Stoney Creek News
Growing Kind Hearts & Minds While Inspiring Personal Success
From the Principal
Hello Families,
We hope that you all enjoyed the Halloween festivities at our school. It was sure great to have a full house to celebrate with our students and teachers. As a Leader In Me School, we will be addressing our Leader in Me Habit #1- Be Proactive. We will be talking to students about the following: You're in charge- I am responsible person. I take initiative. I choose my actions, attitudes, and moods. I do not blame others for my wrong actions. I do the right thing without being asked, even when no one is looking.
Our students and teachers will be making videos as well as posting on our Facebook page ways to Be Proactive in all walks of life. Thank you for making time at home to discuss this at home as well.
We are so thankful to all the WatchDOGS that have spent a day with us at Stoney Creek. Your time is precious to each of us and we can't thank you enough for your presence. Please tell your friends what an experience it is to walk our halls, read with students, play games, and interacting with them throughout the day. We have a few open spots in November and more after the first of the year.
I would like to highlight a group of people in this newsletter each week. Our first group is 1st grade. Teachers include; Mrs. Defever, Mrs. Jurewicz, Mrs. Kiander, Miss Olsson, Miss Wabeke, and Mrs. Williams. We are also thankful for a student teacher, Miss Harnden in Mrs. Jurewicz's classroom. We are so thankful for their creative spirits and highly effective teaching practices. It is so powerful to see their collaboration each week. They have already hosted a curriculum night to showcase all that the first graders will learn this year. This group of teachers will also be supporting our music teacher, Mrs. Hite at the CPEF fundraiser when the first graders will sing at the event. Thank you First Grade TEAM and keep up the GREAT WORK!
Educationally yours,
Tiffany Jackson, Principal
Thanksgiving Break - No School November 27-29
1st Grade Performs
Outdoor Recess
Please remember that with the snow and colder temps now here that students are to wear appropriate winter gear to school for recess.
- Winter Coat
- Snowpants
- Boots
- Hats
- Mittens
If your family is in need of any of these items contact the Giving Closet via their Facebook page here.
Attendance
Building Healthy Communities Update: Hand Washing is a Healthy Thing to Do!
There will be lots of healthy food sampling going on in our school this year and we want to assure you that proper hand washing or use of sanitizer is a priority. We will teach children that washing their hands correctly involves the use of soap, warm water, vigorously scrubbing hands for 20 seconds and rinsing. Hand washing is very important to control the transfer of germs which are too small to see. Please encourage your children to follow this same procedure at home. Be a good role model and remember to wash your hands before eating or preparing food.
Fluency is Critical In Learning
Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. When fluent readers read, they recognize words automatically. Readers who are not yet fluent read slowly, word by word. Their reading is choppy.
Because fluent readers do not have to concentrate on decoding the words, they can focus their attention on what the text means. Less fluent readers, however, must focus their attention on figuring out the words, leaving them little attention for understanding the meaning of text.
How do we develop fluent readers? One part of becoming fluent is automatically recognizing the words that are found most often in our reading (sometimes called high-frequency words). A reader needs to learn these words well enough that he/she doesn’t even have to pause to sound out or “remember” them. A student is reading a word fluently if it can be read immediately every time it appears!
How can you help at home? Ask your child’s teacher for a list of high-frequency words that they are working on. Or start with the Dolch word lists, link found below. Practice those words - a few at a time - over and over again until they can be read automatically. Then add in new words - but go back and review the “old” words every once in a while.
WatchDOGS 2019-2020
Upcoming Events
NOVEMBER
19 PTO Meeting
21 Title 1 Baking Night
26 Talks with Tiffany 10 a.m.
26 First Grade Friendsgiving
27-29 No School - Thanksgiving Break
DECEMBER
7 PTO Pancake Breakfast
19 Classroom Holiday Parties
19 Half Day of School - Dismissal at 12:05 p.m.
20 Half Day of School - Dismissal at 12:05 p.m.
23-January 3, 2020 - NO SCHOOL - Winter Break
January
6 Back to School