As signs of Spring appear all around us, this is a time when we recognize and appreciate the importance of the home and school partnership.

Spring marks the final quarter of the 2024-2025 school year. This is the time of year when we can refocus and ensure a successful year-end. Schedules for homework and sleep are essential at this time. Communication between home and school is also key at this point in the year. We want to work collaboratively to give your children the tools they need to end the year and succeed beyond this year and Memminger.

Please don't forget that the Memminger PTO auction is on March 28th. Don't hesitate to contact a PTO member (memmingerpto.com) for tickets or more information about the event.

-Cindy Smalls & Cherie Wash

3/3-3/7: Math Textbook Adoption Viewing Hours (see below)

3/3-3/7: National Read Across America Week (see below)

3/12: Q3 Ends

3/13: Early Release for Students, Dismissal at 1:15

3/14: No School for Students, Teacher Workday

3/20: Q3 Report Cards Distributed

3/23: Gibbes Museum - Free Family Day (see below)

3/26-3/27: iReady Reading Spring Assessment

3/28: PTO Annual Auction 6p-9p (see below)

4/8: Spring Picture Day (see below)

Memminger's 3rd annual auction night is coming up on Friday, March 28th and we would love to have you join us. Please visit our website at www.MemmingerPTO.com for information and tickets.

Beanstack uses competition, recognition, and proven gamification principles to motivate students to read and develop a life-long love of reading. Whether your student chooses fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, or articles online, any and all reading counts in Beanstack! By tracking their daily reading, your student will begin to build healthy reading habits and become a more confident reader.

When students log their reading via Beanstack’s web or mobile app, they:
● Earn digital badges as they reach milestones
● Compete on leaderboards and build streaks for reading every day
● Track everything they read on their virtual bookshelf
For a glimpse of what your students experience with Beanstack, click here!

Everyone is invited to a FREE event for Memminger families!! Join us on Sunday, March 23rd, from 1p-3p at the Gibbes Museum of Art (135 Meeting Street). There will be art-making activities, snacks and everyone can explore the museum. 2-hour parking vouchers will be provided. We hope to see you all there!

Arrival:

Students may arrive starting at 7:50am.

Instruction begins at 8:15am.

Students arriving after 8:15am are tardy and must be signed in at the front office.

Dismissal:

Students will begin dismissing at 3:15pm.

The cutoff time to pick up your child early is 2:30pm.

Absences:

We understand absences are necessary for illnesses and emergency situations. Upon returning to school, please send an excuse detailing the reason for your child's absence to your child's teacher. You can also send excuses to Ms. Chris Bocharski at christine_bocharski@charleston.k12.sc.us.

Parents can also VISIT THIS SITE (also linked below) to review curriculum and submit the linked Google Review Form for each. More information will be added over the next couple of weeks but you can go ahead and start reviewing now.

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In February, CD-3 finished their clothing unit while CD-4 worked on the exercise unit. We explored the different types of exercise, where people exercise and how, and what type of equipment people use. We also explored the Who We Are IB unit by focusing on Black History Month and famous Black Olympians! This month, to celebrate our learning, we hosted an Olympics down by Colonial Lake where all of our friends earned a gold medal! Way to go! We look forward to March and starting the Balls unit.

In February, Kindergarteners were caring communicators when we celebrated Valentine’s Day! Students had so much fun decorating their boxes and passing out cards to their sweet classmates. This month in reading, students are introduced to key figures, events, and ideas associated with two episodes in the founding of the United States of America–the first voyage of Columbus in 1492 and the Pilgrims in 1620. Students are using maps, globes, and photographs to identify geographic information. In math, we are becoming experts on 3D shapes and making real life connections to the shapes we see all around us!

First grade begun their Fairy Tale and Fables unit in Reading! Look out for some great descriptive writing from this unit. We will continue our geometry unit and look deeper into fractions. In IB, we are in the unit “Sharing the Planet” with the central idea being that people, plants and animals have needs that should be met in order to survive. We have a special guest coming to do a magic show/play on tricky words this month from the Charleston County School of Arts.

In second grade math, we are wrapping up our unit on place value up to 1,000. Next, we will move into geometry, where students will explore 2D shapes, fractions, and spatial reasoning. In reading, we are studying the causes and effects of the Civil War. In social studies, we are learning about influential Black historical figures and the research, drafting, and editing process involved in writing a biography. Our current IB unit is "Sharing the Planet," and next, we will focus on a deeper understanding of who we are as learners.

During February, third grade wrapped up exploring our ELA unit on the Solar System and began our unit on Native American regions and cultures. Through this unit, we have been focusing on a few IB units, one in particular is Sharing the Planet. In math, we are wrapping up our fifth unit on Division and Multiplication where students have found strategies that work for their personal learning styles. We will be moving onto Unit 6, Geometry. We are finishing up our Black History Month projects as well as Ms. Norman, our art teacher, paired a self portrait project based on the person our students chose to research. Ms. Mixon also did a fabulous lesson for Black History Month allowing third graders to have hands-on experience on inventions created by these individuals. We are so grateful for the collaboration we have throughout our school to help support our students’ while enhancing their learning. Lastly, we are excited to celebrate Women’s History Month as well as learn about Ramadan during March.

In February, our 4th graders made great strides across all subjects, wrapping up several units! In ELA, we are now focusing on understanding themes, making inferences, and describing characters using descriptive details. Our hands-on geometry unit was a highlight, and students had fun exploring shapes, especially with how interactive learning their properties was. We are now focusing on multi-step multiplication and division problems, aiming to improve our problem-solving skills, particularly when it comes to reading and understanding word problems. Looking ahead to March, we're excited to celebrate Women's History Month with exciting activities to come!

5th grade is going strong! We finished a lot of units in February in all subjects. In math we are wrapping up volume, dimensions, and graphing on the coordinate plane. We explored the Reformation in reading by learning about the printing press and even pretending to live during the time period and writing friendly letters to encourage a peer to work at the printing shop! We are currently designing WWII propaganda posters to connect to our IB Unit of How We Organize Ourselves by expressing how individual decisions have an impact on humankind. We are so excited for the upcoming month of March where we will learn about the indigenous peoples of America and the relationships within our ecosystems.

Great News! We just had our International Baccalaureate Evaluation visit and it was a huge success! Every 5 years, an IB team visits our school to identify how well we are implementing the PYP curriculum. KUDOS to our hard working staff and students and their dedication to our IB implementation. Check out our Memminger IB Brochure for an overview of the program.

Don’t Forget!

If you are looking for something to ask your child about their day, ask what connections they have made in their IB Unit of Study. If your child makes a connection to IB, fill out this google form and they will earn a prize.

We are gearing up for a March Madness Team Challenge that fits with our IB Attributes in Action focus: Being Thinkers & Reflective. Each week during March, classes will collect and chart when students “Show Their Thinking” through conversations, writing, drawing, and solving problems.

Each week of the challenge will have a different content area focus, and at the end of the week, the student thinking opportunities will be tallied up and a winning team will be announced. An overall winner will be announced at the end of the challenge. We hope this challenge gets our students excited to show all that they are learning to get ready for our Spring iReady testing that is coming up at the end of March.

Congratulations to a few of our students who earned Attributes in Action slips during February for being Open-Minded and Inquirers. These students had their names drawn on the news show during the last week in February and got to choose a new book to take home.

During the month of February, Music was learning about Antonio Vivaldi and his piece, “The Four Seasons.” Each week we would learn about a different season and learn different chants that went with the season. We also worked on using our desk bells to play along with the music in a simplified Youtube video that I made for them. They were also introduced to the different instruments of the strings family in the orchestra.

This month in Spanish Club, we explored the vibrant culture of Argentina. Every other week, we dove into different aspects of Argentine culture, while the alternating weeks were spent preparing simplified versions of traditional Argentine foods.

For example, one week, students had fun making alfajores — popular sandwich cookies made with two shortbread cookies filled with creamy dulce de leche. The following week, we learned about Iguazú Falls, and the students painted their own colorful interpretations of the waterfalls using watercolors.

If you need to pick up your child early, you will need to arrive no later than 2:30pm and have your ID ready. This will allow us time to prepare our normal dismissal. We appreciate your understanding and thank you in advance.

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When used in maritime, the term 'manifest' refers to the document where a ship's cargo, passengers, and crew are listed. This detailed list is used for customs clearance and port operations.

Since Memminger's mascot is the Mariners, we wanted to stay true to the maritime theme. Think of Memminger as our ship and this 'Manifest' as the detailed list of all that is happening in our school. We hope our families find it both informative and reliable resource for all things Memminger!