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Leaves should be falling very soon! We have had a wonderful start to the school year. Students are getting into a great routine. New look for the newsletter... I hope it is easier to read. You may print under the share button- to the right. Happy FALL everyone! :)

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On the these dates students can purchase football ribbons at school before class. They need to go their classrooms first, tell their teacher and they will allow them to go buy a ribbon. Everything is $1 and exact change is necessary.

Home games: 9/9, 9/30, 10/14, 11/3

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BPS has a new page for help with communication. Link

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Our office will post weekly our Lost and Found on Facebook. Please respond in comments or call the office if your child's lost item is on the post. Items will be donated at the end of the month. Just a reminder to PLEASE put your child's name in lunch boxes, jackets, etc... It helps us return the items.

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This year we will do a "contest" of sorts to encourage the LOVE of reading. We will encourage students to log their reading at school by filling our a construction paper heart. We will have simple but fun incentives all year to encourage students to read but also ENJOY reading. The students can read anything that they enjoy and doesn't necessarily need to be at their level. If your student reads at home please just send a note to their teacher via email, text or in folders so that we know they've been working on it too!

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This afternoon (8/31) our site conducted one of our mandatory safety drills. We've had a fire drill already. This safety drill involves students sheltering in place. We reminded the students this was just a drill. No active threat was present. Students may come home and talk about this drill.  Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions.

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CE is a Title School. This service is based on free and reduced numbers. Please read this Title Letter for further information about services that can be provided for those at our school.

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9/1 and 9/2: Professional Development Days- students off

9/5: Labor Day- staff and students out of school

9/6: Reading and Math benchmarks begin

9/9: Football ribbon sales $1

9/14: First Freckles ice cream (prepurchased sales)

9/15: Homeroom Parent Orientation at 5:30 and PTO meeting at 6

9/22: Family Fun Night

9/30: Football ribbon sales $1

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I’d like to send a huge shout out to our PTO for helping with cross traffic. It is a wonderful reminder of how awesome our community is to help us.

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I wanted to make sure that everyone knew why we divided our carlines the way we did since there have been a few questions. Our red car line encompasses all of our K and PK students. We have a lot of those little guys! :) We put them on the northside of our building due to location. We have 280 students in those two grade levels. It is the closest entrance for our youngest students. We felt like getting them closer to their classrooms at arrival and dismissal was the safest thing we could do due to the amount of students. We also have parents coming from West Elementary due to waitlists.  All of our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders are at the blue car line over half of our other student population. The line at the blue car line looks shorter but we have the same amount of students (technically) that goes on that side. They are much faster unloaders than our younger students. So I realize the red car line is slower than the blue car line but it is totally to keep our youngest students safe. We have shaved off 10 minutes in 5 days and anticipate that to keep getting faster as our younger students become quicker.

Some reminders for all students at arrival car lines.

Please be ready to get out of the car. Backpack on, lunch box in hand or in backpack, and good-byes already given.

If your car is at the unloading spot and your child can unload themselves please have them do it. We can aid them or close a door if needed.

As long as there is a car line your child will not be tardy; however, we will get faster. Friday we were finished by 7:54. Way faster than last week. Yeah!

A few reminders about carline in general.

Please do not use any streets other than the ones designated for carline. I’ve sent emails with maps out and they can always be found on our website. Stadium should only be used for PK and the 1 block for K-3. Do not enter our carline from Stadium.

Do not use Bixby to enter our carline K-3. Buses use this road and we block their route if we use this road.

Do not block any driveways of our neighboring homes.