Graves Sailor Newsletter
March 11, 2022
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Upcoming Events/Important Dates
Monday, March 14: Early Release Day (1:50pm)
Monday, March 14: Parent/Teacher Conferences (3:00PM-8:00PM)
Monday, March 14 : IAR TESTING CONTINUES for 3rd and 4th Grade
Tuesday, March 15: Regular day of attendance (No Institute Day due to Snow Day back in January)
Thursday, March 17: St. Patrick's Day (Non-Uniform Day: Wear Green)
Wednesday, March 23: School District 104 Virtual Family Night (5:30PM)
Monday, March 28 - April 1: Spring Break (No School)
Monday, April 4: Classes Resume
District/School Text Messages
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences will be on Monday, March 14 from 3:00 PM-8:00 PM.
2nd Trimester Conference are by invite or request. If you have any questions about your time, please call the Graves office or contact teacher.
Students will attend school and be dismissed at 1:50PM
There will be no after school programs on this day
In 1980, U.S. president Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 National Women’s History Week, urging everyone in the United States to participate. According to Carter, "too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well."
The week-long event officially became a month-long one in 1987 when Congress passed a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month. Women’s History Month has been celebrated in the United States every March since.
Absences
If you prefer, you can also email our secretary, Patty at: pcalvino@sd104.us
Being on Time
Please remember that it is important for students to arrive to school on time.
Students should be inside the building every morning by
7:50AM (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday)
8:50AM (Wednesdays)
School Breakfast
Breakfast will be available every morning for students who wish to come in and eat before school starts. Door #7
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays starting 7:30a.m.-7:45a.m.
Wednesdays 8:30a.m.-8:45a.m.
Please make sure to be on time so students have plenty of time to eat their breakfast since they have to be in the classroom by 7:50a.m.(M, T, TH, F) and 8:50a.m. (Wednesdays)
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Social Worker Corner
5 Love Languages of Children
What is your child's love language?
1. Physical Touch: Hugs and kisses are the most common way of speaking this love language, but there are other ways, too. A dad tosses his year-old son in the air. He spins his seven-year-old daughter round and round, and she laughs wildly. A mom reads a story with her three-year-old on her lap. For children who understand this love language, physical touch will communicate love more deeply than will the words, “I love you,” or giving a present, fixing a bicycle, or spending time with them. Of course, they receive love in all the languages, but for them, the one with the clearest and loudest voice is physical touch. Without hugs, kisses, pats on the back, and other physical expressions of love, their love tanks will remain less than full.
2. Words of Affirmation: In communicating love, words are powerful. Words of affection and endearment, words of praise and encouragement, words that give positive guidance all say, “I care about you.” Such words are like a gentle, warm rain falling on the soul; they nurture the child’s inner sense of worth and security. Even though such words are quickly said, they are not soon forgotten. A child reaps the benefits of affirming words for a lifetime.
3. Quality Time: Quality time is focused attention. It means giving a child your undivided attention. Quality time is a parent’s gift of presence to a child. It conveys this message: “You are important. I like being with you.” It makes the child feel that he is the most important person in the world to the parent. He feels truly loved because he has his parent all to himself. When you spend quality time with children, you need to go to their physical/emotional level of development. The most important factor in quality time is not the event itself but that you are doing something together, being together.
If quality time is your child’s primary love language, you can be sure of this: Without a sufficient supply of quality time and focused attention, your child will experience a gnawing uneasiness that his parents do not really love him.
4. Gifts: The giving and receiving of gifts can be a powerful expression of love, at the time they are given and often extending into later years. The most meaningful gifts become symbols of love, and those that truly convey love are part of a love language. Most children respond positively to gifts, but for some, receiving gifts is their primary love language. You might be inclined to think that this is so for all children, judging from the way they beg for things. It is true that all children—and adults—want to have more and more. But those whose language of love is receiving gifts will respond differently when they get their gift. Remember, for them, this is love’s loudest voice. They see the gift as an extension of you and your love.
5. Acts of Service: Some people speak acts of service as their primary love language. If service is your child’s primary love language, your acts of service will communicate most deeply that you love Johnny or Julie. When that child asks you to fix a bicycle or mend a doll’s dress, he or she does not merely want to get a task done; your child is crying for emotional love. If your child’s primary love language is acts of service, this does not mean that you must jump at every request. It does mean that you should be extremely sensitive to those requests and recognize that your response will either help fill the child’s love tank or else puncture the tank. Each request calls for a thoughtful, loving response.
Lunch Menu
Please review this months lunch menu with your child.
Students at work
Physical Education (PE)
ART
STEAM
Did you know?
Tornado/Wind:
- The average width of a tornado’s funnel is about 100–200 yards, but it could also be as wide as one mile.
- Some tornadoes can be faster than formula one racing cars.
- The wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object.
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Pre-School Director, Kathleen Dunn at 708-546-7151 or at kdunn@sd104.us
Graves Dual Language School
6021 S. 74th Ave.
Summit, IL 60501
(708) 458-7260
Webpage: https://www.sd104.us/o/graves-es
Office Hours 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Guillermina Arteaga
Principal