The Ripple

October 2016

Park Elementary School, 50 S. Sixth Street, Columbia PA 17512 (717) 684-9780

Important Dates
October:
4th
Student Picture
Day
10th

School Closed
Columbus Day
Holiday

20th

School Board
Meeting@ DAC
7:00 p.m.

21st

School Closed

27th

Early Dismissal
@ 1:15 p.m.

November:
7th
Parent
Conferences
12:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m.
8th

Parent
Conferences
8 a.m. 12:00 p.m.
11th

Picture
Re-Take Day

23rd

Early Dismissal
@ 1:15 p.m.

24th

Thanksgiving
Day School
Closed

25th

School Closed

28th

School Closed

Rising TIDE of Literacy

Park Elementary is participating in the district wide initiative of
creating a love of reading in everyone and the importance of
understanding what you read in all types of materials.
We will be conducting a STOP AND READ every week for 10
minutes where every person in the building, from custodians to
students, will stop what they are doing and read for enjoyment.
In addition to the STOP AND READ a monthly reading calendar will
be sent home with each student. This is where we need you! Please
make sure you:
1. Encourage at least 10 minutes of reading, five nights per
week.
2. You will be asked to initial each day your child reads and
record how many minutes they have read.
3. At the end of the month, you will be asked to calculate how
many minutes your child read for the entire month.
4. The calendar will be handed into their classroom teacher at
the end of each month.
Your childs calendar will be entered into a monthly drawing for a
variety of fun prizes. As a school, minutes read will be recorded and
our goal is to read 1,000,000 minutes by the end of the school year!

Student Picture Day October 4th

If youre not ordering online, please fill out the
Lifetouch form completely, enclose EXACT
payment, and return to school on Picture Day.
Enclose cash, money order or check payable to
Lifetouch. Photographer and Park Elementary will
not make change.

A Note from the School Nurse

Mrs. Jodi Haberstroh

September Students of the Month

Virtue: Responsibility

Parents & Guardians: As you probably know

Flu season is soon upon us. This is just a
reminder to monitor your children and if they are
sick, please keep them home. Also teach them
about good hand washing as this will help with
the spread of germs.

Lice can spread very quickly in a school. Please

take every precaution to help prevent Lice from
spreading in our school:
Check your students hair every week.
Notify the school if your child has lice, so
the classroom that your child is in can be
checked.
Check your childs hair if they play sports,
attend a birthday party, or a sleepover.
Remind your students to not share combs,
brushes, and hats, with other students.
Girls should wear their hair up in a
ponytail.

Kindergarten: Doug Rhoads,

Vashtie Walton, Reece Schaeffer,
Phoebe Acor, Amnesty Welch,
Jozlin Wilkes
1st Grade: Victoria Brock, Talon
VanValkenbaugh, Marissa Resh,
Alexis Droege, Avian James
2nd Grade: Robert Weirich,
Isabella Helton, Carson Arnold,
Jailynn Matias, Sophia Kilpatrick,
Sophia Garza
3rd Grade: Jaire Gonzalez, Chloe
Spangler, Serenity Robinson,
Peyton Millhouse, Autumn
Raffensberger
4th Grade: Sarah Herrold, Riley
Schaeffer, Danilo Chaviano
I.U. #13: Devin Trimble

I will notify the parent/guardian to pick up their

child from school if they have Lice.
Thank you for helping to keep our school free from
germs and Lice.

OCTOBERS SCHOOL SPIRIT DAYS & RED RIBBON WEEK

3rd - Colorful Days/Wear Red

7th -Homecoming/Wear Crimson & Gold

11th Colorful Days/Wear Gray 17th Colorful Days/Wear Blue

24th - Colorful Days/Wear Yellow & Dont slip up to drugs/Wear your slippers
25th Put a cap on drugs/Wear a hat
26th - Team up against drugs/Wear your favorite team shirt
27th - Shade out drugs/Wear your sunglasses 28th -Living drug free is no sweat/Wear your sweats
31st - Colorful Days/Wear Orange