I hope everyone has had an enjoyable month of January thus far. It is hard to believe that the month of February is only a few days away!

Thank you to all the staff, students, and families that attended our Barnes and Noble night last week! We appreciate that you took the time out of your busy schedules to attend.

This Friday, February 2nd, our fabulous PTO will be hosting a movie night. The movie will be The Super Mario Brothers. The movie event will run from 6:00-9:00pm. Please see further down in the newsletter for more information.

The SWPIS program will be collecting one dollar for anyone that would like to participate in pajama day, that will take place on Friday, February 2nd.

Also, please make sure to read the information below on the "Read for the House" program that will be starting February 1st. Please make sure to sign up to participate prior to February 1st. There will be a contest running for the classroom has the highest percentage of participants, as well as for the top three students who have read for the most minutes. In addition, everyone who raises at least $1 will receive a certificate, a RMHC Philly magnet, a free cookie from Famous 4th Street Cookie Company, a free scoop of ice cream from Jeni's, and a free water ice from Rita's. Please see further down in the newsletter below more additional prizes that are available.

Just a reminder, on Monday it will be a "D" day, Tuesday it will be an "E" day, and on Wednesday it will be an "A" day. An updated calendar will for February will be available soon.

Have a wonderful week!

Respectfully,

Mrs. Smith-Herman

Smencil Sales ($1.25 each)

Pre-Order Pretzels

Wear Paw Shirts

📝January 29th✏️

All of February

February 2nd

February 14th

Professional Development in PM for School Staff

February 19th

March 13th

Professional Development in PM for School Staff

March 28th-April 1st

ELA- April 22nd, 24th, and 26th- Grades 3, 4, 5

Math- April 30th and May 1st- Grades 3, 4, 5

Science- May 2nd and May 3rd- Grade 4 Only

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

Rain Date- Thursday, May 9th, 2024

It will take place in the stadium at Truman High School.

Thursday, June 6th- AM- K/1

Thursday, June 6th- PM- 2/3

Friday, June 7th- AM- 4/5

Rain Dates: June 10th and/or 11th

Position: Teaching Assistant

Years at Bristol Township School District: 22 years

Strengths: Playing the piano, Writing music, Canoeing/sailing/swimming

Pets: Cat named Kitty, Chocolate lab named Nestle

Hobbies: Swimming, hanging at the beach, sunset chaser

Favorite Color(s): blue

Favorite Snack: Chocolate

Favorite Sports' Team: Phillies and Eagles

Three Fun Facts:

1. I have been to 4 Summer Olympics - LA, South Korea, Barcelona, Atlanta

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Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is announcing the 2024 Litter Hawk Youth Award Program, a recognition program for students in kindergarten through 6th grade to share how they keep Pennsylvania beautiful through art, words or video. In coordination of the release of the revision of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s popular Open your Eyes to Litter series of books for grades K through 6, the theme is: Open Your Eyes to Litter – Show Us What You See. Two entries will be awarded in each grade level. Projects include:

• Grades Kindergarten through 4 - Poster

• Grades 5 – Essay

• Grade 6 – Video

First place and second place will receive ribbons and a certificate. All participants will receive a litter hawk sticker. Deadline to participate is January 31st. Winners will be announced in May in coordination with a display of winning entries at the PA State Capitol Building. For more information and an application, visit https://www.keeppabeautiful.org/grants-awards/awards/litter-hawk/.

Saint Francis University Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the PA Statistics Poster Competition for 2024! The state-wide competition is open to students in grades K-12 to submit a statistics poster, which is a display containing graphs that summarize data, provide different points of view and answer a question(s) about the data. Electronic submissions will be accepted of a digitally created poster or a high quality picture of a physical poster.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION
· Open to all K-12 students in Pennsylvania, registration will open on February 1, 2024
· Four grade level categories: K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12
· Submission deadline is: Friday, March 29, 2024
· Cash prizes and certificates are awarded for first, second, third and fourth place in each grade category
· Certificates awarded for honorable mentions for each grade category
· Winning posters from Pennsylvania Competition are submitted to the American Statistical Association Data Visualization Poster judging competition

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Teachers from across Pennsylvania are encouraged to incorporate the Statistics Poster Competition into their classrooms. Collaborative efforts between subjects can be an exciting way to show how mathematics relates to other subjects such as health, geography, history, science, etc..

Teachers who incorporate the PA Statistics Poster Competition into their classrooms register and submit the posters on behalf of their students. A student working independently can submit a poster via a parent or mentor.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration deadline for the 2024 competition is March 29, 2024.

For more information about the competition and to register please visit: https://www.francis.edu/PA-Statistics-Poster-Competition

If you have any questions, please contact us:
Email: mathematics@francis.edu
Phone: 814.471.1215

Keystone Elementary will be holding our 3rd annual “Spread the Love” kindness event by making both Valentine's Day cards and pictures, as well as providing gift baskets containing goodies & treats to surrounding nursing home residents on Valentine's Day.

We are also collecting donations for this event. If you would like to donate money, or treats such as individually wrapped candy (hard & soft), small snacks, etc., for the goodie baskets to coincide with the cards, that would be awesome and very much appreciate! Last year, Keystone gave the nursing home residents 3 large gift baskets of goodies to go with the cards and pictures.

It was amazing!

Donations will be collected from now until Thursday, February 8th. * Note* If donating money, please be sure to send it in a secure envelope clearly labeled “ Share the Love." We know the residents will absolutely LOVE this receiving the cards and treats.

Any questions please feel free to reach out to Aimee Ramos at aimee.ramos@bristoltwpsd.org .

Thanks so much!

Thank you for all who have participating in our newsletter's weekly poll! It looks like most people's favorite season in fall!

Many thanks to Miss. Mamrol, Miss. Gulick, Mr. Wood , Miss. Rausch, Mr. Pierce, Mrs. Claudio, Mrs. Reutlinger, Mrs. Nean, Mrs. Houser, Mrs. Pitts, Ms. Wells, Mrs. Hope and Mrs. Watkins for attending and supporting Keystone's Barnes and Noble night, as well as our learners, on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024.

Many thanks to all our Keystone families for attending and for supporting Keystone Elementary School!

We could not have had a successful fundraiser without everyone's support!

The "Barn Hill Preserve strives to educate students about animals from wild places across the world." It was wonderful having them bring the zoo to our school! The Keystone staff and students were greeted with "enthusiastic animal experts, who are experienced in the fields of wildlife rehabilitation, zoological conservation and captive breeding programs."

Many thanks to Mrs. Nober for organizing this entire event and for providing this awesome learning opportunity for all our scholars!

The Read for the House Program is a service-learning project for children of any age that raises funds to support Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region. In addition to helping our guest families, the program promotes the value of community service and improves reading comprehension.

PROGRAM TIMELINE:

JANUARY 2024: Readers watch our online video to learn about the program, create their personal fundraising pages, and seek family and friends to pledge any amount of money for each minute they read during February.

FEBRUARY 2024: Reading begins on February 1! Readers keep track of how many minutes they read using the calendar we provide.

MARCH 2024: Readers reach out to their family and friends and collect their donations through their online fundraising page. They can feel good knowing every dollar they raised directly helps families in need!

Readers will earn prizes! Not only will they have the satisfaction of knowing they are helping families when they need it the most, but readers can also earn fun prizes based on their fundraising totals!

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Fresh fruits an vegetables are sampled at school on Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Fridays.

The students in grades K-5 had the opportunity to sample rutabaga, yellow carrots, piel de sapo, last week.

Many thanks and gratitude to the students and staff in room A208 and A112 for continuing to providing the delivery of the fresh fruits and vegetables to the classrooms at Keystone Elementary School. You are all doing a fantastic job and we are very appreciative! Thanks!

In order to maintain the safety of all our learners, we are asking that families alert teachers, in writing, for any transportation/dismissal plan changes prior to 9am each morning.

We do understand that emergencies may arise throughout the day that requires a change to a child's dismissal plan for that particular day. For those situations, please make sure you are alerting the office staff as soon as possible, so they can communicate the change to the teachers as soon as possible.

We thank you for your support in helping us ensure the safety and wellbeing of each of our learners.

To ensure the safety and well being of our students, as per the District Wellness Policy, no outside foods may be brought in by students for classroom parties or birthday celebrations. Shared snacks are not permitted in district schools.

If you would like to send something in to celebrate your child's birthday or for a classroom party, you may send in non food items such as stickers, pencils, play dough etc.

Link to Elementary Remote Learning Overview: (Click here)

For additional information please visit https://www.bristoltwpsd.org/cms/one.aspx?portalId=377235&pageId=51110003

Mrs. Stacy Cooke
stacy.cooke@bristoltwpsd.org

Mrs. Aimee Ramos
aimee.ramos@bristoltwpsd.org

What is Title I?

Title I is a project funded by the federal government under the Every Child Succeeds Act. The purpose of this Act is to provide all children with fair and equitable opportunity to succeed and close achievement gaps. Money is allocated by the federal government and distributed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to the Bristol Township School. District.

Title I funding is based on a complex formula. These funds are allocated to the states who in turn allocate a portion of that money to the individual school districts within each state. The school district’s share is based on the economic need within a school area, that is, by the number of low income families living there. In our district the number of free and reduced lunch students is used to determine the economic need of a particular school.

Email: steve.pierce@bristoltwpsd.org.

We encourage each student and staff member to wear their Keystone Paw Shirts every Friday.

Support Keystone's SWPBIS program by purchasing a soft pretzel. Each soft pretzel will cost $1 each. Students will be asked to preorder their pretzel each Thursday, for a pretzel delivery to take place on Fridays.

School Principal: Mr. Mark Wilicki

Email: mark.wilicki@bristoltwpsd.org

Assistant Principal: Crystal Smith-Herman

Email: crystal.smith-herman@bristoltwpsd.org

Special Education Supervisor: Jessica Kelch

Email: jessica.kelch@bristoltwpsd.org

Principal's Secretary: Mrs. Marianne Mensinger

Email: marianne.mensinger@bristoltwpsd.org

Assistant Principal's Secretary: Mrs. Donna Meehan

Email: donna.meehan@bristoltwpsd.org

School phone: 267-599-2470

School fax: 215-788-1041