MARTIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

❤️🤍CANDY CANE WONDERLAND❤️🤍 Martin County School District Board Member Jennifer Russell, District 3, recently took a stroll through Candy Cane Wonderland (a.k.a. Warfield Elementary School). She toured through jolly classrooms and was read to while eating lunch with first graders. Ms. Russell left some treats of her own...mini candy canes and motivational notes around campus for students and staff! It was a pretty tasty and educational visit ❤️🤍 #ALLINMartin👊

❤️STAYING ALIVE❤️ Today, Martin County School District Extended Day Managers and Assistant Managers attended CPR and First Aid training. All staff left with their CPR certifications and the song 'Staying Alive' stuck in their heads. CPR certification is required for Extended Day Managers and Assistant Managers, as well as several other positions at every school site. Thank you, Life First, Inc., for providing the training! #ALLINMartin👊

👊ALWAYS LISTENING, ALWAYS IMPROVING👊 Martin County School District leaders constantly strive to improve the school district to ensure we educate all students for success. Superintendent Dr. John D. Millay recently visited Citrus Grove Elementary School to meet staff and listen to their ideas on how we can continuously improve. Teamwork helps ensure we reach our goals! #ALLINMartin👊

A date which will live in infamy. #PearlHarbor81 #NeverForget

✈️SOARING SUCCESS✈️ Join us in congratulating Jensen Beach High School Senior Luke Sexton for being selected to attend the Air Force's 2023 Flight Academy Program! Luke is one of 200 selected cadets to receive $28,000 in flight training at a university (TBD) next summer. This is an incredible opportunity for Luke to earn his Private Pilot Certification for FREE! He was chosen based on his high score on the Aviation Qualification Test, his GPA and scoring well on a physical fitness test. Congratulations, Luke Sexton! #ALLINMartin #PublicSchoolProud

🍎 ON THE AGENDA🍎 Today's School Board Workshop will begin at 4:00 p.m. View the agenda - https://bit.ly/3VnoAvl Watch the livestream - https://youtu.be/Odc1p3ckUnI #ALLINMartin👊

🎄PARADING THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS🎄 This past weekend was a beautiful whirlwind of holiday parades in Martin County! If you watched any of the parades in Stuart, Hobe Sound or Indiantown, you couldn't miss our Martin County School District students! Congratulations to the following winners: Stuart Christmas Parade ⭐Judges Choice Award-- Citrus Grove Elementary School ⭐Best Illumination (Small Floats)-- Jensen Beach Elementary School PTA ⭐Best Theme (Large Floats)-- Bessey Creek Elementary School ⭐Marching Bands-- Martin County High School ⭐Marching Bands-- Hidden Oaks Middle School ⭐People's Choice Award-- Citrus Grove Elementary School Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade: ⭐ Best Marching Band-- South Fork High School We are so proud of every school, student, family and staff participating in local parades!

🚗MONDAY MORNINGS WITH MILLAY🚗 Be sure to tune in to the WSTU 1450 AM Morning Show tomorrow at 8! Superintendent Dr. John D. Millay will provide your weekly update on all things MCSD. #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

🗓ON THE CALENDAR🗓 Superintendent Millay has recommended modifications to our previously-announced emergency makeup days. There will be no school or work for students and employees on December 19 -20, 2022. Learn more: https://www.martinschools.org/article/927297 #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

🔬POSITIVELY EXCITING EXPERIMENTS🔬 Fifth-grade students at Palm City Elementary School jumped at the chance to see how positive and negative charges work! Through experimentation, these Wildcats discovered that pepper could pop off the plate and onto the spoon. How exciting! #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

We celebrated our outstanding School-Related Employees of the Year on Tuesday! Ms. Tina Jensen of Food & Nutrition Services earned this year’s top prize.🎉🥳 Learn more about our site-level award winners: https://www.martinschools.org/article/925743 Watch a video recap honoring the nominees: https://youtu.be/YLfUdRw0mnY #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

🎨CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN ART🎨 Congratulations to these Warfield Elementary School students who entered the Congressional Youth Art Contest and shared what patriotism means to them! Congressman Brian Mast awarded these talented artists with special congressional recognition 🇺🇸 #ALLINMartin👊

🇺🇲ALWAYS THANKFUL🇺🇲 SeaWind Elementary students recently performed a special program in honor of Veteran's Day. Mr. Elliott Harris, SeaWind's Related-Arts Team, parent volunteers, teachers and students worked incredibly hard to ensure the show went on, despite a delay by Hurricane Nicole. The special program included performances by ALL students, a few guest speakers, and special recognition of SeaWind veteran staff members. South Fork High School's JROTC students also participated by presenting the flags. 👀 Watch for a beautiful performance tribute to our veterans: https://youtu.be/lSLOdBgA-fA #ALLINMartin👊

📅 2023-2024 SCHOOL CALENDAR📅 During its meeting held on November 22, 2022, the Martin County School Board approved the 2023-2024 school calendar. Learn more: https://www.martinschools.org/article/922357 #ALLINMartin👊

🤝GIVING TUESDAY🤝 Martin County High School junior Baltazar Juan-Pérez gives his time to volunteer with the Martin County Library System! Baltazar has been volunteering since June, earning 41 hours of service by shelving materials in the children's department and assisting kids with school assignments through the Homework Helper program. "He’s a GREAT asset to our team, always prompt, engaging, getting right to work, completing tasks thoroughly and quickly...He assists with special projects, always willing to do more – most appreciated by library staff and a joy to work with," library staff said about Baltazar. Thank you, Baltazar, for creating ripples in our community! 📸 credit: Martin County Library System #ALLINMartin👊 #GivingTuesday

🚒COMMUNITY HEROES🚒 First grade students at Warfield Elementary School are working on the Benchmark unit: Being a Good Community Member. For their lesson, "Firefighters to the Rescue," students met the very people they were reading about! Shout out to the Martin County Fire Rescue of Indiantown for teaching students about the gear they wear, what to do in case of a fire and how to stop, drop, and roll. Students also toured three of the different vehicles used by MCFR, and learned about the important equipment inside each vehicle, like the jaws of life! Students now better understand why people get involved in their community, and they had a blast learning about it! #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDTheRippleEffect

🍎SHARING IS CARING🍎 Crystal Lake Elementary School first grade students have been studying community helpers. To learn what community helpers look like in real life, Officer Glass, Nurse Benz, BAK Middle School's Assistant Principal Mrs. Connelly and Farmer Joe were just a few of the people who came to share how they support the community. Thank you for taking time out of your busy days to help teach a great lesson! #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDTheRippleEffect

🦃TURKEY, OR NO?🦃 6th graders in Ms. Stein's class at Indiantown Middle School had a pretty tricky writing assignment before Thanksgiving break. Ms. Stein asked her students to write from the lens of a turkey and use their persuasive/argumentative skills to write letters convincing a farmer (Ms. Stein) not to cook them for Thanksgiving Supper! #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

📞CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW📞 For their sound energy unit, Ms. Zilly's fifth grade class at Port Salerno Elementary School read "Horton Hears a Who." The students wondered why everyone couldn’t hear The Whos like Horton could, so students investigated sound energy. Students made and experimented with string telephones and found evidence that sound travels through vibrations! They wrote letters to Horton explaining sound energy and how it travels. #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

🦃GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GONE🦃 So, that's what happened to the turkey! 1st Graders in Mrs. Lodes' class at Jensen Beach Elementary School completed a very important STEM challenge...Hide Mr. Turkey. They nailed the assignment 🦃 #ALLINMartin👊