PLEASE NOTE: ALL Unclaimed Lost & Found items will be donated in the middle of July.
MDES Newsletter
Enjoy Your Summer Break!!!
New Family Orientation, August 26th- 4-5 p.m. (Tentative date)
August 28th- First Student Day
September 1st- Holiday, No School
Open House, September 4th- 3:30-5:30 p.m. (Tentative date)
Field Day Fun
MDES Athletics
Schedules are subject to change - please check the link below to see what is happening for Athletics for the upcoming week. Thank you.
From the Mustang Cafe
2025-2026 School Calendar
Art News
Music News
Note from Nurse Ashley: Tick season is here! Encourage your children to do a tick check as part of their daily routine.
Key areas such as ears, in armpits, along the hairline, at the waist, and at the backs of the knees and thighs are all common areas ticks like to hide.
Remember to wear protective clothing:
Tuck your pants into your socks to prevent ticks from getting on your legs under your pants.
Wearing light-colored (white, khaki, etc) clothing makes ticks easier to see as they crawl on you.
Use bug spray that is approved by the EPA for repelling ticks.
The four types of EPA approved repellents for use on skin are Picaridin, DEET, IR3535, and Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus. Permethrin is approved for use on clothing.
Check pets for ticks as well. Even pets that are treated for ticks may carry them into the home.
Garden News
There was so much to do at the end of the school year in the garden. Planting seedlings and seeds, digging trenches for seed potatoes, watering plants and moving compost into the garden to keep the plants healthy. But the best fun of all~mud making! Mud, water play and building with the soil~young gardeners worked together to make volcanoes appear, built rivers, dams, waterfalls, levees, moved water to the source and poured where the flow would run just right into the stream of things. This is not only fun but it is an activity that teaches children how to work together as observers and builders, thinkers, problem solvers. These children are our future landscape architects, horticulturalists, bridge builders, project managers, scientists, weather analysts....the list is endless. Outdoor and nature play is the most valuable experience for a child. Stop by the school garden and say hello this summer~(a reminder that children must be supervised by an adult, other than myself, at all times while in the garden area). Hoping everyone has a super summer of getting dirty outside and enjoying the sunshine!
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