A message from the Principal
Welcome to October!
I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for your ongoing support of our school and your child's education. Your involvement significantly impacts your child’s academic journey.
Your dedication to participating in school events, communicating regularly with staff, and encouraging your child’s learning has not gone unnoticed. Through this strong partnership between home and school, we can provide your student with the best possible educational experience. Thank you for being an integral part of our school family. Your support is invaluable, and we look forward to continuing our collaboration.
This month, we will honor Ian Weikel's life and legacy and kick off School Spirit Week on October 7th. This is always an exceptional week for our staff and students as we reflect upon an amazing human being. Your child’s teacher will send home information regarding fun dress-up days to celebrate school spirit week.
Student Showcases of Learning (Parent/Teacher Conferences) will occur on October 15th, 16th, and 17th. This will allow for very important conversations regarding your child’s progress. We are looking forward to meeting with each of you! Look for communication from your child’s teacher so you can sign up for a conference.
Red Ribbon Week activities will take place the week of October 28th. We will plan related activities to help students remember the importance of making good choices every day.
Many great things await us this month! Have a “spook”tacular month!
With warm regards,
Dr. Jaramillo - Principal
Illness Guidelines for School:
- Children who have temperatures of 100.4 (Fahrenheit) or above should not attend school. Children should remain home until their temperature has been normal (98.6 degrees), without any fever reducing medication for up to 24 hours.
- Children who have cold symptoms such as: a constant runny nose, with abnormal color (green, yellow, or white) or thick nasal discharge, constant coughing, or lung congestion should not be in school.
- Children who have been diagnosed with an infection and have been placed on medication should not return to school until they have taken the medication for up to 24 hours after the first dose.
- Children who have had vomiting or diarrhea in the last 24 hours should not attend school for up to 24 hours.
- Children who have an undiagnosed skin rash or open skin lesion should not be in school.
- Children who have red, inflamed eyes with a thick discharge and have a fever and/or behavioral changes should not be in school.
If any of the above signs and symptoms are present at school, the parent will be contacted to pick up the child. We do not want children to miss school, but keeping sick children home will improve everyone's attendance and health in the long run.
If any of the above signs and symptoms last longer than 48 hours, please contact your child's school nurse before they return to school.
If your child is hospitalized or treated for an infectious disease, please provide your child's school a written statement from the health care provider that your child is no longer contagious and is cleared to return to school.
- Children who have temperatures of 100.4 (Fahrenheit) or above should not attend school. Children should remain home until their temperature has been normal (98.6 degrees), without any fever reducing medication for up to 24 hours.
A message from our Counselor:
Hello Parents!
As first quarter comes to an end, I want to touch on the importance of school attendance. Ensuring your child’s regular attendance at school is crucial for their academic success and overall development. Research consistently shows that consistent attendance is strongly correlated with better academic performance and improved social skills. When children miss school, they miss out on important instructional time, which can hinder their ability to grasp foundational concepts and build essential skills. Each day in the classroom provides valuable learning experiences and interactions that support cognitive and emotional growth. Regular attendance not only helps students keep up with their lessons but also fosters a sense of responsibility and commitment.
Thank you for ensuring that your student is here on time each and every day! That being said, we know that unexpected life events and illness unfortunately occur. When something interferes with your student attending school, please be sure to call the office!
Thank you for allowing us to partner with you in your child’s education,
Mrs. Wood
Fall is in the air! This wonderful month is packed full of engaging learning experiences for our kinders. We will continue working on letter identification, letter sounds, phoneme segmentation and nonsense word fluency. You will see practice sheets coming home this month. They will hear stories about tools, shapes in our world, and bugs. As we continue to build fine motor skills, students will have opportunities to play with, manipulate and discover new materials. Writing will include drawing, coloring, and dictating. In math, we will be working on counting and cardinality. Students will recognize, count, identify and represent numbers through multiple learning experiences. Our science unit is all about investigating and comparing needs of living things. Please continue to practice self-help skills like buttoning buttons, zipping zippers and tying. As the cooler weather approaches, they will need these skills to help themselves and others with coats and shoes. We appreciate your support and communication with us. Happy Autumn season!
Kindergarten Teachers
We are at the end of the 1st quarter. Student Showcases or parent teacher conferences will be the week of the 14th! In reading, we will finish unit 1 in Wonders. We will still be working on sight words, nonsense words, and reading fluency. In writing we will be working towards writing 2-3 sentences and writing/research projects!
In math, we will be starting Module 2 (addition and subtraction relationships). Students have been doing a great job with hands on math centers and learning a program called Zearn on their computer! In Science, we will be learning about animal and plant defenses. Students will be exploring spikes, shells, and camouflage as we learn about animals. Please be sure to practice tying shoes and zipping up jackets and coats. As the weather starts getting cooler, students need to remember a jacket/coat. We are looking forward to seeing you all at conferences! As always, please let your child's teacher know if you have any questions or concerns.
In Second grade we are moving and grooving in both Math and Reading. In Math we are focusing on place value up to 1,000. We are using some different strategies to help us add and subtract. In Reading we are learning about baby animals and how they survive. We are doing some writing. We are also learning about magic e in different words. Please make sure your child comes with a coat each morning the mornings can get chilly and now that Fall is in the air it will be getting cooler. October Reading Calendars will be coming home on October 1st, this month your child will be reading for a free personal pan pizza!!! We are so excited to be celebrating another month with your child. Thanks for all your support at home! Happy October!!!
What did the ghost say when we found out it was October? It sure is boo-tiful outside. In the month of October, our genre focus will be Expository text and Historical fiction. Our reading skills will be the author's perspective and theme. For writing, we will be focusing on our analytical writing strategy RACES. For math, we will continue to work on multiplication and division strategies. In addition, we will be understanding place value concepts through metric measurement. Please continue to practice multiplication facts at home. For Science, students will continue work on balancing forces and investigating floating trains recognizing cause and effect in the world around them. We look forward to seeing you all for parent/teacher conferences the week of Oct. 14th.
Third Grade Team
Fourth grade has been busy working hard this first quarter of school! Math is beginning to get more difficult as we move into multiplication and division for the second quarter. Please encourage students to continue to work on memorizing their multiplication facts and also working on subtraction and addition at home. This will not only help them as we move into double digit multiplication, but also long division! In reading, we are working on informational writings where we support our paragraphs with text evidence. We will continue to focus on writing strong introductions, body paragraphs that are bursting with evidence, and engaging conclusions! Please continue to encourage your student to read for 20 minutes each night to help us continue to be fluent readers! Be on the lookout for a sign up on student led conferences in a couple weeks. We hope to see you all there!
Our fifth-grade wolf pack has been very busy this last month! We are proud of our fifth graders stepping in to try out for student council, book club, choir, and poms. WAY TO GO!! Please make sure to have them practice their multiplication and division facts at home. We will be using the multiplication and division facts throughout the year. Also, remember to have your child read for 20 minutes every day and talk about the content of the story together before, during, and after reading. Reading a book with them out loud will continue to build their fluency and accuracy. It was a joy seeing the students become so excited to investigate science! Students continue to investigate patterns of the earth and sky using scale models. Be on the lookout for our link to sign up for Student Showcases on Sign-up Genius through Remind. Please remember to check and read any Remind message sent out by your homeroom teacher.
Please remember to call the front office at 719-358-4320 or go online to report your child's absence.
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We know illnesses and emergencies arise. Please be mindful of your child's absences.
