Important Announcement: 2010-11 Kindergarten Pre-Registraton March 1st-5th   Kindergarten News  It is almost 100th Day in kindergarten! We have been really busy working on Everyday Math and Literacy Instruction. To enhance our daily literacy activities, we utilize little readers, Lexia (a supplemental literacy computer program), and Heggerty (a daily phonemic awareness program). We also have High Hat once a week, which focuses on different sounds. We have also been very busy reading color/ number words and basic sight words. Here are some ways you can help your child at home: encourage meaningful writing activities, read every day with your child, and continue the Math at Home activities! Thank you from the local food pantry Dear Families, Thank you so much for your donations of canned goods at the December Christmas concerts. The response was overwhelming! The three grade school concerts brought in approximately 1000 cans of food for the St. Joseph Community Food Pantry. The kindergarten alone brought in 268 cans. I want to especially thank Mrs. Manwaring for this idea and for managing the food drive. We hope it can be an annual event. It is appreciated by those in need especially during the Christmas season. Sincerely, St. Joseph Community Food Pantry

Middle School Artists of the Month 5th Grade: Under Construction 6th Grade: Donna Brooks- Clay Tablet Wesley Kibler-Clay Tablet 7th Grade: Justin Prior-Tessellation Josh Brooks-Georgia O’Keefe Flower Amy Gibbons-Gyotaku Nora Slater- Tessellation  8th Grade: Christian Heck-Spheres Nicole Febus- Spheres Tyler Towns-Oil Pastel1 Sophie Plocher-Oil Pastel    Nurse Notes If your child experiences symptoms such as a fever with a cough, sore throat, runny nose, diarrhea or vomiting they are having a flu-like illness and need to stay home until they no longer have a temperature for over 24 hours while not using any fever reducing medication like Tylenol or Motrin. We are helping our local health department track flu like illnesses so when you call your child in absent please report what symptoms they are experiencing.