Mrs. Law's Lexington Junior High Blog

Interested in learning more about the future of Lexington schools?    The next meeting of the facilities planning committee is scheduled for TONIGHT Monday, January 29th, 2018 at 6:30pm in the High School library. Please park in the parking lot behind the flag pole at the High School and enter the doors on either side of the cafeteria. There will be signs identifying those entrance doors.  The planning committee meetings are open to all interested in attending. We look forward to seeing you there! Our sincere thanks to all who are willing to give of their time to be part of this important process.

ATTENTION! We are now in our second semester of the 2017-2018 school year. This means scheduling is coming up, testing is coming up, and the year is over half over! There is one other very specific reason I bring this up. Each course a student takes comes with certain requirements to pass that course. Each grade you see on your student's grade card earns them a specific number of points. There are a certain number of points required to pass each class. In addition to this, there is a certain number of points required in the 2ND SEMESTER to pass each class. This is good to know! The fourth grading period has a huge impact on whether a student is in danger of failing a class, or not. Make yourselves familiar with the grading policy and let me know if you have any questions! Lexington Junior High grading policy : (this can also be found in the student handbook).                To pass any FULL YEAR course: ...

COLLEGE CREDIT PLUS You are invited to attend a special meeting to inform about the College Credit Plus program. This program enables students in grades 7-12 to earn college and high school credits at the same time by taking college courses from a public or private college or university. This program was enacted by the state of Ohio in September 2014 and began in the 2015-2016 school year. The purpose of the College Credit Plus program is to promote rigorous academic pursuits and to provide a wide variety of options to college-bound students. Colleges and universities will admit students based on their college-readiness. Students who will enter grades 7-12 and meet all the college entrance requirements are eligible to participate in the fall of 2018. The Lexington Local School District will offer students two ways to participate in the College Credit Plus program: The first is for the student to attend classes on public or private college or university campuses. The college ...

**Attention Parents** In our professional and personal lives we all have people we admire and trust. For me, that person is Norman Shub.  Norman Shub is an author, teacher and psychotherapist with the ability to expertly guide individuals, couples, families and communities toward solutions. His clear, compassionate, and practical style of teaching makes him a joy to listen to and you will come away with many clear and specific ideas . For more than 35 years, Norman has been clinical director of Gestalt Associates and the Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio. Throughout the year, he offers workshops on many of the topics that affect our daily lives. These workshops are offered in the evening, at a very reasonable price, and I can not express how beneficial I have found him to be.  Please consider attending a workshop. You will not regret it. Here are the current offerings! Developing Your Child's Self-Esteem - February 13, 2018 Parenting From Your Heart - April 1...

SNOW DAYS! Every year we have the possibility of delays or cancellations. Many of you will wear pajamas backwards, put ice in the toilet, and any other crazy superstition to help get a snow day! In reality, a delay or cancellation is decided by a few specific people. They drive the back roads, side roads, and wherever it is most likely to be dangerous. Here is what to expect: Any decision to delay or cancel school will be made no later than 6:00 AM. If we have a two-hour delay, a decision to cancel will be made no later than 8:00 AM. The quickest and easiest way to find out about any delay or cancellation is to register for an email or text alert! Use this link: http://www.ohioalerts.org/lex

Test Taking Skills! Student often tell me that tests cause them anxiety, cause them stress, or that they are poor test takers. Did you know that you can actually get better at tests? The act of taking a test is a skill that you can develop!  Here are a few tips: Don't study with friends if it raises your anxiety. Do study with friends if it lowers your anxiety. Makes sense, right? The most important tip: AVOID CRAMMING! If you are prone to test anxiety, last minute studying is almost guaranteed to make you feel anxious. Start studying for a test far enough in advance (perhaps a few days before the test!) to avoid this. Better yet, study a little bit each day. Know when to stop studying! An extra half hour is not worth it if you are tired and unfocused. Know when to stop and get some sleep instead of trying to cram a few extra test points into your brain. Rest is important too! Read for mastery rather than memory: think about and try to understand what you read a...

Did you know that, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, 20% of youth between the ages 13-18 live with a mental health condition and 8% of youth have an anxiety disorder?  What is even scarier to me is that according to the same data reports, nearly 50% of youth between ages 8 – 15 didn’t receive any mental health services in the last year. If you stop to really reflect on that, it would be unheard of for people to be ill with a physical illness and not receive any health care.  So that brings us to the question of why people aren’t getting the help they need.  “Many people feel embarrassed or ashamed of symptoms because our society places illogical taboos on mental health issues over physical conditions,” said clinical psychologist Nikki Massey-Hastings, PsyD. This can be seen even in the school setting.  When someone walks back into school with a cast or brace after breaking a bone, other students will rush up to offer sympa...