We are in the final few weeks of the semester and your child's learning outcomes are a priority for us. Keeping you informed about how your child is doing in relation to their Essential Learning Standards is something we are working to improve. Beginning this next week, you will be sent a link via Parent square to review an updated progress report in PowerSchool related to your child's learning. We highly encourage you to review your child's scores and ask any questions to better understand what it means. We want you to know how to navigate our system of reporting, so please take a few moments to go to this link and video explaining how to do so. If after reviewing, you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher who can provide you with further details about your child's scores.

This week there is no school on Monday in observance of MLK Day. Because of this, Friday will shift to a regular school day. Looking ahead, we will be hosting our Family Breakfast for our Kindergarten and 5th grade families on Wednesday, January 25th. Below you will find information about how to pre-register to help save time during the event. If you have questions or need support with HomeTown Fan, please let us know.

Thank you and have an excellent extended weekend!

Sincerely,

Corinne Johnsen

Principal, River Mill Elementary

johnsenc@estacada.k12.or.us

In order to help you all know what the week looks like, we will list it out clearly for you each week. REID days for are invited students and will change each week. Students are invited to REID days for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's to extend or challenge a student, and other times it might be to provide extra help on a particular skill. On those days, our doors open at 7:50 and dismissal is at 10:00am. If you have questions about this week's schedule, please let. us know!

When we return in January:

• Monday, January 16th, No School, MLK Day
• Tuesday, January 17th, Regular School Day
• Wednesday, January 18th: Regular School Day
• Thursday, January 19th: Regular School Day
• Friday, January 20th: Regular School Day!

Jan. 25th - Kinder/5th Grade Family Breakfast

We have a number of students who are arriving at school late each day. We really emphasize the importance of coming to school each day and on time to establish routine, consistency, and we don't want your child to miss important social and academic items that are so valuable to their school success. If there is a specific circumstance causing this for your family, please let us know so we can support you. Thank you.

Each month we choose to focus on one of our Standards of Excellence. Through this, we teach our students what it means to display these characteristics. Then we recognize members of our school community for exemplifying the trait. All of these help us to reach our school district's long term mission of equipping our students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be resourceful and successful.

My School Bucks is an online payment service that provides parents the ability to securely pay for meals, monitor student cafeteria purchases, and receive email notifications for low account balances.

Please note: currently, a convenience fee of $2.75 will be applied for each transaction.

All transactions are processed and applied to students' accounts nightly.

To enroll, please click the link below and have your student's ID number handy.

My School Bucks can be accessed via the link below: https://login.myschoolbucks.com/users/register/getsignup.action?login_hint=&clientID=schoolbucks

Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes!

Principal Corinne Johnsen

Go Timbers!

Email: johnsenc@estacada.k12.or.us
Website: www.rmes.estacada.k12.or.us
Location: 850 North Broadway Street, Estacada, OR, USA
Phone: 503-630-8517
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RiverMillElem
Twitter: @RMTimbers