Blue Ash Elementary Newsletter
January 7, 2021
Specials Schedule Week of January 10th - 14th
Upcoming Dates
January 10-13 - MAP Testing for grades 1-4 - See your teachers' newsletters for details!
January 13 - End of 2nd Quarter
January 14 - Teacher Records Day. No School for Students
January 15 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day. No School
January 18 & 19 - Teacher Collaboration Days. No School for Students
2022-2023 Kindergarten Registration
Notes from our Nurse
Prevention is the Best Medicine: Good handwashing and covering your cough and sneeze are best practices to prevent the spread of illness especially the Flu!
It’s time to start thinking about getting your Flu Shot for this Flu season! The CDC recommends Flu Vaccine for all individuals 6 months and older. Check out the CDC website for more information regarding the Flu and the Flu vaccine at
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/keyfacts.htm
https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/chest-lungs/Pages/The-Flu.aspx
Clothing Needs: Children come to the clinic with wet clothing from recess play outdoors, spills as lunch or other mishaps.. The clinic has a limited supply of clothing. Please consider sending in a 2nd change of clothing for your child to keep at school or in their backpack. If you would like to donate gently used clothing, there is a need for boys and girls pull on stretch pants sizes 8 through 14.
Please contact our School Nurse, Mrs. Wyrick, RN at 513-686-1713 or wyrickd@sycamoreschools.org if you have any questions.
Staff CAT Ticket Drawing
Next week students will be awarding CAT (Caught Acting Terrific) tickets to our staff when they demonstrate the 4 Be’s! (Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe, Be a Problem Solver)
There will be a drawing at the end of each day for staff to win prizes.
It would be greatly appreciated if families could donate to help spoil our amazing staff members!
Possible Ideas:
Gift Card (any domination!)
Drinks
Snacks
Bag of candy
Seasonal item
MAP Testing Schedule
Learn Sign Language with Us!
I hope you all enjoyed your winter break! Because we are focusing on the 4 B's this week, I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to show you how to sign the 4 B's!!!
https://flipgrid.com/s/xRvMeKy2fyuC
We are so fortunate to have a sign language interpreter supporting one of our children at BAE again this year. Nicole Schum has been busy teaching all of us sign language! If you would like to join in the learning from home, please CLICK HERE for the Flipgrid account.
Once you log on to Flipgrid, the code for Blue Ash Sign Language is: baesign
CAFETERIA NEWS!!
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PTO INFORMATION
Chess Club
Registration is now open for the Winter session of Blue Ash Chess Club! It is designed for all 1st through 4th graders. Participants will learn all the basics as well as get ready to play chess tournaments if they would like.
The club will be held virtually using Zoom and online chess tools. Beginners classes will be on Thursdays afternoons, 5pm to 6pm from January 20th to March 31st.
Intermediates classes will be on Mondays 5pm to 6pm starting January 24th and runs for 10 weeks through April 11th (no class when school is closed).
The cost for this session is $100.00 you can pay via Venmo or Check. For more questions and send you the registration form please email Gina Bourchid at bae.chessclub@gmail.com
Come kick off 2022 with the PTO!
Please join us virtually Thursday, January 13th and find out what's going on with the BAE PTO.
BAE General PTO meeting
Thursday, Jan 13 • 9:30 – 10:30 AM
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ihh-ocag-hur
Or dial: +1 571-758-2619 PIN: 354 402 681#