Today is a Day 1

Sports News:
Swim team: Boys and Girls in grades 6, 7, and 8, who are interested in joining the swim team, please sign up in Mr. Greer’s room 221.

Running Club weight training and 3 on 3 basketball after school today!

Indoor Track starts next Tuesday, February 6th for all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. See Mr. Towle in room 123 to sign up.

7th grade girls Basketball team members, please return uniforms after school Wednesday.

Music announcements:
7/8th honors band will rehearse tomorrow after until 3:00.

Color Guard rehearses tomorrow after school until 3:00

Performance jazz will rehearse Friday until 4:30, followed by DINNER!! 6th grade honors band WILL NOT rehearse Friday.

Other announcements:
SPIRIT WEEK IS IN PROGRESS: Today is Twin Day; tomorrow is Crazy Hat/Hair Day; Thursday is Mismatch Day; Friday is Pajama Day (appropriate pj's and NO slippers).

Now is the time to pre-order your copy of the 2007 Mahoney yearbook. Starting now through the Friday before February vacation, bring 25 dollars to Mr. Patashnik in room 122 BEFORE or AFTER school ONLY to reserve your copy.

Attention Health classes: please make sure Mrs. Welch has your workbooks by the end of the day.
Social Studies
Mr. Towle’s seventh grade social studies classes have been learning about the Colonial Period of U.S. History including the making of Colonial Crafts. They will be moving into American Revolution studies soon. The U.S. Citizenship Test will be coming up after a study of the U.S. Constitution. During the spring we will be involved in the study of Westward Expansion, the Civil War and Maine Studies, which will include South Portland History!

The winner of the Mahoney Geography Bee was Izaak Onos! We will hear from National Geographic in early March about the next level which is the State Geography Bee at the University of Maine in Farmington.

Indoor Track
Mr. Towle will be back coaching indoor track this year. Hopefully we will have the largest team in many years!!! Please encourage your children to get involved! There were 88 athletes on the team last year. We are hoping for well over 100 runners this winter season!

Intramurals
Mrs. Towle and Mr. Towle have been doing a Century Club running group since early November. They have also had a group of kids lifting weights two days a week. There will be a co-ed 3 on 3 basketball tournament starting on January 17th. We would like to have a ping pong tournament, but we need some tables! Anyone who could donate or loan tables please contact Mr. Towle.

Garden Club 2007
We will be starting our third year of the Mahoney Garden Club soon. Any parents interested in helping with our community garden project please contact Mr. Towle. We will be producing crops for the local soup kitchens again this year. Last year we had a great group of helpers!!! With their help we were able to produce tremendous quantities of crops to donate weekly. We are adding to our gardening this year with plans to do some landscaping in the front of the school.