Mustang Messages

Spring Parent-Teacher Conference (Student-Involved Conferences) time has arrived. We look forward to visiting with all of our McNair families and students. We have so much to share with all of you and we want to make sure we address any questions or concerns that you might have at this point in the year. McNair is holding conferences on Tuesday, March 17th and Wednesday, March 18th from 3:00-6:00 pm. If your family is unable to attend during these two days, please let your student's homeroom teacher know the best date/time you can meet.

McNair’s goal is to meet with 100% of our families. We look forward to sharing your child’s progress. During the student-involved conferences, families will have the opportunity to meet with homeroom teachers(face-to-face or in other modes of communication) and then interact with your student as he/she shares their digital portfolio of current goals, artifacts from each course, and a reflection of their learning/progress. Conferences are a necessary and important component of the family-school partnership toward your child’s educational success. Pods will be communicating with families either digitally or in writing for families to indicate their preferred conference time/mode of communication.

Thank you,

Lisa Davis

Ted Whitehead

We are now accepting orders for the 2019-2020 McNair yearbook! To purchase you will need the ID #8774220
https://ybpay.lifetouch.com/Order/LookupJob?jobNumber=8774220 All yearbook orders are due Friday, March 20th.

Spring Book Fair – March 16th-20th

Family Night – March 17th from 3:00 - 6:00 PM

Family Night - March 18th from 3:00 - 6:00 PM

McNair Library is looking for volunteers to help with our Spring Book Fair for the week of March 16-20. We appreciate your support! If you would like to volunteer to help please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904084CAEA62FA5F85-mcnair

Pets Are Family is having our donation drive for the Fayetteville Animal Services. “Pets Are Family” Advisory Club is collecting the following items to support our local Fayetteville Animal Services. We will be collecting these items through Friday April 3.

1. Bleach

2. Liquid Dish Soap

3. Liquid Laundry Detergent

4. Paper Towels

5. Pet Foods all types

Please send any of the below items to Ms. Fox’s room #519 in fifth grade, Ms. Synder's room in sixth grade or leave in the office (we will pick them up). Thank you all so much for your help!!!

March Madness is one of the biggest, most exciting and most fun events in all of sports. Why is it madness? That term captures the excitement that swirls around the sports world as tournament time approaches. In the weeks leading up to the "Big Dance," as it is called, hundreds of college basketball teams from all over the United States fight to earn a spot in the tournament. As we lead up to the “Big Dance," we're pumping up the excitement with a final attendance challenge push. Who will make it to the Sweet Sixteen? Who will be our Elite Eight? The Final Four? Do we have any Cinderella teams who may not have won any attendance challenges yet but are about to rise to the occasion?

Here’s how it works?

We are hosting an Attendance March Madness tournament where homerooms will compete against each other to have the highest daily on-time attendance average for the week. The homeroom with the highest daily on-time attendance will advance to next week’s competition. Homerooms have been randomly selected to compete against each other. Week one starts March 2nd - March 6th.

Never fear it’s not a one and done competition. We have our NIT bracket (our 2nd Chance Bracket) The week of March 30th, we are going to go back through all our teams that were eliminated and average their daily on-time attendance. The four homerooms with the highest daily on-time attendance average for March will get to play in the NIT bracket. Everyday matters in March (all year really :)

Winners for both tournament brackets will receive a celebration. Celebration to be announced this week.

Flu season is here and we’ve already had confirmed cases of the flu at McNair. If your child has a confirmed case of the flu, call the office at 479-527-3660 or the nurse at 479-718-0257 and let us know. For more information about the flu please go to https://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm

To all dads, grandfathers, uncles, guardians and more of McNair students. We'd love for you to come in to McNair someday and spend some time with your student and to work on special assignments that the staff has for you. Any day, any time. But try to spend enough time to have lunch with your student. And for those of you who have not yet signed up to be a Watch Dog Dad, you can go to their website for information at www.fathers.com/watchdogs. And then contact Thom to sign up. Please let our coordinator Thom Hapgood know when you'd like to come. He is at stellar3@cox.net or 520 249 0830.

Monday, March 9th

• "A" Day
• Girls on the Run 3:00-4:30 pm
• Quiz Bowl 3:00-4:00 pm
• McNair Mary Poppins Rehearsal 3:00-4:30 pm

Tuesday, March 10th

• "B" Day
• "Mix It" Up Day
• Math Counts 3:00 - 4:00 pm
• Tim's Pizza Spirit Night

Wednesday, March 11th

• A" Day
• Advisory Clubs
• Student Council Field Trip
• AV Club 3:00-4:00 pm
• Girls on the Run 3:00-4:30 pm
• Intramurals 3:00-4:00 pm

Thursday, March 12th

• "B" Day
• Mary Poppins Rehearsal 3:00-4:30 pm
• Girls Who Code 3:00-4:00 pm
• Running Club 3:00-4:00 pm
• Intramurals 3:00-4:00 pm
• Student Council 3:00 - 4:00 pm

Friday, March 13th

• "A" Day

LIFELONG LEARNERS, INNOVATIVE LEADERS

Email: lisa.davis@fayar.net
Website: mcnair.fayar.net
Location: 3030 East Mission Boulevard, Fayetteville, AR, United States
Phone: 479.527.3660
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/McNair-Middle-School-PTO-245276908844390/
Twitter: @McNairMiddleSch

The McNair Message is an online publication by McNair Middle School administration and staff and will be distributed weekly. The purpose of the McNair Message is to keep the McNair Middle School Community informed of upcoming events and highlight the great accomplishments happening within our school. If you have suggestions, questions, or ideas of the content you would like to see in this publication, please email Lisa Davis at lisa.davis@fayar.net