Final 7th Grade Honors Assembly
There will be an Honors Assembly for 7th grade on Friday, May 22nd at 2:00pm in the Inman Auditorium. Awards will be given for Honor Roll, Principal's List and Perfect Attendance. Please come and cheer on our 7th graders for their academic achievements!

Please return all textbooks and Library books
Remember to have your student return all textbooks to their teachers and library books to the Media Center on or before May 22nd. Outstanding books will result in having your child’s report card held until the books are returned or paid for.

Summer Reading!!
It is important for students to continue their independent reading over the summer. Try getting involved in choosing their next novel. For example, if your student is leaning towards choosing a book from the Goosebumps series... try steering them towards a classic like “Flowers For Algernon” by Dani Keyes instead. Perhaps you can read it together or listen to an audio book during o long car drive. The following is a list of recommended books that should both excite and challenge students:

Orphan Train Rider by Andrea Warren
A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of a Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lion by Anthony Bourke and John Rendell
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Betty Boa Lord
Old World Continents: Europe, Asia and Africa by Bruce McClish
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
My Brother Sam Is Dead by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier
God, Dr. Buzzard and the Bolito Man by Cornelia Walker Bailey
Baseball in April by Gary Soto
ZAP! Blink! Taste! Think! by Janet Parks Chahrour
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
Born Free by Joy Adamson
It’s Not Magic, It’s Science! 50 Science Tricks That Mystify, Dazzle & Astound! by Lark Books
The Rising Star of Rusty Nail by Leslie Blume
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Holes by Louis Sachar
George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy & Stephen Hawking
Hoop Girlz by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino by Mari L. Carlson
Dust to Eat, Drought and Depression in the 1930’s by Michael Cooper
Heat by Mike Lupica
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of American’s Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz-Ryan
Loch by Paul Zindel
Dive Right In by Robert Hirschfield
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Sisneros
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Football Hero by Tim Green
Cousins by Virginia Hamilton
Darnell Rock Reporting by Walter Dean Myers
Handbook for Boys: A Novel by Walter Dean Myers
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Brown Angels (Poetry) by Walter Dean Myers
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy by Walter Dean Myers
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs
Financial Planning for Teens: Teen Success Stories, Volume One by Yvonne Brooks

8th Grade School Supplies:
Back-to-School packs with all school supplies will be available for purchase from the Inman School Store at Meet & Greet on Friday, August 7th from 1:30-3:30pm. However, if you are interested in buying your items separately, below is the supply list for 8th grade:

3-ring binder (3-4” needs to hold all subjects)
Dividers for 3 ring binder
Pens (blue or black ink)
Mechanical pencils and extra lead (or #2 pencils)
1 composition book
Spiral notebook (70+ pages, with holes to fit in binder)
Loose-leaf paper
Colored pencils
Highlighters
Graph paper (math and science)
USB Jump Drive (at least 2GB)
Calculator
Metric ruler
2 Journal notebooks (marble notebook)
Glue Stick
Scissors

Please add new email address to your email address book:
Please add inman8thgrade@gmail.com to your email address book to prevent 8th grade updates from being delivered to our Spam Folder. I will be moving our email list to the new address in the next few weeks and will begin using this address to communicate with you over the Summer and into the new school year. I am looking forward to another year of keeping you informed!

Save Your Subscriptions
Remember to save your magazine subscriptions for Inman's annual Magazine Sale which begins in August. Your family will have the opportunity to support Inman Middle School PTA by purchasing one of over 750 magazines available through the American Publishers Hearst reading program. You can buy a new magazine subscription or renew an existing one, or even make a direct donation to the PTA if you prefer.

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