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Student Tutoring Service

Dear Families, We have some 4th grade students who have created a tutoring service for younger students.  If you are interested in having your child participate in tutoring Wednesdays at lunch, please check out their website. www.wix.com/tutoreagles/reachforsuccess Thank you, Alona Hastings Principal

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Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming.  Check out all the latest titles of Scholastic books beginning January 17th – January 24th in the library (credit cards are accepted).  A portion of the sales of these books helps support the McKinley-Thatcher library by providing funding to keep the collection up-to-date.  The book fair will be open …

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Chili Cook-off and Silent Auction

Planning is underway for McKinley-Thatcher’s 4th Annual Chili Cook-off and Silent Auction on February 24, 2011.  Judging of all varieties of chili will be from 5:15pm-6:00pm.  Please have your chili to the all-purpose-room by 5:00pm.  During the judging, there will be a dance performance in the gym.  The chili tasting will begin at 6:00pm.  The …

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Winter Weather

Unless it is bitterly cold outside or blizzard like conditions, we will have outside recess.  We encourage you to send students to school with boots, hats, gloves, and warm coats.  Children need fresh air and physical activity to keep their brains sharp for learning.

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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Learning Landscape

By Eliot Lewis, Collabrative school Committee co-chair His speech from the dedication of the learning landscape   We were all very excited to hear that McKinley Thatcher would finally be getting the “Learning Landscape” the school had long been promised.  Early architectural plans led to heightened expectations at the initial groundbreaking.  Everyone wondering what would …

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About McKinley-Thatcher

Our Vision

  • The McKinley-Thatcher Vision is to bring together families from diverse places and backgrounds to create a community.
  • Our goal is to educate our children and provide them with a global vision.
  • Through environmental education and character education, our children will be made aware of their potential to impact and enhance the world.
  • Our hope is that all McKinley-Thatcher students will have the eyes of an eagle when looking at the world around them.  They are encouraged to strive to do their best as they soar to success!

Our School Community

  • Located in the Platte Park area of SE Denver, McKinley-Thatcher Elementary School is a neighborhood school with a population of approximately – 250 students from ECE (4 year olds) to 5th grade.
  • Our small school environment and friendly school community support students in their efforts to achieve high academic standards and acquire a strong educational foundation.
  • Classes in environmental education, art, music, library/technology, and physical education enhance our academic program.
  • We invite you to join our friendly educational community and find out for yourself why McKinley-Thatcher Elementary is often called “The best kept secret in Denver Public Schools!”

Principal’s Message

We’ve all heard the saying, “Think globally, act locally, ” with regard to the environment.  At McKinley-Thatcher we are putting a new spin on this phrase.  We are thinking and acting locally.  Our environment and the impact we have on it through our actions provide a framework for the learning we do each day.  Our new Learning Landscape, our participation in SPREE (South Platte River Environmental Education), and our emphasis on inquiry-based learning help us create the big picture of who we are and how we demonstrate that through our actions.  An equally strong focus on developing skillful readers, writers, mathematicians, and scientists means that students will be able to deepen their understanding of and appreciation for the environment, and will be able to successfully use and apply their knowledge and thinking.

At McKinley-Thatcher our goal is to educate, inspire, and empower children through environmental education, character development, and inquiry-based learning so all are aware of their potential to impact and enhance the world, and have the confidence and skills to go out and make the world a better place.  It is our hope that all McKinley-Thatcher students will have the “eyes of an eagle” when looking at the world around them!

Alona Hastings, principal

720-424-5600

Come grow with us!!!!!

Student Tutoring Service

Dear Families,

We have some 4th grade students who have created a tutoring service for younger students.  If you are interested in having your child participate in tutoring Wednesdays at lunch, please check out their website.

www.wix.com/tutoreagles/reachforsuccess

Thank you,
Alona Hastings
Principal

Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming.  Check out all the latest titles of Scholastic books beginning January 17th – January 24th in the library (credit cards are accepted).  A portion of the sales of these books helps support the McKinley-Thatcher library by providing funding to keep the collection up-to-date.  The book fair will be open late for Game Night on Thursday, January 19th. Titles can also be purchased online through February 6th by following the link.

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/mckinleythatcher

Chili Cook-off and Silent Auction

Planning is underway for McKinley-Thatcher’s 4th Annual Chili Cook-off and Silent Auction on February 24, 2011.  Judging of all varieties of chili will be from 5:15pm-6:00pm.  Please have your chili to the all-purpose-room by 5:00pm.  During the judging, there will be a dance performance in the gym.  The chili tasting will begin at 6:00pm.  The silent auction will open during this time with the live auction following shortly thereafter.  The PTA is still looking for volunteers to join the following committees.

  • Donations Team – Individuals to call and visit local businesses to request donations and pick up items/marketing materials.
  • Lucky Bucks Team – Individuals to organize raffle items, create a lobby display, help draw tickets and record winners, and set up displays/collection boxes the night of the auction.
  • Communications Team – Individuals to create and distribute fliers to the community and work with community groups to get the word out.
  • Teacher Outings – Individuals to organize and create a lobby display of the outings, create a written description of the outings for the auctioneer, and record winning bids.

    • This is the biggest fundraiser of the year, and the money raised is used to fund field trips and other educational programs for our students.  If you are interested in volunteering, please call Wendy Martinez at 303-513-8631 or email wendy@cocobie.com.  Get up-to-date information about the auction at facebook.com/MKTauction.

     

    Winter Weather


    Unless it is bitterly cold outside or blizzard like conditions, we will have outside recess.  We encourage you to send students to school with boots, hats, gloves, and warm coats.  Children need fresh air and physical activity to keep their brains sharp for learning.

    Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Learning Landscape

    By Eliot Lewis, Collabrative school Committee co-chair
    His speech from the dedication of the learning landscape

     

    We were all very excited to hear that McKinley Thatcher would finally be getting the “Learning Landscape” the school had long been promised.  Early architectural plans led to heightened expectations at the initial groundbreaking.  Everyone wondering what would stay? And what would go?
    As construction began there was some sadness as favorite play structures and familiar trees, some planted by former classes came down. Now they are only pleasant memories of past elementary days.

     

    Passing the school throughout the summer led to wonder- with giant machines, and open pits and towering piles of dirt and nothing seemingly constructed,  “Would it be done in time for school to open?”
    One day we had to stop, almost overnight a huge green expanse had cropped up, there was a large impressive entry, and fantastic new play things all so diligently worked on for months, now just waiting for the kids return, ready to be explored and hundreds of new memories to be made.

     

    Passing the school throughout the summer led to wonder- with giant machines, and open pits and towering piles of dirt and nothing seemingly constructed,  “Would it be done in time for school to open?”
    One day we had to stop, almost overnight a huge green expanse had cropped up, there was a large impressive entry, and fantastic new play things all so diligently worked on for months, now just waiting for the kids return, ready to be explored and hundreds of new memories to be made.