January 8, 2020
Hello YGS Families,
We are back to school & taking on 2021 with excitement. This week students enjoyed lots of snow play, our team analyzed new data, and planning for February 2nd's 100th day is underway!
You can expect a weekly teacher newsletter, Baggie Books, and Minute Reading Cards to continue to come home. Also, every Friday is our FOX Day! Send your child into school in his/her Y115 FOX shirt.
Enjoy the weekend ahead!
Sincerely,
Emily Lech, YGS Principal
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School Updates:
Winter Benchmark Assessments: Students finished MAP testing before winter break. We are wrapping up assessing your child's current reading level. Next week K/1 will take Aimsweb. Once this concludes, we'll share out progress with you. Our MAP data is showing that we are making huge steps to close gaps from spring's closures.
Friendly Reminders:
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Continue to fill out our daily health verification by 8:00 a.m.
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All adults need to wear a mask on school grounds if they are dropping off or picking up unless you remain in your car in the express lane.
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Please send with your child a water bottle, snack, all snow gear, charged computer, and headphones daily. Snow pants & boots are required to go INTO the snow. Reach out to Mrs. Lech if you need assistance with these items.
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Continue to communicate with Nurse Bryn regarding any symptoms or COVID positives in your household.
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What social, emotional, or academic goal you have for your child for second semester? Is there anything we can do to better support your child in the months ahead? I'll be reaching out to capture your thoughts.
District Updates:
On January 1, the district transitioned to an upgraded alert notification system. The system is used to send emails, phone calls, and texts to parents, employees, and students. The change was made to consolidate the district’s communication systems and offer enhanced engagement with district stakeholders. In the future, the system can be expanded for use by teachers and coaches to further streamline communications with families, as well as allow families to customize their contact preferences.
To ensure you successfully receive messages through the new system, please add noreply@y115.org to your “trusted sender”/”do not block list” lists. In addition, if you have a new email address or phone number, now is a great time to contact your child’s school secretary to update the information. If you have multiple children in the district, please contact the secretary at your oldest child’s school.
On Sunday, January 17, at 6 p.m., the district will send an email and phone message to all District 115 families and employees to test the new notification system. If you miss the phone message, you may dial 855-267-0402 to hear all the messages that were sent to you from the district in the last 30 days. Please send an email to y115@y115.org if your contact information is up-to-date with your child’s school, but you do not receive this phone and/or email communication from the district (please indicate your child’s school and full name in the email).
Thank you for your cooperation as we work to continually enhance our services to our families.
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A Message from Our PTO:
Friday Foxes Shirts- If you are a remote learning family that has not picked up your shirt yet please contact the main office to do so ASAP. If you cannot remember if you ordered a shirt, please email me at kristioleary1579@gmail.com. The deadline to pick up shirts is Thursday, January 14th. After that all unclaimed shirts will transition into spare shirts for incoming students that are new to the district.
PTO Meeting- Our next general meeting will be held via Zoom on January 27th at 6:30 p.m.
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Important Dates:
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Monday, January 11th: Handbook Meeting @YGS at 10:30. All Welcome.
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Friday, January 15th: No School (Teacher Institute Day)
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Monday, January 18th: No School (MLK)
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Wednesday, January 27th: PTO meeting at 6:30. Below is the Zoom Link.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 913 8021 9861
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Thursday, January 28th: Quarter 2 Report Cards Released at 5p.m.
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Tuesday, February 2nd: 100th Day!! We will have a big celebration to make it to this milestone without pivoting.
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This week our school nurses were vaccinated for COVID-19! Here is Nurse Bryn! We are grateful for her daily efforts at YGS! |
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Yorkville Grade School | 630.553.4390 | 630.553.4450 | elech@y115.org |
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