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Happy Mother's Day To All
Your Learner And How They Learn
The end of the year is in sight, and we have already started looking at what next year will hold for grade levels. With that being said, we welcome your feedback about your own child. If you want to share how your student learns best, we would love you input. If there are students that your child learns best with, or without, please let us know that too. Feel free to email Mr. North and we will be sure to take your ideas into account when we try to craft the perfect lists for next year.
Monday and Tuesday Science MCAS Grade 5
Thank You PTA for a great week!
End Of The Year Events: So Many And We Probably Missed Some
5/10- PTA Game Night
5/16- Earth Dome
5/20-24- 5th Grade Nature's Classroom
5/21-23- Kindergarten Screening
5/29- 1/2 Day
5/30- Field Day
5/30- Fine Art and Technology Night
6/5- Prek-2 Puppet Show
6/6- Spring Concert
6/10- 5th Grade Yearbooks
6/10- Prek Ceremony
6/10- Recital Night
6/11- Fun Run
6/11- 5th Grade Car Parade
6/13- Last day of school, 1/2 day
We have a few items still here from the PTA Lunch.
Nursing News
5th Grade Nature's Classroom
I will be reaching out individually to parents/guardians of students that either need signed doctors orders and/or we need clarification on medical instructions that we received in the packet. Please submit any documentation needed by Friday, May 10, as we need to submit all packets to the medical staff at Camp Cody. Please remember that the medical staff CAN NOT administer anything outside of their listed over-the-counter medications, without a signed doctors order.
“Tick-Talk” from your School Nurse
While you’re enjoying the health benefits of being active in this increasingly nice weather, take the time to protect your health and the health of your family, by preventing the spread of tick-borne diseases! Ticks are tiny bugs most likely found in brushy, wooded, or grassy areas. Lyme disease, a bacterial infection caused by the bite of an infected deer tick, is the most commonly reported tick-borne disease. If it’s detected early enough, Lyme disease is curable. If it is not recognized early and treated, Lyme disease can cause serious joint, heart or central nervous system problems. Prevention of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses begins with you and your family!
When you are out, take these steps to prevent being bitten by ticks:
· Ticks prefer wooded and bushy areas with high grass and a lot of leaf litter. If you do enter a tick area, walk in the center of the trail to avoid contact with overgrown grass, brush, and leaf litter.
· Although ticks can be active anytime the temperature is above freezing, take extra precautions in May, June, and July. This is when ticks that transmit Lyme disease are most active.
· Keep Ticks Off Your Skin
* Wear long pants, long sleeves, and long socks to keep ticks off your skin. Light-colored clothing will help you spot ticks more easily. Tucking pant legs into socks or boots and tucking shirts into pants help keep ticks on the outside of clothing.
* Speak to your provider regarding the best insect repellent for you and your family. Use repellents according to the instructions given on the product label. Check your skin and clothes for ticks every day
* Check yourself, your children and your pets for ticks after coming inside. Pay particular attention to areas between the toes, back of the knees, groin, armpits, neck, along the hairline, and behind the ears.
· Deer ticks are small!! Adult ticks are approximately the size of a sesame seed. If you have poor vision, use a magnifying glass. If you find a tick attached to your skin, don’t panic.
* Use a pair of fine point tweezers to grip the tick as close to the skin as possible and pull straight out with steady pressure.
* DO NOT touch the tick with your bare hands.
* DO NOT squeeze the body of the tick as this may increase your risk of infection.
* DO NOT put alcohol, nail polish remover or Vaseline on the tick.
* DO NOT put a hot match or cigarette on the tick
* DO NOT use your fingers to remove the tick.
· Remove ticks from your clothes before going indoors. To kill ticks that you may have missed, wash your clothes with hot water and dry them using high heat for at least one hour. o If a tick is attached to your skin for less than 24 hours, your chance of getting Lyme disease is extremely small. But just to be safe, monitor your health closely after a tick bite. Talk to your provider if you develop a rash where you were bitten or experience symptoms such as fever, headache, fatigue, or sore and aching muscles after a tick bite.
Have a Great Weekend!
Nurse Cassie
JRB Music Room News
Our school-wide Memorial Day Assembly is scheduled for the morning of Friday, May 24th, 2024. Each child in grades 1-4 has received a copy of their grade’s song lyrics to practice at home between music class rotations. Grades 3 & 4 can also access their song lyrics and recordings on their Music Google Classrooms. Kindergarten students have been practicing their song since January, so they are more than ready to go! We traditionally have each grade level wear a color to represent the American flag. This is strictly optional! If your child does not have their grade’s color, that’s fine! They can wear anything that they would normally wear to school. Chorus & Band members may also wear regular school attire and/or their grade’s color, rather than concert attire. The colors are as follows: PreK/K: WHITE 1st/2nd: RED 3rd/4th: BLUE AWCM will be there to film the assembly, so that families are able to watch it at a later time. We are also having a Recital Night on Monday, June 10th, at 6:30pm. Any student who takes instrumental or voice lessons, either at JRB or elsewhere, is welcome to participate! Please click HERE for the form, or have your student see Mr. or Mrs. Lordan for a copy. FORMS ARE DUE TO MRS. LORDAN BY FRIDAY, MAY 24TH on a first come, first serve basis, with a limit of 15-20 performances. Any questions, please contact Mrs. Lordan: mlordan@awrsd.org. Important music/arts dates: JRB Fine Arts & Technology Night on Thurs., 5/30/24, 5:30-7:45pm JRB Spring Concert on Thurs., 6/6/24, at 7pm, OAKMONT (band students arrive NO EARLIER THAN 6:45pm; chorus students arrive NO EARLIER THAN 6:30pm) JRB Recital Night on Mon., 6/10/24, at 6:30pm, JRB Cafetorium (see flyer link above)
ATTENTION ALL PARENTS!
ATTENTION ALL PARENTS!
THE YEARBOOK DEADLINE IS COMING FAST!
If you wish to order a yearbook for your child, you must create a TreeRing account. Just go to treering.com, click on “Purchase Yearbooks” at the top and then it will ask for the school code: 1015374667562301.
Once you are logged in, go to the bottom where it says, “Upload School Photos”. After you click on that it will bring you to a page with a bunch of folders, which you can add photos for us to add to the yearbook candid pages.
Make sure you customize your 2 FREE pages before you purchase your yearbook! This is when you can be creative and add personal photos and messages that only your child will see in their book.
5th GRADE PARENTS…
BABY PHOTOS: We are still missing a lot of Baby Pictures for our Who’s That Baby? section in the yearbook! Log into your account, go to “Upload School Photos”, then on the left side of the page, click on "Baby Photos" then you can click "Add Photo" on the top right. It will ask for your student’s name before you upload it.
DEDICATIONS: If you would like to add a dedication message to our dedications page, please email it to jrbriggsyearbook@gmail.com and then just send $5 cash or check (JRB PTA) to the school.
Any questions, please feel free to email Katie Wilkinson at jrbriggsyearbook@gmail.com
Attention Parents & Families! We need your photos for the yearbook!
Throughout the school year, if you take any photos of your student at a JRB or PTA event (i.e. costume parade, game night, band concerts, etc.) please upload them to TreeRing so they can be added to the yearbook. Login or create your account at www.treering.com (school passcode: 1015374667562301). You can also email them to jrbriggsyearbook@gmail.com.