South Seneca Middle School

Do not miss your chance to let your vote be heard. Come out and VOTE for the 2022 Capital Project TOMORROW from 1 to 8 p.m. in the MSHS lower cafeteria. For more info on the capital project, click here: https://southsenecany.sites.thrillshare.com/page/ovid-bus-garage

The 2022 Capital Project is very important to our district and community. Let your voice and VOTE be heard next Tuesday, Dec. 13. For more information on the 2022 Capital Project, visit our resource page here: https://southsenecany.sites.thrillshare.com/page/ovid-bus-garage

Your vote is crucial to the community. Come out and VOTE next Tuesday, December 13 from 1 to 8 PM in the MSHS Cafeteria.

Seneca-Tompkins Music Education Association's All-County Band STEMA's All-County Band Festival was able to return for the first time this year since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. This year’s festival took place at Lansing Middle School on November 18th and 19th. Participating districts included Dryden, Groton, Ithaca, Lansing, Newfield, South Seneca, and Trumansburg. The students who were selected to attend this year's festival worked with guest conductors from Ithaca College during the festival weekend and presented a concert on the afternoon of November 19th. These students all spent many hours after school hours preparing their music for their honors band rehearsals and performance. The following students participated in the High School Honor Band: Tajade Amisano (Alto Saxophone, 10th), Ruth Dendis (French Horn, 10th), and Abigail Sherry (Percussion, 11th). The following students participated in the Middle School Honor Band: Kayleigh Banfield (Trombone, 8th), Kennedy Basher (Oboe, 6th), Paul “Trey” Brock (Baritone Saxophone, 6th), Isabella Cotto (Trombone, 6th), Sophia Jennings (Clarinet, 6th), Nadja Paparone (Clarinet, 6th), and Autumn Vonderchek (Trombone, 8th).

Come out and VOTE next Tuesday in the MSHS cafeteria from 1 to 8 p.m. For more information on the 2022 Capital Project, visit our resource page here: https://southsenecany.sites.thrillshare.com/page/ovid-bus-garage

A note from our Health Office: please be aware that we are seeing an increase in student illnesses presenting with flu-like symptoms. See the attached flyer for important information! Keep your children home if they are experiencing any of the following symptoms listed, and keep in touch with the health office related to illness symptoms. Reach out to us with any questions or concerns at asheldon@southseneca.org. Thank you!

Put it on your calendars! Here is the link: https://meet.google.com/wiv-uvgn-ssr

Please enjoy this edition of the Bi-Weekly Note. As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yiVvB4KSsBY3ki2cZpT7C99wGz19e5-tRyffm5oiC5U/edit?usp=sharing

We couldn't be more thankful for being part of such an incredible community. To every South Seneca community member, we hope your day is filled with gratitude, a little bit too much food, family, friends, a Bills win, and a great nap. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! #foreverfalcons

The community is invited to a Public Information Session on Wednesday, November 30 at 6 p.m. in the Elementary Auditorium in Interlaken to hear more about the 2022 Capital Project proposal, and to get questions answered. For more information on the Capital Project proposal, visit our Capital Project resource page on our website: https://southsenecany.sites.thrillshare.com/page/ovid-bus-garage

Come and experience the classic Christmas Carol with a twist as the in The South Seneca Falcon Players take to the stage to share the story of "Tiny Tim: A Christmas Carol Revisited" on December 2-4. More information here: https://www.southseneca.org/article/908070

Please enjoy this edition of the Bi-Weekly Note. As always, feel free to reach out with any questions. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JvbxSDzhc_671wdWED8VHcT_LlZPAhvxyAK_KzG6UsY/edit?usp=sharing

A big thank you to food service worker Sherry Caward and her husband Todd, an apple scientist at USDA apple genetics, for donating about 40 bushels of apples to the South Seneca Central School District! Our students will now be able to keep doctors away for a good long while.

Please enjoy this edition of the Bi-Weekly Note. Included in this note is information on Halloween and extended day tomorrow. Please feel free to email with any questions. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeTJLf_N-llYOnHGskyMsggmi2VX1PpGJ-DHe3C79NY/edit?usp=sharing

Our 6th and 8th graders got their New York State Big Apple Crunch on today, and let's just say it was the perfect fall day to CHOMP on an apple. #applecrunch #foreverfalcons

Enter to win a prize by taking this quiz for Red Ribbon Week. See information here:

Continuing Red Ribbon Week 2022:

Here are some more facts about underage drinking in our continued acknowledgement of Red Ribbon Week 2022:

Red Ribbon Week 2022 continues:

Lodi Whittier Library is inviting you to a webinar on Thursday, October 27th from 10-11:30 although the actual presentation will be 10-11 with time for Q&A. Registrants will receive a video of the presentation in case they can’t attend “live” and a digital toolkit of handouts. Here's the description of the program: Libraries are for everyone, including readers who struggle with dyslexia or other learning differences. During Dyslexia Awareness Month, join Lodi Whittier Library Director Beth Bevars, Marion Waldman and Tracy Young from Teach My Kid to Read, and Human Rights Attorney Laurie Puhn Feinstein for an informative and inspirational look at how libraries can serve all readers. Beth will share the story behind Lodi’s Literacy Hub, a program created to provide struggling readers and their families with evidence-based phonics literacy materials. Seeded with money from an Outreach Mini Grant in 2019, the Hub has grown to offer support and guidance to families and schools within her community. Teaming up with Teach My Kid to Read, an organization dedicated to working with libraries to create community literacy solutions, has magnified the message across NYS and the country. Learn how your library can be part of this movement. Registration is available at: https://flls.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdeCspzojGN3vcNdV1kvhxPzr1XXQ8YAx