The Sailor Scoop
Guide to connection, leadership, and success
Here’s a look at what’s happened across our school last month and fun things we are excited to share! We’ll share key updates, upcoming dates, and resources to help you stay informed and support student success.
- School Focus Areas
- Scenes from Last Month- Leadership Shout Outs!
- Important Dates and Resources
- Counselor's Connection: Questions to Ask your Kids TONIGHT!
- Principal's Parables
This month, our school community is focusing on the following priorities:
- Attendance: Encouraging bell to bell attendance
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Teaching & Learning: Supporting strong instruction and consistent expectations across classrooms
🍦 ATTENDANCE: ICE CREAM WARS! ⚓
Did you know? Last year, the 2nd quarter was our school’s biggest time for missed instruction.
During October, November, and December of the 2025–2026 school year, we averaged 26 students each day who missed all or part of the school day due to an unexcused absence, tardy, or early checkout.
😲 That’s the equivalent of an ENTIRE CLASSROOM of Sailors missing instruction each day!
At Rock Springs, we want our Sailors here bell to bell. That means arriving on time and staying through the final bell. We understand that illnesses, appointments, and unexpected circumstances happen, which is why we're focusing specifically on unexcused absences, tardies, and early checkouts.
🍨 So, how are we getting ahead of the trend?
We’re starting ICE CREAM WARS!
Each week, any grade level that reaches 97% bell-to-bell attendance will earn 10 POINTS!
🏆 The first grade level to reach 100 points wins an ICE CREAM PARTY! 🍦🎉
Every morning matters. Every minute matters. Let’s get our Sailors to school, on time, and ready to learn — bell to bell! ⚓
📚 Teaching & Learning: Growing Great Learners & Leaders
At Rock Springs, we are different, teaching and learning goes beyond academics. Our Sailors are learning how to think critically, solve problems, persevere through challenges, work with others, and become confident leaders.
Throughout our school, you’ll see:
🍎 Dedicated teachers planning meaningful lessons, monitoring student progress, and adjusting instruction to meet students’ needs.
📈 Students working toward academic goals and celebrating their growth along the way.
🎯 Consistent expectations that help students know what success looks like across classrooms and grade levels.
🤝 Teachers collaborating to share ideas, review student progress, and find new ways to support learners.
⚓ Leadership woven into learning, giving students opportunities to set goals, take responsibility, make good choices, and recognize their own potential.
💡 Students doing the hard work of learning—asking questions, practicing new skills, making mistakes, trying again, and discovering just how much they are capable of!
Our teachers are doing incredible work, and so are our Sailors! Every lesson taught, goal set, book read, problem solved, and challenge overcome is another step toward helping our students become successful learners and amazing leaders. 💙⚓
Leader in Me Shout Outs!
📚 Third Grade Readers Are Setting Goals!
Our third graders are challenging themselves to read, grow, and achieve! Students earn beads for every Accelerated Reader test they pass—with even more beads awarded for tackling more challenging books! 📖✨
This is a great example of Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind in action. Students are setting reading goals, challenging themselves, and cheering one another on as they work toward achieving them. Way to go, third grade! 💙⚓
Goal Setting!
👟 First Grade Leaders Take Charge!
First grade is working hard to ensure students are developing not only strong academic skills, but important life skills, too! Students are learning to tie their own shoes, building independence and confidence along the way.
This is Habit 1: Be Proactive in action! By learning to take care of tasks they can do for themselves, our youngest Sailors are learning to take responsibility, show initiative, and become more independent leaders! 💙⚓
Synergy in Action!
🎃 Student Council Leaders Synergize!
Our 5th Grade Student Council members are putting their creativity and leadership skills to work as they design their “Minions & Monsters” trunk for the Fall Festival! Students are making their decorations by hand and working together to turn their ideas into something they can be proud of.
This is Habit 6: Synergize in action! By sharing ideas, dividing responsibilities, helping one another, and using each person’s unique strengths, our Student Council members are learning that we can accomplish more when we work together! 💙⚓
The Lantern Keepers
A little girl and her mother walked home through the woods one evening, just as the sun was setting. The girl skipped along, swinging her mother's hand and chattering about her day.
"Look, Mama! The path is all lit up!"
And it was. Small lanterns glowed along every bend, warm and golden, showing the way home.
"Who hung them all?" the girl asked.
Her mother smiled. "The lantern keepers. Every day, before we wake up, they fill the oil, trim the wicks, and hang each light just where we'll need it."
The girl stopped skipping. She turned and waved at the lanterns behind them. "Thank you, lantern keepers!" she called out.
The lanterns seemed to glow a little brighter.
A note from the principal: Every child's path is lit by caring people who show up early and work behind the scenes. This week, I hope you'll join me in saying thank you to the teachers who help light your child's way. A kind word or a quick note can make their lanterns glow even brighter!