Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a great holiday season with some much needed time off and relaxation. We are very excited to start our second half of the school year. December wrapped up with some exciting events that we had here at school. Our 4th grade CAN-structions were a big hit, thank you to everyone who donated cans for our 4th graders and the community. We had a lot of kindergarten craft days that were a big hit for our students and parents. We ended the week before break with the Zoneton Fire Department making a visit with the Grinchmas Truck!

As always, we appreciate your feedback and ideas to help our school serve you everyday. Our staff also loves the shoutouts

Morning drop-off begins at 8:30, students need to stay in cars until 8:30 when a staff member opens the front doors to the school. Please all the way forward to the staff member so we can get as many students in the building safely and in a timely manner. The front doors will close at 9:00. If you drop off after 9:00, you have to sign your student(s) in at the front office. Breakfast is served from 8:30-8:55 to allow for staff members to being their mornings at 9:00. If your child intends to have breakfast, please have them here before 8:55.

Afternoon dismissal will begin at 3:40. Please display your tag in your windshield. Once your child is in your car, please remove the tag. This lets those working the line know if someone did not make it out to the car. Our goals are always safety and efficiency. However, sometimes students don’t hear their name or just get distracted.

Happy New Year! Time sure is flying by this school year! The classroom guidance topic for this month is friendship and conflict resolution strategies. Encourage your student to share with you ways they can resolve conflict with their peers.

If your student is in our English Language Learners Program, we will start ACCESS testing on January 17th. The test consists of 4 parts, all taken on different days. Students will be tested on their listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

It’s National Thank You Month! Thank You Month is an opportunity to spread kindness by thanking all the people who’ve helped us along the way.To kick off Thank You Month, we want to thank you for your dedication. Every day, you encourage your student to learn and grow. You are a major reason for the success of our students, and it’s an honor to serve your family.

We encourage you to spend some time this January thinking about what you’re thankful for and express gratitude for those who have helped you. Help from others is so appreciated and, at times, needed. If you or a family member needs extra support, Bullitt County Schools partnered with Care Solace to support the well-being of students and their family members. If you or a family member are looking for help with mental health or substance use treatment and would like to use Care Solace to help you find a provider:

• Call 888-515-0595. Support is available 24/7/365 in over 200 languages.

• Visit caresolace.com/bullitt and either search on your own OR click “Book Appointment” for assistance by video chat, email, or phone.

Thank you again for your dedication to your students and this community.

Did you know…..

Zoneton Fire Department is giving out free smoke detectors. Call 955-8076 to set up an appointment. The fire dept. will come out and install the smoke detector for you – all free of charge!

WIC Helps Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

WIC serves pregnant, postpartum, breastfeeding women and children under 5 years of age. Grandparents, kinship relatives, foster parents or other guardians may apply for WIC for their children. WIC is here for Grandparents with WIC eligible children. You can look at WIC qualifications here - https://wic.fns.usda.gov/wps/pages/preScreenTool.xhtml You can also call 543-2415 to connect with the Bullitt County Health Dept. and make an appt. to apply for WIC.

We have our Someone Special Dance coming Friday, January 20th for girls and that special

Someone in their life. Be on the lookout for Permission slips to come home in January.

(We have an event for boys in March)

January Snack Cart will also be Friday, January 20th.

We are excited to open our breakfast to parent/guardians for the months of January and February! Due to the number of students that we have, we are not able to open up the cafeteria to parents/guardians during lunch time. But we have developed a plan that allows you the chance to have breakfast with your child. As we roll the plan out, we're going to do one grade level and one day a week at a time, we hope to open this up to more days a week as well. Our current schedule is:

5th Grade- January 17

4th Grade- January 24

3rd Grade- January 31

2nd Grade- February 7

1st Grade February 14

Kindergarten- February 21

Preschool- February 26 & February 28

Please complete the Google Form for the Grade Level that you are planning to attend so that our cafeteria staff can prepare the correct amount of food. Breakfast runs from 8:30-9:00, please make sure you have your ID ready when you sign into the office. For the safety of all of our students, walking students to their classroom after breakfast is not permitted.

Thank you for your patience as we get this process rolling and continue to expand it to other days of the week as well.

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