August 25, 2009 Welcome back to St. Mary's and welcome into the 8th grade, your final year here. As we do every year, we ask you all to watch out for any kind of bullying between your classmates. We know that you, personally, won't participate in any bullying of any kind, including talk that is not very nice to each other either to each other's face, on the phone, via texting, tweeting, or over the internet. Bullying is very hurtful and stays with the victim for a very long time. You would not like that to happen to you, so please don't do something to someone else. Also, if you see some act of bullying going on, stand up for the victim and to the bully, or, if that is not you, come and let me or any other middle school teacher know, and we will help. If it is hot, bring water but please put the water into a sock or holder of some sort so that the water does not get over everything. If you forgot your water, student council sells water for 50 cents each. Remember, third period is your snack time, so bring in a healthy snack to eat. We are going to have a really great year. Mrs. Zanotti