MCP3 Staff News
Week of March 2, 2026
Peterson's Message- K3 Director
Greetings MCP3 Team!
What a wonderful month we have all had celebrating, honoring, and learning about black history with our scholars, families, and each other! Shout out to everyone for your contributions, preparation, and thoughtful planning that went into making it such a success for everyone involved. This year we worked hard to ensure we included all stakeholders (scholars, staff, and families) and used the staff black history feedback survey to guide our activities and celebrations. I believe that we created meaningful experiences and lasting memories for all!
Shout out to the Bulldogs for winning the bulletin board challenge! All of the bulletin boards were incredible and look AMAZING in our hallway! Well done team! Ms. Perine will connect with the Bulldogs to coordinate their ice cream and movie party!
Shout out to everyone for their creative family night activities! Elephants spent time together studying Mae Jemison and building rocket ships! Gators created traffic lights to honor Garrett Morgan! Bulldogs spent time painting like Alma Thomas! Tigers enjoyed playing table top "ice hockey" to honor Laila Edwards who made history this month as the first black woman to play for the USA team AND scoring a goal for the USA- the GOLD-medal winning team! Golden Eagles learned about Paul R. Williams and did LEGO painting to be an architect like him! There were so many more incredible activities and inspiring black figures that were also available throughout each class! Way to go TEAM!!!
Here are some important happenings and reminders:
What is a chair?
A chair is a piece of furniture designed for a person to sit on. Please, do NOT sit on other furniture in our classrooms that is NOT designed for sitting on such as tables and shelves. This is a safety measure for all of us. Let's work together to ensure we ar emeeting our expectation of "Be Safe" and choose a chair when we sit. If you see me sit on the edge of the table (which I often do.....)- be sure to hold me accountable and give me friendly reminder!
New Student Open Enrollment
Open enrollment closed on 2/28/26. Ms. Perine will finalize the enrollment numbers this week and we will announce if we have a winner for the pizza party (100% enrolled for 26-27) and any homerooms with 90% enrollment to be entered to win a SPA Gift Card.
Message from Courtney @ RANG
Happy Friday and congratulations on wrapping up your first month on Rang! Your participation and engagement so far have been incredible to see.
Competition Results As you know, we’ve been running an activation competition across the network. The prizes are a $100 class party for the top Advisory at each campus and a $100 gift card for the Campus Champion with the highest overall activation, using goal acceptance as a tie-breaker!
Huge shoutouts to our winners:
MCP3: Reached 100% activation! Huge shoutout to Cassandra and Allison for their big push! This is the FIRST TIME EVER one of our campuses has reached 100% activation and to celebrate we will sponsor a party for all of your students!
DSHA Volunteers at MCP3
We will have 4 DSHA students "Dashers" supporting MCP3 from 3/2-3/12. This is a part of their senior vocare (Latin-to call forth) program. This 2-week service immersion calls students to meaningful experiences with our community and helps them understand their God-given talents so they can accept their gospel call to be women who can make a difference in the world.
The DASHERS will be assigned to support in a specific classroom.
Kaitlyn Toole
Room 121 Alabama Elephants (WK1)
Room 125 Marquette Golden Eagles (Wk2)
Alyiana McMahon
Room 122 Florida Gators
Hannah Szpara
Room 123 Grambling State Tigers
Abigail Buckner
Room 124 North Carolina A&T Bulldogs
With all the Love and Respect,
Peterson
Important Upcoming Dates & Events:
3/2- DSHA volunteers begin (orientation at 8:00-9:30)
3/3- Protect the Dream Day- dress up in superhero outfits
3/4- Vacation Ready- wear appropriate vacation gear (sunglasses, vacation shirts, beach bags, etc.)
3/6- Assembly 8:45
3/6- EA FAB Collab 1:15
Weekly Staff Coverage
Monday 3/2- Wright out. Minor will support Golden Eagles and close aftercare
Tuesday 3/3- Mitchell is out. Harvell will lead and Minor will support Gators.
3/4 & 3/5- Ms. Cathey is out. Peterson/Perine will support with behavior needs.
Black Excellence
I spy....Martin Luther King Jr., H.E.R, Ruby Bridges, Simone Biles, and Vivian Malone Jones
Poitivi-TEE
Patience....Watch me change the world....Let loose and dance... Hakuna Matata!
Pan African
"We face neither East nor West: We face forward." — Kwame Nkrumah
Mr. Keith votes at MCP3
Dr. Cleveland votes at MCP3
Field Trips
Please begin to plan and schedule your Quarter 4 Field Trip. Quarter 4 runs from April 6th-June 11th.
I have included the UEC schedule below for reference. (UEC is Q3 Field Trip). Alabama Elephants may also schedule a Q3 Field trip still.
Pacing & Portfolios Week of 2/23
Frog Street: Theme 6 Week 4
Portfolio Artifacts for the Theme
- Things Kids Do Story Page (writing) Encourage Scholars to do their own writing, used for Report Card
- It Started as a sock and/or Bubble Experiments
- 1:1 Correspondence to compare groups
- Progress to Monthly Goal
Heggerty -Week 25
Second Step- week 17 Managing Anger
Laundry Schedule
Room 121- Thursday @ 2:30
Room 122- Tuesday @ 2:10
Room 123- Monday @ 2:30
Room 124- Friday @ 2:10
Room 125- Wednesday @ 2:30
*If there is a circumstance in which your classroom needs to wash on a different day/time, please refer to this schedule and be sure to do your laundry outside of these scheduled classroom times. If you plan to change your day/time- be sure to let me know so that I can edit it on our weekly staff newsletter so that everyone is informed.*