North Parent News
February Edition: Honesty Month
Letter from the Principal
Dear North School Families,
2019 has gotten off to a wonderful start here at North! It is amazing the growth of our students from the beginning of the school year. Your support and help at home help your child to be successful here at school! We appreciate you!
Over the past few weeks, Mother Nature has not been kind! You should be receiving email, text, and phone call notifications from JCPS on days where there is an early release, late start, or cancellation. It is important that we have the correct phone numbers in our system to be effective. Please let us know if you have updates to phone numbers and address changes that we need to make. You can call Mrs. Carey at the office for a quick update.
We have several parent involvement activities coming up in the month of February! Please join us for our events! Have a wonderful month! We hope to see you at North!
February Events!
Tuesday, February 5- Title I Parent Meeting, 5:30. PTO Meeting- 6 pm, 6:30 p.m.- Cyber-crimes and Internet Safety Parent Presentation from the Boone County Cyber Crimes Division.
Wednesday, February 6- MOD Pizza PTO Fundraiser
Tuesday, February 12- 2 hour Early Release Professional Development Day
Thursday, February 14- Valentines Parties
Monday, February 18- No School- Presidents Day (possible snow make-up)
Thursday, February 21- 9am, 7pm- 5th Grade Performance, 5-7 pm- PTO Chili Supper, School Writing Celebrations- 5-7 pm
Wednesday, February 27- Spring Pictures
Thank you Mrs. Gehlert for all the wonderful work you do for students, families, and teachers!
Ways Parents Can Support Reading and Writing at Home
1. Let your children see you read for pleasure. Share vocabulary, quotes, characters, and the story with them. Compare similarities and differences between your book and the books your children are reading.
2. Talk to your children about how your parents read to you or told you stories.
3. Let your children see you write for pleasure. Send family letters to relatives or friends. Let everyone in the family contribute a part or an illustration.
4. When you’re riding in the car, tell your children a story about when you were little or tell them a story about something that happened at work that day. Leave off the ending and let them provide an ending.
5. Have your children select three things they want to include in a story. Make up a story that includes those three things. For example, the selections might be a princess, a race car, and an ice cream cone. The children will love helping you find clever ways to include three things in the story.
6. When you look up at the sun/moon or pass a landmark/building, take turns making up a story to go with them. At night, point out the face in the moon and make up a story about the “man in the moon”. Follow up these storytelling events with a trip to the library to explore legends about people and places from our own country and others countries.
7. Try different ambiances for reading a story aloud or storytelling. If it’s a scary story, tell it in the dark or read it with flashlights. If it’s a story about when your child was little, bring out an old toy and hold it as you tell the story. Try themes in your family literacy events.
8. Make a family book that is a collection of stories: favorite stories retold generation after generation or stories of family events (first visit by the tooth fairy). Any time that stories are recorded, younger children can dictate to an older family member.
9. Help your child find a place in your home that is his/her favorite reading spot. A place where he/she can read comfortably with little distraction. Put a basket of books near the spot. Include pens, crayons, pencils, erasers and paper in the basket to encourage writing too. Every now and then, put a “literacy gift” in their basket to discover and explore.
10. Read aloud daily to your child. Talk about the pictures. Make predictions about a story and see if they come true. Read aloud a chapter-book before bed.
11. Help your child notice people reading and the writing all around them. Watch other people read. Count all the people on a bus, in a library or café reading. Read signs posted all around you.
12. Visit bookstores and libraries with your child. Window shop as you pass a bookstore, look at the books and imagine the storylines inside them. Then go in and see if your predictions came true.
13. Take books on trips with you. Read to your child on vacation or during a long wait at the doctor’s office. Encourage the people you are visiting to read to your child aloud.
14. Leave notes for your child in his lunch box or school bag. Leave notes for him/her around the house. Ask your child to leave notes for you. Have your child create a to-do list. Have him/her turn it into a checklist to encourage self-monitoring.
Chili Supper & Basket Auction
PTO Basket Auction- ITEMS Needed
Kindergarten- It's A Boy/Girl
1st Grade- Superhero/Princess Play Date
2nd Grade- Petite Picasso/ Let's Get Crafty
3rd Grade- Family Fun Night! (Game Night/Movie Night)
4th Grade: Family Summer/ Winter Fun!
5th Grade: Let's Play Ball!/All about those Missouri Sports!
Please send items in by February 8th. The Auction will be on Thursday, Feb 21 from 5-7 p.m. during the PTO Chili Supper!