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MCS Weekly Announcements
  • Oct. 25-29: Book Fair
  • Oct. 25-29: Spirit Week
  • Oct. 29: Popcorn Day
  • Nov. 3: Donut Day
  • Nov. 5: Pizza Day
  • Nov. 10: Hot Dog Day
  • Nov. 11: Veterans Day - NO SCHOOL
  • Nov. 12: Teacher Workday - NO SCHOOL
ACCREDITATION

As part of our self-study, we are asking parents, students, and teachers to complete a questionnaire. The questionnaire, School Culture Survey 360 for parents can be found here School Culture Survey 360. This School Culture Survey is approved by Christian School International and comes from John Hopkins Institute for Education Policy. We greatly appreciate you helping us by taking the time to complete the survey.

All surveys need to be completed by October 28th.
The Scholastic Book Fair is lining our halls this week! Stop by before and after school, Monday - Friday to browse and make your purchases. It's a great opportunity to get started on Christmas shopping. All purchases benefit the school and classroom libraries.
READING BUDDIES

To kick off Spirit Week-Pajama Day and our Book Fair, today our students made reading buddies. These reading buddies can make reading more fun and help students achieve their assigned classroom reading minutes.
Next week is Spirit Week! Our MCS students always look forward to Spirit Week.

Monday 25th
Pajama Day - PJs of course!

Tuesday 26th
Sports Day - Dress in your favorite sports team jerseys or colors. If you enjoy a certain sport, come dressed in your gear.

Wednesday 27th
Wacky Wednesday - Crazy hair, crazy socks, mis-matched clothes.

Thursday 28th
Western Round-Up - Find your bandana, cowboy hat, jeans, and boots.

Friday 29th
Fruit of the Spirit - Our Chapel shirts will be ready!
POPCORN DAY IS THIS FRIDAY

There is still time to sign your student(s) up for Popcorn Days. If you'd like your student to participate in Popcorn Days it's just $8 per student for the remainder of the year. We are asking parents to prepay for the year. Please submit payment to the office by this Wednesday, October 27th.

The following link shows all the Popcorn Days as well as the other TAPP sponsored days. TAPP Calendar.
RECESS DUTY

Volunteer Opportunity

  • The purpose of Recess Duty is to keep our children safe while they are enjoying fresh air and getting some exercise.
  • Another benefit is that this allows teachers much-needed time to regroup and prepare for the next classroom session of the day.
  • You will earn DOUBLE volunteer service hours when you help with recess duty!

The following link will allow you to sign up for recess duty on any of the available day(s)/time(s). Please feel free to sign up for any times that you can commit to volunteering. 
DO YOU NEED A TUTOR?

Are you looking for someone to tutor your student? If so, please contact Tracy Molina at tracymolina36@gmail.com or at (206) 321-4508. She is available on Thursdays at Monroe Christian School beginning at 3:00 p.m.
MCS PARENT GROUP ON FACEBBOOK

If you're interested in connecting with other Monroe Christian School parents there's a Facebook page for you. The following link will direct you to the MCS Parent Info Group on Facebook where you can interact with other parents.
MOMS IN PRAYER

The Moms in Prayer group provides a good way for moms to connect with other moms, support each other, and most importantly pray together.

We meet Mondays at 9am across from the school at New Hope Fellowship Church.
Tentative scheduled meetings are every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Monday except holidays. See our tentative schedule below.
 
This is a very open and welcoming group. Feel free to share as much or as little as you would like, ask for prayers, or simply sit with us to enjoy the love and support of other moms in the same stage of life.

We understand schedule constraints so please feel free to come when you are able.
We look forward to meeting you and praying with you!

The Moms in Prayer tentative schedule:
November 1st, 15th, and 29th
December 6th
January 3rd and 31st
February 7th
March 7th and 28th (instead of the 21st)
April 4th
May 2nd and 16th
June 6th
FRIENDLY REMINDER ABOUT ILLNESSES
 
We know there is a lot of information out regarding what you need to do if you have been exposed to or infected with COVID 19.
 
It is our school policy that if anyone in your household has been exposed to the virus and/or is being tested, we ask all students to stay home until a negative test result is received. Should anyone in your household receive a positive test result, we ask all students to stay home for the 10/14 days that your doctor has specified.
 
To do our part, we will continue taking temperatures before your student enters the classroom and ask that if your student has any of the following symptoms, please keep them home and notify the office of their absence.

  • Temperature above 100.3 (without the use of a fever reducing medication)*
  •  coughing
  •  shortness of breath
  • headache
  • sore throat
  • muscle or body aches
  • loss of taste or smell
  • congestion
  • nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea*
 
*Note: Any family members that have fevers and/or vomiting, we ask that you keep all students home for 48 hours after the symptoms have subsided.

If a student has 1 cold-like symptom (i.e. runny nose, sore throat from nasal drip, etc.) please keep child home for 24 hours and make sure symptoms are not worsening before sending the child to school.

Please click the link to view MCS's Quarantine Policy Flowchart.
STUDENT PICK-UP AT MCS

We love our students!

Please follow these guidelines in the pick-up line and round-a-bout:

  • 1. NO CELL PHONES, please.

  • 2. Arrive at your oldest child’s release time. If you have a 4th-8th grade student, please do not be in the pick-up line or round-a-bout until 3:10 PM. If you are early, please park at the church across the street or in the gravel by the playfield. Your younger student will be safe with their teacher until the 5th-8th graders are released. 
 
  • 3. Always pull forward in the round-a-bout when possible.

  • 4. Please do not leave your vehicle.

  • 5. If you have other family members picking up your child, please let them know the guidelines for pick-up time.

Thank you for helping us to keep your child safe.

Release Times (arrive at your oldest child’s release time):

Full Day Pre-K = 2:45 pm
Kg - 4th Grade = 2:55 pm
5th - 8th Grade = 3:10 pm
MCS APPAREL & ACCESSORIES

Ready for back to School? Start the school year off with some MCS spirit. Use this link MCS Apparel and Accessories to check out all the great items that are available. Find something you like, place your order, and it will be sent directly to you.
SCHOOL CALENDAR

Here is a link to our school calendar for the 2021-2022 school year: 2021-2022 Calendar We will do our best to stick to the dates that are listed for events and holidays, but please be aware the calendar is tentative and can change due to circumstances outside of our control.

Additional fun days and classroom fieldtrips will be added as they are scheduled.
FREE & EASY WAYS TO HELP THE SCHOOL

There are many ways you can help the school that are free and easy.

  • Matching Employer Funds - Many larger employers offer matching funds when their employees donate to the school through their portals. Check with your employer to see what they may offer!
  • Fred Meyer Rewards - Link Monroe Christian School to your Fred Meyers Rewards card through the "Community Rewards" setting and a percentage of your eligible purchases will go directly to MCS. If you have already designated MCS as your Community Reward, please take a minute and check if it is still active. (The community reward must be renewed yearly.)
  • AmazonSmile - Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to MCS. Simply go to smile.amazon.com to get setup.
  • Office Depot - Use our school ID #70106855 when making purchases at Home Depot and we will receive credit towards future purchases.
  • Rite Aid - RXfundraising and Rite Aid are willing to give a portion of every dollar spent on prescriptions and purchases made at Rite Aid to support our school. Register your Rite Aid card with RXfundraising and choose - "support MCS".
Our scripture theme for this year is based on Galatians 5:22-23, 25
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit
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