Many Hands, One Mason!
January 27, 2019
Dear Mason Families,
Dear Mason Families,
Happy Sunday! We are very excited to have Mix It Up Day during lunch time for 3rd-5th graders this Wednesday from 11:30-12:30pm and we need your help! Please click on the link below to sign up to help assist our students get to know each other better! Thank you for your support in helping us value each other at Mason! Thank you to our Mason Parent Diversity Committee for coming up with this great idea as well!
Big Shout Out to our staff for recording each chapter of our One Book, One School book The Chocolate Touch. Feel free to click the link below to have a different Mason educator for each chapter read to you and your child. Thanks for continuing to make reading a priority at home. 15-30 minutes of reading per day can really help your child socially, emotionally and academically.
Mason Educators Read The Chocolate Touch
Have a wonderful weekend,
Roy Bishop, Jr.
Principal
Mix It Up Day Sign Up:
https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/508054bacaf22a5ff2-masons
Dinner Conversations Talking Points:
What Leader In Me habit are you currently studying in class?
What is one thing you can do better in the lunch room to help noon aides out?
How many pieces of pizza do you buy on Thursdays? Do you actually eat both slices?
January LIM Topic:
Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood- Listening with the intent to understand someone else better, Listening to understand instead of listening to reply.
January PBIS Topic:
Hallway Behavior- Doing the right thing in the hallway when no one is looking... Walking, keeping our hands to ourselves, using quiet voices, etc...
January Character Word of the Month:
Empathy - Trying to understand what others are feeling and looking at things from their perspective.
One Book One School - The Chocolate Touch!
We would love to have pictures of you reading The Chocolate Touch together. Please email photos to macgila@gpschools.org. Pictures will be displayed on our main floor bulletin board.
Thank you so much for fostering a love for reading at home and we hope you enjoy this special family time together!
JANUARY-FEBRUARY CALENDAR
Feb 9 - Mason Winter Formal - 6:00 p.m,. Parcells - information coming soon
Feb 18-22 - Mid-Winter Break / No School
Grosse Pointe North's Style Spectacular
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HNL9IfyKnBSoX-7965c0YIrvJ5YjIO_9RY62ZTD2wn4/edit?usp=sharing
Parents For Unity In Diversity
Parents of GPPSS Students! You are invited to meet with us and participate in an ongoing conversation about topics related to diversity and helping our schools continue to value diversity! Next meeting January 31, 2019, 6:30 p.m. at Defer Elementary School. See the attached flyer for additional information.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtG-hpd7o-Udjk5RmI1T3A3MmtESnBScGhIb083S0tQYXhB/view?usp=sharing
The Great Kindness Challenge
Grosse Pointe Public Schools have come together again this year to participate in the Great Kindness Challenge, January 28-February 1, 2019. This is a positive, proactive bullying prevention initiative that helps millions of students during the last week of January every year. Please see the attached letter for details.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w2XiXipeuytCObjjiD_eXKgKBgawyha1UvmBDBE4i-o/edit?usp=sharing
Volunteers Needed!
- Lunchtime volunteer - 11:55-12:55 p.m. on Mondays, 11:30-12:30 Tuesday-Friday. One day a week? Two...
- Morning office support - 8:25-8:45 a.m. - Collect cell phones, walk young students arriving late down our kindergarten hallway, miscellaneous jobs.
If you're interested in either of these volunteer opportunities please email Mrs. Bartos bartosp@gpschools.org
Stay Informed
Stay Informed by …
-regularly checking our Mason Elementary School webpage
-signing up for for Mason Elementary Community Remind text messages by texting the message @f69f4d to 81010 from your mobile device
-receiving and reading Mr. Bishop ’s Weekly Update email
-following us on Twitter (@masonelemgp) and FaceBook (@masonparents)
Mason Elementary School
Website: https://mi01000971.schoolwires.net/gpmason
Location: 1640 Vernier Road, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USA
Phone: (313)432-4400
Twitter: @MasonelemGP