I
hope the students got their fill of snow experiences, as I know that we adults
are ready for the melt to increase! With luck, the warm-up scheduled for the
latter part of this week will bring some great spring weather. Now for all of the catching up we need to do…
The
Rain Forest Open House is this Tuesday from 11:30 – 1:00.
Parents and guests of our third grade students will be treated to guided
tours of the rain forest and a demonstration of all of the knowledge the
students have acquired as they have studied this unique environment.
Parent
teacher conferences are this Thursday (12:00 – 8:00) and Friday (7:30 – 12:00) and
there will be no classes for students. Middle school parents are reminded that
teachers would like students to attend the conferences with their parents. Our extended day program will be available
from 7:15 – 6:00 for those who contact Mrs. McDonald and make arrangements for
their child to attend. Temporary care
for students while parents attend their conference is available at no charge
for the period of the conference time.
We
practiced our lockdown procedure on Tuesday, Feb. 19th, with two
police officers observing our procedure. They
offered a few suggestions and we noticed a couple of ways in which we could
improve our system. Then Karen McDonald,
Gingie Watt, and I attended an all-day session with about 50 school
administrators and 20 law enforcement officers on Saturday on school safety
issues. The workshop included statistics
and lessons learned from school shootings, ways to react in case of an
intruder, and practical applications in various areas of the school. We plan to sit down with the officers who
assisted us in our lockdown to review the findings from the workshop and what
we might apply to our school. We are
looking for a balance between keeping our students and faculty safe while not
changing the whole culture of our school and accessibility for our parents and
guests.
Read
any good books lately?
Please take a moment to collect any great books you may have on hand and donate
them to the Annual Teachers' Book Drive. Books may be placed in boxes by
the ECC entrance and near Mr. Darnell's desk between Mon. 2/25-Fri 3/8.
The books will then be available to the teachers for their reading pleasure
over spring break. If you have any questions, please contact Tracy Gordon at trcgordon@gmail.com
The
police have apparently set up a speed trap this morning because I have heard
the brief siren alert many times this morning.
It’s a good reminder to us that this is a school zone with the posted
speed of 15 mph around our property. I
wanted to alert you to this fact, in case you have forgotten, so you won’t get
caught!
