The Buy One, Get One FREE Scholastic Book Fair will continue to be open April 27th - May 1st.
Hours:
Daily: 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Extended Hours: On Friday, May 1st, we will be open from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm during the PTSO Spring Festival.
Students are welcome to shop before school, during the school day, and after school. Parents are invited to shop with their students after school.
Payment Options:
We accept cash, checks (made payable to MNM), debit/credit cards, Apple Pay, and Scholastic eWallet.
For additional details, please visit our online book fair link: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/marringtonmiddleschofarts2
Thank you for supporting student literacy and the MMSOA Library—we can’t wait to see our readers stock up on great books! 📖✨
Tomorrow we invite you to wear purple to honor the nearly 2 million military-connected children across our country. The color purple is special because it represents the blending of all military branches—the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Space Force—all coming together as one unified force.
By wearing purple tomorrow, we're celebrating the incredible resilience and strength of military children and acknowledging the sacrifices their families make every single day. It's a simple but meaningful way to let these students know their service and their families' commitment are valued and recognized.
We'd love to see as many students, staff, and families as possible wearing purple tomorrow! Whether it's a purple shirt, purple accessories, or even just a purple ribbon—any shade of purple works. It's a great way to build community and show solidarity with our military families.
Thank you so much for being part of our school family, and we hope to see you and your student(s) in purple tomorrow! Have a great evening!
We are excited to welcome students and staff back from Spring Break! Click here for a special edition of the newsletter so you're up to date on this busy week back: https://app.smore.com/n/mh0c5
🌟📚 A Very Special SCJBA Moment! 📚🌟
Our student Caroline earned the incredible honor of introducing last year’s SC Junior Book Award winning author Debbi Michiko Florence at an awards ceremony during the SCASL Conference: Where Libraries Bloom. Debbi Michiko Florence authored the students’ choice award-winning book Sweet and Sour! 🍎🍋
Caroline and her mom are both dedicated members of the SCJBA committee; they read about 100 books, vote, and help choose the nominees for the following year. Their passion for reading truly shines! ✨
During the conference, Caroline, her mom, Mrs. Courtney, and Mrs. Fisher had the pleasure of enjoying lunch with Debbi Michiko Florence who later sent Caroline a signed copy of her book along with some fun book swag.
What an honor to dine with and introduce an award-winning author—a memory Caroline and our library team will treasure forever! 💛📖
Congratulations, Caroline, for representing our readers with such poise and enthusiasm!
Read Across America Beanstack Celebration
We had an amazing number of readers during our challenge! 📖
*453 students logged reading minutes
*195 students reached the 400-minute goal
*109 students officially completed the challenge by reading 400 minutes and completing the Integrity Badge
*14 Staffulty completed the challenge
So many students put in the hard work of reading, but 86 students who reached the 400-minute goal did not complete the final Integrity Badge step needed to officially complete the challenge. We hope to see even more students finish all parts next time! 📖
Grade Level Results:
6th Grade: 62 students completed
7th Grade: 26 students completed
8th Grade: 21 students completed
Our final challenge for the 25-26 school year begins April 1st.
This year, Mrs. Courtney and Mrs. Fisher introduced students to the exciting SC Junior Book Award nominees with a fun station rotation lesson back in the fall. Students had until February 15th to dive into three nominees of their choice and complete their Beanstack activities.
All students and staffulty who completed the challenge were invited to vote for their favorite nominee—and the celebration didn’t stop there! Our dedicated readers were treated to a Chick-fil-A breakfast complete with giveaways, including a Scholastic poster, a book of their choice, and a certificate to honor their reading achievements.
✨ Special Recognition: Three exceptional readers went above and beyond by reading all 20 nominees! They joined Mrs. Courtney and Mrs. Fisher in this impressive feat and were rewarded with Bookworm sweatshirts.
📸 Congratulations to all our readers for their hard work, dedication, and love of books! Your next adventure is just a page away!
The Winter Book Fair has officially wrapped up, and it was a great success! Students purchased many books and enjoyed the opportunity to select titles that matched their interests and reading preferences.
Research shows that student choice plays a powerful role in literacy development. The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) states, “Letting students choose their own books boosts reading engagement and promotes social-emotional and intellectual growth.” Additionally, Jenni Aberli of the International Literacy Association emphasizes that “Student choice is the key to turning students into readers.”
⭐ Thanks to our community’s support:
$133 in Share the Fair funds was used to purchase books for students who may not have otherwise been able to shop.
10 books were raffled off, paid for with Scholastic Dollars.
3 students and 3 staff members won gift certificates to use at our next fair.
📅 Mark your calendars!
Our BOGO Book Fair (Buy One, Get One FREE) runs April 23–May 1. Scholastic requires two regular fairs before hosting a BOGO event, and we proudly do this to give students the opportunity to stock their personal libraries at a BOGO rate right before summer.
Thank you to everyone who helped make the Winter Book Fair a meaningful and exciting experience for our students. ✨
We had so much fun recognizing our prize winners from our latest Beanstack Challenge.
Some of our student readers enjoyed a delicious breakfast from Chick-fil-A, while others won gift certificates to shop at our next Scholastic Book Fair or picked out fun items from our prize basket.
And of course, we couldn’t forget our amazing staffulty readers—several enjoyed a tasty lunch from Moe's.
We are so proud of everyone who participated. Every page read makes a difference, and we love finding ways to celebrate the joy of reading in our school community! Keep turning those pages! 📖✨
We are SO proud of our MMSOA readers! 📚
Back in August, we set a lofty community goal on Beanstack — 1 MILLION logged reading minutes.
And guess what? 🎉 WE SURPASSED IT! 🎉
To celebrate, we treated everyone to ice pops because we officially “iced out the competition!” ❄️ What an incredible accomplishment for our entire school community!
But we’re not stopping there…
So what do we do now? We go BIGGER. We’re aiming for 2 MILLION logged minutes before the end of the school year! If we reach this goal, we’ll celebrate schoolwide with a SILENT DISCO 🪩🎧 and a photo booth to capture the fun!
Let’s keep logging those minutes, turning those pages, and showing what MMSOA readers can do! 2 million… here we come! Stay tuned! 👀 A brand-new challenge is launching soon—and don’t be surprised if Benny the Bean pops up as one of the prize options!
