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• April 15th - Kindergarten Open House 5:30 - 6:30 PM
• April 19th - 4th Grade Ag Day Field Trip
• April 19th - Cozy/Comfy Day to support The Forgotten Initiative and Boots & Blessings
• April 22nd - 26th - Volunteer Appreciation Week
• April 24th - Erin's Law Presentations
• April 24th - Lombard Open House for incoming 5th Graders
• April 26th - 2nd Grade F&M Bank Presentations
• April 30th - 2nd Grade Spelling Bee
• May 1st - 3rd Grade Spelling Bee
• May 1st - PTO Meeting 5:30 PM
• May 2nd - 4th Grade Spelling Bee
• May 3rd - Steele Spelling Bee
• May 3rd - 4th grade Field Trip to Orpheum

Kristal Frisque from Art Defined came to speak to our 4th grade students about career paths and how she came to own her own business. She talked to the students about what she studied in college and places she worked prior to opening Art Defined. She also spoke about what her business offers and why she chose to live and raise her family in Galesburg. For more information, visit https://www.artdefined.net/#/. This is the first of several career days that we are providing our 4th grade students this year.

All elementary schools will offer an incoming Kindergartener Information Night Monday, April 15, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Incoming Kindergarten families are invited to visit their student(s) school and have the opportunity to visit classrooms and other key locations in the building. If you have questions about what school your student will be attending, please contact the CUSD #205 Registrar at 309-973-2109. All Kindergarten students must be 5 years old on or before September 1st of the current year to enroll.

Required Documents (can be brought to Open House)

• Birth Certificate
• Illinois State Health Physical and proof of up-to-date vaccinations
• Proof of Residency

Current Bright Futures students do not need to provide the documents listed above.

In grades, 2-4, students will be sent home with a study list of words to practice this week in order to prepare for their classroom spelling bee during the week of April 22nd. The top 3 names from each homeroom at each grade level will be submitted for the grade level spelling bee. The whole grade level will be invited to watch. Parents of the spelling bee participants can be invited to attend. Invitations will be provided to the classroom teachers of the participants to send home. The top three students from the grade level bee will move on to the building bee. The top three students from each building will move on to the 205 championship bee. Parents of the spelling bee participants can be invited to attend. Invitations will be provided to the classroom teachers of the participants to send home.

April 30, 2024

2nd Grade Level Bee

11:30 a.m.

Steele Library

May 1, 2024

3rd Grade Level Bee

2:30 p.m.

Steele Library

May 2, 2024

4th Grade Level Bee

11:30 a.m.

Steele Library

May 3, 2024

Building Bee

2:30 p.m.

Steele Cafeteria

May 7, 2024

205 Championship Bee

1:00 PM

Lombard Middle School

During the day on April 24, 2024, Prevention Educators from the Knox County Child Advocacy Center will be here to give a presentation to our students on Personal Body Safety. They will be reading a book and going over a presentation with the children that is designed for their age group. They will also have a short discussion on safe and unsafe touches, and the “No, Go, Tell” rule. This is not a sex education or body identification talk in any way, only a prevention presentation to help innocent children protect themselves without scaring them.

A child can be abused anywhere and at any time, and abusers do not look different than anyone else. Child sexual abuse is more common than many people would like to think, and its effects can be devastating. One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused by age 18.

For more information on the presentations at Steele, please read the attached letters in English, Spanish and French. For more information on Erin's Law, visit: https://www.erinslaw.org/.

Mrs. Grice, Dean of Students

Mrs. Knuth, Nurse

Mrs. Hickey, Family Engagement

Mrs. Mowen, Outreach

Mrs. Fones and Ms. Patch, Front Office Assistants

Email: kcoate@galesburg205.org
Website: https://steele.galesburg205.org/
Location: 1480 West Main Street, Galesburg, IL, USA
Phone: (309)973-2016
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steele205/
Twitter: @wearesteele