March

• 3/4-3/7 Read Across American Week
• 3/10 Daylight Saving Time Begins
• 3/11 Board Mtg 6-8PM
• 3/12 PTA Mtg CES Cafeteria@4:30
• 3/14 Kids Heart Challenge Donations Due
• 3/19-3/21 Dental Screen/Sealant Event
• 3/25-3/29 No School, Spring Break

April

• 4/4 Last Day of Quarter 3
• 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

Dear Colton Families,

Kids Heart Challenge is off to a great start, and we are having so much fun learning how to keep our hearts and minds healthy! When you register, your student will receive the KHC Heart Wristband! Get started today by following these steps:

1. If you haven’t, Sign Up TODAY at http://www2.heart.org/goto/ColtonElementary or by downloading the free AHA Schools App for Apple or Android
2. Once you sign up, please SEND 10 emails/texts to friends & family asking for a donation!
3. Complete Finn’s Mission to learn Hands-Only CPR & earn Finn’s Lifesaver slow rise ball!

SPECIAL INCENTIVES:

• If we our hit school goal Ms. Bouck gets silly stringed + Mr. Alba will get pied! Students with $150 will get a can of silly string!

Thank you for supporting our school & the American Heart Association. Your donations help fund lifesaving research that help kids with special hearts, like FINN!

Neighborhood Health Center Oral Program will be hosting a free Dental screening for our K-3 students at Colton Elementary School on March 19-21. Please look in your child's take home folder for a yellow permission slip packet this week. Free dental screenings, sealant placements, and brushed-on fluoride are offered by dental care professionals. You can choose any, all or none of these services, but please sign and return the form by March 12. If you have any questions, call the elementary office at (503)824-3536.

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

Schools across our country are celebrating books and reading next week. Starting Thursday, students can read 20 minutes and fill out a "Reading Coupon" to be entered into prize drawings. Only 2 coupons can be turned in per day for prizes. So that means to spread out reading to 40 minutes a day. Packets with coupons go home Thursday.

Feb. 28th Update- All families are still welcome to sign up and read 2 or more of these 7 books. They can be read by students or the whole family. There are also 4 of them available on our school's Sora's audiobook account (FOR FREE!!!). Just sign up through Mrs. Wagner at wagnerc@colton.k12.or.us. These 7 books are targeted to the reading ability of 2nd and 3rd graders or transitional readers, but can be enjoyed by all! Click HERE for more info.

To get to our Sora account, click HERE.

School Champions are: The Reading Sitters Club

They will represent our school on Saturday, March 16, at the OBOB Regional Competition!

Our 4th and 5th grade students finished engineering football goalposts and kicking devices using a set amount of craft supplies. The goalposts had to have a horizontal beam that was 10 inches high and standing. Some very creative minds are in our school.

Our 2nd and 3rd grade students finished their own slideshow about How to Make a Sandwich. They are learning how to create slides, text boxes and visual aids in the slideshow format.

Our Kindergartners and 1st grade students have been learning some coding and programming skills. Even at this young age! They are programming in code.org. This week they continued using LOOPS to program an artist to draw lines, shapes, steps and ladders going North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest, Southwest and Southeast.

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!

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