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Mokena Elementary School
December 2014 / January 2015
Mrs. Anna Kirchner
Principal
Mrs. Judy Splayt
Assistant Principal
School Office:
708/342-4850
Absentee Line:
708/478-4212
On the Web:
http://mokena159.org
School Closing Information Mokena Parent Academy
2
FISH
Santa’s Secret Workshop
2
Preschool Screening
Cold Weather Recess
3
Nurses office
Basket Raffle
4
What’s happening at
MES?
5
December Assets 6
Calendars 7-8
Inside this issue:
To Our MES Family,
Let me start off with a big THANK YOU to all of our MES families for your continued support and dedication to your child’s education. Our families have supported the school is so many ways this past month.
The Fall Fling was a great success. Thank you to the PTA
and the MEF for organizing this event to benefit our students. A special thank you to all our families who made this Fall Fling a success!
Our first MES Fall Fling student basket raffle was a great success. Thank you to the PTA Officers for organizing the raffle for the MES students. Forty-one families donated baskets to the raffle – thank you for helping us raise money for our district!
Our Second Annual Stuff The Turkey Food Drive was plentiful. All of the MES families were so generous with their donations. The Frankfort Food Pantry is grateful. Thank you to the MES Student Council for helping with the drive.
Our Parent/Teacher conferences were well attended. Hope-fully all of our parents left their conference confident in their child’s education here at MES.
American Education Week was a great opportunity for the students to celebrate education in different ways. We appreciated all of our parents who stopped by to visit as well.
Parents and staff working together equals a wonderful learning
environment at MES for all our students!
Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season!
Anna Kirchner Judy Splayt
Principal Asst. Principal
~ FISH ~
The Mokena organization known as “FISH” will be collecting items for
needy families in the community this holiday season. We are inviting
MES students to spread the holiday cheer by bringing in particular items
of need.
All items should be brought to school on
Wednesday, December 3rd
Students wishing to participate in the FISH drive can bring in the
following items according to their grade level:
PreK, Kindergarten : Tissue (Kleenex) and Toilet Paper (in original
plastic wrap/container)
First Grade: Boxed food items (cereal, macaroni and cheese, rice,
prepared dinners, etc., no canned foods please)
Second Grade: Wrapping Paper, Ribbon, Bows & Tape
Third Grade: Paper Towels, Napkins and Disposable Diapers (in
original plastic wrap/container)
Thank you for your generosity this holiday season!!
School Closing
Information
Families can find out if school is
closed via any of the following:
www.Mokena159.org Announcements will be made
between 6:30 and 8:00 a.m. on
WJOL (AM-1340), WBBM (AM-
780) and Channel 9 television
A Connect Ed message will be sent
by District Office to all parents/
guardians
Early Dismissal Day
December 10th 12 Noon
Page 2
PTA News
Santa’s Secret Workshop
Saturday, December 6th 10 am to 1pm
MES Commons
Bake Sale, Crafters, Shopping,
Drawings, and more!
MOKENA PARENT ACADEMY WORKSHOP
Thursday, January 8, 2015 Creating a Digital Culture Within Our Communities
While Technology continues to evolve, the need to instill and reinforce the concepts of digital citizenship remains constant. This session will emphasize the need for creating a digital culture within a household and you community, while highlighting current trends and digital platforms. The following topics will be specifically addressed:
Cyber bullying
Digital citizenship
Privacy
Sites/apps most used by youth/teens
Self-representation
Sexting and online predation This workshop will also highlight available resources that will assist parents in facilitating digital safety conversations with their children.
Presented by: Melissa Hemzacek, LSW, Internet Safety Specialist
Illinois Attorney General’s Office—High Tech Crimes Bureau
Page 3
Cold Weather Recess Each day, we evaluate the weather conditions and determine if the weather allows for our children to go outside. Our policy is if the temperature is below 20 degrees with the wind chill factor, the children will remain inside. On those borderline days when the temperature and wind chill combine to make it cold, but not unbearable, our building aides will take children outdoors for no more than 10 minutes. This allows the students to run off excess energy and catch a breath of fresh air. Please be assured, our first concern is the well-being of our students. Students should come to school expecting to go outdoors unless the weather conditions make it unsafe to do so. Warm coats, hats and gloves should provide plenty of protection for the days we go outdoors for recess.
The holidays are just around the corner! Who wants gift cards? Everyone… teachers, kids, neighbors, family and friends! Plan ahead, get the holiday shopping done early and help out Mokena PTA at the same time!
Orders Due: Delivered By: Friday, December 5th Friday, December 12th Friday, December 12th Friday, December 19th
For a complete listing of gift cards available go to www.glscrip.com. Order envelopes are available in the MES office
All orders directly benefit your children. Thank you in advance!
DUAL LANGUAGE PARENT NIGHT
Mokena Elementary Pre-School Screening
Our next preschool screening is Wednesday, Dec. 10th from 9am through 11:30am. This is an At-Risk program for children who may have concerns in speech & language skills, large and small muscle coordination skills, cognitive skills, or social/emotional growth. If you are interested in having your child screened, please call the Mokena Elementary School office @ 708-342-4850.
December 3, 2014
MES—Room S105
6:00—7:00 pm
How has the Dual language class evolved so far this year?
Come and learn more about:
How is the day structured?
What does the work load look like in comparison to the
other kindergarten classroom?
Translation packet—How’s that working?
What to look for in the upcoming weeks.
Input on information for future meetings.
Presented by:
Dr. Kathleen Wilkey, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction
&
Mrs. Martha Kadan, Kindergarten Dual Language Teacher
FALL FLING STUDENT BASKET RAFFLE Thank you to everyone who helped and donated to make our Student Basket Raffle a huge success! This raffle raised over $2,250.00 which will directly benefit the activities and needs of our schools. All families who donated a basket were entered to win a pizza lunch party with friends at school. The winner of the pizza party is Katie Andresen! Individual basket winners were:
Alexandria Anaya—Board Games Angelina Baratta—Frozen Ava Basolo—Just Add Ice Cream
Ava Beyler—Treasure Chest Samantha Brudd—Frozen Gregory Cesta—Ninja Turtles
Violet Dydo—Pickle Nickolas Farkas—Movie Night Natalie Fitzgibbons—Monster Popper
Brook Frodin—Avengers Torree Garcia—Christmas Art Olivia Gehrke—Splat/Voice Changer
Michael Henschel—Candy Rebecca Hrabe—Tangled Lorenz Hunter—Battleship
Sydney Kane—Friendship Bracelet Gus Klein—Frog Pail Lucy Laurinaitis—Gummy Bear
Grace Lee—Justice Caitlin Lim—Frozen Meleena Lopez—Movie Night
Reagan Malecki—Spiderman Flynn Meyer—Nail Polish Ty O’Leary—Lego/Pick up sticks
Ryan Rafa—Spiderman & Art Grace Rhodes—Jenga Mike Roussakis—After School Fun
Austin Ruzich—Lego Evan Sherrick—Science Noah Sloan—Nerf
Andrew Staley—Soccer goal Alyssa Teske—Face Paint Emily Tichicak—Lego Friends
Eddie Villagomez—Art Ava Weber—Baking Jaden Wegner—Ninja Turtles
Austin Welsh—Ninja Turtles Tripp Whittingham—Pillow Pet Violet Wilson—Nail Art
Eman Yassin—Kite Zoe Ziesmer—Shine Time Leah Zimmer—Art
Winter Season Greetings from Nurse Therese & Miss Denise…..
Cold weather brings snow and that means fun times outdoors on sleds, snowboards or ice skates.
So, we must remember to dress appropriately, especially keeping our hands and face protected. We
don’t want Jack Frost nippin’ at our nose or fingers.
We’ve noticed a lot of chapped lips lately. Please remember to pack a chap stick or lip balm in
your child’s backpack.
We are still in need of pants in our office. If you have any items you’d like to donate, feel free to drop
them off anytime or send them with your child to school. We appreciate any donations.
Let’s keep up the good work on our hand washing. Remembering to cover coughs and sneezes. We
know this is the season of sharing, but we don’t want to share our germs!
Denise and I wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas. Enjoy your time off with family and
friends. See you next year!
Mrs. Lark’s class had power point presentations to their parents in our new Learning Center.
Mrs. Conroy’s class had fun on PJ day!
Mrs. Neff’s students are working together using shapes to create a group picture in math. Also, students are partner reading and discussing books during Reader's Workshop.
3rd Grade Student Council Mrs. Arduino’s class Crazy Socks Day!
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elp
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appe
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At H
om
e:
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e yo
ur
child
ren
op
po
rtu
nit
ies
to s
pen
d t
ime
wit
h o
ther
ad
ult
s.
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cou
rage
yo
ur
child
ren
to
join
ad
ult
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ps,
tro
op
s o
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ams.
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ange
fo
r yo
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child
ren
to
me
et w
ith
ad
ult
fri
end
s w
ho
hav
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mila
r in
tere
sts
or
ho
bb
ies.
•Tak
e fa
mily
vac
atio
ns
wit
h o
ther
fam
ilie
s.
•Get
invo
lved
in y
ou
r n
eigh
bo
rho
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an
d c
om
mu
nit
y.
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cou
rage
yo
ur
child
ren
to
me
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gu
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ou
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wh
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alk.
Be
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tud
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mat
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olu
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men
tor.
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on
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care
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so y
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peo
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sp
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tim
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ad
ult
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pro
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at in
tere
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wit
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du
lt v
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for
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mu
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roje
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a r
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the
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lic o
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izat
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rain
ad
ult
vo
lun
teer
s to
tal
k w
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kid
s w
ho
hav
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nce
rns.
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on
sor
a m
ento
rin
g p
rogr
am.
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n in
terg
ener
atio
nal
pro
gram
s an
d e
ven
ts s
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ids
and
ad
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s ca
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et t
o k
no
w e
ach
oth
er.
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e yo
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-in
volv
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rogr
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wh
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teen
s b
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par
tici
pat
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d h
elp
lead
.
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ate
pla
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kid
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o a
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sch
oo
l an
d o
n w
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ult
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kid
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n b
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fe a
nd
ava
ilab
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ser
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etre
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tea
m b
uild
ing,
etc
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hat
are
bey
on
d t
he
no
rmal
sch
edu
le.
Dec
emb
er A
sset
: Su
pp
ort
Sys
tem
s
You
ng
per
son
has
su
pp
ort
sys
tem
s in
pla
ce t
o h
elp
in c
hal
len
gin
g ti
me
s.
Dec
emb
er q
uo
te o
f th
e m
on
th
“To
en
cou
rag
e m
e is
to
bel
ieve
in m
e, w
hic
h g
ives
me
the
po
wer
to
def
eat
dra
go
ns.
” -R
ich
elle
E.
Go
od
rich
, Sm
ile A
nyw
ay
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2 3 Fish Drive Dual Language Night 6-7:00 pm Rm S105
4 5 Crazy Hair Day Dippin Dots
6 Santa’s Secret Shop @MES 10:00am-1:00pm
7 8 9 PTA Meeting MES 3:30 pm
Enrichment Advisory Meeting 4-5pm MES Board room
10 Early Dismissal
12 Noon
Pre School Screening
11
12
13
14 15 16 17 Board of Ed.
Meeting, 7:00 pm at MES
Market Day Pickup MJH 4:30-5:30 pm
18 1st Grade
KISS Gingerbread
House Activity
19
Make Everyone Shine Holiday Parties at
1:00 pm
Early Dismissal at 2:15
20
21 22
23
24
25
26
27
28 29
30 31
December 2014
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3
4 5 Classes Resume
6
7
8 Parent Workshop 6:30 pm MES
9
10
11 12
13 PTA Meeting MES 3:30 pm
14 Board of Education Meeting, 7:00 pm at MES
15
16
End of 2nd Quarter
Crazy Hat Day
17
18 19
No School Martin Luther King Day
20 No School Teacher Institute
21
22 Aurielo’s Fundraiser
23
General Report Card Day
Dippin Dots MES
24
25 26 27
28 Market Day Pick Up 4:30-5:30 @ MJH
29 30 Make Everyone Shine
31
January 2015