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Through cooperation between teachers and parents, Mercury Mine offers several special programs that enhance student learning and enrich our school community. Here are just a few of our school's special programs along with district sponsored events that are part of our school experience.
This list is in the process of being updated and added, so check back again!
Accelerated Math
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Accelerated Reading |
Artist in Residence |
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Center Stage |
District Art Show |
District Choral Festival
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District Poetry Contest |
Field Day |
Focus on Mars
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Mini Museum |
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Spelling Bee |
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Bucket Fillers
“Have you Filled A Bucket Today?”
MMES has adopted a new program this year based on the book, Have you Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carol McCloud. You may have seen staff wearing bright green T-shirts with “bucket” slogans on them and/or seen the bulletin board across from Mrs. Zimmerman’s desk in the front office. Our goal is to reinforce a community of kindness at Mercury Mine. Research has shown that people who regularly give and receive kindness are happier, healthier, and more successful. The idea of Bucket Filling is that we all have an invisible bucket that holds our positive thoughts and feelings. If our buckets are full, we feel good. If they’re empty, we don’t. We can fill our own buckets and those of others with kind words and acts. We also can take away from our own or someone else’s bucket, or be a
bucket dipper, by criticizing,
ignoring/excluding, acts of aggression, etc. We all fill or dip from buckets all day long –often without realizing it. With reflection, we can do more bucket filling; enriching our lives and the lives of those around us.
This year, each teacher at MMES has a bucket in their classroom. The teachers have worked with students to convey the idea behind being bucket fillers versus bucket dippers and have communicated with their students how the class-wide bucket can get filled. Each time a
class bucket is filled, the class brings their bucket to the front office and the contents are used to fill our school-wide bucket. We want to be a bucket filling school and community! You can help us in this program by modeling kindness, brainstorming with your child or children how they can fill others’ buckets and by asking your children if they’ve filled a bucket today.
Each year MMES students plant several gardens around campus. Through the support of parent volunteers, students participate in activities that compliment classroom learning and nature. Click on the link to read the Garden News Bog.
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