Timber Talks

In the Estacada School District, we strive to continue to improve the experience we provide for our students and families. To support these efforts, we conduct a survey twice each school year to collect your input on how things are going. By taking just a few minutes to complete our survey, you will be helping us shape the future of our schools and improve our services to you and your children. Your feedback is a valuable part of our improvement process. Please find a moment to take this survey once for each school that your children attend. We appreciate your constructive, thoughtful feedback.

THANK YOU!

Thank you for attending your child's conference and providing them the opportunity to share all their hard work at school. It is a special time for our students and we appreciate the opportunity to spend some time with you as well.

Thank you for supporting our first ever Read-a-Thon. We are still totaling the the final funds raised and we love establishing a habit of nightly reading for our students. Thank you for making this a priority in your home, amongst your busy schedules.

Thank you for volunteering and browsing our Book Fair. We also want to give a huge thanks to Mrs. T. who is our Librarian who makes this happen for our students.

In addition, if you have not yet had the opportunity to participate in our parent experience survey, we want to hear from you. Your responses help drive our future actions to continually improve you and your child's experience at River Mill Elementary. The survey link can be found above and only takes a few minutes.

Lastly, please check out the information below about One School, One Book. We are thrilled to get this started, and if you have ay questions, please contact us.

Have an outstanding weekend!

Sincerely,

Corinne Johnsen

Principal, River Mill Elementary

johnsenc@estacada.k12.or.us

You might be wondering what all the fuss is about One School, One Book. Let us tell you, we are so excited about this. Our whole school comes together to read the same book at the same time! Please don't read ahead, we want to stay on the same schedule so the story does not get spoiled for anyone! Beginning on Monday, April 10th, we will be sending you videos of one of our staff members reading a section of Dog Days, by Karen English. Each family should have received one copy of the book. Together, find a cozy spot and settle in to enjoy the novel with us. To know what we are reading, please follow the schedule outlined below. If you have any questions about it, let us know!

In order to help you all know what the week looks like, we will list it out clearly for you each week. REID days for are invited students and will change each week. Students are invited to REID days for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's to extend or challenge a student, and other times it might be to provide extra help on a particular skill. On those days, our doors open at 7:50 and dismissal is at 10:00am. If you have questions about this week's schedule, please let. us know!

A look ahead:

• April 14th - REID Day
• April 21st - REID Day
• April 27th - Kindergarten Connection
• April 28th - No School
• May 5th - REID Day
• May 9th - Music concert @ Estacada Middle School, 6:30pm
• May 12th - REID Day
• May 15th - May 19th - May Break

Kinder Connect is an event where we host our incoming Kindergarten students and their families. If you know of a child who lives within our school boundary and will be ready for kindergarten, please help spread the word. It is so important that we register our incoming students to ensure we have the right staffing levels right at the start of the school year. If you have questions, give our office a call!

Did you know we offer Pre-K for 4 year olds? We have a limited number of spots available in our program. If you are interested, please select the box below to fill out an intake form. All forms must be turned in by May 12th for consideration. If we have more interest than spots, some will not be accepted. Thank you for understanding.

Each month we choose to focus on one of our Standards of Excellence. Through this, we teach our students what it means to display these characteristics. Then we recognize members of our school community for exemplifying the trait. All of these help us to reach our school district's long term mission of equipping our students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be resourceful and successful.

My School Bucks is an online payment service that provides parents the ability to securely pay for meals, monitor student cafeteria purchases, and receive email notifications for low account balances.

Please note: currently, a convenience fee of $2.75 will be applied for each transaction.

All transactions are processed and applied to students' accounts nightly.

To enroll, please click the link below and have your student's ID number handy.

My School Bucks can be accessed via the link below: https://login.myschoolbucks.com/users/register/getsignup.action?login_hint=&clientID=schoolbucks

Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes!

Principal Corinne Johnsen

Go Timbers!

Email: johnsenc@estacada.k12.or.us
Website: www.rmes.estacada.k12.or.us
Location: 850 North Broadway Street, Estacada, OR, USA
Phone: 503-630-8517
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RiverMillElem
Twitter: @RMTimbers