Journey

Important Dates

October- National Principals Month

October 1- TREK Takeover

October 14- Late Start (11:00 arrival)

October 18- Early Release (2:00 dismissal)

October 18- Fall Party Day!

October 23- 1st Quarter grade posted in FOCUS

October 25- Picture Retake Day

October 30-November 5- NO SCHOOL

Academic Calendar / Academic Calendar

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i-Ready Results Available

i-Ready is an integral part of our curriculum for reading and mathematics. It enables your student's teacher(s) to identify their specific needs, personalize their learning, and track their progress throughout the school year. By meeting your student exactly where they are, i-Ready empowers your teacher(s) to enhance your student's learning gains. How to access my students' results.

District Homecoming Parade

The 2024 Wentzville School District Homecoming Parade is Saturday, Oct. 5 at 9:00 am. The parade will begin staging at 7:30 am, at Holt High School. You can anticipate heavier traffic throughout the neighborhoods surrounding Holt High School and on West Pearce Boulevard & Schroeder Creek Blvd from 7:30 - 9:00 am. Read More.

Opt Out Information:

Dear Journey Elementary Family,

Throughout the duration of the academic year, the Wentzville School District partners with community agencies that specialize in providing students, families, and educators with preventative education. Agency presenters are credentialed, coordinated through the District, and under the supervision of building administrators. Presentation topics are targeted toward specific grade levels. All students will participate in each program unless you choose to opt your child out of the lesson(s). If you are interested in opting your student(s) out of the presentation(s), please click the appropriate link(s) below.

Kindergarten Opt-Out Form

First Grade Opt-Out Form

Second Grade Opt-Out Form

Third Grade Opt-Out Form

Fourth Grade Opt-Out Form

Fifth Grade Opt-Out Form

If you have additional questions, please reach out directly to your student’s guidance counselor.

Thank you,

Emily Dittmer, Principal

Elizabeth Herbert, Assistant Principal

Pam Lueders, K-2 Counselor pamelalueders@wsdr4.org

Abby Pedano, 3-5 Counselor abigailpedano@wsdr4.org

Erika Kennedy, Educational Support Counselor

FOCUS

The Wentzville School District has transitioned to a new student information system called “Focus” this school year. Please check out this link to update your contact/emergency information in Focus, register kindergarteners/new students, and to access Focus tutorials. Eventually, families will be able to use Focus for student attendance, grades, report cards, cafeteria balances, and required forms. Consider adding the Wentzville Schools Focus app and Wentzville School District app to your phone!

Reading Success Plans

This fall, teachers and reading interventionists will be conducting reading assessments with all students. These assessments help us plan lessons and identify students who might benefit from extra reading support. In addition, our building reading specialists will work with small groups of students. These flexible groupings are not the same as Reading Intervention, families will be contacted directly by their child's teacher if he/she qualifies for Reading Intervention. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your child's classroom teacher.

Turkey Trot

Please see the attachemnt below for information about this years Turkey Trot!

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Donation Requests

Snacks

We keep our Food Pantry here at Journey well stocked through the year with our amazing families' support. During the school year, the biggest need are snacks. We use these snacks not only to send home, but to also provide snacks to students who are in need of them during the school day.

Donations can be dropped off in the Main Office, Monday-Thursday between 7am and 5pm.

Thank you!

Clothing Donation Bins

Doing some summer cleaning? Need room for those new clothes and shoes? We 'll take them off your hands! Journey collects used clothes, shoes, and blankets in the USagain bins located in the back of the parking lot. Donations can be made any time of day or year.

What's in it for me?

Journey receives a check quarterly based on how many pounds of items we collect. This money goes directly to JES to support students and staff!

Meet Nurse Paula!

If your child will need to take prescription or non-prescription medication during the school day, please contact Nurse Paula. Here is a link to the forms that must be filled out annually in order for us to administer medication at school. If you have any questions regarding medication or health services, our nurse’s email is paulamorrisey@wsdr4.org

Visitor or Volunteer-What's the Difference?

Visitors:

Eat lunch with your child
Attend a class party
Attend assemblies
Be a guest speaker

How can you participate as a visitor?

Visitors can show up on the day of the event/activity/lunch and check in to our buildings using Raptor, a visitor management system designed to assist with building security. Part of keeping students and staff safe is knowing who is in our building at all times.

When you arrive in a WSD building as a visitor, you will be asked to scan your ID and complete the management system’s check-in process.
Raptor will screen the information against sex offender databases and locally customized lists of banned or potentially threatening individuals, instantly alert school officials to a threatening presence, and maintain a searchable log of all visitors.
Once approved, you will get a customized visitor badge to wear while in the building.

Thank you for your support of our enhanced school safety protocols!

Volunteers:

Work with students individually or in small groups under the supervision of the teacher or staff member
Work inside the school, assisting staff with projects (PTA/PTO Officers, etc.)
Work/organize field day activities
Be a room parent, organize class parties
Attend field trips - work with students individually or in small groups under the supervision of the teacher or staff member

How can you participate as a volunteer?

Volunteers must register with the Family Care Safety Registry (FCSR). It provides a more extensive background check than our Raptor system, and is needed for volunteers who spend more individual time with students than our visitors.

One-time, lifetime fee of $15.25. It is the responsibility of the volunteer to cover this one-time, lifetime fee. The online registration process can be found at FCSR-BSEES - MO.gov. (NOTE: This registration process CANNOT be completed on a mobile browser/device.)

Once FCSR online registration is complete, you must submit a paper WSD Volunteer Registration Form A and B to the school office. When you arrive in a WSD building to turn in your forms, you will be asked to scan your ID and complete the Raptor visitor management system’s process as part of your volunteer registration. If you send your forms in to school with your child, or send them to the school office via email, please include a copy of your valid personal ID.
Your approved volunteer status is accessible district-wide; you only need to turn in your forms to one WSD school.
A new WSD Volunteer Registration form will be required each school year to run a current background screening if you would like to participate in volunteer opportunities.

Please note, the wait time for the FCSR Registration to be processed and for the District to be notified can be up to four weeks. We recommend completing this process as early as possible.

For complete information on volunteering in WSD schools, please visit the District website.

Book Fair Results

Thank you so much for your support during the book fair! Because of your generosity we made almost $14,000! We will receive 60% in Scholastic Dollars to buy books and promotional prizes and 25% in cash to purchase more audiobooks and front facing bins to help revamp our K-2 section of our library. You all are the best!

Pumpkin Decorating Contest

We are so excited to host our 3rd annual pumpkin design contest at Journey Elementary School. The contest will run from September 30-October 18. Voting will take place then at our Trunk of Treat. Here is more information about the contest:

Our pumpkin decorating contest is open to students and staff members at Journey Elementary. To enter students, families, and Journey Staff members will decorate a non-perishable pumpkin to look like their favorite BOOK character.

Parents are welcome to help students do any dangerous work (such as using scissors, exacto knives, or hot glue), but students should be the one decorating the entry, unless you are entering the FAMILY category.

They then will fill out an entry form and turn it in with a copy of the book that the character is from. If the student does not have this book they can check it out from our library or the public library.

Please note that we want only BOOK characters, this means characters that were ORIGINALLY found in books not a tv show, movie, or video game and then turned into a book character. We also would like students to have read the book as this should be a character from a book they like.

Here are some ideas (but not all the ideas) that WILL WORK for our contest: