STUDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Wednesday - October 8, 2025
Character Ed Theme – Responsibility

Fundraiser:  Do your part for our youngest Panthers and their playground. Join the Cookie Dough and Cheesecake Fundraiser. Online is the easiest since payments are handled for you. Paper orders mean you collect the money and bring it in with your form. Orders are due Friday.  Don’t forget about the awesome prizes: Sell 5 items and win a prize / Sell 15 items and join me for a trip to Happy Days. / And the top selling homerooms 3rd-5th grade and 6th-8th grade win a pizza party!

Cross Country will be dismissed with Walkers today 10/8 and meet in the gym.

Farm Club members please meet in Mrs. Buss' room on Thursday for a brief meeting. Check Google Classroom for more details. 

5th Grade Band & Sr. Band, Fantastic job at the concert last night, you were amazing! Way to go!!!   Let’s do it again today.  Teacher please release 5th grade and senior band at 8:30am. Thanks  Ms. Drennan 10/8

Scholar Bowl News:  Analysis of these organisms is the focus of dendrochronology [DEN-droh-kruh-NAHL-uh-jee]. Ecosystems created by these organisms may be divided into emergent, understory, and  canopy layers. Growth rings can be counted on the cross-sections of the trunks of what plants, such as conifers, that create forests?   

Do you know the answer to this question? If you do, you just answered a Scholar Bowl question? Do you like trivia? Do you know lots of facts about lots of different topics?  Are you a 7th or 8th grader? Then come check out Scholar Bowl.  Stop by Mrs. Obermeier's room when you have time and pick up a flyer outside her door. The flyer has all the information you need to know about becoming a Scholar Bowl Team member.  Information will be coming soon about a meeting.  And the answer is: TREES! 

Chess Team - Sign ups are now going on for 6th through 8th Grade, See Mrs. Nolte for more details.  

Yearbook cover contest-8th graders, yearbook entries are due by this Friday, October 10th!

The Patriot’s Pen Program is a VFW-sponsored youth essay competition that gives students the opportunity to express their views on an annual patriotic theme. We invite you to join the more than 60,000 students who participated last year in this contest. Contestants must complete the 2025-2026 Official Entry Form. The 2025-2026 theme is: How Are You Showing Patriotism And Support For Our Country?  Deadline Information: All entries must be submitted to Kristin Scharf or Mick Cohagan at VFW Post 7980 by midnight Oct. 31.

Upcoming Dates:

25/26 School Year

10/8

Student Band Concert

9:00am

Cross Country Regional Meet @ Waterloo

4:15pm

10/10

7 / 8 Grades to Belleville West Play

9:30am

Kindergarten Field Trip to Millstadt Eckerts

10:00am

Fundraiser for MPC Playground ends

N/A

10/13

No School

N/A

10/15

Family Reading Night

6:00pm

10/16

6/7/8 Girls Basketball @ Home vs Smithton

5:00pm

10/17

End of First Quarter

10/18

Math Team B Competition @ Belleville West

TBD

10/20

B Boys Basketball @ Central Jr Hight Tourney

6:00pm

10/21

7 / 8 Girls Basketball @ Home vs Waterloo

6:00pm

8 Boys Basketball @ Central Jr High Tourney

6:00pm

Board Meeting

6:00pm

10/22

3rd/4th Grade Ortho Assembly

9:30am

8 Girls Basketball @ Joe Arthur vs St. Clare

5:00pm

8 Boys Basketball @ Central Jr High Tourney

6:00pm

10/23

8 Boys Basketball @ Central Jr High Tourney

5:00pm

10/24

October School Assembly

1:50pm

MCS Jr High Dance

7:00pm

10/25

7 Boys Basketball @ Wolfbranch

10:00am

10/27

6th/7th/8th Boys Basketball @ Smithton

5:00pm

10/28

Holloread at MPC (BW Student Council)

9:00am

7 / 8 Girls Basketball @ Home vs West Jr High

6:00pm

10/29

Picture RETAKE Day

A.M.

7 / 8 Boys Basketball @ Valmeyer

6:00pm

7 / 8 Girls Basketball @ Freeburg

6:00pm