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Hi Mustangs! Take a minute to find out what's happening at Meadows Elementary!
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Week at a Glance
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January 15th - Jamba Juice, 2-3 pm
January 18th - MLK Day (No School)
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Upcoming Events
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January 21st - PTA Meeting & Safety First Parent Ed, 6:30 pm
January 22nd - Spirit Rally #2
January 25th - MAP Winter Session Begins
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Meadows After School Enrichment Program (MAP) is back!
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Parents, give yourselves the gift of extra time and your children the gift of fun and enrichment!
Enrollment for the Winter 2016 session of MAP is open on the website at www.mbxfoundation.org. Classes will begin on Monday, January 25 for a 12 week session (a 3 week Mini-MAP Spring session will be offered in May). Enrollment is open for all classes through Wednesday, January 20. After that date, classes with insufficient enrollment will be canceled but enrollment for all other classes will remain open. Enroll early!
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Mustang Socials
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Upcoming Socials in 2016:
Happy Holidays! Let's start the New Year with being HEALTHY and FIT!  Come SPIN and support the PTA! Burn your Holiday calories in a 50-minute class, indoor cycling is one of the most efficient cardio, high calorie burning exercises around. This class is designed to accommodate all fitness levels. First timers are welcome! You will love SPIN with PK, the most popular SPIN pro instructor in South Bay, with his awesome music! Complimentary beverages and light snacks will be served. So come out and SPIN with us!! Date: Friday, January 22nd Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Location: Fit On Studio Manhattan Beach Tickets: $50 February 6th - Doctors in Training
For more information about MUSTANG SOCIALS, contact Miho Manabe.
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Meadows Parent Party - Stock the Bar Party Hosts
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The Parent Party planners are in full swing, March 12th is just around the corner! The planning committee needs your help... we're still looking for a host for every grade to host a "stock the bar" party. What's that? A fabulous reason to get together with fun moms, drink wine and chat. Every guest brings a bottle of wine to help stock the bar for the party! You can get your friends to co-host with you. Let your room parent know if you'd be able to help/host. If you need more info, please contact Suzanne Kubler (suzannedeyo@gmail.com), JJ Corr (jjcorr1@yahoo.com), Yvonne Riethmiller (yriethmiller@gmail.com) or Shawn Truit (s.truitt@yahoo.com).
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YAA at Open House - February 11th
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While you are on campus for Open House, visit the Young at Art Gallery, Bake Sale, Auction and Dinner at the Meadows Cafeteria. Salads and hamburgers/hot dogs from Johnny Rockets will be available for sale from $7-$9 with a portion of proceeds benefiting Young at Art. There will also be homemade treats for sale brought to you by our Young at Art docents. Tour the gallery inside the cafeteria to see incredible artworks representing all classrooms and all grades. And, take a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork home through our annual auction. For more information, contact Lisa Becker lisawbecker@gmail.com.
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Grades of Green - Tip of the Week
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This week's tip is from the South Bay Environmental Services Center! When you park your car, park in such a way that you don't need to back up when you leave, which is an extra maneuver that uses gas.
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MBUSD -The Mathematical Mind: Grade Level Sessions Online
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"This series of workshops is designed for parents to understand what their children will be learning by grade level. Connections will be made between what students are learning in the classroom and how parents can support mathematics learning at home. The December sessions will focus on what parents can do to help at home, and the sessions after the New Year will focus on the purpose of what students are learning in class."
If you missed the Mathematical Mind grade level sessions, you can view them online. To watch online, go to the MBUSD website, select the drop down menu for Parents, and click on the Parent Workshops link.
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Show your race bib to any running club volunteer and we will add 25 laps to your running club total. Go, Mustangs!!
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SAVE HOLIDAY TISSUE PAPER FOR YAA
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Our January YAA project, Masks of Mexico, is right around the corner. Students will make paper mache masks using colorful tissue paper and other supplies. We ask that you please save tissue paper over the holidays and place them in a collection box that will be outside of the Meadows office when we return to school after winter break. Any tissue paper will work - even if it's ripped, crumbled, patterned or solid.
Thanks and happy holidays!
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Attention 4th and 5th Grade Readers!
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Team Meadows is issuing a challenge to all fourth and fifth grade readers to participate in the California Young Reader Medal (CYRM) Award voting for intermediate novels. This years novels are Wildwood, A Dog called Homeless, and True..Sort of. Students must commit to independently read all three novels by late March. After each book is read, students need to come to the library and fill out a completion form so that Mrs. Primm can monitor your progress. Students who complete the challenge will be invited to the library for a Voting Party to discuss and vote for their favorite. Books are available in the Meadows Library, in the Manhattan Beach Public Library, and at the Book Fair.
Please let Mrs. Primm know that you have accepted the challenge.
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Volunteer Opportunities - Rowell Drop Off Zone, Science Lab - We Need You!
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Rowell Drop Off Zone Click on the link here and find the assigned week for your class, then choose the morning that works best for your schedule. Next up: Trpin, Jones, & Cubillos. The procedure and rules are listed on the sign up genius site. Thank you!
Science Lab needs volunteers! Please sign up to volunteer in the Science Lab for your classroom. Sign up here!
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FUN-Raising
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Collect Box Tops for Meadows!
10 Box Tops = 1 SKORR card
Meadows participates in the Box Tops for Education™ program and earns 10¢ for each valid Box Top we collect! Simply buy products with the pink Box Tops on them (BTFE.com/products), clip the Box Tops, and send the Box Tops to school. Box Tops can be turned in by:
- Placing the clipped Box Tops or labeled baggie into the front office collection box or
- Completing a Box Tops submission form and returning it in a Tuesday envelope or into the front office collection box.
Don't toss them ...clip them and return them to Meadows.
Shopping for Students
Shopping for Students is a program that awards our school with free money. If your family did any shopping at the mall from May 1, 2015 to present your receipts turn into points that in turn get money for Meadows. You may turn in your receipts into the box in the front office, use the e-receipts for receipts you receive via email or bring them to the concierge which is located in the front of Macy's Men store. Please see
Attention Amazon Shoppers!!
Most purchases in that shopping session will earn Meadows 6% of your purchase.
 Jamba Juice Jamba Juice is coming to Meadows this Friday, January 15th! 2-3 pm in front of the cafeteria.
Enjoy a refreshing and healthy smoothie and support your school's PTA! $3, cash only.
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Community Corner
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South Bay United Water Polo
Come learn to play water polo in a fun, team focused environment. South Bay United provides an environment in which youth of all levels may develop to their fullest - in and out of the pool. Build skills, confidence and friendships that will last a lifetime! See the flyer for more info!
The Neptunian Woman's Club of Manhattan Beach - 38th Student Art and Photography Contest
The Neptunian Woman's Club of Manhattan Beach is sponsoring its 38th Student Art and Photography Contest for grades K-5 (art) and 6-12 (art and photography). Deadline for submission to the school office is February 22, 2016 before 3pm. An awards ceremony will be held on Sunday March 6th, 2016 1pm in the Neptunian clubhouse.
Contest rules & entry forms for grades K-5 are available here or at your school office or contact Joyce Handschumacher, the contest co-chair, at handschumacher@outlook.com.
Meet your local Lawmakers 2016
When: March 24, 2016, 6:30-7:30 pm
Where: Mira Costa Multipurpose Room
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