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Happy Sunday!!!

No School for Students Monday February 17th, 2025 - Parent/Teacher Conference Day!!

Conferences:

Parent/Teacher Conferences are continuing this Monday 2/17 from 8:45am - 4:15pm unless you have arranged something different with your child's teacher. If you haven't scheduled a conference HERE are the instructions to see if there is still an opening, or reach out to your child's teacher to see if they can arrange something.

Come join us for our book fair during Parent/Teacher Conferences and throughout the week:

Schedule is as follows -

Monday 2/17 - 8:45am - 4:15pm

Tuesday - Friday 2/18 - 2/21 - 30 min before/after school - during lunch and library time

*If these times don't work for your family, please reach out to our FABULOUS librarian at violet.brooks@matsuk12.us

February:

Monday - 2/17 - Parent /Teacher Conferences - No School for students

Thursday - 2/20 - 4th and 5th grade Human Growth and Development Classes

Friday - 2/21 - 4th and 5th grade Human Growth and Development Classes

Friday -2/21 - 2nd grade Field Trip to the Menard to go ice skating

Thursday - 2/27 - RISE & IR goes snowshoeing for (APE Services ONLY)

March:

Wednesday - 3/5 Student of the Month Assembly for February (9:30 - 10:05am)

Thursday - 3/6 Dr. Seuss Title 1 Night (5:00 6:30pm)

Friday - 3/7 - 3/16 Spring Break

Monday - 3/17 - School Resumes

Tutoring (for all students that are Tier 3 on iRips)

Before School (virtual): Tuesday's and Thursday's (8:15 - 8:45am)

• Sign-up HERE

After School (in person): Monday's and Wednesday's (4:00 - 4:30 pm)

• Sign-up HERE

Migrant Ed. Tutoring (by invitation ONLY)

After School: Monday, Wednesday, & Friday (4:00-4:35pm)

• if you have any questions please reach out to Mrs. Anderson alicyn.anderson@matsuk12.us

A Big Thank You to Our Amazing Volunteers!

First and foremost, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who takes the time to volunteer in our classrooms. Your support makes such a difference for our students and staff!

To help ensure a smooth and productive experience for everyone, here are a few friendly reminders for our volunteers:

1. Coordinate with Your Teacher
   Please work with the teacher to set up a schedule that works for everyone. This helps the teacher plan ahead and have everything ready for you this will keep the classroom running smoothly with less interruption.

2. Maintain a Professional Environment
   To help students stay focused, we ask that volunteers keep side conversations to a minimum and focus on working with the students assigned to you. Additionally, please remember to use kid-friendly language and maintain appropriate physical boundaries (e.g., if a child wants a hug, it’s okay to gently redirect to a high-five or fist bump).

3. Beginning/End of day

• We love volunteers and we want parents to come in classrooms but with that said the beginning and end of each day is a busy time for greeting and/or dismissing students. We ask that unless you have pre-arranged visits during these times that you wait in the lobby area or contact the teacher via email/class dojo/etc. if you want to schedule a meeting before or after school.

Thank you for your commitment to creating a positive and productive learning environment for our students. We couldn’t do it without you!

MLE currently has a few positions open. If you are interested in working at our amazing school please apply HERE.

Currently we have 2 - 0.875 Positions available - 2 Paraprofessional Position. We would love to have you join our team while helping our community excel.

Here is a letter explaining our school report card and directions on how to see the results posted by DEED.

MLE School Report Card Letter

If activities are cancelled we will let you know as soon as we can.

• • Tutoring (for all students that are Tier 3 on iRips)

    Before School (virtual): Tuesday's and Thursday's (8:15 - 8:45am)

    • Sign-up HERE

    After School (in person): Monday's and Wednesday's (4:00 - 4:30 pm)

    • Sign-up HERE

    Migrant Ed. Tutoring (by invitation ONLY)

    After School: Monday, Wednesday, & Friday (4:00-4:35pm)

    • if you have any questions please reach out to Mrs. Anderson alicyn.anderson@matsuk12.us

Yearbook Club

Every other Thursday through 4/17 from 4:15 - 5:15pm - so the following dates: 2/20, 3/6, 3/20, 4/3 & 4/17

Art Club

Wednesday until 5:00pm

Band

Monday & Wednesday until 5:00pm

Choir

Tuesday & Thursday until 5:00pm

Good News Club

Thursday's until 5:00pm

Responsibility Focus: Responsibility Chart

This week we are focusing on being safe. What does being safe mean? Talk to your kid/s at home on ways we can be safe, act safe, and stay safe. This could be cutting with scissors, building a campfire, riding a bike, or even personal safety. Take time to have these discussions, we never want to assume our kids just now what it means to be safe. At school we practice using our tools safely, walking safely, playing safely, etc.

School -Wide Skills: CHAMPS

We will focus on Conversation. Think about all the times you have experienced your child/children yelling when they should just be talking in a regular voice or whispering and you have to ask 5 times for them to repeat. Like al skills kids need to know what the expectations are, when should they yell, talk in a regular tone, or whisper? At school we use numbers to describe levels of noise. At recess we are a level 2-3 but in class discussion we are a level 1-2, a level 1 might be a whisper and a level 0 is no voice at all.

Teacher News Links:

Teacher News will be updated monthly and will be found in my smores and on Facebook.

Pre K / Pre K (weekly), Kindergarten, First, Second, Third (weekly), Fourth, Fifth, Library, PE, IR K-2, IR 3-5, RISE, Counselor, Music, BSP

If you haven't joined our Facebook group you can do that HERE. It is a great place to get information quickly.

MLE's colors are teal and purple. We encourage students to wear school colors on Friday's. Each Friday we collect the percentage of kids with school spirit and the classroom with the highest participation rate gets the lynx in their classroom.

OPTIONAL: To order Spirit Wear you can go to Meadow Lakes Elementary School Lynx Custom Apparel and Merchandise - SpiritShop.com

GoGuardian/Pikmykid/STOP-it

StopiT: A new way to keep our kids safe - Here is the link to the parent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpg-bli0xas

It takes a team and you are all appreciated,

Marci Milwicz (Principal)

marci.milwicz@matsuk12.us

(907)352 - 6100 (office)

(907)352- 6107 (direct line)

Kasia Heinert (Assistant Principal)

kasia.heinert@matsuk12.us

(907) 352-6149 (direct line)