● December 22nd- Ice Night at Jeremiah’s Italian Ice - Waterford Lakes

● January 4th- Begin 3rd Marking Period

● January 4th- Basketball Sports Physical due

● January 5th- Basketball Tryouts- 8th Grade 4:30-5:30

● January 6th- Basketball Tryouts- 7th Grade 4:30-5:30

● January 7th- Basketball Tryouts- 6th Grade/Final Cuts 4:30-5:30

● January 10th- Moana Auditions after school until 5:50

● January 11th- Inaugural date of Legacy's new "Flight Hour" tutoring program

● January 11th- SAC/PTSA Meeting 6pm in the Media Center

● January 12th- Chick-fil-A Spirit Night - Waterford Lakes 5pm-8pm

** Also, please mark your calendars for Friday, January 28th from 7pm-9pm as this will be the PTSA Winter Dance (details below).

Every fourth Wednesday of the month is Ice Night at Jeremiah’s Italian Ice of Waterford Lakes. Drop by Jeremiah’s Italian Ice of Waterford Lakes Town Center 877 N Alafaya Trail Orlando, FL 32828 to show your support for Legacy Middle School with tasty frozen treats on Dec 22, Jan 26, Feb 23, March 23, Apr 20, May 25. We will receive 20% of all supporter sales as a part of our Ice Night… SWEET! Remember to mention our name at the window to ensure we receive credit for your transaction! We’ll see you there! #JeremiahsIceNights

** Thank you for supporting those local businesses that support our Jets and teachers.

This week concluded all of our middle of the school year testing. We reached our percentages of students that needed to be tested. Thank you to our testing coordinator Ms. Evelyn Perez for all your hard work. When we return from Winter Break teachers will use this data to help drive instruction. Students will also be receiving their incentive for showing iReady Growth or scoring in the green, blue or black on their 8th grade science, Civics, Algebra or Geometry PMAs.

The Flight Hour is an intervention period that will take place every Tuesday and Thursday starting January 11 and ending April 21. The goal is to help focus on some of our students who need small group or one-on-one instruction with their teacher to support the mastery of some of the standards they need support in.

The Legacy Dancers performed at Gaylord Palms on 12/11 at the Convention Center and brought lots of Holiday spirit. They represented Legacy extremely well and the community was very supportive.

I want to once again thank you all for the overwhelming love and support on Tuesday night, December 7th, at the Holiday Dance Showcase! My students were so respectful, supportive of one another, and danced incredibly well! Attached I have the dance photos and video that Mr. Brown has graciously and professionally taken.

Grades have been posted by me. I have given all students ample time to complete any missing work that they owed. If students do not have enough time in class they may complete their work at home. Success is my goal. If students are less than successful, then they are not putting in the time or the effort. There has to be a healthy balance between extra-curricular activities and school. For some it is a learning curve, for others they understand grades are just as important as performance. Thank you parents for your support here and enjoy the following videos!

Christmas Dance by Kevaughn Browne Photography (pixieset.com)

As one Jet retires, Mrs. Espinoza, another begins their journey with us. Welcome to Mr. Andrew Gottlieb who will be teaching 7th Grade Civics.

The Latinos in Action students have been hard at work tutoring elementary students and running the recycling program on campus. They took time this past week to celebrate the holidays.

The 2022 season tryout dates are listed below:

● Wednesday, January 5th- 8th Grade

● Thursday, January 6th- 7th Grade

● Friday, January 7th- 6th Grade/ Final Cuts

In order to try out a current year sports physical must be on file by Tuesday, January 4th. Tryouts are held from 4:30-5:30 in the gym.

In order for students to tryout for basketball or even spectate from the bleachers, they must have a minimum of a 2.0 GPA. If parents or students have any questions, please see Mr. Jiménez.

The Legacy Middle School Student Government Association (SGA) collected toys during our holiday toy drive. All toys are getting donated to the Ronald McDonald House.

Yearbooks will only be sold as pre-sales; they will not be available for purchase after the deadline. We are only ordering what is sold. All purchases must be made online through the following website: https://buytheyearbook.pictavo.com/PictavoSchool/FindSchool

Current price is $25 and will go up to $30 in January. Sales end March 2022 (buy before then).

You are also able to purchase ads that will appear in the yearbook. All the information about ads is also available at the same website above.

Please donate to the "Legacy Cares" Food and Clothing School Pantry through Amazon. It's a simple way to support the school's charity. The list of support items needed are directly on Amazon - just select "Legacy Cares" for Legacy Middle School. Use the link below to directly connect. Purchased items can be directly shipped to the school by simply selecting "Legacy Middle School Registry Address" at checkout.

Legacy Cares Support List:

Additionally you can support the Legacy PTSA by shopping at Amazon! Legacy PTSA is officially registered as a charity option with Amazon Smile. Below is our unique link for people to select us as their charity. The key is when shopping on Amazon you have to go through the AmazonSmile site (smile.amazon.com), not just Amazon.com - but there is no difference; your account is still there. You can bookmark AmazonSmile to make it easier. By doing this, your eligible purchases will support the "Legacy Cares" Food and Clothing Pantry.

Eighth graders, Colonial High School and East River High School will be holding events on their campus in January. Legacy will have high school guidance counselors on the Legacy campus on the following dates to assist students with high school class registration.

On Monday, 8th Graders will be receiving a permission slip packet for Gradventure which takes place at Universal Studios Orlando and Universal Islands of Adventure! The trip will be on Friday, May 13th, 2022. The cost of the trip is $150.

We will need chaperones on this field trip. You can sign up at the following link: https://ocps.samaritan.com/custom/503/opp_details/88599 and payments can be made online at https://www.schoolpay.com/.

All 6th and 7th graders have received a permission slip to their grade level field:

We will need chaperones on these field trips as well. You can sign up at the following links:

Payments can be made online at: https://www.schoolpay.com/

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