Morningside Elementary

Session 2 Virtual MAS Extracurricular Programs is open on www.myafterschoolprogram.com This is a short, 6 week session that begins this week. Registration closes November 7. Questions? Email [email protected]

As we continue with virtual learning and enter a season of gratitude, we are thankful for the devices and cameras used by teachers and students and the variety of engaging curricula and online resources provided by the Morningside Foundation. What is the MES Foundation? The Foundation is a non-profit organization that uses tax-deductible donations to foster teaching excellence and enhance student achievement through strategic investments in curriculum, instruction and techno...logy programs at Morningside Elementary School. The Foundation works to fund ongoing and immediate needs identified by the school administration, allowing them to deploy necessary resources quickly. To learn more, please visit our website, http://morningsideschoolfoundation.org, and like our Facebook page (Morningside Elementary School Foundation) to follow along as we provide examples of the Foundation’s work.

As we head into Halloween weekend, we leave you with this from our wonderful Media Specialist, Mr. Rawls... The Trunchbull is making a special appearance as our guest reader in today's episode of First Chapter Friday. Although she skips right over the first chapter to read her favorite chapter - the one titled after her. https://youtu.be/eQmnZHSbX-

Happening Now! Head to the MES@Inman campus for our Special Halloween Edition of Dolphin Toolkit Pickup! The new schedule is 9am - 1pm for ALL grade levels. Park on the street and walk up to the parking lot area where tables are set up outside. Wear those costumes, masks and get ready to social distance and air hug some of your favorite MES teachers and staff when picking up your toolkit!

Due to the uncertainty of when power will be restored for many of our students and staff, Friday, October 30, will be a non-instructional day for students and a remote workday for APS teachers and other district staff. https://talkupaps.wordpress.com//power-outages-impact-ope/

TOOLKIT PICKUP TOMORROW UPDATE-WE'RE A GO!: Due to continued power outages, tomorrow, Oct. 30th has been designated as a self-guided learning day. The great news is that we will have our toolkit pick-up on a new condensed schedule, from 9am - 1pm for ALL grade levels. Also, families with multiple grade children may come together! Wear those costumes, masks and get ready to social distance and air hug some of your favorite MES teachers and staff when picking up the toolkit! See map attached for locations of grade levels, EIP, and GATE!

Families and staff are continuing to experience large power outages across the area. APS asked us to notify our schools with the official notice of school cancellation today, 10-29-20. Toolkit pickup will still take place tomorrow!

End-of-quarter reports cards will be available in Infinite Campus Parent Portal on 10/30/2020. Reports cards will not be mailed, but they will be available for printing at home. Please contact Assistant Principal, Dr. Sprull at [email protected] with any grading questions.

We hope to see many of our 1st and 2nd grade parents at this special event!

Have you heard? We’re so excited that the MES Library is now offering online book checkout and curbside pick up! Visit meslibrary.com to get details on how to reserve/request books online and all the info for picking up and returning books. Happy reading!

From Atlanta School Board Member Michelle Olympiadis... The Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Public Schools today announced a formalized partnership for Hawks at Home. Hawks at Home is an innovative online program created to educate and help youth stay active during this time of social distancing. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hawks have empowered kids across the state of Georgia and beyond to learn basketball skills from Atlanta Hawks coaches, players, and Hawks Basketball Acad...emy instructors, all from the comfort of their own homes. Launched at the beginning of the 2020 summer, more than 10,000 area youth have participated in the program and enjoyed the unprecedented access to a safe, fun and free extracurricular activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has limited student access to extracurricular programs, said Atlanta Hawks’ Vice President of Basketball Development Jon Babul. We are thrilled to partner with Atlanta Public Schools to bring the Hawks at Home program to the APS community. Working together to promote healthy living and providing physical, social and emotional learning opportunities to students is teamwork at its finest. As part of this new partnership with Atlanta Public Schools, Hawks at Home will now be offered as a resource to teachers, coaches and students of Atlanta Public Schools as part of a weekly program that focuses on various health and wellness efforts. Time and again, we have been humbled by the support of the Atlanta Hawks and we are especially excited about Hawks at Home, said APS Executive Director of Partnerships and Development Rachel Sprecher. Every week, our students and our school community look forward to working out with the team’s trainers and pros and we’re so grateful for this outlet for them to get moving and have fun! Atlanta Public Schools has been a longstanding partner of the Atlanta Hawks, and in the past, both have worked together on multiple youth basketball programs in addition to various health and wellness efforts. In September, during APS’ ‘Back to School Bash’, the Hawks presented a special ‘Hawks at Home’ live class, which hundreds of students attended. For more information on Hawks at Home, including school partnerships, please email [email protected]. To register for upcoming live classes, visit Hawks.com/HawksatHome.

The teacher teams for each grade level are putting together a plan to make October 30 celebratory, as it would be if the students were in person at MES. There's a special second round of Dolphin Toolkit pickup on Friday, October 30 at MES@Inman. Get the details here: https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/64912