Mustang Bulletin

Monday, October 19th

Day 1 For Specials

7:15 - Softball Practice

7:30-8:30 - Chess Emporium (Library)

9:15-11:45 - 4th Grade Field Trip

1:00-3:00 - APEX Rallies

3:30-5:00 - Minecraft (Science Lab)

3:45-4:30 - 5/6 Band Conservatory Club

3:45-4:30 - Honor Choir

4:30 - Baseball WW vs. CS (@MRHS)

Tuesday, October 20th

Day 2 For Specials

7:30-8:30 - Daybreak

7:45-8:30 - XC Practice

4:30 - Softball (CS @ WW)

Wednesday, October 21st

Day 3 For Specials

3:45-4:30 7/8 Band Conservatory Club

4:30 - Softball (WW @ UP)

Thursday, October 22nd

Day 4 For Specials

7:45- XC Practice

7:30-8:30 - Honor Choir

8:00-8:30 - General Council Meeting

3:30-4:30 - Crochet Club

3:30 - Mad Science

4:30 - Baseball WW @ SV

4:30 - Softball WW vs. SV @ (MRHS)

Friday, October 23rd

Day 5 For Specials

9:15-10:00 Fall Sports Assembly For 5th-8th

10-11:30 - Battle Of The Books (Library & Science Lab)

10:30-1 - Mustang Store During Recesses

2:00 Early Release For Professional Development

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1 Ariel L

2 Landyn R

3 Macklin S

4 Nico Y-M

5 Braiden M (not pictured)

6 Sophia M

7 Murphy E

8 Jonathan I

Special Areas Alison P

You are invited to our annual Thanksgiving Lunch! We hope that you can join us. Please get your tickets online now. Ticket sales end at midnight on October 27. No late tickets will be sold. No siblings or children not enrolled at West Wing are allowed to attend.

We were incredibly impressed with the talent that Scarlett shared with us as she sang the National Anthem during our Student Stampede!

Our kindergarteners met Marty the Mustang at our Student Stampede!

We are excited to recognize our students who recieved Honor Roll and Principal's List for quarter 1. We will be celebrating 3rd - 8th graders at a special celebration soon!

Thank you to our incredible PTSA for our quarter 1 Kona Ice day! It was a huge hit!

Please save the date and invite your Veteran family members, neighbors, or friends. We would love to honor them!

The motto this week is:

I know what I am looking forward to today.

The intent of this week's motto is to help students develop optimism. I know, I know, insert eye roll here. Somewhere along the way, optimism became the person smiling at 6 a.m., telling you everything's going to be great, and you want to gently close the door on that person. Viewed this way, optimism can feel disingenuous, like it means always being happy. But that is not what optimism is.

Optimism is not pretending a hard thing is not hard. It is believing that things will work out in the long run. That is it. That quiet belief makes resilience possible, and it makes effort worth it. You do not work hard on something you have already decided is hopeless.

Which brings us to this week's motto. Ask your child what they are looking forward to each day. They might say lunchtime, or 3:15, and that's okay. My favorite weekday is Friday. But that doesn't mean I can't find parts of Monday I enjoy too. Encourage your child to list as many things as possible, because their day will be more fun when they have more things to look forward to.

"Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them."

-L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables

Here is one thing worth pointing out to your child: knowing what you are looking forward to is not about ignoring what is hard. It is about finding one thing worth moving toward. Even something small counts, because what you look forward to does not have to be big. It just has to be real.

A student once shared that he had done poorly on a test, and that the class would be reviewing the test at school the next day. He said he considered being absent so he wouldn't have to deal with it. Then he asked himself, "Do I know what I am looking forward to today?" and he thought of his friends and lunchtime. That gave him the motivation to go to school. That is what resilience looks like.

So, what are you looking forward to today?

Wishing you and your family a wonderful week,

Danna Evans

All Things E.Q.

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