Week 1 Mr. Tayloe's Critter Cam
We had one of the most productive first weeks in Critter Cams history. Lots of good pictures and a wide variety of Critters. Deer are always the most numerous performers and this week didn’t disappoint. Even caught a glimpse of “Floppy” named for the doe who’s ear folds over. Floppy has been a resident of SCMS for 3 years now and has had 4 offspring in that time (I will add a few of her fawns pictures from 2019 to this). An unusually high number of coyote pictures this week including a couple pictures of 3 traveling together. One single coyote typically eats smaller game (rabbits, rats, mice, birds, cats “their favorite”), but when they start hunting in groups they can take down larger prey like adult deer. The bobcat in years past has been tough to get a picture of, but we managed to get one the first week. Rabbits, song sparrows and an Owl I caught a picture of on my property in November wrap up Critter Cam for the week.
Picture #:
0005 Grey Fox
0008 Eastern Cottontail
0016 Coyote
109 Owl I captured a picture of on my property in Burgaw back in November
0250-0251 3 Coyotes
0256 Coyote Daylight
0288 Song Sparrow
0332 Bobcat
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15c7jTj5JG6y11fQPysFAnjRQFcMC1Jfk?usp=sharing
Great first basketball games!
SCM wants to thank the Kiwanis Club of Topsail for their generous monetary donation to our school. The money will go towards a band project, school counselor project, and new picnic tables for our courtyard.
We are happy to tell you that Julia Clark was selected as One of the two National Runner-up Winners for the Life Is Good Art Contest. She was selected out of 5,500 entries! The Life Is Good Company is an American apparel and accessories wholesaler, retailer, and lifestyle brand that is best known for its optimistic T-shirts and hats.
Julia won As part of being the Runner Up:
$250 LifeisGood.com Gift Card
Suite of Art Supplies (Value $250)
Great job, Julia!
As a part of our AIG program, Stephen presented his project "Careers in Sports" to students interested in learning more about the wide variety of job opportunities for those who love sports. Great job, Stephen!
Admires mom and dad and has a goal to land on the honor roll in college - Mecca Walker is checking the right boxes early so it's no shock the Surf City Middle 7th grader is this weeks Star News Pender County School's Student of the Week
https://bit.ly/3FnY9wF
A big thanks to Topsail Magazine for putting the spotlight on Superintendent Hill's personal path and the one he envisions for students in Pender County Schools to succeed.
https://www.topsailmag.com/a-clear-path-forward/
CHICKEN DINNER!! - It's possible considering these are the December winners in the Publix School Stars promotion. Each will receive a $20 Publix gift card because someone thought they had gone above and beyond at their school. Nominate here https://bit.ly/3uZshuO
Mr. Judy and our bands provided a wonderful holiday treat for the entire school on Tuesday!
Following an error by the booking agent, the County Championship soccer match between Topsail Middle and Surf City Middle will be played January 11 at 4:30pm at Topsail High School
Big thanks to our Staff Sunshine Committee for the relaxing holiday send off! Your colleagues appreciated it so much!
Holiday fun!
Blackout Poetry in Mrs. Pratt’s 7th grade ELA class to end their poetry unit! Blackout poems are created by using the pages of old books or even articles cut from the newspaper. Students pieced together single words or short phrases from these texts to create their poetic masterpieces!
Computer Science Discoveries students in all grade levels chose a person famous for contributing to coding, website design, or computers in some way. As a group they researched this person and delivered an oral presentation to their peers. Students also created poster boards of their person and presented them along with their slideshow.
CHANGES ARE COMING to the K12payment system. The system will shut down 12/23/21 and change to family.titank12.com on 12/27/21. Accounts can be set up now.
Congratulations to James Russell and Ava Delbasty for being selected as two of the artists for the Pender County Schools Holiday Card Cover Series. Only Seven students in the county had art selected.
FCA kicked off with a bang in November!
