🚒🔥 Fire Prevention Week at Manson Elementary! 🔥🚒 A big shoutout to our amazing school nurse, Mrs. Rogge, for partnering with the Manson Fire Department to make Fire Prevention Week a fun and educational experience for our students! ❤️ Throughout the week, firefighters Hei, Smith, and Lyman visited classrooms to teach students important lessons about fire safety and the importance of having a home escape plan. 🏠🚨 To wrap up the week, Firefighters Hei and Willoughby brought a fire truck to lunch recess, giving students a chance to explore it up close! 🚒👩‍🚒 A huge THANK YOU to our friends at the Manson Fire Department for making this special week possible. We are grateful for the community partnerships that help keep our students safe while making learning memorable! 💙🚒 Better Together!

💙 Fall conferences are October 19–22!

We look forward to connecting with families to celebrate student progress and discuss goals for the year ahead.

Evening conferences:
• Monday: Middle School
• Tuesday: Elementary & High School
• Wednesday: All three schools

🗓️ Thursday: All teachers available by appointment.

Please connect with your child’s teacher to schedule your conference. Thank you for partnering with us to support our students!

#WeAreMANSON 💙

🎶 Now you see them… now you don’t! 🪂👀 Music class is full of movement and fun in 3rd grade! 🎵 Our students are using an all-time favorite—the parachute—to explore the different parts of music! Under the direction of Mrs. Whitney, students are learning to listen closely, recognize patterns and changes in songs, and respond through movement. 🎼👏 Who knew a parachute could make learning about music this much fun?! 💙🎶

🚲💙 Learning on Two Wheels! 💙🚲 Our students are rolling into an exciting bike unit in PE! Through the Let’s Go Bicycle Education Program, students are building their riding skills while learning important lessons about bike safety, traffic awareness, confidence, and responsible riding. 🚴 A big thank you to North Central Educational Service District and the partners behind the Bicycle Education Program for providing our students with this hands-on opportunity! We love seeing our students challenge themselves, encourage one another, and have a whole lot of fun along the way! 🙌💙

🎃😜 Silly pumpkins are taking over 2nd grade! 🎨🧡 Students in Mrs. Williams’ class had some fall fun creating their own silly pumpkin faces! From goofy grins to wild expressions, each pumpkin showed off a little personality and a whole lot of creativity. We love seeing our students use their imaginations and make learning colorful, creative, and FUN! 🍂✨🎃

Manson FFA students did a great job at the Chelan County Fair this year. They brought home many blue ribbons for swine, a chicken & rabbit and 2 grand champion ribbons for market goats. Bailey Evans also won reserve grand champion for her showmanship. The fair experience always brings lots of hard work, learning, making connections and tons of fun.

💙🤍 The Manson ASB kicked off the week by attending the WASBO conference, where our student leaders learned the business behind ASB, laws, budgeting, and leadership. Then they got to work planning Hollywood HOCO 2026… and now it's time to roll out the red carpet! 🎬✨ 📅 October 5–10 Stay tuned for more details #HollywoodHOCO2026 #Goblue

🤓👓 The Glasses Club is looking pretty sharp! 👓💙 Mrs. Soliday and some of her Superstars are proudly rocking their glasses, and we couldn’t resist capturing this crew! 🤩 This photo also gives us a great opportunity to recognize some pretty special people who help our students see their brightest futures! 🌟 A huge shoutout to our amazing school nurse, Michelle Rogge, who consistently goes above and beyond to make sure students have access to the vision support they need to be successful. 💙 We also want to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to our community partner, Thrive, for generously providing funding to help Manson students in need receive vision support. 👏💕 It’s another great reminder of what makes our little community so special. When we work together to remove barriers, our students can focus on what matters most—learning, growing, and thriving! 💙 #MansonProud #BetterTogether

🗺️🏔️ Learning Washington Geography Hands-On! 🌲🎨 Our 4th graders got creative as they built their own Washington State maps out of salt dough! Students shaped, molded, painted, and labeled important geographic features while putting their knowledge of our state to work. There’s something special about taking classroom learning and turning it into something students can see, touch, and create. 💙 These maps are a great example of hands-on learning, creativity, and teamwork coming together! Great work, 4th graders! 👏🗺️

☀️🌊 Manson Bay Water Safety Day! 🚤🏄‍♂️ What an incredible day on the water for our Manson health students! With beautiful weather, a supportive community, and plenty of hands-on learning, students had the opportunity to build water safety skills, gain confidence, and have a whole lot of fun along the way! Days like this are possible because of the amazing people and local businesses who step up to support our students. We have some BIG thank-yous to share! 💙 🚤 Jet Skis Ahoy for generously donating two boats for the day! 🏊‍♀️ Manson Parks and Recreation for providing two fantastic lifeguards, Hanna Lyman and JT Pinski, to help keep everyone safe! 🌊 Jan Huddleston and Joanie Bankson for leading our swim safety station! 🚤 Kevin Amsden and Payton Stevens for teaching students how to safely maneuver boats on the water! 🏄‍♂️ Zach Phelps and Colby Schoenwald for leading the paddleboarding station, a student favorite! 🍕 Westside Pizza for providing an amazing lunch! 👀 Stacia Brown and Viki Downey for keeping watchful eyes on the water throughout the entire day! This is what makes Manson such a special place! When our community comes together, our students benefit from meaningful experiences and learning opportunities that go far beyond the classroom. Thank you to everyone who helped make this day such a success! GO BLUE! 💙🌊☀️

😎📚 Reading looks pretty cool in 1st grade! Ms. Ellsworth’s first graders are learning that cool readers sound out tricky words, try their best, and keep on reading—even when it gets challenging! 📖 With their cool glasses on and their reading brains growing, these students are building confidence and becoming stronger readers every day! ✨ Keep it up, cool readers! 😎📚💙

Our Manson High School band had an exciting opportunity to join hundreds of musicians at the University of Washington for Band Day! A great day of music, learning, and representing Manson with Pride! Go Trojans!

🎶🎉Our fourth grade musicians have earned their white belts in Recorder Karate! 🤍

To pass level one, students played a variety of songs on their recorders, kept pace with a recording, and performed without Mrs. Whitney’s help. 🎵🪈👏 What a great example of Manson Performs in action! 🌟

Keep up the amazing work, musicians! 💙

Our TK classroom is busy learning through play! 🧩🏰

During center time, students build imaginative cities with blocks and Magna-Tiles, work together on puzzles, and explore activities they choose. Along the way, they’re practicing counting, shapes, and colors while learning to share, communicate, solve problems, and keep trying when something is tricky.

There’s so much learning happening in these little moments! 💙

🐸🎶 Frog in the Meadow! Our 1st grade musicians had a hopping good time exploring different ways to keep a steady beat while following Frog in the Meadow! Students practiced with a variety of instruments, including frog and traditional guiros—and, just for fun, even Mr. Beet and Ms. Avocado joined the music-making! 🥑🎵 Learning rhythm, keeping the beat, and having plenty of fun along the way—that’s music class! 💙

⭐ Soliday’s Superstars are making math fun! ⭐ Second graders in Mrs. Soliday’s class have been busy learning about odd and even numbers through lively rounds of Odd Todd and Even Steven. 🔢 With math, movement, and plenty of smiles, these superstars are building their number sense and having a great time doing it! 💙

📚 Free books for little readers! 💙

Families with children birth to age 5 are invited to sign up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and receive a free book in the mail every month! Families can also sign up for a free library card and take home a book the same day.

Join one of these upcoming registration events:

📍 Chelan — Sept. 25 at 1:00 PM
HUB Library Pop-Up, 503 E Highland Ave #207

📍 Manson — Sept. 29 at 11:00 AM
Manson Library, 80 Wapato Way

Please bring your child’s legal name, birth date, home mailing address, and a photo ID. Community Health Workers will also be available with WIC information, developmental milestone resources, and other early-learning supports.

📖 One book each month. A growing home library. A lifelong love of reading!

Learn more at imaginationlibrary.com.

🐟🌲 Third Grade at Salmon Fest! Our 3rd graders had an amazing day at Salmon Fest at Rocky Reach Dam! Students jumped into hands-on learning about salmon, their life cycle, and the importance of protecting our local waterways. Experiences like this are such a great way to bring classroom learning to life while giving students a chance to explore, ask questions, and make lasting memories together. A big thank you to our chaperones and everyone who helped make this field trip such a special experience! 💙

The basketball fun continued at Manson Elementary! 🏀💙 After a great visit from the WWU women’s basketball team, we were excited to welcome the Western Washington University men’s basketball team to spend time with our 4th and 5th graders! The players joined students for lunch, shared stories, and then headed outside to take over recess. Our students loved getting the chance to play, connect, and have some fun alongside collegiate athletes. These are the kinds of moments that create lasting memories for our kids. A huge thank you to WWU Men’s Basketball for bringing such great energy, positivity, and fun to Manson! 🙌🏀

It’s immunization compliance time of year! You may be hearing from our school nurse, Mrs. Rogge, if your child is missing required immunizations.

Washington State requires students to meet immunization requirements for school attendance unless the school has received a signed exemption form. Please review the charts pictured for specific immunization requirements and contact Mrs. Rogge with any questions or to submit updated records. mrogge@manson.org

Thank you for helping us keep our students and school community healthy and safe!