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They say it takes a community, and we have an amazing community surrounding Maple Grove Charter School! At last nights School District of Athens board meeting the Maple Grove Foundation presented a check in the amount of $30,000 to the district to cover the cost of painting the exterior of MGCS by an outside company in August! This project was in the memory of the Edward and Alice Fromm family, emulating their dedication to rural education for deserving students. We are forever grateful to the Maple Grove Foundation for their generous donation and their mission to support MGCS! Thank you for always supporting our vision💕🍁🦊

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Come and relax in our BEAUTIFUL new pollinator garden at MGCS on the upper playground 🌺 🐝 This pollinator garden will be used by learners to study different pollinators, plants, and insects for years to come. We now have homes for local birds, bats, butterflies, and even toads!🐸 A TREMENDOUS thank you to the Flory family who designed, built, and donated so much of this gorgeous garden for ALL to enjoy and learn from!💕🦊

At MGCS we are excited for the opportunities that our new greenhouse shed will bring to our learners, and our storage shed for our outdoor learning equipment! Thank you to Yoder Sheds and Westfall Construction for the foundation! These were made possible by our Charter School Implementation Grant.

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Intermediate Safety Patrol members at Maple Grove Charter School were invited to show their leadership skills and teamwork at an inaugural camp-out on our very own school forest property. Members chose to lead camp songs/games, cooking supper over an open fire or cooking breakfast the following morning before rolling down the hill to celebrate the last day of school. Highlights included: High fives over setting up tents successfully, starting a fire with cook worthy coals, kids unplugging from technology for 17 whole hours and ultimately kids supporting kids in an environment that challenges them.

Maple Grove Charter School will be having a community garage sale on May 31st & June 1st from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. We have a very full gym full of goodies for you and your family!

"If you don't ask, the answer will always be no." This is the motto our third grade teacher, Ms. Barrick, shared with our MGCS, when she was presented with a $500 check from AAA for the safety patrol program she redesigned for our school this year! This grant is only awarded to 10 schools nationwide and MGCS was one of them. Thank you AAA and thank you Ms. Barrick for your work writing the grant and for the "ask!" This money will be used to continue creating leadership opportunities for our learners at MGCS in our school wide Safety program.

We have the best community! Thank you Hamburg and Corning Fire and EMS for continuing this fantastic program, Fired up to Read! Every Friday for the entire second half of the year this wonderful volunteers come to read with our learners to continue to foster the importance and love for reading 📖 Last Friday, they wrapped up this year's program by rewarding kids who met their goals with a variety of generous prizes from sweatshirts, a bike, fire truck rides, and a pizza party for ALL learners that met their goal! Thank you so much Hamburg and Corning Fire and EMS for your dedication and support to our kids and the importance of reading!

This week Maple Grove Charter School had a spelling bee!! Students qualified to make the final round which was presented to the school and parents! Congrats to the top 3 spellers: Marty Servi, Justin Servi, and Hosea Thunder! Our 1st place winner was 5th grader Marty Servi! Congratulations to all our contestants! 🐝

Last week students and staff from Maple Grove were able to perform their diverse talents for our school wide talent show! Talents included: slime making, singing, dancing, sports skills, jokes, and many other fun ideas! It takes bravery and perseverance to perform on a large stage with an even larger audience! 🦊

Ms. Etten's first grade classroom has hit capacity with the recent addition of over a dozen chicks. Thanks to HayMeadow Farms, it was a very successful hatching at Maple Grove that resulted in all but 2 egg. While the chirping can be distracting at times, the experience and opportunity to apply the school CRISP traits is only possible with experiences like this! Incubation✅ Candling✅ Lock Down ✅ Provide food and water, heat, a safe home environment within the classroom, and an overabundance of attention and holding ✅✅✅ So far the learners are loving this responsibility and ability to show compassion for animals 🐣💕 It is hard to believe within a week these chicks will be going to their forever homes❤️ stay tuned for further cuteness!!🐥🐣🐥

Ms. Szutkowski's fifth-graders explored the wonders of water ecology on Olivotti Lake at Camp Birch Trails. 🌊🚣‍♂️ From learning about aquatic ecosystems to mastering canoeing and kayaking, it was an unforgettable journey of discovery and adventure. And who knew turtle racing could be so thrilling? 🐢💨

On Thursday, May 9th, the 1st graders at Maple Grove Charter School continued a 54 year old tradition by hosting the Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast. This years breakfast was once again a time in which it was over too soon. The amount of happiness, memories, and gratitude for such an amazing school and family tradition is not found many places. The 1st graders presented many spring and mother poems, performed multiple songs, and displayed gratitude and love for the mother figures in their lives. Leading up to Thursday they had worked together to create art displays, writing of a cookbook, and personal decorations. I truly feel honored to be able to work with my class each year in making family and school traditions like this one possible. A class cookbook was the start of a new tradition they enjoyed creating and gifting with a hand painted kitchen utensil. Each 1st grade learner brought a favorite home recipe to contribute to the book and illustrated the page from their kitchen! While the morning was incredible for all, none of this would have been possible without the breakfast being cooked by Bryan Bloch, Lynette Bloch, and Tari Williams. In addition, the musical performance would have been nothing without Theresa Matz practicing up to it and playing the guitar the morning of! Thank you Justin Bloch for helping me be able to transform the Maple Grove gym into an event space that first graders were able to decorate and feel special in hosting their important guests. From the first step of marking the maple trees back in the fall, tapping the trees and collecting sap in the spring, to having all 100+ learners making a place doily, it truly is a morning that encompasses much more than just the time spent during the breakfast. The place settings were decorated by students k-5 and the second graders were helpful in continuing the tradition of serving tables and cleaning place setting. Each year comes and goes, each year I find myself thinking even more how blessed I am. How blessed I am for being a figure in these learners lives, daily occurrences of being called “mom” accidentally, working with so many amazing mother colleagues, and having my own mother attend the breakfast! Time to start thinking about the 55th Annual Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast in 2025!🥞🍁👩‍👧💕 -Ms.Etten

Talk about craftsmanship! 🛠️ MGCS fifth-graders, in collaboration with Athens High School shop teacher Mr. Steinke, poured their hearts and skills into crafting Leopold benches for their legacy project. Now, these cozy corners around our school grounds hold memories and moments cherished by students past, present, and future.

Third graders at Maple Grove Charter School wrapped up their third reading module of comparing the autobiography of Little House in the Big Woods with the biography of Bright With Silver. They learned many messages, lessons and morals from these texts such as: Hard work is rewarded, always follow your dreams, be thankful for having family support and be grateful for what you have. They wanted to thank the Maple Grove Foundation for providing them with the texts and to thank the Fromm family for persevering through those hardships for the benefit of the Hamburg community.

Maple Grove's 4th grade Outdoor Labs students have had the opportunity to learn all about rabbits this school year. Mrs. Bunkelman and Mrs. Bloch came in and taught the students all about rabbits, and they have done their own research as well. The students learned so much that they decided that they really would like to have rabbits as school pets. Students created a presentation about rabbit habitats and how to feed and care for rabbits. They presented it to Mrs. Hanson in hopes that she will allow them to get the rabbits. Ms. Sandy taught the 4th graders about solar energy that could be used to power fans to keep the rabbits cool in hot weather and keep water bottles thawed in cold weather. In the meantime they will wait to see if Mrs. Hanson believes they are capable of caring for them! 🐰

Addition is always more enjoyable outdoors at MGCS- just ask our kindergarten foxes!

3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at MGCS were able to use their coding skills to maneuver Dash's movements!