DECEMBER NEWSLETTER 2024

Welcome to December! There are only 3 full weeks of school this month, so I encourage you to take note of the events- you will not want to miss anything including OMA performances, Multicultural Literacy Night, Booster fundraiser, and the Quarter 2 Benchmark Assessments.

As always, I thank you for choosing Bloom. As registration for next year opens soon, tell your friends about us and encourage them to come and take a tour!

Thank you for supporting your student by getting them to school on time every day. I hope everyone has a very happy and blessed holiday season!

Go Eagles!

Mrs. Brunenkant!

The Character Strong trait for December is EMPATHY. Empathy means understanding and connecting with other people's feelings.

There are three different types of empathy, and it's possible to have more than one type at a time:

• Emotional empathy - When you feel something because someone else does, this is emotional empathy. You may have noticed this when you cried watching a very sad scene in a movie.
• Cognitive empathy - Involving thinking more than feeling, cognitive empathy means putting yourself in someone else's shoes. When you talk to a friend about something that is bothering you and feel understood by that person, it's often because your friend was using cognitive empathy.
• Compassionate empathy - This is any kind of empathy that leads to action. When you see someone in need and offer that person some food or money, that is compassionate empathy.

When your child is absent from school, please call 520-731-3700 to report the absence. You may also report your child's absence via your ParentVue account.

Children must be fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school.

If you have any health-related questions or concerns, please call our health staff at 520-731-3717.

Tax Credit Donations – Tax Credit donations are crucial for funding staff and supplies for our Fine Arts, Band, Orchestra, Dance, OMA, field trips and PE. These are enriching classes for our students and your support is appreciated.

• Reminder, taxpayers can donate up to $400 for 'married filing jointly'
• Up to $200 for a individuals
• *ANY amount makes an impact

You are invited to join our Bloom Boosters!

Do you have a special skill, interest or talent you might be willing to teach our students? We’d love to see you involved at our school! Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering some time with us! There are lots of ways to volunteer. Sign up today!

• Our Student Council will be taking a field trip scheduled to Ben's Bells near the UofA on Dec. 5th to make Kindness Coins.

• "Sockin' Around the Christmas Tree" Sock collection will begin on Monday, Dec 1 when we return from Thanksgiving Break. These socks, in all sizes from infant to adult, will be given to shelters for those in need.
• The sock drive will last until Dec. 18th ( although we will take socks until the 19th) Winning classes ( one primary, one intermediate) will get a hot chocolate spread on the 19th

• We are collecting pop tabs. Students can turn the pop tabs into to their teacher.
• Some tab facts to share: This is to help Ronald McDonald House. It helps fund some of the services that they provide to families of sick children.
• 1,725 pop tabs make one pound (equal to one quart-size baggie) - every pound helps!
• 150 pounds helps one family stay one night at our House.
• 4,500 pounds pays for the electricity for one month at the House. More than $5,000 was raised for the House last year.

DECEMBER

Dec 3: OMA performances

• Kindergarten, 6pm, students will meet their teacher in the classroom at 5:45pm
• Choirs at 6:30pm (1st-2nd grade Choir and 3rd-5th grade Choir)

Dec 5: OMA performances

• 4th and 5th grade Orchestra at 9:15 in the cafeteria
• 5th grade Band

Dec 6: Multicultural Curriculum Night for families, 6-8pm

1. Cultural Education Center

2. Asian Pacific and Refugee Student center

3. Mexican American Student Services

4. Native American Student Services

5. Latin American studies- University of Arizona

6. Middle Eastern Studies – University of Arizona

7. East Asian Studies – University of Arizona

8. Mrs. Hunley- African American cultural experiences

9. Mrs. Kwon- Korean American cultural experiences

10. Sra. Ortiz-Miller and Sra. Enriquez- Mexican-American cultural experiences.

Dec 9: OMA performances, 8:30 am

• 1st grade Musical Theater

Dec 210: OMA performance, 6pm, students meet their teacher in the classroom at 5:45pm

• 3rd grade

Dec 11: Kidco party, 2pm

Dec 18:

• OMA Dance performance, 2nd grade, 8:30am
• Booster Fundraiser at Habit Burger on Broadway, 4-9pm

Dec 20: Grading Day, no school for students

Dec 23 - Jan 3, 2025 Winter Break

Classes resume on Monday, Jan 6, 2025

January 6, 2025: Bloom's Annual Teachers vs. 5th graders Kickball Game, 1:00pm