Mark Twain Elementary School -

C is for collaboration was a great opportunity for CMS and Mark Twain students to work together to beautify our school grounds. Then today our blacktop got decorated with student chalk art for D is for Drawing day. Tomorrow is E is for EIU. We encourage students to wear EIU apparel or blue and a little (blue)birdie told me we may just have special guests at recess. #abccountdown #marktwain #twaincusd1 #leaderinme

Do you have a child that will start kindergarten in the fall? Please join us May 6 between 4pm and 6pm at Mark Twain for our Candy Land family night. Please feel free to forward this on to other families you know that will have a kindergarten student in the fall.

We look forward to meeting you! #marktwain #twaincusd1 #leaderinme

Yesterday was A is for Apple and today B is for Bee at Mark Twain. Today our very own Mr. Rex taught us all about bees and shared a special treat 🍯 directly from his hive! Monday is C is for Collaboration. We are excited to collaborate with students from Charleston Middle School! #abccountdown #marktwain #twaincusd1

Today is our book swap at Mark Twain. Each student will go home with 4 books thanks to our successful book drive in March! #servicelearning #leaderinme #marktwain #twaincusd1

Thursday (4/16/26) will be our first day in Mark Twain's ABC Countdown, where we will celebrate "A is for Apple". Students will enjoy apple activities in their classrooms. Refer to the calendar for the theme for each of the days: https://aptg.co/qLG3zl
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During PE this week, Mark Twain students learned how coders give technology specific commands to follow. They then got to code robots on which direction to move! #twaincusd1

Mark Twain Lost and found items are updated daily. If you're missing something click the link below to see how to claim an item https://charlestoncusd1-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/coxa_charleston_k12_il_us/IQDPS_qs1YcCTJ8giSMz8BcVASZaT7CgJB72vACcJB8SBEY?e=Raw5mb

We had guests today at Mark Twain from Lakeland College, teaching us all about taking care of our teeth. Thank you LLC dental hygiene students for spending your morning with us!

We collected 136 boxes of cereal to donate to the Food-4-Kids program. To celebrate crushing our goal, we set them up like dominos and watched them topple. Thank you to everyone who donated! https://youtube.com/shorts/uNcK_ovmXoI?si=4Ku6PdWthrnKbl8p #marktwain #twaincusd1 #leaderinme #servicelearning

We are looking forward to seeing all of our Mark Twain families tomorrow at our Glow and Grow family night.
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Thank you 7Brew for fueling us today! We appreciate your donation and are excited to have you in our community! #marktwain #twaincusd1

WOW! You all really showed up today :) I am so happy I had Student Lighthouse members to help me collect today as it took all of our hands and more! We collected 41 boxes of cereal today, putting us at 77 boxes total. We only need 23 more boxes to make our goal! Let's do this!!!!!!! #leaderinme #marktwain #twaincusd1

We are getting close to our goal of 100 boxes of cereal. Send in unopened boxes of cereal to Mark Twain through Friday, Jan 23.

Today was our biggest donation day, good thing I had strong Student Lighthouse team members to help me collect. The excitement of getting to 100 is building, so please keep sending those boxes in! Help us reach our goal! #leaderinme #marktwain #twaincusd1 #sesrvicelearning

Keep sending in those cereal boxes to Mark Twain! Our cereal drive continues through Jan 23.

The cereal drive started yesterday at Mark Twain. Each morning two members of the student lighthouse team help Mrs. Titus collect boxes from each classroom. They then count the total number of boxes collected. We will post the total each day. Keep sending those boxes in. #marktwain #twaincusd1 #leaderinme

Mark Twain is partnering with Food-4-Kids and hosting a cereal drive, Jan 14-23. Our goal is to collect 100 boxes of unopened cereal in honor of our 100th day of school (Jan 24). If we get to 100, we will have a fun school wide activity to celebrate our achievement. Cereal can be given to classroom teachers or the front office.
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HollyDay breakfast is this Saturday (12/6/25) from 7:30-10:30am at Mark Twain. We look forward to seeing everyone!

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