| Art of the Week 
Lower School third graders celebrate summer with their cute artwork of flip flops and watermelon.
Honors Day
Honors Day Schedule - TOMORROW - May 27, 2016  Parents YOU are invited to join us at ALL Honors Day activities.
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8:30-9:30am Final Levels Meeting and Awards Ceremony for each School (in your School). -
10:00-11:00am Honors Day Program - In the Tweetie Lewis Moore Student Activity Center -
11:00am Dismissal -
11:15am Bus Transportation will leave
Judith Wellen
Many thanks go out to Judith Wellen (Aaron Breitkopf's mom) for assisting the Middle School this year. Due to your efforts we have thoroughly enjoyed our great events, parties, and Chick-fil-A lunches! Thank you for making this such an enjoyable school year! Margaret Brito, Principal - Middle School
That's a Wrap!
 Friday, Lower School students celebrated the end of a wonderful year. The students played putt-putt, ring toss, corn hole, and bowled. We also had a game truck come to campus, and the students were able to play video games (pictured). We even had a pizza party in the new Lower School. Everyone had a blast! Thank you, Laurie Tindall (Will Giles' mom), for planning such an amazing party and to the parents that were able to volunteer. We hope that everyone has a fantastic summer and we will see you in August!
Register NOW for Mark Trail
For the next week Mark Trail Camp registration will be discounted $25/week for half day camps and $50/week for all day camps. This promotion will end on May 27 - that's tomorrow!
Is your child going to be in the Middle School next year?? We have recently added two camps specially created for rising Middle School students to facilitate their summer reading requirements. Ms. Gretchen and Ms. Courtney have a variety of activities which will bring the summer reading books alive!! Two other new camps on our summer schedule are Coral Lab Camp and Bees and Honey. These both are extensions of popular PreUpper School clubs and classes. Come join the Michaels as they continue to educate and excite students about biology and the world around them. SIGN UP HERE!
SENIORS: Keep Up With Friends  You are DONE with your high school career and are now an alumni! How awesome! I bet you thought it would never get here.
There are a couple things you need to know about being an Alumni of the Class of 2016: - First, you can still keep up with your friends through MUSTANG (yes, the place where you have gone to get homework).
- Second, you can still get the MSA Weekly News sent to you.
In order for those two things to happen, you must send me your personal email - not your MSA millsprings.org email because that goes away soon - but your personal email address. Just REPLY to this newsletter and send me that information and I will take care of the rest. Right now you have access to the Alumni Portal - but when school gets out that access will go away if you don't send me your personal email address. So do it today, right now while you are thinking about it. Then you will use the same password that you currently use with your personal email to access MUSTANG after you graduate. THEN you will continue to receive copies of the MSA Weekly News in your inbox every week just like you do now so you can keep up with friends and teachers still here on campus. So click on REPLY and send me your personal email address today! OH and keep in touch! We love to hear what is going on with everyone.
 Report Cards
Spring Semester report cards will be posted on RenWeb on Friday, May 27 and will remain posted until June 10th. Parents, please remember to print yourself a copy as no hard copies are mailed home.
School Closed
Monday, May 30th, 2016
In observation of Memorial Day, Mill Springs Academy will be closed.
Gailynn Gluth
We would like to thank you for the hours of effort you have put forth in our school. Not only have you cleaned up our storage room to standards previously unknown, you have scrubbed our refrigerator to hospital cleanliness standards. On top of that, you even helped out with filling in the office! The Communication Arts Staff
Need School Portraits??
LAST CHANCE There is still time to order portraits from the photographer. Either individual student pictures, drama, graduation, and/or sports photos. So take a moment and look at them to decide what you would like.
www.mocphoto.com
School Portraits password - MSA202
Other Galleries password - MSA101
The portrait galleries will be available until Monday, May 30th. So get what you want before it's too late.
Garon Allen
A huge shout-out to Garon Allen, Grandfather of 8th Grader Nic Allen, who presented a delicious meal to the staff last Friday. The CommArts teachers feasted on black-eyed peas, green beans, creamed corn, grilled chicken, barbeque beef, a cheese platter, and lettuce straight from the garden. This makes about the eighth feast that Mr. Allen has made for the CommArts teachers this year. "He's our own Master Chef," stated teacher Taniah Jones. "He's welcome any time."
Visit us this Summer 
We have limited Faculty on campus during the summer, so if you come expecting to visit your favorite teacher, you may just be out of luck. BUT those of us here in the Administration office would love to see you. Just make sure you come during our summer office hours. Beginning on Tuesday, May 31st, we will all be here Monday through Friday from 9:00am - 4:00pm. Come on by and say "hi".
Summer Reading & Math
 I know the students will be sad to hear this, but like every other year in the past, there will be summer reading and math for most everyone. We are in the process of getting it all together and out on the website. I hope to have it all available to you by the end of next week. So shortly after that check the following webpage for everything you need to know about summer reading and math for your school:
www.millsprings.org/summer
Summer Sports Camp  Sign up now for Summer Sports Camp at Mill Springs Academy. We are offering coed basketball and soccer along with girls' volleyball. For more details CLICK HERE or talk to Coaches Phil Hanson for basketball or soccer, and Karen Kaiser for volleyball. This is an excellent opportunity for all new students to get to know some of our coaches and get in the groove before school starts in August. GO MUSTANGS!
Mill Springs Parents
We just want to take a moment to thank you for the awesome end-of-the-year gift you have given all of us. We are so grateful for all of our families and how thoughtful you are to us at this time of year. From the bottom of our hearts we thank YOU! The Entire Staff and Faculty of MSA
Retirement Party 
CLICK HERE TO RSVP
Keep Up Over Summer
Wanna know what's going on here on campus during the summer? Join us on the Social Scene. We have a few Pinterest boards with helpful and/or interesting information for parents, students and teachers. You can also follow us on Twitter (@millspringsacad) or LIKE us on Facebook (Mill Springs Academy). Post pictures with Instagram (MillSpringsAcademy) or watch videos on YouTube. We'll post some things through the summer that might be of interest to you. So PLEASE FOLLOW ME on the Social Scene!
Got Pictures?  I would love to see the pictures you have taken! Send 'em to me!
PICTURES@MILLSPRINGS.ORG If you have some awesome pictures of anything Mill Springs Academy please email them. We have set up this email address that can be used by everyone to share the wonderful pictures you have taken with me. If you email them with a brief description and include any names of students you know, we might just use them on Facebook, in the Weekly News, on the monitor in Administration, or maybe even in the Yearbook! Keep me in mind when you go on vacations over the summer.
PICTURES@MILLSPRINGS.ORG
I Know you are Wondering!
l know you are wondering when the first day of school will be so here you go! MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2016 If you will be new to Mill Springs Academy in the fall, mark your calendars for New Family Orientation which will be held on August 11.
Community Cares & Concerns 
- The Class of 2016
- Safe Travels for our Summer Vacations
If there is ever a care or concern you would like to share with the community, please just email me at any time, I will be glad to include either names or situations. For privacy, I will only list names and claim ignorance if anyone asks me for details. Cheri
Quote of the Week It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Oh boy! It is finally here - the last day of school is tomorrow! Yes it is only Thursday, but tomorrow is so full of events that there won't be time to squeeze in a newsletter in all of that fun. So you get it today instead! 
