Hello Grant families,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful winter break.

We are back and are so excited for all the amazing learning and activities to come in the new year!

January is National Mentoring Month. We want to take a moment to thank your AMAZING mentors, who volunteer their time to connect and support our students. You make such a positive difference! Thank you for being part of our Grant community!

As you may remember from our December newsletter, our Purposeful People Character Trait for the month of January is PERSEVERANCE.



One way to think about Perseverance is “pushing yourself through challenges and obstacles.” We all experience challenges in our lives. We all have moments when we feel like we can’t do it or that we want to give up on a big task. It is important to develop tools that help us work through those challenges in order to grow in those moments instead of giving up. How might you practice Perseverance as a family this month?

Perseverance is 1 of 3 traits we will focus on throughout the year that helps students Be Strong. Throughout the school, students will be developing skills like focusing, organizing, and goal setting.

Our MTSS and counseling teams are excited to begin meeting with small groups in the next few weeks. We will utilize Purposeful People’s tier 2 curriculum to support student in learning targeted skills including coping, emotional regulation, relationship, and self-management skills. If you have any questions or concerns or feel that your student would benefit from participating in a small group or individual check-ins, please contact Sierra Campbell via email at sierraca@spokaneschools.org or you can call (509) 354-2798.

Our next T.E.A.M. Grant meeting is Tuesday, February 6, at 6:30 pm. There is free childcare available and we would love you have you join us!

When to Keep A Child Home From School

It is important for the health of all students, staff and families that your child not attend school when they are sick. The following guidelines are appropriate reasons to keep your child home from school:

• A fever of 100 degrees F or higher in the last 24 hours. Your child should be fever free (without the use of fever reducing medicines) for 24 hours before returning to school.
• A consistently goopy, runny nose.
• Drainage from the eye and/or redness of the eyelid or skin around the eye.
• A bad cough-one that you wouldn't want your well child to be around.
• A sore throat, especially with fever or swollen glands in the neck.
• Shortness of breath or other problems with normal breathing.
• A child that seems ill-unusually tired, pale, or difficult to awaken, headache or body aches; seems confused or irritable, and/or lacks normal appetite.
• A rash that is associated with fever or severe itching.
• Vomiting with/without diarrhea within the last 24 hours. Your child should be free of vomiting or diarrhea for 24 hours before returning to school. NOTE: A child who has one episode of bloody diarrhea or two episodes of diarrhea at school must be sent home and cannot return until the diarrhea has resolved. Some diarrhea may be associated with bacteria or virus. If your child has severe diarrhea you should contact your health care provider.
• Your child needs to remain at home 24 hours after starting an antibiotic.
• Any contagious disease such as chicken pox, influenza, whooping cough or gastroenteritis.
• As directed by your health care provider.

If you have any questions, please contact Nurse Heidi Hash at 509-354-2785.

Our Kindergarten had a great time going on a gingerbread hunt throughout the school before Winter Break!

Thank you to all of the families who came to the Preschool Family Engagement day. It was so much fun!

Kindergarten students wowed their families with their singing and dancing talents at the Kindergarten Winter Concert!

Mrs. Porche's class stayed cozy on a 0 degree day by flashlight reading reacting out vowel teams!