New pop-up mobile food pantry now serving food on the east side
COVID-19 has presented unique challenges for each community. Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin, in partnership with MMSD and the YMCA, will be providing food for those in need. This will be a drive-thru Mobile Pantry every week to distribute food.
When: The first Drive-Thru Mobile Pantry will be Thursday May 21st.
Start Time: Distribution will start at 3:00 pm and will end at 5:00pm.
Where: Location will be the drive-thru in front of the East YMCA at 711 Cottage Grove Road, Madison.
Any changes to times or locations for mobile pantry distributions will be communicated via our new texting service. To receive a text message when there is a change to the regular schedule, text FOODDANE to 555888.
Update on Item Pick-up:
6th Grade families will have the chance to pick up locker items on Wednesday, June 10th - Last Names: A-G 10am-12pm, H-O 12pm-2pm, P-T 2pm-4pm, U-Z 4pm-6pm (plus everyone else who couldn’t come earlier)
Details include Outdoor Pickup - cars will show the name of their students to a staff member waiting out front, then drive up the driveway and stop outside of the gym in the driveway (cones indicating traffic flow) where a staff memeber will deliver the student's belongings.
Here's some updates from all of our Team teachers - Huberty, Accomando & Towe.
June 1st-5th will be the last week of academics. June 8-10 will be used for finishing work, and picking up items from school.
Math - from Ms. Huberty
For our last week of true instruction we will be finishing up content in Ch 2 and 3. Next week we will focus on reviewing what we have learned in Quarter 4 and getting everything tied up for summer!
ELA - from Mr. Accomando
Hello from Mr. Accomando’s ELA. This was the last week for assignments. Wow! We have come a long way together. This next week is all about wrapping up any missing work. Reaearch projects are due and students can chooe how they want to share their findings, be creative. Here we go, finish strong, I know you can. We will be publishing an online literary magazine so contribute this week! Enjoy some spring flowers and practice acts of kindness! Miss you all!
Science - Mon/Tues - from Mr. Towe
We're jumping ahead into Chapter 3 - Lesson 3.1: Investigating Human Activity and the Atmosphere where we are exploring the question, What can be done to stop the carbon dioxide and methane in Earth’s atmosphere from increasing?
Students will have Monday-Tuesday to work on the lesson, and Friday work day if they have not finished. I will grade work on Monday and Tuesday of the following week.
Social Studies - Wed/Thurs - from Mr. Towe
For our final week we're going to looking at parts of Chapter 29- The Golden Age of Athens and looking at some of their achievements in Art, Science and Philosophy. I'll be posting the assignments with Tutorial videos in Google Classroom on Wednesday. Students will have Wednesday -Friday to complete the work. I will grade work on Monday and Tuesday of the following week.
Attendance - attendance will be taken each Friday by EACH Teacher. Students are expected to make contact with EACH teacher in order to not be marked absent for the week. Contact may include- emails, Flipgrids, Zooms, phone or text, or completion of assigned work. If a student doesn't make contact with a teacher they may be marked absent. Please make sure your students are in contact with their Core subject teachers (Huberty, Accomando, Towe) and their UA teachers every week.