It’s time to order your child’s school sup­ply kit for the 12/13 school year.  Teach­ers love it when stu­dents are pre­pared with the cor­rect sup­plies on the first day of school!

Mitchell Ele­men­tary PTA spon­sors this event to say “THANK YOU” for all of your help and sup­port through­out the school year.  We appre­ci­ate all that you do!!! This fam­ily event has been held annu­ally for over 10 years.  In the event of bad weather, a rain date will be announced.  Tick­ets pur­chased before the event are $8.  Tick­ets pur­chased at the gate are $10.  PTA vol­un­teers will send the pre-purchased tick­ets home with your child by Fri­day, May 11^th. Con­tinue read­ing →

Join the Fuel Up to Play 60 (FUTP60) team this Fri­day morn­ing at 8am out front of school for a “Sweet Exchange”.  To cul­mi­nate the “Week with­out Sweets” the FUTP60 kids will be col­lect­ing unhealthy sweets with added sugar such as soda, cook­ies and candy and exchang­ing them for a healthy treat. Kids who par­tic­i­pate in the Sweet Exchange will be entered into a draw­ing. There will also be a draw­ing for those who gave up added sugar for the week.  Just make sure you bring in your par­ent signed par­tic­i­pa­tion form Fri­day morn­ing to the Sweet Exchange.

The pro­posed PTA bud­get for 2012–2013 is posted on our doc­u­ments page for your review.  We will vote to approve the bud­get at our gen­eral meet­ing on May 11th at 8:15am in the cafeteria.

Good News! Jef­fco Out­door Lab just received word that they will receive enough dis­trict fund­ing to sup­port the Lab schools for another year…buying the Out­door Lab Foun­da­tion time to cre­ate a long term sus­tain­abil­ity plan! Con­tinue read­ing →

From Mrs. Ryan at Mitchell. “There will be three full day kinder­garten classes next year.”

Author Justin Matott talks to Mitchell Stu­dents about the impor­tance of devel­op­ing pro­fi­cient writ­ing skills and dis­cusses the life of an author.

Jour­nal­ism stu­dents respond:

Author Inspires Young Writers

By T.J. A. and Addie M. 
On Decem­ber 15, 2011, author Justin Matott vis­ited Mitchell Ele­men­tary. The whole school joined him for a spe­cial assembly. He told us some great stories. We learned he has writ­ten at
least 12 books, that a good story can take six months to write, and you need to be cre­ative with your writing. He showed us how being funny attracts more peo­ple to your work. He also encour­aged 4th, 5th, and 6th graders to use our imag­i­na­tions dur­ing a writ­ing work­shop fol­low­ing the assembly.

Behind the Scenes of West­ward Whoa

By the Jour­nal­ism Club

Fourth, 5th and 6th grade Jour­nal­ism Club stu­dents sat down with Mr. Phillips to talk with him about what goes into plan­ning the 6th grade musi­cal and what Mitchell can expect for next year.

J-club: After the audi­tions, how do you decide who gets which part?
Mr. Phillips: By judges’ score and stu­dent preference.There are five cri­te­ria judges score. They are: pro­jec­tion, dic­tion, char­ac­ter, voice, and over­all assess­ment. Char­ac­ter is defined as the student’s abil­ity to stay in char­ac­ter, be the­atri­cal and main­tain an accent if needed. Voice qual­ity is judged by pitch-matching only. Con­tinue read­ing →

What: Oral Inter­pre­ta­tion Fes­ti­val — stu­dents per­form poetry, prose, song lyrics or book excerpts.

Who: All Mitchell Ele­men­tary stu­dents (K-6) are invited to par­tic­i­pate.

When: Thurs­day March 1, 2012. Evening per­for­mances will be for fam­ily and friends in the gym. K-3 will per­form from 6–7 pm and grades 4–6 will per­form for 7:15 — 8:15 pm.  Dur­ing the day the per­for­mances will be for judges and class­mates dur­ing “spe­cials”.  4th grade 8:15 — 9:10 | 5th grade 9:10 — 9:55 | 6th grade 10:00 — 10:45 | 3rd grade 10:55 — 11:40 | 2nd grade 1:15 — 2:00 | 1st grade 2:05 — 2:50

Why: It is FUN! Stu­dents get to explore dif­fer­ent types of lit­er­a­ture and are taught good pub­lic speak­ing skills.
How:    REGISTER ONLINE!

On Decem­ber 7, we had Kath­leen Kee­lan speak about cyber­bul­ly­ing pre­ven­tion.  Kath­leen is a Licensed Pro­fes­sional Counselor, specializing in treat­ing stu­dents that are expe­ri­enc­ing bul­ly­ing in schools.  She also does school/parent work­shops on the pre­ven­tion of cyber­bul­ly­ing and tra­di­tional bul­ly­ing.  One of the dis­tinc­tions she made was between nor­mal con­flict and cyber-bullying.

Dear Mitchell Elementary,

Tell the Gov­er­nor: Don’t Appeal Lobato Decision!

On Decem­ber 9, Judge Sheila Rap­pa­port issued a deci­sion in the Lobato case con­firm­ing what par­ents and stu­dents have been say­ing for years: “[Colorado’s] pub­lic school finance sys­tem is irra­tional, arbi­trary, and severely underfunded.”

The Judge ordered the leg­is­la­ture to do its con­sti­tu­tional duty — Con­tinue read­ing →

The PTA at Mitchell Ele­men­tary is proud of our school, our kids and all the

vol­un­teers who make this com­mu­nity a huge success!

We hope you can find all the infor­ma­tion you need in this site.