JMUES News April 4, 2025

4/8/25 Town Elections (No School)

4/16/25 Picture Day

4/17/25 Visiting Author

4/26-5/4 Spring Break

We’ve had a few recent incidents where students have made the choice to give themselves impromptu haircuts—both on the bus and here at school. Please take a moment to talk with your child about keeping scissors in their pencil cases and out of their hairstyles (or their friends’!). Haircuts are best left to home and professional salons—not the classroom or the bus ride. We appreciate your support in helping us keep school a safe and focused learning environment.

Here is a link: Exec. Board Nominations

https://forms.gle/TQ1zN3s6x53Mc77x5

Grade 6 Family Information Night at MMS Tuesday, May 13 at 6pm

The PTG is seeking nominations for the Executive Board for the 2025-2026 school year. Becoming a PTG Officer provides opportunities to make a positive impact & meet new people in the MMS community. If you, or someone you know, may be interested in serving on the PTG Exec Board, the PTG encourages you to reach out to a current Officer listed below. Nominations will be accepted from Sun, 3/30 through Tue, Apr 15 at 3PM, and can be accomplished by completing the below nomination form.

MMS PTG Nomination Form: https://bit.ly/mmsptg-board-nomination

Dear Families,

Our school is reading with Scholastic Book Clubs! Your child’s teacher may already send home flyers each month to build their classroom library-that is great! Please continue to order from your child’s teacher. However, if your child’s teacher (any grade) does not participate in Scholastic Book Clubs, and you would like to build a home library or just have a book to read for vacation or pleasure, you can now order from the link below and help JMUES at the same time. We have a birthday book program that invites each student to pick a free book from our book collection on their birthday (summer birthdays pick in June). The PFA graciously contributes some of the proceeds from the book fair to help us keep our shelves stocked with the most popular selections, but we need to find other ways to keep replacing books for our program. Using the link and code from our school page to order books will give us “points” to purchase more books.

When placing an order, you will be prompted to add your child’s name (first/last) and room #. (Ex. JaneDoe,120). The book orders will arrive at the school and be sent home with your child.

Family Order Due Date: Any month, any time until 06/13/2025 (I will submit on/around the end of month).

Shop Our School Page: https://orders.scholastic.com/QFX2Q

Shop Flyers: https://clubs.scholastic.com/all-flyers

Plus place an order of $25 or more and you can pick a FREE $5 book (use code READS at checkout).

Every order benefits our birthday book program, helping us earn FREE books that every child can enjoy.

Thanks so much for your support!

JMUES Birthday Books

Laurie Silvia

Literacy Coordinator, JMUES

Due to the recent surge in item’s being dropped off for students during the day we will no longer be calling classrooms to notify students of items being dropped off. This will help us to minimize interrupting learning times. If your student reaches out to you asking for an item to be dropped off please encourage your student to talk to their teacher to coordinate a good time to come down to the office to retrieve their item.

Clubs begin next week. If you haven't heard details form the facilitator, please reach out to them.

All students who filled out the form got into their first choice!

Diamond Art Club

Ms. Trovitch

A craft activity club that involves applying tiny resin rhinestones to a preprinted canvas to create a mosaic-style art piece.

Thursday: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17

Spanish and Culture Club

Ms. Abelleira

Let’s learn about the amazing Latin American culture, while we also learn Spanish.

Monday: 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14

Lego Club

Mrs. Coria

In this club, students will build on creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking skills and cooperation in order to use Legos to build solutions to various engineering design challenges.

Thursday: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17

Readers' Theater

Mrs. Moloney

Students will read, practice, draw a 2-D background, prepare, and perform a reader's theater.

Thursday: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17

Club Create

Mrs. Klayton

This exciting club offers students the chance to design and build their own unique projects using a variety of STEM tools. Unleash your imagination, collaborate with peers, and discover the endless possibilities in our Maker Space!
Monday: 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14

Bracelet Making

Mrs. Monroe

Students will learn to make different styles of bracelets using different materials; embroidery floss, beads, clay beads, and gimp.

Monday: 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14

French Language and Culture

Mme. Carter

Explore the French culture and language! Led by high school students and supervised by a teacher, this fun program includes music, food, traditions, and basic French. No experience needed—just curiosity and a love for learning!

Monday: 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14

Quick Clicks: What Are We Learning In Tech Class?

In our final UA rotation, Tech students are diving into the exciting world of computer programming! They are learning about various programming languages, robotics, and coding. We use a variety of fun and creative platforms, such as Scratch and Code.org, to practice coding skills by creating interactive projects like animations and games.

Later, we will put our coding skills to the test as we work to program our collection of resident robots!

Full-STEAM Ahead: STEAM Lab & Student Makerspace

The month of March ushered in some progress toward my goal of creating a dedicated STEAM Lab and Student Makerspace for students to build and create independent and collaborative STEAM projects

This space will be dedicated to hands-on, student-driven learning that inspires creativity, exploration, and problem-solving through technology.

We are seeking consumable supplies that will inspire our student makers as they design and create. If you have any of the following items to contribute to the space your donation will be greatly appreciated!

STEM Lab/Makerspace Supplies

Building Materials

• craft sticks, wooden shapes, Model Magic/Sculpey, corrugated cardboard boxes, thin cardboard boxes and sheets, cardboard tubes (toilet paper, paper towel), empty plastic containers, empty metal cans, corrugated plastic board, cork

Fabric and Fiber Supplies

• yarn, embroidery floss, fabric, elastic, thread, easy-to-use fabric felt, fleece, burlap felted (shrunken) wool knit

Paper

• notebooks (for keeping records), copy paper, construction paper, card stock, origami paper, scrapbooking paper, handmade paper, watercolor/pastel paper, tissue paper, recycled newspaper, and magazines

Miscellaneous

• googly eyes, pipe cleaners, pencil erasers, plastic beads

Connectors

• rubber bands (all sizes), paper clips, binder clips, push pins

Adhesives

• thin double-sided tape, glue stick, hot glue gun ,colored/glitter glue/fabric paint, glue dots, white glue (gallon size for oobleck), peel-and-stick Velcro

https://www.sau26.org/Page/5382

The JMUES website is a helpful resource if you have unanswered questions. We post all JMUES Newsletters for the year on the website so you can always view a previous newsletter.

Additionally, we post our calendar and important information about upcoming events, activities, and clubs.

To access the JMUES Website, click the link below.

https://www.sau26.org/mues

www.muespfa.com