• A reminder to our 6th grade science classes, you will be meeting in the library today for class.  Mr. John Goar will be presenting the night sky and telescopes for you.  Please go directly to the library.   

• Staff, local businesses are beginning to advertise great prices for family Thanksgiving dinners.  If you are willing to donate a meal, please let Mrs. Mach know.  Donations will need to be picked up and purchased no later than Monday, November 23rd. 

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Now that the rainy season is here and we get to stay indoors more now during lunches, please remember to have inside voices and self control.  Thank you!

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE HAS BEGUN! Have YOU donated yet?  TIME IS RUNNING OUT! 

• Students who went to our FIRST COSTUME BALL and who bought their ticket in advance for the Twilight ball, you will be receiving a reward TOMORROW DURING LUNCH!  Our PTA has the list of names of students who purchased early, so don’t worry if you forgot.  You will be getting a treat and a notebook!  Again, your reward will be given during THIS FRIDAY’S LUNCH!

• Pink Yogurt lids…we’re still collecting these.  If you have some, please take them to Ms. Olson in B-200. 

• Staff, local businesses are beginning to advertise great prices for family Thanksgiving dinners.  If you are willing to donate a meal, please let Mrs. Mach know.  Donations will need to be picked up and purchased no later than Monday, November 23rd. 

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Today's focus is on being thankful.  As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, it's always important for us to take a moment to be thankful for what we have, even though at times it feels like we have nothing.  Take a moment today to make a list of things we take for granted.  It's humbling!

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE HAS BEGUN! Let’s get donating soon!  Posters are up reminding us, announcements are reminding us and this week we’ll have a flier go home that will remind us a bit more!  The only thing we aren’t doing is FOLLOWING THROUGH!  Please donate a few items.  Many families rely on these donations!  Thank you!

• Students who went to our FIRST COSTUME BALL and who bought their ticket in advance for the Twilight ball, you will be receiving a reward THIS FRIDAY DURING LUNCH!  Our PTA has the list of names of students who purchased early, so don’t worry if you forgot.  You will be getting a treat and a notebook!  Again, your reward will be given during THIS FRIDAY’S LUNCH!

• Pink Yogurt lids…we’re still collecting these.  If you have some, please take them to Ms. Olson in B-200. 

• Staff, local businesses are beginning to advertise great prices for family Thanksgiving dinners.  If you are willing to donate a meal, please let Mrs. Mach know.  Donations will need to be picked up and purchased no later than Monday, November 23rd. 

• ASB REPRESENTATIVES…your FIRST meeting will be held after school on TODAY!  Come ready to go and have fun!  Meeting starts IMMEDIATELY after school in A-104.

• Just a reminder that we have our Veteran’s Assembly today. 

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Again, we will be having guests in our building.  During the assembly, please remember to listen and pay attention to our speakers.  This is not a pep assembly so we need to remember how our actions need to be.  Thank you.

• Good morning, Squires!  I'm ___________ your ASB____________.  Today’s Thursday, November 5^th!  FUNDRAISER ITEM PICK UP DAY!      

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE HAS BEGUN!  Donations are looking pretty small, so LET’S GET DONATING, SQUIRES!  Let’s challenge each other to bring in a few items to donate…pretty soon, we’ll have over 2000 DONATIONS!  It’ll be EASY!  We just need to follow through. 

• Staff, local businesses are beginning to advertise great prices for family Thanksgiving dinners.  If you are willing to donate a meal, please let Mrs. Mach know.  Donations will need to be picked up and purchased no later than Monday, November 23rd. 

• ASB REPRESENTATIVES…your FIRST meeting will be held after school on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th!  We can’t wait to get together!

• Squires...do you want to learn how to beat box, break dance, and how to be an effective performer?  Come build your confidence at this new club starting here at MVMS!  This will be a safe place to express yourself through rhyme, rhythm, song and dance.  Come to the choir room on Thursdays after school beginning THIS THURSDAY!  You will be expected to participate if you attend! 

• Our FUNDRAISER ITEMS will be here TODAY!  An automated message went out last evening to remind you that items are to be picked up TODAY from 2-7pm!  We can’t store items, so PLEASE PICK THEM UP TODAY!

• Looking ahead to NEXT WEEK...we will be having TWO DAYS worth of ASSEMBLIES, both on Monday and Tuesday, as well AS NO SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY in recognition for Veteran's Day.  Looks like it'll be a fun-filled week! 

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Many students have been given a food treat as a reward from a simple jolly rancher to ice cream bars.  We LOVE that however many of you are failing to throw the garbage away and are simply tossing it on the ground in the hallways and outside.  PLEASE THROW GARBAGE AWAY.  If we do not change our behaviors, treats will no longer be allowed.  It’s easy…just throw your garbage away.  Thanks

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE HAS BEGUN!  The van will be available for cramming food right away!  Remember, we are competing against grade levels.  Let’s see which grade can bring in the MOST FOOD!  We challenge you to bring two items to school to donate.  Together we can donate over 2000 items just by doing that!  If you can, we'd greatly appreciate it!

• Staff, local businesses are having great prices for a family Thanksgiving dinner.  If you are willing to donate a meal, please let Mrs. Mach know.  Donations will need to be picked up and purchased no later than Monday, November 23rd. 

• ASB REPRESENTATIVES…your FIRST meeting will be held after school on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th!  We can’t wait to get together!

• Our FUNDRAISER ITEMS will be available for pickup THIS THURSDAY until 7pm.  Please make sure and PICK UP YOUR ITEMS!  We don't want to have to give your items away for a food donation!

• Looking ahead to NEXT WEEK...we will be having TWO DAYS worth of ASSEMBLIES, both on Monday and Tuesday, as well AS NO SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY in recognition for Veteran's Day.  Looks like it'll be a fun-filled week! 

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Now that we've "fallen" back on time, we can get our bodies to stay focused more.  Thanks for all you've done to follow the CODE of the SQUIRES!

• Our FIRST AFTERSCHOOL SOCIAL of the year is TOMORROW!  We’re having a TURKEY THEME!  We hope you can come and join us after school until 4pm.  Cost is $3 or FREE with your ASB CARD!  Teachers will collect your money at the end of their 8^th period class and walk you down to the dance when given the all-call to do so.  The activity bus will be running so you’ll be able to get a ride home from the dance!  We hope to see you come!

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE HAS BEGUN!  The van will be available for cramming food right away!  Remember, we are competing against grade levels.  Let’s see which grade can bring in the MOST FOOD! 

• ASB REPRESENTATIVES…your FIRST meeting will be held after school on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th!  We can’t wait to get together!

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Today’s focus is on friendship.  We challenge you to meet someone new today!  Introduce yourself, and then introduce that person to one of YOUR friends!  Make today a great day for someone by taking the time to get to know someone else.   

• We’d like to congratulate LAST WEEK’S Caught Being Good winners.  Nice job goes out to Joey Discianno, Thomas Phipps, Fiona Millis, Giselle Bright and Taylor Craig!  NICE! 

• LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK…our FIRST SOCIAL of the year is THIS COMING TUESDAY!  We’re having a TURKEY THEME!  We hope you can come and join us after school until 4pm.  Cost is $3 or FREE with your ASB CARD! 

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE HAS BEGUN!  Our van will be available for cramming food in beginning THIS MONDAY!  Remember, we are competing against grade levels.  Let’s see which grade can bring in the MOST FOOD! 

• ASB REPRESENTATIVES…your FIRST meeting will be held after school on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th!  We can’t wait to get together!

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Today’s focus is on friendship.  We challenge you to meet someone new today!  Introduce yourself, and then introduce that person to one of YOUR friends!  Make today a great day for someone by taking the time to get to know someone else.   

• Just a reminder that CONFERENCES begin on TOMORROW and go through FRIDAY! 

• OUR COSTUME BALL is THIS FRIDAY!  The days to purchase tickets are flying by!  The cost is $2 before the event, or $3 at the door.  Come dressed up, or if you want to just show up in regular attire do that!  We just want you there!  Enjoy games, food, music and your friends.  You have PLENTY OF TIME to get that outfit and dress up!  Hey, Mrs. Mach and Mrs. Davis are going and they are going to KNOCK YOU OVER with their costumes!  Just don’t knock them over…they aren’t as youthful as they think they are.  (ha…) 

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE HAS BEGUN!  Janet…change this up to meet your advertising needs.

• Squires, we have CONNECTIONS ALL WEEK!  We want to make sure we’re all ready to go for our student-led conferences this Thursday and Friday!

• Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye…NICE JOB LAST FRIDAY AT OUR ASSEMBLY!  Our behaviors were amazing!  We want to thank the jazz band and Mrs. Helm in playing for us and keeping the excitement going as we entered and exited the assembly.  We are excited to have your group do more for us as the assemblies go on throughout the year.  We also want to thank both teams and their coaches for entertaining us and being brave enough to dress in each others’ outfits to play a game of volleyball!  Oh, and guys…we’ll keep you in the pads and the ladies in their shorts! 

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Today’s focus is on friendship.  When was the last time you told your friends thank you for being there for you through laughter and drama!?  Today’s your day!  Give thanks and make someone’s day!

• Just a reminder that this week is only 3 DAYS LONG!  Conferences begin on THURSDAY and go through FRIDAY!   

• HEY SQUIRES…YOUR PTA will be hosting a SQUIRE COSTUME BALL ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!  Just We look forward to having our FIRST EVER COSTUME BALL!  You will be able to purchase your tickets this week and next week.  We hope you all can come! 

• SQUIRES…our FOOD DRIVE BEGINS TODAY!  We will be collecting canned food, non-perishable foods (pasta, dry foods, etc), and pet food!  We will be collecting food ON THE STAGE!  Each grade level will have their own area to put their items on. The leadership class, ASB and the PTA is coming up with great ideas on how we will compete with each grade level.  The winning class will haven an incredible reward!  We’re looking at bringing in the LARGEST donation ever!  We want the newspaper reporters to come and do a community piece on us, so LET’S STEP UP AND DONATE!  Our food drive goes until Monday, November 23^rd.

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• PINK LIDS FOR THE CURE…Mrs. Olson is collecting the pink Yoplait yogurt lids again this year and she needs your help to raise money for cancer research.  We saved almost 1000 lids last year.  As of yesterday, we are now up to just over 200 lids!  We're slowly collecting them.    

·        Picture re-takes are TODAY during lunch.  You will only get your picture taken if you bring back the package you ordered or if you haven’t had your picture taken this year.  This goes for you too, teachers!

•  Squires, next week we will have CONNECTIONS EVERY DAY.  This will help us all prepare for our student-led conference.  Again, no enhancement classes, we will have Connections instead. 

•   Squires, please remember to be SAFE, RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE!  Because of our pep assembly today, we are asking that you really pay attention when asked by one of the adults in the building.  This is a fun assembly and also one where we really need to focus when asked to.  We’ll see you this afternoon.  Enjoy the assembly and have fun.