SMS Announcements-Tuesday, Sept. 12th-B Day
WEDNESDAY-A DAY
CHESS CLUB
A chess club is starting here at Summit!! Come play chess against your friends and classmates on Tuesdays from 2:50 to 3:30 PM, starting on September 26th.
Interested in the game but don’t know how to play? The Summit Chess Club welcomes all sixth and seventh graders! Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Meyer will teach you and have you challenging your friends in no time. Our expert student leaders can even give you strategies to dominate the board.
PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE A RIDE HOME! The school and sponsors will not be providing transportation.
If you want to join, ask your parents and fill out the required form here: https://forms.gle/43pzjT8N8enMYgcL9
(Parents, please note that the form can only be filled out on the student iPads.)
Any questions about chess club? Email Mr. O’Brien or Mr. Meyer: riley.obrien@johnston.k12.ia.us or aaron.meyer@johnston.k12.ia.us
MATH COUNTS
Come join the MATHCOUNTS CLUB!!!
More than a quarter million students participate in MATHCOUNTS programs or use their resources each year. At Summit, students meet to solve problems and build problem solving skills. They will meet after school every-other week, on Mondays, starting the first week of October in Ms. Lewis’s room in Team Mission. Our first meeting is Oct. 2.
In January, students will begin meeting every week on Monday’s after school to get ready for 4 levels of competition. This is open to any student who enjoys problem solving with others in a competitive environment. Our school competition will be in January, a local competition in February, state in March and then the National Competition.
The coaches are Mr. Steve Skinner and Ms. Linda Lewis. Anyone is welcome to join and there are links on the Activities and Clubs Moodle page under MATHCOUNTS.
GARDEN CLUB
Garden Club will meet Thursdays at 2:45 in Room 129 in Mission. All students are welcome from both 6th and 7th grade! Our meeting will end promptly at 3:30. Students need to be able to walk home or be picked up; bus transportation is not available. We will be out in the garden harvesting produce that we donate to the Johnston Partnership; we have donated over 500 pounds this gardening season already!
We have a Facebook page and we would love for you to follow along on our journey! You can access it here: Summit Middle School Garden Club Facebook Page.
FROM THE SUMMIT LIBRARY
September Contest
This month’s contest is to try to guess the exact number of books the Summit Library has in its collection. Record your guess here! Feel free to come down and count in your free time! 
Featured Book of the Week
Dear Student by Elly Swartz is on this year’s Iowa Children’s Choice List. Autumn takes over her school newspaper’s advice column, but her identity is a secret. Can she successfully navigate answering all her classmate’s questions and keep her friends from finding out that she is Dear Student?
