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Important Multiage Happenings ....Mark your Calendars!!
May 16: 1:30....Outsiders Play for school
May 17th.....5:45pm Outsiders Play for families
May 21st....Choir Concert
May 21st 6th grade go to the Middle School for a tour and info
May 31st...final poem and book reports due
June 3rd....Komen walk in Seattle
June 7th....Poetry Night and Slide show....5:45pm
Recently one of our student’s mothers was diagnosed with breast cancer. Many of you have stepped up to support her and her daughter through this battle. You continue to impress me with how you come together to help…without hesitation!
Susan and I decided to do the 5K Susan Koman walk on Sunday, June 3rd…starting at Seattle Center. I was talking with some of the older kids about this and well, one thing led to another and we decided to make this a group walk. We announced this morning at the 2nd trimester awards that we have formed the “All Peppermint Susies” team. The cost is $25 to register for ages 6-12. Adults are $35. This includes a t-shirt.
You would need to register online through our team’s direct link:
You can also go to this site to donate directly if you wish.
Find the team “All Peppermint Susies” and add your registration to our team. Our goals include getting at least 50 people to participate…and to raise at least $2000. Even if you cannot participate in the walk you can donate to our team on this site.
We are looking to purchase pink bandanas for each of us to wear. The kids also want to have a peppermint candy drawn on each of us. So, if you are a face painting person…..we need you.
Please pass along our info on Face book and any other means that you think would notify your friends and family. Let’s make this an event to remember.
Thank you!
Debra and students
Multiage Is Where It Happens!!!
Mission Accomplished!!
After only 4 days of collectinng items...we then carted all the boxes up to the post office and shipped all 7 boxes (452 items) off to Afghanistan! It came to 186 pounds!! We collected blankets, coats, baby clothes, boy and girl clothing, hats, scarves, toys, candy and other items for the soldiers to hand out to the children in the villages. The kids sorted, folded, boxed, addressed boxes and forms, and helped tape, haul and mail all of it today to the post office. Our soldiers serving in Afghanistan requested these items, and will surely enjoy handing out all the items to the children in these remote villages.
VFW Auxillary Post #1561 and District #1
Patriotic Essay Winners
4th grade: Shyann Albin...3rd in District
5th grade: Khasia Hopkins...2nd in District
6th grade: Hunter Chapman ...1st in District an on to State competition....Congratulations
Granite Falls teacher earns VFW award, January 2012
Granite Falls teacher Debra Howell has been selected as the Washington State Veterans of Foreign Wars Elementary Teacher of the Year.
UPDATE.....we just found out that Mrs. Howell has now been named the NATIONAL VFW Elementary Teacher of the Year!!! She will receive her honors at the national VFW conference in July!!
Howell is a multiage teacher at Monte Cristo Elementary School. She will receive the state award Jan. 21 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Yakima.
A teacher in the Granite Falls School District since 1984, Howell is well known for her involvement and support of veterans.
Over the years, Howell and her students have organized Veterans Day parades, shipped hundreds of boxes of supplies to veterans serving overseas, and participated in American Legion events.
Her classes have maintain contact with veterans as "pen pals" and she regularly invites veterans into the classroom to interact with students.
Howell is a past winner of the George Washington Honor Medial, was the first teacher in the Granite Falls School District to earn her National Board Certification, and is a 2011 National Teacher Hall of Fame inductee.
Howell is now eligible for the national VFW award.
More information at: http://mountainloopexpress.com/index.php?fn_mode=fullnews&fn_id=276
A BIG day in Multiage
POW/MIA Flag Raised!!
Check out the Everett Herald Article 14 December 2011:
December 6th, 2011 will remain a most eventful day for our multiage students and teachers. On this day the first POW/MIA flag was raised by veteran pilot Major Wes Schierman, former POW from the Vietnam War. Wes spent 7 1/2 years in a POW camp during the war after being shot down. Our own Mr. Schireman and all the multiage students worked very hard to get the support of the school board and district to have the POW/MIA flag flown EVERY day here at MCE. It is quite an accomplishment! Students from the classes raise the flags daily and take them down. We were honored to have the Black Jack squadron doing two fly overs...one that included the Missing Man Formation...just as Wes raised the POW/MIA flag! The VFW #1562 members donated the flag to the school and conducted the ceremony. Many veterans came to be a part of this special event.
Monte Cristo Students join multiage students and veterans for the official first raising of the POW/MIA flag.
Wes raising the POW/MIA flag at Monte Cristo Elementary. A very proud moment for all who attended!
check out the Herald web site for their article about the event:
Students got to talk one on one with Tracy via SKYPE. Seeing is believing!
New Links about recent Multiage Happenings....check it out!
Soldiers Angels web site reported:
http://live.gfalls.wednet.edu/staffmce/multi-age/login
and The Mountain Loop Express web site reported:
http://mountainloopexpress.com/?fn_mode=fullnews&fn_id=360
And the Granite Falls Press also covered this story:
Our science unit is Nutrition. We have some very creative writers! Here are a few of the rap songs and poems we wrote about various health related topics!
Little Debbie's coming straight for you,
straight for you, straight for you!
You gotta beat her with fruits and veggies,
yes you do, yes you do!
Coffee is headed straight for you,
straight for you, straight for you.
You gotta beat it with lots of milk,
yes you should, yes you should.
If you still want junk food, shame on you!
Shame on you, shame on you!
by Mickayla
I'm Fruity and I Know it
Yah when I grow on trees my fruties say omg
And when I'm round veggies think I'm the coolest in town
Yah that's just how I roll with seeks and all because that's
just how I am yummy and tan
Ahhh yo look at those vitamins ahh yo look at those vitamins
ahh yo look at those vitamins I'm healthy ahh yo look at
those vitamins
When I get eaten this is what people say "yum yum yum"
every single day I got awesome tan skin and I'm not afraid
for you to eat it, eat it, eat it!
by Mason
Homework written by Collin
In the ole west side of Texas cowgirl Howell and cowboy Schireman cruise the desert with no fear of anything. This is the story of cowgirl Howell….
One morning cowgirl Howell was waking up from a cold night. She noticed her horse was gone! So she followed the tracks and for every 50 steps was a zig zag or a turn, but it was a pattern.50-60-80….50-60-80 steps. If she found this pattern 7 times how many steps would she have in all?
50+60+80= 190 190X7 =1330
1330 steps… when cowgirl Howell got to her 1332 step she looked up and found her horse sitting by the fire at her camp site. She was so frustrated that she had horse steak for lunch!
Meanwhile… Cowboy Schireman woke up at noon looking at the blue sky. Then he looked to his side to find a 50 story tall rock wall. He looked at it in confusion. Then walked to the other side to find another wall and realize he was in the middle of the bottom of the Grand Canyon!! He yelled, “HOW IN THE WORLD!”
Back to Cowgirl Howell…. After her satisfying meal she took a lonely walk out into the desert. And since she was bored she kicked rocks. And she kicked 24 big rocks and she kicked 30 small rocks. Then she counted how many cactus she saw on her walk. It came to 45 cactus. How many cactus and rocks did she find in all?
40+30+24= 84
She kicked one more rock and watched it go far and suddenly it just dropped down . She looked over the edge and starring straight down 50 stories to the rock bottom.
Back to Cowboy Schireman…. He is still in shock of how he got down where he is. He sets up, brushes himself of and starts walking in the blazing 99degree in the shade of the rock walls. He calls out “ANYONE OUT THERE???” as it echoes and repeats and hangs his head low and just keeps walking…
To be continued….
Tatum's Southwestern Adobe Creation
For the month of April we are studying about volcanos! We are specifically looking at the Ring of Fire and the Cascade Mt. Range. Check out some of the legends students wrote about these volcanos.
The first is written by 6th year student Hunter.
