The Bulldog Banter
Meadowbrook's Weekly Newsletter - February 21, 2020
Important Dates to Remember
February
24 - 1st Grade Field Trip to Building for Kids
25 - Conferences 4:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
27 - Conferences 4:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
3/4 Grade Choir Practice 7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
28 - NO SCHOOL
March
2-6 - Reading Across America Week
2 - Bulldog Bash 8:40 a.m.
5 - 3/4 Grade Choir Practice 7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
6- 3rd Grade Ellis Island Experience 1:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
11 - 4th Grade Music Preview Day at Lineville
12 - Read 20 Family Event 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Bulldog Way Club Meeting
PSA Meeting - 6:00 p.m.
13 - NO SCHOOL
17 - Bulldog Blast - Wear Green Day
19 - 3/4 Grade Choir Practice 7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
20 - Read 20 9:20 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
End of 3rd Quarter
23-27 - SPRING BREAK - NO SCHOOL
Forward Testing Dates for our 3rd & 4th Graders
Mark your Calendars - Here are some important dates!
Thursday, March 12 - Read 20 Family Event 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 15 - 4th Grade Field Trip to Madison
3rd Grade Field Trip to Appleton
Thursday, April 16 - Doughnuts with Dad
Thursday, May 7 - Muffins with Mom
Friday, June 5 - 4th Grade Celebration 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 pm.
Meadowbrook Celebrates Read Across America by Reading with Wisconsin authors! We will be celebrating Wisconsin authors and dressing up March 2 through March 6, 2020
March 12, 2020, Meadowbrook will be hosting a reading event to celebrate Read 20. All are welcome to join us!
Our theme is Read Around the World. Students are invited to wear comfy clothes/pajamas on March 12th to school and to the family night!
The event will be from 4:30-6:00pm. Families are welcome to come for all or part of the event. Guest speakers will be joining us! Guests are welcome to listen to a guest reader, or find a cozy spot to read with your child(ren), enjoy a snack of popcorn and juice, donated by our very own Meadowbrook PSA, or make a bookmark to take home!
We hope you can join us for a wonderful night reading!
Spring must be getting closer!
School Nutrition Updates
Healthy Snacks are permitted at school!
EMERGENCY CLOSINGS & DELAYS
In addition to District social media accounts, local TV/Radio stations and the District website, HSSD will send weather delay and closing updates via text message. To receive texts from HSSD: text the word “Yes” to 68453. Please note that you will receive a voice mail that defaults to the (920) 662-7878 District Office. Please listen to all voice mails for information.
ATTENDANCE
Reminder: If your child is absent, please call their school attendance line. If you do not call in your child the school attendance officer will email you and leave a voice mail message. Although all phones default to the (920) 662-7878 District Office phone, you will want to call your school if you see a call has come through from the 7878 number. Likewise, on days of inclement weather or early dismissal, email, text and voice mail will be sent to you and the default message will show a 662-7878 number. Please listen to the voice mail for instructions.
Meadowbrook Elementary Attendance Line
920-662-5036
Please see page 42 of the District Parent-Student Handbook regarding attendance procedures available online at https://www.hssdschools.org/general-information
Let’s Talk! with Mrs. VanAsten and Mrs. Heim, Speech-Language Pathologists
Already six weeks in; welcome to 2020! With a new year comes the promise of a fresh beginning. We pose the question to our students; What do you want to start fresh with this year? We find that an easy attribute to “freshen up” on is one’s social and pragmatic skills. In the age of texting, Tweeting, Instagraming - you name it!-, it’s easy for students to forget basic social skills. Some of the most basic social and pragmatic skills a person can possess are also some of the most important. This includes making eye contact with people you are speaking with, being an attentive listener, and having appropriate body basics. Making eye contact with a person can sometimes feel intimidating, but it’s a great way to increase the connection between two people as they speak. You can show you are being an attentive listener by responding to a person’s comments either non-verbally (such as nodding in agreement to something they say) or verbally (by asking them a question related to the topic they are talking about). Having good body basics is a great way to show respect. Standing about an arm’s length away from your speaking partner is typically a suitable distance that makes both people feel comfortable. Parents and students alike can model appropriate social skills at the dinner table, soccer practice, or anywhere! Good social skills are a key to effective communication. Until next time, we wish you all the best in the new year!!
Mrs. Katie VanAsten
Mrs. Julie Heim
Our 3rd Graders are headed to Ellis Island!
As part of our 3 rd grade Immigration Unit, all third grade students will be participating in our Ellis Island simulation being held in the library on Friday, March 6 from 1:00-3:15. We are looking for volunteers to play the part of the inspectors. Duties include posing questions to our families and reviewing their paperwork to ensure they enter our country legally. Your parts are scripted. We encourage you to dress for the part you are assigned and have fun. Our goal is to have the students experience first hand the feelings that immigrant families may have felt as they entered the United States. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Mrs. Michelle Wick, Library Media Specialist, at michwick@hssdschools.org or 920.662.5091.
If you are not yet approved to volunteer, please complete the volunteer application as soon as possible for timely processing.
1:00 - 1:45 Crabb
1:15 - 2:00 Demerath
1:30 - 2:15 Laha
2:00 - 2:45 Apps
2:15 - 3:00 Haen
Did you remember to pay your child's school fees?
With today’s medical advancements in combination with people who care, it’s very possible that your child is sitting next to someone in class whose life has been saved by a heart, liver or kidney donation. Or instead your child might be on an athletic team with someone who is only there because they had a donor ligament used to repair their knee. Both of these situations can only happen if someone puts an orange dot on his/her driver’s license.
Bay View Student Council in conjunction with Donate Life Wisconsin and other local vendors -- is sponsoring a walk, the 8th annual, on Saturday, April 18th to help raise awareness for the need for organ donation. The need is great, with over 113,000 men, women and children in the US waiting for a life-saving organ donation!
There are so many connections to people right here in Howard-Suamico, whose lives have been made better through this increased awareness. For the Student Council organization, the mission is very special. Two of our Student Council advisors have both been affected by organ transplantation. Mrs. Burant’s son, Ethan, had a life-saving liver transplant in 2010 and Ms. Swinford’s brother, who passed away at the early age of 39, was a donor. And there is probably someone who has touched your own life who has been either a donor or a recipient.
Again, Bay View Student Council’s mission is to raise awareness for the need for more organ donors. We would like this year’s walk to be the biggest and the best so far! The students have set the goal to raise $20,000 and to have over 600 people attend our walk! To do this, Bay View Student Council is asking for the community’s help. Here are some ways that you might consider helping:
1. Register to walk on April 18th. Here is the link to the website where you can sign up: http://newdonatelifewalk.weebly.com/
2. Like us on Facebook and share the information about the walk: https://www.facebook.com/newdonatelifewalk/
3. Sponsor a silent auction item. Contact Gail or Mary at newdonatelife@gmail.com for more information.
THANK YOU!!!
Organ, tissue and eye donation is a gift that saves and heals thousands of lives each year. It’s a gift that relies on the generosity of others – even with the best in medicine and technology, transplantation is not possible without one person giving selflessly to another. We hope that you consider helping us in any way that you are comfortable.
All Things ZEN
To learn more about this amazing proposal, please click here.
Supervision Reminders
Meadowbrook PSA Updates
Sarah Drella- President
Alexis Groop and Charles Nett-Co Vice-Presidents
Justin Lusk- Treasurer
Michelle Van Lieshout- Secretary
Please mark your calendars and join us for a future PSA meeting. Meetings are held at 6:00 pm in the library on the following dates:
Mar. 12
Apr. 9
May 14
Jun. 11
The PSA is looking for volunteers for the Winter Book Fair
A note from your School Board Representative
HSSD Graduate Profile: Collaborator
Throughout the year, the Board of Education monitors student performance in HSSD Graduate Profile seven characteristics. At the December 9, 2019 Board meeting, we discussed the characteristic collaborator and progress being made to develop our students as helpful and active participants who share responsibility while working toward a common goal. Students have many opportunities to collaborate and be part of teams in classrooms, in music, physical education, and art, in athletics, and in a variety of extra-curricular activities. Through these experiences, they grow in their abilities to collaborate with their peers, as well as adults. Students learn to respect and encourage others, to adapt to changes, and to be reliable teammates. We talked with teachers from multiple grade levels successfully integrating technology into lessons and engaging students in becoming active and social learners, through co-use. When co-using a device, students are working with others to figure out how to navigate the content learning within the software, which can lead to higher-order questioning, predicting, inquiry, and other cognitive benefits from this social construction of knowledge.
Seeing our students intentionally developing HSSD Graduate Profile characteristics is exciting and rewarding because we know they are being prepared to thrive in our complex and rapidly changing world. For more information about the Howard-Suamico School District, Board of Education, please visit our website at www.hssdschools.org, or for more information on this article, contact school board member Vanessa Moran, at vanemora@hssdschools.org
Attention 4th grade parents!
Planning Ahead: Lineville Intermediate School Class Choices
In March fourth graders and their parents will learn about the music class options at Lineville: band, chorus, and orchestra. A music class selection for fifth grade must be made by the end of March. In addition, course descriptions will be provided for several other fifth grade classes, and parents will be able to indicate their preferences. Course descriptions and registration information will be available on March 11th, and selections must be made and the registration completed within two weeks.
Parents who desire more information at this time are invited to visit the music class websites, which are linked to the Lineville home page: http://linevillehssd.weebly.com
Community Corner
The Howard - Suamico School District partnering with local organizations features a Community Page that includes a list highlighting events for families in the villages of Howard, Suamico and Green Bay, i.e. scouting, festivals, parades, etc.
12th Annual Taste of the Villages and Auction benefiting the Howard-Suamico School District Giving Tree! Our event will be held on Thursday, April 23, 2020, from 5:30-9 pm at 1951 West / Rock Garden in Green Bay.
Check out the Village of Suamico’s Fall/Winter Edition of activities.