November

• 11/1-16 Canned Food Drive
• 11/1 K-12 Boosters Mtg 6:30PM in CHS Cafeteria
• 11/2 Picture Make Up Day 8:30AM
• 11/2 Last day of Quarter 1
• 11/5 Daylight Saving- Move Clock Back 1 Hour
• 11/11 PTA Can/Bottle Drive (Fundraiser)
• 11/13 School Board Mtg
• 11/14 PTA Mtg CES Cafeteria 4:30PM
• 11/20 No School, Conferences 12-8PM
• 11/21 No School, Conferences 8AM-4PM
• 11/22-11/24 No School, Thanksgiving Holiday

Picture Makeup Day is Thursday, November 2. If you were absent on Picture Day, or are a new student, you may order portraits online at portraitmasters.com, and enter your code: CESC1023MU. If you ordered a package on the original day, and would like a retake, please return your complete package with a brief note telling Portrait Masters why you would like it retaken. A new package will not be made unless the original package is returned.

Our Student Council is organizing a Canned Food Drive for our community's Colton Aid Network. Each classroom will keep track of how many cans or food items were donated. Thanks for your support!

Our school's Student Council has 20 fourth and fifth grade members who meet on Thursdays at lunch.

All parents and volunteers, in order for you to work in or around our buildings, you must clear an ODE and CSD background check and complete mandatory training. If you have only completed one of the online training modules, please email hr@colton.k12.or.us to receive the full set. This is a new requirement. If you have any questions, please call the office at (503)824-3536. Thank you for for your support of keeping Colton School District safe!

A reminder from the Colton School District Bus Garage:

Fall is here and as the days continue to get shorter and mornings darker, it is helpful for parents to have some type of light with students at their bus stop. Reflective patches on coats help too. This makes it easier for the school bus drivers and other drivers to see them. Let’s be safe and visible this winter.

Thank you, from the Colton School District Transportation staff.

We have 44 lost jackets and sweatshirts from our first month of school! Please look at these pictures and see if one of them belongs to you. Just email a brief description to Mrs. Wagner at wagnerc@colton.k12.or.us and we can send it home with your child.

The Book Fair helps us buy new books for our library.

Here are 30 new ones! More books coming soon!

Family and Friends around the country can shop online at our Book Fair. All proceeds benefit out school. Send them our Book Fair link:

https://www.scholastic.com/bf/coltonelemschool

Finish a new Chapter Book this month

Start learning author names for each book.

3rd Grade Meetings- Every Wednesday at lunch

4th & 5th Grade Meetings- Every Tuesday at lunch

November OBOB Happenings:

-We will form teams. Students get to request 1-2 friends for each team

-We will practice how to answer questions as a team

-We will learn authors

https://sites.google.com/colton.k12.or.us/ceslibrary/obob

https://www.oregonbattleofthebooks.org/

Friendly Reminder: All medication (over-the-counter and prescribed) needs to be transported to school by a parent, and medication authorization forms must be filled out before office staff can administer medication. The medication both prescribed and over the counter should be in the original packaging, and can only be given as directed by the prescribing physician or medication label.

Transportation Safety Procedures: https://5il.co/10a3o

Citation Policy: https://5il.co/1b3xb

Bus Barn/Dispatch phone number: (503) 824-3534

PTA: We can use your hand with a few things coming up, get plugged in on remind to find out the latest!

PTA: Check out our monthly calendar! Dates are subject to change, but we are happy to provide you with a calendar to make planning your year a little easier!

Office 503-824-3536

30437 S Grays Hill Rd, Colton, OR 97017