Marion Visual and Performing Arts Magnet

Mr. B wanted to share this great video of a musical book. Watch and listen as Pete Seeger reads Abiyoyo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPZtuPyXRfw and if you missed it yesterday here is a really fun activity song about an Easter egg! https://youtu.be/0vP7UK8j2KY

AAA Extends “Covid-19 Dead Period” For Schools Due to the continued spreading of the COVID-19, and after the announcement of the closure of Arkansas schools through the end of the school year, the AAA will extend the “Covid-19 Dead Period” for all AAA member schools through May 30, 2020. During this time, coaches shall be prohibited from engaging in any type of face to face contact whether it be practicing, training, weight lifting, tryouts, competition or travel. Further, school athletic facilities will be closed during this period. The AAA will work with the Department of Health, Department of Education, and the Governor's office later in May to announce plans following May 30. We continue to encourage coaches to use technology to keep up with their students during this tough time.

Attention current 6th graders: You are now going to select your courses for 7th grade. You will need to click the link and fill out the form with your parent/guardian. If you have any questions please email your new 7th grade counselor Mrs. Lisa Lovely at llovely@msd3.org. https://forms.gle/tEX13JCUpZjgiZir9

Mrs. Shumock has one last lesson to share with you today! Origami boxes. Please click the link to watch the video: https://bit.ly/oragamiboxes

The next mini lesson is cardboard sculptures. Part 1 is for K-6th and Part 2 takes the project into a little more depth for grades 3rd-6th. Enjoy and keep checking back today for more adventures! Part 1: https://bit.ly/papersculptureK-6 Part 2: https://bit.ly/sculpturesPart2

Visit Mrs. Sutton's website for parent and student support during this time: bit.ly/VPASutton

Your adventure for today is in ART!! Mrs. Shumock has recorded several mini lessons for you to enjoy. Keep checking in throughout day for each adventure. Up first is boot and his color wheel adventure. Click the link to see the video: https://bit.ly/bootcolorwheel

Perkins Survey-Please take a moment to participate Marion Patriot Community: Marion School District has been working with other districts in our co-op area in efforts to create a survey to help us as we plan our Perkins activities going forward. Perkins federal funds help us maintain our career and technical classes that are offered at MHS and MJHS. Please take a minute to fill out the attached survey. Your input will help MSD create and focus our efforts towards offering desired classes to help our students as they enter college, technical education, the military and/or the workplace after graduation. Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-jJ25Ka2w8drkEivjJd7tFCTrEjtIz6nCjzMCu8JxXfLPtw/viewform Note: If the link does not go directly to the survey, copy and paste the link into your web browser. Thanks for you time and stay safe, Julie Coveny Federal Programs Director Marion School District 870-739-5100

Mrs. Hall (drama) has created a fun video challenge for all of you to try. We would love to see videos or pictures of your creations! Please click the link for the video: https://bit.ly/2V93WBg

Reading Horizons Zoom Meeting for Parents of Magnet School Students: Today, Tuesday, April 7, at 6:00 p.m. there will be a Zoom meeting for any parents who would like to learn more about Reading Horizons and how your students learn phonics through this system. The meeting will consist of a 45 quick lesson providing you with an overview of the system and how it works. There will be a 15 minute Q & A at the end. You can access the meeting on a computer or your phone. Click the link provided below to join the meeting: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/882417539 Meeting ID: 882 417 539

It’s National Assistant Principal’s Week. Show your love to the wonderful men and women who love and care for their students. Post your message in the comments. ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙

Please click the link to watch a video of one of our students and his creative song! https://bit.ly/3bWLS46

Mrs. Watson wanted to share some fun activities for the kids to do today! Here are some links to great boredom busters for today. Enjoy!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KirHm_sYfI (video on how to avoid germs) https://mysteryscience.com/live (live science show tomorrow)

It’s National Librarians Day! We have some pretty awesome librarians in the Marion School District. During this unusual time, you can count on your librarians to still provide you with many resources you can access at home. They miss you! Stay safe and healthy!! Go Pats! ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙

Starting Monday, April 6th, the delivery route has some changes. Please see the picture posted. Breakfast & Lunch will be handed out at the same time at the following up-dated locations and times. We will do our best to offer different options each day. In an effort to ensure that we have plenty of meals available, we would ask that you please try to arrive at the stop as close to possible as when the bus arrives. This will allow us time to have additional meals delivered to certain locations if we should run low. Thank you for your continued support in making this effort possible. All meals are available for kids 18 and under.

Patriot Parents: As of 5pm today, Friday, April 3rd, MSD will no longer accept requests for paper packets for days 1-10. All requests placed by 5pm will be honored. Next week we will be sending out information about the collection of packets for days 1-10 and our transition to Edmentum online offerings moving forward. Thank you for your patience as we continue to meet your child's educational needs.

Attention Patriots: All athletic tryouts scheduled for April are postponed. This includes cheer, basketball, and volleyball. All efforts will be made to reschedule when deemed safe to do so. More information will be shared when available.

MSD Parents and Students, while school is closed due to COVID-19, the K-6 GT teachers are coming together to share with you GT enrichment to stretch your creativity and critical thinking! Many of these activities will be fun to do with the entire family! As you complete the activities, feel free to post pictures of your work, experiments, or creations! We miss you terribly, and hope you and your family are healthy and happy!!!! Ok......time to exercise our Brain!!!!! LIKE their page by clicking the link! https://www.facebook.com/TEAM-MSD-Gifted-and-Talented-108738350783418/

POSTPONED: MSD Volleyball tryouts schedule for April 26-29 are postponed. The MSD Volleyball department will reschedule when it is safe to do so. More information will be shared when available. GO PATS!

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth to age five in participating communities within the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Republic of Ireland. Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans four countries and mails over 1 million free books each month to children around the world. Starting tonight, “Goodnight With Dolly” will feature Dolly Parton reading a series of Imagination Library books all carefully chosen for their appropriate content at this moment in time. Here is the link -->https://www.youtube.com/user/imaginationlibrary/featured Snuggle up together as a family and enjoy the stories.