The Rosehill Rocket February 3, 2015

Rosehill Elementary School “Rosehill is a safe place 9801 Rosehill Road where we are Lenexa, KS 66215 respectful and responsible 993-4800 Fax 993-4899 learners and citizens.” Absence Number—993-4810 Internet Address www.smsd.org/rosehill Mr. Cory Strathman, Principal Daycare—894-6202

As part of the Shawnee Mission School District’s commitment to safety, we are implementing a visitor Calendar of Events registration system in each of our schools to enhance school security. The system scans an individual’s driver’s FEBRUARY license, runs a quick and limited background check, and 2/6 NO SCHOOL/Conferences then issues a “Visitor” sticker. Beginning 02/09/2015, all 2/9-2/13 Jump Rope For Heart visitors and parents visiting or picking up students at any 2/10 PTA Meeting/7:00 pm of our Shawnee Mission schools during the school day 2/12 6th Grade Field Trip/Indian Woods/12:00-2:15 will be required to produce a driver’s license for a 5th/6th Grade Band/Strings Concert background scan. If you do not possess a driver’s license 7:00/Oak Park/Carpenter other forms of identification may be substituted at the 2/13 Valentine’s Day Parties/2:00-3:00 discretion of the school staff. If you do not have formal 2/16 NO SCHOOL/President’s Day identification you will not be allowed past the office. 2/17 3rd Grade Field Trip/Kauffman/8:30-11:45 Visitors, wishing to be allowed to visit in the main area of Silver Strings Concert/Rosehill/7:00 the school may be allowed access with an approved 2/18 5th Grade Field Trip/SM South/8:30-12:30 reason to do so. Visitors will be issued a “Visitor” sticker, Kdg Field Trip/SM East/Awad/Ryan/9:30-12:30 which must be returned when they check out. We 2/19 Kdg Field Trip/SM East/8:45-11:30 appreciate your support as we implement enhanced school Davis/Null/Lindner security measures at each of our schools districtwide to 3rd/4th Grade Math Night/6:30-8:00 help keep our students and staff safe. Visitor registration 2/20 5th Grade Musical is also a key component of the district’s emergency 2/24 Family Night/6:00-7:30 operations plan. The ability to maintain a record of 2/25 2nd Grade Field Trip/SM East/McGinn/Mathews visitors within our school facilities is essential should an Mathletics/Oak Park Carpenter/4:00-5:00 unforeseen emergency occur. Thank you in advance for 2/26 Preschool Visit/9:30-10:00 your cooperation and assistance in keeping our schools 2/27 Spring Pictures safe. Sincerely, MARCH John Douglass Director of Safety and Security 3/3 Five Guys Night 3/4 STUCO Meeting/3:10-4:00 3/5 3rd Grade Musical/7:00 pm Class Placements for 2015-2016 3/10 PTA Meeting/7:00 pm 3/11 6th/7th Grade Band Concert/Indian Woods/7:00 Believe it or not, it’s already that time of year when we begin thinking about class placements for next year. The 3/13 NO SCHOOL/End of 3rd Quarter staff at Rosehill will spend a great deal of time and 3/16-3/20 NO SCHOOL/SPRING BREAK thoughtful effort in creating class lists for the 2015-2016 3/23 NO SCHOOL/School Improvement school year.

If you, as parents, have specific information to share Dear Shawnee Mission School District about your child’s needs, please share them in writing Parents, Staff, and Community Members, with Mr. Strathman by March 12 th . You may include information such as: strengths or special needs; learning style; other students who may present distractions; qualities you seek in a teacher. I will not take teacher requests. However, I will take into consideration any Sixth grade has started the individual science invention previous experience you may have had with a staff projects. They will be on display at Open House. Please member and reasons why you would prefer not to have be sure to meet deadlines that came home with each that person as your child’s teacher. student. We enjoyed the play, Oliver, that we saw last week at Shawnee Mission North High School. All sixth graders will be doing a creative project, with the i-Pads, the week of Feb. 9th. Ask your student what their project entails. This is an extremely important quarter, as we get more prepared for middle school and for our visit to Kindergarten Indian Woods, on February 12th. Please be sure that all Kindergarten had a great time at the end of January permission slips are turned in for that visit. celebrating Kansas day and our 100th Day of Kindergarten! We did many activities related to 100th day and practiced our numbers all day! Our goal for 3rd quarter is for students to count by one’s to 75 and to recognizes numbers 0-20 out of order. Students are also showing excellent progress in writing sentences and have focused on handwriting this quarter. We will celebrate Valentine’s day on Friday, February 13th from 2-3pm. Please let your child’s teacher know if you can help in The Rosehill STUCO will be sponsoring a any way. Kindergarteners will go on a field trip to the Classroom Pop Tab Contest in the month of February! Shawnee Mission East Environmental lab on February The top 2 classes with the most pop tabs will earn a Root 18th/19th. The high school students will walk the Beer float Party! All pop tabs are collected for the kindergarteners through, teaching them about many Ronald McDonald House, which provides housing, different animals from snakes to rabbits to turtles! privacy, and support for families of patients in the hospital.. Thank you! First Grade First grade just wrapped up Unit 3 in reading. We worked hard on non-fiction stories and putting them in sequence. We are working on addition facts to 18 in mathematics. We enjoyed celebrating Kansas Day as well as our 100th day of school! th Second Grade February 27 Second grade has been learning about different regions of the world such as Alaska, the rain forest, and the African th savanna. On February 27 spring pictures will be taken in the morning. All students’ pictures will be taken. No money Third Grade for individual pictures will be collected that day. A proof Third grade is getting ready to go to the symphony in a of the picture will be sent home with each student in a few few weeks. We’re finishing up multiplication and weeks after pictures are taken. In each packet there will division in math and beginning fractions. We also be an envelope detailing the different packages you may finished up our Washington, D.C. unit with a research purchase. Money should be sent back to school, in the project on a D.C. Landmark. envelope, as soon as possible. Please pay by check or exact cash. If you do not purchase pictures, return to Fourth Grade the school office.

Fourth grade had a visitor from Ernie Miller Nature th Center who talked to the students about different groups A class picture will also be taken on the 27 . An of animals and brought in live examples from each group. envelope will be sent home about the class picture. In order to purchase a class picture you must prepay. Fifth Grade Please pay by check or exact cash. We are currently finishing up our hero reports and doing oral presentations. We have a field trip to Shawnee Yearbook Group Pictures Mission South coming up on February 18th to see Mary Poppins. Students do not need to bring a lunch we will be Group pictures will be taken on Thursday, February27th. back in time to eat. Students should be sure to be Pictures to be taken are: Choir, STUCO, Strings, and continuing to read every night! Band.. All band and strings students should bring their instrument and have it out of the case ready. Sixth Grade no guarantees we will have extra yearbooks at the end of the school year. If you want one ORDER NOW! Sale ends March 6, 2015. . Don't delay, as our final order must be decided that day.

Parents: The Shawnee Mission School District provides free developmental screening for children 2.9-5 years of age whom you feel may be having difficulty with motor skills (small and large muscle coordination), vision, hearing, speech, language, or learning. The purpose of these screenings is to identify children who are at risk of having substantial developmental delays. This screening is not designed to screen-school-aged children or children for kindergarten readiness. To begin the screening process, please contact your area elementary school nurse.

If there are developmental concerns regarding children younger than 2.9 years, you should contact Shawnee Mission Infant-Toddler Services at 993-2600.

FOOD SERVICE….Did you know…………

Did you know that physical activity and nutrition work together for better health? Regular physical activity can produce long term health benefits. People of all ages, shapes, sizes, and abilities can benefit from being physically active. The more physical activity you do, the greater the health benefits. Children and adolescents should do 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day. Most of the 60 minutes should be either moderate- or vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity. For more information, please visit: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/physical-activity.html or http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/guidelines/ children.html.

The Rosehill Book Fair is coming! The Book Fair will be Don’t forget – if your child receives free or reduced held in the library from April 27 – May 1. Come see all meals, they are eligible for one breakfast and one lunch the wonderful books we have to offer. Don’t miss out on per day as part of this benefit. All breakfast and lunch this great opportunity to encourage your child’s love of meal choices are available for all students regardless of reading. Book Fair flyers will be sent home in April. We eligibility status. hope to see you at the Rosehill Book Fair! The school breakfast menus, lunch menus, and other nutrition information are available on the district’s website at http://foodservices.smsd.org.

A yearbook order form/envelope was sent home in September. We are busy working on another great Rosehill Yearbook. Yearbook price is $15.00. There are