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Attendance awareness month is ending, but not the importance of consistent, on-time attendance. Village staff are ready to assist you in helping to ensure your child can be here consistently Please feel free to reach out to us if you need us.

Our parent/teacher conferences are coming up the week of Oct 5th. Teachers will be reaching out to schedule conferences for that week. Thursday, Oct 8th will be our late day conference night, with conferences scheduled until 6:30pm. Conference sessions will be scheduled in 20-minute blocks.

Conferences are a great opportunity to discuss your child's academic and social growth and strengthen our school-home partnership. To help parents prepare for conferences, we've provided some tips for a successful conference. We hope to see you there!

Tips for Parent-Teacher Conferences

Village Meadows was awarded a $200 grant from SchoolConnect to donate towards refurbishing our Pre-School/Kindergarten playground. In the spring, we will be participating in a Love our Schools event to bring our community and business partners together to do several service projects to enhance Village Meadows.

If there is a staff member who has made a profound impact in your child's life, please take a moment and nominate them for a Silver Apple Award. Recipients will receive a trophy and a $1,000 check to go towards school supplies. Nominations are accepted now through March of 2027. Click the link to nominate someone today!

On Oct. 30th, students will be allowed to wear costumes to school. The criteria for costumes are below. Students who do not meet the costume expectations will have to change into something else.

Expectations

• Meets district dress code (see below)
• Costumes must not be scary or gory
• No masks can be worn. Student faces must be shown at all times
• No simulated weaponry

DRESS CODE

• Clothing must fully cover the entire torso and may not be see-through. Shirts and tops must not expose bare midriffs, bare shoulders, or bra straps, nor be strapless, deeply or narrowly cut in the front, back, or under the arms. Muscle shirts and strapless tops are not permitted.
• Shoes must be worn at all times.
• Jewelry shall not be worn if it presents a safety hazard.
• Obscene language or symbols, or symbols of drugs, sex, alcohol, or weapons on clothing are expressly prohibited. Clothing, accessories and/or jewelry may not state, imply, or depict hate speech/imagery targeting groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, or any other protected classification.

We are less than a week away from the first 📖bookfair 📖 of the school year!

Please join us in the media center October 5th - 9th to see some fun new book releases and school supplies. The fair will close each day at 5 pm and will be available during school for students to shop. We hope to see you there!

Just a reminder of our schedule for the next two weeks:

Oct 8th - Early Release - 12:05pm

Oct 9th - Early Release - 12:05pm

Oct 12th-16th: FALL BREAK

Join us for our annual Trunk or Treat Celebration on Oct. 27th. More details coming soon!

Oct 19th - Bus Evacuation drill

Oct 20th - Author visit, Grades 3-6

Oct 27th - Trunk or Treat

Oct 27th - Picture Retake Day

Nov 2nd - Monday Motivational Assembly

Nov 18th - Turkey Trot

We wanted to provide our community with some information about Proposition 320, and its potential impact on Village Meadows and the other schools in the district. The link below has a fact sheet regarding the details of the proposition

Prop 320 fact sheet

Ms. Crow's class is learning how to- use multiplication within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, eg. by using drawings and equations. Students are collaborating on utilizing different strategies and showing how to break apart numbers to more easily answer multiplication problems. It was great to see some "ahas" as they worked!

Help us stock up for the upcoming Village Meadows Trunk or Treat! We are hosting a school-wide Candy Drive challenge to see which class can collect the MOST unopened candy by weight. The winning class will take home a special prize! Collection starts next week and runs through 10/20/26, with weekly standings updated by Mr. Lawrence during morning announcements. Bring in those donations and help your child's class take the lead!

Here is the calendar of monthly events planned by PTO. We are so grateful for our PTO and all the ways they support our school!

Fry's Foods has a community program we are participating in. Anyone who shops at Fry's can go to their Fry's app and opt into the program. Fry's will then give back a percentage of the sales from everyone opted in back to us:

• If you shop at Fry’s please help the PTO by opting into their rewards program. Once opted in anytime you shop Fry's will donate back to the PTO. Anyone can do it even if they don’t go to our school. Invite your family and friends. Below are instructions to opt in. BUT, please be sure you pick the correct school as there is a Village Meadows in Sierra Vista as well.

Each month, we focus on a different core essential value. October's Value is Friendship. See the flyer for how you can reinforce this value at home.

Integrity Core Value Flyer

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Principal: Scott Lawrence

Asst. Principal: Rocky Caccavale