Powers Elementary-Weekly Newsletter

Thanks for joining us for conferences on Thursday night... we appreciate our partnership with our families. It was wonderful to see many of you. The next round of conferences will be on November 4th.

Have a great Sunday!

The Powers Admin Team

As we approach the end of the first quarter, we thought that this article might be useful. For those not familiar, Neurodivergent is a term used to describe people whose brains process information, learn, and behave in ways that are different from what is considered "typical". Neurodivergence is a way to describe the natural variation in how human brains develop and function.

Check out this article from Edutopia called 5 Ways to Support Neurodivergent Students. https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-support-neurodivergent-students?utm_content=linkpos1&utm_campaign=weekly-2024-10-09&utm_medium=email&utm_source=edu-newsletter

In Physical Education we are currently working on throwing and catching skills along with maintaining and improving our Cardiorespiratory system by speed walking, jogging, and running. Students will be doing the Pacer running test in 2nd grade during the month of October, and again in April of 2025 to assess their expected improvement over the school year. Kindergarten and First grade will be doing a scaled down version of the Pacer test.

All students need to wear tennis shoes on PE days!!!

If your child is a car rider in the morning, please remember that our school day starts at 8:50am. This means that students should be in their classroom ready to start their school day by 8:50am. After 8:50am, parents will need to pull around to the South side of the school to bring your child to the main office to sign them in as tardy. Please do not drop your child off at the side doors by the big playground after 8:50am. Thank you for supporting student safety.

Parents should not be dropping students off in the South Lake parking lot in the morning. This is reserved for parents with students that have special needs and have a parking permit and busses. We have had a lot of parents (and grandparents) dropping off students in the morning. If you are coming into the building for a meeting or to take care of business in the office you can always park here and enter the building through the main office. Please remind caretakers and grandparents as we believe some of these cars that are causing congestion for our busses are not aware of the expectations to use the PikMyKid parking lot on the other side of the building. Thanks for your help. Officer Gawlik and I will be handing out flyers with a reminder message in the South Lake parking lot this week during arrival this week.

The week of Oct.14-18 is National School week lunch.The theme is School Lunch Pirates...Find your treasure! The food service team will be dressing up this year as pirates on Friday the 18th. Staff and students are encouraged to join in the fun and dress up as pirates up as pirates. Every student that buys a school lunch on Friday the 18th will receive a sticker with the Pirate theme. Thanks for your support!

If a parent/guardian requires an interpreter for a school event (meeting, conference, concert/, etc.), please contact your child's teacher with your request for interpreter support. It is most helpful to receive this request at least 1 week in advance so that we have time to honor that request and get the support in place for you or your family.

Powers PTO is looking for members! Please join in the link below.

https://24-25-powers-pto-parent-and-staff-membership.cheddarup.com/

Join us on October 9th at 6pm for our next PTO meeting in the Powers Cafeteria.

Oct 16 (6-7p) – AI Uncovered: A Community Introduction