Eagle Updates

Meadow Wood News:

• From Mrs. Barry
• Morning Drop Off Reminder
• Breakfast Reminder
• T-2-4 Week: November 18-22
• Thank you - Can Food Drive
• Counselors' Corner
• SBISD Police Department Holiday Toy Drive
• MWE Calendar

PTA News:

• Thank you - Fall Auction
• School Bell Award
• Recess Referees
• Minted
• Sister School Spirit Night at Carrabbas
• Platinum Sponsor: JP Services

The holidays are already upon us. No matter what your traditions are, this time of the year is busy for everyone! Though this brings lots of fun and joy, it also comes with extra stress and anxiety - even for our children. Our schedules are off, stimulus is heightened, and everything is just...extra. As we finish this last week before Thanksgiving break, and then the three weeks before winter break, please try to keep your students on as regular routine as possible. Find opportunities to quietly decompress from exciting holiday events, and build in time for relaxing. It's easy to fill every moment with something - and there's so much not to miss - but rest is also much needed in a busy time like this.

Enjoy this wonderful time of the year! I am incredibly grateful to be a part of this amazing community, and I want to express my thanks to you for sharing your children with me. I appreciate your support and encouragement. There's no better place than Meadow Wood! #60 years

Please remember that students transported to school by car are to be dropped off on Memorial Drive through the parent drive ONLY. To keep the students safe, students should not be dropped off on the streets surrounding the school, including Memorial Drive, Memorial Green, and Fern. Students MAY NOT be dropped off in the parking lots or on the bus circle. You may park your car in a designated spot in the front parking lot and walk your child to the front door. Thank you for helping keep our Eagles safe!

Breakfast is open at MWE from 7:30 to 7:50. Students arriving after 7:50 will not have the opportunity to get breakfast at school. The only exception to this is if students ride a bus that is late.

Recently, many students have been arriving between 7:50 and 7:55, wanting to eat breakfast. This makes them late to class, missing valuable instruction. If you want your child to eat breakfast at MWE, please have them arrive before 7:50. Thank you!

T-2-4 week is a dedicated week to highlight various post-secondary pathways. It's a time to share information and resources about various colleges/universities, careers, and the military. Each day will also highlight one of the SBISD core values.

• Monday: Every Child (Careers) Hats Day - Students can wear Hats or headbands highlighting different careers.
• Tuesday: Collective Greatness (College/University Focus) - Students wear the colors or gear of their chosen college/university.
• Wednesday: Collaborative Spirit (Technical Training Dress-Up Day) - Dress in clothing that represents a hands-on profession.
• Thursday: Limitless Curiosity (Military Focus) Future Service Day - Students can wear gear from military branches
• Friday: Moral Compass (T-2-4 Day) - Students can wear MWE or SBISD shirts to highlight the core values of SBISD or bright and neon colors to remember to dream big.

In SBISD, during the months of November and December we focus on being ethical and service-minded. We want Every Child to act with integrity, be personally responsible for their actions and be a civically-engaged community member. In a T-2-4 graduate this looks like a child who,

• Earns trust and respect through honest, ethical, reliable behavior- even when know one is looking. Students will understand how their words and behavior impact others. They will make good choices, tell the truth, take responsibility and accept the consequences when they do not.
• Honors commitments, exhibits strong work ethic and takes ownership of when and how to take action, lead or follow. Our students will continue to work on being a person people can count on, give their best efforts and learn when to lead and when to follow.
• Recognizes how civic engagement and personal decisions and actions impact self, others and the greater community. Students will understand and accept that they are a part of a community and will participate in it.

Try This At Home:

In your family, discuss ways you can be of service to others and why it is important. Take this month to think of a service project that everyone can participate in. Some suggestions are:

• Search the house for gently used books, games or toys to donate to a shelter or organization.
• Visit a shelter and help serve meals to others.
• Help clean the neighborhood playground.

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!

November 18-22

T-2-4 Week

Monday: Hats Day

Tuesday: College/University Day

Wednesday: Technical Training Dress Up Day

Thursday: Military Day

Friday: SBISD or Neon Color Day

November 18

3rd Grade Hands On Science

November 19

Kinder Program

Performance Schedule

No lunch visitors, please!

November 20

2nd Grade Hands on Science

November 21

4th Grade Hands on Science

November 22

No lunch visitors, please!

November 25-29

Thanksgiving HOLIDAYS

December 2-3

Spinal screening for 5th grade girls

December 5

2nd grade field trip to Oil Ranch

RLA Interim Assessment (grades 3-5)

No lunch visitors, please!

December 6

Group Pictures & Picture Re-takes

No lunch visitors, please!

December 10

Math Interim Assessment (grades 3-5)

No lunch visitors, please!

December 11

School store

December 12

4th Grade field trip to the Nutcracker

4th Grade Nutcracker Day

5th Grade Hands on Science

December 13

1st Grade Hands on Science

December 16

2nd Grade Polar Express Day

3rd Grade Elf Day

Los Tios Spirit Night

December 17

3rd Grade Hands on Science

December 18

PreK Rudolph Day

Kinder Grinch Day

1st Grade Snow Day

December 19

4th Grade Nutcracker Performance

Performance Schedule

No lunch visitors, please!

December 20

EARLY RELEASE - students are dismissed at 12:00 Noon

Holiday parties

School-wide Sing Along

No lunch visitors, please!

Family Point is closed!

December 23 - January 6

Winter Break

January 7

School Resumes

Fall Auction has closed, and it was such a success! We can't wait to share the official numbers on what we raised. Thank you to all the party hosts and purchasers. We hope everyone has fun at these parties in the coming weeks. We were also thrilled with the enthusiasm for our Spring Gala tickets and were able to offer everyone on the waitlist a ticket. Please follow our Spring Gala's Instagram page @mweauction to keep up with all the fun details we have planned.

It's time to nominate your favorite MWE teacher or staff member that goes above and beyond for our kids for the "School Bell Award". The recipient is recognized by SBISD and is invited to a celebratory banquet. The form takes only a few minutes to fill out at Meadow Wood PTA School Bell Award Nomination. Submissions are due by December 6th.

Past PTA School Bell Award winners include:

2016 - 2017: Jessica Leonard

2017 - 2018: Natalie Waggenspack

2018 - 2019: Ami Rapp

2019 - 2020: Tabitha Pena

2020 - 2021: Kristine Mortola Bennett

2021 - 2022: Megan Golafshan

2022 - 2023: Shirley Labiosa

2023 - 2024: Elizabeth Robinson

The new MWE track is complete and the playground fully open, which means we need Recess Referees (Part of Watch D.O.G.S. Program)! Don’t have a whole day to be a Watch DOG? Come be a Recess Referee from 10:45 am to 1:05 pm! We need positive male role models to help model good sportsmanship on our sports field during recess. Help the kids form teams and encourage our sports loving kids to be a team player and to be kind to all! Sign up www.mwepta.com/open_forms

FREE MONEY FOR MWE PTA! We’re excited to announce that we’re partnering with Minted this holiday season to help us fundraise! Please support MWE PTA by ordering your holiday cards & gifts from Minted using our promo code FUNDRAISEMEADOWWOOD. You’ll get 20% OFF your order and 15% of every purchase made using our code will be donated back to us at the end of the year.

Please go support our sister school, Edgewood Elementary, for their Spirit Night at Carrabba's this Thursday!

Thank you to our generous business sponsors, who have already stepped up and donated to MWE PTA. This week we are highlighting our Platinum Sponsor, JP Services. For more information, visit Asset - Integrity - Solutions.

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

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