maple lawn elementary

Husky Press
November 2009

Calendar of Events

When Your Child Is Sick
Please call the school at 253.981.4409 to report all student absences due to illness or emergency. Send a written excuse with your child when they return to school if you did not call. For more information about student attendance policies, please refer to the back pages of your school district calendar.

Veterans Day Assembly November 10, 10:00 am

Picture Retakes November 19

We are going green!
Next month, look for an electronic newsletter. For the over 440 Maple Lawn parents already subscribing to our District’s e-mail service, you will be receiving our newsletter in a timely, electronic fashion.   Please call Sue Van Slyke, at 253.891.4409 to subscribe. For families who are not able to receive an electronic version via e-mail, we will continue to provide a paper copy.

To receive up to date and important information from the school district and Maple Lawn, we encourage you to sign up for School Messages e-mail. 
Here is how to register:

• Access the school district’s Web site at www.sumner.wednet.edu
• Click on “Our Schools,” click on “Maple Lawn”
• On the left side of the screen, click on “School Messages sign up”
• Enter your e-mail address and name
• Click on “Subscribe”

You can also call your school of interest provide them your e-mail address, and they will get you registered. It’s easy and worthwhile!

Free and Reduced Price Meal Program
All families who wish to apply for reduced or free meals with the Sumner School District are encouraged to fill out an application at anytime during the school year. Families must submit a new application each year to participate in the program. Applications are available in the office.

Wash Your Hands
Please help us keep our students healthy by reviewing these guidelines with your child. Teachers have talked to students about the importance of washing hands thoroughly with soap for twenty seconds. Let your child know this is critical to their health. Please reinforce the importance of these guidelines and consider adopting them at home. It’s a good idea to have children wash their hands as soon as they get home each day as well.

• Wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds before eating and when they are dirty.
• Cough into your inside elbow, not your hands.
• Sneeze into your inside elbow, not your hands.
• Above all, do not put your fingers in your eyes, nose or mouth.

Please keep your children home if they are vomiting or if they have a temperature of 100 degrees or higher. Children should not return to school until they have been without a fever for 24 hours. We appreciate your assistance in keeping our students healthy!

News from Mrs. McDonald, Librarian
Maple Lawn readers send cart loads of thanks to the kind folks at A GOOD BOOK, our local Sumner downtown bookstore. On a chilly October morning many boxes arrived in our library full of books to distribute to classrooms and our library. So from all of us to all of you at the bookstore, we send our thanks for such a wonderful community partnership.      

Highly Capable Program Nominations
Each school year, Sumner School District accepts nominations of students in grades 2-7 whose educational needs might be best served by Sumner’s Highly Capable Program. Sumner serves students identified as highly capable in grades 3-5 in a self-contained “all day” program housed at Daffodil Valley Elementary. Middle school students attend Lakeridge or Sumner Middle School. For the 2010-2011 school year, students in grades 6 and 7 will attend Lakeridge Middle School. Students in grade 8 will attend Sumner Middle School. The middle school Highly Capable Program includes social studies, language arts, math and science.

Nominations
November 2 – 25, 2009
Nomination forms will be available at all elementary and middle Schools beginning Monday, November 2. Forms will also be available on our Web site.

Parent Information Night
Monday, November 16, 7:00-8:30 PM, at Daffodil Valley Elementary, 1509 Valley Avenue in Sumner. 
If you have questions about the program, qualification criteria, or selection process, please contact Tari Littlefield at 253-891-6035.

Grandparent’s Day
December 17, 2:15 pm

School Hours
Please remember the school day for Maple Lawn students begins at 8:45 am (students may arrive at 8:35) and ends at 3:10 pm. Students should arrive no earlier than 8:30 am and picked up by 3:15 pm. Wednesday start time is 10:15 am (students may arrive at 10:05). For bus pick up times please refer to the published bus schedule, which can be found on the District Web site under the Bus Schedule button in the top left corner of the page. While it is true that there are adults in the building before and after school, they are involved in planning, attending meetings, and other activities. We are unable to provide supervision for students who arrive early or stay late.

The Sumner/Bonney Lake Recreation Department is available to provide before and after school care here at Maple Lawn. There is a charge for this program, please call 253.891.6500 to register.

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