* Note from Mr. Chadaz: During the middle of May, our grade level teams will be collaborating to prepare class lists for students’ placements for next year. We will do our very best to ensure a class assignment that will help your child be successful and happy next year. Our team will look at academic achievement, behavior, and social skills…and they’ll also consider your input, if you’d like to share any special needs, interests, or abilities to inform our decision as we assign your child to a class next year. Once the class lists are prepared, I’ll be attaching the teachers’ names to each class list.
If you have information about your child you’d like us to consider as we create class lists and teacher assignments, please complete a Class Assignment Form that can be picked up in the office. This form must be returned it to the office by May 2nd.
* Community Council Meeting – Monday, April 11th at 3:15 PM in Missy Michaelis’ Room
* PTA Board Meeting – Tuesday, April 12th at 3:10 PM in the Teacher’s Lounge
* Bookmobile will be on Thursday, April 14th
* The School Play will be performed for the school on Thursday, April 14th at 1:30 PM and for parents, etc. on Friday, April 15th at 6:00 PM. Come watch a great show!!!!
* The Box Tops Competition for APRIL & MAY is between ALL GRADES. Let’s see which class in the school can be the top collector. You can bring in the following items: Box Tops, Cream of Weber lids, Campbell’s Soup labels, empty Elmer’s glue stick tubes/glue bottles and empty Neosporin tubes. Make sure Box Tops are cut out along the dotted lines and the soup labels are just the UPC with the point value. Bring in as much as you can and give them to your teacher until MAY 20TH. THERE WILL BE A PRIZE FOR THE OVERALL WINNING CLASS! Good Luck!
* ATTENTION ROOM PARENTS: Teacher Appreciation is the 1st week of May. We are doing the door posters a little different this year. PTA will provide a poster board for each classroom. The Room Parent will be able to pick that up in the office (we will let you know when they will be available for pick-up) and then decorate it how they want but we ask that you keep it to the size of the poster board so they will all be the same size. You can come and hang them up on Friday, April 29th from 3-6 PM. We are doing a few other things different for Appreciation Week but we will notify you as it gets closer we can plan for this fun week to celebrate our great staff at McKinley. THANKS!!!
* Our Book Fair is Coming! We are so excited about the amazing selection of books headed our way! Mark your calendar for our Grand Event where students can invites someone “Grand” in their life to join them for an after-school snack and some special shopping time at the Book Fair. The Book Fair will run from Tuesday, May 3rd – Friday, May 6th during lunch (11:30 – 12:30) and after school, the GRAND Event, (3:00 – 5:00 on Tuesday & Friday, 1:00 – 3:00 on Wednesday, and 3:00 – 6:00 on Thursday). More information will come home soon!
* PLAN AHEAD: Parents of 5th Graders, please put the following on your calendars:
- Thursday, May 12th is DARE Graduation at 6:30 PM in the gym.
- Tuesday, May 31st is 5th Grade Graduation at *5:30 PM in the gym. (*We changed the time to earlier and will need to start promptly at 5:30 PM due to other community events that people may be involved in that evening. THANK YOU!)
* IMPORTANT POSSIBLE SCHOOL LUNCH CHANGES – PLEASE READ!!!The government is trying to implement changes to the school lunch program that will affect our school. It could raise lunch prices to $.86 per lunch. The program could also discontinue serving potatoes in the schools. Another downfall is that it could eliminate lunch “choices” for our children and they will not have the option to choose their lunch, it will be decided for them. To find out more about this, please visit www.regulations.gov and scroll down a little and click on the link named National Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. When this screen pulls up, you can read through the documentation and then you can Submit a Comment by pushing the orange “Submit a A Comment” button at the top of the screen. We can only voice our concerns regarding these changes until April 13th!!! You can also mail a letter to the following: Julie Brewer, Chief, Policy and Program Development Branch, Child Nutrition Division, Food and Nutrition Service, Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 640, Alexandria, Virginia 22302-1594. Another website to go to for more information is www.potatoesinschools.com. Please take the time to look into this issue and comment on the government website if you disagree with the proposed program they wants to implement!!! THANKS!!!
