Weekly Parent Newsletter Week of October 9-13

This Week at SJE

Monday, October 9 Student Holiday 6:30 School Board Meeting

Tuesday, October 10 Fire Prevention Week Freddie’s Spirit Night

Wednesday, October 11 7:15 Student Council Meeting Fire prevention assembly

Thursday, October 12

Friday, October 13 End of 1st 9 weeks October/November Birthday

Lunch with the Principals

Saturday, October 14 9:00-11:00 5th grade choir rehearsal– SPEAKING PARTS ONLY

Homeroom Baskets for Monster MASH Just a reminder that students who bring at least one item for the homeroom basket will get a free raffle ticket and earn a chance to win a Toys R Us gift card. Please help your homeroom have an AWESOME basket that everyone will want to purchase in the auction. If you haven’t brought something yet, it’s not too late! The deadline is October 16.

Drop Off / Pick Up Reminders Each day, our goal is to assist the nearly 1000 SJE students with safely arriving and dismissing each day. You can help us with this goal, by being patient and understanding that dismissing that many students safely each day will not always be fast. While being fast is a certainly a great goal, safety is our primary focus. Most days, 20-30 of us stand out in the heat, rain or humidity nearly 30 minutes to monitor and assist with arrival or dismissal so we truly appreciate your help. We honestly try to make decisions for the good of the whole school. In doing that, sometimes it might be a little inconvenient for a few but we try to keep the whole school in mind. Thank you so much for your efforts as we work together to be good role models for our students.

Student Council Meeting Student Council members, this is a reminder that we have a meeting on Wednesday, October 11 at 7:15 AM in Mrs. Shearon’s music room. This month we will talk about the budget, the by-laws, our service project ideas, and announce officers.

5th Grade End of Year Party Planning Meeting May might sound like a long time from now but it will sneak up on us quickly. It takes lots of work and lots of help to pull of a successful party for 5th graders to celebrate graduating from elementary school! The party is scheduled for Monday, May 21 at Skate World in Deer Park. The first parent planning meeting will be in the SJE cafeteria on Tuesday, October 10 at 5:30 pm. Please bring lots of ideas and a willingness to help.

Monday

No school

Tuesday

Nachos Hot Dog

Taco Salad

Wednesday Four Meat Pizza Cheeseburger Texas Chili Pie

Thursday Tangerine Chicken with Rice

Chef Salad Chicken Smackers

Friday Pepperoni Pizza Sandwich

Cheese Pizza Mini Corn Dogs

Lunch Menu

Fire Prevention Week Fire Prevention Week is October 9-13. During this week we remind students about important fire safety precautions. Teachers will conduct classroom lessons on fire safety and we will invite the Deer Park Volunteer Fire Department here on Wednesday to present a special assembly for our SJE Stars. Please join our efforts and make this a priority at your home! Fire Prevention Week is a great time to discuss your own family’s fire safety measures, including practicing a family evacuation plan and checking to see if you need new batteries for the smoke detectors in your home.

Congratulations to these SJE STARS! One of our PTO board members was recently announced as winner of a contest she entered to benefit some lucky SJE stu-dents. She won four Leap Pad learning systems and two Leap Pad tablets. Three of the learning systems were donated to kindergarten and a drawing was held to award the remaining items to some lucky SJE students. The names of the winners will be announced on the STAR Morning News and pictures will be posted to the PTO website. Thanks PTO!

What is a PLC? Parents may have recently heard children talking about “PLCs” and wondered, “What is that?” This acronym stands for “Professional Learning Community”, and we are excited to announce that SJE has implemented them in grades 2, 3, 4 and 5.

A professional learning community is a group of educators working together to help each child be more successful. We focus on four essential questions:

1. What do we want students to learn? 2. How will we know if they’ve learned it? 3. What will we do if they haven’t? 4. What will we do if they have?

Teachers work in their PLC teams to develop assessments, study student data, group students by needs, and then prepare specialized lessons targeted to those needs. Here are two of the new things you might hear your child mention:

PLC Collaboration Day: Every Wednesday is “Collaboration Day”. Students receive a rotation of lessons so that teachers can have more time to do all of this new work. The rotation includes PE and music, but also incorporates additional time in health, guidance, art, computers and library. The children are loving this chance to have more time learning in these areas.

PLC Intervention Time: We have “PLC Intervention Time” on

the other four days. This is time set aside for targeted lessons based on the students’ needs. Students still having difficulty with the concept get extra time and instruction, while those who have learned the concept are provided extension lessons that are more challenging.

We are proud to take this important step that we believe will improve the education for every child at SJE. As always, feel free to contact your child’s teacher or an administrator with any questions. You can also visit www.allthingsplc.info/ to learn more.

New at SJE this

year…

Wish your child a “Happy

Birthday” on our school

marquee. If you would like

to take advantage of this

opportunity, complete and

return the attached form,

along with $10.00 cash only and we will take care

of the rest! Form must be turned in at least two

weeks prior to their birthday. Only one form per

child.

Student Name_______________________________________

Grade________________ Teacher______________________

Birthday______________________________________________

________ $10.00 cash enclosed

Parent Signature_____________________________________