Dragon's Tale
11/21/18
Upcoming Events!
Thanksgiving Break
Please enjoy this special time with family and friends! Safe travels for anyone going out of town!
Box Tops Collection
End of First Trimester
Report cards will be posted and available in Skyward Family Access the evening of Dec. 12th.
Parent/Teacher conferences will be on Thursday, Dec. 13th. Additional information below.
Keith Announcements
Parent-Teacher Conference Scheduling
Parent/Teacher conferences will be held on 12/13/18 from 12:00-8:00pm.
This time is an important opportunity to talk with your learner’s teacher to discuss the progress that your child has made thus far this school year and to share your perspective with us for the year. Conferences are a two-way conversation and your insights with regard to your child’s strengths and needs, learning style, and other non-school learning opportunities can help us to shape our instruction.
Conferences are scheduled through Family Access. If you do not have a Family Access account, please contact FamilyAccess@wlcsd.org or contact the Family Access hotline at 248-956-2190. Be sure to include your name, the name of each child in the district, your email address and a daytime phone number.
Online scheduling through Family Access will open Monday, 11/19 and stay open until Friday, 12/7. Watch the video of how to schedule your conference time or use the written directions. If you need any assistance with this process and/or an interpreter for your conference time, please contact your child’s teacher. If you need support accessing the internet, please contact our main office (248.956.2000).
As many of our fine arts, physical education, and media staff are in multiple buildings throughout the week and/or see hundreds of students, they will need to have modified schedules for this day. Please see below for a schedule of our FAPES Teachers' availability.
Keith Student Council - Operation Snowpile
Keith Student Council will be collecting monetary donations for Operation Snowpile for Children's Hospital in Detroit. The collection dates will begin on Nov. 28th and end on Dec. 7th. To celebrate the end of this important fundraiser, we will have a school-wide PJ Day on Friday, Dec. 7th. Please consider having your child bring in monetary donations so our student council is able to purchase items for this worthwhile cause.
Keith Caring Community Club
ATTENTION ALL 3RD-5TH GRADERS, The Keith Caring Community Club needs you!
KC3 is a community outreach club that provides opportunities for 3rd-5th graders to help others in our area and beyond. Students and families will be invited to a variety of events, which could include visiting residents of a local nursing home, making care packages for the homeless, stocking shelves at a food pantry, volunteering at an animal shelter, just to name a few. Our mission is to teach students about generosity, compassion, and tolerance through acts of kindness. Students can register for KC3 and sign up for events through signupgenius.com as they become available. There is no cost to join the club. We are looking for respectful, responsible students that will represent Keith Elementary and KC3 in a positive way.
To join KC3, please visit our sign up genius link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C44ADAF2AABF94-kc3opportunities
A follow up email will be sent out shortly after with information about the first event.
Winter Clothing
Keith Spirit!!!
Friday’s are Spirit Day here at Keith.
Your child is encouraged to wear a Keith shirt or the color red each and every Friday. The upper elementary and lower elementary classroom with the highest number of participants will win a visit from “Sparky” our Keith Dragon for the week.
This week's winners are:
Upper Elementary Room: Mrs. Colasanti
Lower Elementary Room: Mrs. Zarek
Second Step Announcement!
*With the short week this week, we will continue to talk about "identifying feelings" for another week.
Parents, this week your children focused on the second step lesson below. Please take a moment to talk with your children about how they took time to show positive behavior at school.
Empathy:
Getting along with others helps make Keith Elementary School a happier place. To get along with others, we need to have empathy for each other. Empathy is feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling. This week. Be a feelings detective! Try to notice how your classmates are feeling throughout the week. Watch their faces and bodies for clues.
Our focus for next week is listed below. We will review the following with your children when they return to school on Monday.
Identifying Feelings:
We’re all learning to identify our own and others’ feelings. We can focus our attention on someone’s face or body and on the situation for clues about how the person is feeling. Sometimes people’s voices and the words they say also give us clues. If someone is yelling, it might be3 that this person is angry. If a person is using a very quiet voice, it might be that the person is scared or worried. This week, listen to people’s voices for clues to figure out how they might be feeling!
Kids Empowered
We are happy to welcome Kids Empowered to Keith Elementary. Kids Empowered offers programs and training to empower children, parents and professionals to deal with unfriendly classmates and friends, bullying, relational aggression and to build confidence, emotional intelligence, character, leadership, self-esteem, fitness and social skills. They will be providing several workshops in the coming weeks for both kids and parents. Please see the following flyer for some basic information and feel free to email info@kidsempowered.com or visit their website https://kidsempowered.com for more information regarding these programs.
In addition, Kids Empowered is also hosting a special program called "Surviving the Social Jungle" which you can learn more about by visiting the event website https://survivingthesocialjungle.com.
Lifetouch Special Offer for Keith Families
Lifetouch has partnered with Shutterfly to bring a special offer to Keith families. If you order your photos online, you can receive a free Shutterfly photo book! Please see the attached flyer for more information. If you have any questions, please contact Lifetouch at the number listed on the flyer.
Kroger Rewards
The Keith number for Kroger Rewards has changed. The new account is NK938. We appreciate you taking the time to link your rewards card to Keith Elementary School. Thank you so much for your support of Keith Elementary School by shopping at Kroger.
Speak Up: National Research Project for Digital Learning
WLCSD is participating in Speak Up, a national research project and free service to find out information about digital learning. At Keith Elementary School, we hope to use the survey tools to learn what students, educators, and parents have to say about education issues. Please know how much we appreciate your help in completing the parent survey.
· All surveys should take less than 20 min.
· Surveys are multiple choice with a few open ended questions.
· Elementary Student surveys are done as a group; students raise hands and teachers submit the data for the entire class.
· Surveys can be completed any time between now and Jan 31, 2019.
November Lunch Menu
Announcements From our Keith PTA:
Keith PTA Meeting - Tuesday, December 11 at 7pm in the Keith Media Center
KEITH REFLECTIONS CONTEST 2018-19 CONTEST WINNERS
The Judges have tallied their scorecards and returned the winning results! Keith Dragons, please extend a congratulations to your PTA REFLECTIONS Contest Winners for the 2018-19 School Year! Your following classmates have qualified to the NEXT ROUND of judging at the District Level, and represent the best of our Keith Dragons' creative talent. What a great year for Keith artists.
A celebration award ceremony for ALL Keith Elementary Reflections Student Participants is scheduled for Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 2:30 pm in the Media Center.
REFLECTIONS THEME SUBMISSIONS:
Chance to win $100 if selected for Future Reflections Theme.
Brayden Muir—"Helping Others”
Brody Muir—"My Everyday Life”
Briella Muir—"If I Could Go to Outer Space”
Samantha Black—"Support the Troops”
Good Luck Keith Students!!!
PRIMARY LEVEL WINNERS TO DISTRICT —Grades K-2nd
VISUAL ARTS: Alexander Bloch, Hollis Miller
PHOTOGRAPHY: Alyssa Dayton, Brayden Muir
LITERATURE: Nolan Levu, Hollis Miller
FILM PRODUCTION: Brayden Muir, Nolan Levu
DANCE: Isabella Kanaros
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL WINNERS TO DISTRICT—Grades 3rd - 5th
VISUAL ARTS: Samantha Abbo, Mathew Bloch
PHOTOGRAPHY: Eli Ostroff, Brody Muir
LITERATURE: Frances Miller, Eli Ostroff
MUSIC COMPOSITION: Nigel Levu, Piper Tomasik
FILM PRODUCTION: Brody Muir
DANCE: Arbor Neal
Best of luck to all of our qualifying Keith students who move on to the District Level. CONGRATULATIONS to them and to all of our Keith Student artist entries!
Kate Tomasik
PTA Reflections Chair, 2018-19
Ski Club Information
Dear Keith Staff & Parents,
Temperatures are dropping snow is falling and Alpine Valley has opened for the season!!
First & foremost I would like to acknowledge Dan Gilbert’s wonderful leadership of the Ski club for the past several years. I’m sure everyone joins me in thanking him for his dedication and hard work in making the club the success that it has been.
I am planning to maintain the club activity for Friday nights, but I am open to possibly adding a second night if there is enough interest if I get enough request for a specific day I will absolutely try and work out a second day of the week.
I have started a Facebook page to hopefully get out information quickly you can find it on Facebook by searching “Keith Elementary Ski Club”.
The only other big change I am making this year is I am implementing an electronic payment platform. I am planning on using Venmo. But if people are interested in Square Cash please let me know and I can set that up as well- I would rather try and stick with one but we can see how it goes.
I am still happy to accept checks either dropped off at my house or at the school. I just think the electronic payment platform will make it easier for people to decide at the last minute and it will be easier for me to issue refunds if someone has to cancel at the last minute.
Anyone can call me or text me on my cell at anytime 248-981-9267.
My email is: MsJoyce5870@gmail.com
My address is:
2778 Orenda St
Commerce Twp, Mi 48382
As soon as I have a start date I will make an announcement on the Facebook page and at the school I am looking forward to the clubs getting started!
Thank you!
Mary Joyce
Keith Elementary School
Andrea McFarland - Principal's Secretary
Diana Tyrrell - Building Secretary
Julie Palermo - Interventionist
Marci Augenstein, Ph.D. - Principal, Keith Elementary
Email: AndreaMcFarland@wlcsd.org
Website: http://wlcsd.org/schools/elementary/keith/
Location: 2800 Keith Road, West Bloomfield Township, MI, United States
Phone: (248)956-3700
Twitter: @KeithElementary