Como Park Elementary

It is hard to believe that September is already over. All of our students have been working hard this past month.

If you are not receiving texts or emails from the school, please make sure to go into iUpdate to update your contact information.

We want to continue to build strong partnerships between home and school. Our teachers are busy teaching throughout the day so if you would like to talk to your child's teacher, please email/call/text them to set up a meeting.

Conference slips were sent home this week. Please have your child return the slip to their teacher so that we are able to schedule your conference on a day/time that will work for you.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns. We want to partner with you to ensure that this school year is a success for your child.

Jennifer Ewald, Principal

jennifer.ewald@spps.org

651-744-6055

This past month, students have been working hard to learn and practice SOAR behavior in the pick-up room and on the school bus. Bus drivers have been actively engaging and passing our red SOAR tickets to students on the bus and yellow SOAR tickets in the pick-up room. At the end of the week, the school bus with the fewest bus referrals will receive popcorn as a treat!

SOAR=

S- Safe

O- On task
A- Attitude

R- Respect

Way to go Como Cardinals!

Meera Patel, Assistant Principal

meera.patel@spps.org

As a school counselor, I feel so fortunate to support students’ educational experience in a variety of ways! Here is some helpful information about my role and work at Como throughout the year:

Classroom Lessons

One of my favorite things to do as a school counselor is teach classroom lessons. All K-5 classrooms at Como will have regular scheduled counseling lessons with me to learn about a wide variety of topics surrounding social emotional learning, learning skills and strategies, and planning for the future. I would love your feedback for this year’s topics: https://forms.gle/tfQLqbiXvo3Gi5Gj8

Small Group Counseling

I work in close partnership with our social workers and school psychologist to offer a variety of small group counseling services. These skill groups offer a great opportunity for students needing a little extra support to thrive at school with learning, relationships, and emotions. If your child is referred for a small group, information will be sent home at that time.

Individual Counseling

Sometimes things come up in a student’s life at home or school with relationships, life changes, or emotions where individual school counseling support is valuable to strengthen students’ skills to support them throughout the school day. In those situations, individual counseling with myself or a social worker may be a resource for referred students.

Referrals & Caregiver Consent

Students can be initially referred for an individual meeting with me by either themselves, a staff member, or parent/ caregiver, but guardian consent will be required for ongoing counseling support. If there is anything I can do to support your student, please reach out: keela.kuhlers@spps.org or 651-744-8222.

Now that everyone is getting back into the routine of going to school, here are some things to consider when your student is feeling ill:

• If your child has a fever of 100°F or more, keep them home for 24 hours after their temperature returns to normal without using fever- reducing medication

• If your child has vomited one or more times, keep them home for 24 hours following the last episode

• If your child has diarrhea, is uncomfortable due to abdominal cramping, and needs to use the bathroom frequently, keep them home for 24 hours following the last episode

• If your child has a rash from an unknown or infectious cause, check with a health care provider before sending them to school

Follow this link for more information and click on the “Illness/Absence” tab

https://www.spps.org/about/departments/health-wellness

Hello Como Families! This year, Como Physical Education and St. Paul Parks & Recreation are teaming up for athletics instruction and after school sports/activities. Please follow the link for more information! St. Paul Youth Sports —Mr. Tufte

Welcome to science class! As enthusiastic scientists, it is our mission to explore, collaborate, and share our discoveries. As we begin the school year, we are building our observational skills. By noticing and engaging with our surroundings, through class walks and inquiry opportunities, students form strong physical and emotional connections to their environment. We use data during our observations to guide our inquiry and to track change and phenomenon over time. Undoubtably this strange start to Autumn has contributed to our scientific discussions. Please be sure to ask your scientist as home of their new discoveries and wonderings.

Hello Como Park Elementary Families,

We have been hard at work in the music room in September and there are some exciting things happening in October. Pre-K, kinder, first and second grades are learning about beat, rhythm, tempo and how to play instruments in my room. Third grade will begin playing xylophones, fourth grade has started playing recorders and fifth grade is going to continue learning how to play the guitar.

I am also excited to announce that kindergarten and first grade will be participating in a residency called "FRIENDS of the MN Orchestra Konzerts on the Road" residency. A member of the MN Orchestra will come into each classroom and work with students on connecting music and literacy over multiple sessions. Then, there will be a special concert in November for the primary grades by members of the MN Orchestra.

Students in PreK-Grade 4 have attended their first rotation of technology classes. In technology, we spent time getting to know each other through some drawing activities. Students in first and second grade are creating a book about themselves in Book Creator app. Students in grades three and four are just starting some coding activities along with using Keynote and Sketches apps.

Picture Day is coming on Tuesday, October 22

You can place your order on mylifetouch.com using your Picture Day ID: EVTJCMQX2. If you order before midnight on Picture Day , you will get FREE shipping!
Your child can also bring their completed flyer with cash or check on Picture Day.

Families are able to use the Parent Absence Request tool in Infinite Campus Parent Portal. Families can submit a request that informs the school office in advance when your child is not going to be in school. Examples include:

• Child wakes up sick

• Child has a doctor appointment

• Child will miss school because of a family event

These requests are processed by the office staff and an attendance record is created on the student’s attendance record.

ENGLISH

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KAREN

ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီးစံၢ်လီၤဖဲ ပှာ်ဘျးစဲအဖီခိၣ်ဖဲစုထွဲတကပၤ(လၢခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ်ဖီခိၣ်) မ့တမ့ၢ် စံၢ်လီၤဖဲတၢ်ဖီလာ် (လၢနလီတဲစိ ဖီခိၣ်) ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်အကမၣ် မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢတပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-293-8820 န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.

SOMALI

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HMONG

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SPANISH

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Como Park Elementary's mission is to develop life-long learners and responsible citizens. Como Park Elementary inspires, challenges, and cares for each student. Como Park Elementary welcomes, respects and values families and communities. Como Park Elementary unites, strengthens, and prepares learners.

Website: https://www.spps.org/comoel
Location: 780 West Wheelock Parkway, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone: 651-293-8820
Twitter: @ComoElementary

Translations of required school-related communications can be made available upon request. Our school can also provide translators. Please contact the office or your student’s teacher if you are in need of these services.