Snow much talent on display this week! ☃️ Our students really brought their A- game to the Snow Day Snowman Contest. Check out these incredible builds! ❄️🏆
#SnowDayFun #HWMountz #CreativeKids
Join us March 2–March 6 as we celebrate Read Across America Spirit Week full of stories, imagination, and school pride. Because when we read together, we grow together. 💫
#ReadAcrossAmerica #SpiritWeekFun #LoveToRead #MountzMagic
Today we celebrated our 100th Day of School with big smiles, lots of laughs, and a whole lot of pride. From day 1 to day 100, our students have grown in confidence, kindness, and curiosity—and it shows.
Here’s to 100 days of learning, leading, and loving every minute of it… and we’re just getting started! 💯✨
✨ H.W. Mountz teachers in action!✨
Our awesome staff spent Monday afternoon learning with Kate Sullivan, diving into Opportunities to Respond (OTRs) and other high-impact teaching strategies that keep every student thinking, talking, and actively participating.
These strategies mean more voices heard, more brains engaged, and more moments where students are truly part of the learning. We’re so excited to see these ideas come alive in classrooms and help create powerful, memorable learning experiences for our kids!
Tomorrow, February 5, is our second Open House of the year — so tell your friends, coworkers, neighbors...everyone's invited. We’ll host one more in March, plus private tours for families who need a different time. Let’s show everyone what makes Mountz so special and keep growing this incredible community together.🧡
Students explored doodling, character design, and visual storytelling—turning moments from their own lives into original comics. It was a fun, creative reminder that everyone has a story worth telling.
Huge thank you to our PTA for sponsoring this fantastic experience and supporting creativity, reading, and student voice! 🖤🧡👏
Two students from each grade competed this week, and we’re proud of our finalists for representing their classes so well. Great focus, effort, and sportsmanship all around. 🌎🐝
The STEAM Tank Challenge was designed to inspire, engage, and motivate students to nurture problem solving skills and foster collaboration as they brainstorm ideas for a sustainable solution to a real-world problem. This year's teams are: Lantern Byes and Crochet Your Way.
Team Lantern Byes is composed of a few third and fourth grade students. Their product is a kit which will assist beachgoers and other outdoor enthusiasts in the destruction of Spotted Lantern Flies in a manner that will preserve shoes, bare feet and hands.
In contrast, Team Crochet Your Way, consisting of two fifth grade students, is designing a product that is geared towards indoor recreation. Their product idea is to design a crochet hook that is more comfortable for young people to use, thereby making the hobby more appealing and hopefully enticing children away from devices.
As they move forward in the competition, they will utilize the design and engineering process to build, test and modify prototypes for their designs. They will then have an opportunity to present their research and prototypes to a panel of judges from the New Jersey School Board Association.Our two teams have already made their mark and we are confident that they will continue to proudly and positively represent Mountz as they proceed through the competition.
We’d love your help getting the word out — tag a friend, share this post, or tell a family who might be looking for a school like ours. Let’s grow this amazing community together!
Congratulations to our Administrators for the Day — we are truly lucky to have them as both leaders and students here at Mountz!
Think back to the last time you had a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, did you know that some kids have never even tried PB&J before! This is where H. W. Mountz Elementary School comes in. We collected peanut butter and jelly cans to donate to Monmouth and Ocean County’s Fulfill Foodbank. This drive was run by Mrs. Dettlinger and the National Junior Honor Society.
On Wednesday, December 17, the National Junior Honor Society also held a hot cocoa sale to collect money for Fulfill as well. All total, the NJHS collected 194 pounds of peanut butter and jelly. This equates to $1,065 which will provide 3,352 meals. Well Done, NJHS!
We look forward to the great work they will accomplish as they help guide our school community forward. Welcome aboard, Emily and Amanda — we’re so glad you’re here!
Mountz Students Lead the Way in Digital Citizenship
At HW Mountz, students are learning what it means to be smart, safe, and kind online as part of our schoolwide focus on digital citizenship. Our K–2 students explored how to protect personal information, make thoughtful choices when using technology, and show kindness in online spaces. Their classwork highlights the importance of being responsible digital citizens, even at a young age. The highlight of our DC lesson was when the students and Miss Ping created a rap, sharing how to be safe online!
Taking this initiative a step further, our seventh-grade students became digital role models by creating educational flyers and videos for peers in grades K–2, 3–5, and 6–8. The students wrote their own scripts, filmed and edited the videos, and designed flyers featuring QR codes that link directly to their final projects. Each flyer includes age-appropriate tips and information about online safety and positive digital behavior.
Together, our students are showing that good digital citizenship starts with being smart, safe, and kind—both online and off.
This is to advise that at approximately 12:20 PM today, an exhaust motor positioned just outside of the media center/library stopped working. Some of the wiring melted, thereby creating a strong, burnt plastic smell in the library and around the first floor west wing.
The electricity to the motor has been disconnected and all is well with no disruption to our daily programming.
Mountz Welcomes Ms. Sweeny
Our new supervisor, Ms. Sweeny, has been warmly welcomed into the Mountz Family. Ms. Sweeny has had a lot of exposure to the parents from back-to-school night and PTA meetings and has complimented all the students on how wonderful they are. Ms. Sweeny knows from experience that it is hard to work on a computer all day, and something she has done to change the school has been working with Mr. Russo and Dr. Lavalva to have kids spend less time on screens and more time doing hands-on learning.
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Welcome Mr. Russo
Our new principal, Mr. Russo, has been welcomed with open arms! He’s really happy to be here and excited to get to know all the students, parents, and teachers. One challenge he’s had so far is learning everyone’s names — there are a lot of us! Mr. Russo loves spending time with students during lunch and recess, and he enjoys visiting classrooms to see all the awesome learning that’s happening. He’s also been working with Mrs. Sweeny and Dr. Lavalva to help improve our school’s screen time guidelines.
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