November 11, 2020 #3
Upcoming Events
November 17 - Scoopie Night at Culver's in Wales
November 23-27 NO SCHOOL THANKSGIVING BREAK/Teacher PD 23/24
December 23-January 1 NO SCHOOL
January 4 - Return to School
Service Spotlight - Win!Win!
The Magee PTO is sponsoring a shoe drive from now through Dec. 15. There is a can outside the front entrance to place outgrown, gently used or new shoes. Please tie strings together or rubberband together. Thank you for your generosity as these shoes will go to underdeveloped countries to be repurposed and Magee earns fundraising dollars!
This looks like a GREAT weekend to clean out your closets!
A CHANGE TO After School Pick Up
Be patient, Be kind, Have Grace
Thanks to you, we have really gotten good at our after school pick up. We are getting through the line much quicker than before. With that being said, beginning on Monday, November 9 our car line will begin dismissal at 3:20PM instead of 3:15PM on regular days and at 2:50PM on Thursdays. This means that you are able to come a few minutes later than you are now to continuing to avoid the 3:10-3:20 time frame so our buses can all get in. In fact, ARRIVING AFTER 3:20PM WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY HELP TRAFFIC! This change also allows us to recoup 25 minutes per week of instruction.
Thank you for your cooperation and support!
Environment Change Update
The option to change environments at the end of Term 1 has come and gone. We are the third day into Term 2 and have welcomed back 7 students to face to face learning.
We continue to work hard at school to mitigate the spread of COVID.
Thank you also for continuing to report your child's symptoms to the school nursing staff.

County No Longer Notifing Close Contacts

Waukesha County Public Health issued a letter stating its shift away from notifying contacts of positive COVID cases: "Due to rising COVID-19 cases statewide, a recent and significant change to this process means that if you or your child are a close contact of someone who tests positive for COVID-19, you will likely be notified of your exposure from that individual, school personnel, or your place of employment, rather than from Waukesha County Public Health."

Now more than ever, it is important for all of us to work together both in school and out of school to slow the spread to keep students in school.

This year it is important to have a plan to pick students up within 15-20 minutes of a call from school - whether the child is ill, injured or needs to be quarantined. Being able to pick up quickly decreases the potential exposure to others in the health room, isolation or classroom. Thank you for planning ahead.

We appreciate your ongoing support and understanding - especially when we have had to quarantine during the school day.
5th Grade Robotics Cycle
5th grade students are doing a short robotics cycle this fall and they are doing it safely. 5th graders are coming to the library with their cohort and working with Mrs. Jones to code their cruiser to follow a maze. Each student has their own robot but they are still working as a team as they help each other. 
Due to our being at home last spring, quite a few 5th graders would have missed out on an EV3 robotics experience as they move on to the middle school. Doing these short cycles now will ensure they have some EV3 experience. 

Students are showing persistence and flexible thinking. They are also striving for accuracy and even showing humor as they work through challenges.

Our other grade levels may have to wait until next year to do a robotics cycle, but they will have plenty of other computer science opportunities this year as we continue to use Scratch and CoSpaces.
Magee Annual Report
The Magee Annual Report was presented at the October 27, 2020 School Board Meeting. Please click HERE to view the report done at the meeting. Our report starts around 12 min into the meeting. Please click HERE to view the report.
The video below will guide you through where to find assignments and information in your child's Google Classroom. Mrs. Jones made the video using examples from our classrooms to make it easy to relate to.
FAMILY RESOURCES
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PO Box 37
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