Eagle Updates

Meadow Wood News:

• From Mrs. Barry
• KId's Heart Challenge
• Chick-Fil-A Halloween Fundraiser
• October Counselors' Corner
• SHS Girls' Athletics Trunk or Treat
• MWE Blood Drive
• SBISD Police Department Holiday Toy Drive
• Spooktacular at SWHS
• MWE Calendar

PTA News:

• Red Ribbon Week
• RRW Service Project
• Fall Auction - Deadline Approaching!
• THANK YOU EagleFest Sponsors & Carnival Committee!
• Storybook Pumpkins - Due Friday!
• PTA Reflections Contest - Deadline Approaching!
• Platinum Sponsor: Chick-fil-A

It's hard to believe that the first nine weeks of school has already passed. As parent conferences are this week, here are a few suggestions for questions your might ask when you meet with your child's teacher:

• Is my child working to his ability?
• What are my child’s strengths and weaknesses?
• What skills will my child be expected to master this year in math, English, science and social studies
• What is my child like in class?
• Does my child participate in classroom activities?
• Does my child obey school rules?
• Is there anything that I can share with you about what my child is like at home?
• Does my child understand what she reads?
• Can my child express her thoughts and ideas clearly?
• What can I do to support my child’s learning at home?

Because the conferences are short on time, having the questions you'd like to ask prepared ahead of time will help ensure they are answered. You might even consider sending them to your child's teacher in advance, especially if you have specific topics you would like addressed. As a reminder, you can schedule a meeting with your child's teacher at any time - just reach out to schedule!

Hey MWE it’s that time again for us to begin our annual Kid’s Heart Challenge with the American Heart Association. We were able to reach and exceed our goals from last year and we hope to be able to do the same again this year!

We will be kicking off our challenge this Wednesday, October 23rd and it will run through November 13th. We encourage all families to visit our school homepage (below) to sign up, complete Finn’s mission, learn about Hands-Only CPR and make a donation if you are able.

http://www2.heart.org/site/TR?fr_id=11259&pg=company&company_id=479612

Our fundraising goal for this year is $25,000 and through the American Heart Association donations go toward nutritional education, providing healthy food options in underserved communities and saving lives from heart disease and stroke.

We can’t wait to get started with our challenge that helps so many!

Why cook for your little ghosts and goblins on Halloween? Instead, order a Chick-Fil-A nugget tray and support MWE at the same time! See flyer below for details!

The month of October is all about being Empathetic and Self-Aware.

SBISD believes that, Every Child appreciates differences, forms secure relationships and cares for their own and others’ emotional, mental and physical health. In a T-2-4 ready graduate this looks like a child who,

• Believes in and invests in themselves and practices self-care, and understands habits to have a healthy mind and body.
• Think and speak positively about themselves and know how and when to seek and accept help from a trusted adult.
• Demonstrates the ability to control, monitor and adjust behavior and emotions by naming their feelings and knowing that they can safely express and control them while asking for and accepting help when needed.
• Understands and respects the feelings, opinions, experiences, cultures and traditions of others to seek common ground

In SBISD, we are supporting empathy and self-awareness of our students by focusing on empathy and emotional awareness on morning announcements, community circles, and/or counseling lessons across the months of October.

Try This At Home with your PK – 1st graders:

Part of being empathetic and self-aware is to respect ourselves and others. Respect is an important trait to practice, this month, a few ways to practice are,

• Sharing at home about
• Discuss about what respect means.
• How do you show respect at home and in the community?
• How do you show respect for your family? Friends? Strangers?
• Connect the word respect, with sharing activities
• Sharing with a sibling or friend while playing a game, sport, cooking, playing with toys, etc.

Try This At Home with your 2nd and 3rd graders:

As a family, discuss and share some coping strategies you like to use when you experience a difficult emotion. Take the opportunity to find strategies that help at home or that you could do as a family. Examples could be taking a walk, stretching, doing yoga, listening to music, breathing exercises, etc. Practice these when your child is calm, so they are better prepared to apply these strategies when a challenge arises.

Try This At Home with your 4th and 5th graders:

As a family, discuss and share some coping strategies you like to use when you experience a difficult emotion. Take the opportunity to find strategies that help at home or that you could do as a family. Examples could be taking a walk, stretching, doing yoga, listening to music, breathing exercises, etc. Practice these when your child is calm, so they are better prepared to apply these strategies when a challenge arises.

MWE is hosting a blood drive to support the needs of the community. The event will take place Wednesday, November 6 from 11:00 am - 3:30 pm on a Donor Coach in front of the school. Please consider donating and saving a life. People are encouraged to sign up to make an appointment, but they will also take walk-ins.

Some Facts:

• In order to meet the needs of the community, the blood center needs about 1,000 donations each day.
• Every 2 second someone needs a blood transfusion.
• Blood donations can help trauma victims, surgery patients, premature babies, individuals with anemia, cancer patients, and many more.
• 1 in every 7 people will need blood at some point in their lifetime, but only 1 in 20 will donate.

Here is the link to sign up:

https://www.commitforlife.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/394790

Reminder: Every week we have T-2-4 Tuesday - students are encouraged to wear their favorite college or military shirt. Fridays are MWE Spirit Day! Wear your Eagle attire!

October 21-25

Red Ribbon Week

Monday: Wear red

Tuesday: Rep a team

Wednesday: Dress as a movie character or life aspiration

Thursday: Wear your favorite color

Friday: Pajamas!

October 22

Math PSA (grades 3-5)

Hands on Science - 3rd grade

October 23

Kids Heart Challenge Kick Off

October 24

Early Release

Science PSA (3rd-5th)

No lunch visitors, please!

Family Point closed

October 25

Early Release

No lunch visitors, please!

Family Point closed

October 26

Lawrenz Fitness Extravaganza

October 29

3rd grade field trip - Children's Museum

October 31

Book Character Parade (PK/K)

Reflections Deadline

Red Ribbon Week is here! This year’s theme is “Life’s A Movie, What’s Your Legacy”. We hope your students will participate in these daily themes to help them get in the spirit!

As part of Red Ribbon Week, we will do a school-wide service project to benefit Kids Meals, an organization serving children who face food insecurity, by assembling sack lunches Thursday morning. In preparation, we are asking for donations according to the Kids Meals guidelines below.

It’s time to submit parties for Fall Auction Deadline to submit is October 31st. Auction Parties are themed parties for kids, adults or both that are generously donated by your MWE families and teachers. Spaces for parties are limited and go on sale during our Fall Auction on our online bidding website. Online form at: 2024 Fall Auction Party Host Sign-up (google.com)

We hope you enjoyed EagleFest as much as we did! We cannot thank our sponsors and Carnival Committee enough for making this a huge success and fun community event! Please support these sponsors and if you see someone from Carnival Committee tell them thank you! They put in countless hours to make it happen. Also a big thank you to our Boy Scouts for cleaning up after!

Drop off your Storybook Pumpkins this Friday in the library.

Entries for the PTA Reflections Competition are due October 31st.

All of these programs are made possible because of the invaluable support from sponsors. This week we want to highlight Chick-Fil-A (Dairy Ashford & Memorial). Please support this business with your patronage. Visit Houston – Memorial & Dairy Ashford Location | Chick-fil-A

For additional information, go to our website: www.mwepta.com.

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