S.A.D. #4
Elementary Schools Newsletter
September 7, 2007
/Welcome Back!
We all want to welcome
you back to a new and exciting year. The
following are a few important messages to help your child’s year run more
smoothly and to avoid confusion.
1.
Walkers
and Riders
should not arrive at school
before 7:30 AM. Breakfast will be served at 7:45 AM with
school beginning at 8:00 AM. GPS
students are dismissed at 2:30. McKusick bus students
are dismissed at 2:20 and riders are dismissed at 2:35.
2. If
your child normally rides the bus and you plan on picking up your child from
school that day, please send a note
or call to tell us.
Otherwise, your child will be placed on the bus to go home.
3. If
there is an emergency and you or someone else will pick up your child, please
call before 1:30, so that we can alert teachers about the changes. Please
check in at the front office before picking your child up.
4. We
ask that you never park in front of
the school! This area is for
buses only. Please park in the parking
lot.
5.
Lunch money MUST be sent
in for the week on the first day of the week in an envelope with his/her name
on it. The cost is:
a. Reduced price $0.40 per day
b. Full price $1.50 per day
c.
If
your child has cold lunch, milk is available for $.25 a day.
6.
Art, Music, & PE schedule
Please
place the copy of your child’s schedule in a place where you can see it easily.
Have a wonderful year,
and please call Mrs. Speed at 876-4590 if you have any questions.
/ Address Changes
Please contact us if you
move, change address, and/or change phone numbers during the school year.
/ Guidance Counseling Services
Dear K-3 Parents,
Welcome to a new school
year!
My name is Fred Andrews.
I am the school counselor based at
By working together, I
feel that we have the best opportunity to help students:
- Better
understand and develop their inner
strengths.
- Increase their
interpersonal communication skills.
- Build healthy relationships.
- Develop strategies that support emotional health
- Overcome obstacles to academic,
personal, & social success.
I will be visiting the
elementary schools on a regular basis, and am available for parent
consultations by appointment. To get in touch with me at PCMS, you can call
876-4301 or e-mail me at: fandrews@sad4.com. Have a great year!
/ McKusick and
GPS Schedules
McKusick
and Guilford Primary students are now on a Monday through Friday schedule. They are no longer on a 6 day schedule. Your child’s teacher will
let you know which day is the scheduled day for Music, Movement, and Art.
/ Notice!!!
Dismissal for children
being picked up at McKusick is 2:35p.m. Students
being picked up by parents/guardians will not be dismissed from the
Multipurpose Room until early buses have loaded and left. The sign out sheet
for students is on the front table.
Thanks for keeping confusion out of the hallways. This will also help to
keep traffic to a minimum at dismissal. Please
remember that passing a bus with blinking red lights is a violation of the law.
Thanks for you help with this.
/ OPEN HOUSE
Open house will take
place at the
/ Emergency Cards
Please
remember to return your child’s emergency card as soon as possible. We will continue the call back system. If
your child is going to be either tardy or absent, please call the school by
8:00 AM. If you do not call us, we
must spend time trying to find you!
/ Book Fairs at GPS & MCK Elementary Schools
A book fair will be held at
both of the elementary schools this year from Sep 10-14 2007. This will be the
only book fair held this school year. Your children will be able to visit the fair during the regular school day. You may send in checks made
out to your child’s school (GPS or
All books for the book fairs this year were selected by Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. Violette and Mrs. Cleary, the manager of Mr. Paperback
Books located in Dover-Foxcroft; in hopes of offering
a better quality of books for our students at an inexpensive cost.
For more info call: Nancy Jordan, GPS at 876-4590 or Charlotte Violette MCK at 876-2656.
/ HUGS
The
SAD #4 parent group, HUGS (Having United Goals),
will be having their first meeting on Monday, Sept. 10th at 6:00 at the
/ Transportation
If you have any
questions concerning busing issues, please contact Dave Cotta at the bus garage
(876-4035). All buses have radios and
can be contacted through the bus garage.
Please keep this
newsletter in a safe place during the school year. It contains important information for parents
to help the school year run smoothly.
/ SUPPER WITH A SIDE OF
An after school literacy program is
now being offered to all GPS, MCK and Head start students and their families. The program is called “Supper With A Side Of Reading” and will be held once a month at the
McKusick Elementary School Multipurpose Room. The
program will be able to accommodate 40 families. The program will include
supper, a family workshop and a family book checkout. The first program will be
held on Thursday, September 20, 2007.
This is a FREE program for our students and their families. For more info
please see the flyer sent home or contact Charlotte Violette
at 876-4590 or 876-2656.
/ News From Food Services
The forms for free or
reduced lunch need to be returned by all students whether you qualify or
not. If you do not qualify, just write
NO on the application, sign and return. Please
put lunch and milk money in an envelope labeled with your child’s name, amount
enclosed, and what your child needs for the week. If your child is absent, the overpayment will
be applied to next week’s lunches.
Lunch money and money
for any other thing may not be combined in one check. If you pay for your child’s lunch/milk with a
check, that check must be for the school lunch program only (payable to S.A.D.
#4). Thank you for your
cooperation. SAD #4 offers breakfast to
all K-12 students at no charge.
/ SEPTEMBER IS LIBRARY CARD SIGNUP MONTH
All students
enrolled in the SAD 4 school district can receive their very own library card free from the
/ Medical Forms
When medication is
needed, parents must sign a pink permission slip, which can be obtained at
school. All medication must be sent to
school in its original container, which is labeled with name, contents, and
directions.
/
August -
Mrs.
Templet-Drummond, Makayla
C., Theryn D., Dominic M., Kyle K.,
September - Grammie Pat, James
F., Spencer A., Brady G., Lena D., Cody R., Garrett K., Jeffrey W., Bryce G.
/ McKusick
Birthdays
August -
Noah D., Erika S., Daisy W., Gwenyth B., Austin E.
September -
Mrs.
Pulkkinen, Mrs. Wright, Anya
T., Jesse S., Sarah G., Alison Q.
/ Nutritional Information
Nutrition education benefits children today and on into
their future. It lays the groundwork for
lifelong health habits, the knowledge and skills that children acquire at an
early age help them choose more nutritious foods during childhood and
adulthood. Nutrition and learning go
hand –in- hand. It is easier for
children to focus and learn when their nutritional needs are met. Higher test scores, better attendance, and
class behavior are only a few of the benefits.
A nutritious diet is
based on five food groups: grains,
veggies, fruits, milk, meat, and beans.
They get 40-plus nutrients they need for growth and good health by
eating foods from all five-food groups every day. Eating a variety from each group helps
provide a great amount of nutrients.
Your child needs 5
servings from the grains group, 4 from the veggies, 3 from the fruits, 3 from the milk, 2 servings from the meat and beans
group. Labels give serving sizes, they are a good guide for portions.
I would like to have your children try hot lunch, we
serve very nutritional meals, and a nice variety. It’s good for them to try new things. Next month look for other ideas under
Nutrition Education!
Also a reminder to all
parents, we appreciate full names, teacher’s name, along with lunch money in an
envelope or plastic zip lock bag, money gets lost and very hard to identify
without all of the above info. If you want credit for lunch monies… please take note. Thank you, Head Cook at the