DECEMBER From PTSA & Accountability

PTSA President: Kelly Rodak, kelly.rodak@jeffco.k12.co.us PTSA Website

Accountability Chair: Melissa Kohn, mekohn4@gmail.com Accountability Website

Next PTSA meeting

Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 15th at 6PM. Childcare is provided!!

Please come and hear about all the things happening at Leawood!!

Holiday Parties

~Friday, December 20th ~

Please see your teacher's party sign up for party time!

Healthy Party Sign-up Genius

Save the Date for Leawood Community Night at your neighborhood Barnes & Noble! Thursday, December 12th from 4-8pm. Barnes & Noble 8136 W. Bowles Ave, Littleton CO 80123. Come join us to benefit Leawood Elementary School with any purchase in-store (free gift wrap available) or online. Enjoy book readings by your teachers, and art and essays from Leawood kiddos! Check out the FLYER for more details.

Scrip Holiday Gift Card Orders

With the upcoming holiday season fast approaching, now is the perfect time to start planning for your Scrip gift card orders. Scrip gift cards are a great way to give to friends, families, teachers, school staff and co-workers...while raising funds for your students Jeffco Public School fees and the Leawood PTSA! Check out the Scrip Holiday Gift Guide HERE

Electronic gift cards are available for purchase at any time once you are enrolled with PrestoPay at Scrip Learn how HERE

During the holiday season, you have another opportunities to order physical gift cards. These physical gift card orders are due THIS WEEK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5th. The PTSA processes these physical gift card orders and will schedule pick-up opportunities for you the week following the order deadlines. You can place your order online at https://www.shopwithscrip.com/ or use the Scrip Holiday Order Form that was sent home in November, but also available HERE

For more information, visit the Scrip page on our website. Questions about holiday gift card orders? Send your questions to leawoodloot@gmail.com.

Signup for Scrip Promotion Emails

Throughout the year, Scrip runs special bonus and promo offers. Ensure you are signed-up to received program updates directly from Scrip to stay on top of your bonus and promo opportunities! You can update your account to receive email updates from Scrip. Not a member yet...enroll at https://www.shopwithscrip.com/ with Leawood enrollment code 744F624L32854.

Accountability Committee

At the November 5th meeting, the following was discussed:

District Updates: 2 hour delay was a success; Enroll JeffCo will begin in December, need to go in and confirm you are staying, or make a change...you DO NOT need to choice enroll if you are already in attendance at Leawood.; Registration for Preschool and Kindergarten is in DECEMBER this year, new at Leawood is a PRESCHOOL INFORMATION night on December 3rd, KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION night will be December 5th; School tours will be the week of December 9th for new families; NO MORE HALF DAY KINDERGARTEN nest year; JeffCo Build is a website that will let you know more information on the updates coming to Leawood
Leawood Updates: New staff ~ Annie is new kindergarten para and Leah in the front office, WELCOME!; Leawood BUDGET is looking good! We are only at 22% of our spending while most schools are at 33%! The school will be looking at purchasing guided reading books for each classroom to accommodate the different levels of reading in each classroom; Family Partnership Survey ~ We have worked hard on the communication piece, and the next step is to work more on letting families know how their children are doing socially. Perhaps longer conferences, conferences focused as a conversation about the child more than data driven, questionnaires sent home before conferences so it can be parent/student led. Also, have more information coming from the social workers
Communication: Has the communication improved this year? Which forms of communication are being used most? A survey will be sent to families
Improvement Plan: Action Steps to achieve goals: 3 days of extended planning for teachers for data digs, Professional Development with gifted and talented teachers to help plan differentiation, Another full day data dig in January; We saw great growth last year, so we will continue doing what works, and add more; Met all of our goals last year; THIS YEAR'S GOALS are to increase ELA scores from 58-60% growth, and increase Math scores from 52-55% growth
BUDGET PRIORITIES FOR NEXT YEAR MEETING IN JANUARY We will begin to prioritize next year's spending for the SBB budget. If you are interested, email Melissa (mekohn4@gmail.com) for more information.

NEXT MEETING FEB. 5th, 2020

We will be discussing School Fees and the SBB

We would love to see many people there! Any community and family members are welcome. We would love to hear from you!

LEAWOOD PROBLEM SOLVING FLOW CHART

Did you know??

PTSA funds MANY different areas of our schools functionality. When we have fundraisers, we are raising for the many things we fund each year, as well as our unique chosen item. This year our unique item is the INTERIOR UPLIFT. Our Read A Thon was raising money to go towards the library portion of the Uplift. The Spring Fling will raise money towards the rest of the school uplift.

Other monies PTSA gives to the school are for:

*5th grade continuation *Assemblies *Back to school event *Birthday Pencils and Friday Folders *Columbine High School Graduation Breakfast and Scholarship *Classroom Supplies and Authentic Tasks *Leawood Garden *School Supplies for Families in Need *Staff Appreciation *Trick or Treat Street *Veteran's Day Program

We want to THANK YOU for supporting our PTSA and school by helping us to be able to provide all of these things to our school each year, and making Leawood the best learning environment in Jefferson County!

Easy Ways to Support Leawood

You Can Still Support Leawood by participating in the following programs . We are still collecting Box Tops and Milk Caps for Mooola. We have a collection bin in the front entryway of the school. We are also participating in the American Furniture Warehouse and Burgers for Better Schools Programs.

Box Tops Marketplace
Milk Caps for MOOLA
Burgers for Better Schools Program Leawood has been selected by Red Robin to be a part of this new program. Every time you eat at Red Robin, 1% of your check will be donated directly to your school of choice. Be sure to invite your friends, family and neighbors to join Red Robin Royalty and opt-in to support your school, too. Remember, the more you devour – the more they’ll donate!
Staples Classroom Rewards Introducing 'Classroom Rewards'. Give 5% back to your teachers! For more information Click Here
AFW Supports Leawood! EVERY-TIME you make a purchase at American Furniture Warehouse, be sure to mention that you would like to support Leawood Elementary and a portion of of your sales will be donated back to us!
Coke Caps and Codes! Coca-Cola Give wants to help raise funds for our school; Just click the link, enter the school info and coke code! You can also turn in your codes in the box located by the main entrance. https://us.coca-cola.com/give/schools/

New AND Improved Box Tops Program

The BoxTops Program is going digital! Check out this FLYER for more information. Still have actual BoxTops? Send them to school - we are still accepting paper versions through the fall. You can find a collection box (it looks like a big pencil!) in the front entry way.

Wall of Pride

The Wall of Pride is Leawood’s way of acknowledging our responsible students. These good citizens are chosen by their teachers for demonstrating Respect, Responsibility and Safety. Students can be recognized for any of these traits during any month of the year, with the expectation that each student is recognized at least one time. These students will have their picture taken and will eat lunch with Mrs. Shehan during the monthly Wall of Pride lunch. The November Wall of Pride Students were:

NOVEMBER WALL OF PRIDE

5th Grade

Lomba: Mariah Ornelas, Ryan Schmalz

Story:

Cable: Juliette Wood, Royce Andre

4th Grade

Henkes: Grace Hurlbut, Cayden Babcock

Burnham: Andrew Byrne, Tam Nguyen

3rd Grade

Boogert: Cooper Martin, Corbin Morrell, Kendra Jaramillo

Bole: Damian Feder, Zayden Hemmert-Aguilar, Aubrie Osborn

2nd Grade