Shorewood Hills Shark Tooth

Hello Shorewood Families and Friends,

Sending one last push for the PTO Annual Campaign! Any size donation is hugely impactful on Shorewood's ability to offer enriching programming, support our families, and complete projects such as our playground renovation. Please see info below on how to donate. We appreciate your support!

In partnership,

Anne Gillespie

Principal

PTO Fundraising Update

At SHES, all families are part of the PTO! The PTO organizes and funds many school and community events during the year and each fall hosts an annual fundraising drive, which creates the budget for the school year. As of today, the PTO has raised $4,500 toward their $13,000 goal. Can you contribute by November 13?

If each family at our school gave $40 per child, we’d meet our goal. However, no gift is too small… the small gifts add up! If you have the means, please consider donating up to $250 per child, a gift that works out to only $25 per month for the ten months of the school year.

Please help our PTO raise $13,000 by November 13th! Your donation directly supports your child’s education. The sooner items can be purchased and programs can be funded, the sooner your child will benefit.

To make a donation, please visit https://www.shespto.org and click “Donate” for a PayPal link.

We have some lovely wooden art room tables but they are too tall! We are looking for someone to help us with trimming the bases of the tables. Please reach out to Principal Gillespie if you or someone you know has the tools and expertise to help us out! <agillespie@Madison.k12.wi.us>

Hello Shorewood,

Our SHES community is seeing an increase of colds, viruses and strep. As a reminder, any student that has vomiting or diarrhea must wait 24 hours from the last episode before returning to school and anyone with a temperature over 100.4 must be without fever for 24 hours without fever reducing medications before returning to school.

If your student is diagnosed with strep, they must be on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school.

We do recommend masking for students that have mild or residual upper respiratory symptoms.

Please reach out if you have any questions regarding this, medications at school, vaccines or accessing health care.

Thank you,

Nurse Lucy

Email: lgmccluskey1@madison.k12.wi.us

MMSD elementary schools are in our second year of using a phonics-based approach to teaching reading called the science of reading. There are many things you can do with your student(s) at home to support this approach to reading, as well. Over the next few months, I will share some tips you can use. This week is phonics.

Phonics is the ability to understand the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent. This includes:

• Recognizing print patterns that represent sounds
  
• Syllable patterns
  
• Word parts (prefixes, suffixes, and root words)
  

Common Consonant Digraphs and Blends:

bl, br, ch, ck, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gh, gl, gr, ng, ph, pl, pr, qu, sc, sh, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, th, tr, tw, wh, wr

Common Consonant Trigraphs

nth, sch, scr, ser, spl, spr, squ, str, thr

Common Vowel Digraphs

ai, au, aw, ay, ea, ee, ei, eu, ew, ey, ie, oi, oo, ou, ow, oy

K-1 Phonics Tips:

🔲 Play word games that connect sounds with syllables and words (for example, if the letters “p-e-n” spell pen, how do spell hen?)

🔲 Take a letter and hide it in your hand. Let your child guess in which hand is the letter. Then show the letter and have your child say the letter name and make the sound (for example, the letter m matches the /m/ sound as in man.)

🔲 Write letters on pieces of paper and put them in a paper bag. Let your child reach into the bag and take out letters. Have your child say the sounds that match the letters.

2-3 Phonemic Awareness Tips:

🔲 Many children love to send and receive notes, and writing is a great way to reinforce phonics skills.

🔲 Write vowel and consonant digraphs, trigraphs and blends on cards. Hold up the cards one at a time and have your child say the sounds (for example, the lone e sound /e/ for the vowel digraphs ea and ee).

🔲 Play word games that connect sounds with syllables and words (for example, the letters "l-a-t-e-r" spell later, how do you spell hater? How many syllables are in later?

This year Christine’s Kitchens is partnering with REAP Food Group to support local farmers and producers and raise money for schools in Southern Wisconsin. 15% of all sales (excluding shipping) of the REAP Holiday Fundraiser Boxes will be donated to your PTO. Here is how to order…

STEP 1: Choose the Holiday Fundraiser Boxes you want at:

https://christines-kitchens.com/reapholidayboxes/

STEP 2: For each box, select the school you want to receive your donation in the drop down box.

STEP 3: Each box you order will have an option to pick up (at your chosen school) or to have it shipped. (**Please note: pick up dates are earlier than shipping dates. Due to school schedules, pick ups must be done prior to schools going on holiday break)

STEP 4: ENJOY THE WONDERFUL PRODUCTS IN THE BOXES!

**Pick up dates at schools will be between December 4-6, 2023. Your school will provide you with the exact date.

***Shipped boxes will be in the mail Monday, December 18, 2023 to be delivered by Christmas.

Please find food service menus linked here. There is also an option to subscribe to the menus on iCal or Google calendar.

Upcoming Dates:

• November: Native American Heritage Month
• Wednesday, November 22nd-24th: No School
• Tuesday, December 12th: 10:00 PTO Meeting
• Tuesday, December 20th-Tuesday, January 2nd: Winter Break

Help Lines:

• Text “HOPELINE” to 741741

• Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 608-280-2600 or 1-800-273-8255

• Briarpatch Helpline: 1-800-798-1126

• Trevor Lifeline for LGBTQ+: 1-866-488-7386 or click here for Trevor Text & Trevor Chat

• 24/7 SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline - 1-800-985-5990

• 24/7 Parental Stress Line - 1-800-632-8188

• Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) Help Line: 608-251-4445 or 800-747-4045, If you are in immediate danger, call 911.