Let us know how our staff is doing and help us to recognize them by completing our Staff Shout Out. You can recognize an amazing teacher by filling out a few questions in the link below. We will present them with a Staffirmation Certificate that tells what they were recognized for and by who.

What an amazing way to celebrate Earth Day! Some local volunteers cleaned up McGuire and the area around it. Thanks so much to Sue Yoder and her friends from Bonny's Clean Up Crew-you are all making the world a better place!

This is open to our current 5th graders. Students can pick up an application from their classroom teacher or the McGuire office. We hear such awesome things about this program year after year!

McGuire PTO is gearing up for Teacher Appreciation week next month. We have a wonderful week of appreciation planned for our teachers and we would love your help!

We are collecting gift cards (or you can bring cash and we will purchase gift cards) to shower our teachers with appreciation now through May 2nd. These can be turned into Mrs. Keehbauch for PTO to deliver.

We are also planning some meals for teachers and other surprises. If you have any connections to local restaurants or businesses that you think would contribute to our teacher appreciation week, please send an email to skeehbauch@mp.edzone.net Sarah Keehbauch) or hjhalstead12@gmail.com (Heather Halstead).

So PROUD of our students and staff as we wrap up the final week of whole class MSTEP testing as our 5th graders finished their science and social studies tests. We worked hard to encourage our students and have courage to do their best, focusing on our CKH theme for this month: perseverance. We wrote our students notes of encouragement with affirmation stickers encouraging them to STICK IT OUT and affirmation bracelets, reminding them that they can all do hard things! Well done, Mustang Students and Staff!

Just finishing up MSTEP makeups and then NWEA testing May 5-9. The Capturing Kids' Hearts theme this month is Perseverance and it reminds us all to FINISH STRONG! Here we go, Mustangs! Finish STRONG!

Mustangs-We would love to hear from you! As we near the end of the year, we would love your feedback to 14 family questions in regards to Capturing Kids' Hearts (CKH). This will help support us in our next steps and journey with CKH and continuing to capture hearts.
https://iheartckh.com/public-survey/iq8wu45i

Teacher Appreciation Videos

National Teacher Appreciation Week is May 5-9, 2025. The Michigan Department of Education’s (MDE) Office of Educator Excellence wishes to celebrate teachers across Michigan for the entire month of May.

MDE invites parents to submit 15-30 second videos of their students recognizing and thanking a specific teacher for their impact. Cell phones easily capture the videos. Please follow the directions on the flyer. Videos and parental consent must be submitted via the Teacher Appreciation Video Project Google Form. Videos are currently being accepted until Friday, April 16, 2025.

Submitted videos may be posted on the Teacher Appreciation Month webpage and MDE’s YouTube channel. The Office of Educator Excellence’s Facebook (@MIeducator) and X (formerly Twitter) social media pages will be promoting the videos throughout the month of May.

If your child has great things to say about a teacher, use the instructions found on MDE’s website to submit a video today!

At McGuire Elementary, our school expectations are Be Safe, Be Respectful, and Be Responsible and we are committed to teaching and reinforcing positive behavior expectations in all areas of the school from the classroom to the playground. Each area of our school day, has a focused set of positive expectations that we teach, model, and practice - on what it looks like to be safe, respectful, and responsible.

Our Mustang matrix is at the front of your student's agenda in the pages included for the student handbook, we encourage you to review these expectations at home with your child too.

Daily our students earn Dojo Points for meeting positive expectations, we recognize students with our Mustang Tickets, Weekly Drawings, Positive Office Referrals, Positive Postcards mailed home, and Students of the Month.

We know our students are still growing and developing mentally and socially, so we recognize it is always a work in progress when teaching and reteaching expectations. We utilize restorative practices - including repairing the harm, circle ups, and more.

We appreciate your partnership in supporting our McGuire Mustangs to help make McGuire a great place to be!

Mrs. Erin King and the McGuire Elementary Staff

The Sex Ed Advisory Board is seeking a new required member; a "Community Health Professional." If interested, please complete the form available at this link:

SEAB MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Mt. Pleasant Public Schools would like to share our 2024-2029 Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan incorporates input from the community, staff and students and explains how MPPS will empower excellence in ALL aspects of our community.

"Please check out our updates for January and February through our Fueling Excellence Strategic Plan Video!"
https://youtu.be/RYmjV9b1DpE

It's easy to celebrate our kids when we strive to demonstrate the mindset from Capturing Kids' Hearts. We LOVE affirming our students and showing the GREAT things we see them doing daily and celebrating the amazing students we have. Check out our February Students of the Month!

GRASP Summer Workbook forms can be requested if you are interested in signing up for summer learning workbooks to do at home. You are able to sign up for a math/and or reading practice book to continue to work on skills over the summer at a low cost. Feel free to contact your child's teacher or the office via email or phone at 989.775.2260 or Sarah Burkhart, sburkhart@mp.edzone.net. Money and order forms are due Friday, April 25th. Checks can be written directly to McGuire Elementary.

• April 25 - GRASP Summer Workbook Orders Due

• April 29 - Variety Show Try-Outs, 4:15-6:15p

• April 30 - Variety Show Try-Outs, 4:15-6:15pm

• May 1 - 3rd & 5th grade Pow Wow

• May 2- Student Council Loons Game

• May 5-9 - Staff Appreciation Week

• May 5 - NWEA Testing

• May 6 - NWEA Testing

• May 14-16 - 5th grade CAMP

• May 20 - Variety Show Dress Rehearsal, 9:15-10:15am, 1-2pm

• May 20 - Variety Show, 6pm @ McGuire Gym

• May 26 - No School Memorial Day

• June 2 - Field Day

• June 6 - Last Day of School, ½ day

Mount Pleasant Public Schools is committed to the health, safety, and well-being of our students, staff, and families. We want to reminder you of our partnership with @CareSolace to support our ongoing commitment.

If you or a family member are looking for help with mental health or substance use, Care Solace will quickly connect you to community providers matched to your needs.

Call 888-515-0595 at any time or search on your own at caresolace.com/mpps.

#OilerPride

#EmpowerExcellence

Mcguire spirit wear is always in style! Gear up for the winter at https://1stplace.sale/49000

During the course of the school year, our buildings are obligated to practice at least 5 Fire Drills, 2 Tornado Drills and 3 Lockdown drills. At times, we do have our YSU Liason or other officers from the Police Department assist in our drills. We cover with our students the locations of where to go for each drill, what to do during specific drills, and how to properly evacuate when it is needed. You can also find this information in your child's Handbook at the front of the student agenda.

During the first weeks of school, classes read the story, I'm Not Scared, I'm Prepared book in their class with their teachers. This book focused on the main components of the safety protocols that we work on with children.

I also encourage you to check out our district website where we have information that pertains to our district school safety. Click here to get to the website.

MPPS Nutrition Club is a unique community support that provides supplemental, weekend food twice a month to participating students.

If your son or daughter qualifies for free or reduced school meals and this nutritional support is needed, he or she is welcome to be enrolled and participate in the MPPS – Nutrition Club.

MPPS - Nutrition Club is made possible through an amazing partnership with the Community Compassion Network and Greater Lansing Food Bank. Financial support is provided by generous donations from many community members and organizations including Mount Pleasant City Women’s Club, Mount Pleasant Area Community Foundation, First United Methodist Church and many other local businesses and groups. In addition there is a multitude of volunteers who donate their time to make this program happen.

To enroll your son or daughter in the MPPS - Nutrition Club, simply complete the following enrollment form. You must also complete the Free & Reduced Lunch Application, which can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1keAoTS3rmP_WAq4wIblJ__s_9WxuIGdq/view

Form to complete for Nutrition Club

If your student will be taking medications at school we have a form for that:

https://www.mtpleasantschools.net/o/mpps/page/health-forms

All medications must be brought to the office with the appropriate health form. Please do not send medications to school with your child. This includes inhalers and epi-pens.

All students will be dropped off at the front door and will walk to the west playground entrance at 8:35. When you see the adult supervisor come out the front door, please feel free to begin dropping off if you are within our loading zone, between the McGuire sign in front of the school and the front porch. Come in the east entrance, drive to the front, drop off and exit the parking lot. Use the exit closest to the front door of the school. The first bell will ring at 8:40 and then school will officially start at 8:45. If it is too cold or raining, you will follow the same drop-off time and the student will come in the school at the west entrance.

Afternoon will be very similar to the morning. Dismissal is at 3:49. 3rd and 5th will be dismissed in front of the school and 4th grade has the option to park in the small parking lot in front of the gym to be dismissed. Please remain in the vehicle if you are in front of the school in the line and we will bring your student to you. If you would like to park and walk to the porch area, you are welcome to park in the far west lot and walk over to the front of the school.

Friendly reminder of our No Outside Food policy for Student Lunch time. Students must bring their lunch to school or choose a school lunch option.

Request for Transportation use the form linked here

https://mtpleasantschools.net/district/transportation/

Other forms linked on the Transportation website:

• Permission to Leave Alone
• In City Busing Reduction

Website: https://mtpleasantschools.net/district/transportation/
Phone: 989-775-2323

• PEAK (after school): https://www.mtpleasantschools.net/page/peak-program

• SACC (before school)- School Aged Child Care (Before School Program)- 775-2340

McGuire has a no student cell phone policy in our student handbook. If a cell phone comes to school with a student it should be turned off and stored in their locked from 8:40am-3:49pm.

We also have a no hats or hoods policy inside the school building, students can wear them outside during recess.

If you aren't currently following us at McGuire Elementary on Facebook, please like our page to you can see our district updates, information about our school, and more.

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McGuire Elementary Mission Statement:

Empower Excellence

Office Hours 8:00-4:00 p.m.

Erin King, Principal

Email: eking@mp.edzone.net
Website: mtpleasantschools.net/McGuire
Location: 4883 East Crosslanes
Phone: (989) 775-2260
Facebook: facebook.com/McGuireElementary
Twitter: @McGuireschool