Congrats to Elliot, Eve, and Landry!! Our SRO, Officer Lucas Williams, has initiated a weekly search for three “little officers” that are placed around the building. If students or staff find one, they get to bring it to the office and pick a prize from Officer Lucas’s awards. The students are loving it. Good luck to all during this week’s adventure!!

Our kids had the best time at the annual 4th Grade Farm Day! We want to thank everyone who works so hard behind the scene to make this possible!!

🎃🍂 MES Families, It’s Fall Festival Time! 🍂🎃
Mark your calendars for October 29th and join us for our annual Fall Festival! Get ready for a spooktacular night filled with fun games, delicious food trucks, yummy treats, and memories to last a lifetime! 👻🍬

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming! This event gets students excited about reading and earns money for our school. Students will visit the fair between September 21-25 during their regularly scheduled library class. The fair will also be open during parent/teacher conferences on Thursday. Please check out the website to find out more!

https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/martinelementaryschool8
#ScholasticBookFairs

We enjoyed having Kelsey and Marlow with us for a little bit this morning. Miss Kelsey’s Charger ticket was pulled during the assembly last week to be “Principal for an Hour”. She got to bring a friend with her! These ladies did a great job!! Whose Charger ticket will be drawn next month?

Mark your calendars!! All parents and/or community members are invited to join in on the fun!! We will be working for a short time on Saturday, October 3rd, working on cleaning up the campus at MES. We will spend the majority of the time on the playgrounds but there is plenty to do. We will be working from 9:00 -11:00. We can't wait to see everyone.

We are enjoying having Mr. Todd with us at MES. “Coach T” has been doing a great job and is working with cooperating teacher, Amy Glasgow to keep our students active, learning, and successful.

Bring your smiles for Fall Picture Day!

Back to School STEM Fun at MES! Students have been practicing expectations in the STEM Lab by completing exciting Back-to-School LEGO challenges! Students were challenged to design and create adorable class pets, comfortable desks, unique backpacks, and secret playground hiding spots. Students did an amazing job working together, sharing ideas, collaborating, and using their creativity to design their back-to-school objects. We can't wait to see what they create next in the STEM Lab!

Ms. Brittany Carter’s fourth grade class has been learning about different types of figurative language in ELA the past few weeks. So, today is “Idiom Dress-Up Day” in her class. The students were very creative with their costumes and had a parade of idioms to other classes to display their idioms and explain the literal meaning.

On Friday afternoons, Miss Addison’s class gets a book from our class library plus a mini flashlight, finds a place around the room, and reads silently to themselves. They are doing special things to instill a love for reading. During this time, they have calming noise playing such as a campfire, stream, or brook.

Mrs. Tina would like to give a BIG congratulations to her Golden Pencil Award winners!
These students did an AMAZING job writing a summary for Chapter 10 of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing! They worked hard to identify the most important events, include key details, and put their ideas into their own words. We are so proud of their hard work and awesome writing! Keep sharpening those writing skills and letting your pencils shine!

We are so thankful for the opportunity to serve our students FREE breakfast and lunch each day!!

We want to thank Simmons Bank for bringing treats with some extras for our faculty and staff! We appreciate your thoughtfulness!!

The Beta Club's December service project was bringing items for Bingo Night at an assisted living facility. We are so proud of their giving spirit. This is really what the holiday season is all about!

Creating Our Class Constitution!
In ELA, Mrs. Paige’s students are learning about the Constitution and its creation. To kick start the unit the kiddos worked together on Monday to come up with rules that make their classroom safe, FUN, and all about teamwork. The most realistic will be approved as a day in her class. Love watching their ideas come to life!

35 of our top spellers in 5th grade competed in our annual MES Spelling Bee! All students did a wonderful job, but Owen Satterfield earned the Spelling Bee Champion title after battling eight rounds! Toby Smith was our runner up! Both boys will compete in the district level spelling bee next month. Help us congratulate Owen and Toby and wish them luck in their next competition!!

The students may have been a bit baffled today!! We decided to have an incognito day and see if they could guess our theme! Their looks, comments, and reactions were priceless!!