Mrs. Harper's class is learning characterization in their short story "The Medicine Bag" by using the STEAL method. This was a great cross-curricular moment to practice evidence and reasoning that they learned in science!







News from our athletic department! Mark your calendars for Thursday! We hope to see you at our football scrimmage! Go Wolves! 🐺

We're looking for local company t-shirt donations for our amazing staff to wear on AVID Day as we inspire students to explore careers and dream big! 💼✨ Each staff member will represent a different workplace in our community!
If your business would like to contribute and help us highlight diverse career paths, please reach out to Mrs. Charles (meridith.moore@spart5.net) or Mr. Watson (travis.watson@spart5.net). You can drop off shirts at ACMS by 9/8. We would love to represent as many businesses as possible!

Our volleyball team is out there working hard at their first preseason tournament this morning! 🏐 We can't wait for the season to get started! 🐺










Mrs. Harper's English students learned how descriptive language can affect the mood of a story! Using a pair-share model, students narrowed down their examples and explained how their chosen descriptive sentences added to the story as a whole. Great job!





Ms. Dillingham's 7th grade math students worked with a partner on an adding and subtracting integers scavenger hunt around the classroom.









Mrs. Duncan's 7th grade ELA students role-played today by asking open-ended questions. They acted as characters from our recent story, “Seventh Grade”, by Gary Soto.










Students in Mrs. Fisher’s class did a great job today sharing their growth mindset slides. They are ready to have a positive year of persevering.






Rainy day carline fashion! A big shout out to all of our staff who work in the carline in the heat, rain, and other elements! We are so thankful for you!

Not even a severe thunderstorm and power outage could dampen the enthusiasm for our VEX IQ Robotics Club! What a great turnout!


Interested in wrestling? This is a great opportunity to try it out!

Ms. Dillingham's class played a game today called Sixes with integer operations to try to get faster at their integer facts!





🌈🧪 Mrs. Landon’s 8th grade scientists put on their 🧢🔬 science hats and hit the lab today! They practiced following directions step by step while mixing solutions to create RAINBOWS 🌈✨. Amazing job turning science into art! 👏👏 #FutureScientists #ScienceIsMagical









Today Mrs. Edge’s English 1 Honors students participated in a book tasting in the library. Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. Henson curated a selection of books spanning all genres and interests. Mrs. Edge is gearing students up for a self selected reading project.










Parent and Player Boys Lacrosse Meeting for all new and returning players for grades 7-12, Tuesday August 26th at 7pm in the Byrnes HS Cafeteria!! Spread the word!!

8th graders in Ma. Dewyea's class stacking cups, building teamwork, and tackling challenges one cup at a time! 🏆🤝










Ms. Ripple’s classes used a short story “Eleven” to complete hexagonal thinking. Each student picked 3 important parts of the story and had to justify their thinking to connect it with other students’ thinking. Deep connections were made and students saw that people can have different perspectives of the same story.










Our first house Pep Rally of the year was amazing!! From undercover admin to pompoms and sunglasses, our Wolf Pack showed up today! So much school spirit! What a great was to end week one!










He's been dreaming of having one of these for years, and a student finally got him one! Congrats Mr. Johnson! Dreams really do come true! 🙌🏻

🌊🏝️ Day 3 on Survivor Island 🏝️🌊
Mrs. Landon’s 8th grade science crew 💡🔬 faced the ultimate challenge — escaping the island! Using the remains of their shelters 🛖➡️🛶, they engineered creative floatation devices to brave the waters. 🚣♂️💪 Only the strongestsurvived the epic journey! 🏆🔥
👏 Amazing job, students, for being innovators 💭 and rocking the Engineering Design Process from start to finish! ⚙️✨
#SurvivorIsland #STEMinAction #FutureEngineers #OnlyTheStrongSurvive 🏝️🚀










