Mustang Messenger VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1 SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2016 TITLE I School (2016 - 2017) The School Day 6:50-7:20 Breakfast Message From 7:25 First Bell 7:30 Classes Begin | Tardy Bell The Principal *Students not in class will be marked TARDY 7:30 Morning Announcements Dear Parents and Students: It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Millwood Elementary School. The faculty and staff DISMISSAL: are excited about working with you during the 2016-2017 school year. We need your help and 2:00 Bus, PreK, K, 1st support as we provide learning opportunities for the academic, ethical, physical, and social Grade development of your child. Our goal is to furnish educationally enriching, stimulating, and 2:05 Walkers, PERK, enjoyable activities that recognize the varied abilities of each student. Daycare and Older This is an exciting time to be part of the Millwood family. We are adding two full-time behavior Siblings of PreK, K, interventionists to our team, in addition to a full-time math coach. All of our students are being and 1st grade provided differentiated instruction based on their levels of academic achievement. We believe this 2:10 All remaining PPU opportunity for students to receive instruction on their academic level will result in greater learning and improved academic achievement for all students. We are continually refining our Inside… curriculum and instruction to use best practices. We will need help from parents and the community working together with our teachers to provide the most effective learning School Fundraiser, pg. 2 opportunities for our children. I am proud of the tradition of excellence, which has been established by the Millwood family over Volunteering, pg. 2 the years. These accomplishments were realized because of a team effort put forth by the students, parents, and teachers. I look forward to working with each of you as we strengthen this Yearbooks, pg. 3 team. We will be counting on your participation each day to encourage and help your child with his or her academic, social, and ethical responsibilities at Millwood Elementary School. The future Fall Book Fair, pg. 3 of our community rests upon the development and enrichment of our children. Fall Festival, pg. 3 Sincerely, Grade Level News, pg. 4 - 6 Stella S. Hall School Calendar, pg. 7-8 Principal Inclement Weather Procedures During periods of unsafe weather conditions when it may be questionable to hold school, the school district has several options, including closing school, opening schools one hour late, or opening schools two hours late. If schools open on a delay, breakfast will not be served. Decisions for any of these options will be announced to the public no later than 5:00 a.m. on the day in question on the following local radio stations: WIBZ 95.5 FM, WKHT 93.7 FM, WICI 94.7 FM, WNOK 104.7 FM, WDXY 1240 AM, WTCB 106.7 FM, WCOS 97.5 FM, WLJI 98.3 FM, WWDM 101.3 FM, WHXT 103.9 FM and WMHK 89.7 FM. The television stations used are WIS TV 10, WOLO TV 25, WBTW 13, WACH 6, and WLTX TV 19. You will also receive a call from our Edulink system. Announcements are only made through the media if there is a delay or closing. School Fundraiser Be A School Volunteer Please consider becoming a certified volunteer this year at Millwood. To Ends September 7th! participate in school activities (field trips, school-wide parties, field day, For more information, see the packet that etc.), volunteers must have completed an application and a background was sent home with your child or call the check. There is no charge for the background check. Volunteer school. All money needs to be turned in by applications can be picked up in the school’s front office. Please note that September 7th! Students who sell 10 items younger children are not allowed to come with you when you volunteer or more will be able to go to the Kona Ice during the school day. Party. *All volunteers must be at least 18 years old. You can shop online! Visit: shop.believekids.com/ChooseGroup Once there, you can select a student to Social Media purchase from, select the items you want, Keep up with what is going on at Millwood by following us online! and have them shipped directly to your https://www.facebook.com/millwoodelementary house. The selection online is even better than the catalog. Remember it is never to https://twitter.com/millwoodelem early to think about Christmas shopping! Menus Ident-A-Kid Millwood has an electronic sign-in system for school visitors. It is called Ident-A- Breakfast and lunch menus Kid. Located in the front office, this special computer program allows visitors to will be placed on our school’s website each input their name, reason for visit, and have their picture taken for identification. month as soon as the District makes them Once completed, a yellow ID label will print from the machine for our visitors to available. Remember that all students wear while in the building. This system is also used by parents to sign in their qualify for free breakfast and lunch! children who arrive after the 7:30 a.m. tardy bell and to sign children out for early dismissal. Be sure to always bring your driver’s license with you! P A G E 2 P A G E 3 It is time to order school yearbooks. Fall Book Fair Yearbooks will be $15.00 (*No checks) and they go on sale right after Labor Day. A yearbook flyer October 24th—28th will be sent home with additional 7 am - 3pm details. The order deadline for yearbooks is December 14th. This * Special Evening Hours: Tuesday, October 25th (3pm—6pm) year, our yearbook will have a custom-designed cover and end page with artwork created by two Pumpkin Night of our students in art class with the help of our new art teacher October 3rd, 6pm Mr. McDow. * More information about this event will be sent home soon! Yearbooks will be delivered sometime in March and we will host a yearbook signing party once they arrive. You can order your copy online at: YBPay.lifetouch.com with Yearbook ID Code: 9890317 Saturday, October 29th A new feature this year is that you 10 am - 2pm can submit photos online to be considered for use in the yearbook. * More information about this event will be sent home soon! To do this, visit community.lifetouch.com No School on Monday, October 17th! *The code to upload your pictures This is an in-service, professional to the website is: NBZAMH. development day for teachers and staff. Kindergarten News Kindergarten has been busy and is off to a great start! Preschool News We will be learning a lot of exciting things this year. The youngest Millwood Mustangs are very busy making new friends We are writing our names and will be working toward and learning rules and procedures for our classrooms and school. writing sentences in the upcoming weeks. Soon we will This fall we are looking forward to our first field trip to the Pumpkin also be introducing letters and sounds. In September, Patch, where we will see pumpkins of many shapes, colors, and we will be learning about Johnny Appleseed and we have sizes. All parents that would like to go on our field trip will be many more exciting things coming this fall! We are required to complete a background check packet several weeks in hoping to visit the pumpkin patch in October, more advance in order to be approved on time. Please don’t hesitate to information to come. Also in October, we will be contact your child’s teacher with any questions or concerns. The introducing the FRED (Families Reading Every Day) contact information is located at the bottom of your child’s weekly reading program and we look forward to watching your child grow as a reader. Thank you for all of your newsletter. We are looking forward to a “rockin’- sockin’ “good year support so far, and we look forward to a great year! in Preschool! Second Grade News We are off to a great start to the school year! It was wonderful to see First Grade News so many parents at orientation. We are all very excited to be working with you and your children this year! If you have not yet purchased a Welcome to first grade! We are looking forward PTA membership, please do so. The cost is $5.00, and it lets you have to a great year. The first grade teachers have a a chance to win door prizes at every PTA meeting you attend. The money collected from memberships goes right back to the students at lot of exciting things planned for our students Millwood in the form of supplies and other things. this school year. During the first quarter, Math: We will begin working on applying addition and subtraction students will learn about earth materials in concepts in Math. science, families and their community in social Reading: We will read and write many interesting stories this quarter. studies, work on basic addition and subtraction We are setting up our writer’s workshop and reviewing conventions for skills in math, and start to work on becoming writing sentences. fluent independent readers. Please help your Grammar: Our classes will be learning about the four kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, and exclamations. We child have a successful year in first grade by will also learn about sentence parts like subjects and predicates.