Hello Keystone Families,

I hope everyone is having a fantastic week thus far!

For kindness week, our students and staff had a wonderful time spreading kindness throughout the building at Keystone Elementary School. In addition, there were so many wonderful activities taking place to celebrate the first 100 days of school!

Thank you for everyone that has participated in the Gertrude Hawk fundraiser so far! The fundraiser is still going on until March 1st. Please visit https://fundraising.gertrudehawkchocolates.com/ to set up an account to order and to share with family and friends.

Hope everyone has a fabulous week!

Respectfully,

Mrs. Smith-Herman

Smencil Sales ($1.25 each)

Pre-Order Pretzels

Wear Paw Shirts

All of February

February 19th

February 21st from 6:00-9:00pm

February 29th

March 13th

Professional Development in PM for School Staff

March 13th

March 20th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, and 26th

Late Night Conferences- Wednesday, March 20th

March 28th-April 1st

ELA- April 22nd, 24th, and 26th- Grades 3, 4, 5

Math- April 30th and May 1st- Grades 3, 4, 5

Science- May 2nd and May 3rd- Grade 4 Only

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

Rain Date- Thursday, May 9th, 2024

It will take place in the stadium at Truman High School.

Thursday, June 6th- AM- K/1

Thursday, June 6th- PM- 2/3

Friday, June 7th- AM- 4/5

Rain Dates: June 10th and/or 11th

Position: Kindergarten Teacher

Years at Bristol Township School District: 10

Strengths: Creative Projects

Pets: Dog - Addie

Hobbies: Baking, arts and crafts, puzzles, Hallmark movies

Favorite Color(s): Pink

Favorite Snack: Anything Peanut Butter

Favorite Sports' Team: Whichever team my boys are on at that point!

Three Fun Facts:

1. I have two boys, Brayden and Bryce.
2. I love decorating.
3. I have a LARGE earring collection.

Additional Facts:

• I have wanted to be a teacher since I was in Kindergarten. I have been teaching for 15 years.
• Before BTSD I taught middle school Math and Science in Philadelphia.
• I love to spend time outside with my family.
• Our favorite getaway is to our cabin outside of State College.
• My happy place is on the porch with a cup of coffee!

In Mrs. Nober's room, they built structures from 100 legos, played with 100 dominoes, made designs with 100 coins and popsicle sticks, stamped 100 times.

They also made a yummy trail mix treat, sorted and graphed how many of each food they had, as well as got transformed to 100 years old!

The students in Mrs. Nean's class worked on 100 cup stacking, 100 Fruit Loop Necklaces, Roll, and an Add and Color activity.

Help support Keystone Elementary School! Starting today, you can order from our Gertrude Hawk fundraiser, until March 1st. The expected delivery will be prior to spring break, before the last week in March.

Thank you all for your continued support!

Spring musical tickets go on sale February 12 and will be online only!

Ticket sales for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - and all Truman Drama productions moving forward - will be sold online only, and sales will end one hour prior to each performance. There will be no door sales or contacting Truman to hold/reserve tickets.

Tickets are $12. Showtimes are February 29 at 7:30 p.m., March 1 at 7:30 p.m., and March 2 at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Purchase tickets here.

Saint Francis University Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the PA Statistics Poster Competition for 2024! The state-wide competition is open to students in grades K-12 to submit a statistics poster, which is a display containing graphs that summarize data, provide different points of view and answer a question(s) about the data. Electronic submissions will be accepted of a digitally created poster or a high quality picture of a physical poster.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION
· Open to all K-12 students in Pennsylvania, registration will open on February 1, 2024
· Four grade level categories: K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12
· Submission deadline is: Friday, March 29, 2024
· Cash prizes and certificates are awarded for first, second, third and fourth place in each grade category
· Certificates awarded for honorable mentions for each grade category
· Winning posters from Pennsylvania Competition are submitted to the American Statistical Association Data Visualization Poster judging competition

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Teachers from across Pennsylvania are encouraged to incorporate the Statistics Poster Competition into their classrooms. Collaborative efforts between subjects can be an exciting way to show how mathematics relates to other subjects such as health, geography, history, science, etc..

Teachers who incorporate the PA Statistics Poster Competition into their classrooms register and submit the posters on behalf of their students. A student working independently can submit a poster via a parent or mentor.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration deadline for the 2024 competition is March 29, 2024.

For more information about the competition and to register please visit: https://www.francis.edu/PA-Statistics-Poster-Competition

If you have any questions, please contact us:
Email: mathematics@francis.edu
Phone: 814.471.1215

Thank you for all who have participating in our newsletter's weekly poll! It looks like most people think we will get more snow this season.

The Read for the House Program is a service-learning project for children of any age that raises funds to support Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region. In addition to helping our guest families, the program promotes the value of community service and improves reading comprehension.

PROGRAM TIMELINE:

JANUARY 2024: Readers watch our online video to learn about the program, create their personal fundraising pages, and seek family and friends to pledge any amount of money for each minute they read during February.

FEBRUARY 2024: Reading begins on February 1! Readers keep track of how many minutes they read using the calendar we provide.

MARCH 2024: Readers reach out to their family and friends and collect their donations through their online fundraising page. They can feel good knowing every dollar they raised directly helps families in need!

Readers will earn prizes! Not only will they have the satisfaction of knowing they are helping families when they need it the most, but readers can also earn fun prizes based on their fundraising totals!

Ordering Online Access Code Needed:

Fresh fruits an vegetables are sampled at school on Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Fridays.

The students in grades K-5 had the opportunity to sample minnoelas, broccolini, and jicama last week.

Many thanks and gratitude to the students and staff in room A208 and A112 for continuing to providing the delivery of the fresh fruits and vegetables to the classrooms at Keystone Elementary School. You are all doing a fantastic job and we are very appreciative! Thanks!

In order to maintain the safety of all our learners, we are asking that families alert teachers, in writing, for any transportation/dismissal plan changes prior to 9am each morning.

We do understand that emergencies may arise throughout the day that requires a change to a child's dismissal plan for that particular day. For those situations, please make sure you are alerting the office staff as soon as possible, so they can communicate the change to the teachers as soon as possible.

We thank you for your support in helping us ensure the safety and wellbeing of each of our learners.

To ensure the safety and well being of our students, as per the District Wellness Policy, no outside foods may be brought in by students for classroom parties or birthday celebrations. Shared snacks are not permitted in district schools.

If you would like to send something in to celebrate your child's birthday or for a classroom party, you may send in non food items such as stickers, pencils, play dough etc.

In order to maintain the safety of all our learners, we are asking that families alert teachers, in writing, for any transportation/dismissal plan changes prior to 9am each morning.

We do understand that emergencies may arise throughout the day that requires a change to a child's dismissal plan for that particular day. For those situations, please make sure you are alerting the office staff as soon as possible, so they can communicate the change to the teachers as soon as possible.

We thank you for your support in helping us ensure the safety and wellbeing of each of our learners.

Link to Elementary Remote Learning Overview: (Click here)

For additional information please visit https://www.bristoltwpsd.org/cms/one.aspx?portalId=377235&pageId=51110003

Mrs. Stacy Cooke
stacy.cooke@bristoltwpsd.org

Mrs. Aimee Ramos
aimee.ramos@bristoltwpsd.org

What is Title I?

Title I is a project funded by the federal government under the Every Child Succeeds Act. The purpose of this Act is to provide all children with fair and equitable opportunity to succeed and close achievement gaps. Money is allocated by the federal government and distributed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to the Bristol Township School. District.

Title I funding is based on a complex formula. These funds are allocated to the states who in turn allocate a portion of that money to the individual school districts within each state. The school district’s share is based on the economic need within a school area, that is, by the number of low income families living there. In our district the number of free and reduced lunch students is used to determine the economic need of a particular school.

Email: steve.pierce@bristoltwpsd.org.

We encourage each student and staff member to wear their Keystone Paw Shirts every Friday.

Support Keystone's SWPBIS program by purchasing a soft pretzel. Each soft pretzel will cost $1 each. Students will be asked to preorder their pretzel each Thursday, for a pretzel delivery to take place on Fridays.

School Principal: Mr. Mark Wilicki

Email: mark.wilicki@bristoltwpsd.org

Assistant Principal: Crystal Smith-Herman

Email: crystal.smith-herman@bristoltwpsd.org

Special Education Supervisor: Jessica Kelch

Email: jessica.kelch@bristoltwpsd.org

Principal's Secretary: Mrs. Marianne Mensinger

Email: marianne.mensinger@bristoltwpsd.org

Assistant Principal's Secretary: Mrs. Donna Meehan

Email: donna.meehan@bristoltwpsd.org

School phone: 267-599-2470

School fax: 215-788-1041