March

• 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
• 3/30 PTA Egg Hunt CES Fields 10AM

April

• 4/4 Last Day of Quarter 3
• 4/8-4/12 Spring Scholastic Book Fair
• 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,

So far, 35 students have signed up and our community has raised $2,551 – WOW! Thank you for your support There is still time to sign up & raise lifesaving donations! Please follow these quick steps to help us reach our school goal:

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 & be entered into the raffle to earn two tickets to Super Bowl LIX in 2025!

Donations Due: March 14th!

Double Your Donation: Check if your employer offers matching gifts at www.heart.org/matchinggifts, follow the steps & forward the confirmation to matchinggifts@heart.org.

SPECIAL INCENTIVES:

• NEW THIS WEEK! All students who raise $150 will earn BUSTER, the bonus XL Heart Hero leader!
• 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! WE CAN DO IT!

Thank you for being a Heart Hero! Donations raised through the Kids Heart Challenge fund lifesaving research & new technologies to help people with special hearts. Your donations make a huge difference! Thank you for your support!

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.

We have counted the CandyGram sales. Thank you for your support! All candy needed was donated, so Student Council collected and raised a total of $361.15. We estimate we sold about 1,280 CandyGrams in addition to cash donations. We will discuss and vote how to spend the money to make our school a better place.

Sincerely,

The 24 members of Colton Elementary's Student Council

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

How to access audiobooks:

1. Download the app or go to the website:

https://soraapp.com/library/csd53or

2. Find Colton School District 53

3. Sign into Sora with this school account info:

username: firstname.lastname@student.colton.k12.or.us

example: maria.hart@student.colton.k12.or.us

password: same as chromebook password

(if your student doesn’t know their password, please reach out to your teacher)

4. Look at the collections and borrow a book for 2 weeks.

We have 1 month left to finish 2 more stories! Mrs. Wagner will continue to send home books to students who are signed up. Click HERE for more info.

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 are beginning to prepare for our school STEM Fair. We will be discussing what interests students in the areas of Science, Technology and Engineering and how to create a project using experiments, math and research.
See February's Football Goalposts Engineering Projects below. The goalposts had to have a horizontal beam that was 10 inches high and standing. Students had to create a kicking device that kicked a ping pong ball through the goalposts. It was so fun to see their creativity come alive.

Our 2nd and 3rd grade students are learning it's important to look at "trustworthy" websites to get accurate information for research. We explored the Gale in Context: Elementary resource. Find it here if interested (scroll down to the "Research" globe image).

Our Kindergartners and 1st grade students have been learning block coding and programming skills. They are programming in code.org. Now that students know how to LOOP and repeat commands, they will be learning how to use EVENTS in block coding throughout March.

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