From Mrs. Kelley

Parents - A total of $10,633.92 was raised for the American Heart Association from our Jump Rope for Heart Event. Thanks to all that supported this event. The American Heart Association sends a huge thank you to our community! Note...if your child raised money, the thank you gifts will be in in a few weeks.

Cup Stack Tournament - Forms were sent home and need to be turned in by Monday, March 4th, if your child wants to participate. The tournament is Friday, March 8th during the school day.

Valentine's Party

The Following people have signed up to bring in items for our Valentine’s Party on Thursday, February 14.  Our party will be in the morning and Jump Rope for Heart will be in the afternoon.

Apples-

Pineapple-Paxton

Grapes-

Fruit dip-Kaiden

Carrots- Grayson

Cucumbers-Emylee

Broccoli-

Cauliflower-

Veggie Dip-Luke

Finger Jell-O-

Valentines cookies or bars-

2 liter drink-Alexis

2 liter drink- Jesse

Plates-Kendra

Forks-

Cups-

Napkins-Kendra

Special Treat- Kyle

Special Treat- Gunner

Special Treat-Gwen

Cheese- Tory

Crackers-Tristan

 Thank you for bringing in these items.  We have 25 students.  We will also pass out Valentine’s cards.  Here is a class list.

 

Class List:

Gunner

Hunter

Emylee

Silas

Paxton

William

Tory

Alexis

Justin

Dereck

Tristan

Kaiden

Logan

Miranda

Gavin

Gwen

Klaire

Kyle

Jesse

Haley

Greg

Luke

Lorra

Grayson

Kendra

Book Fair

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Dear Parents (and Grandparents),

The PTO is looking for volunteers to help with the upcoming Book Fair.

We are seeking volunteers to help students browse and purchase books on March 21^st, 22^nd, 25^th, 26^th, 27^th, and 28^th from 11:30am-3:00pm. The Book Fair will be set-up in the Library and students will come down with their entire class - - so the more volunteers we have to help, the smoother it will go. If you’d be willing to help out for an afternoon (or partial afternoon) please let us know.

We are also extending our hours on Thursday March 21^st & Thursday March 28^th from 3:00-6:00so that families & community members can browse and shop. We are looking for volunteers to run the fair during these extended hours as well.

If you would be willing to help out with the Book Fair, please contact Sherry Brinks at sherrybrinks@gmail.com (825-2021/884-9566) or LeighAnn Sikkema at lasikkema@mcbain.org(825-8041).

Thanks for supporting your PTO.

4th Grade Update

We are switching up our Reading group.  We used to have our homeroom students.  Now we have looked at a half year of data and had determined we can better meet the needs of all students by switching things up.  You will get a letter home this week telling what reading group you child will be in.

I'm scheduling our box top pizza party for this Friday, January 25.  Students can bring in their own  personal drink.  This will be inplace of our school lunch.

Report cards come home on Friday, January 25.

Middle school girl's basketball.  Mr Devos is keeping stats on his ipad.  These stats can be uploaded to a website.  If you e-mail me I will share the link with you.

Middle School Girls Basketball

Dress up for school on game days.  7th grade be at the school and dressed in your uniforms and ready to go at 5:30pm.  8th grade be to the game by the start of the 7th grade game 6:00pm.  Sit as a team and watch the game.  Talk about what you would do in the game situations. No wandering around.

Coach Fredin

Thank You

I wanted to thank you for an awesome Christmas Party.  It was definitely worth the wait.  It was a very good party with lots of healthy foods... with a nice touch of goodies.  Thank you for the gifts that were given.  We had a good time playing games and opening presents.

Happy New Year!

I just received an e-mail from Mr. Smith and he has directed the elementary teachers to have our Christmas party on Friday, January 4, 2013. The parties will start after lunch. I know the students hated having to miss school on Thursday. This is just a good lesson in patience. We will still do a gift exchange game. So boys bring a gift labeled "boy" and girls bring a gift labeled "girl." The food list is still on my blog.

Box top update: I'm so impressed with how many box top and Campbell points we turned in. We were asking neighbors, relatives, high school teachers with out kids in the elementary, para-pros, librarians, etc. We raised an amazing 8000 + labels. The only problem is that was 90 labels short of first place. I can't believe it.... second place again! The good news for the students is that the PTO is still awarding a pizza party for second place because of the massive amounts of labels turned in. So good job class. Thank you parents for putting up with my campaigning for these labels. Just remember there is a second semester competition too. So keep them coming in.

Have a safe and happy New Year.

Mr. Fredin