PANTHER PRESS
“A Team on Track for the Future”
Block Schedule
Week of: September 24 – September 28, 2007 Panther Press by email???
Date Day (K, 3rd ,4th
,5th) Day (1st
& 2nd) If you would
like to get the Panther Press by email too -
Monday 3 1 please email
Mr. Buchheit at buchhear@pwcs.edu and
Tuesday 4 2 ask
to receive our Panther Press by email!
Wednesday 5 3
Thursday 6 4
Friday 1 5
Elementary School Calendar Correction
Please note that the teacher
workday in April 2008 is April 14 and not April 7 as stated in the
“Elementary Calendar and handbook.”
P.E.P.
Come
register for P.E.P
Parents as Educational Partners on
Ven y registrate en P.E.P. Jueves el 27 de
septiembre del 2007 de 4-6 PM. PEP es un
programa para padres ESOL para aprender (gratis) como involucrase mas en la educacion de sus hijos.
Family
Heritage Night!!!
Please come and help our school celebrate
“Bristow
Run Family Heritage Night” on Thursday, November 15 at
We need your participation to showcase all of the many different cultures represented in our school by sharing your cultural outfits, artifacts, and/or food samples on that evening.
Look for the green sign-up letter
that is coming home today with your child.
Every family has a heritage. Please
share yours!
International Walk to School Day on
Get out your walking shoes!
October 3rd is national Walk to School Day and communities all around the
country will be participating. Why walk
to school? There are many good reasons.
Walking will help to improve the air quality by reducing pollution, it can help
raise awareness of safe routes for walking in the neighborhood and most
importantly it will help to increase the health of children and parents. According to walktoschool.org roughly 10% of
children nationwide walk to school and of those students who live within one
mile of school only 25% are regular walkers.
A lack of activity is one of the major causes of chronic illness and
death for adults in our country and obesity is on the rise. Walking to school is a free and easy solution
to becoming more active. So gather your
friends and family and join the nation in walking to school on October
3rd. Feel free to make signs to promote
the day or create a walking bus stop where you stop at certain points along the
way to pick up your friends. For more
information on Walk to School Day check out the web site at www.walktoschool.org. Hope to see everyone walking!
CELEBRATE Family
Dinner Day,
Family Dinner Day is effort to promote parental
engagement as a simple, effective way to reduce substance abuse by children and
teenagers and raise healthier children.
Family Day emphasizes the importance of regular family activities in
parent-child communications and encourages Americans to make family dinners a
regular feature in their lives. Research
has shown that the more often children eat dinner with their families,
the less likely they are to smoke, drink, or use illegal drugs. Go to www.CASAFamilyDay.org
to pledge to have dinner together this September 24th.
Student Directory
Forms
The PTA sent out a second round of the Student
Directory forms because they did not have as many students return the first
form as they had expected. We did not
lose the first forms that were sent in.
The second notice was to give people another opportunity to be included
if they misplaced the first form.
Parents: Avoid Becoming A Traffic Hazard
With the school being the
central point of focus, for the arrival and departure of hundred of students,
cars, buses and other vehicles, it is critical for every motorist to take extra
precautions. School administrators,
teachers, police officials, crossing guards and parents have all witnessed
dangerous behaviors by drivers near schools.
Everyone needs to do their part in keeping school communities safe.
Listed
below are actual examples of parents being serious traffic hazards:
- Double parking a vehicle in a school zone
- Calling a child to cross the street in the
middle of the block while waiting in the car
- Blocking traffic in a school zone while dropping
off or picking up a child
- Allowing a child to exit the car into traffic
rather than on the sidewalk side of the car
- Stopping a car in a crosswalk, blocking
visibility for children and other motorists
- Driving beside the bus, sounding the horn and
requesting the bus driver to stop, so that
a forgotten item could be delivered to a child
- Illegally passing a loading or unloading school
bus
For
our children’s sake, please be responsible and use good judgment!
If
you drive your children to and from school, these suggestions can minimize
traffic hazards for all children:
· Carpool with neighbors to reduce the number of cars at the school or bus stop especially in bad weather
- Accompany your child as he or she crosses the
street. Do not make your child
cross the street in a dangerous way just because it’s more convenient for
you
- Drop children off on the school side of the
street
- Never double park and do not let your child out
of the vehicle that is not next to the curb
- Follow your school’s traffic pattern for drop-off
and pick-up
- Reduce your speed when you enter a school zone,
or where children walk or bike along the road
- Train your child to look all ways (left, right,
behind, and ahead) and to walk cautiously when crossing the street. Stress the importance of always using
crosswalks.
- Both adults and children should follow
instructions provided by school crossing guards
- Make sure children wear seat belts or are
appropriately secured in a child safety or booster seat when riding in a
car