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What a busy week!  We started out with our final Winter Sports afternoon on Monday.  Liz, Jen, and I took the skaters sledding at the Marlboro Park.  Thanks to Jade and Sequoyah’s mom, Sparrow, for joining us.  We all recommend the park as a great sledding hill.

Tuesday’s Student Led Conferences were a treat to drop in on. On this day, after many days of preparation, the teachers’ role was to get out of the way as the students took charge.  And they did – sharing work and enthralling parents.  We were all enthralled on Thursday by the 5^th-6^th class’s Mythic Shadow Puppet plays.  As with the Student Led Conferences, these plays were the capstone of a great deal of work – reading Greek myths, writing plays, making puppets and backgrounds, memorizing lines, and rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing.  The result was excellent.

Thursday is Charlene’s music day at MES and she has added the Country Dance Band to a very full schedule. Students give up recess to play fiddle, drums, or horns and join their voices in song.  You can look forward to hearing them at the Spring Concert in May.

Today the 5^th-6^th class will enjoy a presentation by the MythMasters and have an opportunity to see how a professional group takes on this topic.  The Junior High will attend, too, looking for ideas to put to use in their upcoming Cabaret.

Tonight we’ll wind up the basketball season with our Jamboree – games of parents vs students are the highlight of this event!  This is also an opportunity to once again thank the wonderful volunteer coaches without whom this program could not take place.  Great appreication to Jen O’Donnell, 3^rd/4^th coach,  Dave Rountree and Alan Datur, 5^th/6^th coaches, and Alex Hunter, Junior High coach.

And I hope to see many of you at the P&F meeting next Tuesday.  I will update parents on our school social climate work and hope to hear from parents, as well.  The full agenda for the meeting is included below.

Despite these busy days I hope you’re all participating in the March Reading Challenge – enjoying some good reads and modeling this important skill for your children.  I’m keeping up with the newspapers, reading online articles and newsletters, and relaxing in the evening with Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, The Lacuna.