Prosperity

The Pride of the Palmetto

We are a Title One School and a Farm to School Location

October 16, 2018

Prosperity Prosperity

Dear Parents/Guardians, Thank you to everyone that came out for the Lever Farms night last week. In spite of the rain just before the event started, we had a good amount of people that came and everyone had a great time. It was a well planned family event and we already look forward to this for next year. How would you like to have a special parking space to help expedite picking up your child from school each day? How would like a chance to have a Speed Pass for the car rider line? Well now you can have your chance! We are going to give away three parking spaces that will be designated for Speed Pass winners for a nine weeks period starting the 2nd nine weeks of school. For a $1 do-nation you will get a chance to have a special parking space. Donations must be given by the end of this week. We will be walking through the car rider line or you can stop by the office and make a do-nation for a chance to receive a Speed Pass for the 2nd 9wks. Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair opened on Friday and it will be open through this Friday. We are in-viting grandparents to breakfast Wednesday for grades pre-k thru 2nd, and Thursday for grades 3-5. If grandparents would like to visit the Book Fair it will be open after breakfast. We will open the doors for breakfast at 7:10 AM. There is a new digital payment option this year for the Book Fair. It is called e-Wallet. Now your student can shop the Fair cash-free! Visit our Book Fair homepage, http://www.scholastic.com/bf/PRESbookfair, to learn more and to create an account. Another op-tion if you are unable to visit the Book Fair in person is to visit our Online Fair at scholastic.com/fair. Our Online Fair is available through October 24th. We need your help in completing a survey for our AdvancEd certification that is conducted every 5 years to certify the performance of our school and our school district. Please go the following Cli-mate and Culture link and complete the survey. It should not take more than about 10 minutes. The link is: https://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/83663/p1231

We will continue to collect Box Tops through October 26th. Please send your Box Tops in and be sure to check with friends, family and neighbors and remind them to save those Box Tops for you. Next week is Red Ribbon Week. This is a week set aside each year across the nation by the National Family Partnership, formerly the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth, and was estab-lished as a grassroots, nonprofit organization in 1980 by a handful of concerned and determined par-ents who were convinced they should begin to play a leadership role in drug prevention. The mission of the group is to lead and support our nation’s families and communities in nurturing the full poten-tial of healthy, drug free youth. Check out the flyer that is coming home that has all of the special days we will have next week in recognition of Red Ribbon Week.

Be sure to take time each day with your child to talk about their day at school. Remember to take the time to read TO your child, read WITH your child, and SHARE IN THE LEARNING each and every day. Timothy J. Lyden Principal

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OCT 15-19 Book Fair OCT 16 End of the 1st 9 weeks OCT 17 Grandparents of students in grades Pre-K—2nd are invited to join us for breakfast OCT 18 Grandparents of students in grades 3-5 are invited to join us for breakfast OCT 22-26 Red Ribbon Week OCT 22 Fall picture make-up day OCT 25 Report cards go home OCT 25 3rd grade Parent Meeting for the Read to Succeed Act NOV 5 NO SCHOOL Parent—Teacher Conferences NOV 6 NO SCHOOL Election Day NOV 9 Veterans Day Program at 9:30 AM. Everyone is invited. NOV 12-16 American Education Week NOV 15 PTO meeting with the 4th and 5th grade students performing NOV 21-23 Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL DEC 2 Prosperity Christmas parade at 3:00 PM

Mark your calendars!

LIFE SKILLS LEADERS

THIS IS WORTH REPEATING!!! It is that time again for flu season to be upon us. Get-ting a flu vaccine every year is the best way to protect yourself and your family from flu and its potentially serious complications. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recom-mends that everyone 6 months and older get vaccinated by the end of October.

The nasal spray flu vaccine (LAIV) is again a vaccine option. Ask your health care pro-vider about what vaccine is right for you

Fight flu this season by getting your flu vaccine and encouraging others to protect themselves and their loved ones by doing the same.

If you have questions, ask your family doctor, or stop by just about any pharmacy.

They are giving shots right now without an appointment. Just stop by to see them.

AWESOME AUTHORS

Lifeskills Leaders from 4th grade are Kole Kunkle (Miss Gruber), Yelitza Cristano-Escalante (Miss Lane) and Jenny Garcia (Mrs. Hendrix). Great job!!!

Pres Says:

Awesome Authors from 4th grade are Landon Compton (Miss Gruber), Taylyn Rosenberg (Miss Lane) and Kelby Meyers (Mrs. Hendrix). Congratulations to you!