Sunday, March 14, 2021

News for the Week of March 15, 2021

 

This week's P2 character strength is "Love of Learning".  Developing an intrinsic motivation within our students to learn & discover new concepts with enthusiasm is always our goal as educators. 

Our teaching staff will model this love of professional growth and development on Monday as they embark in learning and reflection together. Thank you for supporting this time and for partnering with us to develop this love of learning in your child. 


This Week at Brown School

3/15   No school for elementary students only - staff                                 professional learning day

3/16   P2 Character Strength: Love of Learning
          Wear your P2 shirt today!
          Virtual PTO Meeting @ 12 pm - please join us by                               clicking here

3/17   Late Start Day - arrival @ 9:45 a.m.

3/19   1/2 day of school - dismissal @ 12:34 p.m. (2nd dose vaccination clinic for SJPS staff - WOOHOO!) 
          Flashlight Friday & PJ Day



Coming Up...

3/22   P2 Character Strength: Catch- up week (no new strength)
          Wear your P2 shirt today! 
  
3/24   Late Start Day - arrival @ 9:45 a.m.

3/26   Read my Shirt & Hat Day
          Bucks for Brown donations ($) due today!

4/1     School-wide "Bucks for Brown" Read-In Celebration!

4/2 - 4/9  No School - Spring Break

4/12   School Resumes   


 

As you know our dedicated PTO sponsors countless programs and enrichment opportunities for our students each year. This is thanks to the generosity of our families during our annual walk-a-thon fundraiser, as well as the many hours our volunteers dedicate to our school's mission to Inspire. Innovate. Achieve.  

The donations collected during the annual walk-a-thon event fund the PTO's operating budget for the following school year. Like most things this year, this event has to look a bit different. While we would typically celebrate with a school-wide event in the fall, that was not possible due to COVID-19 safety protocols. Our committee of dedicated parent volunteers reinvented the annual fundraiser to include the opportunity for families to contribute to our PTO's annual budget to ensure programming is maintained for the 2021-2022 school year. Details about how your family can help will be sent home on Friday. Please join us at our 12:00 p.m. virtual PTO meeting on Tuesday, March 16th to learn more. Thank you for your continued dedication to our amazing school!  


Click here to access a message from Mrs. Bawks & click here to make an online donation. 


PTO Corner


Announcements 

Join us for our March PTO meeting on Tuesday, March 16 at noon. Come find out all the things your PTO has been doing and plans for upcoming events. All Brown School families are apart of the PTO. See you on Google Meet! Code: meet.google.com/peo-fymf-sfp

 

Attention 5th Grade Parents! We need your special talents to help plan the Fifth Grade Farewell Celebration. We are looking for someone to head up our Memory Book committee.  This  event can be worked on with a partner and we will provide you with all the information you will need. Thanks for your help in celebrating our amazing 5th graders!

5th Grade Farewell Sign Up

And just a reminder to send in $10 for your fifth grader for the celebration. Money can be given to their teacher. Thank you so much for your support! 

Attention all virtual students!! We would love to see 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. 

 

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 - All families, please start saving your cans and bottles, we will start collecting them in April!

  • Coin War -  Start saving your spare change to put towards (or against) one of our 5th grade classes! More details to come...

 

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


Save the date for these upcoming virtual PTO meetings:

March 16 @12pm

April 20 @7pm

May 18 @12pm


A Message to our Fifth Grade Families from Upton PTO
Dear Parents,

The Upton PTO would like to welcome you and your children to the middle school!

This will be the first of many welcoming emails from UMS and we wanted to make sure you had our information.  

FB: Upton Middle PTO

We are happy to answer any questions you may have about UMS.  We also have several board positions open and are hoping to see some new faces on our board next year.

For further information, please see the attachment below and if you haven’t done so already, please join our FB page Upton Middle PTO.

Thank you,

UPTO



Daily Screener
Thank you for your continued adherence to our daily screening guide posted on our district's 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. 
 


Plans to Relocate?
If your family is planning to move this summer & your child(ren) will not be attending SJPS, please notify our school office. This is important information for us as we begin to anticipate fall enrollment numbers. Thank you!


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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Sunday, March 7, 2021

News for the Week of March 8, 2021

 

Our students discussed the character strength "enthusiasm" throughout the week as they engaged in Positivity Project lessons as a class. Ask your child how he/she demonstrated enthusiasm for learning last week and how they will carry that zest for learning through the final trimester of the school year!





This Week at Brown School

3/8  First day of the 3rd trimester
        P2 Character Strength: Social Intelligence
        Wear your P2 t-shirt today!
        Board of Education meeting @ 6 p.m. (virtual)

3/10  Late Start Day - arrival @ 9:45 a.m.
         Report cards coming home today!

3/12   Dress as your favorite book character today!
          Bucks for Brown information packets sent home today 


Coming Up...

3/15   No school for elementary students only - staff professional learning day

3/16   P2 Character Strength: Love of Learning
          Wear your P2 shirt today!
          Virtual PTO Meeting @ 12 pm - please join us by clicking here

3/17   Late Start Day - arrival @ 9:45 a.m.

3/19   1/2 day of school - dismissal @ 12:34 p.m. (2nd dose vaccination clinic for SJPS staff - WOOHOO!) 
          Flashlight Friday & PJ Day

3/22  P2 Character Strength: Catch- up on past character strengths week
         Wear your P2 shirt today! 
  
3/24  Late Start Day - arrival @ 9:45 a.m.

3/26   Read my Shirt & Hat Day
          Bucks for Brown donations ($) due today!


"Bucks for Brown" is back this March!

BUCKS FOR BROWN is a school-wide fundraiser that will celebrate our love of literacy and commitment to our school community. This is Brown School’s ONLY significant fundraiser for the year. The goal is to raise enough funds to support the PTO annual budget, which sponsors events such as popcorn days, teacher grants for classrooms, playground enrichment activities, LEGO Night and so much more! On April 1st, our school will celebrate with a reading event inclusive of all students after collectively raising “Bucks for Brown.”

Please look for more information to come home Friday, March 12. We greatly appreciate your ongoing support & generosity! 


2021 Virtual Brown School Variety Show 
 What a talented group of students! Wow! This year's variety show went virtual thanks to the hard work of Bri VanHekken and our students & their families who submitted acts. 

Thank you for exhibiting the courage to "shine bright", students & staff!  Click here to access the 2021 Brown School Virtual Variety Show! 



PTO Corner


Announcements 

Thank you to all who dropped off items for our staff lounge - please know your donations are always appreciated!

If you missed it last week, the staff lounge could still use a few more items.  If you are able to provide any of the needed items, please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10PRl3d27bF1iqL5zh3RT_CozuxZKVZcBP4yQiYCvwOE/edit?usp=sharing

Donations can be dropped off at the school office and will be stocked in the lounge.  Thank you for supporting our staff!

 

Attention 5th Grade Parents! We need your special talents to help plan the Fifth Grade Farewell Celebration. We are looking for someone to head up our Slideshow and Memory Book committees. These events can be worked on with a partner and we will provide you with all the information you will need. Thanks for your help in celebrating our amazing 5th graders!

5th Grade Farwell Sign Up

And just a reminder to send in $10 for your fifth grader for the celebration. Money can be given to their teacher. Thank you so much for your support! 

Attention all virtual students!! We would love to see 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. 

 

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 - All families, please start saving your cans and bottles, we will start collecting them in April!

  • Coin War -  Start saving your spare change to put towards (or against) one of our 5th grade classes! More details to come...

 

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





Save the date for these upcoming virtual PTO meetings:

March 16 @12pm

April 20 @7pm

May 18 @12pm




Daily Screener
Thank you for your continued adherence to our daily screening guide posted on our district's 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.  
 



C
lassroom 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








Check out local offerings by visiting our 


It is the policy of the St. Joseph Public School District that no person shall, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, disability, height, weight, or marital status be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to, discrimination during any program, activity, service or in employment.