From Hamilton To Home

Fall is here and students are settling in and are getting used to the routines and procedures of their day. We are more than halfway through the first quarter. Please be sure to check your child's folder daily for updates on their day and discuss with your child what they are working on in school.

The month's newsletter contains information on our monthly building updates, Picture Day Information, ECS EL Family Night at Hamilton, PBIS Parent Survey, Elyria Public Library news, picture day and Hamilton Marco's Pizza Day.

Regular attendance at the elementary school level is crucial to each student’s success, as it sets up a good pattern for your child’s entire school career. Please make sure your child is here, on time, every day that it is possible.

Please follow us if you are not already: Elyria's Hamilton Elementary:

https://www.facebook.com/ElyriaHamiltonElementary

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the main office at 440-284-8007 and choose option 0.

Thank you,

Mr. Melvin

PICTURE DAY INFORMATION

Picture day is Thursday, October 5th. You can preorder your pictures by clicking the button below and entering the Picture Day ID EVT767ZDH.

Hamilton is proud to once again host the English Learner International Family Night!! Join us for an evening to celebrate our EL families and learn more about the English Learner Program at Elyria City Schools! There will be food, cultural presentations, and community organizations. Feel free to bring a dish to share or information about your culture. Click below to register to attend

Please click the button below to answer a few quick questions about our building PBIS. Your input helps make our school better!

If you have not completed your back to school forms in Powerschool, please do so ASAP. Up to date contact information is important to have for emergencies, academic updates and Hamilton and Elyria City Schools updates.

We are still having issues with following arrival and dismissal procedures. All preschool dismissal will will continue to take place at the 13th St. doors. We must make every attempt to maintain student safety during car and bus rider arrival and dismissal.

Here are some reminders on what needs to be followed:

• ALL car riders are to enter 12th Street off of West Ave. and then turn right into the Hamilton driveway to drop off your student. We can not have people enter 12th Street off of Middle Ave. and try to turn left into the driveway. We are still experiencing car rider drop off/pickup at various locations around the building such as 13th St. and the staff parking lot. Those areas are dismissal spots for other students.
• If you are picking up a student on foot or they are a walker. Please use the doors on the West Ave. side of the building. You will see cones placed on the sidewalk. We ask that you remain behind the cones and let your walker come to you. Please do not walk past the cones to pick up your child. We have a lot of students exiting those doors and having people gather outside those doors and close to the building is a safety concern.

School hours are 9:10 A.M.-3:10 P.M.

Doors do not open until 8:55- please do not drop off early or allow students to walk early.

If you are dropping off, please hold your child in the car with you until 8:55am.

Please call the office to report your child(ren)’s absence at 284-8007 before 9:30AM. Our phone has 24-hour voicemail so that you may call and leave a message anytime. Please leave a voicemail if no one answers the phone in the office; voicemails are frequently checked and the office will receive your message.

Please make sure you always have a photo ID with you, when you come to the school, this is for the safety of our students.

The Main Office of any school building is a hub of activity. Students and staff are always on the go, in and out of the space throughout the school day.

It’s an active place for regular check-ins and meetings with students, as well as staff conferences and daily interactions with school principals and counselors. The Main Office is also a confidential space at times for conversations and interactions between school personnel and students.

Parents and caregivers are part of the equation, too. For any number of reasons, parents may be asked to come to their child’s school during the day. When that happens, parents should follow the district’s visitor procedures by using the school’s main entrance buzzer and intercom system to gain entrance to the school, and then signing in at the front desk.

If parents/caregivers do not have a meeting at the school but still need to come to the school during the day to see their child or to speak to a staff member, call-ahead notice or an appointment is required.

This ensures parents will be seen in a timely manner and upholds the safety practices of the school. To contact the Main Office, please call 440-284-8007 and choose option 0.

October is National Bullying Prevention month. All Hamilton students will be participating in lessons centered around this theme. Students will be learning the 3 R's of Bullying (recognize, report, and refuse).

1. Recognize: is it mean on purpose, am I able to stop it
2. Report: tell an adult
3. Refusal: stop it and stand up to bullying

Please see the graphic below to RECOGNIZE the difference between bullying and other conflicts as well as information on how students can REFUSE bullying.

The dental team is scheduled to visit November 13th through November 17th. Forms have been sent home. You can also sign up online at www.MySchoolDentist.com. Any questions, feel free to reach out to Nurse Amanda.

2nd:

• School Custodian Appreciation Day

4th:

• Pepperoni Roll Pickup 3:30 P.M- 4:30 P.M.
• Hamilton PTO Meeting 3:30 P.M.

5th:

• Picture Day

12th:

• Hamilton Marco's Pizza Day

13th:

• No School For Students-NEOEA Day

17th:

• 3rd Grade Fall English Language Arts Ohio State Test Part 1

18th:

• 3rd Grade Fall English Language Arts Ohio State Test Part 2

19th:

• 3rd Grade Field Trip to EHS for Junie B Jones, Jr.
• ECS EL Family Night at Hamilton 5:00-7:00 P.M.

20th:

• End of the 1st Grading Period

23rd:

• Records Day-No School for Students

25th:

• Preschool Field Trip to CKC Wonderlab

26th:

• Hamilton Family Math Night 5-6:30 P.M. (More Details to Come)

27th:

• 1st Quarter Report Cards Go Home

31st:

• Halloween Parade (More Details to Come)

Our second Marco's Pizza Day is on Thursday, October 12th. Congratulations to Mrs. Poland's class for winning the September pizza party!!!

With your help and appetite, we can raise funds for our school by sponsoring a competition to win a FREE PIZZA PARTY for your classroom. Order a Marco’s pizza and make sure to tell the person taking the order your teacher’s name or if you are ordering online, be sure to click "Fundraisers" under the menu. Look for Hamilton Elementary, then click "Add Button" to the right of Hamilton's name. Checkmark the box with your child's teacher(s) name, then click "Done". Check your cart and you should see Hamilton Elementary and your child's teacher's name(s).

The classroom that gets the most orders on that day will win a FREE pizza party. Marco’s will also donate a portion of the sales generated by the school back to the school. Unable to purchase a pizza today? That is ok!!!! You can still help us out by sharing our Facebook post!!

Hello from the South Branch of Elyria Public Library! My name is Matt Bahnsen, and I am the manager of the South Branch of Elyria Public Library. I am writing today to tell you all about some of the wonderful fun family programming we have coming up in the month of October

On October 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm we will be hosting a Funology Lab in which Ms. Emma Taylor will help lead a group of students through a fun and exciting bubble based chemistry experiment. The following week

October 16-21 we will be celebrating Monster Week in which we will decorate the library and set-up special activities all themed around our favorite Monsters.

On Tuesday September 17th we will be hosting our monthly slime event where participants can make and take home their very own MONSTER SLIME.

Please come by and visit us at 340 15th street and head to our website elyria.lib.oh.us to sign up for and learn about programs from all of our outstanding locations in Elyria!

First Student offers a live tracking app called FirstView that makes it easy for parents to follow the progress of their student's bus before and after school. This is helpful to allow you to see your students bus and in the event of a delay you could get the information quickly.

You can sign up here:

https://www.elyriaschools.org/departments/operations/transportation

BE RESPECTFUL

BE RESPONSIBLE

BE READY TO LEARN

At Hamilton, we believe in teaching students to be confident young people. Every morning, we start the day by reciting the Hamilton Affirmation which states:

I am SOMEBODY

I and CAPABLE and LOVEABLE

I am TEACHABLE

Therefore, I can LEARN

I will not waste TIME

Because, it is too VALUABLE

And I am too PRECIOUS and BRIGHT

I am SOMEBODY

Please practice the affirmation with your child and review what it means. I am also looking for students who can proudly recite the affirmation during the morning announcements.

• Learners thrive when school is engaging and personally meaningful
• All Pioneers have a voice in decisions that affect them
• Excellence is achieved through vision, commitment and moral leadership

Email: melvinjoel@elyriaschools.org
Website: https://hamilton.elyriaschools.org/home
Location: 1215 Middle Ave, Elyria, OH, USA
Phone: 440-284-8007
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElyriaHamiltonElementary