Hello Grant families,

December was a busy month at Grant Elementary!

Our school earned a school wide carnival for reaching our school goal by filling our bucket with green tickets for following expectations and being kind! We are so proud of all our students for their hard work and for making Grant the best place to be!!

Our new 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.

When we return from winter break our counseling program will be shifting from classroom lessons to small groups and individual counseling supports. These groups will be based on the identified needs of our students, and will focus on topics such as grief, anxiety/worry, social skills, friendship, emotional regulation, etc. Students will be offered the opportunity to participate in these groups after being referred by their teachers, staff, or families. More information to come after winter break.

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 Jordan Pride or myself via email at sierraca@spokaneschools.org or jordanpr@spokaneschools.org or you can call (509) 354-2798.

We want to wish all our Grant families a wonderful and safe holiday break! We look forward to seeing you in January. 😊

Our next T.E.A.M. Grant meeting is Tuesday, January 9, 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.

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Mrs. Williams' classroom had fun finding the Yeti, Santa and his reindeer in the weeks leading up to Winter Break. You never knew where those mischievous little guys would be!

Our students filled our green ticket bucket so they earned an all school carnival! Students chose two stations to participate in; activities included marshmallow snowman art, holiday cards, bracelet making, karaoke and face painting, cookie decorating, and shipwreck. Every student had a great time!

Every student at Grant was gifted a new book from Wishing Tree Book Store! On Wednesday, students opened their gift and then it was announced we were going to "Drop Everything and Read".

Lewis & Clark High School came to Grant with a gift for every student! It's so great to see former Grant students, along with other Tigers, come and bring a little joy to our Huskies. Our ASB also presented LC with a tiger they painted as a thank you for their generosity.

Our choir has been spreading holiday cheer by singing loud for all hear! Choir members started the school day on Friday with their lovely voices adorning our hallways singing wonderful holiday tunes. They also recently shared their talents with families at our Winter Concert.

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