Leawood's Thanksgiving Boxes
Each year our staff collects food items to help families during the Thanksgiving holiday break. Leawood's PTSA provides a $25 gift card to help with perishable foods. If your family would benefit from this support, please complete the confidential form below. Boxes can be picked up by families or delivered by our school social worker.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
This month all students in the building will begin Second Step’s bullying prevention unit for social emotional learning. The Goals of the bullying prevention unit are to develop students’ skills for recognizing, reporting, and refusing bullying and foster a climate of safety and respect for all. Students will be able to define bullying, identify bullying, Report bullying and refuse bullying. Talk to your student about the vocabulary bellow to help encourage students to understand bullying in all aspects of their lives.
Bullying is…..
One-Sided: Occurs when one student with power targets another student with less power.
On-going: behavior that is continuous and happens over and over.
Physical: hitting, kicking, punching, spitting, etc.
Relational: gossip, purposeful exclusion
Cyber: Online using technology
Verbal: words, threats, often coupled with physical, relational, and cyber
Bullying is not…..
Fighting: students fighting with each other physically
Teasing: A one-time incident
Arguing: students verbally fighting
Interpersonal Conflict: conflict between students
Thank you,
Chloe Shaw
Social Emotional Learning Specialist
Buddies Are Back!
Many classes are starting grade level buddies! This is an opportunity for older students to work with the younger students and vis-versa.
Mr. Boogart's and Mrs. Cummings' classes have quickly gotten into a buddy routine. We've gone to the Maker Space together, read to one another, and also did some informative writing for Halloween! The students get so excited to spend time with their buddy!
From Henkes Class
Enjoy the slide show from the Fun Run and the Track Meet.
From the Library
Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success and it was wonderful to see so many families in person again! We used the proceeds to purchase many books directly from the fair and the students will enjoy having these new books on our library shelves. Thank you so much for your support!
From the Art Room
SAVE THE DATE:
Leawood’s First Night of the Arts
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
5:00-6:30pm
Leawood Elementary School - all throughout the building and outside, weather permitting
Come to Leawood on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 and enjoy artwork made by your students! All students will have 1-2 works of art on display, inspired by different cultures as well as some artwork created so far this school year. There will also be interactive art stations where you can create together to take home. Leawood’s Band and Orchestra will be performing as well! If you would like to volunteer to mat or hang artwork, please contact Mrs. Wheeler - kate.wheeler@jeffco.k12.co.us or click here for the Night of the Arts SignUp Genius! Thank you for your support!
HOLIDAY Art Fundraiser!
Students have created works of art that will be printed on keepsakes again this year! Please be on the lookout for a messenger with details about choices and how to order your keepsakes/gifts the first week in November. Our goal is to have keepsakes ready for pick up at the school the week of December 13th-17th. Thank you for your continued support of the ARTS and a huge thank you to Marci Bieker for all her special help with this! If you’d like to volunteer to help with this fundraiser, please contact Mrs. Wheeler - kate.wheeler@jeffco.k12.co.us.
Science of Reading -Red Words
from the Instructional Coach
Last month we shared that teachers are starting to use multi-sensory strategies to implement the science of reading. One routine that many teachers have begun implementing is for Red Words. The Red Word routine is used to teach words that are spelled unexpectedly. They are called red words because you have to learn them by heart. Teachers introduce the word by sharing the word in a sentence and the history of the word. Students write the word over a screen or sandpaper and then trace it multiple times. Next, students tap out the letters of the word on their arm, left to right. They complete the routine by writing the word from memory and composing their own sentence. Teachers introduce multiple red words each week and check to see if students have mastered the words before adding new words.
Ask your child what red words they have learned and what words they are working on.
If you have any questions about OG or the science of reading please feel free to reach out to me at jamie.kelley@jeffco.k12.co.us.
