Upcoming Events

May

May 7-11 TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK

May 10&11, 11:45am to 3:30pm MCCS “ALMOST” ANNUAL PLANT SALE

May 10, 3-4pm MULTICULTURAL CLUB (biweekly)

May 10 at 7pm ICP BOARD MEETING

May 17, Thursday, 9am-2pm MCCS HOSTS WILDLIFE STEWARDS SUMMIT

May 17, 2:30-4pm PUBLIC VIEWING OF SUMMIT POSTERS

May 17, 3-4pm SCRATCH CLUB (biweekly)

May 18, 2:30-3:15pm BOOKMOBILE

May 21-25, Before and After School ANNUAL SPRING SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

May 23, Wednesday, Time TBA 1/2/3 MAY TRIP TO FINLEY
May 28 NO SCHOOL/HOLIDAY

June

June 6, Wednesday, at 8:30am PTO MEETING

June 12, Tuesday 5^TH GRADE GRADUATION TRIP

June 15&16 CAMPOUT

June 20, Wednesday LAST DAY OF SCHOOL/GRADUATION/FIELD DAY

 

 

ATTENTION

PLEASE BE AWARE OF OTHER DRIVERS DURING AFTER-SCHOOL PICK-UP
We’ve been having a long line of cars at pickup that have interfered slightly with the flow of traffic from Bellfountain. If your child is not outside at the time of pickup, please consider parking. Also, please be aware that larger vehicles in the line of traffic can block cars that are trying to come into the lot to park. If you are waiting in line, please stay on the right side. Thanks!

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

• · We need volunteers for da Vinci days coming up in July. Let Betsy know soon, so she can sign MCCS up for the festival.
• · We need volunteers to help hang art work for the Wildlife Stewards Summit coming up May 17^th.
• · We need experts in pruning fruit trees to teach and/or to help prune, pruning implements, pergola builders and help refinishing the weathered bench seating in the future garden area. Contact karilei@gmail.com.
• · Anyone to help set up and/or break down the Footwise Window Display for MCCS.Contact karilei@gmail.com.

 

WISH LIST
Room 2 needs 18 plastic 2 liter soda bottles for their soils experiments, 2 clean quart or half gallon milk cartons (not bottles) and glue sticks.

 

 

ROOM NEWS

 

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK

May 7-11

This week is teacher appreciation week. We plan on doing the some acts of appreciation this week. Please check your email for a list. Let Betsy know if you have any further questions or if you can help with any of the plans at betsyjd@yahoo.com.Thank you for supporting your child’s teacher. They do so much.

 

PLANT SALE RAFFLE TICKETS AVAILABLE

To go along with our semiannual plant sale we will be offering raffle tickets giving you the opportunity to win great prizes and help MCCS at the same time.

The tickets will be 4 for $1, and you don’t need to be present to win.

 

Some of the Prizes include:

A rhododendron plant

A garden basket

Pruning shears

A patio pot filled with color spot plants

Various flowers and seeds

Gardening books including: Plant Propagation, The edible flower garden, The edible Heirloom Garden, The Year in Flowers, Fresh from the garden

And more to be announced…

 

A ticket will be drawn every hour of the plant sale which runs 11:45am to 3:30pm on both Thursday May 10th and Friday May 11th.

 

PLANT SALE

May 10 -11, 11:45 to 3:30pm

This is a collaborative project across the school in which the 4/5 class is partnering with the Kinders and the 1/2/3 classes to do a MCCS Plant Sale.

The 4/5 students are the CEOs and managing the business. They have been working on some advertisements for the sale and calling to see if different business would want to donate plants. The business name the students came up with is “Kids Grow”.

The kinders and grades 1/2/3 math students will grow plants for the sale. Save a spot in your garden or on your porch to plant one of our special plants!

Volunteers to supervise the 4/5 graders are needed. Thanks.
News update: The PTO was considering having a school wildlife art show this year, unfortunately the school schedule is will not accommodate another event. We hope to have an annual art show starting in 2012-13. Please contact the PTO if you would like to be involved in helping to organize this event. We will still have some of the MCCS art on display on the day of the Wildlife Summit which is open for public viewing from 2:30 to 4pm, May 17th.

WILDLIFE STEWARDS SUMMIT
May 17^th, 9am-2pm, with public viewing of posters from 2:30 until 4pm.

Our school is hosting the annual 4-H Wildlife Stewards Conference on May 17th. The event will bring students from any elementary school in the Corvallis/Philomath area that participates in the Wildlife Stewards program. The students research a topic related to wildlife in their schoolyard and work to improve the habitat. Our school’s big Wildlife Stewards project is the RESTORE area in our field. Subjects such as macroinvertebrates and invasive species will be discussed during Summit sessions.This is the 10^th year for the Summit and it is an honor for Muddy Creek to be hosting. The mayor should be dropping by and the event will be covered by the Gazette.

 

MCCS BOOK FAIR

The MCCS Annual Book Fair is coming up the week of May 21-25. Last year it was a huge success. We will be “open” 8:15-9am and 2:45-3pm each day.

There will be teacher wish lists available for families that choose to donate to the classrooms, student can make wish lists to let parents know what books they wish for, and there will be a “Breakfast with the Books” on Tuesday morning (join us for bagels, etc.).

Mark your calendar and plan to attend this popular fundraising event!

Please contact Kelly Bell at ksbirish@yahoo.com with any questions.

 

MOVIN’ MUSKRATS

Keep it movin’ Muskrats – let’s finish out the school year strong!

 

SCRIP
We just received a generous supply of gift cards to fulfill all your teacher (Teacher Appreciation Week (May 7-11) and Mother’s Day (May 13)) needs. Gift cards make great gifts! We will have a larger selection to choose from including Book Bin (great teacher gift!), Pottery Place (have the kids make something for mom), Retreat Day Spa, Bath and Body Works, Big River Restaurant, Starbucks $5 cards, and iTunes. Please buy gift cards through MCCS and help support the school at the same time! Tell your friends and relatives too!!

 

THANK YOUS

A huge thank you to Leann Eagles-Smith and all the other hard-working volunteers for making our first ever Rummage Sale a success!