Pleasant View Pronghorns Post

5 National School Counseling Week

7 Late Start (No students before 9:05)

• PTA Meeting in the Cafeteria 4:15

8 5th Grade Music Program Dress Rehearsal for School 9:30-10:00

9 5th Grade Music Program for Parents 9:30-10:00

12 Late Start (No students before 9:05)

13 K-2 Summerwind Skippers Assembly 1:50-2:45

• 3-5 Summerwind Skippers Assembly 3:00-3:50

14 Valentine's Day celebrations (See class newsletter for the details)
16 No School

19 No School- President's Day

21 Late Start (No students before 9:05)

22 STEAM Night (6-8 pm) More details to come

28 Late Start (No students before 9:05)

6 NO SCHOOL: Professional Learning Day

7 Class Picture Day

14 3rd Grade Music Program Dress Rehearsal for School 9:30-10:00

15 3rd Grade Music Program for Parents 9:30-10:00

18-22 SPRING BREAK

25 School Resumes

Looking for events happening in the community? Please check the West Ada School District Community Bulletin Board for postings.

Congratulations to this group of students who received recognition for being a great example of what is means to be a PVE Pronghorn. These students were caught either modeling a school-wide expectation or showing ownership for their learning. Way to be #PronghornStrong!

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Empathy is the root of tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness. Pleasant View Elementary will focus on the Empathy Tool in February and encourage students to care for and understand how their peers feel. The Empathy Tool is represented by a level because, with empathy, we learn to balance other people’s needs, emotions, and situations with our own.

Families can help explore empathy while reading stories. Encouraging your child to connect with the characters’ feelings by asking, “Have you ever felt that way?” or “How do you think they feel right now?” is a simple way to acknowledge others’ feelings and develop empathy.

Books that encourage empathy in young learners are:

• A Little SPOT of Empathy by Diane Alber
• Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
• Hey, Little Ant by Phillip M. Hoose
• We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
• The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
• The Buddy Bench by Patty Brozo
• I am Human: Book of Empathy by Susan Verde
• It Will Be OK by Lisa Katzenberger

Let's gear up for our Roaring Readers Reading Program! If your child reads (outside of school) for the required time and fills out the reading chart (with your guidance), they will receive a free day pass to Roaring Springs Waterpark! In your child's take-home folder, you will find a Roaring Readers Reading Chart & Program Details. To help you find it, it's a yellow-orange piece of paper. The reading charts are optional, but please encourage your child to do this! Fostering reading at home is important and helps your child so much!

During library time this past week, we discussed strategies on how to fill out their charts! Please keep these charts in a safe space. Please sign each time they complete their reading to double-check they have completed their reading for the day. We talked about setting timers to help alleviate the question of what time they started reading. We also have done the math and calculated how many times we would need to sit down and read because 600 minutes sounds intimidating to K-4 and 800 minutes sounds endless to 5th grade!

If you run out of room on the chart, please attach another paper (of any kind), click on the button below for an additional reading chart to print, or ask your child to pick up another reading chart attached to my bulletin board. The reading charts are due back to your classroom teacher by Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Thanks for helping to foster the love of reading at home!

Jennifer Kaler

Our PVE students are filled with creativity and initiative, which has manifested into some budding entrepreneurs. As much as we love this forward-thinking passion for such career skills, we cannot allow students to buy and sell items at school. Nor can we allow them to trade, especially since many families are unaware of the items that have gone missing or the money that has left the home.

Please review this handbook policy with your student. (Found under the Items Inappropriate for School section on page 19.)

While on school campus, students may not sell items as part of a fund-raising project for another school or organization other than those supported by a school-wide effort. (This does include selling items for personal monetary gain.)

Have some time in your schedule to help support the running club at PVE? Sign up to help scan passes as students make their laps.

Please get in touch with the office before 3:00 for any last-minute changes at the end of the day, so we have plenty of time to communicate with staff members. (If preplanned, please email both the teacher and office.)

If you are coming in at the end of the day to check out a student, please note we will not call students down after 3:45 pm. They are already cleaning up and transitioning for release at the end of the day.

Thank you for being so understanding!

Welcome! Please check out the welcome newsletter filled with important details about PVE!

Do you have a general question about Pleasant View that you think would benefit others or a suggestion for information to be included in the Pronghorns Post? Click HERE, and we might include your question/idea in future editions of the Pronghorns Post.

Have a safety or peer concern that needs to be addressed? Please click HERE.

If you have a time-sensitive specific question, don’t hesitate to call the office at 208-350-4490.

Website: https://www.westada.org/domain/9837
Location: 4600 W Gondola Dr, Meridian, ID, USA
Phone: (208) 350-4490