Monteith Messenger

Tigers,

We had a wonderful PTO Sponsored Pizza lunch on Thursday and we will be enjoying a fun filled day next Friday with inflatable day for the whole school. We are looking forward to the fun events coming up in celebration of Fall and Halloween.

Mark your Calendars:

Tuesday 10/22: Bagel Days are Back!! ( read flyer below)

Wednesday 10/23: LOST & FOUND will be donated

Wednesday 10/23: 22nd Annual Monteith PUMPKIN CONTEST!!

Thursday 10/24: Voting on Pumpkins!

Friday 10/25: INFLATABLE DAY! (For the Whole School)

We would love to have you help: Sign up genius link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F4AAFAE2EA4F85-52498765-funrun

Friday 10/25: Pumpkin Pick up at the end of the day! Any Pumpkins at the End of the day will be thrown away!

10/31: HALLOWEEN PARADE FOR WHOLE SCHOOL: will be at 10:50am this year so then students are able to leave right after parade. Parents/Grandparents/Guardians are welcome to come and line up around the school to enjoy the parade! We will come out the front door around the playground and back through the 1st grade doors.

Your Partner in Education,

Dr. Keelean

We celebrate birthdays at Monteith by giving each student a birthday book and bookmark during their birthday month.

Due to the large number of student allergies, we no longer can allow any type of birthday cakes, cupcakes or cookies in the elementary schools (except for teacher scheduled celebrations) . Please save the present celebrations for home parties. If students want to bring in a small goodie bag of non-edible items ( Ex: pop-its, pencils, etc.) that is allowed but not necessary. If you do send in something with your child it needs to be for the whole class not just a couple students.

Kindness matters at Monteith and Always!

Lunchroom: The volunteer's responsibility is to help answer questions, open lunches or capri suns, and push the garbage can around the gym.

Recess: The responsibility is to supervise the students to ensure they are safe and respectful. You are circulating the playground, and if you have questions, please ask a staff member for help.

Please do not take pictures or videos when you are supervising.

Week of 10/21-10/25

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Monteith's Amazing Green Team leaders picked up a total of 1.5 lbs of trash yesterday during our Campus Clean-Up! Woohoo! Thank you for keeping Monteith Clean!

- Ms. Filbin, Mrs. Boyd, Ms. B

Creeping into the Halloween season with several collaborative projects. 3rd and 4th graders started working in groups to rehearse their reader’s theatre projects. They will be creating a title page graphic and recording their plays for the school to listen to on Halloween. 2nd graders read Creepy Crayon after learning about the author Aaron Reynolds and illustrator Peter Brown. They then did an activity online where they created a new creepy character from one of the creepy books (carrots, underwear or crayon). Finally, young fives, kindergarten, and first grade listened to Creepy Carrots after learning about the same author and illustrator. The first graders did an activity about cause-and-effect related to the story, and the others worked collaboratively with Keva Planks to re-create the fence around Crakemhopper field to keep the creepy carrots locked up just like Jasper did in the story. we started working on some Halloween sign language as well. We are definitely taking advantage of this spooky season!

4th graders are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their recorders! We are practicing reading and writing the lines and spaces of the treble clef so we are ready to play in November.

How big is your hand? In this lesson, students learn about the human body and proportions by creating an x-ray drawing of their hand. First, students trace their hand, then learn how to add bones inside their hand just like you would see in an x-ray. Students color the skin in black and the bones in white to create contrast. As an added bonus, students worked on an additional bat wing.

~Miss Zoufal

Source Booksellers is co-sponsoring a visit from Jeff Kinney. It costs $26 gets an adult ticket, a kid ticket, and a signed copy of the new book - "Hot Mess". It's more of a show than a reading and it takes place in the Senate Theater on Michigan Avenue in southwest Detroit.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-mess-live-with-jeff-kinney-tickets-1000614353467

Source Booksellers

https://www.sourcebooksellers.com/

Source a super book store in the Cass Corridor that has been there forever, run by a mother/daughter team. They specialize in non-fiction, but have a beautifully curated section of YA and children's books and sponsor cool readings and events. (They are also happy to order books instead of online sites and they have audiobooks via libro.fm)

Senate Theater

https://www.senatetheater.com/

One of the old movie houses of Detroit. They still show old movies and each one comes with an Old Timey concert before the movie and during intermission; they have the original pipe organ from the Fisher Theater. They also have great snacks and memorabilia.

October

22nd- Bagel Day!

Lost & Found Donated after School

23rd-25th- Monteith's 22nd Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest

25th- Inflatable Day

31st- Halloween 1/2 day for students 11:36am dismissal (PARADE WILL BE AT 10:50am)

November

3rd- District Open House 12-2pm

5th- Election Day (No School)

12th- Picture Retake Day

13th-PTO meeting 6:30pm

14th- PTO Math Night 5:30pm- 7:30pm

27th-29th - Thanksgiving Break

December

11th- PTO Meeting 6:30pm

13th- PTO Jingle Jamboree (6-8pm)

23rd- Jan. 3rd (Winter Break)

January

6th- Students return to school

8th- PTO Meeting 6:30pm

20th- MLK Day (No School)

February

8th- PTO Glow Dance (5-7pm)

12th- PTO meeting 6:30pm

17th- 21st- Mid Winter Break

March

12th- Monteith Spring Concert (Brownell)

6pm - K,1,2 & Choir

7:15pm 3,4, & Choir

19th - Full day of School Evening conferences (Virtual)

19th- PTO Meeting 6:30pm

20th- 1/2 day 11:36 Dismissal

20th- Afternoon conferences in person

20th- Evening conferences Virtual

21st- 1/2 day 11:36am dismissal

24th- 28th- Spring Break

April

9th- PTO Meeting 6:30pm

18th - Good Friday (No School )

21st- No School (Staff PD day)

May

9th- Kindergarten Farm Trip

14th- PTO Meeting 6:30pm

26th- Memorial Day ( No School)

30th- Monteith Field Day

June

7th- PTO Summer Celebration

9th- 4th grade Promotion Rehearsel and Picnic

10th- 4th Grade trip to Lansing

11th- 4th Grade Promotion

13th- Last Day of School (1/2 Day 11:36am dismissal)

If your student will be taking medication during the school day, please bring the medicine and

Medication Administration Authorization form to the office on the first day of school The form is requjiured for all prescription and over the counter medications to be given by school staff.

If your child will be staying home because of illness, please call the attendance line at 313-432-4501 and leave a brief message. Please refer to Guidelines to Exclude a Child from School.

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