Wear your brightest colors on Monday!! We are kicking off the week with celebrating World Kindness Day. There will be no better way to start the week than with a day full of kind hearts and bright colors.

This week in specials Mrs. Thorton, our gym teacher, Ms. Fraze, our librarian, and Mrs. Crouch, our music teacher are spending the week of November 13th focusing on Yoga! The kids will be learning different yoga poses, the power of deep breathing, stories about Yoga, and much more! Please make sure that every day this week the kids are dressed in clothes and shoes to do Yoga in! They will have five fun filled days of Yoga!

For Veteran's Day, the ELC is teaching our students what a Veteran is and how much we appreciate them and their sacrifice. Classes will hold an observance on Veterans Day where students will participate in various activities that help them understand the concept of a soldier and Veteran. Students with Veterans in their family will recognize them with a special gift that they make. All students will create a craft, watch a video of one of our own Veteran's right here at the ELC, learn a song and listen to a read aloud.

Remember on Halloween when Willy Wonka, aka Mrs. Gutierrez, passed out 300+ Wonka Bars to the whole school? Well, these were our lucky Golden Ticket winners! They were surprised with a fantastic lunch of Happy Meals and hanging out with Mrs. G!

Grit is working hard, persevering and never giving up! We all need grit to get through life. Angela Duckworth and her team from the University of Pennsylvania are working on clever strategies to help students learn to work hard and adapt in the face of temptation, distraction and defeat. When Angela was asked why she studies perseverance, she said, "Why? Because life is hard. Because there are just obstacles every day in everything that we want to do. If it were easy, it would be done already, and I think that goes for any work that's worthwhile." In other words, children need to be taught to appreciate that it is normal to struggle when working hard on a challenge that exceeds their skills. It is normal to feel confused. Frustration is probably a sign that they're on the right track and to gut it out through natural human aversion to mental effort and feeling overwhelmed. Think of the story "Little Engine That Could." When it got hard, he never gave up and continued to tell himself. "I think I can!" Teachers are here to assist your children when they struggle and encourage them to keep working to accomplish their goals. In addition, they teach students the process of working through the tough work and never give up. Down below are the goals we worked towards in our first quarter along with all our new goals for quarter 2!

Miss Kelly and Mrs. Cohen's class had their kiddos write their names in shaving cream on their tables. This is a FANTASTIC way to practice letters, numbers, and name writing at home. The kids LOVE it!!

Keep an eye out for this paper to be coming home soon!

Look to your child's teacher for more info on Friendship Day. This is an awesome opportunity for you to be able to volunteer your time to help out with this celebration. Each class will need 6-7 parent volunteers, so if you would like to try to volunteer- make sure you come up to the school and get your ID scanned for your background check no later than November 10th to be approved to help with this fun event.

The School City of Hobart Building Brickies' goal is to strengthen families by empowering parents as their child’s first and best teachers. Every day, we advocate for families so every child-in every neighborhood-can thrive.

It’s that time of year where the weather is changing. Remember those bags of emergency clothes in your child’s backpack? Please swap out the summer clothes for fall clothing. Please also make sure your child’s emergency bag has socks and underwear in it. If your child doesn’t have a bag in their backpack- please make them one!!! One outfit, one pair of socks, and one pair of underwear. This is for any emergency your child may encounter here at school, not just bathroom accidents. You never know when they may slip in mud or chocolate milk will attack at lunch!!

If your child isn't feeling well, please keep him or her at home. You must report the absence IN SKYWARD before 10:00AM. There is no need to call the school to let us know. If there are any questions about the absence, we will reach out to you.