James Monroe Elementary School

Yesterday, we had our ☀️ FIRST EVER ☀️ Jog-A-Thon and the kids had soo much fun 🏃‍♀️ Don’t they look so cool with their new sunglasses?!😎

🏃‍♀️ Thank you to all of our amazing parent volunteers, PTO and Staff 💕

*Pictures shared with Parent/Guardian permission or altered to protect privacy

Congratulations to Ms. Haas, our Monroe Classified Employee of the Year! Ms. Haas supports our students with love, care, compassion, and a lot of skills and experience. We love Ms. Haas!

Hello and thank you to everyone donating to our Jog-A-Thon!! Keep those donations coming! Tomorrow is the big day! Make your donations online here! You can also bring cash/check donations to school in the envelope provided!
All students will participate and get participation prizes (sunglasses and wristbands!)
Students can also earn prizes for getting donations! We are so excited for our Jog-A-Thon tomorrow!! Wear your sneakers and bring a water bottle!
Love,
Principal McNeil

Monroe Elementary PTO 2024 Fundraiser We are a school where student learning thrives and children feel good about the place they call their school. We believe that this is because of the incredible students that attend our school, the awesome staff who believe that relationships with students are key to optimal learning and more importa...

Congratulations to Jaclyn! She is the Monroe after School Program YOUTH OF THE YEAR! Congratulations to Jaclyn and her Family! Great job!

🏃‍♀️ Wednesday, May 22 is our Jog-A-Thon, School Fundraiser (during the school day, so everyone can participate!)

🏃 Get ready to get excited and get some exercise while RAISING MONEY FOR our JAMES MONROE Community!!

🏃‍♂️ Donation envelopes and record sheets should have gone home with your child! There will be prizes for top fundraisers and swag for everyone! Show your school spirit and get your family and friends involved in contributing to our school.

🏃‍♀️ Any questions? Call the school or come by the office. If you did not get your $ collection envelope, please stop by the office.

🏃‍♂️ Family, Friends & Community members can donate here as well:
https://app.99pledges.com/fund/monroeelementarypto

🏃 Thank you all sooo much!!

Monroe Elementary PTO 2024 Fundraiser We are a school where student learning thrives and children feel good about the place they call their school. We believe that this is because of the incredible students that attend our school, the awesome staff who believe that relationships with students are key to optimal learning and more importa...

We appreciate our School Nurse Amy for all her help with hearing and vision tests and saving lives with epi-pens 💙 And that was just THIS week!

We appreciate all her support and love for our James Monroe Community and we’re so grateful to have her 💖

💙 Happy Nurses Week 💛

Congratulations to the Nhul Family! Their donut shop, Jelly Roll (in SF) won a small business award! And they brought us donuts for the last day of Teacher Appreciation Week! Thank You!

🖊️ Check out our fabulous book series 📕 Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dogman, and Cat kid are super popular with our students and we have a lot available at our Book Fair.

📚 The Book Fair is open everyday this week before school, during lunch and after school.

📖 If parents, guardians or community members want to swing by after school, please sign in at the office.

💰 Students can bring cash or upload to their e-wallet.

👩‍💻 Visit our Book Fair home page to browse, shop or add to your child’s e-wallet (just hit GET STARTED)
www.scholastic.com/bf/monroeelementaryschool25

Our book fair is in full swing. Our volunteers are soooo wonderful! Each kid gets a book paid for by PTO ($10.) Thank you PTO! We are readers!

Congratulations to Ms. Yee. Ms. Yee was selected as our Monroe Teacher of the Year! Ms. Yee has dedicated many, many years to the Monroe Learning Community. Thank you!

🖊️ Check out our fabulous cookbooks 👩‍🍳 Lots of yummy recipes to try over the summer 🍳

📚 The Book Fair is open everyday this week before school, during lunch and after school.

📖 If parents, guardians or community members want to swing by after school, please sign in at the office.

💰 Students can bring cash or upload to their e-wallet.

👩‍💻 Visit our Book Fair home page to browse, shop or add to your child’s e-wallet (just hit GET STARTED)
www.scholastic.com/bf/monroeelementaryschool25

🖊️ Check out our fabulous journals 📕 Perfect for journaling and practicing your writing over the summer 🖊️

📚 The Book Fair is open everyday this week before school, during lunch and after school.

📖 If parents, guardians or community members want to swing by after school, please sign in at the office.

💰 Students can bring cash or upload to their e-wallet.

👩‍💻 Visit our Book Fair home page to browse, shop or add to your child’s e-wallet (just hit GET STARTED)
www.scholastic.com/bf/monroeelementaryschool25

Teacher Appreciation is in full effect at Monroe! Thank you Monroe Teachers for your dedication and love for our Learning Community.

To show our appreciation for our teachers today, PTO passed out Jam to each Teacher and hung that cute sign in front of the school. Students brought their favorite family recipes to share with their teachers as well. We have a fun week planned to show our appreciation for our teachers.

Tomorrow it’s “Draw a Portrait of Your Teacher” day! Can’t wait to see all those beautiful portraits!

🍎 It’s Teacher Appreciation Week!!! 🍏

Help us celebrate our amazing teachers with these fun themed days ✏️ Any gifts can be brought to school with your child or dropped off at the office.

🎁 Every gift is appreciated and doesn’t have to cost money. It’s the love and support we want to show to our teachers this week 💙

📚 Our Book Fair starts tomorrow!!! 📚 Students can bring cash or upload to their e-wallet.

The Book Fair is open before school, during lunch and after school. If parents, guardians or community members want to swing by after school, please sign in at the office.

We’ll be open ALL WEEK including during Open House on Thursday! We hope to see you at the Book Fair!!

📚 Our Book Fair is all set up and ready for next week 📚 We hope to see you there 👋

📕 The Book Fair opens everyday next week before school, during lunch and after school.

📖 If parents, guardians or community members want to swing by after school, please sign in at the office.

💰 Students can bring cash or upload to their e-wallet.

👩‍💻 Visit our Book Fair home page to browse, shop or add to your child’s e-wallet (just hit GET STARTED)
www.scholastic.com/bf/monroeelementaryschool25

These Monroe Eagles won the Eagle Drawing Contest sponsored by the Monroe Student Council. Great job Eagles!

Ms. Brittany is our Monroe School Lunch Hero! Thank you for your service and commitment to our community. We appreciate you!

We had a fabulous Science Fair (thank you SLED!) at Monroe yesterday. We worked on solving a mystery about contaminated water in a local watershed…Important Work! And tons off hands on fabulous learning! Thank you to our wonderful volunteers! We can’t do this without you!

Well we weren’t in the path of totality…but Monroe students thought the solar eclipse was totally awesome! We all put our special glasses on and safely viewed this special occurrence!

We had an amazing time hosting San Leandro high school students from the Social Justice Academy! They ran Caring Circles for three of our classes (that signed up.) THANK YOU SJA STUDENTS FOR BEING AMAZING!

No school
tomorrow 3/15

Staff Development Day

In February, we celebrate Black History Month, a vital period for recognizing and appreciating the vast contributions of African Americans. It's a time to reflect on Black individuals' significant impact in shaping music, arts, literature, sports, and politics. We honor trailblazers and heroes who have played crucial roles in our nation's history and acknowledge their struggles and triumphs. This month is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the African American experience and its integral role in our nation's history.

Don’t forget about our Papa Murphy Findraiser TODAY 🍕 Grab a pizza or 2 tonight for a fast and yummy dinner 🍕 20% of your orders will be donated back to our school 🏫

Just mention at the register that you’re there for the James Monroe Fundraiser 😋 They’re open until 8pm tonight!

A message from Principal McNeil:

Greetings James Monroe Community,

PBL Sharing Morning is Tomorrow! Don't miss it!

Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 24th is our Monroe Annual PBL Sharing Day. This is the day we invite our community into classrooms, and students share the projects that they are working on. Students are very excited to share their learning with you. I hope everyone can come be with us from 8:15--9:00am tomorrow morning. We will start in the MPR with coffee and doughnuts at 8:15am. I will present a short welcome and overview of PBL in the MPR, and then we will move into classrooms.

This is typically a very well attended event. Don't miss out on this opportunity to engage with your kids in an academic environment. Please come support your children, and show up for this wonderful event! Doughnuts and coffee while they last!

😋 Don't forget that afternoon we have the third grade BAKE SALE, to support the Ohlone Native American Tribe (the first people to inhabit San Leandro.) It will take place AFTER SCHOOL, on the lawn. Bake sale will be moved to the MPR in the case of rain. Last year the bake sale sold out, and made $1,000.00. They donated the money to Ohlone organizations. This is part of the third grade Project, learning about our local community.

See you tomorrow morning at James Monroe!