January 3, 2019

LOOKING AHEAD A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Jan 3 Rollerama 6-8 PM

Jan 4 Bryant Spirt Day – Remember to wear your Bryant shirt

Jan 7 2:30 PM Dismissal

Jan 8 1000 Degree Pizza Night 4-9 PM

Jan 11 Bryant Spirit Day- Remember to wear your Bryant shirt

Jan 14 End of 2nd Quarter & 1st Semester

Jan 14 2:30 PM Dismissal

Jan 15 Teacher Work Day – NO SCHOOL

Jan 18 Bryant Spirit Day-Remember to wear your Bryant shirt

Jan 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (school is in session)

Jan 21 2:30 PM Dismissal

Jan 21 PTO Meeting – 5:30 PM in the Bryant Library

Jan 25 Bryant Spirit Day – Remember to wear your Bryant shirt

Jan 28 2:30 Pm Dismissal

Feb 1 Bryant Spirit Day – Remember to wear your Bryant shirt

Feb 4 2:30 PM Dismissal

Feb 5 Culver’s Night 5-8 PM (Hamilton Location)

Feb 7 Rollerama 6-8 PM

Feb 8 Bryant Spirit Day – Remember to wear your Bryant shirt

Feb 11 2:30 PM Dismissal

This is the fifth edition of the “Beartales” for the 2018-19 school year. We publish the newsletter on the first Thursday of the month during the school year. The newsletter contains information about upcoming events, news and other information.

Volume 5

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The mission of Bryant Elementary School is to provide all students with an exemplary education, which will meet the

diverse needs of individual students in a positive and safe environment while preparing them for academic success,

productive citizenship, and lifelong learning.

1114 27TH Street, Sioux City, Iowa 51103 Phone: 712-279-6819

www.siouxcityschools.org

Your Principal,

Mrs. Kollars

BRYANT

BEARTALES

Bryant Giving Tree

Thank You!!!

Happy New Year!

Bryant students will be taking their Winter

FAST reading assessments January 14-25. This

year at Bryant our building reading goal is to raise

student achievement by 10% on our Fall to Spring

testing. Every classroom is working on research-

based interventions to improve reading fluency.

One of the ways that parents can help support this

goal is to have your child read every night at

home. Thank you in advance for your support.

Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled

for February 25-26, 2019 (Interpreter Supported

Conferences are on Wednesday, March 6, 2019)

This will be a great time for your to visit with your

child’s teacher regarding specific skills that you

can work on to increase your child’s reading

proficiency.

QUOTE: Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

- Joseph Addison

Thank you to everyone who donated items for the Bryant Giving Tree. We donated the food items to the Siouxland Food Bank and the hats and mittens will remain in our building to help keep our students warm.

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HEALTH NEWS By Julie Johnson, RN

Soap and Water or Alcohol-Based Sanitizers for hands?

Both alcohol-based hand sanitizers and hand-washing are effective ways of preventing disease, but remember these important facts:

Hand sanitizers are not as effective when dirt is visible on hands. Hand washing with soap and water, singing the “Happy Birthday” song, should be used to remove the oil and grime where bacteria can live.

Hand sanitizers should not be used in place of soap and water:

when preparing food

after restroom use

changing diapers

Hand sanitizers will not work in killing certain viruses or bacteria such as:

Cryptosporidium - causes diarrhea.

Norovirus – causes stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhea and to throw up.

Clostridium difficile – causes watery diarrhea.

Clean hands are one of the best ways to prevent infection or disease. For more information, visit www.cdc.gov/handwashing/

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Thursday, January 3 – Rollerama 6-8:00 PM

Tuesday, January 8 – 1000 Degree Pizza Night 4-9 PM

Monday, January 21 – PTO Meeting 5:30 PM in the Bryant Library

Tuesday, February 5 – Culver’s Night 5-8 PM

Please help the Bryant PTO by: Collecting Hy-Vee Receipts (August - April)

Collecting Box Tops

Collecting Used Printer Cartridges

PTO minutes are available online at the district website: siouxcityschools.org under the Schools/Bryant/Parent tabs.

PTO EVENTS

NEWS

Happy Holidays from the third grade team! A lot of exciting learning has been happening in our classrooms over the past few months and there is a lot to look forward to in the New Year. We most recently concluded a social studies unit about the first Thanksgiving. Students learned about the pilgrim journey to America and the establishment of Plymouth. We wrapped up the unit by welcoming parents into our classrooms for a presentation of reader’s theaters, followed by our Thanksgiving feast later that week. We were so happy to share this tradition with our Bryant students. Thank you for your support. In math, we have begun mastering our basic multiplication facts and strategies to solve multiplication problems. Students recently tackled the Distributive Property of Multiplication! We encourage you to continue working at home with your child to help them become fluent on the basic facts (addition, subtraction, and multiplication). In January, we will dive into division. In reading, we continue to work on our Must do/May do Menus weekly and meet with our skills-based, small groups. The students have been working on making inferences and identifying the meaning of unknown words or phrases. Our latest learning has been about “idioms”, such as “it’s raining cats and dogs” or “hit the hay”. Building-wide, we continue to work on fluency to prepare for the FAST CBM assessment in January. The third grade goal is to proficiently read 116 words per minute with no errors. Thank you for encouraging your children to read at home.

Dream big, work hard! At Bryant, anything is “PAW”sible!

From your third grade teachers

NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT The Sioux City Community School District offers career and technical programs in the following areas: Business & Marketing, Family & Consumer Science, Health Science, and Industrial Arts, Technology, & PLTW. The Sioux City Community School District is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information (for employment), national origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status (for programs), marital status (for programs), or veteran status (for employment) in its educational programs and its employment practices. Inquiries or grievances, including Section 504 grievances and grievances under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, may be directed to Jen Gomez, Director of Student Services & Equity Education at 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com. Please see District Board policies 103 and 504.4 for additional information on available grievance procedures.

Spanish - Declaración de No Discriminar El Distrito Escolar de la Comunidad de Sioux City ofrece programas profesionales y técnicos en las áreas siguientes: Negocios y Mercadotecnia; Ciencias de la Familia y del Consumidor; Ciencias de la Salud; Tecnología; y PLTW (Proyecto Vanguardia). El Distrito Escolar de la Comunidad de Sioux City es una institución de empleo con oportunidad equitativa y acción afirmativa. Es una práctica injusta o discriminatoria de cualquier institución educativa de discriminar basado en raza, credo, color, sexo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, información genética (para empleo), origen nacional, religión, edad (para empleo), discapacidad, condición socioeconómica (para programas), estado civil (para programas), o estatus de veterano (para empleo) en cualquier programa educacional o práctica de empleo. Las preguntas o quejas, incluyendo quejas de Sección 504 y quejas bajo el Título II de la Ley de Americanos con Discapacidades, pueden ser dirigidas a Jen Gomez, Directora de Servicios Estudiantiles y Educación de Igualdad en 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com . Por favor, vea las políticas 103 y 504.4 de la Junta Directiva para información adicional acerca de los procedimientos disponibles de las quejas.

Vietnamese - Bản Tường Trình Không Có Sự Kỳ Thị

Học Khu Trường Cộng Đồng Sioux City cung cấp các chương trình về nghề nghiệp và kỹ thuật trong các lĩnh vực sau: Kinh Doanh & Thị Trường Tiếp Thị, Gia Đình & Khoa Học Tiêu Thụ, Khoa Học Y Tế, và Nghệ Thuật Công Nghiệp, Kỹ Thuật & PLTW. Học Khu Trường Cộng Đồng Sioux City là một cơ quan bình đẳng/có tác động khẳng định. Đó là một hành vi không công bằng hoặc sự kỳ thị đối với bất cứ cơ sở giáo dục nào phân biệt đối xử dựa trên chủng tộc, tín ngưỡng, màu da, giới tính, khuynh hướng giới tính, nhận định giới tính, dữ kiện di truyền (cho việc làm), nguồn gốc quốc gia, tôn giáo, tuổi tác (cho việc làm), khuyết tật , tình trạng kinh tế xã hội (cho các chương trình), tình trạng hôn nhân (cho các chương trình), hoặc tình trạng cựu chiến binh (cho việc làm) trong các chương trình giáo dục và thực hành trong việc làm. Ai muốn thắc mắc hoặc khiếu nại, gồm trong Điều Khoản 504 khiếu nại và khiếu nại theo Tiêu đề II của Đạo Luật Những Người Hoa Kỳ bị Khuyết Tật, có thể tiếp xúc trực tiếp với bà Jen Gomez, Giám Đốc Dịch Vụ Học Sinh và Bình Đẳng Giáo Dục tại 627 4th Street, Sioux City, Iowa 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com. Xin vui lòng xem điều luật trong Hội Đồng Học Khu điều khoảng 103 và 504.4 để biết thêm thông tin về các thủ tục khiếu nại hiện có.

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WINTER WEATHER

Kindergarten Gingerbread Houses

December 20, 2018

Talk FROM THE DISTRICT

Let’s Talk

An engaged community makes our District stronger. That is why we have made it easy for you to connect with us whenever it is convenient for you. We encourage you to take advantage of Let’s Talk, our 24/7 online submission site, by reaching out with your ideas, questions, concerns, and praise. To make a submission, please visit http://www.siouxcityschools.org/lets-talk/.

Maintaining a Safe and Healthy Environment

The Sioux City Community School District is committed to providing an environment where students and staff members are treated with dignity and respect. We recognize that we are not unique, in that we experience the challenges of school and community-based bullying, yet we want to be unique in serving as a District that works to make a significant and positive difference in this arena. Please, join us in the effort to maintain a safe and healthy school environment. Visit our website, www.siouxcityschools.org/anti-bullying-harassment-hazing/, to learn more about our anti-bullying policy, view resources to help us combat bullying, or report concerns. We also welcome your feedback. Consider sharing your ideas or concerns using the Let’s Talk tool on our website.

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