At the Creek.....

10/24-10/24-10/31-Red Ribbon Week-See below

10/26 and 10/27-Student dismissal at 12:30 daily--conferences start at 1:00

10/28-No school for students

Coming soon:

10/28-No School for Students-Professional development for staff

10/28-Trunk or Treat with our amazing PTA

11/4-RCCA set up for the Christmas Towne Bazaar in the evening-volunteers needed

11/5--Rabbit Creek Christmas Towne Bazaar-Don't miss out!! It's the BEST!

11/8-Asynchronous Learning Day-No in person learning for students

11/9-Deadline for Yearbook Cover entries from our 5th and 6th grade students

11/11-No School for Students-Veterans Day and Professional Development day for staff

ALL students need to be picked up right at 12:30 on the conference days next week, which are Wednesday and Thursday. There is no supervision for students after this time as our staff will be having a quick lunch while they prepare for their meetings with families. Those with conferences happening soon after dismissal will still need to be at the school at 12:30 to pick up their children.

Students will have an opportunity to eat lunch during the shorter days next week. Ms. Karen will be serving hot lunch to those who wish to purchase or you'll want to send a cold lunch with your kids as normal. Even if the cold lunch is smaller than usual, please plan to pack something for these days. There will not be recess on these days and students will have a single special during the two days.

The Parent Teacher conferences are scheduled for 20 minutes in length and are your opportunity to communicate with teachers about your child(ren)'s progress. Staff have them back-to-back for the two days in an effort to try to meet with every parent. Thanks in advance for arriving on time to meet with teachers. They're looking forward to meeting with you!

We are having a number of students arrive on school groups prior to the 8:40 time where there is staff supervision. Please help us to keep your children safe by having them leave the house a few minutes later to arrive no earlier than this time. With it dark outside, staff and the wildlife regularly around the school, we need to make sure that students are not unsupervised. If you are driving your child(ren) to school, please do not let them out of the car until you've heard the bell ring. Thank you from our school team!

We will finish this week with Cohort #3 and will return to Cohort #1 on Monday, October 24th. Unfortunately, this does mean that Rabbit Creek will be without bus transportation for any of our students for the next three weeks. As you've surely heard, ASD has had a great response to the call for community members to join our Transportation team as bus drivers. We are hoping to have all of our routes running again very soon.

And....there are MANY positions open throughout the district for certificated staff, TOTEM staff and ACE staff. We are in need of noon supervisors at Rabbit Creek and have a paraprofessional opening in our Life Skills program as well. Other buildings nearby have openings for teachers, clerical staff, paraprofessionals and more! Head to asdk12.org for more information.

If your family is interested in our district optional programs that enroll students via the lottery, you will want to have the following dates on your calendar. More information about the many educational options in ASD can be found on the district website.

Below are important lottery dates for the spring 2023 lottery (for entry in the 23/24 school year):

• February 1 – Lottery opens for parent to submit applications
• March 23 – Closes for Applications
• March 24 – The Lottery Runs
• March 27-30 – Schools validate accepted and waitlists
• March 31 – Parent Notifications of lottery results

We had 39 students run for Student Council offices in our election that took place on October 14th. The students did an excellent job of presenting their speeches to the third through sixth grade classes at our assembly. Afterwards, the student body returned to their classes, logged online and voted using Google. We were able to announce our new Student Council officers on Monday, October 17th and they are as follows:

• President-Jonathan Frey
• Co-Vice Presidents- Jed McDonald and Colby Rogness
• Co-Secretaries-Emma Sharp and Taysom Weaver
• Co-Treasurers-Colt Johnson and Jemma Sherwood

Congratulations to all of our students who ran for offices for their wonderful campaigns. Classrooms are currently choosing two representatives to join the Student Council this year. We're excited to have Mr. Ring and Ms. VanderMartin leading this group for a wonderful year!!!

Ms. Warnock shared the photo below of a fun activity in her classroom:

Students were exposed to a new form of art called Zentangle that has no up or down, front or back and uses repeating patterns of choice. Students had to follow directions to create the pumpkin shape, plan their designs, and adapt if the lines were too small when tracing with a black marker. We also learned to go with the flow and about water resistance while using crayons and watercolors to complete the project. This project has been 4 brief sessions of 15-20 minutes so they learned time management and how to handle not completing work within a set time frame as well- flexibility!

If you have not had a chance to do so, today would be a GREAT day to complete a volunteer application online to be sure you're able to join in on the fun events in our classrooms throughout the rest of the school year. Our wonderful school staff is sure to be doing fun activities as we move into the holiday season and beyond. Sign up today!!

• Interested in volunteer opportunities at Anchorage School District? Contact our Volunteer Coordinator and see what exciting path your involvement will create!

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October 19, 2022

Hello RC families, I can’t believe we are nearing Halloween. Where does the time go these days?

We need volunteers to bring in food, beverages, desserts, etc. to teachers during Parent-Teacher conferences on October 26-27th. Please sign up now through this link and show all the teachers your appreciation! The link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094EA5AE2CA2FF2-conference1. Please note: the Book Fair will be held in November this year, instead of during Parent-Teacher conferences.

We are quickly approaching the Monster Mash: Trunk or Treat event being held next Friday, October 28th from 6-7:30pm in the parking lot of Rabbit Creek. The tickets are $5 per family and this includes 1 trip around to all the trunks for candy, hot chocolate, a dance with a DJ and lights and a photo booth. What a bargain! We are still looking for volunteers as well–in giving candy out (of your trunk) as well as those helping with the event and as a thank you, your ticket fee is waived. Please visit the Rabbit Creek PTA page for tickets as well as volunteering for this fun event!

We are still looking to increase our PTA membership and the classroom with the most participation by October 28th will win a pizza party. Please consider joining PTA through an individual ($10), family ($15) or business ($50) membership by visiting https://form.jotform.com/92304757793164 and completing our online form.

The 44th annual Christmas Towne Bazaar is quickly approaching, being held on Saturday November 5th at South HS from 10am-4pm. The 6th grade class will be selling the freshly baked goodies from all the RC parents, so be sure to stop by their booth to support RC. Come to the bazaar and get some early Christmas shopping done as well as supporting local businesses.

Just a reminder that picture retakes will be held on November 9th.

Our biannual Dine to Donate event held at Texas Roadhouse will be on November 17th. You can sit back and relax, enjoy a meal out with the family knowing 10% of the meal will go back to Rabbit Creek!

You can still purchase memory books at ybpay.com with the Yearbook ID code of 13268823. The books are $20 each and parents can decide to personalize the book with their child’s school photo on the front, if they wish.

Spirit wear has arrived and your child should have received your swag. If you have any questions/concerns, please contact myself or another PTA board member.

Please join us Tuesday, November 15th at 7pm in the RC library for our next PTA meeting. To stay up to date with current PTA issues and activities, refer to our PTA website www.rabbitcreekpta.org and our closed PTA Facebook group "Rabbit Creek Elementary PTA".

Your Spooktacular PTA President,

Kelly Joy Quisenberry

President, Rabbit Creek PTA

president@rabbitcreekpta.org

We will be having a beading art project (corn and pumpkins) on November 9th for Kindergartens to 2nd graders and November 10th for 3rd to 6th graders, from 3:30-430pm. The cost will be $5 per child. Please go to the Rabbit Creek PTA website to sign up. This event will be limited to only 20 students per session and will be chosen at random by November 1st. You will be notified if you were selected and to then pay for the art project.