MBE May 2024 Paw Print

May 2024

May 6-10- Staff Appreciation Week, MBE

May 14 - MB Parent Group Meeting

May 27 - Memorial Day - No School

May 31 - Track & Field Day

June 6 - Last Day of School

Our students have been exceptional role models this year with service learning at Morris Bye Elementary! This school year our students in grades K-5 have been immersed in the following community service projects at school, in the Coon Rapids area, and globally:

-Anoka County Food Shelf and Clothing Drive

-Book Buggy Drive: Used book collection for students in the greater community

-Feed My Starving Children, Grade 4 Mobile Food Packing for Global Communities

-MBE Property Pick-up & Healthy Choices, Keeping our School Community Clean and Healthy

-MBE Grade 5 Students Letter Leaders for MBE Grade K Students

-MBE Grade 4 Students Mentoring MBE Grade 1/Grade 2 Students in Mathematics & Reading

Our students have been able to learn and lead as service leaders throughout the school and, in particular, with our Talent Development Program implementing passion project learning. This school year four of our MBE Grade 4 students led a community service project and learned through Ms. Burow, MBE Talent Development Teacher, how to plan, organize, and implement a service learning opportunity. Thank you to Elliana Barnes, Addison Martin, Annamarie Vance, and Leah Doyle for developing our service learning projects at Morris Bye Elementary: Book Buggy Drive, FMSC Mobile Food Packs, and MBE Mentoring opportunities. The service leadership programs have ignited and presented great community connections for all of our MBE Students. Our students have been highly engaged and wanting to participate and benefit from implementing our Leader In Me initiative for Habit 8-Student Voice this school year . We are looking forward as a school community to the future to continue to "Pay It Forward" in our communities.

We are grateful for our students exceptional leadership!- Ms. Wahlin, Principal

All 5th grade students will receive a yearbook at no cost this year thanks to the generous donation by the Morris Bye Parent Group. Thank you Morris Bye Parent group!

Yearbooks can be purchased online through AH-Connect or with an order form and exact cash. The cost is $8.00. Orders are due by May 12th. Order forms will be sent home in your child’s Wednesday folders March 6th. Checks will not be accepted.

Purchasing your child’s yearbook by May 12th will reserve their copy that will be distributed the last week of school. There will be a very limited supply of yearbooks to purchase on the last day of school for $10. They cannot be reserved; they are first come first serve.

Click here for directions on how to order online.

Email Lia.staples@ahschools.us with questions.

Leah D. is a 4th Grader at Morris Bye Elementary School in Coon Rapids. When her talent

development teacher, Ms. Burow (pictured in dark blue) challenged her students to come up with a passion project, Leah chose Feed My Starving Children because she wanted to help people. Then she got to work! With support from her classroom teacher, Ms. Frederickson (pictured in white), Leah talked to the principal, helped to arrange and raise money for bussing, created permission slips, recruited parent chaperones and organized bag lunches.

On April 2nd, Leah brought a total of 103 students and chaperones in to FMSC-Coon Rapids. This was all three 4th grade classes at Morris Bye Elementary School! Together this group packed 19,656 meals. That is enough to feed 54 children one solid meal a day for a year!

Amazing work Leah, you are a world changer.

The Anoka-Hennepin Student Placement Forms are available in the office. You will need to come into the office to request a form to fill out and they are due by May 15th.

THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!!! From the Halloween Dance to BINGO Night, you have put in over 1,200 hours so far this year!!! Your kindness and generosity is so very appreciated. We couldn’t do any of this without you!!

Next up, we have Track & Field Day on May 31st! Sign up here to get in on the fun!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our annual BINGO Nights and the new Silent Auction. Both were wonderful successes!!! We made over $1,400 on the Silent Auction alone!

Want to get in on the excitement? Do you have some good ideas for the Halloween Dance or other events? The MBPG meeting will be May 14th at 6pm in the Media Center. We will be planning next year’s activities and electing officers. As always, childcare will be provided in the gym.