We have 7 more days until Christmas break. We are looking forward to many things coming as we wrap up December and prepare for Christmas holiday with our families. Please read over the upcoming events listed below and mark your calendars.

December 13 - Spirit/Skate Night at Roller City! 6 - 8 pm

December 14 - 3rd Grade Music Performance for school 1:00 pm

December 15 - 3rd Grade Christmas Program for parents and guests (5:30 students arrive, 6:00 program begins)

December 17 - KKids at Harps for Bell Ringing 10-4 pm

December 19 - Food Day (Pizza for class Christmas Party from PTA)

December 20 - Sing Along, Teacher Christmas Luncheon & End of 2nd Quarter

December 21 - January 3 - Christmas Break

January 4 - PD for Teachers; No School for Students

January 5 - Begin 3rd Quarter

Thank you for your partnership,

Mrs. Lynn Ryan, Principal, lryan@sdale.org

Mrs. Carrie Farris, Assistant Principal, cfarris@sdale.org

Order your Walker Elementary yearbook today. Go to https://ybpay.lifetouch.com/Order/SelectStudent?isAdvertisementOnly=False Our Walker Elementary code is: 8405323. Yearbooks cost $20 for a soft cover or $25 for a hard cover. The front cover of our 2022-23 yearbook was designed by Nora. Congratulations, Nora! Nora's design included our school mascot and our district logo.

Please join us for our monthly parent engagement meeting. This month, we will talk about student assessments, and Mrs. Waterman, our school counselor, will have some more information for us on social-emotional learning.

If you need an interpreter our ESL office available 8 am - 4 pm. Ms. Gaby is also able to answer questions in Spanish at Walker from 7:30-4:00. We have a school program for parents to learn English while also learning how to support their child's learning needs. Please see the information below to join our Springdale Family Literacy Program. Our Springdale Family Literacy Program will start the year online. If you or someone you know is looking for classes in English, check out the information linked at the bottom of this newsletter.

We're excited to introduce our new spirit wear website! Visit www.walkerspiritwear.com to check out all of the options. You can choose from several types of shirts, pants, and even accessories. AND, there are 12 designs available, including 6 glitter ink designs! With cooler temperatures coming, check out the selection of long sleeved shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies.

Shipping is free any time you spend $50+! Go check out the site and find the Walker Wear that you and your child would love to have for this year!

Last month in counseling lessons we talked about conflict resolution steps and modeled with partners how to solve certain conflicts that happen at school and at home. I gave each partnership a scenario and then we walked through the steps together. Here are the steps that we went through to solve our conflicts.

1. Ask the person if you can talk privately. Go somewhere that you will not be interrupted or overhead by others
   

2. “When __________ happened, I felt __________." or “When you __________, I felt __________.”
   

3. Let the other person share his/her experience.
   

4. “Next time, can we __________ instead?”
   

5. Agree on a solution or plan for next time.
   

6. Move on! Let it go and forgive one another. forgive one another.

I always sing Let It Go for them at the end of our lesson! Ask your child this week if they can remember the steps or the frozen song when talking about conflicts!

Arisa Health / Ozark Guidance Counseling (OGC) has partnered with us to provide school counseling services for students and families. If you would like to get your child into these services you can either call our school counselor, Mrs. Erin Waterman or call the service provider directly and ask to schedule an intake appointment. If you call directly, remember to say that your child attends Walker Elementary in Springdale. OGC (479) 750-2020

Walker Elementary has a Facebook page for the school, EAST, KKids, and PTA. Like all these pages to keep up with the latest school information. Click on the links below to get to each page. Then click on the like button to follow our pages. Once you like our pages, you will see our posts in your Facebook newsfeed.

Instagram Account: Walker_Elementary_School

Email: lryan@sdale.org
Website: http://walker.sdale.org/
Location: 1701 S 40th St, Springdale, AR 72762, USA
Phone: (479)750-8874
Twitter: @WalkerWildcats1