🎃🥫 Trick or Treat… for a GOOD CAUSE! 💙 Instead of collecting candy this Halloween, our Manson High School Interact Club students went door to door collecting canned food to help others in our community! Interact Club is a student service organization connected to Rotary, giving students opportunities to make a difference through leadership and service. A huge thank you to Sam Lovelace for leading this group, to our students for giving their time, and to our community for supporting their efforts! 💙 Have an idea for a community service project? Our Interact Club is always looking for ways to give back and would love to hear your ideas! We love seeing our students put leadership into action! 👏

🎃 Little Pumpkins, BIG Learning! 🎃 Our Pre-3 class at the Manson Early Learning Center has been having so much fun learning all about pumpkins! These little learners were pretty excited to show off their very own mini pumpkins! 🧡 A special THANK YOU to Ms. Butters for generously donating the pumpkins and helping make learning so much fun for our youngest students! 🍂 Fall fun is in full swing at Manson! 💙

📚🍂 A Little Story Time Magic! 🍂📚 Our TTK students at the Early Learning Center had a special visitor when our wonderful librarian, Mrs. Griffith, stopped by for story time! She shared The Scarecrow, a heartwarming story about unexpected friendship, kindness, and opening our hearts to others. 💙 What a sweet way to celebrate the fall season while sharing important lessons about friendship and compassion! Thank you, Mrs. Griffith, for bringing the joy of reading to our youngest learners! 📖🍁

🎃🎶 Pass the Pumpkin! 🥁🍂 It’s spooky season in Mrs. Whitney’s music class, and our 1st and 4th graders are getting into the fall spirit with the traditional folk song Pass the Pumpkin! 🎵 Our 1st graders are practicing singing while playing a variety of instruments, with our xylophone players working hard to keep a steady beat! 🥁 Our 4th graders are taking it a step further by adding sound effects with rain sticks, keeping the beat on drums and xylophones, and singing along to this fun fall favorite! What a fun way to build musical skills, practice teamwork, and celebrate the season! 🎃🧡 #MansonElementary #MansonPerforms #MusicClass #LearningThroughMusic

⚡🔬 Science Comes to Life in 2nd Grade! Our Manson Elementary second graders had a special visit today from the North Central Educational Service District (NCESD) to learn all about energy transformation! Students explored how the flowing water of the Columbia River is used by hydroelectric dams to generate the electricity that powers our everyday lives! 💡🌊 A big thank you to the NCESD Science Department and our local Public Utility Districts (PUDs) for partnering to bring engaging, hands-on science education to our students! We love seeing our Wildcats make connections between what they learn in the classroom and the world around them! 💙 #MansonElementary #WildcatPride #ScienceEducation #HandsOnLearning #NCESD

🚒🔥 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! 💙