Our students were super excited to host our Grandparents/Special Person at lunch this past month. We want to thank everyone who came and we appreciated the patience with our safety check-in procedures. As fall continues, and the weather starts to change please, remember to send appropriate clothing/jackets for your kiddos. We will be going outside as much as possible for recess.

Mrs. Paz and I have been working hard to visit every classroom during the month of October. She is conducting minute meetings with students, which was implemented as part of our district-wide Whole Child initiative. This is a one-on-one time utilized to get to know the student and build relationships with them. I have been reading and doing projects with the students focusing on happiness, sharing kindness with others, and getting to know each other better. In many of the classrooms I have been able to play a question and answer game with the kiddos where they can ask me questions to get to know me and I can return questions so that the other student and I can learn about them. I have learned that we have students who enjoy, baking sports, music, reading, family game time, physics, acting, and so much more! I am amazed everyday at the talents that are walking through our halls. Thank you all for embracing your child/children's interests and passions.

Our Red Ribbon Week - Drug Prevention - will be taking place the week of October 28th through November 1st.

Please reference the map to see the routes students will be taking for the parade. Teachers will be communicating to their homerooms about the Fall Harvest parties. Parade will be start at 2:50pm.

Our Character Strong trait for the upcoming month of November is GRADTITUDE! Click below to read more about this month's topic.

Golden Spoon: Campitelli

Pete the Cat: Mrs. Palcisco (Gotthardt) Earned most Grizzly Paw tickets

Grizzlies of the Week for this week are pictured to the right: Not pictured Carly Widmer

Character Award winners pictured below

We are excited to announce our Grizzly store is now open and ready. These items will make wonderful gifts as we approach the holiday season. The store will be open until November 18th. Please be sure to check out all four categories on the website. All orders will be ready for pick up on December 5th at the PTO Santa movie night. Proceeds from this sale will assist us in providing mental health and wellness items in the building.

There are 4 category tabs along the top of the page, DON'T MISS OUT.

PTO Meeting - Nov 11th 5:00pm. Please join us!

Book Fair update: We reached $11,000 in sales at the book fair and we get 50% of that back in scholastic dollars. We bought close to $1000 worth of books for the school and individual classrooms. Each student received a $5 voucher to purchase a book as well.

• Arrival & Dismissal Procedures - There should be NO parking on Orchard while waiting in the pick up or drop off lines. Please stay on Good until there is room to pull into the parking lot.
• Testing Oct 22-28 for 3rd grade ELA
• No School: Nov 7, Nov 8, Nov 28, Nov 29
• When sending or calling in transportation changes on a note or voice message, please include the student's homeroom teacher.

In the event of school closing or two-hour delay, accurate information will be made available to parents / guardians and staff members through the district all call system, e-mail, and placed on the district webpage.

In addition, local news and radio stations will be informed.

Valley View Elementary

Main Phone: (330) 335-1430

khamsher@wadsworthschools.org

Secretary: Holly Musacchia

hmusacchia@wadsworthschools.org

Counselor: Tallie Paz

tpaz@wadsworthschools.org