UPCOMING ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK OF
JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 4
* Reminder: January Health & Safety Challenge: Be Better
Take the opportunity to set personal and family goals for the new year!
1. Keep track of time spent watching TV and time spent exercising. Try to decrease screen time and increase time getting exercise each week!
2. Make daily family dinners a time to connect and strengthen your family.
3. Set personal and family goals to be better.
The drawing for January will be soon so make sure your challenge paper is turned in.
* Early Out is Wednesday, February 2nd!! School dismissed at 12:55 PM.
AM Kindergarten: 8:25 AM – 10:25 AM, PM Kindergarten: 10:55 AM – 12:55 PM
* Bookmobile will be Thursday, February 3rd.
* Birthday Table for all students with February Birthdays will be Friday, Feb. 4th. Make sure to return your lunch forms if eating at the school!
* You can still purchase a YEARBOOK! They are $10 if you order before January 28th, after that you can purchase a yearbook for $12 until they are sold out. You will need to give your order form and money to Mrs. Spackman in the office and checks are to be made out to McKinley Elementary.
* Remember The Box Tops Competition for the month of January is the 2nd Grade classes (last day for 2nd graders is Monday, Jan. 31st) and for February will be the 1st Grade classes! You can bring in the following items: Box Tops, Cream of Weber lids, Campbell’s Soup labels, empty Elmer’s glue stick tubes/glue bottles and empty Neosporin tubes. Make sure Box Tops are cut out along the dotted lines and the soup labels are just the UPC with the point value. Bring in as much as you can and put them in the collection container in your classroom. THERE WILL BE A PRIZE FOR THE WINNING CLASS! Good Luck!
* ATTENTION ROOM PARENTS: Please be aware that the 100th day of school is being celebrated on Tuesday, February 8th and the Room Parents are in charge of a class activity and treat for that day. Please talk to the teacher and find out what works best for them and then get those thinking caps on and come up with something FUN!
* Mark your calendars for Family Math Night at the school on Wednesday, Feb. 9th!
* There will be a meeting at McKinley planned by the School District on Tuesday, Feb. 15th at 7:00 PM to discuss the “tentative” boundary changes that will be made due to the new Garland and Fielding schools. These changes will affect our school so please plan to attend to receive more information and give input. THANKS!!!
* Doodle 4 Google
It’s time again for the doodle 4 Google contest! Last year we had a state finalist, congratulations to Tucker Porter for that award!
The theme for this year is “What I’d like to do someday…..”
We will have several days of computer time to work on these doodles, they may work on them at home also, but they need to be turned in by the first week of March! I will give each child a practice paper and a paper with the Google logo on it, which will be the paper that is turned in.
You may look online at www.google.com/doodle4google for more info.
Rules
• The student doodle should be presented on a white, landscape sheet of 8.5” x 11” paper.
• The Google logo in the student doodle should be clearly visible and recognizable.
• The student doodle should be done in pencil, crayon, felt tip, paint, or by using computer drawing or design software.
• We do not accept entries that use additional materials to create 3D effects.
• While we encourage your students or children to use the work of Dennis Hwang, our original doodler or other previous Doodle artists and winners as inspiration, we remind participants not to recreate or plagiarize previous designs.
• We keep all of the original artwork and do not send it back; if you want a copy of your student or child’s doodle, make a color copy of it before you mail it in.
Judging
Doodles will be judge based on the following:
• Artistic merit: based on grade group and artistic skill
• Creativity: based on the representation of the theme and use of the Google logo
• Theme communication: how well the theme is expressed
• Appropriateness of supporting statement
McKinley Students: Get your creativity cap on and DOODLE something fun!!!
Thanks,
Mrs. Zundel
