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The following classes have earned extra recess for meeting the community commitment:

Homerooms

Repenning

Dotson

Donley

Cable

Bainter

From Specials

Simpkin (Music)

Roach (P.E.)

Dotson (Art)

They have done a great job staying attentive when the teacher is speaking. To continue the conversation, ask them how it helps their class stay safe and learn.

This incentive will continue into next week as we secretly and randomly check on how classes are doing.

Ezra has been a very supportive classmate during recess kickball. He helps his friends understand the rules and encourages good sportsmanship among his peers! This demonstrates amazing leadership and sets a positive example for others to follow appropriate sports expectations at recess.

Joanne requested to borrow Mr. Woodland's EZ Reacher to pick up trash that had blown out of the trash cans. This helps to keep our playground clean and fun to play on by all of the students.

Isabella was observed picking up handfuls of trash on the playground. Doing this helps to keep our playground clean and enjoyable to play on by her fellow peers.

Ethan displayed consideration and helpfulness. Ethan found himself in line for the bus behind a 2nd grader on crutches. As he noticed her hesitation, he acted as soon as he saw how he could assist her. Despite the fact that both her teacher and bus driver were on hand, he gently took hold of her crutches and held on to them as the bus driver helped the 2nd grader up the steps. He then passed the crutches to the bus driver when she was free to take them and then entered the bus himself without missing a beat. It was so natural, as if he had done is several times before.

• Online Federal Impact Aid Forms are now available through the Home Access Center (HAC). Once logged in, directions to access the online Impact Aid form can be found HERE. A video with instructions is available HERE. The form can now be accessed in Spanish by clicking on the Globe in the top right-hand corner once the form has been started. The deadline for the online submission of Federal Impact Aid Survey forms is Friday, November 15, 2024.

Hello MES Families,

Don’t forget to order products with your child’s artwork on them!

Simply search for your child's art using Art Search, and enter state, school name, and your student's name. Your student's art and code will appear, and you may order! NEW - *Ship to Home FREE. (*Customer pays a small processing fee at checkout and your order ships to home.)

Order by: 11/22/2024

Upload additional art if you like, using Art Upload!

If you have questions, or need anything at all, contact customer care online .

Thank you for supporting our school!

Yvonne Patton

Square 1 Art fundraiser coordinator

Mechanicsville Elementary

square1art.com/shop

Link to SY 24-25 Calendar

November

November 3 - Daylight Savings Time ends. Clocks fall backwards 1 hour

November 5 - No School - Election Day

November 4-8 - National School Psychology Week

November 8 - 2-hour Early Dismissal & Veterans Day Celebration

November 11 - Veterans Day Holiday, All schools and offices closed

November 14 - Portrait Retakes

November 16 - PTO Turkey Trot

November 27 - Thanksgiving Break, No school for students & 10-11 Month Employees

Looking ahead to December

December 2 - PTO meeting @ 6 pm, Media Center
December 16 - Winter Vocal Ensembles Concert @ 7 pm, Gym
December 16-20 - PTO Penguin Shop
December 20 - PTO Fancy Lunch, 2-hr. Early Dismissal
December 23 - January 3 - Winter Break

Veteran’s Day Sign-Up Genius

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E49ACA923A4FB6-52470660-veterans

Please help MES make this Veteran’s Day Celebration a wonderful one! We will celebrate on Friday, November 8th at 10am. If you can lend a hand with the set-up for this event, help us clean-up after the event or donate anything to help feed our Veterans- it would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you in advance!

Parents of students participating on Retake Day November 14th should be aware of the following:

• If a student was absent on the initial picture day, their name will appear on the unphotographed list so that we are aware that they need to have their picture taken for the yearbook.

• If a parent has expressed interest in having their child’s picture retaken, this can also be done on retake day. The student should bring the original photo package, including the original envelope and all picture products, to turn into the photographer when they come to sit for a new picture. They do not need to fill out a new order form.

PTO Board

Nicole Rumaker- President

Dawn Roach- Vice President

Jennifer Shaffer- Secretary

Maria Mosher- Treasurer

Nicole MacLean- Member At Large

Email: mes.pto@yahoo.com

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