December

• Friday, December 20: Half Day (12:30 Dismissal)

December 23 - January 3: Winter Break, No School

January

• Monday, January 6: School Resumes and Students Return
• Thursday, January 16: Booster Club Meeting (5:30pm)
• Monday, January 20: NO SCHOOL, MLK Day

Congratulations to our Spelling Bee Winners that represented Fox Hill at the NKC Spelling Bee.

Champion for Fox Hill: Ashton Palmer (Campbell-4th Grade)

Alternate for Fox Hill: Nathan Graven (Acsenvil- 4th Grade)

Students may not carry any medication to school including cough drops. All medications are to be taken to school by the parent and an authorization must be completed. All medications are to be picked up by the parents at the end of the school year. If you have any questions, please contact the nurse at 816.321.5093.

Also, please be sure you follow the District Illness Guidelines when your students are ill. You must be fever, diarrhea, vomiting free for 24 hours without medication before returning to school. This is to prevent the spread of illness and protect the other students and staff.

Thank you for helping us to keep our community well.

Thank you for your help.

Nurse Dana

Fox Hill wants to start celebrating the hard work of our students and their commitment to coming to school each day. Each month we will have an attendance party for every child that hits 95% for the previous the month. So, if your child has 95% for the month of January, they can celebrate in February for their accomplishment!

Attendance flyers went home this week with every student. This is their current attendance percent for the school year thus far. The state of Missouri has set guidelines that all students must be at school at least 90% of the school year. If you have barriers or need help to ensure your child is at school every day, please call our font office and we can assist you.

As you might have heard from our district communications team, our snow day plans have been updated due to new state regulations. Here is a summary of the changes:

• Snow Day 1: Traditional Snow Day
• Snow Days 2-6: AMI (Alternative Methods of Instruction) Days on iPads
• Snow Days 7+: Traditional Snow Days with make-up days to be added at the end of the year.

For more detailed information, please see the link below to our district website publication of our new inclement weather policies.

At Fox Hill, we all follow the same schedule for our AMI days in order to be consistent for staff and families.

• 9:00-9:30: Welcome, Plan for the Day, & Brief Reader’s Workshop Lesson

  • 9:30-10:00 Time for students to complete the Reader's Workshop lesson assignment

• 10:00-10:15: Math Lesson

  • 10:15-11:00 Time for students to complete the math lesson assignment

• 11:00-11:15 Writer’s Workshop Lesson

• 11:15-12:00 Time for students to complete the Writer's Workshop assignment

• Encore assignments/activities should be pushed out to students by 12:00pm on AMI days via Seesaw.

Each grade-level team decides the technology tool that works best for their students for live virtual class meetings (Canvas or Microsoft Teams). Grade levels will teach/practice accessing the virtual meetings before AMI days begin. You can also expect communications from grade-level teams letting you know about those plans.

Please know we want every child to be logged in and present during a virtual learning day, but also understand there are circumstances outside of your control that may prevent that (technology issues, parents working and not able to assist, at a babysitter's, etc.). Please do not stress about getting your child connected on a virtual learning day if issues like these arise for you and your family.

If you or your family need resources (food, clothing, shelter, school supplies, therapy/counseling, vision/dental, or others), please contact our social worker, Meghan Shipley.

Meghan.Shipley@nkcschools.org

816-321-4098 (office)

816-556-6609 (cell)