Edison Elementary Home of the Eagles

Our Edison team won the 2018 Battle at the Chandler Library. Congrats to them for all their hard work studying and preparing for the nerve racking competition.  Thanks to Mrs. Mountford for her efforts as well to run our program.

Edison had 3 students host projects for the MPS Gifted and Talented Showcase night last week.  Students from around the district showed off their projects and hard work.

Edison 6th graders have been busy competing in academic contests this month.  Our Edison Math team of Emma, Taytum, Katie and Caleb took 6th place in the MPS Team Math Challenge.  Katie won the mental math showdown and placed in several individual contest areas.  Way to go!!!

Our Battle of the Books team also has been busy.  The team of Emma, Katie and Caleb took 3rd place in the District contest and qualified for regionals which will be coming up soon.  We wish them luck as they keep battling.

Edison had several classrooms that earned grant donations from the Ripple company donation to DonorsChoose.  Ms. Freshley, Mrs. Luebbert, Mrs. Elmer and Mrs. Soloff all had their projects funded during this $29 million donation from the company sponsor.  Edison students will enjoy the new items for class from books, science equipment, and classroom furniture.  Thanks to those teachers for getting those grants on for this wonderful opportunity.

Edison’s STEAM Team participated in the MPS SciTech festival on Saturday, March 3^rd.  The team built catapult kits for students to build and test. Students and their families were launching marshmallows at our targets from different locations and using different sizes of marshmallows to test their designs.  We had a great turnout and we appreciate everyone giving up their Saturday to represent our school in this fun event.

Edison also had 3 students that earned recognition and awards for their entries in the district Science Fair.  Alyson E. won an honorable mention for her entry with a see-through egg and in the group category, Chase R. and Kenadie T. won for their blender bike design.  We are so proud of all our students that built and entered projects for both the Edison STEAM fair and the district competition.

Edison staff also had a night at the Coyotes hockey game thanks to our PE department hosting the Coyotes for our PE classes this past week.  The team comes out twice each year to work with our students.  This year they provided equipment for our classes and provided the tickets to attend.  They had great seats and enjoyed the game.  Thanks Coyotes for your support.

I LOVE Books came to visit our K-1 classes last weekend enjoyed a great presentation with a dynamic reader/performer to get our kids excited about learning to read for fun.

Ms. Osuna Nationally Board Certified Teacher

Edison SLD teacher Anne Osuna was recognized as a National Board Certified teacher for the 2017-2018 school year.  She worked to demonstrate her instructional and management skills for the review and the use of her lesson plans, lesson observations and student results to qualify her for this prestigious award.  We are proud of her efforts to represent the professionalism of MPS teaching staff.

Donors Choose Grant for 2nd Grade  pics on the STEM webpage

Mrs. Elmer got funded for another DonorsChoose project for MakeyMakey.  This project will let her students work on STEM projects and explore how to build items with various functionality.

Mrs. Elmer recently received news that her ELD students will be working with robotics in the coming months thanks to her STEM project design.  He 2nd grade class of ELD learners will use the robotics lessons to be a tool for language development.  Thanks to the generous donors for making this dream project a reality.  Mrs. Elmer, you rock!

5th Grade - Art Project   Edison Rock Garden- 

 Thanks to our parent volunteers for helping to make this happen for rooms 27 and 28.  The students had a blast making these creations.

PBIS Winners

Congrats to our PBIS drawing winners... Jody's red wagon, Daymi's bike and Sebastian's bike.  Thanks to our donors for these prizes our kids were excited to win.

Edison Teacher Gets Grant for STEM Activities from Donors Choose. Read the story.

Mrs. Soloff, fourth-grade teacher, (left) was named an Honorable Mention finalist for Science Teacher of the Year in 2016-17 from the Arizona Science Teacher Association (ASTA) at their November awards banquet.

Donors Choose Snap Circuits

Mrs. Soloff's class was awarded funding for Snap Circuit to enhance the 4th grade electronics and problem solving units for science and critical thinking skills.  Thanks to those that supported her class in this project.  Some donors were from our community and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Edison Teacher Earns ADE STEM Scholarship

Ms. Freshley (above) was recently awarded a scholarship to cover the costs of her future learning to earn a STEM certification from Rio Salado.  Mrs. Freshley is her third year teaching 4th grade at Edison.  We look forward to her sharing her courses to bring these kinds of activities to our campus. 

Donors Choose Funded Grant
Ms. Freshley also got her Donors Choose project funded for light inserts for her classroom to help set the environment for learning in her room.

Congrats...

to Edison Art teacher Shelley Richardson who was recently recognized by the MPS Governing Board for 30 years of perfect attendance to her work duties.  Mrs. Richardson is dedicated to our students and works at five schools each week to teach student the skills needed to be successful artists. Thanks for all you do Mrs. Richardson.

Mr. Livingston- Music Conference Presentation

Edison students (left) performed for the AZ Music Educators' Conference under the direction of Todd Livingston. Todd is the Band Director for both Edison and Kino.  He presented to the conference to highlight elementary band skills.

Constitution Week @ Edison

This year, local attorneys gave of their time to visit and teach Edison students about the U.S. Constitution.  We appreciate them giving this experience to our students so we can help develop an informed citizenry.

Right - Abigail Adams visits 5th and 6th grades to teach students about the history behind the era of the framing of the U.S. Constitution.

Local Attorney Teaches Edison 6th graders About the First Amendment.

Colin Kapernick, Dress Codes for Work and Campaigning for President were topics explored within the First Amendment.

Desert Sounds provides Edison students with instruments so that they can play in our school orchestra and band groups.  This year 4 students have instruments provided through the Jeremy Project.  

We have also benefited from the support of the East Valley Pops for funding and concerts for our students.  http://www.eastvalleypops.org/

Our thanks for supporting our students developing their musical talents.

Edison would like to thank the Assistance League of the East Valley for their support of our families with clothing and shoe needs this school year. The organization hosted 45 students and their families last week at the Extension and Southern Target to allow them to shop. Students loved the new items they were able to select and families appreciated the experience.

Edison students were the lucky recipients of school supply donations from the Mesa First Church of the Nazarene. Pastor David Caudle leads the local congregation .

Edison families were very thankful for the wonderful school supply donations from the Breakfast Optimist Club of Mesa.  Students received backpacks of supplies and others added to their class supplies form their generous donation.  Last year they donated both supplies and coats for our Edison students.  Thanks for all you do for Edison students.  

Edison would also like to thank AT Still for their dental care support for our students.  We had 30 Edison students receive extra special treatment this past week.  We know healthy and happy students do a better job learning and we appreciate our community partners for their support of education and our community.

Banner Health and ASU volunteers came to Edison to teach our young learners about being safe in their homes and in the community.  The volunteers built a small town in our gym to show students the reality of situations that can pose a risk to them.