Happy Holidays from Maple Grove Charter School! Thank you to Windy Hill Christmas Tree Farm and Lori Studinski for the donation of the beautiful garland for all to enjoy!
The School District of Athens will be closed tomorrow December 22, 2022 due to inclement weather. There will be no afterschool activities or athletic events.
A huge shout out to The Nook in the Woods for our new Maple Grove Charter School “merch!” Such great designs! Love seeing them around school and at parent pick-up!
The 3rd, 4th & 5th graders at Maple Grove who are part of the Artastic Club were given a challenge to create wearable art. They began with a plain garment and then were instructed to make it more interesting using any materials/methods they'd like. Parents were encouraged to help. The winner of this challenge will receive a $25 Michaels gift card. Please vote for your favorite by January 1st!
The beauty of fresh fallen snow was vibrant at Maple Grove Charter School! Learners got to explore the beautiful woods during labs and play in its fluffiness during recess ❄️
Board Meeting Update. Monday's School Board meeting will be moved up and start at 5:30 pm at the Middle/High School Library.
The School District of Athens will be closed tomorrow December 15, 2022 due to inclement weather. There will be no after school activities or athletic events.
The School District of Athens will be closed today, December 14, 2022 due to inclement weather. There will be no after school activities or athletic events.
The past few weeks, 5th grade students at MGCS have been gathering data on their school forest, including the pH of the soil, soil type, density of trees, and biodiversity, among other measures. With this information, students will determine the overall health of the forest and decide how to improve it, if necessary.
First grade students at MGCS were able to apply there CRISP traits to the outdoor labs on Friday. Stewardship, Perseverance, and Craftsmanship were at the highest priority when constructing bird feeders to help the birds surrounding Maple Grove make it through the winter with limited natural food supply. Students were given the resources of recycled paper towel rolls, roping, milk jugs, old pencils, and produce mesh bags to build bird feeder stations. The first graders will be responsible for maintaining the food supply of peanut butter, bird seed, and cranberries. We will be carrying this over into our math by graphing observations made throughout the day, including bird sightings, most common time of day for feeding, and amount of food used throughout the week. Students were so proud of their final product!
MGCS staff and families had a great time ringing bells for the Salvation Army at Fleet Farm and Walmart in Merrill. Even Maple the Fox 🦊 joined in!
Such a fun 3-5 concert tonight at MGCS! Our learners rocked it and put everyone in the holiday spirit! Thank you to Mrs. Matz who wrote and directed “The Best Gift!” They truly spread the message of “Share your goodwill.”
Thank you again to the MGCS PTO for the traditional Christmas bags and the MGCS Foundation for the generous gift!
Our hearts are full! It was a packed gymnasium tonight at MGCS! What a great way to get into the holiday spirit with our K-2 concert tonight. They did a fantastic job!
A shout out goes to Mrs. Matz for putting together such a great program! To our learners for their hard work and perseverance. To our PTO for the gift of Christmas Bags for every child and to the Maple Grove Charter School Foundation for your generous gift for the kids and staff! We appreciate you all!
Maple Grove's Kindergarten thru 2nd grade Holiday Concert starts at 6 pm tonight and can be seen on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySxG14MiDgv85XYQM3tFPw
The intermediate students at Maple Grove Charter School had quite the visitors on Friday. Thanks to Jordan and Colton from UW-SP’s Herpetology Society, various reptiles and amphibians put on an amazing educational show. Students learned about their adaptations, their defense mechanisms and how we, as humans can be good stewards toward them.
The 4th and 5th grade students at Maple Grove Charter School have decided to host a book drive to kick off our holiday season. All books that are collected will be donated to the children and families at the local domestic abuse shelter, HAVEN. If you have any questions please email Brianna Zondlo at bzondlo@athens1.org. Thank you!
A big shout out to a very generous community member, Laurie Rodda-Utecht, who made 120 homemade hats for all our Maple Grove Learners with even some extra to spare. Check out the picture of the machine she uses to help make each of these hats. We are so grateful for her generosity!
Kindergarten students at MGCS had quite the experience planting tulip bulbs in the snow as part of a nationwide project through Journey North! Classrooms across the country plant tulips and compare their observations & photos online. We spent one day digging an appropriate space and planted the bulbs the following week. We can't wait to see and share their progress throughout the year! ⚘
On Tuesday we celebrated our learners and all their accomplishments through first quarter around our C.R.I.S.P. traits. C.R.I.S.P. stands for Craftsmanship, Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, and Perseverance. These are character traits that we should all possess as people and here at MGCS we live and breathe them. Our learners and staff strive to do these at school, at home, and in the community. Learners and staff can earn “Fox Tails” when caught showing these traits. These are displayed each month on a large mural in our hallway. Each month we also honor learners from each grade level who showed exceptional growth and/or consistency with the traits that quarter. We then do random drawings for learners who have also earned “Fox Tails” through the quarter. An additional piece to this is the home component that was added this year. A new family C.R.I.S.P. activity is sent home each month for learners and families to do together to ensure these traits are used in all environments. We are so proud of our MGCS Foxes 🦊
We have a lot to be thankful for at Maple Grove Charter School from our learners, to our staff, to the School District of Athens, and our amazing families and community! Thank you to all that attended our annual Chili Supper; we love seeing everyone come together 💕 Congratulations to Cindy Riehle as the winner of our 2022 Golden Ladle award winner in our Chili Cook-off!
