Pleasant View Pronghorns Post
February 9, 2024
IMPORTANT DATES: FEBRUARY
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
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)
We are seeing far too many students who are struggling with their watches and phones. Please help remind your child that these are a tool and not a toy. If your child or the learning environment are distracted by the use of these items, they will be removed and placed in backpacks. After the second time a device is removed from a student, the items will be given to Mrs. Senethavilay. Parents will be contacted to pick up the device.
Also, students may not use their personal devices to call or text during the school day and may not use these to bypass the health office.
I know safety and communication with your children are essential; we value and respect this. We ask that you make sure to work with your children about the school expectations with these devices. Thank you for understanding and working with us as we continue to maintain privacy for all and limit interruptions to the learning environment.
Need a reminder about this policy, please refer to the WELCOME NEWSLETTER linked in a button toward the end of the newsletter.
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.)
Need To Make A Change In How Your Child Gets Home? Checking Out a Student?
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!
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