Marlette Community Schools

41,474! That’s the number of meals made, packed, and delivered in the past five weeks at Marlette Community Schools. Thank you to our dedicated food service team, bus drivers, and delivery volunteers for making it all possible! #RedRaiderNation #SchoolGetItDone #BetterTogether

Mrs. Opperman has live drawing classes today! Y5's-2nd grade will be drawing chameleons from 3:00-3:30 pm and 3rd-6th grade will be learning about drawing realistic faces from 3:30-4:00 pm! The Google Meet is the same for all ages. The link is in Google Classroom.

Friday Night Lights - In celebration of our senior class we will be lighting up the Red Raider Sports Complex on Friday, April 24th. The stadium lights, football, softball and soccer scoreboards will be on and running for 20min 20sec. The clocks will start at 8:20pm. Remember to practice safe, social distancing and observe and celebrate from your vehicles.

Congratulations to the elementary Students of the Week, Molly & Hailey! #RedRaiderNation

Marlette Community Schools is proud to announce the Class of 2020 Senior Scholars. Jordyn Boyne Sidney Coltson Marissa Crase Riley Ford Carleigh Nickens Josie Schuitman Lilly Wilson Congratulations to these fine students! Please see the attached document for a full press release. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H0DFU-X5ffL8UwQTHnBk6O8RfS9DUhDl/view?usp=sharing

DELIVERY REMINDER- Meals/packets will be left on your porch today. Our volunteers can not directly hand off anything. Please leave a cooler if you will not be home. Thank you for helping to keep everyone safe! Miss you all!

Congratulations to the elementary Students of the Week, Finlee & T'Riq! #RedRaiderNation

The School Board Meeting scheduled for Monday, April 13, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. will be held virtually on Zoom at the regularly scheduled time. To connect to the meeting, go to the Events section of the Marlette Community Schools web site and click on the meeting then click on the Zoom link to take you to the meeting.

MEAL DELIVERY REMINDER- Meals will be left on your porch. Our volunteers can not directly hand off food. Please leave a cooler if you will not be home. Thank you for helping to keep everyone safe! Miss you all!

Here are our answers to the questions asked on our parent survey. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jDbnzP0qVwVVhE8bZwV34ENl25c1T0A_eFg2MnYcTlk/edit?usp=sharing

Good afternoon families! We sure do miss the routine of seeing everyone at school every day, but we will learn and grow from this experience and it will make us even better. Please check the attached document that explains our plan at Marlette Elementary School for the rest of this school year. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxKVDpY5awpR5xEcocRiF2YtcPl3J8BsQbtbpaoDCMY/edit?usp=sharing Let us know what questions you have at Coffee with Mr. V (Google Meet) this Friday, April 10, at 8:00 AM (details to join will be sent via Skyward). If you don't receive an invite, email jvislosky@marletteschools.org and I will give you the information. Thank you for being our partners in education!

Good morning Red Raiders! This is a reminder that Jr./Sr. High School 'packet' and textbook pickup begins tonight at 5:00pm. 'Packets' are for those students who will not be able to complete activities digitally. Additionally, teachers will be emailing those students who need to pick up a textbook (NOT ALL STUDENTS WILL NEED A TEXTBOOK). Please check you student's email later this afternoon to see if he/she needs a course textbook. Pick up will be drive through style. Only staff members are allowed to enter the school building. Parents/students will remain in their vehicles and needed items will be brought to the vehicle by school staff. Pickup times are: Thursday 5:00-6:00pm Friday 10:00-11:00am Friday delivery with food distribution route for the packets/textbooks that are not picked up. Thank you for your patience through this process.

Marlette Jr./Sr. High School Students & Parents, I hope this message finds you and your family staying safe and healthy. Since the Governor's Executive Order last Thursday, the staff at Marlette Jr./Sr. High School has been collaborating to develop a remote learning plan to best meet the needs of our students. We thank you all for your patience as we worked through this development process that has been uncharted territory for us all. We are aware of the varying levels of technology accessibility within our school community, and we have devised a plan to address those differences. Our plan aims to assist students with their emotional, social, and academic needs during this unprecedented time. The upcoming journey is new to us all, so we know there will be some 'bumps in the road.' Do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher(s) or me with any questions or concerns you have. If your child is able to, please encourage your child to check their school issued Google Email account daily for more information and teacher instructions. We will work through this together! Attached below are the following     - Explanation video for 7-11 grade remote learning plan - Remote learning plan for 7-11 graders (PDF version)  - Explanation video for 12 grade remote learning plan - Remote learning plan for 12 graders (PDF version)   - Jr./Sr. High staff contact information during remote learning time Thank you for your support and patience, Principal Garnett Kohler Go Red Raiders!   7-11 https://youtu.be/UgvGvW0u-Nw https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y2uRXAz_LyynvmOVd4qOup3YDy1WFjtY/view?usp=sharing 12- https://youtu.be/UxDw7d5kDaI https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LpNuyopLHAh2A_t1MtfhVE8UnaYlPTtR/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qrzc1fCMaP4GMvQXxhMFxL1AJ4TbVlVm/view?usp=sharing

Congratulations to the following Seniors for recently earning a spot on the Greater Thumb Academic All-Conference Team: Marissa Crase Carleigh Nickens Marcus Rachow Josie Schuitman Lilly Wilson This is truly a tremendous honor! Red Raider Nation is extremely proud of you all!

Congratulations to this week's elementary Students of the Week, Brody & Walker!

Reminder - Automatic Food Service Deposits Parents who have set up automatic food service payments through Efunds for Schools should discontinue those for the remainder of this school year.

This is an important message from Marlette High School. Attention parents of 7 through 11 grade students. Today, your child received an email from their first period teacher regarding individual technology access. If able, please have your child reply as soon as possible.

Hello families! Marlette Jr/Sr High School wanted to give an amazing project that you can do together as a family. You can create a tessellation which combines art with math! One of the most famous artists who combined math and art was MC Escher. You can check out his designs for inspiration or learn more about him in the links below. There are 2 main types of tessellations: a translation of the created object which just slides the object up/down and left/right or a rotational tessellation which “spins” the object. Check out the links below to see how to create the tessellations and then try one for yourself. Color and decorate them with your great imaginations! Take a picture of your creation and post it to the Marlette Community Schools’ Facebook page for an opportunity to win a gift card to one of our amazing local businesses. Good Luck and Happy Tessellating! Learn more about MC Escher: https://mcescher.com/about/biography/ Works by Escher to help inspire you: https://mcescher.com/gallery/symmetry/ Creating a translated tessellation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FIOF8xsPas Creating a rotational tessellation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lejiRl9paFc

Happy Friday #RedRaiderNation, As most of you are aware, the Governor's Executive Order suspended in-person K-12 instruction for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. To allow our fabulous MCS staff to prepare for the extended school closure, we will NOT be distributing new materials during the week of April 6th. Instead, next week MCS will be posting daily "challenges" to students and families through our district's social media outlets. The "challenges" will be family oriented and aimed at keeping students engaged in learning and exploring. Please post your pictures to our district Facebook page once your students complete the daily "challenges." From those posts, we will randomly select daily winners that will be awarded gift cards to local businesses. Let's all enjoy learning together! Additionally, the MCS staff is busy preparing our educational plan as we transition to remote learning for the remainder of the school year. The anticipated start date of our plan is April 13th. More details will be communicated next week. We thank you for your patience as we work to create a plan that best serves our students' academic, social, and emotional needs.

We will have our buses out today dropping off meals starting around noon. Please help us out by keeping a safe distance from our helpers. Thank you! #SchoolsGetItDone #RedRaiderNation