We have made it to November and are just a few weeks away from the end of Trimester 1. Staff will be evaluating students based on the Trimester 1 report card indicators and you can expect to see report cards in early December.

Monroe’s first in person (YAY!!!) Math Family Night since Covid, will be on Tuesday, Nov. 15th from 6:00-7:30 pm. Come join us for a night of family math games, collect resources to play at home and learn various strategies to work on math with your students. If you haven't signed up yet, please click on the flyer below to access the google form!

Monroe staff and students continue to be AMAZING as we work through many obstacles each day! Please continue to help keep our staff and students healthy by keeping kids home when they are ill. Please contact the Health office if you have any questions or concerns.

Keep Being Amazing,

Mrs. Oliver

• Nov. 7th- 18th Kids Heart Challenge

• Nov. 15- Family Math Night 6:00-7:30pm

• Nov. 18- 2nd Grade Field Trip to Crayola Experience

• Nov. 23-25 No School Thanksgiving Break

• Nov. 29- Picture Retake Day

• Dec. 1 End of Trimester 1

• Dec. 2 No School Staff Planning

• Dec.5 No School Staff PD

• Dec. 8 - Kindergarten Field Trip - Stepping Stone Theatre

• Dec. 12- In person Monroe PTO Meeting 6:30pm

• Dec. 15 - 3rd Grade James Hersch Concert (whole school assembly at 2:30 and 7:00pm family concert)

School Picture Retakes will be Nov. 29th. If your student was absent on picture day, Nov. 29th will be the make up day. If your student did have pictures taken but you would like retakes, please send any picture package you may have purchased to school with them on Nov. 29th.

To order online:

1- Visit lifetouch.com

2- Select Monroe Elementary School

3- Enter in picture day ID- EVT6KW7S2

As school social workers, we are able to support our students in individual meetings, groups and whole group classroom settings. Other support can include; food, shelter, clothing, financial, mental health, and other basic needs. Please reach out to your social worker to ask for more information or to talk about your student(s).

If you are looking for social or emotional support for your student please reach out to one of the social workers and we will connect with your student individually.

The month of November is Gratitude and we will be having our school food drive to support our Monroe GEARS food shelf. If you would like to shop at the food shelf, please reach out to one of the social workers or scan the QR code. This is open to ALL of our families and you can shop 2 times a month.

Here are some Winter Holiday Resources that families are able to sign up for.

Is your family in need of food or toiletries? If so, you can use our school’s food shelf. It’s easy, fast, and confidential.
Here are some options:

• Reach out to a social worker to set up a time
• Scan or click the QR code to sign up to shop

November’s Character Trait is: Gratitude

We are looking forward to focusing on Gratitude this month! One way to think about Gratitude is “choosing to appreciate the people and things in our lives.” Practicing Gratitude can increase our well-being and our happiness.

Hey Monroe Families,

My name is Liz Burgard and I am the Parent Involvement Coordinator for the Anoka-Hennepin School District. I will be covering the VSC roles at Monroe until a new person has been hired. In the meantime here are a few things to know about volunteering or chaperoning at Monroe:

• Field Trips are a GO this year. If you haven't already, please complete the volunteer application linked below! ALL grade levels will be going on field trips, so before you get the notice of your child's field trip, have the paperwork complete!
• Like working on random school projects? Complete the volunteer application and get involved with helping teachers with projects for their classrooms.
  

With winter weather approaching, please make sure to send your students in appropriate clothing. Changes of clothes are not readily available for students who get wet at recess. We also know that sicknesses occur with change in season. Please be sure to call your students in if they are sick. Students must stay home from school if:

• they have a temperature greater than 100 degrees
• or have thrown up within 24 hours

Students may return to school when vomiting has stopped or the temperature has returned to normal for 24 hours without fever reducing medications.

Please consider the following for your student with the change in season:

• send in a water bottle for your student so they can stay hydrated
• have lip balm for chapped lips available in backpacks
• small bottle/container of lotion for dry chapped skin.

If you have any health related questions, please feel free to contact us @ 763-506-3624!

While the new Library is under construction, Monroe students in every grade have been using Monroe’s ONLINE Media Center for pleasure reading and for research activities. We have thousands of ebooks and several student databases that students are now using in school, and that they can use at home

At home, log in, scroll down, click on the “M for Media,” and use our online media center.

To use the Online Media Center AT HOME, go to the Monroe School Website, click the “Lock and Key” in the upper right corner of the page, use the student’s username and password to log in, scroll down, click the “M for Media,” and you will be at the Monroe Online Media Center.

For log in help, call the Monroe office, or email Mr. Mack: michael.mack@ahschools.us

Moving from elementary to middle school is an exciting time. There are some options for students in Anoka-Hennepin to attend a specialty or magnet school. Here are the two options within Anoka-Hennepin:

• Jackson Middle School is a Specialty school for Math and Science. Jackson is the assigned middle school for most of the students who attend Monroe currently. If you would like to know more about the program at Jackson please visit their webpage: https://www.ahschools.us/domain/2503
• Anoka Middle School for the Arts is a Magnet School that is part of the Northwest Suburban district. There is an application process to attend this magnet program. For more information on this program please visit their webpage: https://www.ahschools.us/Page/27719

Attendance Information: Please be sure to call the attendance line if your student is sick, will be out of town or has a doctor's appointment. Absence number is: 763-506-3606.