MCE News!

Mrs. Jeania Burton, Principal

Mrs.Jill Jacob, Assistant Principal

Our Mission;

Lifelong Learners: Motivate, Challenge, Educate!

MCE’s PBIS Principles:

Rule #1 - Be Cooperative - Follow Directions Quickly

Rule #2 - Be Respectful - Raise Your Hand

Rule #3 - Be Safe - KHFAAOOTY

Rule #4 - Act Responsibly - Make Smart Choices

Rule #5 Be Kind - Treat Others The Way You Want To Be Treated

January 28, 2022

Dear Montgomery City Elementary Families:

After 27 years as an educator, and with the support of my amazing family, I have decided to retire at the end of this school year. I am thankful to have served 20 years as a Wildcat, with 10 of those years as a principal in the MCR2 district.

I have truly enjoyed my career and cherish our MCE family. I am blessed to have been a colleague to such an extraordinary faculty and staff, and I am humbled by the fact that parents have entrusted a portion of their child’s education with me. I greatly appreciate the positive support our families have given to our school.

I look forward to working with the next administrative team at Montgomery City Elementary. It is my pleasure to announce that Mrs. Jill Jacob will be our new elementary principal, and Mrs. Laura Allen will be our new assistant principal at the elementary and middle school beginning July, 2022.

I have enjoyed many celebrations and successes at Montgomery City Elementary as well as throughout the District, and I look forward to enjoying a few more before I retire in June. Thank you, again, for supporting me for so many years as I have fulfilled my dreams as an educator.

With gratitude,

Mrs. Jeania Burton

Our students are currently taking their mid-year FAST assessment in the areas of reading and math. This benchmark helps us monitor each students academic progress this year.

Please make sure your child gets a good night's rest, is at school on time and eats a healthy breakfast each day, so they are prepared to do their best at school!

We are partnering with SchoolStore to raise funds for Montogmery City Elementary!

Your participation is easy with no more than 12 minutes of your time required. All you need to do is:

1. Scan the QR code that was sent home or go to schoolstore.net and sign up using our school ID: 163517

2. Send the form emails inviting family, friends and co-workers to support your student.

3. Return the Envelope with the Student Prize Code for your child to get their really fun participation prize.

You may click on this link to see the school stores you may access that will benefit our school!

Thank you so very much for your participation!

Montgomery City Elementary
It's time to order your student's yearbook!

SALES END ON 03/04/2022
YEARBOOKS ARE ONLY $14!

Click this link to order your yearbook online.

Can’t order online? Call us. We'll Help!
Wagner Portrait Group
314-567-5900 or 1-800-444-7986

Our annual Friendship Parties will be held on Friday, February 11th at 2:30 pm.

Teachers will be contacting parents to help with donations for the parties. We will allow volunteers to attend the parties this year.

We will be allowed to take our classes on field trips this year! Classroom teachers are working on scheduling these trips for the end of the year. Teachers may invite a few parents to attend the field trips as chaperones, when needed. If you are invited to attend, you will be expected to supervise a small group of children while on the trip. Children that are not in the class are not allowed to attend the field trip

Any parent attending a field trip must have a current background check on file.

How to Register For and Schedule Your Background Check to Volunteer in the Montgomery County R-II School District

1. Contact the office of the building you wish to volunteer in. The office will help you determine which background check you need based on your role as a volunteer. a. If you wish to be a volunteer or chaperone (always under the direct supervision of a staff member), you will need to register in the Name Search Portal on the MACHS (Missouri Automated Criminal History Site) website at

www.machs.mo.gov. The fee for a name based search is $14.00 plus $1.25 transaction fee, the volunteer is responsible for this amount. Volunteers completing the name search must complete a new one every year. The volunteer must forward their name search results to the district’s central office.

b. If you wish to be a screened volunteer, the office will give you a copy of the MCR-II Missouri Applicant Fingerprint Privacy Notice. Once you have signed the notice, you will need to proceed to step 2.

2. Register on-line on the MACHS (Missouri Automated Criminal History Site) website at www.machs.mo.gov. If you do not have internet access, you may register by phone by calling 1-844-543-9712. When registering you use code: 1402.

3. After completing registration with MACHS you will automatically be redirected to the IdentoGO website to schedule your appointment and pay for your background check. Please keep in mind that the fingerprint based search could take up to 3-4 days based on the volume of searches occurring at that time. The fee for a fingerprint based search is $41.75, the volunteer is responsible for this amount. Locations and pricing are not controlled by the district and are subject to change. The district will receive updates from the Missouri State Highway Patrol about volunteers who complete the fingerprint search, this criminal background check is good for six years. Current locations near Montgomery County:

a. 170 Blue Pride Drive, Hermann, MO

b. 111 Steinhagen Rd, Warrenton, MO

c. 1127 Adams St., Mexico, MO

MobyMax access for Parents

Parents can log in "as a parent" on MobyMax using their child's login.

1. go to www.mobymax.com/signin

2. select "as a parent" on the tabs at the top

3. enter school code mo1421

4. enter your child's username and password

This will allow you to look at all of the subjects, see their progress, and see how long they spend on each subject. :)

This is a reminder of our inclement weather procedures:

As winter approaches, the Montgomery County R-II District wants to inform our parents and staff about what takes place, when winter weather does arrive. The Montgomery County R-II District watches the weather very closely in the winter months. On nights when weather is forecasted to cause any issues that might impact the safety of our students arriving at school, we are actively assessing the situation by 4:45 a.m. If we are able to determine school closings the night before, we will let you know about it when the decision is made.

Snow or Ice Events

Closing school, or releasing school early due to weather, is a decision that is not made lightly. There are many implications so the district works to ensure we are making the best decision possible based on the information we have. The start of school may be closed if conditions are considered to be dangerous. Here is how we make the decision:

• We review the predicted weather patterns through various weather websites and news outlets.
• We review information from the National Weather Service.
• We look closely at the timing of the snow/ice, how much is predicted, how it will impact getting students to/from school, and what type of wind conditions may take place.
• We work closely with our bus service when making this decision. The district Superintendent and bus service provider drive roads in our district to review their conditions.
• We are in constant conversation with other superintendents in neighboring school districts to compare reports.

How You'll Be Notified

• We will also post the closing on our District Facebook page and/or district Twitter.
• We will use our electronic messaging system (School Messenger) to call families about the change in the school schedule.
• Local media (T.V. and Radio Stations) will also be contacted.

AMI Information for Parents

This year parents and guardians have received information about Alternative Methods of Instruction (AMI) AMI is the district’s plan to provide remote instruction and learning opportunities when the district has to close temporarily due to an emergency such as inclement weather, power outage, or some other unforeseen circumstance. Our AMI plans for learning are the Learning Menus that have been sent home quarterly with students.

As we approach winter it is more likely that the district will need to close due to poor road conditions. If the district has to close for inclement weather this winter, the first day will be a traditional snow day. This means the first inclement weather day the district has to close there will be no expectation for students to do any learning activities. Any additional days the district has to close due to weather or road conditions, could be AMI days. This means students will be expected to complete work from the Learning Menus. PreK-8th grade have one Learning Menu per grade level, high school students will need to look at the Learning Menus for their specific courses.

Your child’s attendance for the AMI day will be calculated based on the number of assignments completed for their grade level or classes. Your child must complete at least 80% of the learning activities assigned for the day (the Learning Menu should identify what is expected each day) to be considered in attendance for the day. Grades will be taken on the assignments. Teachers will be available during school hours via email to answer any questions students may have on AMI days. The learning activities and assignments included in the AMI Learning Menus are primarily concepts and standards that students have already learned, so the activities will be review and reinforcement of important skills. Third quarter AMI Learning Menus will be sent home on Friday, January 7th, second quarter menus were sent home in late October. If you need additional copies, or more information, please contact your child’s teacher or building office.

Please watch your email for information from Dr. Bottoms to determine which days are traditional snow days and which days will be AMI learning days.

We will be holding Title I Preschool screening in April for the 2022-2023 school year. The screening is offered to any child who is, or will be, 4 years old on or before July 31, 2022 and resides in our school district. If you know of someone living in our district who has a 4 year old, please share this information with them.

More information about registering for a screening appointment will be sent home at a later date.

We will host a Kindergarten Round-Up on Tuesday, March 31st beginning at 6:00 pm at Montgomery City Elementary. All parents of children who will be 5 years old before August 1st, 2022, and reside in the Montgomery City Elementary boundaries, should attend to enroll their child in kindergarten. We encourage you to bring your child with you for this event.

We will be available between 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm for registration in our cafeteria. During the registration process you will meet our kindergarten teachers, learn about our expectations for kindergarten and get a tour of our school.

We are not screening our future kindergarten students at this time. We plan to implement a soft placement at the beginning of the 22-23 school year. This means that your child will have the opportunity to work with each kindergarten teacher during the first two weeks of school . Students will rotate between teachers to participate in community building activities and academic activities to help us learn about their unique needs. During this time, we have extra adults from our team in each classroom to provide additional support and help each child transition into school successfully. Our team feels this process allows us to get to know each child better before creating a “firm placement” in a classroom. We are able to better balance the needs of students in each classroom after we learn about each of our students.

We implemented this practice at the start of the 20-21 school year, and have been very pleased with the results.

We look forward to meeting our future Wildcats on March 31st! If you are not able to attend this evening, please call our office to schedule a time to complete an enrollment packet for the 22-23 school year.

MCHS FCCLA will once again be collecting soda tabs for the central Missouri Ronald McDonald House charities. They will be sent in via homeroom teacher (or seminar teacher at MCHS) as part of National FCCLA week in February. If you want to help this great mid-Missouri cause, start collecting your soda tabs! Keep your tabs at home until we collect them for the competition next semester or feel free to send them to the MCHS FCCLA now as a general donation.

If you weren't aware, the Ronald McDonald House program helps reduce stress and the financial burden for families when they have a child staying in the hospital. The program helps with meals and provides housing while the family deals with the medical needs of their child.

We are excited to share that we have scheduled the following events back into our schedule. At this time we have been told there are no restrictions for after school activities.

Please add the following dates to your calendar, and look for more information on each event to be shared in the future.

January 28 - Mom & Daughter Night

February 19 - Daddy - Daughter Dance

March 18 - Carnival - 5:30-7:30

April 23 - Mom & Son Night

We are excited to invite parents back into the building for these fun family activities!

Our PTO meetings are scheduled for:

February 17

April 21

These will be held in the MCE Cafeteria. All parents are invited to attend!

Student Council News:

Student Council has renewed our subscription to You Uplift - MCE's Kindness Wall. You may go to our webpage to view and submit your own positive notes and pictures!

Our Future Change the World Days are:

February 16th - American Heart Association

March 16th - Down Syndrome Association

April 20th - Montgomery County Back To School Supplies Drive

May 18th - Super Sam’s Foundation

MCE is planning its annual Fine Arts Series.

Please mark the following dates on your calendars.

February 17th - 4th & 5th Grade

April 21st - Kindergarten & 1st Grade

Students will perform songs they are learning in music, and their artwork will be on display for you to enjoy.

The times for the concerts will be announced closer to the date.

This is a reminder that students must turn in their homework from the time they are quarantined in order to make up their attendance for each day they are absent. If the homework is not completed, they are counted absent for those days. If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher or our office.

Stay up to date with everything going on in our MCE Community. Click the link below for all the important dates we have scheduled.

2021-2022 Important Dates for MCE Families

February School Counselor Appreciation Week

February 10th - 3rd quarter midterm

February 10th - BOE meeting

February 11th - Friendship Parties 2:30 pm

February 14th - We LOVE PD - PD Monday

February 16th - MCE StuCo Change the World Day - American Heart Association

February 17th - 4th & 5th Concert - PTO Meeting in the Cafeteria

February 18th - Progress Reports for midterm send home

February 19th - Daddy Daughter Dance

February 22nd - School Bus Driver Appreciation Day

February 25th - February Academic Awards Assembly 7:50 am

Lunch Charges

Please be aware that all 1st lunches are free this year. If your child wants to order a 2nd lunch or an extra milk, they will be charged for these items.

We appreciate you filling out the Free & Reduced Lunch application. While lunches are free at this time, some of our school programs' funding is based on the percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunches. Our Title I Reading program is one of these programs. We need you to complete and return this application to help with the funding of these programs. Thank you!

Handbook and Social Media Forms

This is a reminder that the elementary parent/student handbook is found online. You can access it by clicking this link or by visiting our web page, clicking parent information and then choosing Handbook.

We must have your signed permission before we are allowed to include your student's picture in any posts on social media pertaining to MCE. We love to celebrate the learning happening at MCE, and we do this by sharing pictures.

Please return the signed permission form to your child's teacher as soon as possible, if you have not done so.

Motivate, Challenge, Educate - Life Long Learners!

Email: jburton@mc-wildcats.org
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Location: 817 North Harper Street Montgomery City, Missouri 63361
Phone: (573) 564-3711
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