Bellevue Elementary News

Bellevue Elementary School 1150 Castalia St. January 2017 Bellevue, Ohio 44811

From the desks of the principals: A LOOK AHEAD We are now halfway to 100,000,000 words in our AR Million Word Challenge. Students have been reading and taking AR quizzes to help Jan 3—Return to school us reach our goal. We now have five students who are in the Million Jan 11—East of Chicago pizza challenge night Word Club! Jan 12-13 Mobile Dentist Jan 16—NO SCHOOL Please come and join us for Family Code Night on January 12 at 6:00. Jan 20—Grade cards go home At Family Code Night, parents pair up with their child to do their first Donuts with Dad— hour of coding together. During this time you and your child will learn more info to come Feb 7—Kindergarten Here We how to write a code to tell the computer what to do by creating a set Come 6:00-7:30 of instructions or rules that computers can understand; it might be Feb 16—Marcos’ Pizza chal- helpful to think of code as a recipe. We will be sending more infor- lenge night mation home about this event and hope that you will come and join SAVE THE DATE us. Kindergarten Registration for Have an enjoyable break with your family. the 2017-18 school year is With Children at Heart, April 5,6, 7. More info to come! Mrs. Turner Mrs. Coppus Mrs. Veletean Principal Principal Ass’t Principal & K-2 3-5 Early Childhood Cold Weather Reminders Remember as the weather gets colder to send your child Delays and Closings to school with hats, gloves In case of a delay or closing you will receive an automated phone call and snow boots. They will be informing you. Please be sure to always keep your phone numbers up- going outside for recess as dated as to not miss an important call. This information will also be an- long as the temperature is 20 nounced on the following channels. WFRO, WNRR, WCPZ, WLEC, degrees or higher. WMJK, WTTF, WLKR 95.3, K96.1, WNWO-TV 24, WTOL-TV11, WTVG- They may also play 13, Channel 3, 5, and 8. You may also call the Snow Line at 419-484- in the snow if they 5033. have snow boots .

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Reading , Knowing, and Learning help you to "Go places in life!" Mrs. Yantz, a first grade Title 1 teacher, has start- ed a motivating program to help in- still the importance of reading. Each first grade child has the oppor- tunity to earn a "College t-shirt" for mastering all of the Word Lists. Stu- dents can choose from any t-shirt hung up and down the first grade wing. Pictured below are the t-shirt recipients from one recent Friday t- shirt ceremony.

The fourth grade students received Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus' purchased by community donations and ordered, labeled, and deliv- ered by the Sandusky County Ohio Retired Teacher's Association. This year 1,253 dictionaries were paid for by donations from Bellevue Kiwa- nis Club, The Exchange Club of Fremont, Ellen and Skip Honsperger, Fremont Rotary Club, Unique Fabrications, Inc., Barndt Funeral Home, Sophia and James Draeger, Myra Gebbart, Gibsonburg Lions Club, Dick and June Knepper, Lakota Elementary PTO, Carole D. Miller, Soropti- mist International of Fremont, Washington Elementary PTO, Kansas United Methodist Church, Barb and Greg Lehmann, Lindsey Lions Club, On The Mark Enterprises, Ltd., Secure Realty, Welker Smith Unit #17 Am. Legion Auxiliary, and The UPS Store."