Rosemount Elementary
September 2011
Independent School District 196
Leprechaun Ledger
——————–“Educating our students to reach their full potential”———————
Reading Rocks
Fundraiser
“Kick-Off “
September 16th !
Look for the packet in the Friday Folders that day.
Our goal this year is to raise $25,000. (If we do, Mr.
Idstrom will sleep on the roof of the school again!)
There are fantastic prizes for collecting pledges and
donations. Names will also be drawn randomly
throughout the read-a-thon for prizes.
Welcome to Rosemount Elementary School!
We are off to a great start to the new school year. It
is great to see students throughout the school learning,
working and playing. It is an exciting time for our children and staff.
Over the last few days I have had the opportunity to
meet in classrooms and in a large assembly to discuss
student responsibilities at Rosemount Elementary
School with each of our students.
The three responsibilities that we discussed are to:
Learn
Classroom competitions will take place for the most
minutes read. Make sure to keep track of your
minutes and help your classroom win new books
and EXTRA RECESS!
All of the money raised goes to our school to fund
programs and lyceums, like the all-school field trip
to the Ordway, and to fund media and technology
for our classrooms, like the SmartBoards.
With the past success of this fundraiser, we have
been able to eliminate the need for our kids to sell
products from a third party.
We need EVERYONE'S help to make this continue!
If you have questions or would like to volunteer to
help out, please contact:
Sarah Rothstein at strothstein@yahoo.com or
Patty Grunklee at resvolunteer@gmail.com
Be Safe
Be Respectful
Rosemount Elementary School has a great tradition for
being a friendly, safe and nurturing school community
where students learn at a high level. We will continue
to build on these responsibilities in order to continue
that 50 year tradition.
Please consider subscribing to our electronic RES
Listserv which can be found on our website. We use
the Listserv to communicate timely information about
our school and our Parent Teacher Organization. Look
for the RES Listserv icon at www.district196.org/re.
On September 16th, we have the kick off for our ReadA-Thon. Students will bring home a packet that will
outline how the Read-A-Thon works. I encourage you to
participate and support our PTO this year.
I look forward to a terrific year!
Tom
District 196 does not engage in unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, status with regard to public assistance,
sexual orientation or age. The School District Attorney, 14445 Diamond Path West, Rosemount, MN 55068, (651) 423-7883, has been designated to respond to inquiries regarding the
non-discrimination policies, including inquiries under Title IX.
Rosemount Elementary School
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2011-2012PTOPresident.I
have3kids,Aidan(6thgrader),Chase(4thgrader),and
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startsonSeptember19th.Moreinformation
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Folders.
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HELP US EARN CASH
FOR OUR SCHOOL!!
Dear parents and families:
Our school participates in three programs collecting milk caps. The top grossing program is the Milk
Moola program from Kwik Trip right here in Rosemount. The school earns a nickel for every cap and
bag top you turn in. The other two programs are
Kemps Nickels For School and Land O Lakes. On
many of Kemps dairy products, there are proof of
purchase symbols located on the side panels of the
products, which you can cut out and turn in, as well. It
is such an easy way to earn a little extra cash for
things like books, supplies, school trips, and new
equipment.
Children can bring the caps, bag tops, and proof of
purchase symbols anytime. We can receive cash
payments monthly, so there is no need to save them
up at home. Bring them into the collections box outside of the office, so we can start benefiting from the
cash right away.
Please call me if you have any questions or concerns.
Milk Cap Coordinator
Laurie Johnson
(952) 913-7029
DATES:
6th-First Day of School.
8th- PTO Meeting, 6:00 pm.
19th- “Reading Rocks” Read-a-Thon
Starts!
19th- First Day of After School Classes.
23rd- Sports Jersey Day.
28th-Wendy’s Night, 5:00-8:00 pm.
29th- PICTURE DAY !
Use of e-mail at Rosemount Elementary School:
We value effective communication at our school. The use of e-mail has increased over the last few years. Most of our staff members do not
have their e-mail accounts open during the school day while they are working with students. As stated in our handbook: The staff at RES
have an agreement to reply to e-mails within two school days. If your need to communicate with a staff member is urgent, please call the
school office (651-423-7690) and we will relay your message to the appropriate person.
Rosemount Elementary School
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Keeping Students Safe and Healthy
at RES
During September the number of clinic and hospital
visits due to asthma peaks in Minnesota. Though
there is no single, proven reason for this peak, it is
believed to be influenced by respiratory infections
and increased pollen and mold counts. If your child
has asthma and has an inhaler and/or neb at home
please be sure one is also available at school.
Written authorization from the parent and doctor are
needed for inhalers or any other medication taken at
school. The fitness fun run is coming up and students will be practicing and it’s important everyone
is prepared. Please call Jeanne Fifield, School
Nurse, to discuss your child’s asthma needs at 651423-7692.
There are several students at RES with severe peanut and/or tree nut (almonds, cashews, pecans, macadamia, walnuts, pistachios, hazel nuts) allergy.
These allergies are potentially life threatening.
We are asking for your assistance in providing a
safe learning environment for all students at Rosemount Elementary School. Foods with peanut/tree
nuts are allowed in our school but we request they
only be eaten in the lunchroom where the tables are
cleaned after each use and students are encouraged
to wash hands prior to returning to class.
This is what you can do at home:
Encourage your child to wash their hands prior
to coming to school. Especially if nuts are eaten. This will prevent nut residue from being transferred to playground equipment, door handles, library books etc.
Discuss with your student that they should never
share food with other students. Nuts are hidden in
many food items. For instance, many students with
nut allergies should not eat bakery items as they are
contaminated with nut residue.
Box Top Update!!!
Last year was very successful for the program
here at RES. Throughout the school year we
collected a little over 73,000 tops!!!! The money
we earned went to purchase 6 document cameras for classrooms. These camera’s will make it
easier for all students in the classroom to view
something as the teacher can project it on the
smart board instead of having the students huddle around what they are trying to look at.
This year we are setting a goal to collect 85,000
tops which will earn the school $8,500.00. The
money will be used to purchase add on tools for
the SMART boards we have. These hand held
devices will allow the teachers to ‘check-in’ with
their students after covering a topic. They can
design a series of questions that the kids can
use the device to answer the question. This will
give the teacher immediate feedback as to level
of understanding of the students.
Our first competition starting in October will be
Blasting Off with Box Tops!! We will have a bulletin board between the office and the cafeteria
to track our progress. Watch for more updates
as we get closer, until then keep saving and
asking others to help us out as well.
Parent’s did you know that at boxtops4education.com you can print coupons, see what products are offering ‘bonus’ box tops and enter contests to win extra tops as well. This is also the
site you access to earn eboxtops when making
purchases on line. The next time you are out
surfing the web stop by this site and check it out.
If you have any ideas on how to make our program better please contact boxtops@repto.org
and we will get back to you.
For more information about food allergies, contact The
Food Allergy Network at www.foodallergy.org
Jeanne Fifield, RN, LSN
Rosemount Elementary School Nurse
651-423-7692 or, jeanne.fifield@district196.org
Rosemount Elementary School
Here’s to a great 2011- 2012 year!!!
Maggie Riley & Becky Pasch
The Box Top Ladies!
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SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK
SERVICES
Our school provides school
social work services to students and families. The purpose of these services is to
help students overcome barriers to learning, and to reach
their highest academic potential. In addition to facilitating classroom presentations,
these services include individual counseling to students,
support groups, parent meetings and community resources/referrals.
Support Groups and Individual Social Work Services may
include a variety of concerns, including:
Family Change/Divorce
Grief and Loss
Friendship/Social Skills/Anti-bullying Skills
Anxiety
Depression and Anger Management
Our Fall Support Groups will be starting in a few weeks.
If you would like your child referred to one of these
groups, or would like individual services and/or additional
information, please contact:
School Social Worker, Susan Piepgras,
at (651) 423-7634 or
Susan.Piepgras@district196.org.
AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES:
Sept. 19th - Oct. 13th
Registration forms sent home
Friday, Sept. 9th, and are DUE:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th
Class confirmations will go home
Friday, September 16th.
*Bus transportation for this “mini” session
will not be available.*
Rosemount Elementary School
My name is Patty Grunklee, and I am the Volunteer Coordinator and mother of 2 RES and
2 RMS students. This is my 3rd year assisting
the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO), and I
am excited for this new school year which
should be full of learning and fun.
Rosemount Elementary volunteers are concerned, caring people who give of their time
and talents to enhance students’ education
and to provide help during PTO activities.
Each month, I plan to recognize and thank as
many of those volunteers as I can for their
efforts.
I also will be sending Friday Folder notices
and emails to request volunteers to help with
activities that happen during the day or after
school. Please review these requests carefully and consider giving your time since many of
our programs would not be possible without
your help.
My first request is for volunteers for the
RES fall fundraiser, The Reading Rocks Reada-thon, which kicks-off on September 16th.
Consider helping with collecting forms, checking minutes read, counting money, and/ or giving out prizes. If you are interested in helping or have questions, contact me.
Patty Grunklee
Rosemount Elementary
Volunteer Coordinator
Volunteer
Corner
RESVolunteer@gmail.com
WELCOME BACK TO
ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY
FOR ANOTHER
GREAT SCHOOL YEAR !
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Easy ways to help raise
money for RES
Below are some easy ways you can
help RES raise extra funds this
school year. This year’s collection
theme is all about “one more.” We
are encouraging every RES family to
reach out to a family member,
friend, co-worker or neighbor and
ask them to help us collect the following items.
Save your milk caps!!!! Send these
along to school with your children.
The collection box is right outside
the office.
Target Shopping – Consider signing
up for a red card through Target,
then select RES as the school to
support, through their website.
Whether you get a credit or debit
card, 1% of what you spend will be
given to RES as a donation. Our
goal for this year is to receive $4,000
from this program. This is double of
what we received last year!!
Campbell’s Labels for Education –
Collect these from Campbell items
and send along to school with your
child. We have a collection box for
these outside of the office also.
REMEMBER:
PICTURE DAY IS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 29
Bring your smile !
FITNESS FUN RUN…
Grades 1-5
Wednesday,
October 5th
At the Rosemount High
School Track
Volunteers wanted!
If interested contact
Kathi Engebretson
651-683-6969, ext. 92122
or at
Kathi.engebretson@district196.org
Alternate dates
in case of
bad weather will be
October 6 and 7.
New Volunteer Information Form
Required by School District...
Attached to this newsletter is the new
ISD196 Volunteer Information Form.
If you think you may be interested in
volunteering at all this year, please fill it out
and return to school.
You will receive a copy of the new
District Procedure Guidelines for Volunteers.
We appreciate our RES Volunteers very much!
Thank You!
Rosemount Elementary School
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