As a building, we have begun the process of learning about and investing into The Energy Bus. To learn more about The Energy Bus, and our journey as a building, click here!

Kudos to the Mitchell American Legion Auxiliary for the monetary donation to our Music Department.

Sharon Broghammer presented a check to Miss Wehlander on October 6th for her to use towards the purchase of recorders for her fourth grade students. The students also took time to

write thank you notes to the American Legion.

Cooler weather is fast approaching. Please make sure your children are dressed appropriately. We go outside unless it is raining or the wind chill drops below zero. All students are expected to go outside during recess. We have a very limited supply of mittens for students to borrow. If you need help with supplying those items, contact The Caring Close

Friday, November 4th - Student Council Store Open

Sunday, November 6th - Change your clock back!

Monday, November 7th - Pizza Ranch Nigh sponsored by PTA - 5 pm - 8:30 pm

Tuesday, November 15th - 1st and 2nd Grade Music Concert @ GBR

Friday, November 11th - No School

Monday, November 14th @ 5 p.m. - Mitchell School Board Meeting @ MMS

Monday, November 14th - November 18th - AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK

Friday, November 18th - No School

Thursday & Friday, November 24th & 25th - Thanksgiving Break - No School

Thursday, December 22nd - End of 2nd Quarter

Friday, December 23rd - Tuesday, January 3rd - Christmas Break - No School

A "BIG" shout out goes to all of those students who participated in the Pumpkin Contest last week. It was so hard to pick the winners with all the pumpkins that were brought in. Congratulations to the winners:

Favorite Animal Category: Lauren Ruml - Beg. - 1st Grade * Jayla Gebel - 2nd & 3rd Grade

Michael McGee - 4th & 5th Grade

Scariest Category: Marley Miller - Be. - 1st Grade * Lane Rauscher - 2nd & 3rd Grade

Hope Smith - 4th & 5th Grade

Favorite Movie Character/Superhero Eleanor Moe - Beg. - 1st Grade * Isabella Barington-Steele -

2nd - 3rd Grade * Kristopher Jenkins - 4th - 5th Grade

Don't forget to mark your calendars for Monday, Nov. 7th from 5:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at Pizza Ranch for local Community Involvement Fundraiser. What a great way to treat your family and friends to a night out and to support your local GBR PTA at the same time. The Student Council will be there helping out along with some PTA members.

Start saving your County Fair stamps as we will have another Saver Card Contest in December. The class with the most cards will win something BIG!! Watch for notes coming at the end of November.

Remember to use the Schoolstore.com Fundraiser for all of your holiday shopping needs.

The next PTA meeting will be Monday, January 23rd. Please come and join us.

Thank you to Vern Eide for treating our GBR staff to breakfast. The

breakfast pizza was a nice treat to begin a Friday morning. Our staff truly

appreciated this.

You are encouraged to fill out a free and reduced meal application at any time throughout the school year. When in doubt, fill it out. If you completed the 2022-2023 application already this year, then you should have already been notified of your status. You can create an online account to monitor your child/ren’s meal account, balances, and add money to their account. Visit the district the school website and click on https://www.mymealtime.com/

Empower Our Educators, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization created to help empower educators in the Mitchell community by not only financially supporting some out-of-pocket classroom expenses incurred throughout the school year, but also recognizing those educators who go above and beyond on a daily basis.

Will you please help us spread the word about this positive organization and the "Educator of the Month" program EOE has created to recognize the impact educators have on students, staff, and the community?

Nominate an educator in the Mitchell Public School District today! Click the link below:

https://tinyurl.com/EOEFORM

When? Tuesday, November 15th

Where? GBR Commons Stage

Time? There will be two concerts with one starting at 6:30 PM and the other at 7:30 PM. The concert is around 25 minutes long.

6:30 Concert is grades: 2C, 1V, 1B, PLC 1&2 - please have students arrive at 6:15.

7:30 Concert is Grades: 2S , 1F , 2B - please have students arrive at 7:15.

Attire? Please wear something nice - dress pants, dresses, skirts, khaki’s, etc. If you have any questions feel free to email me: hannah.wehlander@k12.sd.us

Practice at home with google classroom! Class Code: ugrzfjx

The Caring Kernel Award is given monthly to students who go above and beyond and are nominated by their teacher. Students are chosen for showing kindness to others at school or within the community, showing true Kernel and school spirit, having a positive attitude, demonstrating great sportsmanship in school activities and sports, and overcoming hardships in school or at home. Below are our Caring Kernels and their teachers for the month of October. Below are our October student winners and their respect classroom teacher.

Thank you to MSD Caring Closet, Harve's Sport Shop, Sun Gold Sports and GF Advertising Services.

October was an exciting month for the library. Our book vending machine was delivered! Many students have already received books for their birthday, from finding a golden snitch or for exhibiting awesome behavior. The students are loving it!

Our 1st annual Read-A-Thon began on October 30th. it will last two weeks. This is a fundraiser for the library to help pay for our vending machine and the books that go into it. My goal is to have students read at least 5000 minutes.

Hopefully, we can raise enough money to keep our machine filled all year long with fun new books. Please be sure to ask your learner about the Read-A-Thon. Help us make this a big success and show our learners how important reading is.