MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
4/26/24
Members of the Childhood Cancer Awareness Committee will be in the cafeteria selling tshirts and hoodies during power block today. Tshirts are $20 and Hoodies are $40. All proceeds go to the Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Please help support an important cause!
Attention all Global Citizen’s members we will be having a meeting on Tuesday April 30 at Powerblock in the Orange commons. Please use the post on classroom as your pass.
Any junior or senior interested in working as an intern at a courthouse over the summer, please come to Guidance for more information. The hourly rate of pay is $17 per hour.
The ESports team’s first season has come to an end. An intense and grueling second round of the playoffs brought the season to a close. While it was not a first-place finish, the team grew tremendously, as the team reached 6th place out of 54 in the state. Stay tuned for details about an in-school ESports tournament!
There will be a brief Student Council meeting on Monday April 29th at powerblock and afterschool. You only need to attend one!
4/26 It’s Funnel Cake Friday! Other choices include a variety of pastries, homemade coffee cake, soft pretzels, uncrustables, assorted breakfast sandwiches, smoothies, yogurt parfaits and the “pick 2” snack rack.
For lunch, the cafe is serving a variety of Original pizzas, beef and cheese and buffalo chicken nachos and chicken patties. Freshly made grab and go’s include chicken caesar salads and wraps, Chicken bacon ranch wraps and salads, vegetarian mediterranean wraps, bagels w/ yogurt, tuna subs, ham subs and uncrustables.
Reduce food waste by only taking what you can eat and placing uneaten packaged food in the share bins for other students to enjoy.
Friday, April 28:
Happy Sensory-Friendly Friday! This is NAME. Imagine for a minute that the loud cheering of a
basketball game is ten times the regular volume. Would you cover your ears? Imagine that all your clothes have itchy tags! What about the bright lights of a school dance seeming 100 times brighter to you and only you? This would make enjoying yourself in many situations really hard. Many people with autism have sensory challenges. This increases the perception of
volume, touch, brightness, etc. of things by huge amounts. This often results in people covering their ears, wearing headphones or leaving a situation when the volume becomes unbearable to them. It would be like someone throwing you in an almost frozen lake and then not understanding when you are too cold and want to come out.
Today’s notable neurodivergent is Temple Grandin. Because of her experience with sensory challenges, Dr. Grandin is more in-tuned and understanding of the experiences of different animals. This has helped her to make big changes in how to make farm animals in the agricultural industry more comfortable and taken care of. What makes you feel more comfortable and taken care of? Your challenge today is to notice what habits you have that calm you down. Thank you for being so open and awesome in learning about Autism with us this week. I will leave you with a quote to think about this morning: “Autism is not a choice, acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.”