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Dear Central Parents,

During the month of December, we like to “Deck the Halls with Kindness” at our school. Kindness is the town value of the month of December, so we embrace it in our own Central C.H.A.M.P.S. way. Each day, there are many ways we work to help our students learn to empathize with others and show kindness.

One way of highlighting our safe and caring school is by creating our chain for kindness. It is something fun for everyone at any age. Whenever students see someone doing something kind, they write about it on a red chain of paper. Teachers collect these, turn them into the office, and we display them in the hallway towards the cafeteria. Last year we ended the month with over 600 links of kindness.

When you walk into our school, we ask that you celebrate with us and enjoy that our school is a place of kindness!

As we wrap up the semester, I want to wish you and yours a happy and stress free holiday season. Each day, parents share kindness and support with with me, and I am thrilled to partner with you to bring joy to your child's learning!

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.-- Palacio

Sincerely,

Julie Thacker

The Gratitude Game was one of Big Life Journal's most popular printables! Click on the link below to play with your children before or after dinner and make it a wonderful tradition in your home (or classroom!).

• Holiday Needs-There is a free Thanksgiving Dinner on Thanksgiving Day, November 28th at the Guilford Township Community Center, 1500 South Center Street from 11:00 - 2:00. Everyone is welcome! If anyone needs a coat for their child this winter, please contact Mrs. White.

• Santa Shop-Here is the link to sign up for parent volunteers https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e4baba62aabfd0-santa4

• Music Program at PHS for grades 1, 3, and 5 on December 9th

• Family Night at the Imagination Lab on December 10th-Sign up below

• December Dress up days, Just for Fun-Monday, December 16th--Ugly Sweater Day
  

• Tuesday, December 17th--Elf Day
  

  Wednesday, December 18th- Grade Level Activities

  Thursday, December 19th--Grade Level Activities

• Please check lost and found in the cafeteria if you are missing any items.

• Just a reminder as field trips come up, you must have a New Volunteer Background Check https://secure.safevisitorsolutions.com/Safe/Volunteer/plainfield2807/volunteer
  

• Follow us: Twitter---@cnquakers

  Facebook--Central Elementary School or find us (@centralquakers)

• Reading is Sweet and Math is a Treat! Check our schoolwide reading and math programs this year. We are building comprehension and math fact fluency in grades K-5.

Central Elementary School is an "A" school this year. Yes, the results are from our 2018-2019 ILEARN scores. While many in the state struggled, our WHOLE school earned an "A" rating. Congratulations. This was not an easy task and you should feel very proud.

Join us at the Imagination Lab on December 10th from 5:30 - 7:30 to share in the joy of learning as a family. Make slime, build gravity mazes, learn about coding, conquer the strawbees and win the marshmallow challenge! 100 spots total are available for this event. Participants must be registered to attend. If you register after 100 spots are filled, you will be placed on a waiting list with first dibs at any future odyssey nights if planned. Confirmations will be sent via email.

Click Below on the link to register

https://forms.gle/t2it3EEAvH5sTtZf9

Children will be expected to go outdoors for recess when the temperature and wind chill are 20 degrees Fahrenheit and above. Please make sure you are sending your children to school dressed for this kind of weather. Students will not go out if it is raining or sleeting.

Our handbook states that if your child must stay indoors because of illness during recess time, we ask that you write a daily note requesting that your child stay inside. Repeated requests for indoor recess will prompt the nurse to require a written statement from the family doctor concerning the request.

We are continually updating our Central Elementary Parent Calendar. Please see the link below, so you will have all our important events at your fingertips.

(Disclaimer: Every phone is different. If you have a Google calendar, it will work for sure; others will have different steps to follow, but your phone should prompt you.) Note - for Google, you need to be on a computer to add the calendar.

Link to VIEW ONLY the Central Elementary Parent Calendar

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=plainfield.k12.in.us_k4mb22sskfrkul9o8017a6fovc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York

When caregivers and schools work together, students benefit. Close collaboration between the adults who are influential in young people’s lives increases the probability that those children will earn higher grades, adapt better to school, and develop positive social skills. While district leaders, principals, and teachers possess a deep understanding of the teaching and learning process, caregivers know their students. Caregivers hold a deep understanding of the needs and strengths unique to their student(s). When working together, school personnel and caregivers have the potential to empower students to achieve success in school and in life. The Family Engagement Toolkit provides resources to foster such relationships. Click here for more information!

Chains Of Kindness

By: Charlotte Husted and Jennifer Detlefsen

Always be kind, no matter what. Your life will be better than you ever thought. Always be jolly, no matter the season. Be nice and caring, and everyone’s hugs will be warm. Always be kind, and you will be happier than you have ever known.

December is the season to be happy without reason. Others will hug you when you are freezing. December is the season to be kind and giving. Kindness chains will brighten your spirit. Those feelings of kindness will be quite a sight, so it is guaranteed that kindness will light.

If you may not know the Chains Of Kindness, read this article to find information. Every good thing you do will be rewarded. All of kind deeds with be hoarded. All the little actions of kindness, equals one big chain to bind us, grants us kind feelings and warmth in our hearts.

The kindness papers are tokens of kindness, thoughtfulness, and granting wishes. Anyone can do it, they just have to try hard. You get rewarded through the kindness of your heart. Do these kind deeds, and build the chain long. With all these Chains Of Kindness, nothing can go wrong. Integrity will be noticed, praise will be ensured. The chains help others to be kind as they learned

Parents can help, they can raise their child strong. The aura of kindness will warm all. Help one today, and they may help you, and they will feel the warmth as you do. Teach your child to make good choices, and when you read this all will be understood. The warmth from others will be your hood. For all it’s worth, work hard to find, that happiness comes all the time.

Please learn from this article, and teach others too. This chain of kindness needs to be carried out by you.

Please click here to learn more about the club. Below is a Button Link to sign up.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10xIMYIyp0WILkzW-s9As1Xz4ecrtXa6RNvpim29Qs_c/edit?usp=sharing

Important Events Coming Up

Hello Central Parents!

-Yankee Candle Fundraiser packets are being sent home November 1. Central PTO will receive 40% of sales. The sale is all online and orders are delivered direct to the customer.

-Experience the Joy of Learning with your children by participating in a Family Odyssey on December 10th from 5:30-7:30! Please be on the lookout for a Family Odyssey sign-up form going out in the December parent newsletter.

PTO November Meeting Minutes link.

Questions can be directed to plainfieldcentralelementarypto@gmail.com.

We hope to see you there!

Central Elementary PTO

Third grade teachers are designing a Heroes Unit for students. On January 24th they are looking specifically for a nurse (Riley?), ER nurse, doctor, military... anything along those lines.

We would like for volunteers to dress in their professional attire and speak to the students for about 20 minutes about how they are a hero. It would also be nice if guests could bring some tools or supplies that they use daily in their job. They would rotate between all four classrooms so it would be about a two hour commitment. Please email ajohnson@plainfield.k12.in.us if you are interested in helping.

Thank you!!

We enjoy seeing your children every day. Although we understand that there will be times when your child is sick and needs to stay home, there is a direct correlation between student attendance and success. Here are a few ways we can work together to make sure your children have very good school attendance and don't feel like they are missing out.

• Schedule all doctor’s appointments outside of the school day if at all possible.
• It is very important to turn in medical notes (doctor, dentist, therapy, etc) to the nurse when returning to school.
• Share with your child how important it is to be at school.
• Make sure to communicate absences in advance, if possible, so the classroom teacher can ensure that your child still has opportunities to learn skills that he/she will miss when they are absent.
• Help to make sure that your child arrives at school on time each day. The doors open at 8:30 and students need to be seated in their classroom each morning by 8:50 or they are counted tardy.

Our teachers work hard to provide the best instruction and we want to make the most of each of our days together. We look forward to seeing you at school!

Providing a safe arrival and dismissal system is extremely important to all of the staff at Central Elementary. To achieve that, Central utilizes a number system when dismissing our car rider students.

In order to keep track of our students who leave school each day by car, we will formally register our car riders and assign each family a number. The number system will be part of a name card on the dashboard of your car. When you have someone new pick up your child, he/she will need to be on the list below or know your family number. We verify this before releasing your child. It is helpful if these are the same people listed as emergency contacts in PowerSchool, but we do understand if there are different people. Updated this Please!

Please complete the following to receive a CAR RIDER NUMBER for your family. You will need to complete a form for each child in your family.

This calendar can be found on the corporation website under Explore, Administration, District Calendars

• Bus Riders-Here Comes the Bus app!- Available in three languages (English, Spanish and French), the Here Comes the Bus app can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. You need the following two Pieces of Information to create an account:

The PCSC School Code is 82021
Your child's student ID number (you use it to log in to Power School or

update lunch balances; if you don't know it, your school's secretary can

provide it for you.)

The Bus App will not be activated until August 4th with updated bus information.

The following information is from our handbook:

If your child is to go home a way different than their normal arrangement, you must send in a note to the teacher with instructions as to how the child is to go home. We will not allow a child to go home a different way without a note. The bus driver also needs a note if the child does not normally ride their bus. Please make these arrangements before school or by 1:00 p.m. at the latest.

If you call requesting that your child become a car rider, you are required to come into the school office to sign out your child no earlier than 3:45 p.m. Your child will be waiting in the office lobby until you sign them out. Signing your child out prior to 3:45 does affect your child’s attendance, as it counts as a partial day present.

If you call requesting that your child ride a bus home instead of being a car rider, we will need to verify that we are speaking to the child’s parent/guardian by asking certain questions or through caller ID on our phone system. To make this smoother, please call from one of the phone numbers that you have registered with our school as contacts.

Finally, please note that e-mail notifications of changes for the end of the day ride home are not accepted. We are not able to ensure that the email will be read in time.

We love to see you come eat with your children! But PLEASE remember to bring exact cash or check with you to purchase lunch for yourself or another visitor. We only have a small amount of cash in the register and cannot make change. Lunch is $2.50 for students and $3.25 for adults and visitors.

Also, since we have no way of knowing who puts money on the account, you cannot use your child's lunch card balance towards the purchase of your own lunch.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

There are a couple of options for your child's lunch every day:

Students can pack a lunch.

Students may purchase a lunch. Please send a check or cash to school on the first day made out to PLAINFIELD SCHOOLS FOOD SERVICES. Please put this in an envelope with your child's name, teacher's name, and amount enclosed.

Prices for food services 2019-2020 school year:

• Breakfast $1.50
• Lunch $2.50
• Milk $0.50

EFunds for Schools OR https://sendmoneytoschool.com

Please visit www.plainfield.k12.in.us and click on "Food Services". On that page, you will find a link to the E-Funds for Schools secure payment server. When you get there, you can choose the payment method that is easiest for you.