FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
310 E. 4th Street
Delphos, Ohio 45833
Principal: Damon Ulm
Phone: 419-692-8766
E-mail: dulm@dl.noacsc.org
Fax: 419-692-2766
NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER – 2009
Dear Franklin Parent(s)/Guardian(s),
The first nine weeks of the school year has quickly and successfully been completed. As we head into the last two months of the calendar year, there are quite a few activities scheduled for you and/or your child in November and December to go along with the busy holiday season. Listed below is a schedule of activities and important dates you can mark on your calendar for the month of November.
Calendar of Events
November 1: DAY LIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS! Remember to turn your clocks back one hour.
9: Report cards will be sent home with students.
All students’ Kleinhenn Co. Fundraiser monies are due.
10: School picture retake day
Veteran’s program for the 5th grade
10-20:
Library Book
11: Parent/Teacher Conferences, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
12: Parent/Teacher Conferences, 8:30-11:30 a.m., 1:00-3:00 p.m., 4:30-8:00 p.m.
13: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF
18: COSI on Wheels
24: BMI/Dental screenings for 3rd graders by the Ohio Dept. of Health
25:
Early dismissal @ 1:30 p.m. for Thanksgiving Vacation
26-27:
No School – Thanksgiving
Vacation
Kleinhenn Co. Fundraiser
All monies from our Kleinhenn Company Fundraiser are due in the office by Monday, November 9th. We will pass out individual prizes and hold our grand prize assembly on Wednesday, November 25th. Any students whose accounts are not closed by this date will not be eligible to get their individual prizes nor will they be eligible for the grand prize drawing. Monies are being turned in every day. If your child still has money out on his/her Kleinhenn Company account, please help us by seeing that it is all turned in as soon as possible. Thank you.
School Picture Retake Day
Retake day for school pictures is Tuesday, November 10th. If your child was absent when pictures were taken in September and you wish to have them taken now, we will do it on this day. Payment envelopes will be available in the office. You can come in and pick one up or, if you request, we will send one home with your child.
If your child’s picture was taken but you are not happy with the results, we will also do retakes on that day. To get a retake, send your original package back to school with your child. Please indicate on the package what you did not like about the picture. Your child’s picture will be retaken at no charge to you.
We will start taking
pictures at
Veteran’s Program
A group of Veterans will provide a program for our 5th grade students on Tuesday, November 10. They will be sharing their experiences and rituals as a Veteran with our students. We thank them along with all of the other Veterans for their dedicated services to our great nation. Veteran’s Day is Wednesday, November 11.
Scholastic Book Fair
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Parent/Teacher
Conferences are scheduled for Wednesday evening, November 11, from 5:00-8:00
p.m., and Thursday, November 12, from 8:30-11:30 a.m.,
All regular teaching
staff will be available for conferences at the above times.
Mrs. Roebke, our Speech/Language Pathologist, will be at
A letter about conferences was sent home with your child on October 13th. Conference requests were due back at school on October 23rd. We hope that you have made time in your busy schedule to conference with your child(ren)’s teacher(s). This is an important time to ask questions, share concerns, and find out what kind of start your child has gotten off to this school year. The staff looks forward to these times too. If you have not scheduled a conference, there is still time to do so! Contact your child’s teacher for a conference time. For those of you who sent in a conference request, a confirmation letter will be sent home with your child on Friday, November 6th.
Because of conferences, there is no school for students on Thursday, November 12th, and Friday, November 13th.
COSI on Wheels
COSI
on Wheels will be here all day on Wednesday, November 18.
This is an annual event at
*Since COSI will have materials set-up in
the gym, students will go to the cafeteria in the morning.
Consequently, breakfast will NOT be served on Wednesday, November 18.
3rd Grade BMI/Dental
Screening
The Ohio Department of Health and Education has selected Franklin Elementary to participate in a survey of third-grade students that relate to oral health and Body Mass Index (BMI). On Tuesday, November 24, the ODH will be conducting a dental and/or BMI screening on our 3rd grade students here at school. Your child will be bringing home a consent form in order to participate. You can choose to participate in the dental screening, the BMI screening, or both; or you can refuse consent. To find out further and more detailed information on this program, you can visit ODH Web site at: http://www.odh.ohio.gov/odhPrograms/ohs/oral/oralfeatures/OHS.aspx.
You can also contact Janet Pierson, School-based Oral Health Program Coordinator, ODH Bureau of Oral Health Services, at (614) 466-4180 or at Janet.Pierson@odh.ohio.gov.
Early Dismissal Time
We will dismiss early @ 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25th to begin Thanksgiving vacation. School will not be in session November 26-27 to observe this holiday.
Attention parents/guardians of kindergarten
students in Mr. Kroeger’s class and Mrs. Pohlman’s class;
you will not be able to pick up your children at the normal location on the 25th
because we will have school busses loading.
You will need to park in the church parking lot on
“No Child Left Behind” Act
As
a parent/guardian of a student at
· Whether the Ohio Department of Education has certified or licensed the teacher for the grades and subjects he/she teaches.
· Whether the Ohio Department of Education has decided that the teacher can teach in a classroom without being certified or licensed under state regulations because of certain circumstances.
· The teacher’s major: whether the teacher has any advanced degrees, and if so, the subject of the degrees.
· Whether any teacher’s aides or similar paraprofessionals provide services to your child and, if they do, their qualifications.
If you would like to receive this information, requests must be made in writing (the request must contain the signature of the child’s legal guardian) to:
Mr. Jeff Price
Delphos City Schools
Volunteering at
Volunteers
are important to our school. If you
have time and would like to volunteer some of it with us, contact your child’s
teacher. When our students see
adults other than their teachers in school helping them, it sends a very
powerful positive statement about the importance of a good education.
I personally feel that the more positive adult role models that we can
put in a child’s life as they grow up, the better a person they will be as an
adult. There are many ways that you
can volunteer at
· Listen to children read or read to them
· Help children with flashcards
· Help children learn their spelling words
· Chaperone field trips
· Help with class parties
· Help out with our Scholastic Book Fair
· Count soup labels or Chief’s receipts
· Help out with our Christmas Program
· Help students correct their papers
· Help during center time in our kindergarten classrooms
· Work one-on-one with students to help them finish their work
· Help teachers organize classroom activities for their students
This list is by no means all inclusive. If you are interested, and want to volunteer some of your time at school, contact your child’s teacher or the office.
Quote of the Month
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.”
- Winston Churchill
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Damon Ulm, Principal