March

• 3/25-3/29 No School, Spring Break
  
• 3/30 PTA Community Egg Hunt CES Field 10AM

April

• 4/4 Last Day of Quarter 3
• 4/8-4/12 Spring Scholastic Book Fair
• 4/8 Board Mtg 6-8PM
• 4/9 PTA Mtg CES Cafeteria@4:30
• 4/11 No School Conferences
• 4/12 No School Conferences
• 4/17 Spring Group Class Pictures 7:30AM

Spring Conferences will be held April 11 & 12. These are non-school days. Please be on the lookout for conference forms being sent home from your child's teacher. These forms will let you know if your child requires a conference or if it is optional. Sign and return the form as soon as possible. Please reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions or concerns regarding conferences.

Please remember to use caution while driving through the school parking lots and follow the posted speed limit to help ensure the safety of our students. Friendly reminder- middle school students are still in session in the afternoons, so please drive cautiously through their school. Thank you!

Pick Up/Drop Off Procedures

https://www.colton.k12.or.us/o/ces/page/ces-drop-offpick-up-procedures

**With colder temperatures on the way and the possibility of snow or ice, be sure to watch for Flash Alerts with information regarding possible late starts or closures.** Please remember to subscribe to receive FlashAlert messages from Colton School District in the event of inclement weather or emergency closure.

Photos (from Feb. 13)!! Our Lost and Found is still growing fast! We will try to continually post more pictures. If you are missing a jacket, sweatshirt or coat, feel free to email Mrs. Wagner and we will look for you wagnerc@colton.k12.or.us

See the old PHOTOS From January 5th!!!

All parents and volunteers, in order for you to work in or around our buildings, you must clear an ODE and CSD background check and complete mandatory training. If you have only completed one of the online training modules, please email hr@colton.k12.or.us to receive the full set. This is a new requirement. If you have any questions, please call the office at (503)824-3536. Thank you for for your support of keeping Colton School District safe!

• Some type of light with students at their bus stop
• Reflective patches on coats

Transportation Safety Procedures: https://5il.co/10a3o

Citation Policy: https://5il.co/1b3xb

Bus Barn/Dispatch phone number: (503) 824-3534

Snow route/Closure recorded information line: (503) 824-3510

Classes that collected over 60 Reading Coupons:

Mrs. Weninger's Class

Mrs. Riddle's Class

They enjoyed an ice cream treat last Thursday at lunch!

How to access audiobooks:

1. Download the app or go to the website:

https://soraapp.com/library/csd53or

2. Find Colton School District 53

3. Sign into Sora with this school account info:

username: firstname.lastname@student.colton.k12.or.us

example: maria.hart@student.colton.k12.or.us

password: same as chromebook password

(if your student doesn’t know their password, please reach out to your teacher)

4. Look at the collections and borrow a book for 2 weeks.

We have about 2 weeks left to finish 2 more stories! Mrs. Wagner will continue to send home books to students who are signed up. Click HERE for more info.

Our 4th and 5th grade students are beginning to prepare for our school STEM Fair. Project proposals were due March 21st. Once approved, students can begin their projects, research, experiments and/or investigations. Click HERE for a copy of the packet.

Our 2nd and 3rd grade students are learning it's important to look at "trustworthy" websites to get accurate information for research. We explored the Gale in Context: Elementary resource. Find it here if interested (scroll down to the "Research" globe image).

Our Kindergartners and 1st grade students have been learning block coding and programming skills. They are programming in code.org. Now that students know how to LOOP and repeat commands, they will be learning how to use EVENTS in block coding throughout March.

Friendly Reminder: All medication (over-the-counter and prescribed) needs to be transported to school by a parent, and medication authorization forms must be filled out before office staff can administer medication. The medication both prescribed and over the counter should be in the original packaging, and can only be given as directed by the prescribing physician or medication label.

Join PTA: We can use your hand with a few things coming up, get plugged in on Remind to find out the latest!

PTA will be hosting the annual community Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday March 30th at 10AM.

We will have popcorn and water for sale, Jr Viking Baseball will be there taking custom water bottle & hanging basket orders, and the Viking Youth Basketball program will be selling Papa Murphy Pizza for $3 by the slice.

You can bring your cans and bottles to drop off as well- all can and bottle money goes directly back to the PTA to fund these events.

We could use your help during the Easter Egg Hunt- volunteer roles include: popping popcorn, set up, distributing eggs, and clean up you can sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E45A5A82BA7FFC16-48550596-easter

We’d like to share with you all some "get to know your teacher forms" and special Amazon shopping links if you’re looking to gift your student’s teacher with a little something special this year!

Office 503-824-3536

30437 S Grays Hill Rd, Colton, OR 97017