Newsletter for October 18

Our school will be administering the SAEBRS (Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener) universal screening tool in three windows throughout the 2024–2025 school year. SAEBRS (teacher version) and MySAEBRS (student version) is a brief, norm-referenced tool for screening students to identify areas of potential areas of growth. This universal screening tool is built to align academic and socio-emotional learning opportunities and interventions to increase well-being and developmental competencies.

Students will also have the opportunity to take the student assessment 2–3 times. To learn more about the student assessment, see:

If you have not attended a volunteer orientation and would like to help in your student's classroom or on a field trip or with the PTO, please attend the next meeting at 9 a.m. on Tuesday at:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78722812225?pwd=9jwokp6FOAIj972bv7aDwLuuL56qCo.1

Meeting ID: 787 2281 2225

Passcode: 2Wj45J

Our Halloween Parade will start at 8:40 a.m. on Thursday, October 31.

Parents are welcome to arrive at 8:35 and view the parade from the courtyard. For students who do not wish to participate in the parade we will have an alternate activity space available.

Below is a list of do's and please don't's that we hope will make the day enjoyable for everyone.

If students are going to wear a costume, they must wear it to school. Please include shoes that are appropriate for school. No heels, no slippers, and no flip-flops.

Students will not be permitted to change at school. Costumes should not interfere with the ability of a student to go to the bathroom by themselves.

Please note that students will still have recess and any other activities they regularly have on 

Tuesday. Please send them with a coat, proper shoes, etc. so that they can participate fully the rest of the school day.

Please limit makeup to whiskers, freckles, eye make up, etc. No full face paint or masks.

Costumes must not be too scary or inappropriate for the school environment.

Please no gory or grotesque costumes. No props are allowed: no swords, weapons, wands, etc.

Your student should not dress as another person’s race, religion or culture. A costume can be of a character or an individual who is of another race/religion/culture than your child, but not of a generalized race or ethnicity, religion or culture. Costumes should not be caricatures of any group.

Students will be asked to change clothes for inappropriate attire which might entail a call home.

If you are not sure about the appropriateness of a costume, please discuss with your teacher or the principal.

If you plan to have your student's photo taken on retake day, please remember to put the old photos in your student's backpack.

Our Lost and Found is already full! Please have your student search for any missing items between now and Friday, November 1 as we will be taking leftover items to charity on November 4.

Please mark any clothing so that we can get any lost items back to your student. Thank you!

With the partnership of 4J Safe Routes to School program, Kindergarteners and 1st graders will soon be learning and practicing riding bicycles during PE. For students who are not yet riding, they will build their skills using balance bikes (no pedals, no training wheels). Using a balance bike rather than training wheels teaches kids the more challenging skill of balance first. Then we add pedals to the bikes and they take off! First graders who have mastered this may “graduate” to do other PE activities while we continue to work with the learners.

For more information on how to teach kids to ride a bike, bike safety tips and more, visit the Safe Routes to School resource page, here: https://www.eugenespringfieldsrts.org/local-resources 

If you’d like to volunteer, click here for dates and times and to sign up for your school or others: https://signup.com/go/xRnbFhb.