Leslie Bell Elementary Newsletter

We are already in October! That seems very surreal! October is a busy month at LBS as we wrap up 1st quarter, host parent teacher conferences and move into 2nd quarter.

Parent Teacher Conferences:

Classroom teachers will be reaching out soon to begin scheduling conferences. Parent Teacher Conferences will be held from 3:30 - 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 23rd and 1:30 - 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 24th. At Leslie Bell, we strive for 100% attendance by all families! School will not be in session on Friday, October 25th.

Fire Prevention: The local fire department will be visiting school on Thursday, October 10th. The students will have the chance to visit and see the ambulance and the fire truck.

PTO:

In October PTO will be supporting students, families and staff by hosting the Scholastic Book Fair the week of Parent Teacher Conferences. The book fair will be moved into a classroom this year to allow our building library to continue to be open. The book fair will be located in room 102 during conferences.

PTO will again be hosting fall parties! Please be on the look out on the Leslie Bell Facebook page and the PTO Facebook page for updates! Fall parties will be on Thursday, October 31st. Thank you for your support during the Fund Run! The students had a blast! Thank you for your donations to continue to support students and staff!

Positive Behavior Support:

Students throughout the month of September have been practicing what it looks like to be respectful, responsible, safe, and kind! As first quarter quickly comes to an end, our staff looks forward to celebrating students that have earned 8 or more tickets since school has started! We will be hosting our 1st Quarter PBIS Party on Friday, October 18th.

Red Ribbon week at Leslie Bell will be celebrated October 28th - October 31st. Additional information regarding Red Ribbon Week will be announced soon from Student Council and Counselor Smith.

The theme Life is a Movie, Film Drug Free for Red Ribbon Week is a creative theme was submitted by Cheryl Holsapfel, Digital Art Teacher, and Devansh Aggarwal from Solon Middle School. It serves as a powerful reminder that ordinary Americans nationwide contribute significantly to their communities every day by embracing a drug-free lifestyle.

Parent Teacher night is coming! Please plan to visit with Mrs. Eads and Mrs. Freeland to discuss your child's literacy and math skills on Wednesday, October 23rd and Thursday, October 24th.

Many parents would like to have ideas to work on at home with their children to help them grow in math and reading.

Below are a few ideas that you can get started with this first quarter to help children, review or practice, new and previous skills that have been taught.

Kindergarten can practice counting to 100, practice recognizing numbers 1-10, as well as matching those numbers to that many objects.

First grade can practice counting to 120 by 1s & 10s, adding and subtracting within 10.

Second grade practice counting to 120 by 1s, 2s, 5s, & 10s, adding and subtracting within 20.

Third grade practice counting from any number to 1000, work on writing large numbers with a place value in the Ten Thousands, add and subtract 2 & 3-digit numbers.

Fourth grade practice rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, practice writing large numbers within one million, add and subtract numbers within 100,000.

Teach Phonemic Awareness

https://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/11-ways-parents-can-help-their-children-read

Young children don’t hear the sounds within words. Thus, they hear “dog,” but not the “duh”-“aw”- “guh.” To become readers, they have to learn to hear these sounds (or phonemes). Play language games with your child. For instance, say a word, perhaps her name, and then change it by one phoneme: Jen-Pen, Jen-Hen, Jen-Men. Or, just break a word apart: chair… ch-ch-ch-air.

Excerpt from "11 Ways Parents Can Help Their Children Read"

As a reminder per our District Parent/Student handbook, the Leslie Bell office must be notified of any changes to your child’s dismissal procedure by 2:15 p.m. This is a safety measure put in place to ensure staff is informed in plenty of time to prepare for dismissal and ensure your child goes home the proper way.