Forest Park Falcons
March 5, 2014
Forest Park School, KUSD
Principal’s Message
Interesting tidbits:
Great Job! - Kindergarten
classes earned the attendance award for January attendance with a
96.9% attendance rate.
The School-wide attendance rate for December is
95.4%. Our schoolwide
goal is 96.5.
Please stop in the office
to sign in when you
come to school. This is a
safety measure for all to
follow. We want to ensure that your children
are safe at school. We
appreciate your help in
making that happen.
 Playground supervision begins at 7:55 in
the morning and ends
at 3:20.
 Breakfast begins at 7:35 in
the morning. There is no
supervision provided for
students that arrive before
that time. So please do not
send your child to school
too early in the morning. We
want everyone to be safe.
Breakfast closes at 8:00.
Please make sure your child
arrives with enough time to
eat and leave the lunchroom by 8:05.
Dear Parents,
School attendance is important for student learning success. This year we have increased our
school attendance rate by .44% for the first semester. 152 students earned a Bucks game ticket
for perfect attendance in February. This is an increase of 35 students over last year’s numbers.
Children do better in school when they go to school all day—every day. After an absence, a student must work twice as hard to catch up on missed information and missed work. Missing 10%
(or about 18 days) can make it harder for your child to learn to read. Regular school attendance
helps students feel better about school and themselves. You are building positive life-long patterns of behavior by teaching your children that being in school is important.
We know that there are many reasons why students miss school due to illnesses and other situations. Please remember to call school to let us know why your child is missing school. If your child
has a medical issue, please remember to bring a doctor’s note and we can code the absence due
to medical reasons. Thank you for all of your support in helping your children attend school regularly.
Thank you for all of your support at Parent/Teacher Conferences as well. Working in partnership
with families will help our students achieve. We had a positive turnout and enjoyed talking with
you about your child's progress.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns– please contact me at 359-6319.
Working together for our kids, Luanne Rohde, Principal
News To Note: March
Chess Club—March 5,12,19
March 27—End of third Quarter
March 4—6:00 pm—7:00 pm Lance Middle
School Orientation Night for 5th grade students
March 28—Students dismissed at 12:00 — No
lunch
March 4—Readers Are Leaders - 10:30—
Readers will come to read to classes today.
March 6—Dental Program returns
March 11 @ 2:00 -K/1 Music Concert
March 12—FPSA meeting 6:30pm in the library
March 14 –Chat and Chew: Dr. Seuss Night
March 17—Roller Skating Unit in Gym begins.
Unit ends April 11.
March 18—Market Day Pick up
March 22—Orchestra Festival
Fridays are Spirit Wear days!
5th grade families—please turn in your child’s
registration form ASAP. We will send them to
Lance. Your child needs to have this form turned
in or their schedule will be chosen for them. Any
questions—please call our school office at 3596319.
4K parents—Please fill out a Kindergarten registration packet for your child to be registered for
Kindergarten next year. You can pick up a packet
in the office anytime. Any questions—please call
or stop in the office –359-6319. Denise is very
willing to answer any registration questions.
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Black History Bee
Students in the 4th and 5th
grades studied Black History
facts to learn about famous
Black Americans. They took a
test and the top scoring students qualified to compete in
the Forest Park Black History
Bee on Monday, Feb. 17. The
winner of this Bee competed on
Thursday, Feb. 20 at ITA with
the winners from the other elementary schools.
Congratulations to Nataljia Bojovic who represented Forest
Park at this District Black History Bee.
We also want to congratulate the
students who earned a spot in
the Forest Park Black History Bee.
They are:
Congratulations to
Black History Bee
Winner:
Nataljia Bojovic.
Tina Anderson, Sheila Arizmendi,
Joshua Benvenuto, Aiden Black,
Biljana Bojovic, Mia Brinkman,
Paige Burkoth, Kelsey Cantrell,
Tia Capponi, Daniela Chiappetta,
Abbie Christiansen, Emily Dipper,
Rylee Grove, Ala’a Hammad, Kendal Haubrich, Calvin Henry, Riley
Kielan, Audrey Marquart, Carina
Martinez, Madalyn Rasmussen,
and Paige Rice.
District-wide emergency and school closing text message alerts
Last spring the district began
using a free service for districtwide emergency and school
closing text message alerts.
While this service worked well
during the waterspout incidents
this fall, the company has since
decided to charge KUSD for its
services. Rather than pay another company, KUSD has decided to work with School Messenger to utilize the texting
services available to us through
our emergency phone call plan
with them. We apologize for the
inconvenience, but hope that all
understand the cost savings
aspect of this initiative.
To register, please visit: http://
www.kusd.edu/about/
inclement-weather-procedures
and click on the Sign-up to Receive Text Alerts Today! Button
to fill out the online form. After
submitting the form you will
receive a text within 24-48
hours that you must reply Y to
in order to be fully registered.
Please do this well before any
inclement weather because it
takes 24-48 hours to process.
Sign up for the
emergency text
messaging service.
It is new!!!!
KUSD Inclement Weather Procedures
Procedure 1: All schools in
KUSD will be open today. Students and personnel are expected to attend.
Procedure 2: All schools in
KUSD will open two hours late,
and buses that transport students will be running approximately two hours late. There will
be no AM or PM Early Childhood, Speech Impact or
Four-year old Kindergarten classes. Personnel are expected to
report as normally scheduled.
Dismissal will be at the regular
time.
Procedure 3: All schools in
KUSD will be closed and no
students are expected to report.
If schools are to be closed for
the day—KIUSD will make every
effort to release that information by 5:30 am.
KUSD puts student safety first
when determining whether to
close schools due to extreme
weather. An announcement will
be made via the local television
stations, radio stations, KUSD
website, (www.kusd.edu) KUSD
Channel 20, Facebook.com/
kenoshaschools, KUSD, 359snow (7669).
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