Huntington Highlights

On Monday October 7th in your child's blue take home folder you will find your child's DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) Home Connect report that was given the beginning of September.

When you receive the report, please take some time to read it over carefully. It discusses specific skills and suggests activities you can do at home to support your child's learning. These suggestions will help reinforce what we're doing in the classroom. Your child's teacher will also discuss this during your parent teacher conference which will be on Tuesday November 5th. Click here to read about DIBEL's.

Safety of our students and families is our number one priority. Your cooperation with our rules and procedures is paramount to ensuring everyone’s safety. Please read carefully and assist us to make this process more efficient and safe for all of our students.

Due to the increased number of car riders in the morning, we have designated both the sidewalk along the side of the building AND the sidewalk along the back of the building for students to exit vehicles. Please have your child exit your vehicle at either location and do not wait until you are on the side of the building. This could cause the line to slow down. When a staff members signals that your child can exit your vehicle please have your child do so quickly.

-Students should exit the vehicle from the DRIVER'S SIDE of the vehicle. Students should NOT exit the vehicle from the passenger side. It is an extreme safety concern and needs to be followed. No exceptions!

-Students should NOT be climbing over the driver in the front seat to get out of their vehicle. It is dangerous and can cause delays.

-Please do NOT get out of your vehicle. This causes significant delays in drop off. If you have large items to drop off, please park in the visitor parking area and sign in via the front office. We have staff that will help open doors if they are stuck but please do not get out of your vehicle.

- Please make sure students know how to buckle and unbuckle their own seatbelts or booster seat harnesses. Students will need to unbuckle and buckle themselves into their seat. If this is new to your child, please practice this.

-Please watch for the signal to pull forward and exit the line. Do NOT try and leave immediately after your student has entered or exited the vehicle. You need to wait until the signal to pull forward is given and then all of the cars can exit. No exceptions. The safety of all of our students and staff is our priority and leaving the line early is an extreme concern.

October

10/8 3rd-5th Grade Safety Presentations

10/9 2nd Grade Fire Safety Presentations

10/9 PTO Meeting @ 6:30 pm

10/10-10/11 PTO Kalahari Night

10/11 NEOEA Day- NO SCHOOL

10/15 Fall Literacy Night @ 5:30 pm

10/16 Picture Retake Day

10/17 Fire Drill

10/18 End of 1st Quarter

10/18 5th Gr. Internet Safety Presentations

10/23 3rd Gr. ELA OST Part 1

10/24 3rd Gr. ELA OST Part 2

10/25 PTO Popcorn Friday

10/25 PTO Trunk or Treat

10/30 4th Gr. Parent Performance @ 10 am

10/31 Halloween

10/31 4th Gr. Internet Safety Presentations

10/31 Halloween Parties @ 2:15 pm

See link below for K-5 Elementary Second Step Teaching Topics and Schedule:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YvC_lLgwrb2-oSM91W6pm54-Q2ZZlYv2YyRlhoo5f8M/edit?usp=sharing

The great news is that the Second Step Program has a link that parents can utilize to reinforce the skills that their children have learned for the week. All you need to do is the following:

Use this link www.SecondStep.org then enter the following Activation Key:

Kindergarten- SSPK FAMI LY70 Look for Lessons under Home Link

1st Grade-SSP1 FAMI LY71 Look for Lessons under Home Link

2nd Grade-SSP1 FAMI LY72 Look for Lessons under Home Link

3rd Grade-SSP1 FAMI LY73 Look for Lessons under Home Link

4th Grade-SSP4 FAMI LY74 Look for Lessons under Home Link

5th Grade-SSP5 FAMI LY75 Look for Lessons under Home Link

Here is also additional information on ways to reinforce Listening Skills

Popcorn Friday is always looking for volunteers to pop, bag, & deliver our fresh popped popcorn.

We pop on the stage from 9am-1pm (approx.). Stay as little or as long as you like.

Younger siblings are welcome to "volunteer" as well.

Adult volunteers must have a current background check on file with the BCS Board Office.

Click here to SignUp for one or more Popcorn Friday events: https://signup.com/go/SXpVPrf

Get your costumes ready for a spook-tacular night of Trunk or Treat—where candy and fun collide!

Get in on the Halloweenfun with Huntington PTOby signing up to decorate a trunk (table), helping by donating candyor small goodiesin the boxes outside the art room or joining for a night of frightfulfun, fabulouscostumes and safe, INDOOR trick-or-treating!

Friday, October 25, 2024

Huntington Elementary

6:00-8:00pm

Contest & Prizes for All Around Best Trunk, Scariest Trunk, and Most Creative Trunk... Scavenger Hunt... Photo BOO-th... AND a Glow Bones Hallway!

Deadline for trunk (table) sign up and Trick or Treating RSVP is OCTOBER 10, 2024. Let’s make this celebration fang-tastic!

SCAN THE QR CODE or go to https://forms.gle/DcCrAceqBpZkV8nk7

to Sign Up and/or RSVP!

Skip the hassles of making lunch, dinner, or BOTH!

Order from Moxie's on Tuesday October 8th.

Mention Huntington PTO when placing your order & PTO will receive 20% of total sales!

Join us for our October PTO meeting.

Use the following url to access our Google Meet links, meeting agendas & minutes, Treasurer reports, etc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vwyNKZJe16uXOfA6mE0YukzAYmevYE8LNL0Ld7fat9A/edit?usp=sharing

Over the summer, BCSD transitioned our lunch and student fee payment system to a new vendor, PaySchools. Click here for PaySchools Central to register and create your account.

Please note that any balances on your student’s lunch accounts (from MySchoolBucks) have already been transferred to PaySchools and will be available immediately upon creating your account in PaySchools. Also, any outstanding student class fees have been transferred to PaySchools. You will also have the option to pay any Athletic and Marching Band Pay to Participate fees through your PaySchools account.

Additionally, parents interested in applying for free and reduced lunches can submit applications starting July 31, 2024, using their PaySchools account.

Free and Reduced Lunch

There are no fees involved when paying your student's fees online.

There will be a small transaction fee for the Meal Accounts.

• Credit/Debit Cards (Transactions less than $25.00) $1.65 per transaction

• Credit/Debit Cards (Transactions $25 to $49.99) $2.00 per transaction

• Credit/Debit Cards (Transactions greater than $49.99) 4.5%

• Electronic Check (All transaction amounts) $1.75 per transaction

Several PaySchool links are provided below. At the bottom of each informational document, you will find PaySchools customer service contact information. Feel free to reach out to PaySchools if you encounter a problem when creating your account.

If you have a district-related question regarding your fees please contact Tina Campbell, Administrative Assistant to the Treasurer, at tcampbell@bcsoh.org. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation with this transition.

PaySchools Parent Registration

PaySchools Free and Reduced Application

PaySchool Meal Account

Your children may qualify for free meals or for reduced price meals. If you think your children qualify after reading the parent letter and guidelines found in the link below, please complete the application and return to your child's school. We cannot approve an application that is not complete, so be sure to fill out all required information. You may submit one Free and Reduced Price School Meals Application for all students in your household.

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Please review the district's statement on Artificial Intelligence .

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PTO Twitter- @PtoHuntington

PTO Facebook- @huntingtonelementarypto

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Location: 1931 Huntington Circle, Brunswick, OH, USA
Phone: 330-273-0484