Veterans' Day
On November 10, MMES students and staff honored our veterans at an assembly focused on their service, the American flag, and the Character Counts trait of Caring.
The ceremony began with the color guard presented by third grade students Grayson Heck and Savannah Simonson. PE teacher and Army veteran Mr. Olson had helped them prepare. He also presented at the assembly about dog tags. MMES students earn dog tag awards at school so it was truly special to find out about the real thing!
Next, the Student Council thanked our veterans and presented on flag etiquette including how to properly fold an American flag.
The Falcon Leaders also presented by sharing their ideas about the Character Counts trait of Caring.
This was the perfect lead-in to the Caring awards presented to the students pictured below: preschoolers Sweetie Del Rio-Lopez and Giovanni Sarocka; 2nd graders Summer Rehbein and Morgan Baker; 3rd grader Yvette Chief; 2nd grader Maci Smith; 3rd grader Ethan Harner; 1st grader Jackson Jochens; 3rd grader Grayson Heck; 1st grader Margo Simpson; 3rd grader Jayden Shipman; 1st graders Jasek Morgan and Raizo Tan-Brown; kindergartners Caitlin Reedy, Venus Hall Lopez, and Adalia Petrone; and preschooler
Roman Radford-Leary.
Another set of awards were the "Bobby's Best Buddy" awards presented by counselor Ms. Smart. The students were chosen for doing very caring things toward others without even thinking about it. Ms. Smart told each student about the very specific thing they had done to demonstrate caring. Bobby's Best Buddies are 1st grader Rylee Taylor; 2nd grader Anthony Atwood; and third graders Brody Mendello, Yvette Chief, and Camden Tuazon.
One photo we missed was one of our Preschool 3 class singing "Veteran's March" with flags. Music teacher Mrs. Perkins was our photographer and she was pretty busy then leading the preschoolers! If there are any parents who got a photo, please share it with us!
The assembly ended with the most important part: asking our attending veterans to come up to the front and giving us the chance to thank all of them. Veterans, we really love you and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your service!
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Junior Achievement Day
November 14 was Junior Achievement Day when adult volunteers including parents and community members taught civics/finance lessons to all of our K-3 students using the JA curriculum. The students really enjoyed the variety of engaging activities. Mayor Linda Cavanaugh presented to 3rd grade about her position and how our town government works. The 3rd graders had great questions for her and learned a lot! Below are photos from every grade level's visits. Thank you, JA volunteers and our coordinator and technology teacher Jill Cooper!
Next time we'll have photos for you from our November 21 "Grandperson's Day" event!
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