Appleton City Elementary

January 20th NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 22nd School Board Meeting

February 6th

100th Day of School

February 14th Valentine’s Day February 15th PTO Little Ladies Dance

February 17th NO SCHOOL President’s Day

February 28th

Cup Stacking Tournament

Appleton City R-II Schools January 2020

Volume 1, Issue 4

Character word for January: Courageous

Just a Reminder…

The newsletter, menu,

event dates and times

can be found on the

Appleton City R-II

Website.

Don’t forget to

us on Facebook!

Star Students!

Congratulations to our December Students of the Month!

Lynnex Boin, Ms. Raybourn’s Kindergarten Class;

Aaron Bollig, Mrs. Scotten’s Kindergarten Class;

Weston Scotten, Mrs. Parsons’s First Grade Class;

Kylee Farmer, Mrs. Vogel’s First Grade Class;

Brenin Carr, Mrs. Nold’s Second Grade Class;

Ryan Tindall, Mrs. Thomas’s Second Grade Class;

Hayne Thompson, Mrs. Cole’s Third Grade Class;

Ashley Espera, Mr. Hunt’s Fourth Grade Class;

Wyatt Davis, Mrs. Parsons’s Fifth Grade Class.

Thank the St. Clair County Cattlemen for their continued support of the MO Beef for MO Kids

program. This program helps provide more beef to the

students of Appleton City schools. This beef is fresh from

the farm. It is processed at Powell’s in Clinton and then

delivered to the schools in St. Clair County. If you are inter-

ested in donating to the MO Beef program or would like

more information, please contact me at (660)476- 2161.

Bridget, OPPA! Director of Nutrition Services.

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Classroom Happenings Kindergarten, Ms. Raybourn Kindergarten, Mrs. Scotten

Students take turns leading us in our daily calendar activities.

1st Grade, Mrs. Vogel

Mrs. Vogel’s First grade

has been learning about space and

experimenting and finding out about the phases of the

moon.

1st Grade, Mrs. Parsons

Kade’s mom

gave all of his

class blankets,

just in time for

the snowy

weather!

THANK YOU!

2nd Grade, Mrs. Nold 2nd Grade, Mrs. Thomas

Second Grade really measures up! We started a new unit

in math. We are working with tape measures and rulers

to measure things around the room.

Grinch Day! We wore green

and had some crazy Who-ville hairstyles. We started our

Grinch-mas by listening to the story How The Grinch Stole

Christmas. Our class also spent a while making new Christmas

trees for The Whos using toothpicks and marshmallows.

To finish our celebration, we watched The Grinch and had

some Grinch Punch! A huge thank you to the parents

who were able to donate supplies for such a fun learning

experience.

Playing a

game with

you…

Helps us

learn to

count by

two.

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3rd Grade, Mrs. Cole

In December, we learned about the different holidays and learned that Dreidels are played with

during the Hanukkah celebration. We also played a card game called Trash Can

to help us work on Number Sense.

Music, Mr. Payton, & Band, Mrs. Hill

This year’s

Sounds of the

Seasons Concert

was a

delightful event!

Thank you to

Mr. Payton and

Mrs. Hill for all of

your hard work,

to all of the

students for all

of your hard

work and to all

of our parents

and family

members for

supporting your

students and

encouraging

them to do their

very best. 5th Grade, Mrs. Parsons

PALS "Partners in Active Learning Support" PALS mentors teach young students about the

science and business of agriculture. FFA chapter officers are paired together to teach

agriculture lessons to a class in the elementary. Some classes learned about plants and

other classes about animals. “This is a great learning experience for both the

elementary students as well as the FFA Officers.” - Sarah Leiber, FFA Advisor

4th Grade, Mr. Hunt

Practice! Practice! Practice!

1 digit by 2 digit

multiplication Practice! Practice! Practice!

Library,

Mrs. Bollig

MAKERSPACE building, creating, playing, building

friendships, learning

how things work…

Always fun in the library!

AC FFA

Students

working with

5th grade.

Lesson topic:

Germination.

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School Closing Procedure Winter is here! With winter, the possibility

of school closings due to inclement weather also arises. If you are in doubt as to wheth-er school will be in session due to inclement weather, DO NOT CALL THE SCHOOL! The School Reach program should send a message to the active phone number you provid-ed the school, as well as an e-mail to the e-mail address that you provided. Also, the Student Handbook located in the front of the Student Planner which comes home with your child nightly, lists local television and radio stations that will carry school closing news. If you do not see Appleton City R-II mentioned, there will be school that day.

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

1 NO SCHOOL

Happy New

Year!

2 NO SCHOOL 3 NO SCHOOL

Teacher

In-Service

4

5 6

Welcome Back!

7 8

9 10 End of Semester

11

12 13 14 15

Report Cards

go home

16 17 18

19 20 NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

21 22

School Board

Meeting

23

24 25

26 27 28 29 30 31

Be Prepared! NO HAT , NO COAT, NO GLOVES, NO RECESS

On occasions when your child needs to be absent from school, a parent or guardian must send a note or call the elementary office at

660-476-2108 before 11:00 am on the day of the absence to explain the absence.

REMEMBER, “students who accumulate ten or more absences during the semester will receive an

absenteeism referral to be filed in the appropriate county juvenile court. At that juncture the

situation becomes a legal matter. Any attendance pattern the principal deems excessive or

unusual may also be reported to the juvenile officer.” (Student Handbook).

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