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11/19 = Early Release Day - Dismissal @1:45 for all grades

11/21 = Popcorn Friday! Hosted be Ms. Love's Class 🍿

11/24 = Family Conferences - Dismissal @1:45 for all grades

11/25 = Family Conferences - Dismissal @1:45 for all grades

11/26 thru 11/28 = Fall/Thanksgiving Break - No School for Students 🍁

12/01 = Back to School After Fall Break

12/01 = East 3rd Grade & Main 4th Grade Cub Winter Concert! @6pm

12/03 = East Kinder and 1st Grade Cub Winter Concert! @6pm

12/15 thru 12/19 = 3rd grade Swim Safety Lessons @community pool 🌊

12/19 - East Cub Top 10 Holiday Countdown! Details TBA

12/22 thru 1/05 = Winter Break - No School ❄️

1/5/26 = KIBSD Inservice Training (no school for students)

1/6/25 = Back to School after Winter Break

Introducing Beanstack — Our New Reading Adventure!

East Cubs are about to embark on a brand-new reading journey with Beanstack, an engaging program that helps students track their reading, celebrate milestones, and most importantly—grow their love of books!

With Beanstack, every minute spent reading counts. Whether your Cub is diving into a favorite picture book, exploring nonfiction, flipping through a graphic novel, or reading an article online, it all adds up!

As students log their reading, they’ll:

🏅 Earn fun digital badges for reaching reading goals

📖 Keep a virtual bookshelf of the books they’ve read

🔥 Build reading streaks and cheer on classmates through friendly challenges

Our goal is simple—to make reading fun and help our Cubs see themselves as readers who grow stronger every day.

Students can access Beanstack easily through their school devices, and families can join the fun at home by downloading the Beanstack app from the App Store or Google Play.

Let’s make reading a daily adventure, East Cubs—one page at a time!

Keep reading and stay curious, Cubs! 🐾

Please join us for student led conferences!

All grades will be dismissed @1:45pm on both days.

Teachers will be available to chat between 2:00 - 4:00pm and then again from 4:45 - 7:25.

They will be having their dinner break between 4:00 - 4:45pm.

Stop by the library to say hi to Mrs. Patrick and shop the Scholastic Book Fair from 2-7pm.

Also, try your hand at weaving and help us create a community tapestry for our hallway.

See you then!

We could use a couple helpers to team up with Mrs. Patrick to set work the book fair.

Let us know if you can help out a little or a lot. We'd love to have you. :)

Call Natalie @486-7492 or email natalie.trenery@kibsd,org to sign up.

Our very own Ms. Christine won the impact maker award this month!

Here are the kind things said in her nominations...

"SHE’S THE KIND OF PERSON WHO WORKS HARD WITHOUT MAKING BIG FUSS ABOUT IT.

ALWAYS CALM, ALWAYS CARING, LIKE THE QUIET HERO OF THE TEAM."

"Ms. Christine isn’t just kind and genuine, you can tell she was born to teach.

Her passion shines through in everything she does.She doesn’t just go through the motions;

she makes sure her students are actually learning (and enjoying it too).

She’s caring, compassionate, and somehow always knows just what each student needs."

"Christine was very supportive of the speech team during our staffing shortages.

She helped bring students to sessions and run technology. We can not thank her enough!!"

We love celebrating our Caring Cubs Friday prize winners!

Ms. Jenny gave out her first WOW cards of the year. :)

Wow cards recognize extra helpful students that are on task and working hard in gym.

Good job Ilyana and Elora from Mr. Whiteside's class!

🐾

Now that the spooky season has passed,

there are a lot of amazing haunted houses on the market over in the 3rd grade neighborhood.

Mr. Malloy meets with students each week to learn about a variety of topics and ideas.

Check in on their projects at the link below...

Wishing you well,

Ms. Jennifer, East Elementary School Counselor

phone: (907) 486-7423

email: jennifer.pedersen@kibsd.org

Ms, Kelcie, Providence School Counselor

email: kelcie.kleaver@kibsd.org

Kindergarten = 11:10am

First Grade = 11:35am

Second Grade = 12:00pm

Third Grade = 12:30pm

Families are always welcome to join their students for lunch time!

Be sure to sign in with the office before heading to cafeteria.

Please bring your own lunch or call in the morning to order an adult meal.

Student Breakfasts = $3.50 Student Lunches = $4.75

Adult Lunches = $9.00

Be sure to send boots, coats and cold weather items every day.

East Cubs go outside for recess no matter the weather, so help them be prepared.

(We will stay indoors if it is extremely cold/icy/windy.)

On that note...

The nurse's office could use donations of gently used (or new) gloves,

stretchy pants like sweats and leggings in K-3rd grade sizes.

Donations can be dropped off in the front office.

Thank you!

School Newsletter

Look for your weekly newsletter, Little Paws Press, in your inboxes every Monday afternoon.

There will be lots of useful info stored at the end of each for your reference all year.

General School Information

Emails from PowerschoolMessenger and Smore will be the main

form of communication that you will receive for all general

school information and updates outside of your student's classroom.

Urgent or Emergency Communications

All school emergency notices or alerts will be sent through

PowerSchoolMessenger emails or PowerSchoolMessenger automated calls.

Please take a moment to confirm that your phone numbers and emails

are up to date and correct in your parent portal or check with us in the office.

Individual Classroom/Teacher Communications

KIBSD Staff will only be communicating through district issued devices and applications.

Faculty and staff will no longer be texting or calling with their personal phone numbers.

If you need to reach your child's teacher during the school day please

email, connect via SeeSaw or call the office to leave a message.

Need to speak with your principal?

Call the office to see if Ms. Audra is available or to leave a message.

Ms. Audra always tries to make time to speak with families

but scheduling an appointment time is recommended.

For appointments - please call 907-486-7492.

The East School Office is open 7:30am til 3:30pm - @907-486-7492

We are always happy to help.

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