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Wednesday, March 2: Graves Family Kahoot Night (see flyer below for more information)

Friday, March 4: End of 2nd Trimester

Monday, March 7: Casimir Pulaski Day (Regular day of attendance)

Wednesday, March 9: 3rd and 4th Grade Begins IAR Testing

Monday, March 14: Early Release Day (1:50pm)

Monday, March 14: Parent/Teacher Conferences (3:00PM-8:00PM)

Tuesday, March 15: Regular day of attendance (No Institute Day due to Snow Day)

Thursday, March 17: St. Patrick's Day (Non-Uniform Day: Wear Green)

Wednesday, March 23: School District 104 Virtual Family Night (5:30PM)

Monday, March 28 - April 1: Spring Break (No School)

Monday, April 4: Classes Resume

Please see the FAQs document below for more information regarding District 104s recent updates on COVID-19 and mask wearing.

Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences will be on Monday, March 14 from 3:00 PM-8:00 PM.

Conferences will be by invite or request only.

Teachers will be reaching out with more information.

Students will attend school and be dismissed at 1:50PM

Please register using the following form by March 8th to let us know if your family will be participating so that we can send home enough materials for everyone.

Educators in Santa Rosa, California first celebrated Women’s History Week in March 1978 to increase awareness of women’s contributions to society. Organizers selected a week in early March to correspond with International Women’s Day on March 8.

In 1980, U.S. president Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 National Women’s History Week, urging everyone in the United States to participate. According to Carter, "too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well."

The week-long event officially became a month-long one in 1987 when Congress passed a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month. Women’s History Month has been celebrated in the United States every March since.

As a reminder, it is very important that you make sure to call the office when your child is going to be absent. Please make sure to let us know as soon as you know your child will be out. This way your child's absence can be put into the system as an excused absence.

If you prefer, you can also email our secretary, Patty at: pcalvino@sd104.us

Please remember that it is important for students to arrive to school on time.

Students should be inside the building every morning by

7:50AM (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday)

8:50AM (Wednesdays)

Please make sure your child dresses for the weather and wears an appropriate jacket, hat, gloves, scarf, etc to school. Students will continue going out for recess when the temperature hits 20 degrees or higher.

Another reminder that students should be taking care of their technology devices and charging them, daily. Especially when they take them home. We also advise that students bring their chargers daily, as their devices battery needs to be recharged during the day.

As stated in the student handbook at the bottom of page 36, students will be charged if these devices get damaged or lost.

• Sleeve/Cover ($10)
• Charger ($25)
• Touch Screen ($115)
• Device:

- $250 for a new device, Year 1

- $200 for a device that is 2 years old

- $150 for a device that is 3 years old

- $100 for a device that is 4 years old

It is important that students bring their headphones to school. This will help them focus better during their time on the Chromebooks and during important online tests.

What is your child's love language?

1. Physical Touch: Hugs and kisses are the most common way of speaking this love language, but there are other ways, too. A dad tosses his year-old son in the air. He spins his seven-year-old daughter round and round, and she laughs wildly. A mom reads a story with her three-year-old on her lap. For children who understand this love language, physical touch will communicate love more deeply than will the words, “I love you,” or giving a present, fixing a bicycle, or spending time with them. Of course, they receive love in all the languages, but for them, the one with the clearest and loudest voice is physical touch. Without hugs, kisses, pats on the back, and other physical expressions of love, their love tanks will remain less than full.

2. Words of Affirmation: In communicating love, words are powerful. Words of affection and endearment, words of praise and encouragement, words that give positive guidance all say, “I care about you.” Such words are like a gentle, warm rain falling on the soul; they nurture the child’s inner sense of worth and security. Even though such words are quickly said, they are not soon forgotten. A child reaps the benefits of affirming words for a lifetime.

3. Quality Time: Quality time is focused attention. It means giving a child your undivided attention. Quality time is a parent’s gift of presence to a child. It conveys this message: “You are important. I like being with you.” It makes the child feel that he is the most important person in the world to the parent. He feels truly loved because he has his parent all to himself. When you spend quality time with children, you need to go to their physical/emotional level of development. The most important factor in quality time is not the event itself but that you are doing something together, being together.

If quality time is your child’s primary love language, you can be sure of this: Without a sufficient supply of quality time and focused attention, your child will experience a gnawing uneasiness that his parents do not really love him.

4. Gifts: The giving and receiving of gifts can be a powerful expression of love, at the time they are given and often extending into later years. The most meaningful gifts become symbols of love, and those that truly convey love are part of a love language. Most children respond positively to gifts, but for some, receiving gifts is their primary love language. You might be inclined to think that this is so for all children, judging from the way they beg for things. It is true that all children—and adults—want to have more and more. But those whose language of love is receiving gifts will respond differently when they get their gift. Remember, for them, this is love’s loudest voice. They see the gift as an extension of you and your love.

5. Acts of Service: Some people speak acts of service as their primary love language. If service is your child’s primary love language, your acts of service will communicate most deeply that you love Johnny or Julie. When that child asks you to fix a bicycle or mend a doll’s dress, he or she does not merely want to get a task done; your child is crying for emotional love. If your child’s primary love language is acts of service, this does not mean that you must jump at every request. It does mean that you should be extremely sensitive to those requests and recognize that your response will either help fill the child’s love tank or else puncture the tank. Each request calls for a thoughtful, loving response.

Dear Graves Parents,

Please remember to help us by completing the following survey. We are currently at 18% response rate and need to get to 20%, we can do this!

To take the survey please visit http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/ and select the appropriate survey to begin.

Thank you for support and thank you to the parents who've already filled out the survey.

As a reminder, this survey is designed to generate a detailed picture of the inner workings of your child’s school. As a parent, this opportunity will allow you to share your thoughts on the important elements of school effectiveness in a survey about your child’s school. The survey gathers data related to five indicators that can predict important student outcomes, including improved attendance and larger test score gains.

These five indicators that affect and predict school success are:

• Effective Leaders

• Collaborative Teachers

• Involved Families

• Supportive Environments

• Ambitious Instruction

Your participation in the parent portion of the survey will help us understand the conditions at your child’s school and guide improvement. Your identity and survey responses will be kept completely confidential and will never be connected to you or your child.

Please review this months lunch menu with your child.

• Some frogs are noisier right before it rains.
• Worms wriggle up to the surface before a flood.

Please remember that the previous information is for students in grades Kindergarten-4th only.

For more information about our Preschool program please contact the

Pre-School Director, Kathleen Dunn at 708-546-7151 or at kdunn@sd104.us

6021 S. 74th Ave.

Summit, IL 60501

(708) 458-7260

Webpage: https://www.sd104.us/o/graves-es

Office Hours 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.