November 2023

November:

3rd - 1st Quarter student celebration assembly @ 8:20 a.m.

10th - Veteran's Day Assembly @ 9 a.m. (community invited)

13th-28th - Fall Fundraiser (see information below)

13th - B&G Club closed for staff training

16th - Big Smiles Dental @ Leeton (see information below)

Board meeting @ 7 p.m.

17th - 2nd Quarter Mid-term

20th-24th - No School: Thanksgiving Break

• Students go outside for recess everyday as long as the temperature (including wind chill) are above 32 degrees. Please ensure your child has outerwear so they can enjoy some fresh air.
• If possible, please put your child's name inside their coat. We already have lots of lost and found items, including some very nice winter coats. At the end of each quarter, we take any unclaimed items to Salvation Army. Please help us in returning your child's items to them :)

This year, Leeton Elementary will again hold our donation fundraiser as THE ONLY fundraiser for our students this year. We will have a small art auction fundraiser in the Spring, but this is less of a fundraiser and more of an opportunity for memorabilia.

Students will be sent home with the fundraiser packet on November 10th. We began doing this type of fundraiser several years ago in order to increase the amount of funds that remain in our school rather than splitting funds raised to an outside company. If each of our 125 elementary students collects $100, we will surpass our fundraising goal!

This year, we are raising money to replace a couple classroom interactive boards as well as purchase reading support materials to help our students strengthen their phonemic awareness skills.

We hope everyone will help assist us in meeting our fundraising goal and ensuring our students and staff have the resources they need to continue to provide a quality education. We appreciate your support!

Please see the attached information about the Big Smiles Dental program that will be at Leeton on November 16th. If you wish for your child to participate, you can either complete registration online or by completing the attached form. Please reach out to Kelly Fleming @ 660-653-4731 with any questions.

**We were just informed that Boys & Girls Club will be FREE through December 2023! Now's a great opportunity to try out the benefits of B&G Club for your child(ren) at no expense to you!! See below for registration information.

We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to partner with West Central Boys and Girls Club of America to provide afterschool care for our students K-8th grade. B&G Club is open from the end of the school day until 6:30 p.m.

If you are interested in signing your child up for B&G Club, please complete the online registration attached below. If you need a paper copy of the enrollment packet please reach out to the elementary office. If you have any questions or need assistance with B&G club, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Area Site Director, Sharliene Fulton @ 660-233-2230.

Student meal prices:

Breakfast: $1.50

Lunch: $2.70

Reduced Breakfast: $0.40

Reduced Lunch: $0.40

There are two ways you can put money on your child's lunch account:

1. Submit payment to the elementary office. If you are sending the money with your child, please make sure to place the money in an envelope and that it is clearly marked whose account it goes to;

2. Pay online via the parent portal. Please note, there is a small service fee associated with this type of transaction.

Your child is allowed to charge up to $5.00. After this point, they will be given their meal each day, but no seconds will be allowed. Please also note that seconds are not offered to K-1st grade students. However, there is a fruit and vegetable bar available every day and students are allowed to have as much of these items as they would like as long as they are not being wasteful.

What is PBIS?

Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) is a process in which our school staff has worked together to identify behavioral expectations (see Matrix below), teach these expectations consistently to our students, and provide positive specific feedback to reinforce expected behavior. Make sure to check out the picture below.

What PBIS is not...

PBIS focuses on teaching expected behaviors and providing positive feedback to students when they follow those expectations, but at Leeton we focus on providing feedback in ways that encourage intrinsic motivation (through verbal feedback and student shout-outs that are included in our morning announcements) rather than trinkets and tangible tokens. PBIS is also not a replacement for consequences when a student does not follow our expectations. Depending on the level of the offense, students will given consequences that are outlined in our parent handbook (pages 29-32).