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Spina Bifida Awareness and Down Syndrome Awareness Month: Don't forget to have your student wear yellow to show their awareness of Spina Bifida and Down Syndrome Awareness Month!

Fluoride Treatments: Nurse Sydney sent home forms for students in kindergarten through 6th grade to have free Fluoride Treatments this Thursday, October 20. If you would like your student to receive this treatment, you must sign and return the permission slip. If you have any questions, please contact Nurse Sydney at 417-723-5300 ext. 128.

Lights on After School: The Boys & Girls Club is hosting a free event to showcase their program on Friday, October 21, 2022 from 3:30 PM- 7:00 PM! This is a come when you can event. All are welcome to attend! Dinner will be provided to anyone who attends up until 5:30 PM!

Check for Head Lice: We have been battling head lice in some of our classrooms this year. We encourage you to check your child's hair each night. If you do find live lice in your child's hair, please contact Nurse Sydney so we can do a head check on students in your child's homeroom. Anytime we have a student with live bugs, we conduct head checks in the homeroom of that student and on any child who resides in the same home as the child with lice. If live bugs or nits are found, we will contact you. Students with live bugs will be sent home for at least 24 hours to allow for treatment. Once treated, your child will be rechecked by Nurse Sydney before being allowed to go back to class. Students with nits can return to class, but will be rechecked five days later.

End of 1st Quarter, Grade Cards and Parent Teacher Conferences: This Friday marks the last day of 1st Quarter! Grade cards will be given out during Parent Teacher Conferences on Monday, November 7. Your child's teacher will be contacting you to set up a time to meet. Our goal is to meet with 100% of our families!

Lady Pirates Softball Camp: Forms for the Lady Pirates Softball Camp went home last week. This is for any girl grades 2nd-8th grades. Registration and money is due by this Friday, October 21.

CSCO Needs Your Help: CSCO is selling Dippin' Dots and hosting the Cake Walk at the Fall Carnival this year. They need volunteers to help run these booths. If you are willing to help out, please sign up at the link found here.

Mark Your Calendars: Christmas Program: We have set the date for our Christmas Concert! Times will be shared closer to the date, but mark your calendar for Thursday, December 8, 2022. The program will be held in the High School gym.

Red Ribbon Week is Next Week: October 25 through October 28 we are celebrating Red Ribbon Week! This celebration is meant to share the importance of being drug free. We spend the week discussing how drugs can do bad things to often good people and how they are super addicting. We urge our students to never feel pressured to try drugs so the drugs can't grab hold of them! We hope you will encourage your child to participate in this important week by joining us on the fun days! You can see the specifics of the days in the graphic below.

Still Important...

Class Halloween Parties: We will be having Halloween parties on Friday, October 28. AM Preschool sessions will have their parties at 10 AM. PM Preschool and all other grade levels will have their parties at 2:30 PM. Your child's teacher will be communicating what is needed for the party. Please remember elementary students will not be wearing costumes on Friday to school. We do invite students to wear their costumes to the Fall Carnival that evening!

Fall Carnival: Mark your calendars for the Crane Elementary Fall Carnival, coming up on Friday, October 28, 2022. Food and games will be available for purchase from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Students are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes to this year's Fall Carnival! Each grade level/organization will also have a raffle basket they will be selling raffle tickets for starting October 18. Stay tuned for more information!

Student Absences: If your child is absent from school for any reason, please call the office to let us know. The phone number is 417-723-5300 ext. 902.

Breakfast: If your child is a parent drop off each morning and wants to eat breakfast at school, he/she needs to be dropped off no later than 7:40 AM. We have had a few come after 7:45 and they do not have time to get to breakfast before being counted tardy for class.

SNAP and Medicaid Application Assistance: If you would like assistance in applying for SNAP or Medicaid, then please call the Elementary office so we can help you set up an appointment with someone who can help you complete the process. If you would like us to send home applications for you to complete on your own, we can do that too. Just give us call and let us know how we can help! 417-723-5300 ext 902.

October 20: Fluoride Treatments for Students in K-6 who sign up

October 21: End of 1st Quarter

October 25-28: Red Ribbon Week

October 25: 6th graders need instruments for Band

October 28: Class Halloween Parties 10:00 AM for AM PK Sessions, 2:30 PM for all other classes.

October 28: Fall Carnival: Students are invited to wear their costumes that evening. 5:30 PM-7:30 PM

November 4: Character Assembly at 7:45 AM

November 7: Parent Teacher Conferences 12 PM -7 PM

November 8: CSCO Meeting at 6 PM

Website: www.crane.k12.mo.us
Location: 209 Pirate Lane, Crane, MO, USA
Phone: 417-723-5300