Avilla Elementary Family Newsletter

Happy November, Avilla Families.

Hopefully you've all heard our three "Be" statements from your child(ren). Avilla Elementary is proud to promote being kind, safe, and responsible. If you haven't heard about this, please ask your Avilla Panther about the many ways we promote these habits in our school.

Everyone should have a magnet at home with our new Panthers logo and three "Be" statements. I encourage all of you to help promote the importance of these three areas of character at home and to ask your child often about the ways that they can practice these three habits.

We are just a few weeks away from celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday and I would like to express my gratitude for the trust that you have in all of our Avilla Elementary staff. It's a very big responsibility to educate and care for your children when they are with us at school. We have a dedicated staff that strive to help every student every day. Thank you for your continued support and trust!

Quick reminder: We do not have school this Friday, November 5. Students do not have any eLearning assignments to complete. Enjoy the three day weekend, Panther students!

Jeff Harper

Principal

phone 260.897.2301

email jharper@eastnoble.net

Follow us on social media:

Facebook: @avillaelementary

Twitter: @AvillaSchool

Our mornings are getting pretty cold with warmer afternoons and this leads to a large number of items being added to lost and found. Please write your child's name in coats, hats, and gloves to help us reunite kids to their lost items. We keep items for a few weeks in lost and found before washing them and finding them a new home. Please contact our office or classroom teachers if you're searching for a lost item.

Outdoor recess happens daily when it's not raining. Please be sure to send your kids to school with warm clothes and outerwear. We are happy to provide winter coats, hats, and gloves if you need any assistance. Please contact our school office if you would like assistance with any winter items.

All bus riding students are required to wear a mask on the bus every day.

Water fountain push buttons are disabled from typical use, but all have bottle filling stations (pictured on the right) that provide water. Please send a water bottle in with your child for daily use.

Each week a new grade level earns the Golden Tray Award. This prestigious award is earned through lunch room procedures being followed and awarded to the grade level(s) that earn the most points each week. Have you heard about the Golden Tray at home?

Avilla Elementary has a new apparel store available to families, featuring our new logo. All ordered items are sent directly to our school for parent pick up or for kids to take home. Here is the link: https://avilla-school.itemorder.com/sale

Please consider joining our PTO. This group plans fun activities for families, works on fundraising opportunities for our school, and collects feedback from other parents. There are many ways to become involved. All PTO meetings will take place in the Avilla Elementary library at 3:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Please enter at door 1 when attending meetings.

Meeting Dates:

• December 6
• January 3
• February 7
• March 7
• April 11
• May 2

We would like to thank you for helping to make our car line arrival and dismissal process nice for everyone!

To avoid waiting for long periods of time in our car line, we recommend that you show up close to our school start and dismissal times. When too many people show up too early, it creates a line that can disrupt Avilla's street traffic. Please be sure to display your car number when you are picking up a student in the afternoon. All car rider students enter and exit at door 2.

School start times:

Mondays: school begins at 8:45 am, door 2 opens for breakfast at 8:30 and opens at 8:35 for everyone else.

Tuesday - Friday: school begins at 8:00 am, door 2 opens for breakfast at 7:45 and opens at 7:50 for everyone else.

School dismissal: 2:45 pm daily

*Please consider entering our car line after 2:35 pm to avoid creating an unnecessarily long car line. Our preschool car line is in place before Kindergarten - 5th grade parent car line.

Click here for our 2021-22 East Noble School Corporation Calendar

Fundraiser Delivery Information

Delivery of items to our school: November 30 from 2:00-5:00 pm in the gym-Door 16

November 5 No school for students

November 11 Veterans Day Celebration for grades 3-5 at Avilla American Legion

*November 12 Veterans Day bad weather make up date

December 2 Grades K, 2, and 4 winter music program from 6:00 to 7:30 pm

December 15 Book fee date: 3/4 payment due

February 15 Book fee date: full payment due

February 17 Parent/Teacher conference night 3:00 to 7:00 (winter conferences by invite or request only)

April 29 Avilla PTO Carnival

May 2-6 Teacher Appreciation Week

May 5 Spring Music Program Grades 1, 3, 5

May 18, 2022 5th grade trip to JA Biztown

May 20 Field Day

May 23 Field Day make up day