats to all the winners, especially Teagan Z, our TV winner. Thank you to Erin Doering for presenting on digital/social media awareness and encouraging us all to have conversations with our family about tech use!
Book Club Poster Winners
Geyer’s Block 1
1st-Recce Williamson, Luke Ermer, and Jace Poirier
2nd-Emery Dahlgren and Ava Smallman
3rd Place-Sydney Allen, Ashlee Bindenagel, and Lennon Bunke
The prizes are piling up! We hope to see you tonight at HMS PTA Family Bingo. It's FREE and goes from 6:00-7:30pm
Tonight would also be a great night to drop off snacks for testing. We test the next three weeks.
Ms. Englert's 6th grade ELA class has been diving into a small Titanic unit. Micheal Roeker took over the class to offer up his expertise on this topic. His presentation struck interest within his peers as they continued to read and write about this historic event.
Dear Parent or Guardian:
Holgate Middle School Students in grades 6, 7, & 8 will take the South Dakota Assessment in English Language Arts from March 31-April 4 and in Mathematics from April 7-11. Students in 8th grade will take the South Dakota Assessment in Science on April 23 & 24. Make-up tests will be held on April 14-16 & 22-25. The purpose of this letter is to help in your understanding of the assessment, as well as providing a few ideas for improving your child’s preparedness.
The assessments measure student achievement of our state’s standards in the areas of English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. In addition, score reports will provide information on student performance in the following areas:
o English: Reading, writing, listening, & research
o Math: Concepts and procedures; problem-solving and modeling/data analysis; & communicating reasoning
o Science: physical science, life science, and earth & space science
The assessments are given through an online computer application and are unique in the way they adapt to a student’s question responses. This is important as it provides questions that are appropriate for your child’s level of learning. As a result, each student has the same opportunity to succeed and maintain a positive attitude towards testing. These assessments are not timed; however, we provide the following times as estimates of assessment duration: (a) English – 3.5 hours, (b) Math – 3 hours and (c) Science – 1.5 hours.
Student grades will not be impacted by their performance on this assessment. However, the assessment does serve as a way for the school to analyze how well we are helping students meet the standards. Shortly after the testing period is complete, you will receive a report showing your child’s scores.
There is no need to study in preparation for the assessments. We do, however, ask that students try their best and get plenty of rest the night before testing. It is important for students to come to school on test days. Assessments are required, therefore making up a missed assessment leads to less instructional time and a loss of important learning opportunities.
This testing is very important for your child, Holgate Middle School, and the Aberdeen Public School District. Thank you for supporting your child and our school during this assessment period. Please contact us if you have any questions. We know that Holgate Middle School’s students will help us to understand the great strides our students have taken in meeting our school and state standards in learning!
Sincerely,
Bo Beck, Principal
Holgate Middle School
Join us on Thursday from 6-7:30 pm in the HMS Gym for PTA Bingo night. This event is free for all HMS Families. Prizes include a 65" television, Beats Headphones, Google Nest speaker and much more. We hope to see you there. RSVP at https://forms.gle/w9L1UUkPLWXbPBgB6
We hope to see you at P/T Conferences tomorrow, March 18th from 4pm-9pm or Wednesday, March 19th from 8am-1pm. We value meeting our families and discussing your child's progress. Tuesday night is usually much busier than Wednesday, but please attend whenever works for you.
5th Grade Instrument Fitting-April 22nd, 4-7pm
Sessions are held in the gym and are “come-and-go” style. All future band students need
to come to instrument fittings as not every person can make a sound on every instrument!
We need to help you find the instrument that fits you best and create a balanced band so
we sound good!
Your student needs to complete this process before beginning band class. If your student
did not register for band class but would like to join, he/she may do so at this event.
Holgate Middle School: Sara Weischedel -sara.weischedel@k12.sd.us
Happy St. Patrick's Day! We will be serving special treats at all schools to help celebrate! #AberdeenPublicSchools #GoEagles #StPatricksDay 🍀
Make plans to attend the final public performance of Holgate Harmony at Center Stage, Aberdeen Central's home competition. Vocal jazz starts at 9:30, Holgate kicks off the show choirs at 12:45 pm.
There are great show choirs performing all day and the Finals for all high school groups will begin at 5:30.
We hope you attend and support fine arts in our public schools but if you can't or have family out of town here is the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@asdchs4370/streams
Finals will use a rolling schedule. All times are dependent on weather and can change.
DANCE TEAM TRYOUTS! The AC Dance Team is holding tryouts Friday, April 4th 6:00-8:00 pm and April 5th 10-12. Students entering 8th-12th grade interested in Aberdeen Central Dance team should sign up for tryouts using the google form below.
https://forms.gle/85dqDCXD5foSR5t18
Jazz Concert Tonight!! Join us for a night of jazz at the HMS theater, featuring HMS and SMS jazz bands. Show starts at 7pm.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4oGUAli7k
HMS PTA Meeting Tomorrow at 6:30.
Agenda: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ay_eLt8X6hgEBTwpkHr4gPpxuZ2uH3KU/view?usp=drive_link
Spring break is coming up at #AberdeenPublicSchools! A reminder there is no school:
• Thursday-Friday, March 13-14 (K-12)
• Wednesday-Friday, March 19-21 (K-8)
• Thursday-Friday, March 20-21 (9-12)
There is a staff development day March 13, and K-8 conferences March 19.
Our MathCounts team had a spectular showing at State!
Oliver Beyers, Blake Hauge, Cohwen Heimann, and Alex Ricci brought home the 2nd place team trophy.
Alex captured the 3rd for Countdown.
Cohwen qualified for Nationals with his 3rd place finish in the Individual Competition.
Congrats to our mathletes and good luck to Cohwen at Nationals!!
