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Thank you for attending our "Morning with Your Main Character" event last week. It was a beautiful day to celebrate our school community. |
This Week at Brown School
5/23 GOTR Group 1 meets in the gym after school
5/24 Student Council meeting @ lunch
Girls on the Run 5K Celebration!
5/25 Late Start Day (9:20 arrival)
Lory's Place group meets (a.m.)
5th grade musical performance for school (a.m.)
First Grade to Sarett (p.m.)
5/26 Tech Team field trip to Fab Lab @ LMC
5/27 Brown Bear Credit Union 8:20 - 8:45 a.m.
2nd grade field trip downtown SJ
3rd grade field trip to Potawatomi Zoo
Coming Up...
5/30 No School ECDD - 12th grade: Memorial Day
5/31 Vision & Hearing Screening for current Y5/ECDD students
6/1 Late Start Day (9:20 arrival)
Lory's Place group meets @ 9:30
4th grade swimming (p.m.)
5th grade performance @ SJHS - 7p.m. (students arrive at 6:45 -see information below)
6/3 Popcorn Friday!
SJHS Graduate Clap-Out @ 10:30 a.m. on playground
6/6 Maize & Blue Monday!
6/7 4th graders to Kalamazoo Valley Museum (a.m.)
6/8 School Picnic Day!
6/9 1/2 day of school - dismissal @ 12:09 p.m.
5th grade breakfast 9:00 -10:15 a.m.
*Approved volunteers only for this event, please
6/10 1/2 day of school - dismissal @ 12:09 p.m.
LAST DAY OF 2021-22 SCHOOL YEAR!
5th grade farewell celebration assembly 10:45 - 11:45 with walkaway following
*5th grade families welcome & encouraged to attend
We would like to remind everyone that breakfast and lunch are FREE again this year to every St Joseph Public School student. Please try to remember to preorder your student’s lunches when they are going to participate in lunch. This helps speed up the morning lunch count process. You will be allowed to order the Friday before the next week using www.sendmoneytoschool.com.
Due to the supply chain issues we are having with our vendors and food outages we will be providing a one week menu on our website and Principal blogs on the Friday before the next week. This will alleviate us having to make constant changes to a monthly menu and keep you better informed.
05/23/22 – Breakfast - CERAL BAR, FRUIT, 100% JUICE AND MILK
Lunch - HAMBURGER, FRENCH FRIES, FRUIT SELECTION AND MILK.
05/24/22 – Breakfast – CHOCOLATE CRESCENT, FRUIT, 100% JUICE AND MILK
Lunch – NACHOS, BEEF & CHEESE, REFRIED BEANS, FRUIT SELECTION AND MILK
05/25/22 – Breakfast – MUFFIN & YOGURT, 100% JUICE AND MILK
Lunch – MINI PEPPERONI CALZONES, GREEN BEANS, FRUIT SELECTION AND MILK
05/26/22 – Breakfast – APPLE FRUDEL, FRUIT, 100% JUICE AND MILK
Lunch – TURKEY SUB, GOLDFISH CRACKERS, VEGETABLE SOUP, FRUIT SELECTION AND MILK
05/27/22 – Breakfast – LEMON BREAD, FRUIT, 100% JUICE AND MILK
Lunch - CHEESE PIZZA, VEGGIE STICKS, FRUIT SELECTION AND MILK
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| Our fourth graders recently visited the State Capitol and had the opportunity to visit the floor of the House. |
Brown Bear Student Credit Union is open every Friday from 8:20-8:45 in the cross halls at our great school.
Brown Bear Student CU offers great incentives to promote good saving habits for students. All new members will receive $15 if they open their membership with at least $1 (membership forms are available at the Brown Bear Student CU table or in the school office). All existing members will receive $5 for making making their first deposit at Brown Bear Student CU. There is a prize box so students can choose a prize with every deposit. Every deposit is entered into a monthly drawing to win a gift basket with a $10 Meijer gift card. Every deposit is also entered into an annual drawing to win an iPad Mini at the end of the school year!
Just a reminder: the 5th grade Ukulele Concert is June 1st at the High School Auditorium at 7:00 pm. You may start arriving at the auditorium as early as 6:45 pm but not earlier. All schools have their performance on the same night at different times so please wait for the previous show to end before entering the auditorium. Students will report to the front row of the auditorium to sit with their teacher until the show starts. Students are allowed to wear “Hawaiian or Beachy Clothing” to school for their day performance. Students are welcome to bring their personal ukulele to play at the show if they have one.
The students can’t wait to show you all their hard work!
Thank you,
You can help us out by finding any Brown School library books at home and sending them in with your child! If you do not know what books are checked out to your child, you can ask your child's teacher for a print out, or talk with Mrs. Berry in the library. Thanks a bunch! 
PTO Corner
As a guardian of a Brown Elementary student, you are a PTO member! Find out more about the PTO, including a list of planned events for this school year and how to volunteer, on our PTO Site.
Most of our PTO events for the school year are already scheduled and can be viewed here. Many also include links to sign up to volunteer!
Thanks for joining us for our May Brown PTO Meeting! Meeting minutes are available here.
Morning With My Main Character (donuts morning)
Thank you to all the “Main Characters” who joined their students for donuts on the playground. It was a beautiful morning to be outside! Many thanks to Matthew and April Soyk for organizing the event and the additional volunteers who showed up to set up, serve, and clean up.
Yearbooks
The 2021-22 yearbooks have arrived!. If you still wanted to purchase a yearbook, they are available in the office for $15 each. You can pay by cash or check to SJPS.
Thank you to all the volunteers who made this event possible. It was a wonderful day out on the track!
Pictures and videos from the track meet are available here: Track Meet Photos
Spring Picnic is BACK in full swing!
The Spring Picnic is BACK!!!!!
We will have the inflatable obstacle course, snow cones, cotton candy and TONS of fun carnival style games! This will be an end of school year party that the kids won't forget!!!
Please sign up to volunteer in the link below. You may only attend the picnic if you are signed up to volunteer! If you are able to stay for both "shifts" please do so. We will need all the help we can get with this!
Thank you
https://sites.google.com/view/brown-elementary-pto/20212022-event-dates/spring-picnic
Spring Cleaning Donations
If you are sorting through old sports equipment, don’t forget you can drop it off at Sports44 under the BrownPTO account (just tell them it’s for Brown School and they will take care of it). Any sales will support PTO activities.
5th Grade Parents Farewell
Attention 5th grade parents!!
We are working to create a slideshow that will be played at the 5th grade Breakfast.
If you are able, please drop some digital pictures of your 5th grader's school years (K-5) in the Google Folder. Also, before you drop the pictures, please create a folder (within the folder) with your student's name. Drop your photos in the name-labeled subfolder. The end date to send photos is May 23rd. Thank you for your help with this.
Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to help with the 5th Grade Farewell activities so far! There are still a few more spaces that need to be filled.
Please CLICK HERE to sign up.
Also if you have not donated your $15 towards our funding for the ceremony & t-shirts please do (check email from your childs’ teacher about “Oscar Night”).
Link to donate: https://sjschools.revtrak.net/brown-elementary/brown-es-clubs-and-activities/brown-es-pto/
Our Brown School classroom teachers have important information to share with our families. Please click on your child's class below to view weekly updates.
Mrs. Rank and Mrs. LeClear's Class
Young Fives
First Grade
Fifth Grade
