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Oct. 31st - 10:45-11:45 am,
AM KDG Fall Party
2:50-3:50 pm, AD KDG-5th Grade Fall Parties
Nov. 3 - 10:45 am-1:15 pm, All District Orchestra Dress Rehearsal @ MHS, 5-12 Grades
7:00-8:00 pm, All District Orchestra Concert @ MHS, 5-12 Grades
Nov. 7 - Lifetouch Retakes
Nov. 8 - 6:30-7:30 pm, PTO Meeting (Library)
Nov. 14 - 5:00-9:00 pm, PTO Freddy's Spirit Night!
Nov. 17, 6:30-7:15 pm, 3-5 Grade Music Program @ MSHS Auditorium
7:45-8:15 pm, 3-5 Grade Music Program @ MSHS Auditorium
Nov. 18, Wacky Wednesday - $1 to wear wacky clothes
Nov. 23-25, Fall Break - No School!
Dec. 1 - 6:00-7:30 pm, Family Night
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Vermillion Elementary School
October 2016
501 South James
Maize, KS 67101
(316)722-0266
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Thank you to all the parents and guardians who attended parent/teacher conferences. Communication between home and school is vital. Thank you for taking the time to come in and visit
about your child's progress. We are deeply grateful to everyone who donated food for our staff during conferences. Dinner was delicious and much appreciated. Thank you for your generosity.
We had an awesome Walk-A-Thon at Vermillion this year. I appreciate your flexibility as we had to reschedule. Thank you to PTO for organizing the event and to Justin Carlson for providing the hamburgers and hot dogs. Through your fundraising efforts, we raised $9,500! We looking forward to purchasing Chromebooks and completing some other great projects at VES. Thank you for making this fundraiser a big success.
With our Fall Party right around the corner (Oct. 31), I wanted to inform you of our costume guidelines for students.
- If wearing a mask, it should not inhibit your child from seeing.
- Make believe weapons such as guns, swords, knives, etc. are not to be brought to school as part of the costume.
- Face paint and make-up is not allowed. Fake blood is not allowed.
- Children should not wear their costumes or face make-up to school.
- We request that students bring their costumes in a sack in the morning. Costumes that can be slipped over street clothes make the process of getting ready much easier and quicker.
- Costumes should be removed before school is dismissed if riding bus.
The Fall Party schedule is listed below -
10:45 Mrs. Paul's Kindergarten Parade
10:45-11:45 Mrs. Paul's Kindergarten Party
2:40 Setup for Fall Party Begins
2:50-3:50 Fall Party
3:00 Fall Party Parade
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Michael Dome
VES Principal
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Red Ribbon Week is this week! This a full week of lots of fun and spirit days. The whole purpose of the week is to remind students to keep their bodies healthy and stay away from harmful drugs.
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I have started specialized groups for our 3-5 graders (for those who signed up). I will start specialized groups for grades 1-2 in January. The Counselor Cafe meets every Wednesday for 4th graders. This group allows students a chance to express what they like about our school - and what they want to see change in our school.
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The Caring Hearts Food drive will occur November 14-18. Food item can be brought all that week and should be nonperishable. All food brought in will help Maize families during the holidays. Our goal is 1,000 items of food!
Andi Shipman
VES Counselor
316 350 2806
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Treasures for Speech Room
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Hello V
ES families,
The speech room could ALWAYS use treasure box items--both new and used! Suggestions include: individually-wrapped candy (think excess Halloween candy!), McDonald's toys, Matchbox cars, small animals/figurines, Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh cards, toy jewelry, and All Star Sports or treat bags "stuff." These can be gently-used items from your kids' rooms or new items you'd like to donate. Over 40 students per year receive speech-language services, and many more are tested or screened, so your generosity is greatly appreciated! Please send any donations with your student (labeled "for speech") or drop them by the office anytime. Thank you!
Elaine Mullens, VES Speech-Language Pathologist
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Se
veral of our 5th graders recently participated in a handwriting contest for
Cons
titution Day sponsored by The Daughters of the American Revolution. VES 5th Grader, Elsa Dobbs, won 2nd place in the competition! Congratulations Elsa!
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Wanted: Substitute teachers!
Maize USD 266 is looking for substitute teachers. If you are available for occasional work during the school day and enjoy working with students and being in schools, please consider joining us as a sub! We are especially in need of subs for our elementary schools. Please share this information and encourage qualified candidates you know to apply
Our subs:
* are paid $95 a day.
* have the option of indicating specific schools, grade levels, etc. they would like to work with.
* always have the option to pass on subbing opportunities that may not meet their interest and/or schedule.
* must have either their current teaching license or a Kansas State Department of Education-issued Emergency Substitute License, available to those who have at least 60 hours of college credit or a degree (that does not have to be in education).
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Our Vermillion students and staff have new, more durable name tags this year. Thank you to PTO for helping purchase a new ID maker machine. To help keep our costs down, we will charge $3 for a lost or destroyed name tag.
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Mrs. Wood's Kindergarten class
would like to send out a GREAT BIG thank you to Dr. Casey Hummel of Bluechip Spine. Dr. Hummel for donated a class set of exercise balls for us to use as alternative seating to help keep us focused and on task! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!
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This month, we are walking across America, ask your child what states we have passed through.
We have also been finishing up our fitness testing. The students are working really hard and doing a great job.
In November we will be doing our cup stacking unit. We will be participating in World Cup Stack Day on November 17. We are trying to help set the record of over 600,000 stackers in one day. You can check out
www.speedstacks.com
to find out more.
In Health,
Coach Trail
Coach Parr
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RE-ENROLLMENT REMINDER FOR 2016
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Dillon's Community Rewards Program during our 2016 school year.
It has been brought to our attention that everyone must re-enroll in the Reward Program after January 1, 2016. This is necessary in order for purchases throughout 2016 to credit Vermillion Elementary. Click on Dillon's Community Rewards Program, sign in, and make your contribution selection using this 5-digit NPO number,
48972.
You may click
here for step by step directions.
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Dear Boys and Girls,
When it was Halloween, I had the best costume. I was a SKELETON! It was a black suit with all my bones painted on it. My little sister said I looked very scary in it, but I didn't think it was scary. I thought it was awesome!
I said to my little sister, "Feel your arm! You have bones in there, that's why you can move your arm and hold it out straight! Feel your skull! That's to protect your brain so you can learn to read! Feel your finger bones! That's so you hold crayons and play the piano! Feel your leg bone, that's so you can walk! You have a skeleton inside your body and it's a good thing! "
Pretty soon, my whole family was finding their bones by looking at my costume and feeling the shapes through their skin. Then my sister asked a very interesting question. She wanted to know what we would be like if we didn't have bones. I said I thought we would be like blobs who couldn't stand up, or run, or bend. We wriggled around on the floor to see if we could walk without bones, and we couldn't do it.
Once I broke a bone my arm when I fell. I had to have a cast. Have you ever seen someone with a cast on their arm or leg? It hold the ends of the broken bone together, and the most amazing thing happens. The bone heals, and after a few weeks, it isn't broken any more and you can take the cast off.
My school nurse told me that it is important to take good care of my skeleton. At first, I thought she was joking. I cannot even see my bones, and except at Halloween, I do not even think about them. But she told me that if I want to grow taller, and have bones that heal if they get broken, be able to run and play even when I am a grandfather, then I need to take good care of my bones, even while I am a kid. .
My school nurse told me I could take good care of my skull which protects my brain by always being sure to wear a helmet when I ride my bike, when I skateboard, and when I snow board. She said to always wear a seatbelt in the car, so if my Mom stops short, I won't hit my skull on the windshield. I never thought about my skull being a bone. It's a very important bone that protects my brain.
She also told me that calcium makes bones strong, and we get calcium when we drink milk. I told her I like pop better, and she said, "Oh, Wuzzy, pop steals the calcium right out of your bones!" I never knew that. From now on, I am going to have milk most of the time, and stop drinking pop.
Smoking makes it hard for bones to get the calcium from the milk too. Wow! I never knew that either. I am never going to smoke.
There was one other thing, and I liked this one. She told me that running and playing also helps keep your bones strong. She said that bears and kids need to play and run and jump around, because bones need to be used to stay strong. I decided then and there that I would not watch TV all day on Saturday, from now on, I am going to play hopscotch with my sister and soccer with my friends.
I think skeletons are awesome and I want my skeleton to be strong.
Remember, bones are important. They protect you, make it possible for you to move, and help you grow. I am going to take good care of mine. Do you remember what you can do to take good care of yours?
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Drink milk.
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Wear a helmet when you ride your bike or skate board.
3.
Get exercise.
4.
Don't smoke.
Love,
Wuzzy
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VES 3rd, 4th
and 5th Graders present "
All Jazzed Up"
Thursday, November 17th, 2016 at
Maize South High School Auditorium
3701 N. Tyler Road
Show times are as follows:
6:30 p.m. Keiter, Diener, Bloomquist, Bender, Wheeler &
Schirmer.
7:45 p.m. Bollenbach, Klabenes, Morrow, Curry &
Burkholder
We will warm up in the choir room at MSHS 15 minutes prior to showtime. If you arrive earlier, please keep your child with you until that time. If your child is in the 7:45 show, please do not arrive at MSHS until 7:15 so the other show has time to let out. Children will not be allowed in the choir room to wa
rm up until 15 minutes prior to showtime.
Your child will need to wear tennis shoes, regular denim blue jeans and a plain short-sleeved
t-shirt or polo shirt in one of the following "bright" colors: pink, blue, yellow, orange or green. Shirts should be tucked in. A letter has been sent home with your child with additional information.
We look forward to seeing you at the show!!
The first Symphony field trip for our 5th grade students has been set for Wednesday, November 9th at 9:45 a.m. We will depart from school at 8:50 a.m.
Please have your child dress up a little more than usual for this event.
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The WATCH D.O.G.S. program is in full swing at Vermillion! WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) is an innovative father involvement, educational initiative of the National Center for Fathering. WatchDOGS are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and other father-figures who volunteer for at least one day each year at an official WATCH D.O.G.S. school. During the day, WatchDOGS may read and work on flash cards with students, supervise recess, eat lunch with students, patrol the school entrances and hallways, assist with traffic flow and any other assigned activities where they actively engage with not only their own students, but other students as well. Flyers for our kickoff event went home last week, but if you are unable to attend and want to be a WatchDOG, please follow the steps below to sign up. Signing up is easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.com.
1) Click this link to see our SignUp on SignUp.com:
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Complete a USD 266 Background check prior to your date
October Calendar:
10/25/2016 Eric Shannon
10/26/2016
10/27/2016
10/28/2016 Kyle Caylor
10/31/2016 Jeremy DeCou
10/31/2016 Boba Grissom
November Calendar:
11/01/2016 Chris Harris
11/02/2016
11/03/2016
11/04/2016
11/07/2016 William Dean
11/08/2016 Eric Shannon
11/09/2016 Joe Hunter
11/10/2016 Andrew Kaldenbach
11/11/2016 Justin Carlson
11/14/2016 William Dean
11/15/2016
11/16/2016
11/17/2016 David Reed
11/18/2016 Kyle Caylor
11/18/2016 Keith Frisk
11/18/2016 Vikrant Rajput
11/21/2016 Matthew Lehl
11/21/2016 Daniel Rivers
11/22/2016
11/28/2016 William Dean
11/29/2016
11/30/2016
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Dress Code
USD 266 recognizes that the apparel of the student is primarily the responsibility of the parent. However, the school will insist upon attire that is conducive to the learning environment. The guidelines listed below are designed to prevent distractions in order to provide an atmosphere that is conducive to learning. The parent and student are responsible for ensuring that the student is in compliance with all aspects of the policy during the time the student is at school or participating in school related activities. Failure by the student to correct dress code violations may result in disciplinary action.
Building administrators are the final authority as to whether clothing is or is not in compliance with dress code policy. All clothing should be modest and appropriate for school.
The guidelines for appropriate attire are:
1. Pants, capris, shorts and skirts should be modest and appropriate for school. Sagging is not allowed. Tight-fitting pants must be covered appropriately.
2. Shorts or skirt length must extend to the fingertips.
3. Shirts should be modest and appropriate for school. Straps must comer undergarments and midriff. No halter tops, racer back, off the shoulder, or one shoulder tops are allowed.
4. Shoes must be worn at all times.
5. Head wear, including hats, scarves, bandannas and hoods are not to be worn except on special days as approved by the administration.
6. Any item that advocates or advertises tobacco, alcoholic beverages, drugs, illegal substances, violence, racist organizations/symbols, gangs, obscenities, nudity or have double meanings are not allowed.
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Parent Drop-off and Pick-up Information
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Parent Pick-up & Drop-off Procedures
Vermillion Elementary School
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Just a reminder to
please allow ECC parents/guardians until
3:40
to load their students before parking in the pick up/drop off lane. Thank you!
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Parent Drop-Off
1. Drop off by private vehicle should only occur in the drive on the east side. Do not drop off students at the front entrance.
2. Students who are dropped off by a parent should arrive at 8:35 am.
3. VES staff members will direct vehicles to a drop off point between the orange cones.
4. Once the vehicle has come to a complete stop along the curb, students may exit on the passenger side and then shut the door. These procedures allow for multiple students being dropped off safely at one time in an efficient manner.
5. Students should be prepared to exit the vehicle quickly.
6. There should only be one lane of traffic for student drop off.
7. Pets are not allowed out of the vehicle at VES.
8. Students who need to arrive before 8:35 am may be enrolled in the YMCA School Age program. Call 264-1610.
Parent Pick-Up
1. Students should be picked up between 3:55-4:00 p.m. Please do not pull into the lane any earlier due to ECC dismissal.
2. Vehicle drivers will be directed to a spot between the orange cones to pick up their students.
3. Pick up by private vehicle should only occur in the circle drive between the orange cones.
4. Students should not go to the vehicle until directed by a VES staff member and the vehicle has come to a complete stop.
5. Students should get in the vehicle on the passenger side.
6. Drivers can also park their vehicle and come up to the south playground gate, where VES staff will dismiss students to the parents. Students should never go to a vehicle without an adult accompanying them.
7. There should only be one lane of traffic for student pick up.
8. Students who can't be picked up by 4:00 pm may be enrolled in the YMCA School Age program. Call 264-1610.
**Thank you for helping us keep everyone at VES safe!!!
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HOMEWORK REQUESTS
If your child is absent and you would like to request homework, please call the office by 10:00 a.m. Homework can be picked up in the office after 2:00 p.m.
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| SCHOOL NOTES
- Office hours are 7:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
- Don't forget early release every Wednesday at 3:20 p.m.
- Our school address is: 501 James Ave. Maize, KS 67101
- Our phone number is 316-722-0266.
School hours are 8:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Students are not to be dropped off before 8:35 a.m., unless your student is enrolled in the Latchkey program. We do not have staff available for babysitting. Just a reminder, please call the office before 3:15 p.m. if you need to make any changes for your student after school. |
Thank you to all of the students and families of VES. The walkathon was a huge success, raising $9500 for chromebooks and technology. To date this is the largest walkathon we have hosted, and know it could not be possible without your support. We are pleased to announce the top dollar winner of the Urban Air party is Liana Starr. The winners of the scooters are Janelle Stanley & Kolby Ronk. Congratulations!!!
Thank you to Justin Carlson with Thrivent Financial for providing the hamburgers and hot dogs for the walkathon. We also want to thank Urban Air for donating the party package, to Dairy Queen for donating ice cream cone certificates to the first 50 entrants, and to Glow Golf for donating the door prize.
Please consider checking out
teacherlists.com. Teachers have been encouraged to list their classroom "wish lists". This is a quick and easy way for you to help the teachers get supplies they need for their classroom.
We continue to collect Box Tops for the school. Our goal for the year is to reach $2100. If the goal is reached, students will enjoy doughnuts at the end of the year.
We are looking for parents interested in helping with the yearbook. If you like to take pictures, or like to do photo books online, the yearbook setup is very similar. You would also be able to format pages from home. Please contact Merinda Heard @
tm_heard@yahoo.com if you are interested.
UPCOMING PTO EVENTS:
Tuesday, November 8
- PTO Meeting, VES Library
6:30-7:30
Monday,
November 14 - Freddy's Spirit Night,
5:00-9:00
Wednesday,
November 16 - Wacky
Wednesday, Bring $1 to school to wear wacky clothes
and like our page on facebook: Maize Vermillion School PTO
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Each year RMHC Wichita sponsors a state wide Pull Tab Program. We collect the metal piece located on the top of a soda can or any other can with an aluminum tab. These pieces are known as pop tabs or pull tabs. (Most soup and cat food can tabs are made from tin so unfortunately we cannot take them.) This activity not only helps save the earth, but it also raises much-needed awareness about how one individual's contribution can make a substantial difference for a family staying at one of our Ronald McDonald Houses or using our Ronald McDonald Family Room.
Collecting pull tabs is fun and easy. It is also a great way for children, families, schools and companies to get involved!
Drop off your pull tabs at VES in your child's classroom.
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