South News

January Edition

Meet Mr. Goode, our school counselor!

I have been the counselor at South for the past 9 years, but spent the last year serving with the U.S Army in Kuwait. It was a great experience but I am eager to get back to work with my South family. I do a lesson with each class once a month. My lessons address such topics as problem solving, conflict resolution, and self control. I am also a resource for students who need help working through issues.

I am very excited to be back home and working with kids again. This winter you can expect me to be talking to the students about career exploration and community.

- Paul Goode

Paulgoode@ozarktigers.org

4th grade musical - "We Honor You"

South is celebrating Veterans' Day a couple of months later in honor of Mr. Goode's return home from deployment. Through our production of We Honor You, we wish to salute our nation's brave veterans who served our country in moments of turmoil and in moments of peace. We also salute the current members of our military who sacrifice everyday so that we might enjoy all that it means to be an American. Through singing familiar patriotic songs, we hope to gather together to send a message to our soldiers and veterans that they are never far from our minds and always deep in our hearts. The spirit of America is alive in each and every one of us and we say THANK YOU!

January Lunch Menu & Related Arts Days

Students will go outside for recess when the temperature is above freezing. Please send them with a coat & hat!

Parent tip - write your child's name inside their coat, hat & gloves so they can easily

be returned if lost!

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Character Kids

Throughout the year, South focuses on nine character traits that we want all students in Ozark Public Schools to have mastered by the time they graduate. Each month we focus on one of the Portrait of a Graduate words. Classroom teachers nominate one student from their class who best exhibits that character trait. South then recognizes those students with an all-school assembly in which their parents are invited to attend. Out of the twenty-eight students nominated, one student is chosen as "Top Tiger" and is recognized at the monthly Ozark School board meeting for going above and beyond displaying the character trait.