MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13

• Art specialist lessons: Mrs. Williams and Ms. Bounds

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

• National "Stop Bullying" Day!
• 6th grade DARE lesson with Officer Coombs at 9:00am in the Big Gym

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

• No School - Fall Break

• No School - Fall Break

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

• "Little Mermaid" ticket refunds available before and after school

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20

• "Little Mermaid" ticket refunds available before and after school
• Reflection Entry deadline - all submissions MUST be entered online this year!
• Art Specialist lessons with 1st grade classes

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21

• 4th grade Water Presentation at 10:15am in the Big Gym

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

• 6th grade DARE lesson with Officer Coombs at 9:35am in the Big Gym

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

ADDITIONAL CALENDAR REMINDERS:

• Thursday, October 29th will follow the REGULAR day schedule. It was originally planned as an early-out day, but that has now changed.
• Friday, October 30th is a Professional Day for teachers.

Exciting News! We are now a registered with AmazonSmile. Through this charitable program, every time you purchase something from Amazon a portion of the purchase will rebate back to our school. If you shop with Amazon please attach Reading as your preferred charity by clicking on the link below. You can also forward this link to relatives and friends who may use Amazon and want a stress-free way to support our Wranglers. It costs you nothing and is incredibly simple. Thank you for helping improve our school. Our AmazonSmile is only click away at: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/87-0450830

P.S. Amazon Prime sale days are just a few days away. It is a great time to set Reading as your charity.

Traditional Box Tops clips are being phased out of production, but may continue to be found on many products throughout the store. You can still clip and send them to school. Every valid Box Tops clip is worth 10¢ for your school. Make sure each one has a clearly visible product acronym and expiration date. Physical Box Tops Fall deadline is Thursday, October 29 ! Please return them to school in a ziploc or taped to a paper by this date!

Eventually the Box Tops program will become digital-only. Participating brands are starting

to change their packaging from a traditional Box Tops clip to the new Box Top label.

If you see this label, use the new Box Tops app to scan your receipt. Box Tops are still

worth 10¢ each for your school. The app will find participating products purchased at any

store and instantly add cash to your school's earnings online.

The state has announced an update to school quarantine protocols. In a Thursday email from Sydnee Dickson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, she wrote:

At the request of many of our School Superintendents and Charter Directors, a school medical advisory group met and recommended adjustments to the 14-day quarantine. The Utah Dept. of Health, under the direction of Governor Herbert, has approved the attached Low Risk Test and Return guidance. The medical experts on the advisory group indicate that this aligns with the best medical practice of adjusting the intensity of intervention based on risk and consequences of overprescribing an intervention.

Key points aligned with this practice are:

• Masks are effective at preventing transmission in classroom settings
• This only applies to mask on mask exposure
• Only applies to exposures that occurred in school
• % of individuals who will develop symptoms do so on:
  o Day 7 -75%,
  o Day 9 - 90%
  o Day 11- 95%
  o Testing picks up positive cases two days before symptoms onset; therefore, testing on day 7 means there is less than a 10% chance that an individual will contract after day 7
• This is for individual exposures, and does not pertain to the threshold recommendations for classroom or school virtual learning

Your local health officers were instrumental in crafting and supporting this update and are ready and willing to assist. The Rapid tests (Abbot BinaxNOW) are still being distributed and your Local Health Organization will likely be the best source to know when and where the tests can be accessed. The COVID-19 School Manual will be updated to reflect this change but the change takes effect immediately. We hope this updated guidance will both be an incentive for improved classroom mask wearing behaviors and expedite students getting back into school safely. Additional details are available here. At this point, times and locations of when and where these tests will be available have yet to be finalized.