Dear JES
family and friends,
Thank you to everyone
who helped to make Red Ribbon Week fun and informative for our children. A big
thanks to the Harding family for decorating our school in RED. Sean, Courtney, Houston and Hayden Claire have
taken this on the last two years as a family project. Thank you also to Kim
Franks and Tracy Lentz for their help with the many preparations for the “Dogs
of Character” assembly and Fire Safety Visits. You are so very generous with
your time and your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you to our PTO for funding
the “Dogs of Character” assembly.
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| Mrs. Chapman's class donating their canned goods to GRACE |
The" I Believe I CAN" drive was a great success! GRACE expressed sincere appreciation for the generous contribution. The Ambassadors loaded the items to send to the food pantry on Friday. Thank you to all who contributed.
Thank you to
Officer Womack for arranging the Southlake Firefighters’ visit for Kindergarten
-2nd grade students. We also appreciate having Renni Burt, Community
Initiatives officer, meet with our 3rd and 4th grade students to emphasize
having a Home Fire Escape Plan and to discuss general personal safety. It was
an informative day. Has your family designated a location to meet outside of
your house in case of fire? Ask your children about suggestions they might have.
Our Core
Essential character value for November is GRATITUDE
which is defined as letting others know
you see how they’ve helped you. We will be talking about GRATITUDE on the announcements and in
guidance lessons. Gratitude is an important character value and can easily be reinforce
at home. Working together, we can help
our children learn to recognize the quality of the feeling that accompanies
showing appreciation.
We will be
working on multiple projects throughout the year to give our students
opportunities to “give back”. Research shows that when children (and adults)
give they in turn have positive feelings that lead to a greater sense of
self-worth. Giving promotes cooperation, social connections and gratitude. And
research has found that gratitude is integral to happiness and health. Here are
a couple of opportunities for our students to get involved in the experience of
giving.
Gift for
Buckner
All JES
students are challenged to “earn” a dollar to donate to the Buckner Foundation
which is being collected by the JES Choir. The money will be presented to the foundation
during the winter holiday concert.
ANGEL TREE
Our traditional
angel tree will be decorated in the front office before we leave on
Thanksgiving Break. Each year, we have our own Angel Tree to provide for
children at Johnson Elementary. If you
are able to help, I hope you will choose an angel and make it a family project
of showing gratitude and compassion for those families at Johnson who can use
our help.
BASKETS OF
THANKS
Our
Ambassadors of Kindness will be leading us in a collection for holiday food
baskets for our cafeteria and custodial staff. If we each contribute a dollar,
we can give them a nice basket and gift card to show our gratitude. They do so
much for us around our campus and we celebrate the opportunity to show them our
appreciation.
Cognitive
Abilities Test (CogAT) and Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) were completed for
second and fourth grade students. Make ups are complete. The results will be
sent home around mid semester.
As always, if
I can assist you in any way, please call.
Kindest
regards,
Ziba Johnston
Counselor
Elizabeth.johnston@southlakecarroll.edu
817 949 4500
Giving
connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives
birth to a new sense of belonging.” Deepak Chopra
