Reading Elementary Rockets Report: RES PRINCIPAL'S BLOG

Dear Reading Elementary "Rockets" Parents & Community Members,

This is a busy week for our school. Hope to see you this week! Community members are welcome as well Thursday night for:

COMMUNITY YARD SALE - Cleanout your garage and attic and reserve a spot in our field for October 8. A 10x10 site in our field is just $20 and a 20x10 is $30. Bring your own tables and tent or rent them from us for $5 each. You keep all the proceeds from what you sell. Please call the school at 484-7230 to reserve your spot OR SIGN UP ONLINE and send in or drop by your payment!

Kudos and heartfelt thanks to:

All of you who participate in the PTO and help support our school events!
Parents who volunteered to transport and help with the Gr. 5/6 to Woodstock for the Web of Life Field Trip.

Other Items of Interest:

Back to School Night - Is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 6, 5:30 - 7 PM.

RES Sponsors Community Yard Sale - Sat., Oct. 8 - 9 AM - 2 PM - To honor the many volunteers and neighbors in Reading who supported one another during and after Tropical Storm Irene, RES announces the creation of a RES Kids Care club at our school. RES Kids Care also honors people from across the country who sent money, supplies, and expressions of support that helped us get back to work and school five years ago. Most importantly, the goal of RES Kids Care is to inspire and instill in Reading students that same community spirit as they go forward in their lives.

The inaugural event for "Kids Care" will be a town yard sale at RES on Saturday, October 8 from 9 am - 2 pm. To further the tradition of neighbor-helping-neighbor, half the proceeds will be used to start a children-in-need fund at RES. And to pay forward the help Reading received from other communities after Irene, Kids Care will donate the remaining proceeds to schools in Louisiana that were devastated by floods just days before school started, much as happened in our state.

So start cleaning out your garage and attic and reserve a spot in our field for October 8. A 10x10 site in our field is just $20 and a 20x10 is $30. Bring your own tables and tent or rent them from us for $5 each. You keep all the proceeds from what you sell. Please call the school at 484-7230 to reserve your spot OR SIGN UP ONLINE and send in or drop by your payment!

Act 46 Reading Community Forum - An Act 46 Community Forum will be held at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, at Reading Elementary School. This is a very important information session that will outline dramatic effects on this school and community. Please spread the word and be there to get a complete picture of this important community meeting.

MESSAGES FROM OUR TEACHERS -

From Ms. Shajen Lichtenstein - Guidance Counselor -

Hello, Reading Elementary School Families!

It is a pleasure to be working with your children. My first week filled my heart with their beautiful smiles and sweet stories of summer.

I look forward to a positive and active year, filled with quality and valuable experiences to enhance their self-knowledge. We will continue with our Social Thinking curriculum and maintain focus on Expected and Unexpected behaviors to support the children in making healthy choices for themselves and those around them. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. It is my pleasure to be serving the children and families of Reading.

From Señora Libeley:

I teach Spanish to all students Pre-K through sixth grades on Friday mornings.

Pre-K students will listen to stories, sing songs, and play games, all in Spanish. Kindergarteners will learn to follow basic classroom instructions, basic greetings, and how to count to ten.
First and Second graders will review and expand their basic classroom instructions, count to twenty, and will even play some math games in Spanish!
The third and fourth grades will spend the first few weeks learning useful classroom expressions, and the focus of their year is formulaic sentences, which includes things such as expressing the date, weather expressions, and telling time.
Fifth and sixth grades will study high frequency, irregular verbs – we will call them rule breakers. We will spend time looking at patterns among verbs and finding the ways in which this group both follows and breaks the rules.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about your child’s learning in Spanish. Email is the most reliable and quickest way to reach me. I can be reached at eleibly@wcsu.net.

MORE FROM OTHER TEACHERS NEXT WEEK!

OTHER WAYS TO HELP READING SCHOOL -

ASK YOUR FRIENDS/OUT-OF-TOWN RELATIVES/CO-WORKERS FOR BTFE!

LUNCH & BREAKFAST MENU FOR THIS WEEK:

Lunch accounts should be paid in full each month. Please send in your payment if you have not already done so. If you need help complete the Free/Reduced Paperwork, we are here to help! ALL APPLICATIONS are kept confidential. Thank you!

Mon., Oct. 3 - Lunch: Pastichio (whole grain pasta), Apples, Mixed Green Salad; Breakfast: Cheesy Eggs - The Regulars(yogurt, whole grain cereals, assorted fresh fruits and oj or apple juice or cider.
Tues., Oct. 4 - Chicken Sesame Noodles(whole grain pasta); Pears, Broccoli; Breakfast: Oatmeal & Hardboiled Eggs - The Regulars
Wed., Oct. 5 - Vegetable Barley Soup, Cheese Sticks, Rye Crisp, Melon, Mixed Vegetables; Breakfast: Corn Muffins & Sausage - the Regulars
Thurs., Oct. 6 - Fish Sticks, Whole Grain Rice, Applesauce, Sweet Potato Fries, Black Bean Salad; Breakfast - Cream of Wheat & Hard Boiled Eggs - the Regulars
Fri., Oct. 7 - Pizza(whole grain crust), Kiwi and Oranges, Peas, Iceberg Lettuce; Breakfast - Fried Egg & Toast - the Regulars