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Our music programs are absolutely amazing! We need your help to make them amazing again this year!

Ways to Help:

**Stage Decor Designer -- Responsibilities: You would be in charge of stage decor for all performances. Using the decorations we already have for each performance (no extra purchases required), come up with a stage decor design/idea for where/how to hang/place the decorations. Lead/direct the stage decor crew on the morning of decorating the day prior to each performance (see below). If there are multiple decor designers, feel free to split responsibilities/performances/decorating days to lead the decor crew, or feel free to work together.

**Stage Decor Crew -- Responsibility: With the guidance of the stage decor designer(s), you would help hang/place the decorations on/around the stage the morning prior to a performance (see below). Need at least a few people per performance.

**Costume Designer -- Responsibility: You would design/sew/create 3 simple costumes for the following characters in the winter program in December - The Abominable Snowman, Sasquatch and BigFoot. Contact Ms. Deaton for more info/details regarding costumes.

Stage Decor Dates/Times:

~ 3rd grade Veterans Music Program - Tuesday, November 11 - decorating would take place on Monday, November 10 (7:15ish-10am or once it's complete)

~ 5th grade Winter Music Program - Thursday, December 11 - decorating would take place on Wednesday, December 10 (7:15-10am or once it's complete)

~ 1st grade Spring Music Program - Thursday, March 5 - decorating would take place on Wednesday, March 4 (7:15-10am or once it's complete)

~ Rhythm Riders Percussion Ensemble Concert - Thursday, April 9 - decorating would take place on Wednesday, April 8 (7:15-10am or once it's complete)

~ MES Talent Show - Thursday, May 14 - decorating would take place on Wednesday, May 13 (7:15-10am or once it's complete)

ANY AND ALL HELP IS GREATLY ,GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Please email Amanda.Deaton@pfisd.net if you can help in ANY way at all.

Thank you so much!

We hope you enjoy your days off! Every day of learning matters, and we can’t wait to see our students back bright and early on Tuesday morning!

National Walk to School day was a success! We were thrilled to see so many students, families, and community members join us. A huge thank you to the Kelly Lane Band for welcoming us with energizing music and to the amazing Hendrickson High School students who got up early to cheer us on! We Say Yes at HHS and MES!

Our next Parent/Teacher Organization (PTO) meeting is Tuesday, October 14 at 6:30 pm. Here is the link for the Google Meet. We hope to see you there!

https://meet.google.com/ehq-xwjm-pix

2nd-5th grade parents:

Students were reminded recently about Beanstack and Sora - two amazing resources that support our readers!

Sora is an online library where they can check out 2 additional books - there are thousands of options!

Beanstack is our reading tracker app and Ms. Grillo is starting to give student prizes for their reading each month! If students read and log 300 minutes before the end each month, they can come to the library to retrieve an awesome prize plus ten Mustang dollars; we are starting this month so that means 300 minutes by Halloween for our HALLOW-READ challenge! (That's just 15 minutes a day for 20 days!). We will do this every month throughout the year.

High minute students in each grade level will be invited to monthly parties starting next month and there will be prizes for top classes as well! Please help your student login to Beanstack on your home computer, or you can download the Beanstack Tracker app for devices and they can login with their info. Click here for more details on how to login!

Kinder-1st parents: your students will be learning about Beanstack next month so they can join in the fun in November! Feel free to keep logging if you already know how from last year. :)

Please reach out to Ms. Grillo if you have any questions! theresa.grillo@pfisd.net

Happy Reading!

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PfISD is partnering with Coats for Kids with an opportunity to provide free winter coats for students. Click on this link between now and October 15 to see if you qualify:

2025 Coats for Kids Request Form PFISD

PTO is selling Sonic coupon cards for $5 as a fundraiser opportunity for the school. If you would like to purchase one, bring $5 cash and look for PTO members at pick-up this Friday, October 10. Any cards remaining will be on sale at the Trunk or Treat on October 24!

The Murchison PTO needs your help to make our Trunk or Treat spook-tacular!

We’re summoning all ghouls, goblins, and grown-ups to help us transform trunks into treat-filled wonderlands for our little monsters. Whether you're spooky, silly, or somewhere in between, we need your creativity and candy skills.

Because let’s face it...without your help, it’s just a parking lot with costumes.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080B4EAFA62BA5F85-58735608-halloween

Nominations for the Gifted and Talented Program by any adult for students in grades K through 5th must be returned to the campus counselor by the end of the nomination window: October 1 - 31, 2025. The last day applications for nomination will be accepted will be on October 31, 2025. If you are not sure if you should nominate your child for screening, then please visit with your child's teacher.

PfISD GT Referral Information

Direct Link to GT Referral