McDill Elementary Parent Newsletter

Hello Timberwolf Families,

It's been great to have students back in the building again! Hopefully any early jitters are out of the way and our students are looking forward to the remainder of the school year.

During these first days, students have been learning and reviewing expectations for their classrooms, the hallways, the playground and the cafeteria. In respect to the cafeteria, we have two important requests/reminders:

1. If your child is supposed to eat breakfast at school, they should go directly to the cafeteria after getting dropped off or off the bus. They can go to the playground after they have finished eating.
   
   
2. Students should be instructed to not share their lunch with classmates, or ask for food from others. While sharing may seem like a friendly gester, for health and safety reasons, we want our students to only eat what their parents/guardians are expecting them to eat.
   
   

In addition, the playground expectations we have for our students can be found here. Thank you for encouraging positive behaviors at home, as well as at school.

Next Friday, September 22nd, is our Grandparents/Special Friends' Day! The lunch times and menu for that day can be found below. Please know that our visitors will be directed to enter the building through the main front doors. Visitors will register in the lobby area and then be guided to the library, where they will wait until it is time to be escorted to lunch. Payment for the meal can be made by cash or check, either in advance or that day. This is one of McDill’s most special events and we look forward to the excitement in the building that day.

Lastly, we invite you to the first PTO meeting for the year. All parents are strongly encouraged and welcome to attend!

**** PTO Meeting - Monday, Sept. 18th at 6:30 pm ****
in the McDill Library

or click here to Attend Online

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• Parents/Guardians SHOULD NOT park on WILLOW STREET or BEECH STREET and cross School Street to pick up their child. This is an unsafe practice even if the child is accompanied by an adult.
  
  
• We strongly encourage parents/guardians to NOT park in the parking lot and walk across the pick-up lane. The line to pick up students actually moves quite quickly when everyone follows procedures.
  
  
• While waiting in the pickup line, PLEASE AVOID stopping in front of driveways or the intersection to allow local residents access to and from their homes
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Grandparents and//or special friends are invited to join their student(s) for a lunch date at McDill Elementary.Reservations must be made in advance to accommodate all of our special guests. If you are in need of another RSVP form, please contact your child's teacher or the school office.

NOTE: Please turn in the RSVP form by Friday, September 15th !

Lunch times are modified for the day, as follows:

3rd Grade - 11:00-11:30 am

6th Grade - 11:15-11:45 am

4th Grade - 11:30-12:00 pm

5th Grade - 11:45-12:15 pm

1st Grade - 12:05-12:35 pm

2nd Grade - 12:15-1:00 pm

Kindergarten - 12:30-1:05 pm

LUNCH MENU (There is NO ALTERNATIVE choice)

Chicken & Gravy over mashed potatoes, dinner roll, freshly roasted vegetables, tossed salad and warm cinnamon apples.
Guests and students may also bring their own lunch, if they prefer to do so.

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Picture Day - Friday, September 29th

Retake Day - Wednesday, November 8th

Picture ordering information will be sent home soon!

(There will be an online ordering option.)

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McDill Elementary uses Scholastic Reflections Photography
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Once the school day has ended parents may wish to utilize Securly at home, benefitting from features that will help you control Chromebook usage during non-school hours. These benefits include:

✓ Checking online activity

✓ Customizing rules

✓ Pausing internet access

✓ Opt-in for notifications

✓ Get weekly reports

✓ Filtering rules

You can sign up for Securly Home service by completing this brief form.

● Please note that if you have multiple students in the district, you will need to fill out the

form for each student.

● After registration is complete and an account is created for you, you will receive an email

from Securly explaining how to get started.

Two more McDill staff received the Green Classroom Professional Certificate through the U.S. Green Building Council. Abigail Jones (5th Grade Teacher) and Joe Sbertoli (Principal) completed the online course at the end of last school year. They joined 8 other staff who received this certificate a few years ago: Amy Ervin, Stacy Korger, Anne Leton, Cristy Lewallen, Heather Bolton, Koren Rohde, Jami Stuettgen, and Renee Schanck.

As a Wisconsin Green & Healthy School and 2020 U.S. Dept. of Education Green Ribbon School, McDill staff continue to build on their Green & Healthy culture in order to meet the three Green & Healthy Schools goals:

• Reduce Environmental Impacts & Costs
• Improve Health & Wellness
• Increase Environmental Literacy

By participating in the Green Classroom Professional (GCP) certificate program, educators and school staff gain the knowledge to identify what supports or impedes healthy, resource-efficient and environmentally sustainable learning spaces.

Interested in learning more? Please visit the McDill website - Green & Healthy Schools

Lastly, watch for more information to come home soon regarding
McDill's GREEN APPLE DAY of SERVICE on Friday, October 20th, 2023.
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International Literacy Day was celebrated around the world on September 8th. Many students here learned the importance of reading. In the U.S. we are fortunate to have good schools and support systems to help our children read. Lollipops for Literacy was designed to remind us that we need to “lick” illiteracy by learning to read. Poems and stories were read to the younger students by our 5th and 6th grade classes. It was a yummy day of reading!

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