Parent/Teacher Conferences This Week and Odd and Ends.....

Missouri Valley Community Schools are having Parent/Teacher Conferences this week.  They will be Tuesday, Oct. 22 and Thursday, Oct. 24th from 3:00-7:00.  Middle School and Elementary students have scheduled conference times.  Please check with your child regarding their assigned time or call the school for information. 

5th Grade ELP students have created models of Camp Green Lake, based on the setting described in "Holes" by Louis Sachar.  Please check the display case for the models.  The final products are very creative!

4th Grade ELP students are beginning a Service Learning Project to help the Ronald McDonald House.  We are collecting pop tabs as an Elementary School.  Currently our school has collected 725,500 pop tabs!!  If we are a school that collects 1 MILLION pop tabs there will be a special prize awarded and our efforts will be recognized.  Please check with a 4th grade ELP student for more details. 

Finally, as the largest population of students I work with are in the MV Elementary, I will be at the Elementary both days of P/T Conferences.  Please plan to stop by if there are questions, comments or suggestions for the good of the ELP group.  If you are unable to stop by but would like to meet with me, please contact me at cchristensen@movalleycsd.org.  or at 712-642-2279 and we can arrange an alternate date/time. 

Thank you for the on-going support, cooperation and patience.  We are off to a great start!

Mrs. C.

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