Journey

Jan 5 - Late Start Day

Jan 8 - PTA Meeting 7pm

Jan 9 - Report Cards Published

Jan 14 - Texas Roadhouse Dine out

Jan 15 - School Board Meeting

If you are dropping off or picking up your student please review the procedures on our school website to insure a smooth and safe process for everyone.

* Login to your Parent Portal account and click on LunchTime
* You will see an option for "items, Fees, & Invoices"
* Click on that and "select" School Lunch Heroes
* Type in the donation amount and click "Add to Cart"
* Process payment as you normally would

If you're not receiving emails from WSD staff or schools, they might be landing in your spam folder. Learn more on how to fix that. You'll want to make sure you familiarize yourself with the district email domain: All district emails are delivered from: noreply@sis.wsdr4.org.

Important: In Focus, not all emails allow replies, depending on who sent them. Teacher communication: You can reply to emails from your student’s teacher(s). School / District communication: These emails may not receive replies directly and you may need to contact them directly.

We are in the early stages of planning our school culture night. Our event, called "Passport Night" is scheduled for March 5th from 5:30-7:30 pm at Journey Elementary.

For this event we are inviting families to host tables to represent countries of their cultural heritage! Thanks to the Journey PTA you will receive $25 of financial assistance to host a table.

Thank you to everyone that sent in an entry for our Gingerbread contest! We have 19 entries this year and all of them were fabulous! Congratulations to the following winners:

K-1:Silas Turner

2-3: Grayson Sims

4-5 Rylee Vogt

Family/Friends: The Smith Family

Best Reason Why: Isla Hawkins

Every student that turned in an entry received 50 house points and a goodie bag. Our winners received money for the Spring Book Fair.

We want to engage our youngest readers in reading during the chilly season so students in K-2 are invited to complete our Winter Reading BINGO. Find the board here.

Students in K-2 will receive their BINGO boards the week of December 15th and will have until February 2nd in order to complete their BINGO cards.

The following students earned a speciality Makerspace session for completing 5 book reviews in our challenge:

-Kim R.

-Finn F.

-Keiran O

-Amiyah D.

-Isla H.

-Zoey F.

The following students earned a bronze medal and an invite to our Cookies and Cocoa Party this winter for completing 10 book reviews:

-Juliette K.

-Rowan J.

-Ian F.

-Lucas H.

-Kaden R.

-Anini W.

-Ethan B.

-Lucas C.

-Briggs P.

-Kanvi P.

-Rylee V.

-Alisyn W.

If your student did not quite make it to our 5 or 10 goal, don't worry! They can still complete the challenge in the 2nd semester! If your student has not begun the challenge and would like to try to catch up in the second semester, they can do this as well! For every book review they complete they will earn their house 10 house points!

If your child will need to take prescription or non-prescription medication during the school day, please contact Nurse Paula. Here is a link to the forms that must be filled out annually in order for us to administer medication at school. If you have any questions regarding medication or health services, our nurse’s email is paulamorrissey@wsdr4.org

Visitors:

• Eat lunch with your child
• Attend a class party
• Attend assemblies
• Be a guest speaker

How can you participate as a visitor?

Visitors can show up on the day of the event/activity/lunch and check in to our buildings using Raptor, a visitor management system designed to assist with building security. Part of keeping students and staff safe is knowing who is in our building at all times.

• When you arrive in a WSD building as a visitor, you will be asked to scan your ID and complete the management system’s check-in process.
• Raptor will screen the information against sex offender databases and locally customized lists of banned or potentially threatening individuals, instantly alert school officials to a threatening presence, and maintain a searchable log of all visitors.
• Once approved, you will get a customized visitor badge to wear while in the building.

Thank you for your support of our enhanced school safety protocols!

Volunteers:

• Work with students individually or in small groups under the supervision of the teacher or staff member
• Work inside the school, assisting staff with projects (PTA/PTO Officers, etc.)
• Work/organize field day activities
• Be a room parent, organize class parties
• Attend field trips - work with students individually or in small groups under the supervision of the teacher or staff member

How can you participate as a volunteer?

• Volunteers must register with the Family Care Safety Registry (FCSR). It provides a more extensive background check than our Raptor system, and is needed for volunteers who spend more individual time with students than our visitors.
• One-time, lifetime fee of $15.25. It is the responsibility of the volunteer to cover this one-time, lifetime fee. The online registration process can be found at FCSR-BSEES - MO.gov. (NOTE: This registration process CANNOT be completed on a mobile browser/device.)
• Once FCSR online registration is complete, you must submit a paper WSD Volunteer Registration Form A and B to the school office. When you arrive in a WSD building to turn in your forms, you will be asked to scan your ID and complete the Raptor visitor management system’s process as part of your volunteer registration. If you send your forms in to school with your child, or send them to the school office via email, please include a copy of your valid personal ID.
• Your approved volunteer status is accessible district-wide; you only need to turn in your forms to one WSD school.
  
• A new WSD Volunteer Registration form will be required each school year to run a current background screening if you would like to participate in volunteer opportunities.

Please note, the wait time for the FCSR Registration to be processed and for the District to be notified can be up to four weeks. We recommend completing this process as early as possible.

Emily Dittmer-Principal

emilydittmer@wsdr4.org

Liz Herbert-Assistant Principal

elizabethherbert@wsdr4.org

Journey Elementary

2000 Interstate Drive |Wentzville, MO 63385

636-445-5190