Awards Ceremony

We just held our first awards ceremony this school year on Friday, March 12, 2010. Participants included students, their parents, teachers and staff. Students were recognized for their achievements and improvement throughout the school year. They were presented with a certificate as well as gift cards. Categories included citizenship, for our top DRS point recipients, High Honor and Honor roll. We also gave awards out for Perfect attendance and department awards for each class subject. Students that either had great improvements or excelled in that subject were nominated by their teachers to be awarded. We had more than 100 recipients! We would like to thank all the parents that were able to attend and support their students. Also to all students, keep up the good work!

Physical Education Fundraisers

MSA-3 Fist Annual Jog-A-Thon

We held a jog-a-thon November 12-November 13 to help raise money for our Physical Education Department. Students had 35 minutes to run as many laps possible. Their laps were sponsored by parents and members of the community.

Penny Wars

Classes competed against each other by collecting coins and recyclable bottles. The winning group from both events 7B and 8A were given Pizza Parties. We were able to raise $2,000 from both events.

Mulligan’s Family Fun Center Outing

On Friday November 13th magnolia science academy Carson had an after school outing at mulligan's family fun center. Students engaged in a number of different fun activates such as riding go carts, playing laser tag, rock climbing, hitting balls in the batting cages, playing mini golf, and arcades.

Special Visitor

On Tuesday Nov. 24th, Mr. Brian Bushway, with World Access for the Blind came in and spoke to our 6th and 7th grade students in Mr. Kim's social studies class. He told the students his amazing life story, which includes becoming an accomplished musician, learning how to mountain bike, and achieving many other great things in life, all after he lost his vision at the age of 14! He taught the students how to become successful despite having setbacks and gave a very inspiring message of hope.

Canned Food Drive

From now until Wednesday December 13th we will be having a canned food drive. We will be donating canned foods to the Los Angeles food bank to ensure that all families have a happy holiday and that no children go hungry this winter. The class with the most cans will get an ice cream party right before winter break. Be the change you would like to see in the world.

Soccer Club/Turkish Club

Bake sales have been going on during lunch to raise funds for our clubs. Our goal is to raise money for Soccer Jerseys as well as money for our Europe Trips. So far we have successfully raised $400. We are on our way to our goals.

NASA Invention Club

We had a very fun and successful Car Race fundraiser. We had several students race remote control cars. Our winner was Evan Jackson. He won a pizza party. We also joined and became a part of the JPL NASA Invention Challenge. We passed the regional contest at the Orange County Convention Center. We also made the finals held at the JPL Laboratory in Pasadena. We were placed 7th overall. You can watch us at www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl as we test our invention of the paper bridge.

AMSP

On December 1, 09 we were part of the AC Compete Test. Almost 250 students participated. It was given by Accord Institute. 25 schools participated in an online computer test about Scratch Programming. Our school ranked 5th amongst 25 other schools. Chistopher Balestreri won 3rd place and Natalie Esquivias won 5th.

We have had several bake sales during lunch and were able to raise $260 towards transportation for our Winter Camp, being held 12/18/09-12/23/09 in Sacramento, Ca. 13 Students will be attending. There will be several Math Competitions in this state wide event.

During the month of February we are observing Black History Month

We just closed february, wich was Black History Month. We celebrated this month in different ways. We had weekly highlight of famous african americans in our history in our Newsletter. Some of them were, Martin Luther King Jr, Shirley Chisholm, Oprah Winfrey, and Carter Woodson. We enlightened our readers with different stories and contributions from our famous african american leaders. We also observed black history month with our very own MSA-3 Film Festival- Honoring African Americans throughout History. Every Friday we showed a different movie in our Computer Room. In this festival we watched movies like, More than a game, The long shots, and Michael Jacksons This is it. We also had pizza and several movie snacks as well as raffles for all of the attendees. Students also had a chance to earn positive DRS points just for attending. Winners of the raffle were able to attend a field trip to the science center, featuring the American I am The African American Imprint Exhibit. I would like to say that all of our students appreciated and really enjoyed our celebrations.

“First Annual Presidents’ Day Essay Contest” I Love My Country

All students were encouraged to participate in this essay contest. All entries must be a maximum of 500 words, typed using 12-point Times New Roman font, and double spaced. The best three will be competing at Magnolia Schools wide Essay competition.

The Winners are:

History Thru the Arts Club

Our history thru the arts club has held two very successful fundraisers this month. We had a bake sale and Candy gram sale at lunch. Students were able to buy different goodies donated by club members and their parents. They also had the option to purchase Candy Grams. These grams were given out on the Friday before Valentine’s Day. Student had a great time expressing how much they care about all their friends with these grams. Both fundraisers raised a total of $230!

Haiti Relief

Much like the rest of the country, we here at Magnolia Science Academy 3 are devastated by the suffering that is taking place in Haiti after the recent earthquake. So we have decided to take action. There were donations collected in Mrs. Sanchez and Mr. Kim’s social studies classes. The donations will be given to a relief organization that is working with Haiti. Students, parents and teachers are urged to make small sacrifices in order to help save lives in Haiti.

We collected a total of $972

Future City Club

MSA-3 is in the News: Congratulations to our Future City Team! MSA-3 participated in the National Engineers Week Future City Competition. We competed against the other selected 13 middle schools of the Los Angeles area. If you wonder more about our team’s success you can read the details in the enclosed information that is retrieved from the website of the Daily Breeze www.dailybreeze.com . Our Future City Club received 2nd Place in the Southern California Future City Competition.