Ada-Borup Elementary Newsletter

Although we have had a very unusual school year in many ways, we are very glad to have opportunities to have many traditional year-end activities. Please take a look below at all of our upcoming activities that we have going on here at Ada-Borup Elementary.

On a personal note, thank you for all of your support during this past school year. We are a team, and we would not have been as successful with keeping our students safe, healthy, and in-person learning for a majority of the year without your help!

The Ada-Borup-West Preschool staff will be hosting an open house to present information about the upcoming 2021-2022 school year. Join us in the Ada-Borup Auditorium from 5:00pm to 6:00pm on Wednesday, May 12th.

The Ada-Borup-West Kindergarten staff will be hosting Kindergarten Round Up for parents of those students who will be attending kindergarten during the 2021-2022 school year. Staff will be going over expectations, staff introductions, and paperwork from 5:00pm-6:00pm in the Ada-Borup Auditorium on Wednesday, May 19th.

What: Ada-Borup Elementary Track and Field Day

When: Friday, May 14th

Grades K-2 will be held in the morning

Grades 3-5 will be held in the afternoon

Each child will be able to have two people attend in person.

Please complete the attached google form to sign up to attend:

https://forms.gle/WZ3fk8qv9nP4iDJX9

Guests will be required to remain seated in the stands. Social distancing and masks must be worn. Students will remain on the infield, and the infield will remain closed to visitors.

Ada-Borup Elementary School

Classroom Request Guidelines: 2021-2022

• Parents wishing to make a request for their child for the upcoming school year must make the request in writing to the principal by submitting a completed Classroom Information form (attached below).

• It is not possible to honor all requests.

• Parents are cautioned not to request placement or non-placement of specific teachers. Requests that include the teacher's specific names on the Classroom Information form will be thrown out. Teacher specific requests must be communicated to the principal so a personal meeting can be scheduled to discuss the situation. Please remember that what may have been heard about a teacher or teachers from other parents or community members is specific to that parent/teacher/student situation. Just as each child is unique, so is each teacher. An experience that other parents may have had with their children may be totally different from what your child could have with the same teacher.

• Requests for a child not to be placed with another child, for whatever reason, must be noted in writing on the Classroom Information form. Given other circumstances and teacher recommendations, it is not always possible to honor these requests.

• ONLY WRITTEN REQUESTS RECEIVED BY FRIDAY, April 30th WILL BE CONSIDERED.

• All parent requests received by the deadline of April 30th, 2021, will be strongly considered, however, the final placement decision is based upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to academic and social considerations, total class size, male/female ratio, and heterogeneous grouping.

• The final decision on all student placements rests with the principal after due consideration of staff recommendations and parent requests. We will do our best to place students per parent requests, however, we may not always be able to.

• Class placements will be communicated via mail in August.
  

Thank you for the support you give your child and for your cooperation and understanding.

Elementary Classroom Information Form:

https://forms.gle/7XbxYete92cYLrkPA

We will be participating in field trips again this spring. Please be aware of the following dates:

May 5th: 2nd Grade Field Trip to Trowbridge Zoo

May 11th: 5th Grade Field Trip to Itasca

May 20th: 3rd Grade Field Trip to Buffalo State Park

May 21st: Kindergarten Field Trip to Fertile Nature Center

May 21st: PreK Field Trip to Police/Fire Station and Outpost

May 25th: 4th Grade Field Trip

May 26th: 1st Grade Field Trip to Gary Pines

Please be on the look out for permission slips as they will need to be signed and returned in order for your child to attend.

The City of Ada and the Dekko Center are hosting a Bike Rodeo on Wednesday, May 5th, in conjunction with Bike to School Day. Students will need to fill out a form to participate in the Bike Rodeo.

Due to the increased number of students riding bikes to and from school on this day, we will be moving the bike racks to the Faith United parking lot (for this day only). There will be volunteers to help students drop off their bike and walk to school. This will also happen in the afternoon after school. Please see the map below.

Just a reminder for our students who ride bike to school most days, when getting to the stop sign on 6th Ave, you must dismount your bike and walk it the remainder of the way to the bike racks up by the building.

Bike Rodeo Sign-Up & Parent Waiver:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jE0BjUjQP5wzkG7oFKkQWBvknzu6rydA/view?usp=sharing

Ada-Borup Elementary's last day of school will be Friday, May 28th. We will have an early dismissal of 10:00am on that day.