Mora Elementary Newsletter

Hello! We are professors, students, scientists, and community organizers from the Neuroscience groups at the University of Minnesota. We are very excited to invite you to a completely free and fun community event called Brain Day '25!

What is Brain Day?

Brain Day is an interactive, engaging, and free event celebrating the brain at the University of Minnesota. This will be a family-friendly event packed with live demonstrations, exciting experiments, and hands-on activities for all ages!

This year’s event will take place on Saturday November 1, 2025 from 11:00am to 3:00pm in the Great Hall of Coffman Memorial Union on the UMN Twin Cities campus.

What can I expect from Brain Day?
Brain Day will allow curious community members of all ages the chance to meet with real scientists while doing cool hands-on experiments and games. At this event you will:

• Play fun games and activities
  
• Win prizes!
  
• Participate in free raffles just for showing up
• See yourself as a scientist
• Get free snacks
• Learn about the really cool research being done at UMN

Upon entering the event, each attendee will get a Brain Passport that gets stamped at each booth they attend. After filling their passport, attendees can spin a prize wheel! Additionally, at the top of each hour, we will be doing free raffles for even more great prizes! There will also be a snack table for brain food to keep you going throughout the event.

Additional event information and Frequently Asked Questions can be found by clicking this link or scanning the QR code on the flyer. If you have any questions about Brain Day, please reach out to neurobrainday@umn.edu.

We hope to see you at Brain Day '25!

Brain Day '25 Planning Committee

(Dr. Angeline Dukes, Karrie Molitor, Elizabeth Passe, Nicole Quintus, Delilah Pineda)

Conferences are scheduled for Monday, November 17th from 12:00-8:00 PM. The Mora Elementary PTO is looking for volunteers to help run the book fair during this time. Please sign up here if interested. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084FA9AF28A0FE3-59777448-fall

Congratulations to Kayla Hambly who was awarded a $1,000 grant from the Mora Education Foundation! Ms. Hambly presented Tonies in the classroom! She will be able to add a Tonies box and many characters and books to her classroom!

This week we read Crankenstein and talked about character traits. We also shared what are things that make us cranky!

We had so much fun with our Monster Room transformation and doing our pumpkin math. The kids got so creative with painting their pumpkins! Happy Halloween!

~Mrs. Miller's Kindergarten class

Tatum Reitter - Taylor Stevens

Grades K-2 Grades 3-6

320-679-6200 X4307 320-679-6200 X4313

tatumreitter@moraschools.org taylorstevens@moraschools.org

Dear Mustang Parent/s or Guardians,

Listed below are guidelines to follow if you're unsure when to send your student to school or not, as well as the COVID guidelines. Please remember, our students need to be healthy in order to learn successfully.

Thank you for understanding and helping to keep our schools safe!

Email: kleach@moraschools.org
Website: Moraschools.org
Location: 200 9th Street, Mora, MN, USA
Phone: (320)679-6200
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