December Steeby Star

December 2-20: December Fun Days! See calendar graphic.

December 20: Last day of School before break

December 23-Jan 3: Holiday Break

January 6: School Resumes; WEPA meeting 6:30

January 20: No School for Students; teacher PD day

Dear Steeby families,

Time is flying by as we near the halfway point of the school year, and I want to take a moment to express my gratitude for the opportunity to work alongside our Steeby Staff and all of you to build an amazing place for your students to learn and grow. It has been an absolute joy getting to know them, watching their personalities shine, and seeing the growth they’ve made in their academics and personal development. Together, we’ve focused on building strong relationships, fostering a love for learning, and supporting one another as a school community. Your children’s hard work and determination inspire me every day, and I’m excited to see how they continue to learn and grow in the months ahead. Thank you for trusting us with this important journey—we are truly stronger together! We wish you the happiest of holidays and a long, restful and relaxing break.

Yours in education,

Karri Bailey, Principal

Steeby Elementary

Steeby Families!

Here is a link to a quick CHK survey that we would appreciate your consideration in completing. Your feedback is important to us! You may use this link: https://iheartckh.com/squrl/yoybe3pq

Or click the button below.

We need responses by December 15th. Thank you!

At the end of each week at lunch, SuperCat tickets are drawn and winners choose from a list of special jobs they get to do the following week!

Second Grade: Students put their knowledge to work this month making an Element of Arts turkey~ They showed color, line, shape, value and texture on their feathers. These turkeys turned out colorful and cute!

Third Grade: We kicked off our weaving unit this month. Students are having so much fun weaving on a cardboard loom. They love picking all the fun yarn colors and when completed they become a unique piece of art.

Mrs. Spicer

Happy December!

We have been busy in media class. We are finishing up our Mock Caldecott unit and voting for our favorite picture book. We are hoping one of the four books we read wins the Caldecott for best illustrations in January. Students also finished up their typing unit on Typetastic. Now we are celebrating Hour of Code in December. We are going to the Hour of Code website on Information Place: https://sites.google.com/waylandunion.org/libraries/home. Students will learn how to do basic coding using kid friendly coding games. Students love creating their own coding games.

Our Tech Wizards this month are Olivia and Brennen! Congratulations!

Happy Reading and Coding!

Mrs. Barnes

Greetings from Music! During the month of November, both 2nd grade and 3rd grade have been working on learning new music notes and melody words (solfege). We have been incorporating those new notes and melody words in songs that we are singing. We also learned about different American Indian tribes through songs and informational videos. We celebrated World Kindness Day by singing songs. We have also been working on the CKH trait of teamwork by working together to move our bodies, sing as a group, play a music game and color a kindness poster.

Mrs. Bailey

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Once a month, Miss M our School Social Worker goes into classrooms and teaches different Social Emotional Skills. This month in our social skills lessons, we learned about Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors and how they are all connected!

From Title 1 Teacher Mrs. Terrell. For questions or more information, please reach out to her at terrellj@waylandunion.org !

Steeby Elementary is looking for volunteers for our School Supercat Store! Once a month, students get a chance to spend their supercat tickets that they earn for good behavior at our store. There are many different prizes that they get to choose from! We need parent and family volunteers to assist with helping students shop, counting their tickets, and setup/clean up. Please sign up for a day or time, we would love to have you! Any questions feel free to email Ms. M at millermadaje@waylandunion.org or Mrs. Bailey at baileyk@waylandunion.org

We are looking to welcome in parents, grandparents, relatives, community members to volunteer in our cafeteria during breakfast or lunch, and on our playground to help out! See the flyer. You can also find the form to fill out if you are interested.

Parents who wish to enter the school for any activities, volunteer opportunities, or field trips, must have an active ICHAT background check on file. ICHAT background checks are good for 1 year from submission date and cover schools in the entire district. That means if you have students in multiple buildings across the district, you only need to fill out ONE ICHAT form. ICHAT request forms can be filled out on our website, www.waylandunion.org. Click Parents/Students > Parent Quick Links > ICHAT Request Form, or simply click the button below to get started!

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Please note that comments and questions may not be answered. Please direct questions to the appropriate areas - teachers, principal, or office. Thank you!

PLEASE start using the tags that were sent with students in October. If you need replacement or additional tags, please email your student's teacher and we can get those tags. These tags will help the line keep moving and help when inclement weather arises. Thank you for helping with the pick up process!

Morning Drop Off is from 8:35 to 8:45, with students needing breakfast entering at 8:35 and the other students lining up until 8:40 when classrooms open. Please DO NOT drop off students in the morning and drive away until a staff member appears at the door at 8:35. Drop off doors close at 8:45.

End of the day pick up is between 3:45 and 3:55. Please display pick up tags! For safety reasons, please commit to staying in your vehicles and using the drive up process. We want to avoid students and parents walking all around and through our vehicle line. After 3:55, any late pick ups will be walked back to the office to await their pick up.

We understand that schedules change and you student may need to be picked up early. All requests for end of day pick up must be made to the office NO LATER THAN 3:15pm. Requests made after this time may not be able to be accommodated.

Our school day schedule runs from 8:45am to 3:45pm daily*. Students are expected to be in class by 8:45am each day.

*The half day schedule runs from 8:45am to 11:45am, first day and last day of school.

Students are expected to be in class by 8:45am each day. Students will be marked tardy if they arrive after this time. PLEASE NOTE: Students who arrive to school AFTER 9:00am are marked HALF DAY ABSENT.

Students are expected to complete the school day which ends are 3:45pm. If the need arises for a student to leave BEFORE 3:30pm, they will be marked HALF DAY ABSENT. Students who leave between 3:30pm and 3:45pm will be marked AFTERNOON TARDY.

If your student needs to miss school because of illness, or necessary appointment, please contact the office at (269) 792-2281. If you call outside of normal business hours there will be an option to leave a message. If we don't hear from you, your student will be marked unknown and you will receive a follow-up call from the school.

Did you know that Steeby Paper Gator gets funding for the paper that we collect for our school? Please start saving your paper at home and bring it in to the Gator, it will help us to earn money for Steeby!! Anyone in the community can deposit the items listed below in the Paper Gator. The Paper Gator is located behind Steeby in the wooden fenced in area. The Paper Gator will be the green dumpster.

Here is a list of what we CAN take in the Paper Gator:

-Newsprint
-Catalogs/Magazines
-Junk Mail
-Phone Books
-Office/School paper
-Hard and soft cover books
-Paperboard (Grocery Item boxes, NOT cardboard)
-Standard staples & paperclips are ok
-Shredded paper (preferred in CLEAR plastic bags)

Here are some of the community flyers. See more information at https://wayland.revtrak.net/

Steeby Elementary

435 E. Superior St.

Wayland, Mi 49348

(269) 792-2281

Principal: Karri Bailey

baileyk@waylandunion.org

Secretary: Amy Mohr

mohras@waylandunion.org