Make sure that you have handed in your conference sheets to your LEAD teacher. Also, plan to join your family and LEAD teacher and come to the conference. We are going to celebrate you!

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Today is HAT DAY! If you are wearing a hat and support breast cancer awareness, please give your first-period teachers $1.00. According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Thanks for your support and for wearing pink today!

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7th and 8th-grade students who plan to try out for Basketball & Wrestling –

Please check the board outside of the Cafeteria to make sure your name is listed under the appropriate sport. You must have written parent consent and sports physical to be cleared for tryouts.

If your name is not on these lists, see Mrs. Shannon in the nurse’s office today.

Tryouts for girls basketball will be held from 2:45 – 4:30 on Wednesday, November 13 until Friday, November 15.

Tryouts for boys basketball will be held from 2:45 – 4:30 on Tuesday, December 17 and Thursday, December 19.

Hydration Tests for Wrestling will be held on Friday, November 15 in the nurse’s office during the school day.

Wresting practice begins on Monday, December 2.

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Kennett H.S. boys basketball team is hosting a 3 on 3 basketball tournament on Saturday, Nov. 2nd. It is open to boys and girls from 6th – 8th grades. If interested see Mr. Augustine for more details.

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Now over to a slide about the 7th grade Adopt a Family. 7th Grade will have an afternoon of activities on Monday, Nov 4th. During 7th, 8th, and 9th periods. Students can go to the gym, movie shorts, computer games, trivia, a scavenger hunt to name a few. Please give your 6th period teacher $3 by this Friday.

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Beginning today, October 30, Bus 36 will be the Garage Bus. Students going to the Garage should take Bus 36 from out back.

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Just a reminder this Friday, November 1, is picture retakes. IF you need to have your pictures retaken, please bring a  packet with you.

Picture retakes will be on the stage starting at 8:00 am.

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The 7th-grade girls’ field hockey closed an amazing season with a big win against Upland. The score was 8-0. Goals were made by Olivia O’Hara, Riley DiMascola, Marissa Herring, and Tess Nicholas. Congratulations on a great season ladies. Be sure to turn in your uniforms to Coach DiMascola by the end of the week.

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On Friday Night come cheer on YOUR Kennett Demons football team in their District 1 playoff game.

Tickets for Friday night’s home football playoff game will be $5.00 for both adults and students. Because it is a District 1 playoff game there is a $5.00 charge for all students.

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Kennett Football competed in their final games of the season yesterday against Lionville.

8th grade won 16-14 with the two scores coming from a Wes Owens pass to Ryan Meehan and a David Lillis run! Converting both extra points was the difference in the game. Wes Owens and David Lillis both ran them in.

On Defense, Alex Gobel grabbed an Interception to take the ball away from Lionville.

Great team win and 8th grade ended their season 7-0-1!

7th grade also enjoyed a win by the score of 22-18.

Ian Guyer passed to Mitchell Houck for the first score of the game and Pierce Duckworth added a touchdown run. Ian Guyer had a monster kickoff return touchdown to open the third quarter for the Blue Demons.

Again extra points proved to be the difference-maker. Blake Boyer threw to Xavier McGreal for one and a big run up the middle by Landon Kelly put the Blue Demons ahead for good.

7th grade ended their season 5-1-1! A great season by KMS football!

Now over to a video on Halloween.

Have a Great Day KMS

Recently the Kennett Food Cupboard had a fire and lost 50% of their goods. KMS as members of this amazing community stepped up and really made a huge impact. We delivered one thousand four hundred pounds of non-perishable food items at the end of the week to the food cupboard. That was what the school could pull together in two days. It is truly amazing what we can do together when help is needed. We really showed Kennett PRIDE!

Kennett H.S. boys basketball team is hosting a 3 on 3 basketball tournament on Saturday, Nov. 2nd. It is open to boys and girls from 6th – 8th grades. If interested see Mr. Augustine for more details.

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Attention all 8th-grade students – We are a week away from our trip to Washington, D.C. If you didn’t pick a group last week, please be sure to check in with your ELA teacher.

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The first marking period ends Today, Monday, October 28. Look at Skyward make sure you have turned in everything. Good luck heading into marking period 2, which will begin tomorrow.

Lastly, be sure that you have handed in your conference sheets to your LEAD teacher.

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Good morning KMS! It’s time for Mindful Monday. Here’s a Mindfulness tip to start your week. Did you know music can help you be mindful? If you have racing thoughts or need to stop overthinking, put on some songs that you love and listen; really listen, to the music, with your eyes closed (unless you’re walking of course as you don’t want to walk with your eyes closed). Calming music can have a direct effect on the part of the nervous system in charge of things you don’t have to think about like breathing, heart rate, and digestion. This may be why music is now being used therapeutically in emergency rooms as well as pain management and stress reduction programs. Do you have a favorite way to destress or something that you do that works for you when stressed? Think about if you have ever used a mindfulness strategy and found that it helped you. You can share these with your friends or just focus on them yourself.

Remember to use music or other mindfulness strategies to help reduce racing thoughts or overthinking.

Kennett Middle School Library has been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Books about different Hispanic countries, cultures, and food have been displayed for students to explore and check out. Fiction books starring a Hispanic protagonist have also been featured. When visiting the library with classes, students watched a video of some of their favorite Disney actors talking about their Hispanic heritage. After the video, students with Hispanic heritage were encouraged to place a dot on the city and country on the appropriate map displayed in the hallway to represent where their families are from. It has been a great experience for students to get to know each other more personally and students have enjoyed participating in the Hispanic Heritage Month activities.

Map

Map

Book Shelf

We are having an FCA huddle meeting this Thursday morning starting at 6:50 am. Anyone can come, invite a friend. It is held in Mr. Bowling’s room, B104. Hope to see all of you this Thursday at 6:50.

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Kennett H.S. boys basketball team is hosting a 3 on 3 basketball tournament on Saturday, Nov. 2nd. It is open to boys and girls from 6th – 8th grades. If interested see Mr. Augustine for more details.

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The first marking period ends a week from today. Next Monday, October 28 is the last day. Make sure you are on track with finishing all assignments. Finish strong!!!

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Congratulations go out to our top runners selected to participate in the Chester County Championship Meet at Unionville this Thursday. Runners were selected based on their daily running performance, racing times, an improvement over the season, and commitment to the practice schedule and team. Please congratulate the following runners for being chosen to represent Kennett Middle School! The runners are Henry Stenta, Sam Kjelstrom, Cole Doherty, Cole Elliot, Austin Guyer, Ben Chandler, Hayden Lyons, Cole Ruhland, Marco Brid, Quinn Simmons, Haylie Jaffe, Paulien Donnelly, Karine Tan, Sadie Maxwell, Lexi Hoyle, Sarah Le Gault, Maddie Olivier, and Jessica Zavala. While our top runners are running, the rest of the team will be sectioned along the course to cheer our runners to the finish line. All runners, please remember to bring your uniform shirt to wear layered over clothing on Thursday!

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Now over to a special announcement from Mr. Moore and Mrs. Reinheimer.

Have a great day KMS!!