​Good afternoon, families. I hope everyone had a wonderful week! We had a great week here at MAS celebrating Diversity and Respect Week! This week used to be referred to as “Anti-Bullying” week, but we have broadened the learning and discussions beyond just anti-bullying in the past few years. Monday, we played whole-school “Respect” Bingo. Congratulations to Mrs. Belyea’s class for winning and on your prizes! Tuesday, a few of our Student Leaders did read alouds around diversity in each classroom and facilitated discussions about the content in the books. We are very proud of the messages they had for all of our students! Wednesday was Identity Day! Students loved sharing things with their classmates to show how they are unique and special. Thursday, we had our November Star Student assembly. Our school mascot, Star, even made an appearance! Mrs. LeBlanc, school counselor, spoke to the students about using our WITS to solve problems, and 2 star student awards were handed out for each class. Congratulations to all! Today, we will have a read aloud with Mrs. Jordan on Teams and will have a school discussion about diversity.

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Items to note for this week:

-Last call for bath bomb orders! Please have these into the school by Monday at the latest. Thank you for supporting a small local business!

-Monday, November 28- Whole school math fact BINGO

                -Please return your parent/teacher time requests

-Thursday, Dec. 1 – Report cards issued; your parent/teacher time will be enclosed

-Friday, Dec. 2 – NO SCHOOL for students as this is a professional learning day focused on our School Improvement Plan

-Saturday, Dec. 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Looking ahead:

-Please refer to the December calendar for upcoming events! I sent home a paper copy this week, and here is the electronic version:

calendar Dec families.docx 

-Just a reminder that we will be collecting clothing donations for the clothing swap that will take place in the gym during parent/teacher. Feel free to drop these donations off to the school anytime! Thank you in advance for this.

-If you’re an entrepreneur and would like to set up a table during parent/teacher, please reach out to our Home and School co-chairs Becky and Ashley! Their email addresses are on the form that was sent home. We love supporting community businesses.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Mrs. Christie Jordan

Principal​​