Greetings Families!

This is a special edition of our SPPS EC Hubs Family Newsletter! We have some important and exciting information that we wanted to be sure you receive! It will also be linked it on the webpage, www.spps.org/ech. We work to keep our webpage updated. Our webpage has links to many SPPS resources and you can find our school calendar there!

We are excited to share about a few new resources available--coats for all kids and our partnership at EC Hub East with the Wilder Foundation! You'll also find some dates/info for upcoming Family Events and I've included information for our guidelines around illness and food at school!

As always, please call/text/email me for anything you might need!

Elizabeth Cherek, Principal

651-249-6422

elizabeth.cherek@spps.org

ENGLISH

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KAREN

ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီးစံၢ်လီၤဖဲ ပှာ်ဘျးစဲအဖီခိၣ်ဖဲစုထွဲတကပၤ(လၢခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ်ဖီခိၣ်) မ့တမ့ၢ် စံၢ်လီၤဖဲတၢ်ဖီလာ် (လၢနလီတဲစိ ဖီခိၣ်) ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်အကမၣ် မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢတပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-293-6581 န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.

SOMALI

Ma waxaad doorbideysaa luuqad aan aheyn af-Ingiriis? Waxaad furi kartaa lifaaqa wargeysyada oo guji batoonka midigta (ee kumbiyuutarkaaga) ama xagga hoose (ee taleefankaaga gacanta) si aad wargeyska ugu tarjuntid luuqado badan oo kala duwan. Fadlan ogow in natiijada turjumaaddu ay noqon karto mid aan sax ahayn ama aan dhammaystirnayn. Haddii aad wax su'aalo ah qabtid, fadlan naga soo wac 651-293-6581.

HMONG

Puas xav tau ua lwm hom lus? Nej qhib txoj kab mus rau hauv daim ntawv xov xwm thiab nias lub pob ntawm sab xis hauv lub koos pis tawj, los sis yog lwm hom twj no ces nyob hauv qab, ces yuav muaj txhais ua ntau hom lus. Nco ntsoov tias cov lus txhais no yuav tsis raug txhua lo los sis txhais tiav tiav. Yog nej muaj lus nug, thov hu rau peb ntawm 651-293-6581.

SPANISH

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We are pleased to share that the Early Childhood Hubs is partnering with the St. Paul Fire Department and Operation Warm to provide every student with a brand-new winter coat. Each student will be able to choose their own coat AND have the opportunity to meet the firefighters and see a fire truck!

Coats will be distributed at the East Hub on Monday, November 13th, and at the West Hub on Tuesday, November 14th.

We are thrilled to share that the EC Hub East is partnering with The Wilder Foundation to offer school-based mental health services to our students!

School-based mental health means that a highly qualified and experienced mental health therapist, who specializes in working with early childhood-aged children, will be in our building every week to work with students who are struggling with social, emotional, or behavioral concerns.

School-based mental health services will only be provided with parent or guardian permission, and require parent or guardian involvement, especially in the early stages.

Payment for these services is through your health insurance or a sliding scale. If you think your child would benefit from school-based mental health but are worried about the cost, please reach out - most families will pay absolutely nothing for this service.

If you are interested in learning more, or if you would like your child to receive school-based mental health services, please contact your student's teacher, or the school social worker Crystal Barrera at 651-293-8710 or crystal.barrera@spps.org

Please see your child's Thursday Folder for information about Upcoming Family Events!

Celebrate Hmong New Year at EC Hubs on Nov 22nd!

• Cultural Fashion Show at 10:15, all students are invited to wear clothes that are special to their culture/family!
• Make Hmong Hats
• Check with your child's teacher for specifics for your classroom for other events.

Cozy Up and Read at EC Hubs!

• Friday, December 22nd, time TBD
• Families can come to school to read with their child (may be in PJs, w/Hot Cocoa!)

As we have more cooler weather and are spending more time indoors, kids and adults are sharing their germs!

Please monitor your child for signs of illness and keep them home if they have symptoms of COVID-19 a fever over 99, have vomited in the past 24 hours, and/or have a significant cough/runny nose.

Please call the office 651-293-6581 after 7:45am to report illnesses. If you can't leave a message, please feel free to call/text Principal Cherek, 651-249-6422.

We would LOVE to have you help at school and visit the classroom to see all of the awesome things your kids do at school!

And, SPPS policy requires that all adults that would like to volunteer at the EC Hubs (or any SPPS school) must complete a background check. This must be completed so that you can be in the classroom, go on a field trip, etc…

Please click this link to sign up to volunteer.

Once you've given us some basic information on the form above, you will receive an email with a link to fill out the background check from SPPS HR. After we hear back from SPPS Human Resources, we will contact you to come in for a short volunteering orientation before you begin working in the classroom.

St Paul Public Schools (SPPS) schools are sweets-free schools to promote student health & wellness. SPPS serves whole-grain and healthy proteins for breakfast & lunch each day. We serve water and milk at school for children at meals. At EC Hubs East & West, we follow the SPPS policies and encourage families to support our sweets-free school!

We encourage families to send healthy foods and a labeled water bottle to school with children each day. If you do send food to school with your child, please send heathy & individual sized food/snacks (not large bags).

Please do not send the following high-sugar food items with your child: cookies, candy, chips, juice boxes/pouches, soda/Gatorade/Powerade, or baby bottles, etc…, or any nuts/nut butters.

Holidays/Treats:

SPPS serves all students & families with rich & diverse beliefs/backgrounds. Therefore, SPPS schools do not celebrate holidays at school. As a school, we will have some fun celebrations that are not holiday-related. Please click here for some fun ways to rethink celebrations!

+++ Please do not send holiday treats/bags/cards to school with your children. Students cannot pass or receive treats for holidays +++

If you have questions, please contact Ms. Cherek, call/text 651-249-6422 or elizabeth.cherek@spps.org