LAST CHANCE to buy your Yearbook for $30! Next week, the prices will go up! Order online at www.JostensYearbooks.com. Add a Personal Ad for only $20.

Free P.E.

begins

Oct. 6th!

See page 6 of this Paw Prints for details!

Grades 3-5 Book Club and Author Visit!

Bestselling author, Lauren Oliver, along with a very

distinguished English Professor (aka her dad!), will

be visiting MGE on October 1. Students may pur-

chase her autographed book, Curiosity House. See

attached flyer. Some students may also choose to

join our BOOK CLUB! Details are on page 4.

The clinic is in need of

multiple-sized clothing!

Elastic top shorts and skirts (appropriate

length) or sweat pants are especially

needed. If you have any clothes that

your child has grown out of, we would

gladly appreciate the donations.

Reminder

Parents who would like to have their kindergarten child screened for the gifted and

talented program must turn in their checklists by Oct. 7th. Information packets were

sent home several weeks ago. This screening is for kindergarten service (beginning in

March) and for first grade. There will not be another opportunity to screen before the

spring of their first grade year (2017).

Please send a note to your child’s teacher

on the day you send birthday treats so that

the teacher will be aware that cupcakes

will be in the front office to be picked up.

Provine School Pictures will be at MGE on

Thursday,

October 22, 2015

to take individual pictures of all students.

If you wish to order pictures, you must

complete the envelope provided to you

and return to your child’s homeroom

teacher.

IMPORTANT: In order to ensure accurate

processing, send separate payment for

each child in your family.

This is the last week to make a donation for

the silent auction or to become a sponsor for

GrizzFest!

If you would like to contribute, please

contact Christine O’Rear at mgepta-

katy@gmail.com or send to school in an envelope marked MGE GrizzFest

sponsor or donation.

GrizzFest T-Shirts Friday is the last day to

place an order for t-

shirts. shirts will NOT be

available at the event for

sale, all shirts are

pre-order only!

Order yours today!

See page 7 for order form!

School Store is tomorrow!

Items range in price from $.5-$5.00. Please send money for your child to use at the store in an envelope marked “School Store”.

If someone would like to help out during the store, please sign up at the following link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f4da9ab292-september

Reminder Deliveries to classrooms

are limited to emergency items only,

such as eyeglasses.

Volume X, Issue 6

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

27 28 District School

Board Mtg.,

6:30pm @ ESC

29 Campus Advisory

Team Meeting, 5pm,

conf. room

KEYS Mentor Mtg., 2:30pm

30 School Store!

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1

Author Visit,

9am for grs. 3-5 POPCORN-

Kinder, 1st, and PreK PM

2

Early Dismissal

SUPER BOWL

3

4 5 6 7

Wear Black & White

Stripes for character

trait, Individuality

8 9

1st Gr. JA in a Day

Popcorn-2nd & 3rd

10

11 12 Student

Holiday

13 14 15

POPCORN-4th & Pre-K AM

16 End of 1st Nine Weeks

EARLY DISMISSAL

17

18 19 Begin 2nd 9 wks 20 21 22

Provine Individual

Pictures Taken

Today!

Popcorn-5th & CAP

23

GRIZZFEST, 5-8:30

Report Cards Go

Home!

24

25 26

Magic Dork Show for

all students

27 28 29 30

Kinder Fall Festival

of Learning

Popcorn-K, 1st & PK PM

31

Core Essential Trait for October is

Individuality.

Wear black and white stripes on Wednesday, October 7th!

Are You Ready For Some Football??

On Friday, October 2, 2015, the fifth grade class from rotation day 1, 3 & 5 (The Green Giants)

will challenge day 2, 4 & 6 (The Orange Crush) fifth graders in the Annual Michael Griffin Super

Bowl. The event will take place on the east field near the kindergarten drop off at 9:00 A.M.

until 10:30 A.M. There will be two games; a girl’s game immediately followed by a boy’s game.

To make this event a fun experience for all intermediate grades, we are asking 3rd and 4th

grades classes to come and cheer for the 5th graders. We need for the 3rd and 4th grade classes

to be in place by 8:45 am.

There will be a 3rd grade cheer section on the north side of the field and a 4th grade cheer

section on the south side. If the kiddo’s have them, we would love to see all of our students

wearing school spirit wear, football team shirts/jerseys’ or cheerleading uniforms.

**Due to space limitations, we are inviting only 5th grade parents and family members to

attend. Please check in at the front office.

This has been a very exciting and action-packed unit. This special event gives us the

opportunity to THANK these students for a JOB WELL DONE.

Thank you for your support. We hope to see you there!

MGE PE Specialists: Mark Fobian, Sean O’Connor, and Tara Hauhe

The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful

bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken head.

Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans Philippa, Sam, and Thomas have grown up happily in Dumfrey’s Dime Museum of

Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders. But when a fourth child, Max, a knife-thrower, joins the group, it sets off an unforgettable chain

of events.

When the museum’s Amazonian shrunken head is stolen, the four are determined to get it back. But their search leads them to a

series of murders and an explosive secret about their pasts. This sensational new series combines the unparalleled storytelling

gifts of Lauren Oliver with the rich knowledge of the notorious relics collector H. C. Chester.

Grades 3-5 On October 1st, Lauren Oliver, and her father (disguised as an English pro-

fessor) will be entertaining our students in grades 3-5. Any student may

purchase an autographed book. A student must purchase the book if they

want to participate in the book club, however.

Here is how the book club will work for those who want to participate: On Tuesday, Sept. 29th, book club members will

meet in the library and listen to me read the first few chapters of the advance copy that I have. Book club members get

front row seats to the author presentation on October 1st. Then, after autographed books are handed out on October 1st,

students will have two weeks to complete the rest of the book on their own. We will meet before school for our Donut

Discussion at 7:30 AM on Thursday, October 15th. I will bring donuts. You bring your own drink.

Thanks, Blue Willow Bookshop!

1st in

a s

erie

s!

Name: ______________________ Teacher: ___________________

Book Title Price Qty Total

Curiosity House : The Shrunken Head $18.40

Please make checks payable to

Blue Willow Bookshop Tax incl. xxxxxx

Visit us at www.bluewillowbookshop.com TOTAL

_______ I only want to purchase an autographed book

_______ I want a book AND plan on participating in the book club.

FREE PE PROGRAM

PURPOSE:

To reward good work, good sportsmanship, and collect Box Tops for Education which are used

as our main fundraiser.

WHEN:

Free PE will begin on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, during the last 20 minutes of our planning

period. Free PE will be on TUESDAY ONLY. We will alternate grade levels as follows:

Schedule: Week A: KG, 1st & 2nd (3:10-3:30pm)

Week B: 3rd, 4th, & 5th (3:10-3:30pm)

HOW:

Students collect “points” (or tickets, coupons, etc.) by exhibiting positive behavior (good work,

sportsmanship, being a leader, good choices, etc.) or bringing in Box Tops for Education.

Different denominations (1’s, 5’s, and 10’s) of points are given. For Box Tops, we give a point for

each one brought in; one for one. Behavior points are usually 5’s or 10’s. Students must collect

10 points before they are eligible.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Classroom teachers decide which students can participate. Each classroom may send up to four

(4) students at a time (once they have collected 10 points). However, the students must have all

class work completed, have proper PE attire (shoes), and have no other ongoing behavioral

issues.

PROCEDURE:

When the students come into the gym, there are different types of equipment put out that

they can play with at will. We play music and also play with the kids, but usually there are no

organized games so the kids can pick and choose what they want to do. However, our PE rules

are always in effect, so no roughhousing, etc. is allowed. At 3:30 pm, students clean up and

return to their class room for dismissal.

This design will be on a black t-shirt.

GLOW IN THE DARK!!!!!!

To view the design in color please check out the latest Paw Prints.

T‐SHIRTS ARE ON SALE NOW!

STUDENTS WHO WEAR THIS SHIRT ON GRIZZFEST FRIDAY WILL RECEIVE 1 FREE TICKET

Please complete the order form below and return it to your child’s teacher by October 2nd

No orders will be accepted after this date. Pre-sale only, no shirts available at the carnival.

Make checks payable to MGE PTA.

Please indicate the quantity you would like next to the specific size below:

Youth Sizes: S ________ M ________ L ________

Adult Sizes: S ________ M ________ L ________ XL ________ XXL ________

Total # of shirts X $12 = __________

Parent Name:________________________ Email:______________________________________

Phone Number:_____________________ Child’s Name:_________________________________

Teacher’s Name:___________________________________________

If you have any questions, please e‐mail Christine O’Rear @ mgeptakaty@gmail.com