MCS Newsletter - December 8th, 2021

Knightly News

MCS Weekly Announcements

Dec. 8: Hot Dog Day
Dec. 9: Popcorn Day
Dec. 9: Christmas Program
Dec. 10: Records Day - NO SCHOOL
Dec. 17: Pizza Day
Dec. 20 - 31: Christmas Break - NO SCHOOL
Jan 3: Return to school

IMPORTANT

Tickets for the Christmas program went home yesterday in your youngest students backpack/folder.

Each student (k-8th) was sent home with a permission slip allowing them to be transported to the school from Cascade Church after the rehearsal on Thursday morning. Please make sure to return the permission slips tomorrow unless you plan to drive your own student back to the school after rehearsal.

All students in kindergarten through 8th grade need to be dropped off at Cascade Church (instead of the school) Thursday morning between 8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Students will need to return to Cascade Church in the evening between 6:30 – 6:45 p.m. for the performance, wearing their black pants and white shirt.

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

Our Christmas program is this Thursday at 7 p.m.

The performance is being held at

Cascade Church, 14377 Fryelands Blvd, Monroe, WA 98272.

Family members who do not have tickets for the evening performance are welcome to attend the “matinee” rehearsal at 10:00 a.m., December 9th at Cascade Church.

We would love for all family members to be able to see their MCS students in the performance. We appreciate your understanding and are so grateful to be presenting a Christmas program in person.

MCS APPAREL & ACCESSORIES

How about some MCS spirit for the Christmas!! What a great way to support the school and give a wonderful gift at the same time.

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.

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".

Explore all the ways to benefit MCS.

COVID PROCEDURE

Please notify the office if anyone in your family has tested positive.
We will discretely notify the teacher.
The teacher will email the notice to each of the parents in the classroom.
The office will then give each teacher a hard copy for the students to place in their backpack to take home.
If you have any questions, please contact the office.
Do not assume that if a student is missing from the class that this is the reason, they are absent.
We have had tremendous transparency and support. We want this to

SAFETY

We always want to offer a warm and inviting atmosphere to all our parents and to each of our students. Our classroom doors are often left open so that our younger students can enter and exit without struggling with the door handles. For safety reasons, no student will be allowed to leave class unless someone from the office goes to the classroom and gets that student.

We want you to know what is happening in our classrooms and you are always invited to help but it is important to remember that during school hours, students are busy learning and sometimes the smallest of interruptions is distracting to their learning.

If your student is leaving early, please call the office and we will get your student. If your student is sick, we will have them waiting in the office for you. Always stop by the office window and we will help you. But we are asking that you do not go into classrooms without working that out in advance with the teacher.

Our scripture theme for this year is based on Galatians 5:22-23, 25

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁵Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit