News for the Week of April 12, 2021

 

We are delighted to welcome our students back on Monday! The next couple of months together will be full of learning and celebration of reaching our goals. It is definitely an exciting time of year!

This Week at Brown School

4/12   School Resumes - welcome back!

          P2 Character Strength: Fairness

          Wear your P2 shirt!

4/13   Board of Education Special Meeting @ 5pm (virtual)  

4/14   Late Start Day - 9:45 arrival 

4/16   Popcorn Friday!

          5th grade can & bottle drive collection (see details below)

4/19   5th grade coin war begins! (see information below)

Coming Up...

Possibility of 5th Grade M-STEP testing to begin- more information to come soon

4/20  P2 Character Strength: Appreciation of beauty & excellence

          Wear your P2 shirt!

          Virtual PTO Meeting @ 7pm - please join us!

4/21   Late Start Day - 9:45 arrival

4/23   Ren Baldwin Student Technology Festival entries due

4/26  Board of Education Meeting 6pm 

4/28   Late Start Day - 9:45 arrival

4/30    5th grade can & bottle drive collection

Thank You!

We'd like to take a moment to thank Mrs. Jen Berry, Mrs. Connie Bacolor & the rest of our teaching staff for creating such an enriching and fun March is Reading Month experience for our students. 

Additionally, we'd like to thank our Bucks for Brown committee for their hard work and commitment to reinventing our annual fundraiser. 

Finally, we'd like to thank all of you for your ongoing support and dedication to our school.  Your contributions will help to ensure our students have enriching experiences all year long. Thank you!

Tech Bytes

The 2021 Ren Baldwin Student Technology Festival wants to see YOUR projects!  The entry deadline has been extended to April 23rd.  Please visit our informational website to learn more.

Daily Screener

Thank you for your continued adherence to our daily screening guide posted on our district website before sending your child to school. If he/she is exhibiting any symptoms consistent with COVID-19, they must stay home. It is imperative that we work together to safe safe so that we can stay together.  

If someone in your home is awaiting results of a COVID-19 test, all students need to stay home from school until the results are in. Thank you for your attention to this. 

 

PTO Corner

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Announcements 

Save the date for Tuesday, April 20 at 7pm and join us on Google Meet. We will be presenting the budget for the 2021-22 school year. We hope to see you there! 

Order your spring Bear Wear today! The deadline to order online is April 25th. Thank you for your support and for showing your Bear Pride!

Attention 5th Grade parents! One of the Fifth Grade Farewell traditions is to have a display of baby pictures and guess who is who. We will do this a bit differently this year, but we will still need a baby picture and a recent picture of all our 5th graders. Look for an email about where to send the pictures.

                       

Also, just a reminder to send in $10 for your fifth grader for the celebration. Money can be given to their teacher.

Mark Your Calendars and Save Your Cans...

The 5th graders will be holding the following fundraisers this spring to raise money for their class gift to the school:

• Can and Bottle Drive starts Friday, April 16th! We will be collecting them at both the front and back drop off lines every Friday morning in April. There will be volunteers at both entrances so please open your trunk and we will grab the cans from your car. In order to keep the lines moving please stay in your car if possible. 

• Coin War the week of April 19th, in which each 5th grade class will be competing to raise the most money.  Pennies increase the total earned for the class while dollars and silver coins reduce the amount earned.  Students can donate pennies to their classroom jar and dollars and silver coins into the other classrooms' jars.  The class with the lowest negative number wins!  The Coin War will take place from Monday, April 19th, through Friday, April 23rd.  The winning class will receive a prize.

Attention all virtual students!! We love seeing what you have been learning in your virtual classrooms! 

Please continue to share your pictures with us on our Facebook page in the Brown Bears Virtual Learning album. 

Reminders

Please download the Box Tops for Education app by visiting https://www.boxtops4education.com/.  

 

Box Tops receipts for delivery services, such as Shipt, now work with the digital Box Top collection.  For more information, visit https://boxtopsforeducation.knowledgeowl.com/help/electronic-receipts

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Save the date for these upcoming virtual PTO meetings:

April 20 @7pm

May 18 @12pm

Classroom Blogs

Our Brown School classroom teachers have important information to share with families. Please click on your child's class below to view weekly updates.

ECDD

Mrs. Rank and Mrs. LeClear's Class

Young Fives 

Mrs. Schueneman's Class

Kindergarten 

Mrs. Hooker's Class 

Miss Barkovich's Class

First Grade 

Ms. Harmening's Class

Mrs. Brown's Class

Ms. Barron's Class

Second Grade 

Miss Grimm's Class

Ms. Zelenock's Class

Third Grade  

Mrs. DeVore's Class 

Mrs. Lear's Class 

Mrs. Nowicki's Blog

Fourth Grade

Mrs. Hassenger's Class 

Mr. Hernandez's Class                

Fifth Grade

Mr. Lignell's Class

Mrs. Lokey's Class

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Check out the positive messages and celebration of our community on the St. Joseph Public Schools Foundation blog.

 Click here to enjoy!  

Looking for spring activities to enroll your child in? Check out local offerings by visiting our

Community Corkboard.

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