Sprague School

Learn about your child's experiences in library, art, music, physical education, and spanish in this informative video.

Thursday, Sept. 15, will be the first of four late arrival days for D103 students. Late arrival days allow our teachers and staff extended time to collaborate on instructional planning and professional development to improve student learning.

Students start school 90 minutes later than their normal start time, which means buses will arrive 90 minutes later than their scheduled arrival time.

• Sprague School starts at 9:45 a.m.
• Please do not drop students off at school before 9:30 a.m.
• Early Childhood students do not attend school on Late Arrival Days.
• EC students will also not attend school on Friday, Sept. 16. (Thursday and Friday have been set aside for Teacher/Family Home Connection Days. Your child's classroom teacher will be reaching out to schedule your Home Connection appointment.)

Sprague School's Picture Day is scheduled for tomorrow, Sept. 9. Stuart-Rodgers Photography will take your student's individual pictures. The ordering system has gone electronic and proofs will be emailed to families. There is no paper order form to turn in.

Please make sure your Sprague child has a change of clothes in their locker. Accidents happen - in art, during lunch, on the playground - and students need an extra set of clothes in the event of a mishap.

To prevent the spread of illness at Sprague, we would like to provide you with Lake County Health Department Sick Day guidelines to help with your decision on whether or not to send your child to school. It is important that you follow these sick day guidelines before sending your child to school.

During the month of September, The Wildcat Way is helping us learn about working as a team. There are many times during the school day that children have to cooperate and collaborate together. To demonstrate that we learn better when we know how to work with each other, we are doing a whole school project of a collaborative mural. Your child is bringing home a cube that they can decorate. It can show their strengths (drawing, music, language, family, sports, etc.}, hobbies, or passions. It can be patterns or just something they love to draw. The top part of the cube needs to remain black so when it fits together it shows a 3D effect. Have your child bring it back to school anytime before Friday, Sept. 16. If you have any questions, please reach out to jbever@d103.org.

Second-graders will be visiting The Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Station No. 53 at the end of the month. Families need to pay $1.75 to cover the cost of transportation.

Last week, K-2 students had their first digital citizenship lesson.

Kindergartners participated in the lesson, “Media Balance is Important,” in which we discussed the concept of balance, as well as how to balance our online and offline activities. Students began learning to consider the feelings of themselves and others when making decisions about when, where, and how much to use technology.

First-graders engaged with the lesson, “Pause and Think Online.” Students met all of our digital citizens! These characters teach us something different about making safe, responsible, and respectful choices with technology!

• Arms teaches us to balance our online and offline activities.
• Heart teaches us to be kind online.
• Head teaches us to think about the things we see online.
• Legs teaches us to stand up for ourselves and others (and to tell a grown-up) if our buckets are dipped online.
• Guts teaches us to trust our gut - if we see something online that makes us feel unhappy, unsafe, or uncomfortable - we share our screen with a grown-up and ask for help.
• Feet teaches us about our digital footprint, which means we need to be careful when we share, search, and message, because our information leaves tracks behind.

Second-graders engaged in the lesson, “We the Digital Citizens,” in which we reviewed the six digital citizenship characters we learned about in kindergarten and first-grade. We also explored the amazing possibilities that come with using technology, and took a pledge to be safe, responsible, and respectful when traveling through the online world.

For more information or tips for home, families may visit the Common Sense Media website.

Book Checkouts

You can support your child by checking that their books are ready to be returned to school the night before their library checkout day. A great way to make sure books get back to school is to keep them in your child's backpack whenever they are not being read. Thank you for your support in keeping the books circulating and allowing children to get their hands on books they've been waiting to read!

• EC and kindergarten students check out one book each week.
• First-graders check out two books weekly.
• Second-graders check out three books each week.

We have seen an increase in the number of students with smart watches and cell phones in classrooms. Smart watches and phones are allowed at school but must be turned off and stored in the student's locker during school hours unless otherwise allowed by the school principal. Phones and smart watches may be used before and after school hours. This is to limit distractions and ensure a safe learning environment for all students. If you need to reach your child, please contact the school office by phone or email.

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• Principal Ann Hofmeier
• Assistant Principal Jennifer Arroyo

• 847-945-6686
• Ls_attendance@d103.org