Your McAlpine Minute - March 2nd

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Here's what's happening this week!
Monday - Friday: Book Swap - Choose your books!
Wednesday: Early Release Day (11;45am)
Thursday: Last day to purchase Charlotte Checkers tickets for drawing! See details below!
Saturday: Spirit Night at Charlotte Checkers

Save these upcoming dates!
March 10th: Meet the South Charlotte Principal
March 10th: Kindergarten Beginners Night
March 10th - 13th: Book Fair
March 12th: Pizza & Picasso and Wax Museum
March 18th - 20th: 5th Grad Field Trip to D.C.
March 25th: ENO Smashburger & Marble Slab
March 26th: Spring Treats
March 26th: 1st Grade Writing Celebration
March 27th: Teacher Workday
April 1st: McAlpine Mile

Join us for our Spirit Night with the Charlotte Checkers!

Our Spirit Night with Charlotte Checkers is this Saturday!

Join your McAlpine friends as we cheer on the Charlotte Checkers at Bojangles Coliseum! Tickets can be purchased online now through Saturday at http://gocheckers.com/mcalpine.

We'll be drawing names for 10 lucky students to go on the ice to pick up pucks! That drawing will be on the morning of Friday, March 6, and winners will be notified via email. Purchase tickets by this Thursday if you want to be included.

The McAlpine Book Swap is here! This is your chance to swap all of those books that you have already read and don't want anymore to make room for new books to read. Here is how it works. During the first week, Feb. 21-27, 2020, bring in your gently used, grade appropriate books. Then during the second week, Feb. 28-March 6, 2020, choose different books to take home. All of this happens in Media classes and it is FREE!! A great way to try a new book and have fun reading! If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Lockso in the Media Center.

Vote for Mrs. Lisa Debo, Ms. Ashley Kania and Mrs. Sharon Sandifer for NC School Heroes! You can vote once daily through March 15th!

Vote Now

Please sign up for one of the MANY easy opportunities to help with the Bake Sale & Drinks for Pizza & Picasso!

All proceeds from the baked goods & drinks sold at Pizza & Picasso benefit the rising 5th Graders' trip to Washington, D.C. in 2021, so please pitch in!

5th Grade Parents: 5th Grade Yearbook Dedication forms went home with students recently and is attached below.

2 Options for Submitting:

1) You can fill out the form - click here - (150 CHARACTERS in the message - not 150 words), email the picture to yearbookmcalpine@gmail.com, and send in money by cash, check, or pay through Pay4School to the front desk or to a 5th grade teacher; or

2) Email the picture and message (150 CHARACTERS in the message - not 150 words) to yearbookmcalpine@gmail.com and pay online through Pay4School.

Please be sure ALL information requested is included - NO BLANK SPACES (don't care what Taylor Swift says).

Dedications can be from parents, friends, immediate/extended family, the dog, cat, or goldfish.

If you have any questions, please email yearbookmcalpine@gmail.com or comment below. Thank you!

5th grade Saftey Patrolers learned how to fold the American flag by one of our very own veterans here at McAlpine- Roslyn Truesdale. Thank you for your service, dedication, and the willingness to teach the younger generation about the American flag.

Elephants, tigers and books, OH MY! The Book Fair Jungle is headed to McAlpine, March 10-13, 2020.

There are several ways to help with the Book Fair. Please click here to view the Volunteer SignUpGenius that reflects our needs for set up, Teacher Preview, morning sales, preview and buying days, tear down, and TWO evening events - Kindergarten Beginners Night and Pizza and Picasso.

Click here to learn more by visiting the Book Fair website!

We are WILD about reading! Thanks in advance for your support of the Book Fair!

5th grade parents...want coffee and donuts? Then join us on March 10th! The principal from South Charlotte Middle School will be at McAlpine on March 10th at 8:30am. Parents who attend will hear about the school and listen to current students speak on their experience at the school. Registration/class options and information will be shared. Parents will also be able to ask questions.

Registration at McAlpine Elementary is now open for boys in grades 4^th and 5^th!

The Fall 2020 season starts on Thursday, March 19^thand meets Tuesdays and Thursdays right after school (2:45pm- 4pm) for an hour and fifteen minutes, and ends with a 5k race on May 16^th!

Watch this video and click here to learn more and register at LetMeRun.org.

Questions? Email Katie.Kriener@gmail.com.

Know anyone with a rising kindergartener? Invite your friends and neighbors!

McAlpine Elementary School is hosting Camp Invention again this summer from June 22-25! Camp Invention is a nonprofit summer STEM program led by educators from McAlpine Elementary and gives students the opportunity to become innovators through teamwork and immersive, hands-on creative problem solving.

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