Roadrunner Weekly

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Hello Roadrunner Families!

It was a joyful week here at First Street School! I loved seeing so many parents at our Coffee Chat on Thursday. The feedback I received from you all was invaluable and will definitely help guide improvements here at our incredible school!

This week will be full of fun opportunities as well! We will be holding our first English Language Advisory Committee meeting this Tuesday in the library from 6:00pm-7:00pm. The goal of this meeting will be to get feedback from families on how to best support our English Language learner students this year.

We will also be holding our first Family Learning Night on Thursday from 5:00pm-7:00pm, Family Science Night! This will be a fun event where students can learn alongside their families about how much fun science can be. Our PTO is generously sponsoring a snack table. It will be a fun event and I look forward to seeing you there!

Did you know that October 4th is National Walk/Bike/Roll to School Day? We encourage you to start thinking about a safe path to take to try out walking, biking, or rolling to school on October 4th! This will be a good opportunity to talk with your student about safe crossing expectations at our school, like listening carefully to the crossing duty, and crossing only at the crosswalk, even if you are with an adult.

If your student rides a bike, or rolls to school on a scooter or skateboard, it is extra important to remember to have them wear a helmet every day. Not only is it the law, but it is also one of the best ways to help ensure that your student stays safe on the way to school. If your student doesn't have a helmet, consider attending the Lincoln Health Fair at Glen Edwards Middle School Sunday the 24th to get a free helmet for your child! You can also reach out to our office and we will help get a helmet for your student.

I look forward to seeing what other safety ideas you and your student have for Walk, Bike & Roll to School Day on October 4th!

Have a great week, Roadrunners!

Lyndsay Reynolds

Proud Principal

First Street School

School: 916 645-6330

Call/Text: 916 409-6808

lreynolds@wpusd.org

This week, your students learned about how writing about feelings or drawing a picture about our feelings can actually help us feel better! Writing and drawing activate different parts of our brain than just speaking, so this can be a way to calm the brain down if asking for help or deep breaths aren't working.

Students were provided with some ideas for how to do this strategy, which are included below. Try out one of these strategies yourself this week, maybe share it with your student so they can see that grown-ups use these strategies, too!

Try writing it down! Use these sentence starters:

• I am feeling… because…
• When… happens, I feel…

Try drawing a picture! Art helps us feel good:

• Draw what happened
• Draw what you think your emotion looks like
• Draw something that makes you feel happy

September 18th-22nd - Scholastic Book Fair!

September 19th - English Language Advisory Committee Meeting, 6:00pm, Library

September 21st - Family Science Night, 5:00-7:00pm, Cafeteria

September 21st - LiveScan Event, 5:00-7:00pm, Cafeteria

September 22nd - Food Bag Delivery, Produce!

September 24th - Lincoln Community Children's Free Health Fair, 10:00am-2:00pm, Glen Edwards Middle School

September 26th - Fall Picture Day

September 26th - School Site Council Meeting, 6:00pm, Library

September 29th - Food Bag Delivery, Non-perishables!

The Scholastic book fair will be visiting our school September 18th through the 22nd!

Book Fair flyers should have already come home with your student, but you can also find information about our event at the Book Fair homepage, linked below! The Book Fair homepage has a lot of information about the fair, a digital flyer and also, information about how to set up an E-wallet for your student.

Your student will visit the Book Fair during their normally scheduled library time during the week, but the Book Fair will also be open during our Science Night from 5:00pm-7:00pm this Thursday, September 21st if you'd like to stop by!

Proceeds from the Book Fair come back to our school to support more reading opportunities for our students!

https://www.scholastic.com/bf/firststreetelementaryschool2

Our first English Language Advisory Meeting will be held this Tuesday, from 6:00-7:00pm in the library at First Street School. This committee is help to discuss how we can best support all students at our school, including our English Language learner students.

This month's agenda includes:

• A brief introduction of the team
• Review of the purpose of the committee
• Review of last years goals and feedback on the development of this year's goals

We look forward to seeing you there!

You are invited to our first Family Learning Night of the Year!

Please consider joining us for the First Street Family Science Night next Thursday, September 21st from 5:00pm-7:00pm in the Cafeteria. We will have 6 fun science stations and a science art station to enjoy, including Marshmallow Launchers (physics), Planting a Radish (biology), and Colorful Skittles (chemistry)!

Our PTO is also generously sponsoring a snack table!

We will have some incredible high school volunteers from Phoenix High School running our stations. It will be a great time! We look forward to seeing you there!

Are you wanting to volunteer at our school but still need to have your Live Scan process completed?

Join us in the cafeteria this Thursday from 5:00pm-7:00pm for our no-cost Live Scan event! Our mobile Live Scan partners will be here to help get our school ready for the wonderful volunteer opportunities coming your way this year!

We are always looking for extra helpers on campus, such as supervision on our playground, extra help during dismissal, help in classrooms, and more!

Please join us on Sunday, September 24th from 10:00am-2:00pm for the 2023 Lincoln Community Children's Free Health Fair!

Students from area schools can participate in free health screenings, vision screenings with vouchers for free eye glasses, dental screenings, and more!

There will also be free haircuts, free food bags, a free lunch, free bike helmets, and many other items to take home!

We hope to see you there!

FSS Choir is for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students who like to sing.

We rehearse every Monday 1:50-2:50pm and will perform throughout the year.

Sign up by filling out the choir permission slip.

The first day of choir rehearsal is Monday, September 18!

Email Ms. Van Hoy with questions. svanhoy@wpusd.org

Hello from the FSS PTO corner of the world!

The summer flew by but we are so excited to be back on campus planning and carrying out fun events for your roadrunners! Our first PTO meeting of the year was a success! If you missed it, no worries. The next one is 10/3/23 and we would love to see you! Please feel free to reach out to us directly ( firststreetchamps@gmail.com ) with any PTO related questions and we are happy to help. You can also find us on Facebook! Just search our group name: First Street School PTO. You can message us or keep up-to-date on our events.

Our Fall Cookie Dough and other Goodie fundraiser kicked off FRIDAY! Have you signed up yet?! You can do so HERE! We are raising funds to purchase an amazing, custom book vending machine for the kids on campus. You won't want to miss out on the cookie dough OR the super cool vending machine that will come out of this.

We wanted to give a quick update on all that YOU helped to raise for First Street School last year! In the 2022/2023 school year, we had many fundraisers (big & small) and made an overall $21,000 profit for our school! The funds have gone towards:

- teacher stipends for the classrooms

- Roadrunner Ambassador appreciation gifts

- Teacher Appreciation week

- Snacks for your kids during testing

- T-shirts for the staff for the 23/24 school year

- and MUCH more!

Things we are saving for:

- Our amazing book vending machine

- A digital sign for the front of the school

- Copious amounts of fun activities for your students!

On 9/15, we are having our first BEEP store of the year. Be on the lookout for lots of *special trinkets* that your students will be bringing home that evening. Feel free to really take in what they have chosen to purchase as they have worked HARD for those prizes. We are SO proud of our Roadrunners for Being safe, Exercising responsibility, Engaging in learning and Practicing kindness!

BEEP, BEEP!

Your First Street School PTO

Did you know PTO (CHAMPS) has a Facebook group? Join our group to share updates about ways to get involved with & support school happenings from the parents’ perspective.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/548144263687673/?ref=share_group_link

Box Tops for Education

Box Tops collection continues all year with the Box Tops app. First Street School gets $0.10 for each Box Top scanned for our school at NO COST TO YOU. The prices you pay for Participating Products don't change & neither does your shopping experience or favorite stores. With minimal effort to scan the receipts you're already getting, the school can earn enough program funds to pay for things like software licenses, supplies for class activities, etc.

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  • Earn Box Tops for Participating Products by scanning receipts with the Box Tops app.
  • When you shop online or use delivery services, you can earn Box Tops by forwarding your e-receipt to receipts@boxtops4education.com or by uploading it with the Box Tops app. Learn more about submitting e-receipts here.

We continue to offer breakfast and lunch free of charge to all students this year! Our food services department works hard each year to increase the variety of our dishes, with many of our meals now being cooked from scratch in our school kitchens!

Curious what is on the menu each week? Follow this link to find out what is on the menu!

https://www.wpusd.org/food-and-nutrition-services/on-the-menu

Check out our new Spiritwear designs this year!

We have twelve new designs to show off your school spirit in the 2023-2024 school year. Put any design on any shirt in the collection to make your own unique spirit shirt for our school. T-shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts and more in adult and children's sizes!

We can't wait to see the design you pick out and the unique spirit wear you create!

Follow the QR code by opening your photo app on your phone and clicking the link or go to www.firststreetspiritwear.com to get your gear!

Have you downloaded the Parentsquare app yet? This is the best way to get updates from your students teacher and the school. Parentsquare will automatically translate our messages into the language of your choice and allows you to communicate with your child's teacher in the language of your choice as well!

If you don't have the app on your phone, download it now! Need help? Our wonderful office staff are happy to help!

Internet connectivity is an important part of academic success in education today. Luckily, there are a lot of different options to ensure that your student has access to internet at home. If you do not have internet at home, you may qualify for discounts on internet and computers through the federal Affordable Connectivity Program.

Find out if you qualify by following the instructions at the link here: https://getmyinternet.org/?j=9063912&sfmc_sub=198464893&l=2048712_HTML&u=202253676&mid=6409703&jb=17020&utm_source=edu_acp_2022.09.12&utm_medium=email

Student Quarantine:

Effective this year, California Department of Public Health has replaced most of the requirements about student quarantine with recommendations. The one remaining requirement is that students who are ill must be fever-free for at least 24 hours without the aide of fever-reducing medications before they are able to return to school. Please see the documents below for more detailed information.

CDPH Memo

WPUSD FAQ Document

Please feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns you might have, and follow us on social media!

Email: lreynolds@wpusd.org

Website: https://fses.wpusd.org

Location: 1400 1st Street, Lincoln, CA, USA

Phone: 916-645-6330

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FirstStreetElementary

Twitter: @WPUSD