• IREAD
• After School Playground Use
• PTO updates
• Staff Spotlight
• Read-A-Thon
• Music Week
• Spring Pictures
• Kindergarten Registration Info.
• COVID Protocol
• Arrival and Dismissal
• Fine Arts and Gym Schedule
• Lunch Information
• Monthly Wellness Calendar

March 13th-17th-Music in our Schools Week

Monday, March 13th-Math Bowl 2:30-3:30

-K-Kids meeting 2:30-3:15pm

Tuesday, March 14th-2nd grade takes IREAD-3

-3rd & 4th Grade PowerHour 2:30-3:30pm

-Girls on the Run (GOTR) 2:30-4pm

Wednesday, March 15th-2nd grade takes IREAD-3

Thursday, March 16th-Spring Pictures

-3rd & 4th Grade PowerHour 2:30-3:30pm

-Math Bowl Practice 2:30-3:30pm

-Girls on the Run (GOTR) 2:30-4pm

-PTO Meeting @ 6pm

Friday, March 17th-Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Tuesday, February 28th-Kindergarten Registration Phase 1 opens online

March 20th-24th-Disability Awareness Week

Thursday, March 23rd-Kindergarten Registration 2:30-5:30 @ Johnston (Door F)

Spring Break March 27th-31st

3rd grade will take IREAD 3/6 and 3/7

2nd grade will take IREAD 3/14 and 3/15

3 Simple Tips to Help Your Child Do His/Her Best on Test Day...

1. Prepare the night before. Be sure your child's iPad is plugged in the night before and comes to school with a full charge. That way you won't feel the need to rush your morning.
2. Go to bed early and get a good night's sleep. (8 1/2-11 hours recommended by experts)
3. Eat a healthy breakfast. Choose fruits and whole grains over sugary foods.

Students may bring a healthy snack to school on their test days. Don't forget the water bottles, too!

3rd-grade students must pass the IREAD test to move on to 4th Grade.

We absolutely love having our students play at our playground after school. However, there are one of two things that have to happen for your child to be allowed at the playground after school hours:

1. Come with a parent to supervise.

2. Go home after school to check in and then come back.

Unfortunately, we do not have staff that can supervise the playground after school, so we want to ensure our students are safe and accounted for. Thank you so much for your cooperation with this.

Here is a great article on how we can help our children if they are stressed, anxious, and/or depressed. Go here to read more.

Picture Day is: March 16, 2023

Order Code is: 77169EA
Your link to order is: https://inter-state.com/FlyerEntry/77169EA

Inter-State Studio will only be photographing those students who order online BEFORE picture day. This is a pre-pay program and will be the only opportunity for your student to participate in spring pictures this year. If you do not order online BEFORE picture day, your child will NOT be photographed. Online orders are accepted until 11:59 PM the night before pictures. Please direct all questions to the Inter-State Studio office at (219)662-4036. All orders are 100% satisfaction guaranteed!

A few reminders:

-Popcorn Day on Fridays

-Next meeting Thursday, March 16th @ 6pm

-Fun fair Friday, April 21st

Shop at Strack & Van Til Food Market, save your receipts & send them to school with your student to help us earn free classroom equipment, courtesy of Strack & Van Til Food Market!

Fun fair will be Friday, April 21st. Beforehand, each grade level will put together a basket for the silent auction that night. Each class needs to have something for all the donations to display in, ex: laundry baskets, totes, etc. We will also need cellophane to wrap the baskets in as well as a typed list of each item in the basket for when it is displayed. We will wrap the gift baskets on April 12th, immediately after school.

The themes for each class are:

Torres- Chicago Sports
Kindergarten- Gift Cards
1st- Backyard BBQ
2nd- Movie Night
3rd- Scratch off tickets
4th- Fiesta
5th- A day at the beach

Students in 4th grade throughout the School Town of Highland are about to study an important lesson on the early stages of puberty which many students this age are beginning to experience.

The School Town of Highland Health Services Department partners with Procter and Gamble and uses the Always Changing and Growing Up© program that helps both girls and boys. This program helps students understand the physical and emotional changes they experience during puberty, and acknowledges these changes as a normal part of growth and development. It also helps students learn the physiology of their bodies and correct terminology for parts of the reproductive system. Lastly, for the 4th-grade girls, it helps the students learn how to manage periods while continuing normal activities.

The Always Changing and Growing Up© Program is based on national research and consultation with school nurses, health educators, parents, and medical professionals. It has been a trusted source for over 30 years and has been taught to millions of students nationwide. It is provided as a free education resource to our schools by Procter and Gamble brands.

We will have this program on March 24, 2023. The female and male students will be separated and shown a video. They will have a review of the video and a short question-and-answer session with the teacher and/or nurse that is facilitating the lesson.

If you would like to view the videos that will be shown, they can be found at:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv21b3ZpSLg (Female Lesson)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzVKrDDarjs&t=2s (Female Lesson)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XF0awGRTWs (Male Lesson)

Yours in Health,

School Town of Highland Health Services Department

Our staff and students do an excellent job following safety protocol. Here is a summary of some of the things we have in place here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11aZLQChUOAt-bdUKyo1SnmHy0zljJPNI/view?usp=sharing

• Doors open for students at 7:35 a.m. daily. Students who eat breakfast at school will be allowed entry beginning at 7:20 a.m at Door D. Anyone arriving after 7:50 a.m. will need to buzz and come into the main office to sign in.

• Cars will enter the parking lot off Duluth Street (right turn only) and follow the curve to drop off students. Please pull up as far as you can and drop all your students off at one time. Have your children ready with their backpacks, lunch money, hugs, and kisses, so that when you stop they may exit the car quickly, and we can keep the drop-off line moving. The line can become backed up onto Duluth Street very quickly which causes safety issues for our parents, as well as other drivers.

• Please drop off curbside only, and parents stay in their cars. Avoid dropping children off where they have to cross the street, this is extremely dangerous. It will be your responsibility to cross them if you choose to do this.

• Please be mindful of other drivers and walkers. We know many of you have to get to work, and we want all children to be able to enter the building safely and on time.

• Doors C (1st & 2nd) and B (Kindergarten, 3rd, & 4th) will be utilized for entrance as usual.

• 5th graders and Mrs. Torres's class will use Door G.

At the end of the school day, the following doors will be used for dismissal:

• Grade K will exit through door J (FIVE minutes before the rest of the grade levels)

• Grade 1 will exit through door C (main doors)

• Grade 2 will exit through door B

• Grade 3 will exit through door J

• Grade 4 will exit through door I

• Grade 5 and Mrs. Torres's class will exit through door G

• Bus riders will exit through door J (a few minutes prior to the remainder of the school being dismissed where the buses will be waiting).

Cars may enter the parking lot off Duluth Street and follow the curve to pick up or park in the parking lot to walk up to get students.

We would like to thank you in advance for your cooperation as we strive to keep our Johnston families safe.

We have rotating "Specials" times. See the link below or check our website's calendar. Please check your classroom teacher's agenda each day to see what class you need to attend.

Here is a link to a calendar that lists the rotations.

Breakfast is $1.50

Lunch is $2.00

You can find both menus here: https://www.schoolnutritionandfitness.com/index.php?sid=2809100435083594&page=menus

Please don't hesitate to contact us in the office for any ideas, thoughts, concerns, or words of encouragement! We are all part of this large extended mix of wonderful people we affectionately refer to as our Johnston Family.

Email: aharring@highland.k12.in.us
Website: https://www.highland.k12.in.us/o/jes
Location: 8220 5th Street, Highland, IN, United States
Phone: 219.923.2428
Facebook: facebook.com/johnstonpto
Twitter: @harrington_jn