Andrews Elementary
September 2023 Newsletter
Upcoming Events:
- September 4: Labor Day- no school
- September 6: Thirty Minute (30 minute) delay start today
- September 7: DARE for 5th grade today
- September 8: Midterm grades in Power School or progress report comes home
- September 11-15: Book Fair this week
- September 11: School Board Meeting at 7:00 PM
- September 13: Thirty Minute (30 min) delay start today
- September 14: School Picture Day
- September 14: Grandparents and V.I.P. Night from 5:00-7:00 PM
- September 15: NWEA testing window ends
- September 19: Fun Run for Cross Country Team at Salamonie School
- September 20: Two Hour Delay Start for teacher professional development
- September 21: Drama Club performance of "Hula Hoopin' Queen" at 6:00 PM
- September 25: PTO meeting at 5:00 PM in the cafeteria
- September 25: School Board Meeting at 7:00 PM
- September 28: Early Release for parent/teacher conferences; dismiss at 3:00 PM
- September 28: DARE for 5th grade today
Grandparents Night on September 14, 2023
Book Fair
Homecoming Parade
Fall Picture Day
Here is the link to order pictures online: Frederick's Order Form
Early Release Days
LIFESKILLS and LIFELONG GUIDELINES
Lifelong Guidelines are basic guidelines to follow in any situation.
We also follow five LIFELONG GUIDELINES:
- Active Listening: to listen attentively and with the intention of understanding
- Personal Best: to always try your best and put forth your best effort
- No Put Downs: to never use words, actions, and/or body language that degrades, humiliates or dishonors others
- Truthful: to always tell the truth
- Trustworthiness: to act in a manner that makes one worthy of trust and confidence
LIFESKILLS are character traits which will help you be successful and happy in life.
We teach the following LIFESKILLS:
- Caring: to feel and show concern for others
- Common Sense: to use good judgement
- Cooperation: to work together towards a common goal or purpose
- Courage: to act according to one's beliefs despite the fear of consequences
- Curiosity: A desire to investigate and seek understanding of one's world
- Effort: to do your best
- Flexibility: To be willing to alter plans when necessary
- Friendship: to make and keep friends through mutual trust and caring
- Initiative: to do something of one's own free will because it needs to be done
- Integrity: to act according to a sense of what's right and wrong
- Organization: to plan, arrange, and implement in an orderly way; to keep things orderly and ready to use
- Patience: to wait calmly for someone or something
- Perseverance: to keep at it and not give up
- Problem Solving: to create solutions to difficult situations and everyday problems
- Resourcefulness: to respond to challenges and opportunities in innovative and creative ways
- Pride: satisfaction from doing one's personal best
Each week we will focus on one of the LIFELONG GUIDELINES or LIFESKILLS. Each week, the classroom teachers will nominate a child from their room for the LIFESKILL AWARD for consistently being an example of the focus trait. Award winners will be announced on the morning announcements and have their picture on our FACEBOOK page, as long as they have a media release on file.
Cross Country
- The first race will begin at 5:15 with each subsequent race beginning upon conclusion of the previous race.
- We will run races in the following order:
- Grade 4 girls
- Grade 4 boys
- Grade 5 girls
- Grade 5 boys
IPADS
Choir
Choir is open to Andrews students in fourth and fifth grade. Choir will begin next week, on Sept. 7th. They will meet every Thursday morning from 7:45-8:30. Please do not drop off your child before 7:30, as we want to make sure someone is here to supervise. Our first semester activities include performing at the Veterans’ Day program and singing holiday carols for the other students. Permission slips have been given out to students who expressed interest, but more permission slips are available in the music room.
A.L.I.C.E. Drill in September
Andrews Elementary School
Email: arudolf@hccsc.k12.in.us
Website: HCCSC.k12.in.us
Location: 509 East Jefferson Street, Andrews, IN, USA
Phone: 260-786-3021
Facebook: facebook.com/AndrewsElementarySchool
Twitter: @AndrewsElementary