This past week, our Eagle students completed the PBIS boot camp to review expectations here at Morningside Elementary. They did a great job showing and reviewing SOARing behavior!
This past week, our Eagle students completed the PBIS boot camp to review expectations here at Morningside Elementary. They did a great job showing and reviewing SOARing behavior!
It's been chilly, but such a wonderful week being back together. From teacher time during literacy using our small group Benchmark materials, to 1st grade using their map and direction skills to find special treasure, and even our PK exploring the building to compare and document various light sources, students and staff have jumped right back into this SOARing thing we call :) learning.
Morningside Eagles -- It's time for our Eagle Hall of Fame announcement! I hope everyone has a great break!
It's growing near... get ready for some pics of all the wonder and magic that's been happening throughout the 1st half of the year! Here's just a few filled with holiday cheer!
STEM creations with a tasty twist in our 1st Grade.
Our Mside teachers and staff truly value our Eagle connections. Nearly every PD Friday launches with a moment to high-five, say "hi," and start our SOARing and learning time together. Thankful for these wonderful educators that accomplish so much as they work so hard together.
Engaged across the day is so many ways with literacy!
A few more past wintry moments shared by our preschool group for National Gingerbread House Day -- way to create!
Every day is a great day to visit Mside STEM -- have a wonderful holiday break Eagle families. Stay warm and safe!
Hello Eagles and welcome to the final fantastic school week of December. For any Eagles wishing to take part in the school-wide Ugly Sweater Day on Thursday or our final festive Friday (wear your holiday hats and apparel), please note those days for a fun end to our time together in 2025!
Reminder #SCCSD Families:
❄️Friday, December 20th will be a regularly scheduled two-hour early dismissal.
❄️There will be no school from Monday, December 23, 2024, through Friday, January 3, 2025, for winter break.
❄️School will resume on Monday, January 6, 2025. It will be an A day for secondary students.
This week the talented East High School Madrigal performers stopped by to spread a wonderful holiday experience throughout our Mside hallways. Our Eagles will have lasting memories and hopefully look to follow in your footsteps as they enter their high school years! Thank you!
🦃 It's almost Thanksgiving break! 🦃
This Wednesday, November 27, all SCCSD schools will dismiss two hours early. There will be no school on Thursday, November 28, and Friday, November 29. School will resume on Monday, December 2. Stay safe and stay warm this week! 🌟
Morningside Eagles -- It's time for our Eagle Hall of Fame announcement!
Just a reminder #SCCSD families: there will be no school tomorrow, November 5 for staff professional development.
Our Eagles truly engaged in and enjoyed the Red Ribbon theme week -- "I commit to a healthy life, I matter!" Thank you all for participating in our theme days this week! A sincere thank you for the support of our local Police Association and Officer Doenhoefer as well.
Eagle staff and families -- we've arranged a School & Home Connection event to share our daily regulation processes with you. Move Mindfully presenters will help lead this virtual Zoom session just as they have done with our past and annual staff professional development opportunities.
To share a little history, since 2017 Morningside Elementary has integrated regulation strategies and practices, such as Zones of Regulation awareness, building wide to help all eagles identify how their brains and bodies are feeling across the day, note their zones (blue, green, yellow or red) and the tools they can use to move into the Green Zone and ready to learn.
In 2020, we continued these efforts through Move Mindfully and trauma informed trainings, which have helped increase our staff and student awareness of our nervous systems and how moving, focused breathing, stretching, and engaging and planned and as needed moments to pause are tools we all can access in our regulation toolkits.
Fast-forward to today, we've been using movement and focused breathing routines to support a calm and SOARing start each school day. Our morning pauses also signal a close to our Morning Meeting time and the launch of our learning day. Our students and staff also know taking a moment to pause, check-in with our zones, and use our tools consistently can help us be our best to SOAR across the day together. Our building goal is for classrooms to plan at least three pauses to support regulation across the day (more are added whenever needed).
Morningside also updates our staff training annually and this year our teachers and staff are excited to share this learning opportunity with you, too, through an evening Zoom.
To sign up for the Dec. 5 evening Zoom link, please see the fall conferences flier we also inserted below, click on or copy/paste the provided link, and keep the emailed invite handy for Dec. 5. We'll keep that recording open for a few weeks in December, so be sure to sign up even if you can't log on that evening. If you sign up, we can send you the recording link.
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MoveMindfully Morningside STEM Family Night
The challenges of the past few years have taken a toll on all of us and have a direct impact on our overall health and well-being. Join us to explore fun and practical Breathe Move Rest strategies that Morningside STEM school are using. Create a toolkit of simple mind-body practices to decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus, and create family connection.
What you will learn:
Morning routines for a successful start of the day
After school strategies to help with homework
Bedtime routines for a good night sleep
You can sign up using this link or scan the flier shared this past week at our October conferences. We look forward to joining you on Dec. 5 -- 6:30-7:15 via Zoom.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvfumqqT0tHd1SKMJ5Atq4yWB6SvfK3Nwq#/registration
Our Kdg Eagles were busy this past week with fall fun & a visit from Emma the Eagle. Emma & our friends from the SCCSD Career Academy paid us a visit to share about her upcoming job excursions around Sioux City. She can't wait to try out all sorts of careers! Stay tuned for more.
We love seeing so many Eagle families at our conferences. Please stop by our Climate Survey table to scan and submit your valuable feedback. You'll have a chance to win a new Eagle hat or stocking cap!
