Mesa Grande Elementary School

Happy April! We're quickly approaching the end of the school year, so that means many fun events are just around the corner! Click the link to check out this month's newsletter and stay up to date on all the fun happening at Mesa Grande this month. https://aptg.co/KCVmQt

Fact of the day for Wednesday:

Hello April! April is Autism Acceptance/Awareness month in which it is dedicated to fostering inclusion, funding research and celebrating diversity. 🌈♾️

Mesa families: What do we do to encourage great attendance? Check this out.

Fact of the day for Tuesday:

There are many famous people who have Autism. Temple Grandin is a well known animal science professor and author. She is also a spokesperson for Autism awareness, she shares her own personal experience. 📚♾️

We are celebrating Autism Acceptance Week! 🌏 Let’s join together to celebrate the differences in how people think and see the world.

Autism is a spectrum, which means every individual is unique. While some individuals may need more support than others, many possess incredible focus and talents in areas like art, music, and technology. 🎨🎶💻

Celebrate neurodiversity with us and help make the world a more inclusive place! 🩵

#AutismAcceptance #Neurodiversity #MesaGrandeElementary

Mesa families. As you probably know, this is my last year at Mesa Grande. These past eleven years have been wonderful, as I have built relationships with so many great staff members, students, and families. There have been so many great memories of carnivals, pies in the face, and parades. This amazing staff and I have tried to make sure that Mesa Grande has been welcoming, engaging, and fun. The Mesa Grande community will be left in great hands. Although it is sad for me to leave, I am also very excited to move on to my next school, Mesquite Trails.

To those of you at Mesquite Trails, I will do my best to ‘fill’ the giant shoes left by Mr. Sheffield. I am looking forward to continuing the great leadership that has been at that school. I am stocking up on my purple gear, and getting ready to SOAR. I can’t wait to continue to work hard and have fun with you at Mesquite Trails.

Did you hear about our Leprechaun Trap Night? Mesa families built traps and showed off their work last Friday. We loved seeing all of the creative traps! Thank you to all of those who participated and a huge congratulations to our winners!

We hope to see you at our next school event! Stay on the lookout for our April Newsletter to see all of the events happening next month at Mesa Grande.

Meet Edward. This guy led a group of students to gather enough horseshoes to "buy" treats from his teacher, for the entire class. Putting others above yourself is such an amazing thing to see. What a great young man!

Congratulations to our iExpo teams. This past Saturday, they did a wonderful job representing our school in all of their different categories, even receiving a trophy! Here are some of the activities in which they were involved.

Mesa families. Attendance is so important. When classes have eight days of perfect attendance, they get popsicles, like these classes got today. Please make sure your kids come to school.

Stay up to date on everything that's going on at Mesa Grande during the month of March! Click the link to see our March Newsletter. https://aptg.co/LZHsf1

At Mesa Grande, another of our values is committing to an academic focus. All of these students scored at or above grade level on the most recent iReady assessments. They were treated to chips and cheese. Boy, was this a hit!

At Mesa Grande, one of our values is to encourage positive character. Here is our Kindness Club, making a design with rocks on which students painted positive messages, in one of our front planters. Way to go, kiddos!

Our next Coffee Chats will be on February 18th at 8:45 AM! This month's topic will be about advocating for your child in the school setting. We hope you can make it!

Last week our school joined thousands of school worldwide by participating in the Great Kindness Week Challenge. Our students and staff completed many kindness activities including making over 350 cards for residents and staff at a local retirement community. Keep spreading kindness Mesa Mustangs!

“Congratulations to our three winners for our Attendance Poster Competition: 1st place was awarded to Leona Govea, 2nd place was awarded to Aiden Uribe and 3rd place was awarded to Alexander Hernandez! Thank you to everyone who participated, you all did amazing. Keep up the great work and keep coming to school!”

Recently, we had an amazing group of parent volunteers work on and complete our new fence design along Olive Street. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. Thank you parent volunteers for making our school even better.

Earlier this week, to start Kindness Week, Mesa staff members greeted parents and students with positive signs and happy vibes. What a great way to start the day!