Rocket Update November 18th

Hey Rose Lane Families!

Please make sure to check out the message from our counselor down below. She has provided some great ideas for helping your kiddos to find time to show gratitude each day. With this month being a month about giving thanks, it is extremely relevant.

I have also included information regarding our Thanksgiving Sharing opportunity below. If you are able to, please provide any donation amount that works for you. We appreciate your help!

This Saturday the 23rd, we will have our Turkey Trot event from 9:00 - 10:00 AM. Ms. Gulick, our PE teacher will be creating a 1 mile course for our kiddos and families to run or walk together. It was an exciting event last year and we hope to see many of you there!

Finally, I wanted to thank all of you that purchased some of our amazon wish list items for our teachers and students! We can't thank you enough for helping us to provide prizes to our kiddos and much needed items for our teachers. If you are interested in our wishlist I have included the link below. Thanks again everyone and have a great week!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/aZ21Uy6?ref_=wl_share

Your Rose Lane Principal,

Andre Reyes, M.Ed.

Research shows that feeling and expressing gratitude is associated with many mental and physical health benefits. Feeling thankful can improve sleep, mood and even immunity. Gratitude can also decrease feelings of depression and anxiety! Focusing on positivity and things you are grateful for releases oxytocin, which is a hormone that helps connect people… so gratitude also helps with relationships! Gratitude is kind of magical! Practicing being grateful and teaching your children ways to make gratitude part of all of your daily lives is a gift that will keep on giving.

If you want to keep feeling thankful even after Thanksgiving, here are a couple of ways to get started:

• The Mayo Clinic’s Free: Discover Gratitude Program

• Start A Daily Gratitude Journal

• Try Guided Meditations focused on Gratitude (Apps suggested: Insight Timer, Calm)

• Think or talk about something you are thankful for before every meal or before bedtime.

• Model Gratitude for your kids. Article from American Psychological Association

-Angela Manaraze, MAPC, LPC, NCC

School Counselor

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If you have not already completed the free/reduced-price meal application for the 2024-2025 school year, this is a reminder that free/reduced-price meal benefits from applications filled out during the 2023-2024 school year will expire on September 18, 2024. To continue eating free or reduced-price meals in the school's cafeteria, a new application must be submitted.

Applications are available in English and Spanish online at linqconnect.com and paper copies are available in the school's front office.

• 7:15 AM - School Office Doors and Campus Gates open for students.
• 7:15 to 7:40 AM- Our playgrounds will be available for use by students in the morning at designated locations related to their grade level.
• 7:40 AM - First bell, all students enter their classrooms.
• 7:45 AM - Instruction begins. Students who arrive at or after 7:45 are recorded as tardy, and will need to report to the attendance office for a tardy slip.
• 10:50 AM -12:50 PM - Lunch at grade level assigned times. Students eat lunch for 20 minutes, then report to a designated location on the playground for supervised recess.
• 2:30 PM - All Students Kindergarten through 4th grade dismissed per Rose Lane dismissal procedure.

🚩If your child is here for more than 15 minutes past dismissal time, attempts will be made to contact parents, guardians, or emergency contacts provided by you on your child’s emergency card. If these attempts are unsuccessful, the police will be contacted. Parents will be required to meet with an administrator after 5 late pick-ups.