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May

5/4 - No School; Teacher In-Service
5/4-5/8 - Teacher Appreciation Week
5/4-5/8 - 6th Grade Mohican Trip
5/15 - Spring Extravaganza at MPA
5/19 - 6th Annual Walk-A-Thon
5/25 - No School; Memorial Day Weekend
5/26 - Field Day; Location TBD
5/27 - School Awards Assembly and Accomplishment Celebration
5/27 - Kindergarten Promotion at St. Mel's Hall 
5/28 - 8th Grade Graduation at St. Mel's Hall
5/29 - Last Day of School for 2014/2015!
Important Announcements 
The latest news from MPA

Look at the Latest Renderings of Our New Home!
 

You Can Still Join Us for Green Up Cleveland 
Join fellow MPA families in helping support a fantastic initiative to revive our city while making our own future home better! Green Up Cleveland is focusing this year's efforts on the Stockyard neighborhood and has MPA's new building as one of its sites. 

Event details are:

Saturday, May 2: 9 am-12 pm
Meet at Volunteer Headquarters: 3167 Fulton Rd, Cleveland, OH 44105
Register Here.


Once you have registered, please also let Kelly Nelson know so we can plan to have enough MPA 

t-shirts for all our volunteers! Day-of-event on-site registration will also be available. 


Walk-A-Thon: Class Incentives
Walk-A-Thon is offering classes the opportunity to support friendly competition! 
  • In lower school, the grade with the most contributions raised will receive a year-end pizza and ice cream party. 
  • In middle school, boys versus girls advisories will compete for the 2 dress down days for the winning side!
So, keep sending in your packets and encouraging family, friends, and colleagues to help rally for your students' teams! 

Teacher Appreciation Sign Up
Teacher and staff appreciation week will be the week of May 5-8. Parents and volunteers have organized a series of themed treats for each of these days. If you are able to participate or support, please sign up for a day(s) that works for you. Thank you for your help and thoughtfulness!
Extracurricular Activities 

Spring Extravaganza
The Spring Extravaganza will be a celebration of the many remarkable talents and hard work of our student community. From art pieces to performances, families will be able to enjoy a sampling of what makes our community such a standout!
  • Musical performances: Mrs. Macey will lead students in vocal and instrumental performances at St. Mel's hall throughout the evening.
     
  • Author's Tea: Join K-8 students for a series of readings from essays, poems, and short stories.
     
  • Wax Museum: Some of our second grade students will be showing off their research and creativity from their historical persons project.
     
  • Gallery of Art: Mrs. Chernisky will displaying some of the amazing artwork of our students throughout grades, styles, and time periods. 
Parents are encouraged to bring a dozen cookies to share with the community at the Author's Tea.
You can sign up here.

Flare for Art? Mrs. Chernisky is looking for three to six parent volunteers to help her prepare art pieces leading up to event, including helping hang art around the school. If you have time and are interested, please reach out Mrs. Chernisky.

The Spring Extravaganza will be held on Friday, May 15 at MPA from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A final schedule of events and performance times will be shortly forthcoming.

Family Fun
Bellaire Puritas Development Corporation has some great upcoming opportunities for family fun. Families can make puppets to march in the summer Parade the Circle and learn about throwing pottery. Click here for more information!
Support MPA 
 
Join the Crowd, the Volunteer Crowd
The Browns Team Needs Volunteers
Every football season, MPA hosts a concession stand at all of the Cleveland Browns home games.
The stand is fast-paced, fun work that helps the school raise over $15,000 annually. The 2015 Browns season schedule was just released and we are looking for volunteers to sign up now! Contact Jessica Tonsing and Tiffany Cardenas to learn more and get on the volunteer roster for the summer and fall games. Information will be forthcoming about summer training opportunities. As a bonus, we will be awarding double volunteer hours for all full-shift volunteers.

Walk-A-Thon 
May is packed with some of our favorite events, and they can't be sucessful without lots of help!
On May 19, here on the MPA school grounds, we will host the 6th Annual Walk-A-Thon. Students will enjoy community time together as we exercise for the ongoing health of our school! Sign up here to be a part of the day.

Field Day is one of everyone's favorite school days! While the location is being finalized, we know that we can't have a robust day without tons of parent support. Please sign up and join us for a day of outside activity, lots of laughter, and great memories!

Box Tops -- Almost There!
After the last neck-and-neck tally, the boys have increased their lead by 309 Box Tops! Can the girls recover? Not without help!

BOYS 7,148
GIRLS 6,839


There are many Box Tops expiring on 
6/1/15 and 6/30/15 so please check your expiration dates and send your Box Tops into school by May 21 so we can get them submitted in time.

 

Top 10 classrooms/advisories:
1. 1,420 Box Tops - KG Timko (same position)
2. 1,349 Box Tops - 1st Thompson (same position)
3. 1,210 Box Tops - 4th Haning (same position)
4. 1,178 Box Tops - 1st Grau (same position)
5. 1,018 Box Tops - 2nd Rokas (same position)
6. 841 Box Tops - 3rd Guyer (up 1 position)
7. 792 Box Tops - 3rd Hengst (up 2 positions)
8. 791 Box Tops - 7/8th Kennedy (same position)
9. 786 Box Tops - 5/6th Macey (down 3 positions)
10. 758 Box Tops - 2nd Nagy (same position)
Kudos Corner 

First Place Notes
The Northeast District of Ohio Music Teachers Association (OMTA) held its annual Buckeye Audition last week and MPA's Andrew Z. won the first place in piano division. Andrew will be moving on to represent Northeast Ohio and compete with winners from the other seven Ohio districts for state champion at this year's Buckeye Competition in June.  
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