What is happening this week...

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

~ Robert Brault

Week of April 16 – April 20

16 – Mon – KG DIBELS

                     3:30 SRC

17 – Tue –  KG DIBELS continued

18 - Wed – Collaboration and Teaming/Special Services Job-Alike

                    1:30 Elementary Secretary’s Meeting

19 - Thur – 3:30 Staff Meeting

20 – Fri –   

Week of April 23 – April 27

23 – Mon – Pizza with the principal

                     3:30 SRC

24 – Tue –  DIBELS Testing Rm 2

25 - Wed – Individual Planning

26 - Thur – 8:00 Safety Meeting

                     Take your child to work day

                     3:30 CSIP Meeting

27 – Fri –    MSP Begins for 3^rd and 4^th graders

                     1:00 to 3:00 PTA Walk-a-Thon

Fundraiser

PTA Walk-a-Thon fundraiser packets will go home in Thursday folders this week. The Walk-a-thon will be on Friday, April 27 from 1:00 to 3:00.  Classroom sign-up is on the clipboard on the workroom counter and available right away.  Jolie Moxley, coordinator for this event would like to come by on Friday during lunch to get your students excited about this event.

Head Lice

We have had numerous cases of head lice reported in the last two weeks. Please make sure that you are sending letters home that the nurse puts in your box.  In addition, it’s very important to remember:

Common ways head lice are spread include:

• Coming into direct contact with an already infested person.  In schools, it is common for children to transfer head lice during recess, while riding on the school bus, or during classroom activities where they sit in close groups together. 
• Sharing infested items such as hats, scarves, coats, hair accessories, hair brushes, or stuffed animals.
• Sitting or lying on a bed, couch, pillow or carpet that that been infested with head lice.

Prevention in classroom

• Do a deep thorough vacuum of carpets, fabric furniture like sofas etc. and wash cushion covers.
• Some fabric items may be damaged by washing at high temperatures so try sealing in air tight plastic bags for at least two weeks. This should be enough time for nits to hatch and adult lice to die which they must if they are unable to feed.

Tardy slips/Attendance

We are out of our reusable lunch tickets and low on our reusable tardy slips.  Please remember to send them back to the office on a regular basis.

Please make sure to mark any student that is not present when the tardy bell rings as absent.  If they arrive without a tardy slip and you have marked them absent, send them to the office for a tardy slip.  If they arrive with a tardy slip and you forgot to mark them absent, mark them absent.  We adjust each student that is tardy in the system with notes regarding their tardies.  This is a very useful tool as the year progresses and becomes part of their record. Teachers must mark each student daily. If you mark a student absent in error, please change it immediately in TAC to present. The automatic school messenger will call their house.

Take your child to work day

Forms need to be turned in to the office as soon as you receive them.  Please remember to mark students absent if they do not come to school that day.

Staff Lounge

Our forks have returned, unfortunately, they have been caught lying in the sink waiting for someone else to wash them, along with some dirty dishes.  Please clean up after yourselves.  We haven’t gone 2 days without dirty dishes left in the sink for some time…we can do this, together!