Archers Articles
December 2022
A Message From Your Principal
December Greetings,
What a wonderful time of year! As the weather gets cold, our spirits warm with the season of giving and love. I am filled with warmth each day by the love I am shown at Adams from the staff, students, and families. Adams is a very special community and that is because of the people that support this special place.
As we bring the year to a close, we reflect on the accomplishments we have made. We also use this time to set goals for the upcoming year. This time allows us to be reflective and find areas within ourselves we would like to improve. Take the time to sit with your child and discuss together things you'd like to work on. You can have parent goals, student goals, as well as family goals.
Kindergarten Round-Up for the 2023-2024 school year will be January 27th from 2:00-3:00 with a school visit happening later in April. If you have a child, or know of someone in the Adams area that has a child, who will turn five by July 31, 2023, please share this information. We look forward to seeing all families at the Winter Program on December 16th at 10:00 or 1:30.
Season's Joy,
Mrs. Meagan Bakhit
Adams Elementary Principal
meagan.bakhit@ops.org
531-299-1000
The wonderful staff at Adams thanks you for your support!
A Warm ADAMS Welcome!
Mr. Hopkins is joining our Adams Team! He has started as our security guard. Please welcome him when you see him!
Our Arrow drawing winners for FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS!
We have a staff WOOT WOOT cart! If you would like to donate treats to the cart, please leave them at the front office.
Mrs. Bakhit enjoyed "Brunch with Bakhit" with the winners from the Fall Festival silent auction!
Our Lady Archers have been showing their skills this basketball season!
During a read and feed, the big kids read with the little kids!
We appreciate all of our school supporters and volunteers! We celebrated them with hand written notes and signs during National School Supporter Day!
Little kids listening close during a read and feed!
Cooperative learning is the best way to learn!
Mrs. Bakhit had a Read and Feed with our Arrow drawing winners!
4th and 5th graders practiced their take-home math games in partners!
Mrs. O'Donnell's son was recognized on Veteran's Day with a big sign from our 2nd graders. Other Veterans were celebrated with hand written cards that were delivered to the VFW during their spaghetti dinner on Veterans Day.
Mr. Shaw presents to our 3rd grade class on his experience in the Army! They loved it!
Kindergarteners roll a dice and cross the spiders to practice number recognition!
Testing out the gear!
Mr. Shaw presented to our 4th and 5th graders! They asked some great questions!
Many volunteers to try on some equipment!
ADAMS JOB OPENINGS
Full Time Instructional Para
Full Time ACP Para
Full Time ACP Para
If these links aren't working for you, please go to ops.org, click on departments at the top of the home page, go to Human Resources, and search Adams. There you will see all of our current staff openings!
Volunteer Application
Have a few hours here or there a week to volunteer? We would love to see you at Adams! Teachers appreciate help making copies, preparing learning materials, and helpers in the classroom. We also appreciate volunteers during the busy lunch and recess hour, supervising safety patrol posts during arrival and dismissal, tidying up the gardens, and during "Fun Friday" Arrow drawings! Please call the school 531-299-1000 if you would like to help our school!
December Pep Rally!
Singing and dancing to celebrate our hard work and school community!
A self-made and self-led Pep Squad created a cheer to perform! Way to go, Archers!
Be on the lookout for more Kind Archers in the neighborhood!
A GIANT THANK YOU!
We will be gearing up for the FUN RUN this spring! Please look for future communication about how to help, donate, and share our link!
The PTA is a great way to get involved at your child's school!
We would like to get a teacher treat cart to pass around the school each week. If you would like to bring items to donate, it would be appreciated! The staff loves all snacks, but here are some ideas:
Cheese Its
Small Candy Bars
Granola Bars
Nut Mix
Mints
Popcorn
Trailmix
Diet Coke
Diet Dr. Pepper
Iced Tea
Next PTA Meeting is January 6th at 6:00pm in the Library
A community opportunity for the holidays...
Program: Project Santa (Toy and Joy Shop) Agency: Open Door Mission
Empowers low-income parents to have gifts for their children (ages 0-12) under the tree on Christmas morning from themselves or Santa. Provides 3-5 toys for each child, books, diapers, coloring books and a Holiday food box. This program serves children ages birth to 12.
2022 Registration: -Registration will be during shopping hours December Tue-Sat 9 am-1 pm at Timberlake Outreach Center. -To register, an adult must bring birth certificate, or document verifying their age and social security number, a photo id and a copy of a current piece of mail (if there are changes to the household. Only one adult per household will need to be present. Children can NOT be present at registration. A child can only be registered once for this program.
Program Phone number 402-829-1510
Remote Learning Days
Things to Remember...
- Check your email, text, or phone calls for announcements about remote learning days or school closures.
- If a remote learning day is announced, have your student log into their TEAMs app on their iPad by 9:10. Attendance will be take at 9:15 and students will stay on until 10:00.
- If you can't get your student logged in, message the teacher or call the school and we will trouble shoot!
- Teachers will have some fun reading and math activities planned and then might assign some time on reading and math apps that can be done independently.
Important Dates-Subject to Change!
December
16- Holiday Program 10:00 and 1:30
19-30 Winter Break- No School
January
2-3- No School
6- PTA Meeting 2:00-3:00
12- One Book-One School
16- Martin Luther King Day- No School
27- Kindergarten Round-Up 2:00-3:00
February
10- School Counselor Day
14- Class Valentines Parties
17- Kindness Day
20- President's Day- No School
28- Fun Run Kick-Off
March
6-Julia Cook Author Visit
10- Fun Run Event
13-17- Spring Break-No School
29-30- Parent Teacher Conferences
30-31- No School
April
17- No School
21-Job and Career Fair
26- Secretary Day
May
1-5- Staff Appreciation Week
5- Nurse's Day
25- Field Day & School-Wide Bingo
26- 5th Grade Celebration Breakfast and Clap-Out
26- Last Student Day