Blue Ridge Family Newsletter

Thank you to everyone who came to FALL FOR STEAM, our combined STEAM night and FTO fall festival. We hope everyone had a blast!

This is a fun week for students, but don't worry, we will still have plenty of learning! Please read below for information on our upcoming events!

Tuesday, October 28th- Good Dads Strong Schools Monthly Breakfast @ 7:00-7:45 am

Friday, October 31st- Halloween Parade @ 9:00, Fall Parties @ 2:15 (2nd gr @ 1:30)

Tuesday, November 4th- NO SCHOOL for Teacher Work Day

Tuesday, November 11th- Family-Teacher Conference Night

Thursday, November 13th- Family-Teacher Conference Night

Friday, November 14th- NO SCHOOL for Teacher Work Day

Please join us for our October Good Dads Strong Schools Breakfast on Tuesday, October 28th. Breakfast will be provided for dads, father figures, or family members, and each family member and student will work on an activity. Our guests and students made great family flags last month to represent what was important to them! Please feel free to attend even if you could not last month. Parking will be in the back of the building with a rear door open for guests to enter. Students will exit the building and wait to enter at the 8:00 bell following the breakfast. We hope to see you there!

Students are welcome to come dressed in their Halloween costume on Friday, October 31st for our student costume parade. At 9:00, our students will walk around the school to showcase their costumes for their peers and our school staff. Family members are welcome to watch the parade from the school lobby. Students are not required to wear their costumes, and we are not responsible for any wear and tear or lost pieces. Additionally, costumes must be school appropriate, including no weapons or other accessories, face makeup, or anything that would be excessively scary for especially younger students. Students will likely want to change into regular clothes for the rest of the day.

Our fall parties will take place on Friday, October 31st at 2:15-2:45. 2nd grade will have their party at 1:30-2:00 before going to Specials. Families are welcome to attend, though any food and treats will be shared with students before families or family members. Students may not go to parties in other rooms, so please plan ahead for visiting the rooms you wish to while leaving students to enjoy their own parties. If you are signing out your student, please just swing by the office to notify us! Additional communication will be coming from classroom teachers. We wish everyone who celebrates a safe celebration day and night.

If you have not yet received an invite to sign up for a conference from your student's teacher, please contact the office for us to sign you up!

We are wrapping up our October focus on Habit 1: Be Proactive. We have worked on helping students learn that being proactive means to be in charge of themselves and their decisions. This connects to emotional regulation and our wellness Wednesday strategies. We are also focusing on what we are in control of, and modeling positive behaviors to make them habits for ourselves and to model for others. I am excited to recognize individual students at our Leader Assemblies on Thursday, as well as students who have been proactive by having attendance over 90% this month and some groups that have taken on leadership roles within our building. Thanks for reminding students to be in charge of themselves to be the best student they can be!

Ms. Kirchner joins every few weeks on our Wednesday morning show to share strategies with students for mindfulness, regulation, communication, and personal growth. Please feel free to use these same strategies at home!

We know that there are many changes going on with financial supports that many of our families rely on. If you need assistance with food, clothing, hygiene products or connections to other resources, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mr. G, our Home School Communicator, or to any member of our staff.

Please join our Family Teacher Organization for their next meeting in person or via zoom. Thank you for helping to support our Mustangs!

BRE currently qualifies for FREE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. We still ask our families who may qualify to complete the Free & Reduced Lunch form to support this qualification in future years. Any funds that are in lunch accounts from past years can be used by students to purchase extras. If you would like to make changes to your account, you can reach out to our cafeteria manager, Ashley Guerrero at aguerrero@cpsk12.org.

The Family Portal houses multiple apps and pieces of information for families. Please make sure you can get into the Portal: https://login.classlink.com/my/cpsfamilies

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Rebecca Babcock, Principal

rbabcock@cpsk12.org

Mitchell Pittman, Assistant Principal

mpittman@cpsk12.org

Becky Evans, Secretary & Registrar

revans@cpsk12.org

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Website: https://bre.cpsk12.org/
Location: 3700 Woodland Drive, Columbia, MO, USA
Phone: 573-214-3580