Have a great summer!

Summer Reading Challenge

Last summer, Murch students read 2,656 books. We know you can read even more this summer! And to help, Murch teachers and staff are joining the challenge.

Summer 2010 Target: 3,000 books

1. Keep track of all the “just right” books you read this summer (or books read to you).
2. Click here to tell us what you've read.
3. If everyone at Murch reads 3,000 books or more, you all win an ice cream party!
4. Have fun reading!

Twin Day

LSRT Parent Representatives Announced

The Murch Home and School Association Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the results for the election of Parent Representatives for the Murch Local School Restructuring Team (LSRT) for school year 2010-2011. The new LSRT Parent Representatives are:

Cinzia Roveta
John See
Jim Whitney
Nancy Zuckerbrod

The Nominating Committee would like to thank all of the parents who agreed to be candidates for the election. We would also like to offer our appreciation for all parents who took the time to vote. We had a very good turnout this year!

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Field Trips

• Ms. Bickart's class visitied The Smithsonian & the Zoo. 
• PreK classes picked strawberries and visited Homestead Farms. 
• Fourth graders went to Mt. Vernon.
  

Congratulations to the new Student Council Officers!

Ella Weiner - Historian
Nicholas Schneider - Treasurer
Mia Gualtieri - Secretary
Zach Lordan - Vice President
Justin Atwood - President

Class dispatches

• Ms. Otten's fourth-grade class has created a Wall of the Righteous as part of their study of the Holocaust.

Gardening with the Stars – and the First Lady

On June 4, Ms. Rabiah had the exciting experience of meeting First Lady Michelle Obama and speaking about Murch Elementary on the White House Lawn. >>Read more.

2010-2011 Peer Mediators

Leif Aiken • Leoniya Aksyonov • Leo Canty • Anna Conley • You Hwa Mungai • Deris Reina-Flores • Ashtin Richards • Aidan Saccocio • Nicholas Schneider • Rebecca Simon• Grace Stohr • Hanna Timm • Ella Weiner • Anna Wilson • Jonah Winchell

Peer Mediator advisors: fifth-grade teacher Vicki Otten and counselor Lauren Miller.

For more information about how peer mediation works, read this story from the Student Blog: You've Got a Friend.

Thank you for a great year!

While it has been a busy school year, the summer promises to be just as busy for the Murch staff.  We have put a great deal of effort into the development of the school’s strategic plan in the last few months. As a result, many of our teachers intend to work at least part of the summer in order to begin taking action on the school’s improvement focus areas in math and science.

The first day of school for the 2010-11 school year will be Monday, August 23.  A complete 2010-11 DCPS calendar can be found at here. The school’s main office is open all summer, so if you have questions or need to talk to us, please feel free to come in or contact us.  My weekly Thursday night Connect Ed calls will take a break during July, but your phone will start ringing again in August.Thank you, parents, for welcoming me into your school and allowing me to work with your remarkable children this year.  I am looking forward to another wonderful year in 2010!

>>Read more from the Principal's Corner Archives.

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A Great Job, One and All!

Last fall, as newly elected HSA co-presidents, we enthusiastically set out to achieve three goals:

1. Launch a school-wide strategic planning process.
2. Improve communications.
3. Increase partnerships with local organizations that would enrich our children’s learning experiences.

We are proud of what the HSA has achieved in all three of these areas. >>Read more.

-- Alison Howard and Karin Perkins, HSA co-presidents

>>>Read the complete Co-President's Blog.