Edgewood's Tiger Talk

A few weeks ago, I sent out a batch of attendance letters. We've seen improvements. Thank you! More learning happens when students are here, and our teachers work incredibly hard to create small group plans tailored to student needs'; it's a shame when they miss them.

Over the past several weeks, the School District has worked to align it's attendance practices. You may notice a few changes in the frequency of attendance letters, or, if you check on the Parent Portal, with the way things are coded.

Here is important information for you to know about school attendance.

• Attendance is compulsory (required) for students ages 6 years and older according to state statute.
• Parents can excuse absences up to 10 days in a school year.
• A note from the doctor or dentist allows absences to be coded as MW, DW,, or ME which do not count towards the 10 days parents can excuse.
• More than 10 days absent in a schoolyear (outside of Medical appointments) is considered habitually truant. For students with open enrollment, this could lead to losing your open enrollment seat.
• If students are sent home from school sick, it is coded as ME (Medically Excused), and does not count towards the 10 days parents/guardians are allowed to excuse their children.

Thank you for working hard to get your children to school on time each day. From one working parent to another, I know it's not always easy!

We have two things coming up....

1) Bookfair, from February 27th-March 3rd. Thank you to those of you who signed up. We still need at least 4 more people (one in each slot, MINIMUM) to make it happen. Help your child's book dreams come true by signing up HERE.

2) The Spring Dance! Sign up to Volunteer HERE. We're in need of food sales (easy, fun), raffle sales, set, up, and clean up.

Also, during the dance, we have RAFFLE BASKETS. Kids love these. Each grade level has a theme, you donate items, and they're put into baskets. You can put a ticket in to win a basket. Kids have so much fun with this. See the grade level themes below!

Many of you shop on Amazon. Did you know that you can earn money for Edgewood's Home and School Association while doing it? You can give more $ to your child's school by doing what you'd do anyway!

1) Go to smile.amazon.com

2) Search for your charity: Edgewood Home and School Association, Inc."

3) This only works from the desktop site, not from the app.

2/27-3/3: Bookfair

3/2: Early Release (1:26pm) for conferences

3/7: EHSA Meeting, 6-7pm

3/17: Spring Dance, 6-8pm

3/27-3/31: Spring Break

4/6: 4K Tour (for families interested in enrolling in the 23-24 school year). 10-11am. RSVP by calling the front office.

4/7: No School

4/10: No School

4/20: 4K Tour (for families interested in enrolling in the 23-24 school year). 5-6pm. RSVP by calling the front office.

Grades 3-5, April is our State Testing month. Please avoid scheduling vacations or appointments in the morning so that students can be here to do their best on the tests. You can check with your child's teacher for your grade level's specific testing days.

Email: mboyd@greenfield.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.greenfield.k12.wi.us/schools/edgewood/
Location: 4711 South 47th Street, Greenfield, WI, United States
Phone: 414-281-5750