Ryan's Weekly Family Update

Dear Ryan Elementary Community,

We are enjoying meeting with our parents and guardians during the parent teacher conference weeks. We have one more session tomorrow evening. If you need assistance scheduling or rescheduling your conference, please contact your child’s teacher or call the main office. Our goal is to meet with a hundred percent of our families.

Thank you to everyone that provides meals to our staff during conference nights. There is so much delicious food and treats. The staff and I are grateful for this support and yummy meals.

Wow, our Parent Teacher Association (PTA) goes above and beyond to support our students, school and community. This group has been putting in tons of hours to plan and prepare for Ryan’s Annual Trivia night next week. I hope to see you there next week.

It’s always a great day to be a Rhino! Go Rhinos!

Sincerely,

Stephanie Jackman

Principal

In this newsletter you will find details on the following:

• Spring Parent/Teacheer Conference Details
  
• Lost & Found Announcement
• Trivia Night Information
• Kindergarten Registration Information
• Summer Learning-Rising Kindergarten Program
• Poetry Contest
• Upcoming Book Fair Opportunities
• Note from Ms. Shauna for Ryan's got Talent Details
  
• Message from the Health Room
  
• Attendance Announcement
• BVSD Project Talent Showcase
• Composting in BVSD
• Volunteer Opportunities
  
• BVSD Meals & Messenger Notification Details
  
• FAQs Section from past newsletters information
  

If you have an immediate need, please call the main office at 720.561.7000

Ryan's last Spring Conferences are February 27th, from 3-8pm.

Please be on time for your conferences!

If you have questions, please contact your child's teacher or Jamie Hanes at jamie.hanes@bvsd.org

Preschool Parent/Teacher Conferences will be on Wednesday February 21st, Thursday February 22nd, and Tuesday February 27th. Conferences will be 15 minutes in the preschool classroom. Please let me know if your family would like a virtual parent teacher conference and I will send you a google meets link. Parent teacher conferences are optional for preschool families, if you feel the need to connect about your child’s learning in school. Please sign up using this link: https://bvsd.helpatschools.com/schools/16/events/12834

Please come and get your items from lost and found!

All items are displayed in the front lobby and ALL will be donated at the end of this week.

Purchase your tickets now for a raucous night of Rhino fun to benefit the sweet students of Ryan Elementary! Tickets on sale NOW until THIS Friday, March 1! If you're on a mobile device, you may need to click the "Fund-a-Need and More" menu to purchase tickets.

Ryan's annual Trivia Night fundraiser will be NEXT Friday, March 8, at the Avalon Ballroom (6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder), starting at 5:30pm. Trivia Night is an annual fundraiser and community building activity. Teams of Ryan parents and teachers gather together (sometimes dressed in costumes!) to eat dinner and answer a fun variety of trivia questions, led by our very own Mr. Appling! Trivia Night is a great way to meet new people and connect with other Ryan parents and staff. We also have other fun activities and games. Don't miss out on this fun event! If you are planning to attend the event, we have a couple of volunteer needs that evening to help the event run smoothly. Please click here to help with set up, clean up, games, and other roles!

Online Auction - February 29 to March 8

Whether or not you plan to attend Trivia Night, you can still participate in the Online Auction! Preview our spectacular selection of items now. More items will be listed in the coming weeks—including the ever popular teacher experience items! The auction opens THIS Thursday, February 29, at 8am, and ends on Friday, March 8, at 7:30pm. Please take some time to not only browse through the great items available but to see what our local community has donated. We are grateful to our parents, teachers, administrators, and area businesses for their generous donations and support!

Dear Ryan Families,

Do you have a child who will be an incoming Kindergartener next year? Do you have friends, family members or neighbors with a rising Kindergartener? If so, NOW is the time to register and help us plan ahead to ensure we have staffing for the number of students starting their journey at Ryan!

To register, please go to bvsd.org or click here.

We have a wonderful Kindergarten teaching team, please check out the Kindergarten Website!

Please reach out with any questions!

The Rising Kindergarten program is designed to help give students who will be attending a BVSD kindergarten a step ahead in being ready for kindergarten. The day includes school readiness skills, instruction in all subject areas, and fun. Students will get a true idea of what a full day of kindergarten is like!

Additional Details:

• School Day: 7:50-2:25

• Dates: June 3rd-27th Monday-Thursday (No school 6/19)

• Locations: Crestview, Creekside, Emerald, and Ryan Elementaries

• Free Breakfast, lunch, and transportation (for eligible students) included

• We will also be offering parent engagement activities throughout the summer

Learn more and enroll at https://summerlearning.bvsd.org/

Poetry Contest

Each year, the Young American Poetry Digest hosts a Poetry Contest. Students have the opportunity to get their original poems published in a book! If their poem is chosen, the Ryan Library will receive a copy! Students may submit their original poems using this form. Deadline for submitting poetry entries is March 22, 2024.

Book Fair Volunteer Opportunities

The Spring Book Fair is coming up! The library is looking for volunteers to help out with different jobs. Visit this Help At School link to learn more and sign up.

Ryan's Got Talent is back on May 1, 2024!

K-5 students are invited to audition and the top 18 acts scored through an in-class audition will be selected for the show. Please click here for all information about the show, in class auditions, guidelines, important dates and tips for a successful performance. Questions or concerns? shauna.keene@bvsd.org or 720-561-7031.

• Healthy students are better learners, please keep your child home if they feel ill, CDPHE’s Illness Policy for Students and Staff in School and Child Care: Policy

• Please remember to send your child a change of clothes, especially in our younger elementary grades but it would be great if every kiddo had a full set of spare clothes in their backpack including socks and underwear. We have all sorts of accidents and often kiddos prefer clothes of their own and don't forget gloves and hats too.

• Also if you have gently used/new leggings or sweatpants/joggers boys and girls of all grades, please email our health room para chrystal.terhune@bvsd.org to add them to our back-up! We are completely out but only have room for a few sets so email to see if we can use them. Thank you

If your child has an appointment during school hours, please ask the medical office for a school excuse note and bring it to the Ryan office.

To report your child's absences, please enter it through your Parent Portal or call the Attendance Line 720.561.7002 and remember to include the REASON FOR THE ABSENCE!

We understand sometimes our students need to be out for an extended period of time. We ask, if you know your child will be out for more than 3 days, to please fill out this form in addition to reporting the absence through the portal or attendance line.

Good habits start early! Research shows regular attendance at school has a DRAMATIC impact on student progress. Please see the How Sick Is To Sick guidelines as well as the BVSD attendance policy.

Open to all BVSD K-12 students and staff, we welcome entries to the BVSD Project Talent Showcase. Your adventure begins with a virtual entry that will be posted on the Project Talent Showcase webpage. Then, every student who puts together a Project Talent Portfolio will be invited to set up a table at the live showcase on May 4th, 2024, at Southern Hills Middle School. Our community will select the top entry from each category who will then be celebrated on the stage at our live showcase at Southern Hills Middle School. Learn more and submit entries on the BVSD Gifted and Talented webpage. Entries will close on Thursday, February 29, 2024. Learn more and submit your entry on the Gifted and Talented webpage.

Se aceptan obras para la Exhibición del BVSD Proyecto de Talento: Abierto a todos los estudiantes y personal de BVSD K-12

Abierto a todos los estudiantes de K-12 y empleados, estamos aceptando obras para la Exhibición del BVSD, Proyecto de Talento. Tu aventura comienza con una obra virtual que se publicará en la página web de la Exhibición del Proyecto de Talento, parte del sitio web de Educación para Dotados del BVSD. Después, todos los estudiantes que crearon un portafolio para el Proyecto de Talento serán invitados a tener una mesa en la exhibición presencial el 4 de mayo de 2024, en la Escuela Secundaria Southern Hills. Nuestra comunidad seleccionará la obra ganadora en cada categoría y los ganadores serán celebrados en el escenario durante la exhibición presencial en la Secundaria Southern Hills. El plazo para aceptar obras terminará el 29 de febrero de 2024. Obtén más información y envía tu obra en el sitio web de Educación para Dotados.

We are thrilled to announce that students will be able to compost

their food scraps in Green Star School cafeterias this year!

Composting

• Reduces food waste at the landfill
• Returns nutrients to the soil
• Natural climate solution, it helps our Earth!

Click here to see more information (in Spanish)

Volunteering is a fun, simple way to get involved within the Ryan community. We have all sorts of opportunities to get involved. Whether you volunteer regularly in your teacher’s classroom or bring treats and coffee to teachers for late start or volunteer for the upcoming book fair, the impact can be huge. Not only does it benefit the school but it benefits your kids and families in our community as well! Please take a moment to fill out the background check through raptor: https://www.bvsd.org/parents-students/get-involved/volunteers and click here to see what opportunities we have available Help at School

We appreciate your help! Thanks!

Free meals are still free, but the payment system is changing! Please be advised that on November 13th, the Food Services Department will be switching software systems from MyPaymentsPlus to School Cafe. If you have a balance on your account it will automatically transfer into School Cafe on the 13th. Meal account funds are not necessary for your student to receive a free breakfast and lunch every day, but are necessary to purchase items like second entrees, a la carte items, and side salads. Starting on November 13th, if you would like to add money to your student’s meal account, you will have to create a School Cafe account and do it there. Beginning on November 11th, MyPaymentsPlus will turn off and it will not be possible to add funds to your student’s account.

Please see the resources below to help with the transition.

Parent Sign Up Instructions

Video Walkthrough

Boulder Valley School District recently tested their emergency alert system.

The test alert included a phone call, text message and email to those opted in to receive BVSD Communications.

Users can adjust their communication preferences as desired via these instructions.

If you did not receive a text message, and would like to opt-in to receive text messages from the district and schools through SchoolMessenger, opting-in is a two-step process:

• The person's cell phone number must be in a cell phone field in Infinite Campus (students/parents) or Infor/Lawson (employees).
• They then send a text message from their cell phone to “67587” with the word “yes” in the message. They may opt-out at any time by texting “STOP” to 67587.

Learn more on BVSD's School Messenger support page

This section includes information from past Newsletters that you may need to reference.

BVSD Calendar Link

• Parent- Teacher Printable Calendar (English)

• Academic Calendar

• Preschool Calendar (English)

Website: https://rye.bvsd.org/
Location: 1405 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, CO, USA
Phone: 720-561-7000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RyanElemSTEAM