The MUS Lower School Blog

Germantown Invitational results

ECS – 109

MUS – 83

St.Georges – 77

Houston– 48

Briarcrest 44

St. Dominic – 28

St. Francis – 7

MHEA – 5

White Station – 5

Colonial – 1

Individuals placing in the top 4 included:

Eli Ostrow (3^rd) 100 free

Nedas Jakstas (4^th) 100 free

Peyton Klawinski (4^th) 50 free

Nedas Jakstas (3^rd ) 50 breaststroke

Eli Ostrow, Samuel Ostrow, Chip Ogles, Nedas Jakstas in the 200 freestyle relay (3^rd)

 

4 MUS relays placed in the top 8 of the 100 medley relay.

We are open!

See you soon for the science exam. Hope you eat a Coach Joe Tyler breakfast today (See December 11 post below). Looks like grapefruit with honey, some sweet potato hash browns, or that veggie omelet! Um good!

If Memphis City Schools close for Tuesday, Dec. 16...

... then we are closed as well. The exam schedule sequence remains. Therefore, if we return Wednesday, December 17, we take the Science exam, originally scheduled for Tuesday, December 16 (tomorrow). Assuming we miss only one day, and as the exam sequence remains unchanged, we would double up for two exams this Thursday; math exams in the morning, and Latin and seventh-grade Bible exams move to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoon.

Social Studies on Friday would remain as normal.

I'll update as the word comes out from MUS Central Command.

REMEMBER: We only follow MCS for school openings and closings at the beginning of the day. Once the school day is underway, we will announce any change in our plans.

ASAP, Lower School closes at 3:00 p.m.

Due to the weather forecast, we will close all ASAP and exam review sessions at 3:00 p.m. today. Call your sons cell phones if you wish. The boys have been informed to call you as well.

St. George's Invitational Results

Congratulations to the following wrestlers for finishing in the top four of their weight class at the St. George's Invitational over the weekend:  Chris Evans, Andrew Renshaw, Charlie Goodfellow, and Walker Sims.  There was a lot of great competition at this tournament, with teams from Nashville participating.  Next up for the owls...City Championships this Saturday, December 20th at Germantown High School.  The team will practice on Friday, December 19th following exams from 11:00am-12:30pm. 

EXAM WEEK REMINDERS

ü      Dress code is strictly enforced. No slippers, robes, and no coat-and-tie on Friday.

ü      Exam rooms are posted all around the school. Students must check list daily for their rooms.

ü      Students should be seated by 8:15 a.m.

ü      Must stay until 10:00 a.m.

ü      If students complete their exam before 10:45 a.m., they must leave the building, not to return inside until 10:45 a.m.

ü      Wear a jacket. It’s cold out there.

ü      No lunch is served. NO BOY WALKS ACROSS THE STREET FOR FOOD.

ü      Lower School office closes at noon

ü      ASAP begins at 11:00 a.m. and runs until 5:00 p.m. (See blog for details, http://musowls.blogs.com December 2 posting.)

Head to the grocery now!

Back by popular demand is the annual exam preparation breakfast schedule created by our own Coach Joe Tyler (above, relaxing just moments after a pre-dawn triathlon): Download Healthyexambreakfast08

Best wishes on successful exams!

New "Useful Links"

In an effort to add opportunities to our inboxes, we have new email links (to the left of this page) which directly go to the counselor and the administrative assistant, Mrs. Schuhmacher and Mrs. Debardeleben, respectively. If you think of another direct link which adds efficiency and/or clarity to your questions and concerns at school, we welcome those ideas.

Swimming news

The Lower School Swim Team will participate in the Germantown Invitational this Saturday at the Germantown Athletic Club, 1801 Exeter Road.  The meet will start as soon as the High School meet is over, around 1:00 p.m.  All swimmers should be there by noon for warmups.  Go Owls!!

K-A-T-H-A-W-A-L-A defends Spelling Bee crown

Mr. Terry Shelton and Mr. Jim Russell, novice mentors of the annual Lower School Spelling Bee, officiated the 2008 competition. Today's finals featured eighth-graders Tripp Crews, last year's champion Farhan Kathawala, and Joseph Sorrentino as well as seventh-grader Alex Carter.

Sorrentino understandably stumbled over "fuselage" while later Carter's demise came in the form of "ferocious." That left Crews and the Champ, Tripp tripping over "oxidize" and Kathawala correctly completing Tripp's opportunity followed by a rather halfhearted correct spelling of "tepid."

The crowd went wild, and Mr. Shelton assured the assembly not only of the finalists' quality performance throughout the preliminaries, but also predicted that the lone Sevie Carter will no doubt be back for more in 2009.