Union Weekly Staff Update
Week of October 24, 2016
A Note from Jen
This Week's Events
Monday, 10/24-
- Fire Safety Week- see schedule
Tuesday, 10/25-
- 8:00, Staff Meeting, Green Lab
- Fire Safety Week- see schedule
- 9:30, Erin and Jen at ESC Meeting
- 4:00, Interviews for Developmental Preschool
- 4:00, District Discussion
- Fire Safety Week- see schedule
- Deed Day speaker from Zion Nature Center. 9:10-10:00 2nd Grade; 10:05-10:55 Kindy; 2:20-3:10 4th Grade in cafeteria
- Jen out in AM at INALI
- Star Student Lunches
- 3:45, Wellness Pumpkin Fitness Activity
Thursday, 10/27-
- Deed Day speaker from Zion Nature Center. 9:10-10:00 1st Grade; 10:05-10:55 3rd Grade in cafeteria
- 8:00, Staffing in Conference Room- Duhn, J.Smith, Raycroft, Lockhart, Van Curen
- 3:45, School Safety Meeting
- Fitness Gram during Wellness (1-4)
Friday, 10/28-
- Wear Pink Student Council Spirit Day
- PTO Student Grants due
- Fitness Gram during Wellness (1-4)
- Family Friday- CANCELLED. This week is busy enough! Rescheduled for November 4th. This will be the ONLY Family Friday in November.
Monday, 10/31-
- Kindy to Dulls Tree Farm
- Fitness Gram during Wellness (1-4)
- No costumes
- 8:00, HA and RTI PLCs
- 9:30, Elementary Admin Meeting- Jen and Erin
- 4:00, New Teacher District Meeting
- 7:00, Dads Club Meeting
- Courtney Flessner at Union for PD- More details after break
- 8:00, Fourth Grade Dads Club Breakfast
- Star Student Lunches- Kindy Only
Thursday, 11/3
- 8:00, ACR in conference room 1- Kurtz, Andrus, Lockhart, Swenson, Wetzel
Friday, 11/4
- Family Friday Lunches
- PTO Movie Night
Fitness Gram
FitnessGram is a comprehensive fitness assessment for our youth. It includes a variety of health-related physical fitness tests designed to assess cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. FitnessGram was developed by The Cooper Institute in conjunction with the NFL Play60 Program on Exercise. All testing will be provided by a group of skilled clinicians from Witham Health Services. We will participate in this assessment along with the other elementary schools in ZCS and across Boone County. Witham will then follow up to provide parents with a detailed report.
On the Monday we return from break, all first through fourth grade students will receive a parental consent form. This only needs to be returned if you DO NOT want your child to participate.
Upcoming Convocations
Our Student Council is hard a work preparing for upcoming school events!
On November 18th, we will be welcoming several special guests, including Congresswoman Susan Brooks and Zionsville Mayor Tim Haak, for a celebration of our National Blue Ribbon award. The time frame and location are the same (9:30-10:15). The theme is "Union's Path to Excellence." Look for more information about ways to be involved after break.
JAT Thank Yous
As we did last year, the district JAT Committee has requested that students create thank you cards for the many sponsors who supported this year's Jog A Thon. These were a hit with donors last year! If there is no information next to a sponsor for a specific item/service, then they were a district t-shirt sponsor. For these, we can just thank them generally for their support of Jog A Thon and our schools. You are welcome to talk with your grade level team to divide them up as you would like. I think the goal is that each sponsor has a few student made thank you cards. Please put them in the JAT box by the mailboxes by November 1st. Thank you for helping our students show appreciation to those who support our school.
All Grades
Mrs. Fyffe, JAT Chairperson
Pre-School
Mobi Wireless
New Balance Carmel
Kindergarten
Ron Schulte State Farm (Union grandparent)
Sky Zone Fishers (sponsorship and passes/Union parent)
First Grade
Klezmer Maudlin (Union parent)
Witham Health
Culligan Water (water donation)
Second Grade
Taft Stettinius & Hollister (Union parent)
Body Outfitters
Square Donuts
Third Grade
Zionsville Family Chiropractic
Hot Box Pizza (pizza donation)
Judy Orthodontics (sponsorship and water bottles)
Fourth Grade
Hoosier Heights (donated passes for drawing)
Joe Beck (DJ)
Mrs. Burgin (making all of the medals)