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• November 5th - Student Council Blood Drive

• November 5th - Election Day

• November 9th - Pumpkin Destruction Day

• November 11th - Veterans Day

• November 11th - Veterans Day Program @ 9:00 in South Gym

• November 12th - BoE Meeting @ 7pm (open to the public)

• November 13th - World Kindness Day!!

• November 18th - Wear BLUE for DUP15q

• November 20th - 10:10 Late Start (Professional Development for Teachers)

• November 20th - Book Buddies

• November 22nd - Substitute Educators Day

• November 26th - Book-It Goals Due!!

• November 27th , 28th, 29th - No School: Thanksgiving Break!

• December 2nd - Back to School!

Elementary students BLEW ME AWAY in October! Ninety-seven percent of our students k-5 made their Book-It goal in the month of October!! WOW, WOW, WOW!!!

SEVEN classrooms ended up with 100% of the students meeting their goals! Huge shout out to the following classes:

Mrs. Kuhn

Ms. Patterson

Mrs. Kubik/Mrs. Pavlik

Mrs. Rathman

Mrs. Schutt

Mrs. Lorentzen &

Mr. Riggs

Dup15q Awareness Day is November 15th. Dup15q affects approximately 1 in 5000 individuals. Our special friend, Gavin, is one of them. Please wear BLUE on Monday, November 18th to show your support for Gavin and all individuals with Dup15q.

What is DUP15q?

Dup15q syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by having an extra copy of a portion of chromosome 15. There are two forms of Dup15q. Dup15q syndrome is characterized by low muscle tone and gross and fine motor delays. You may also see intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing disorder and epilepsy in individuals with Dup15q.

Huxley joined our elementary family in October, and has been bringing smiles ever since! Students can earn the opportunity to ride him by earning FIVE PBiS PAWS. The count for PAWS to ride Huxley started over on October 1st, and will continue until the end of first semester. So far, 45 elementary students have earned themselves a ride on Huxley or his friend!!

Way to go Jr. Huskies, I'm so proud of you!!

First grade spent the month of October learning many new math and reading concepts!

In Math, we are using our partners to add and subtract story problems within 10. Addition fact cards were sent home, please take time to practice them with your child each week.

In Reading, we are using reading strategies and learning essential concepts such as; main idea, sequencing and point of view to build comprehension skills. Please encourage your child to read at least 15 minutes each night and study their spelling words throughout the week. Discussing what your child is reading at home will help continue to build their comprehension skills.

Thanks for a great 1st quarter! Go Huskies!

🎄⛄ Do you have any blank winter holiday cards laying around? 🎄⛄

The school library would love to put them to good use! You can send bonus holiday cards to school with your student or drop them off in the school office.

We promise to put them to good use, but just how is a secret! Shhhhhhhh!

October brought plenty of excitement to the SRC Husky Library, filled with spooky fun and great learning! Our Trick or Treat Mystery Wrapped Up Books event was a huge hit, where students picked out wrapped mystery books to check out—each one a surprise treat!

We also introduced our youngest students (K-2) to the wonderful world of PebbleGo, where they learned how to explore and research topics in a fun, interactive way. Second graders presented one fact about what they researched in PebbleGo and then wrapped up the hilarious and heartwarming Dory Fantasmagory, with plenty of laughter and imagination to go around.

Our older students in fourth and fifth grade sharpened their research skills, learning how to find and analyze information, an essential skill for lifelong learning. And K-2 students became storytelling experts as they practiced summarizing stories—breaking down big adventures into bite-sized recaps!

We’re looking forward to all the fall festivities and more great learning in the coming months! Stay tuned for what’s next in the SRC Husky Library.

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This month’s focus is RESPECT. One way to think about respect is “seeing value in all people and things & treating them with care.” Many people feel respected in different ways and we hope this month inspires discussions with your family about what respect means to you and how you can practice it together!

Looking at someone else’s point of view is an important way for us to understand others. Alongside respect, our focus in upper elementary (3rd, 4th, and 5th grades) this month is perspective-taking. Perspective-taking is the ability to consider a situation from another person’s point of view. Perspective-taking skills we are building include: working to understand what others may be seeing, thinking, or feeling and considering how best to respond after understanding other people’s points of view. One way to practice perspective-taking with your child is asking questions like: “What was that like for you?” or “What do you think made you feel that way?”

Here are some PurposeFull Pursuits that have to do with RESPECT that you can practice at home:

Pursuit #1:

A fun way to remind students to show Respect to others is to create a non-verbal cue. As a family, come up with a non-verbal way to cue your student to remember to show Respect to others. An example of this would be anytime you raise the “Respect Rooster” on your hand by closing the middle 2 fingers and bringing your pointer finger and pinky finger up, your student would be reminded to practice living out Respect.

Pursuit #2:

Review Respect as a family! Remember that in our lessons we are teaching that Respect means to see value in people and things and treat them with care. Agree as a family to set aside a certain time each day this week to unplug from devices and plug into family time. It shows Respect to practice being present in the moment without the distractions that can come from technology. Debrief and discuss this challenge afterward and commit to this practice at least 1 day each week!

Celebration Prompts:

👍🏼 What family member(s) do you want to celebrate for their Respect?

👍🏼 Share about a time you practiced Respect by looking at a situation from someone else’s point of view.

There are some changes that have taken place in our lunchroom effective Tuesday, November 5th. Students have done fantastic with the changes thus far, and I am hopeful that we will continue to have success with them!

If there are any issues, we will work through them as they come and find solutions that work for everyone (students, lunchroom staff, and parents). Thank you for your help and patience with these changes.

Main Meal Choice:

• Students will now have the opportunity to choose EITHER the main meal that is being offered for the day OR a sandwich option. The sandwich option will rotate on a weekly rotation between turkey, ham, chicken, and possibly peanut butter. Students will always know what the sandwich option will be prior to ordering.
• Students will order their sandwich option the morning prior to eating it as teachers take that days breakfast count (Tuesday's sandwich count is taken on Monday).

Side Items:

• All side items will be added to trays whether students want them or not.
• While this may seem wasteful, we are hoping it will encourage students to try items that they may not have been willing to try if it were not on their tray otherwise. We will monitor the waste and if this needs to be reassessed, we may do so.

Salad Bar:

• The salad bar items continue to be an option for all elementary students.
• If students want seconds from the salad bar, they are welcome to seconds of those items.

Desserts:

• Desserts are limited to Fridays ONLY.
• This means that students will not be rushing through a small portion of their meal to get to a slushie, fudge bar, or cup of ice cream.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. I would be happy to answer them.

Our English Learner students are making very good progress in developing their

Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing skills. I am proud of their hard work in

preparing for the upcoming ELPA21 (English Language Proficiency Assessment for the

21st Century).

In September and October, many of our students learned more about the rich cultural

traditions and contributions of the Hispanic community as we studied Hispanic Heritage

Month. Through stories, art projects, and insightful discussions, our students should

have a deeper appreciation for the vibrant history and people that make the Hispanic

community so special.

Students across all grade levels have been working on a wide range of skills and

concepts. They are all demonstrating growth as we continue learning during this first

semester.

Kindergarten and 1st Grade students have been practicing introductions and

greetings, letter names and sounds, beginning sounds, picture identification, name

writing, number names and counting, and developing listening, waiting, and sharing

skills. They are learning to describe things by number, color, and/or shape, match

objects and words, follow directions, use complete sentences, and talk about quantities.

2nd, 3rd and 4th Grade students have been talking, writing, and drawing about

activities, reading short books, learning about families, practicing classroom language,

matching words and pictures, using personal pronouns and possessive adjectives, and

exploring prepositions.

5th Grade students have been talking, writing, and drawing about activities, and

learning more about classroom language. They have been exploring seasons, months,

numbers, ordinal numbers, and math language, along with discussing pronouns, talking

about ways to help people and animals, and talking and writing about routines and

schedules.

This year Preschool has been excited to have the addition of a new science exploration table. We have used it in conjunction with some of our classroom themes to investigate different materials including field corn, soybeans, pumpkins, and fall leaves. It has been fun getting to watch these little scientists in action!

We’ve got some fantastic activities happening in PE this month!

Our 5th graders are kicking off their World Cup Pickleball Tournament, where they’ll compete in teams representing different countries. It’s a fun way to sharpen their skills and enjoy friendly competition.

The 4th graders will start their own pickleball journey with a US Open-style tournament, challenging each other while learning new strategies in the game.

For our 2nd and 3rd graders, we’re introducing them to the basics of pickleball, focusing on fundamentals, and having a great time learning this exciting sport.

Meanwhile, 1st graders and kindergarten students are working on volleyball skills, practicing with beach balls and lowered nets to help build confidence and coordination.

The fifth grade has been hard at work throughout the month of October. We did a novel study on The Night of the Twister, a novel about the Grand Island tornado. As an extension of our reading, we completed a module about natural disasters. Students have been writing descriptions of our favorite things about fall and using our persuasive skills to sell new and improved witch’s brooms. Social studies finds students talking about colonization in the New World and the competition for power. We have created a display for Veteran’s Day. In science students finished up learning about space. There was time focused on learning about gravity. Students learned to make paper airplanes and were able to make egg drop devices. Devices were dropped in the gyms. Some of the top-performing egg drop devices were dropped off the building. In math students have been learning about decimals.

Elementary Principal

Special Education Director

Shelby-Rising City Public Schools

Email: hthompson@shelby.esu7.org
Website: https://www.shelby.esu7.org/
Location: 650 North Walnut Street, Shelby, NE, USA
Phone: 402-527-5946 5718
Twitter: @ms_thompson007