CARDINAL

NEWS

October

2016

MODE Vision and Mission Statement Our Vision is our PRIDE:

Positivity Responsibility Independence Deter mination Empower ment Our Mission:

Meadows of Dan Elementary School believes in meeting the individual needs of each student by:

Building Positive Relation-ships

Creating a Culture of High Expectations

Presenting Innovative Learning Opportunities

Working with Families and Community

Preparing Students to be productive in our Ever-Changing World.

Principal: J ason Wood jason.wood@patrick.k12.va.us Secretary: Angela Keith angela.keith@patrick.k12.va.us

Daily Schedule 7:45 Buses Unload - Breakfast 8:05 Bell for Home Room 8:15 Tardy Bell (Pledge and Announcements) 2:55 (Pre-K-1 Bus dismissal) 3:00 (2-7 Bus dismissal) 3:05 Car Riders Office hours: 7:00-4:00

! Cardinal Celebration!

Our Playground Appreciation Ceremony was held on Thursday, September 15. We would like to thank the Patrick County School Board, Dr. William Stroufe, the PCPS Maintenance Department, the Meadows of Dan Booster Club, the Meadows of Dan Ruritan Club, Pat Stanley, and Keith Howell for all of their hard work and support in making this new playground for our school possible. Ice cream was provided for MODE and our special guests as a part of the celebration. Pictured above are:(from left to right) Front row: Pat Stanley, Marie Hall, Julian Turman, Pearl Turman, and Tony Nester. Back row: Ralph Barnard, Delano Pendleton, Larry Goins, Wayne Scott, Scott Eastridge, Ronnie Nester, Danny Pendleton, and Keith Puckett.

In 2nd/3rd science, we have been studying life cycles. Students have been able to watch the stages of the monarch butterfly in the classroom – from a tiny caterpillar munching on milkweed leaves to a green chrysalis that becomes transparent and finally a butterfly. On Friday, September 16th, students in 2nd and 3rd grades saw a butterfly come out of its chrysalis. They watched in awe as a chrysalis split open, and the new butterfly emerged. We were able to release four butterflies on Friday and four more on Monday.

Mrs. Terry’s 2nd and 3rd Grade Science

ART NEWS Students in art have been work-ing hard in preparation for our fall art show! Below is an image of our kindergartener’s work! Also included are pictures from our Fall PTO program! Students created Autumn inspired art! Thank you to all that came to support us!

Mrs. Helms

Kindergarten

September Celebration of Color All of the Cardinals took part in helping the Pre-K and Kindergarten classes learn and review their basic colors by wearing a piece of clothing with lots of that day’s color. Yellow was worn on Fri-days to show support for young ones fighting pediatric brain tumors in memory of Mrs. Pratt’s grandson, Joshua, who passed away from this condition a few years ago.

BROWN

BLACK

Tutoring and Conditioning After school tutoring and conditioning began on September 20 and will be held every Tuesday and Thursday that school is in session. Tutoring is from 3:00-4:00 and conditioning is from 4:00-5:00.

The faculty and staff have enjoyed the “Thanks!” that all of Mrs. Helms MODE

students helped to create during Art class. The students expressed who they were

thankful for in our school and why they were thankful for that person.

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MODE School Fundraiser

Thank you for supporting the annual Meadows of Dan fundraiser. The stu-dent that raised the most money, and grand prize winner, was Jeremiah Pritchett. He won a giant purple shark. Weekly winners were Hannah Phillips, Caden Harris, Cassandra Purdy and Ashton Gurley.

Grandparent’s Day

Lunch We were very pleased to have our

students’ grandparents join us for

lunch on September 15. We hope that

everyone had a great time and will

join us again.

Note: More pictures from the

Grandparent’s Day lunch are

available upon request.

Enrichment Programs began September 21 Beginning Wednesday, September 21, we began offering enrichment programs to grades 1 through 7. These programs will continue to be held each Wednesday that school is in session throughout the school year from 3:00-5:00. Community volunteers are generously offering their knowledge and skills to help our students learn more about the programs offered. The programs will be on a rotation schedule and include: Travel/Geography, Cooking/Nutrition, Gardening/Survival Camping, and Art/Music. Feel free to contact the MODE office for more information.*

6th and 7th Grade DC Trip Fundraiser The sixth and seventh grade students are currently selling tickets for $1 each to raise proceeds for their Washington D.C. trip in the spring. Prizes include: First Prize: Choice of 2 hr. RTV, 2 hr. horseback or 2hr. Archery Air Rifle/Kayaking or Sporting Clays Second Prize: $150.00 cash Third Prize: Two rounds of Golf at Olde Mill Fourth Prize: Dinner for 2 at Woodberry. The drawing will be held at the PTO Chr istmas Concert and the winners do not need to be present to win.

*On the next page, check out what a great time our Cardinals had while participating in the Enrich-

ment programs on September 28.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS* October 10-Columbus Day

October 14-End of first 9 weeks/Early Dismissal

October 20-Report Cards

October20-Early Dismissal-Staff Development p.m.

October 24- Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30-6:30/ Title I Read Aloud to a Child Night

October 26- Picture Make Ups

October 28 or 29-Fall Festival (to be announced)

October 31-Halloween

*Reminders:

Afterschool tutoring (3:00-4:00) and conditioning (4:00-5:00) is held on Tuesday and

Thursday afternoons on days that school is in session.

Enrichment programs for grades 1 through 7 will continue to be held each Wednesday

that school is in session throughout the school year from 3:00-5:00.