Dublin Times
November 21, 2016
The purpose of Dublin Elementary School is to
develop academic and social LEADERS who are lifelong LEARNERS.
Upcoming Important Events
November 2016
- November 21 Kermit the Newfy Visits Third Grade
- November 21 Kindergarten Harvest Event (2:00-3:45 PM) Cafeteria
- November 21 Introduction to Musical Instruments #2-Fifth Grade
- November 21 LEGO Club (4:00-5:30 PM) Art Room
- November 21 Community Ed. Theater Class (4:00-5:00 PM) Media Center
- November 21 Community Ed. Basketball (6:30-8:30 PM) Gym
- November 22 Glee Club (8:00 AM)
- November 22 DRA Testing-Fourth Grade
- November 22 Final STRIDE (4:00-5:15 PM) Gym
- November 22 PTA Neal Levin Cartooning Class (4:00-5:00 PM) Media Center
- November 22 Community Ed. Basketball (6:30-8:30 PM) Gym
- November 22 Boy Scouts (6:30-8:00 PM) Cafeteria
- November 23 LEGO Club (4:00-5:30 PM) Art Room
- November 23 Community Ed. Basketball (6:30-8:30 PM) Gym
- November 24 No School-Thanksgiving
- November 25 No School
- November 28 School Resumes
Thanksgiving Schedule
10 Tips For Raising Resilient Kids
While adulthood is filled with serious responsibilities, childhood isn’t exactly stress-free. Kids take tests, learn new information, change schools, change neighborhoods, get sick, get braces, encounter bullies, make new friends and occasionally get hurt by those friends.
What helps kids in navigating these kinds of challenges is resilience. Resilient kids are problem solvers. They face unfamiliar or tough situations and strive to find good solutions. “When they step into a situation, [resilient kids] have a sense they can figure out what they need to do and can handle what is thrown at them with a sense of confidence,” said Lynn Lyons, LICSW, a psychotherapist who specializes in treating anxious families and co-author of the book Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children with anxiety expert Reid Wilson, Ph.D.
This doesn’t mean that kids have to do everything on their own, she said. Rather, they know how to ask for help and are able to problem-solve their next steps.
Resilience isn’t birthright. It can be taught. Lyons encouraged parents to equip their kids with the skills to handle the unexpected, which actually contrasts our cultural approach.
“We have become a culture of trying to make sure our kids are comfortable. We as parents are trying to stay one step ahead of everything our kids are going to run into.” The problem? “Life doesn’t work that way.”
Anxious people have an especially hard time helping their kids tolerate uncertainty, simply because they have a hard time tolerating it themselves. “The idea of putting your child through the same pain that you went through is intolerable,” Lyons said. So anxious parents try to protect their kids and shield them from worst-case scenarios.
However, a parent’s job isn’t to be there all the time for their kids, she said. It’s to teach them to handle uncertainty and to problem-solve.
To read more of this interesting article, please click HERE.
Fall Scholastic Book Fair
Please note that we must charge State of Michigan sales tax on all purchases.
Many families have purchased a book for their child's classroom in the past, or perhaps as a great gift for your child's teacher. To make this convenient for you, we have a Teacher Gift Certificate Program. You can pre-order these certificates before the fair begins. The gift certificates are delivered at the beginning of the fair to allow your child's teacher time to select the books for his or her classroom. You may also buy the certificates at the fair.
If you are interested in pre-ordering a gift certificate for your child's teacher, please fill out an order form. Click HERE for an extra order form which is also located on our school web page under Parent Tab and under Important Parent Documents.
Checks should be made payable to Dublin Elementary. We would like any pre-orders to be sent to the Media Center by Tuesday, November 29th. The gift certificates will be delivered to your child's teacher. We will also have gift certificates for purchase at the fair.
Thank you for supporting the Scholastic Book Fair and our Dublin Media Center!
Congratulations Mrs. Weckstein!
To learn more about Mrs. Weckstein and her classroom, please click HERE to view her staff profile and HERE for her classroom blog. You can click HERE to visit her awesome class website too!
Thank you Mrs. Weckstein for your dedication to your kindergarten students and all students at Dublin every day.
Weather Gear and Temperatures
Please make sure your child’s name appears on any of their outdoor apparel, so we can reunite any lost items with their owners. Our students will have outdoor recess unless the actual temperature or the wind chill (“feels like”) temperature dips below 0 degrees or it is raining out. Here are the WLCSD Recess Wear Guidelines as a reference:
- Coats/Jackets
- 50+ degrees*: Child/parent discretion
- 40-49 degrees*: Recommended
- 39 degrees and below*: Required
- Hats/Gloves/Mittens
- 45+ degrees*: Child/parent discretion
- 35-44 degrees*: Recommended
- 32 degrees and below*: Required
- Boots and Snow Pants
- Required when off of the blacktop if there is slush or snow
*Please note: These guidelines are based on the wind chill (“feels like”) temperature.
Student Council Pajama Day and PJ Drive
Family Access
PTA Skate Nights
Our next PTA Family Skate Night takes place on Thursday, December 15th at 6:30 PM.
Admission is $5 which includes skate rental.
Inline or hyperskate rental is an additional $5.
The Rolladium is located at 4475 Highland Road in Waterford.
Our other PTA Skate Nights this year are as follows:
Monday January 16th
Monday February 13th
Monday March 20th
Thursday April 20th
Learn to Draw Cartoons!
Neal Levin will be at Dublin on Tuesday, November 22nd from 4:00-5:30 PM. All students received a green handout with details on this workshop. The cost to participate in the workshop is $19. Please click HERE if you need an additional flyer with details or to sign up.
Raking Volunteers Needed!
Friend of Diversity Award
The Walled Lake Schools “Friend of Diversity Award”
The Walled Lake Schools is currently seeking nominations for the “Friend of Diversity Award.” This award will honor individuals who are true friends of multicultural diversity in our school district and community. This honor will be bestowed upon the recipients at the district-wide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration on January 16, 2017 at Walled Lake Northern High School.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
Any staff member, student, parent or community member.
WHO MAY NOMINATE?
Any person in the community may submit a nomination.
Nomination forms for the “Friend of Diversity Award” are available in each school office.
Please submit your nomination to your school office by the deadline of Wednesday, November 23, 2016.
Watch Dogs- Lunch Moms
We are looking for Dads to help at school each day. Last year we began our Watch Dogs Program for dads. Watch Dogs is a program in which we involve dads at school. We are asking that Dublin Dads volunteer one whole day or half day this year. If you can volunteer more days, that's GREAT! When you volunteer, you will be involved in AM and PM Dismissal, lunch, recess, and also help in your child's classroom and other classrooms. We really need your help!
To find out more about what Watch Dogs is, please click HERE.
To sign up to be a Watch Dog at Dublin sometime this year at Dublin, please click HERE.
WE NEED MOMS
We are also looking for moms to help in our cafeteria every day from 11:15 AM-1:45 PM. Students need help opening items in their lunches, transitioning in the lunch line, moving lunches from the hallway into the cafeteria, help with cleaning up, etc. You can volunteer one time or many times. We need you!
To sign up to be a Lunch Mom at Dublin, please click HERE.
Box Tops for Education
If you have questions, please contact our Box Tops Chairperson-Amanda Grant at:
Support Our School!
There are two great ways to support the Dublin PTA while you shop.
Your Kroger card can be linked to support the Dublin PTA. A percentage of your sale for each purchase you make goes to Dublin.
Please click HERE to view the instructions below for details on how to register on link your Kroger card.
Also, Dublin can earn money when you shop at Amazon. Please click HERE to view the instructions on how to shop using Amazon Smile.
Thank you for supporting our school and partnering with our Dublin PTA!
Join and Support the PTA
Membership forms are always available on the PTA web page.
Click HERE for a PTA Membership Form to complete. Print it, fill it out, and send it in to school with your child!
For a list of all of the PTA events, click HERE.
Click HERE to sign up to volunteer for a PTA event!
Communication is Key at Dublin!
SKYWARD FAMILY ACCESS
It is critical that parents keep an updated email address and let us know if it changes as soon as possible. Parents may update this information for us on Skyward Family Access. All teachers at Dublin utilize Skyward Family Access to communicate with parents.Report cards, lunch account information, progress reports, attendance, and other important information will always be posted on Skyward Family Access. If you are a new family to Walled Lake Schools or have misplaced or lost your Family Access ID and password, please click HERE to get connected.
DUBLIN TIMES AND SCHOOL WEB PAGE
Our Dublin Times newsletter will be sent electronically to parents. An archive of newsletters will be posted to our school website. Our school website can be found HERE. Please visit this page often for information about our school. You will find links to important documents, websites and blogs from your child's classroom, PTA forms and information, and important updates and forms that you will need to access.
Please follow us on Twitter @DublinWL to be updated regularly on important events at our school and fun pictures of student events and learning!
REMIND 101
In an effort to have great communication from school to home, we also offer Remind 101 to all Dublin parents. How does it work? If you would like to receive a quick text message on your cell phone or device, just sign up with us and you receive a quick text to remind you of important school events, deadlines, time frames, etc. at Dublin. You can unsubscribe at any time, and we promise not to over use this communication tool either!
To receive messages via text, text @dublinp to 81010.
You can opt-out of messages at anytime by replying, 'unsubscribe @dublinp'.
Trouble using 81010? Try texting @dublinp to (248) 809-4032
instead.
Dublin Contact Information
Principal jeffreydrewno@wlcsd.org
248-956-3832
Wanda Weaver
Principal's Secretary wandaweaver@wlcsd.org
248-956-3829
Patti Harthun
Building Secretary patriciaharthun@wlcsd.org
248-956-3800
Email: jeffreydrewno@wlcsd.org
Website: http://wlcsd.org/dublin.cfm
Location: 425 Farnsworth Street, White Lake, MI, United States
Phone: 248-956-3800
Twitter: @DublinWL