• ECFE Field Trip to Buffalo RIver Pumpkin Patch
  
• PLCs
• Cougar Pack
  

• Cougar Pack

• Picture Day
• Cougar Pack

• Staff Development @ 7:45 AM
• Cougar Pack

HAPPY HOMECOMING WEEK!

Focus:

One rule we have here at Ada-Borup-West is to “Be Responsible”. Being responsible helps make our school a place where everyone can learn. When we’re responsible, we can be trusted to do the right thing. We help others. We clean up our messes. We admit when we make mistakes or do the wrong thing. We focus on our schoolwork. This week, think about how you can be responsible and do the right thing in class, in the lunchroom, out at recess, and on the bus!

Pre-k/Kindergarten: What color is a pumpkin?

1st/2nd: Is a pumpkin considered a fruit or a vegetable?

3rd/4th/5th: What town is considered the “Pumpkin Capital of the World”?

Walk & Roll to School Day is an annual event that involves communities from across the country (and globe!) walking and rolling to school on the same day. It began in 1997 as a one-day event. Today, thousands of schools across America—from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico—participate every October. Over time, this celebration has become part of a movement for year-round safe routes to school. Join the movement!

1- Josh Robison

3- Finlee Peterson

4- Madilyn Jensen

4- Mrs. Eggen

5- Makenna Crane

5- Yuyo Palacios

8- Charles Flippo

8- Evelynn Flippo

8- Iris Flippo

9- Ms. Jersey

10- Ann Sander

10- Dexter Stordahl

12- Norah Cockerill

12- Morgan Liska

12- Daxton Mickelson

12- Mr. Tim

14- Kysa Jensen

14- Keira Traut

18- Henry Menge

19- KayLeigh Gordon

21- Aspen Sperry

22- Jaxon Anderson

23- Lux Grivno

23- Mrs. Kaste

24- Mrs. Visser

26- Addison Aamodt

27- Landon Chisholm

29- Bennett Visser

1- Kimberly Tijerino\

2- Ms. Marla

3- Lylliann Bennett

4- Oliver Anderson

4- Kade KAppes

4- Scarlet Spaeth

6- August Brandt

6- Evangeline Olson

7- Sawyer Kappes

7- Recces Teal

8- Kase Kappes

8- Dawson Kitchell

10- Ms. Nelson

11-Samuel Heitman

13- Gragam Aarestad

15- Elias Gaukler

16- Daniel Baughman

16- Mrs. Blotsky

17- Olive Willison

18- Elijah Plante

20- Journey Hutchinson

21- Breckin Thom

23- Josiah Solano

23- Kenley Tice

23- Keeley Bekkerus

23- Mrs. Kemper

24- Ms. Julie

24- Ms. Shahnee

25- Lincoln Molina

26- Dalen Wahlin

26- Mr. Pelzman

28- Elsie Ranz

29- KennyHutchinson

The Reach Spirit of Giving program provides holiday meal baskets for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. We also provide gifts for children under the age of 16 at Christmas time. We will try to find items to meet your needs; however, we cannot guarantee every item will work for you.

If you are planning on dropping off your child/children and would like to accompany them into the building, please park in the parking lot and enter at the "Main Entrance". We ask that if you pick up your child in the afternoon, please utilize the pick-up lane or wait for your child in the new common area by the Cougar Den. If you are choosing to pick up your child in the common area by the Cougar Den, please use parking spaces in the north parking lot and DO NOT leave your vehicle in the pick-up lane unaccompanied. We will have staff members bring students to the common area and to the pick-up lane at the end of the day. We ask that after the first day, parents refrain from accompanying their child/children to their lockers. You are still more than welcome to visit the Ada-Borup-West Elementary Office if you have questions or need to drop off paperwork or other items. Parents/guardians are asked not to accompany students to the common area/breakfast after the first day of school.

**Please note that if you have a preschool student that will be a parent pick up, preschool students will need to be picked up in the preschool classrooms and will not be walked to the parent-pick up lane. **

Bike Racks/Safe Path To School

The bike racks will now be located on the east side of the new gym (Cougar Den). Please have your child walk their bike on school property to the bike racks and then walk on the sidewalk on the north side of the Cougar Den to the main entrance.

Parent Pick-Up Lane/One Way

Parent Pick-Up Lane

This year, we will continue to have a one-way road on the north side of the school building during the school day. We have, however, added a "drop-off lane." The drop-off lane will start on the north-west side of the building with the flow of traffic being from west to east. The expectation of the drop-off lane is that it is only used to drop off or pick up students; meaning, we ask you to remain in your vehicle and not leave it unattended. If you wish to accompany your child in or enter the building to pick up your child, you will need to park your car in the visitor's parking just to the north of the drop-off lane.

Remind App:

The District has chosen to add Remind as a formal method of communication. In the elementary, we will be using this communication platform in all grade levels and classrooms. The nice thing is that you will not need to join any classrooms like we had to do with the free version. Our system will work with the platform to retrieve any necessary information for efficient communication. Parents will receive notifications in the form of a text message.

School Messenger/Thrillshare:

Please make sure your contact information is updated in Synergy as this tool is used for communication including weather related announcements. The vast majority of communication is sent through email or text (other than weather related announcements). Be sure that your email address is current in the system. Contact Merilee in the elementary school office for assistance.

A weekly newsletter will be sent out on Mondays with all of the weekly Ada-Borup-West Elementary happenings via School Messenger/Thrillshare and will be sent to the email that is on file. If you are not receiving a weekly email from me, please let the office know. All information about upcoming programing and other items will be sent via email through the Thrillshare platform.

Synergy-ParentVUE Gradebook:

On the homepage of the school website is a link to access student grades for grades 1-5. The link can also be found using the button below. If you need help accessing Synergy-ParentVUE for the first time, please contact Merilee . Please take advantage of this and have regular conversations about school with your child(ren). We will be sending out links on how to use Synergy-ParentVUE as we get closer to school starting.

Daily Bulletin:

The daily bulletin will be posted on the school website. If parents would like the bulletin emailed directly to them, please email Merilee and she will add you to the list.

Transportation

For all transportation related questions, please contact Shawn Roux at 218-784-5311 or shawnr@ada.k12.mn.us

GPS Link:

Please bookmark the GPS Link for the upcoming year.

https://cloud.samsara.com/o/3733/fleet/viewer/N5ZIOxjL8NM7gXdB2etZ

Transportation Policy Change:

Parents with students in grades K-2 will be required to fill out a Transportation Plan.

**Please note that bus changes WILL NOT be allowed the day of and MUST be approved by the transportation department.

**Day of changes from bus to pick up MUST be communicated to Elementary Office (merileep@ada.k12.mn.us) and to the teacher’s Remind account. If a response is not received from district staff, a phone call must be made to 218-784-5303.

**If a change from bus to adult pick up occurs, the adult MUST come in and sign out the student in the office no later than 3:05PM. Students will not be brought out to the pick-up lane.

If you are planning on eating at the school, please make sure you sign up by 9:00AM each day.

Enrollment now open for

Ada-Borup-West

Three-Year-Old Program

MONDAYS DURING SCHOOL YEAR

9:00 AM- 11:00 AM

DEVELOPMENTALY APPROPRIATE PROGRAMING

CONTACT CHRISTINE CROMPTON @ christinec@ada.k12.mn.us

Cougar Pack will start Wednesday, September 13th. All K-5th grade students are welcome to attend; however, all forms must be filled out and returned prior to be able to attend.

If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Smart @ sarahs@ada.k12.mn.us.

The Ada-Borup-West Booster Club partners with the ABW School to support needs in the classroom and in extra-curriculars. If you have not yet become a member, please consider joining this group. Use the following link to view the sign up or pick one up outside the commons. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rFEbHKiceCYjtUmCn1xRV_SRsgH9-GWV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105483597367163603345&rtpof=true&sd=true

If you are in need of Cougar Gear, check out their online store https://tinyurl.com/4ntnveve Team Code is cougars

5th- First Day of School

7th- Staff Development Meeting

12th- School Board Meeting @ 7:00 AM

12th- Bus Evacuation Trainings

13th- Bus Evacuation Trainings

13th- First Day of Cougar Pack

18th- Continuing Ed. Meeting @ 3:30 PM

21st and 22nd- Hearing and Vision Screening

26th- BIT Meeting

26th- Elem. MEEP Meeting @ 3:30

25th-29th- Homecoming Week

4th- Picture Day

5th- Staff Development Meeting

11- Walk to School Day

12th- Certified Staff Meeting @ 7:45 AM

17th- TAT Meeting

18th- Early Dismissal- Teacher Workshop Day

19th-20th- No School- MEA

31st- BIT Meeting

3rd- Early Dismissal

9th- Parent Teacher Conferences

14th- Parent Teacher Conferences

22nd- Early Dismissal

23rd and 24th- No School