Jesse Owens Elementary News
April 2020
Kindergarten 2020-2021
If you know anyone still needing to register for Kindergarten please do so when we return to school. It is important to have the correct number of students in order to staff the proper number of teachers.
Student must be 5 years old by September 30th to qualify for Kindergarten.
Please bring the following information:
1) Child's Birth Certificate
2) Child's Social Security Card
3) Child's Updated Immunization Record
4) 2 Proofs of Domicile - 1 MUST be a Current electric bill.
Registration is very important in order to determine the number of teachers needed for Kindergarten. If you know anyone interested please ask them to register on March 15th of call 536-6541 if they are unable to attend on the 5th.
CDC Information on How to Stay Safe.
Quarantine Fundraisers
Help Jesse Owens Elementary raise funds at no extra expense to you. Please ask your family and friends to do the same. Your trash can be our treasure!!!
Box Tops: Download the Box Tops App and donate to Jesse Owens Elementary by scanning your receipts. Proceeds help fund instructional materials, operating expenses, motivational incentives for staff and students and other expenditures that are not funded through other sources.
You can also continue to clip labels and send to school.
Community Coffee Labels: Cut Community Coffee Products UPC labels. Proceeds help fund the AR and Library programs.
Funding Factory: Save empty Toner or Ink Cartridges to help us earn money. Proceeds help fund instructional materials, operating expenses, motivational incentives for staff and students and other expenditures that are not funded through other sources.
Bake & Learn
After you've done all the measuring, then you can think about the chemistry of cooking. At what temperature does butter melt? Or water boil? You and your child can generate hundreds of questions and answers about math and science by the simple act of making cookies.
Then, once those cookies are made, there are all kinds of story problems! If everyone in the family gets an equal number of cookies, how many cookies does each person get? What about the ethical dimensions of cookie-making? Who should get the most? The person who cooks? Who cleans? Who buys the groceries? Or should everyone get an equal amount?
We Miss YOU!!
Writing Activities about Home
- Pick a room (bedroom, living room, kitchen, family room, even bathroom!) and describe your dream version of it. What would it look like? What would it have in it?
- Write a conversation between two people in your home, or two imaginary people, where one person is surprised by something in the conversation.
- Write a conversation between two people in your home, or two imaginary people, who have a problem or disagreement that gets solved.
- Describe your favorite meal
- Interview a person in your family about their childhood. Ask about their favorite: games to play, foods to eat, and music to listen to. Write it up in your journal.
- Write a journal entry about how you're feeling and what your day was like.
- Write down your dreams
Math
- Make a map of a room in your home
- Build towers and measure them
- Give your child a pre-determined weight or measurement and challenge them to find objects in the home that are that length/measurement and then check their accuracy.
- Play the Yes/No game. 2 Players. Use slips of paper or index cards and draw simple shapes or write numbers on them. Each player takes a card from the pile (face down) and holds it over their head. The object is to guess what's on your card, using only Yes or No questions (ex. Am I more than 10? Am I less than 15?). Keep asking questions until you get it correct.
- Play 24. Write down four numbers under 10, and try to make them add up to 24 using any mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.) Write down all the solutions you come up with.
Reading
* Reading and writing can be in English, or in your home language, or in a combination.
Jesse Owens Elementary
While school is closed, we'll do our best to keep you updated and busy. Good luck, parents, and thanks for all you're doing! In this time, the best way to reach us is via the following:
Secretary/Bookkeeper: Shana A. Boudreaux (Shana.boudreaux@vpsb.net)
Counselor: Verna Broussard (Verna.broussard@vpsb.net)
Check us out on Facebook for more activities to do with your child at home.
Email: anita.dupuis@vpsb.net
Website: http://www.joes.vpsb.net
Location: 203 13th Street, Gueydan, LA, USA
Phone: 337-536-6541
Facebook: facebook.com/JesseOwensElementary