Week of Feb. 4
February Newsletter
A Challenge from Mrs. Valenza
For the entire month of February, Mrs. Valenza will make conscious and green choices to lessen her impact on the environment. If you catch Mrs. Valenza making an un-green choice you get to have an extra recess with her and the animals out at the coop sometime before Spring Break.
Mrs. Valenza’s challenge:
- Turning off lights when she leaves a room
- Using only 1 paper towel
- Zero-waste lunch everyday
- Only making double-sided copies
- 50 copies per week maximum
- Only use reusable coffee mugs and water bottles
- Composting all leftover food
Scholastic Book Fair: February 4th- 8th
During lunch, we can send one student from each lass to go down to the book fair with a pass. Before or after school, we ask that students have a parent or guardian with them to go to the Book Fair.
Kindness Week: Feb. 11- 14
WILD Advocates are planning some exciting events for this week!
- Westgate Family Dance: February 13th in the high school from 6-8 pm
- Kindness Card Field Trip: February 14th
Since we are a community school, we celebrate our community on Valentine’s Day. We ask parents not to send individual cards or gifts for classmates with your student on this day. We will be making cards to pass out to the community around us!
As a pod, each class will be visiting a place in our community to pass out cards. We will be going to:
AMI Offices (Cundari)
Sweet Pea Early Learning Center (Sanders)
Primrose School of Thornton and Shell (Dewar)
DISH Call Center (Elwood)
Permission slips for this field trip came home on Friday- we will have an electronic version available on our Advocacy pages if you did not receive one. We are looking for volunteers to go with us on this field trip- please let us know if you are available!
Other Important Dates:
- Chick Fila Spirit Night: February 7th from 5-8
- No School February 15th l(teacher workday) and 18th (President’s Day)
- Prospective Parent Information Night: February 19th at 6:30-8pm
- Skate City Spirit Night: February 20th from 6-8 pm
- Chipotle Spirit Night: February 26th from 4-8 pm
Dress Code Reminder
- Bellies should be covered - we've been starting to see a lot of exposed midriffs
