SCHOOL IN SESSION:

March 10 (Make-up Snow Day)

CONFERENCE DAYS:

March 13 & March 14

Dismissal @ 11:45 NO LUNCH SERVED

SPRING BREAK BEGINS:

April 4 - April 7

Brownsville Elementary School 8795 Illahee Road NE Bremerton, WA 98311

360-662-8000 Toby Tebo, Principal

Kim San Fellipo, Office Manager http://brownsville.ckschools.org

4/3-4/7 SPRING BREAK NO SCHOOL!

4/11 Jog-A-Thon Funds DUE; PTSA Meeting 6 - 7:30 pm

4/13 Whirligig for Choir 10:00 am—5:30 pm @Seattle Center (305 Harrison Street); Reading Debut - McCormick

4/14 Mariner Ticket Pre-Orders DUE

4/20 Reading Debut—McCormick 6 pm—7 pm

4/21 Golden Acorn Banquet 6 pm—9 pm

4/24 Middle School Registration Night for 5th Grad-ers 5:30 pm—8:00 pm

4/25 Band & Orchestra Concert 6:30 pm—7:30 pm

4/26 CLASS PICTURE DAY 9 am—10 am

4/27 Volunteer Luncheon 11 am—1:30 pm

4/29 Plant Sale 9 am—3 pm

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Volume 1, Issue 7

March 2017

3/9 BR Rummage Sale Drop-off 3 pm-7 pm (Subject to change due to possible make-up

3/10 SCHOOL IS IN SESSION-MAKE UP SNOW DAY; Rummage Sale Drop-off 3:45 pm—7 pm

3/11 Rummage Sale 8 am - 4 pm

3/13 & 3/14

Student Conferences DISMISSAL @ 11:45 am

3/14 PTSA Meeting 6 pm– 7:30 pm

3/15 5th Grade to SAGE 9:30 am - 1:30 pm

3/16 Reading Debut - Robertson 6 pm - 7 pm; (Schuyten & Richardson) Kindergarten to Museum of Art 9:30 am—12:30 pm

3/17 5th Grade to SAGE 9:30 am—1:30 pm

3/21 5th Grade to Camp Colman Fundraiser @ Blu Berry Frozen Yogurt (9989 Silverdale Way NW #101)

3/21 & 3/22

2nd Grade to Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (550 Winslow Way E. Bainbridge Island, WA ) 9:30 am– 1:00 pm (check with your child’s teacher to see which day their class is going)

3/22 5th Grade Camp Colman Fundraiser 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm @ Blu Berry Frozen Yogurt (9989 Silverdale Way NW #101); 4th/5th Grade Musi-cal 6 pm—7 pm

3/23 Reading Debut - Robertson 6 pm - 7 pm

3/28 4th Grade Salmon Release 9:40 pm- 12:15 pm

3/28 & 3/29

Jog-A-Thon

March Dates to Remember:

Brownsville Elementary PTSA will be having their annual Rummage Sale on Saturday, March 11, 2017 8 am - 4 pm

Please begin saving items to donate!

Donation drop-off times:

Thursday, March 9: 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Friday, March 10: 3:45 pm - 7:00 pm

ALL proceeds go to the general PTSA fund. Please NO old TV’s, computer monitors, or other outdated electronic devices. NO mattresses. Any upholstered furniture should be

clean & usable. NO baby cribs or car seats. NO liquids (paint, nail polish, perfume, etc.)

Questions?? Email Nicole Fischer: rummagesale@brownsvilleptsa.org

ATTENTION: K- 4th Grade Parents are you moving next school year? We would really appreciate it if you would fill out the following form which is asking whether or not you plan to stay at Brownsville Elementary next year or if you may be moving. Thank you so much for helping us out with this!

Here is the link: https://goo.gl/forms/aeCorvbRBZWVGzaO2

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Rummage Sale

Moving? BR Attendance 2017-2018

B R OW NS VILLE NEWS LE TT ER

V OLU ME 1, ISS UE 7

You may qualify for free/reduced lunch. Chil-dren need access to healthy meals daily. Your child may qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Please visit: https://www.myschoolapps.com/ Here you can get more information and fill out an application. This program applies to school lunches as well as breakfast served daily. Applications are accepted year-round.

We are required by the district to send out attendance letters to any of our students

who fit certain criteria. Just as a friendly reminder please write your student a note or

give the office a phone call (360-662-8000) so we can excuse their tardy or absence.

Otherwise, these various tardies and absences go unexcused.

CKSD automated phone calls are there to help notify you when your student’s teacher/

the office has marked your child absent in our system. As much as these calls can be

bothersome they are there to help remind you to notify us when your student is gone.

Attendance letters are based on yearly attendance

throughout a single school year. They are not based

on a quarterly time frame and accrue throughout

the school year. We know our students were hit

particularly hard this year with the flu/illness, fami-

lies go on trips, and often things come up which re-

quire your student to be absent or tardy. We ap-

preciate your patience!

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Free/Reduced Lunch

Attendance Letters

Here are our wonderful BR Bears for the Month of January! Great job! Be on the lookout in next month’s issue where I will include our Bears for February. Our students are awarded at the end of each month!

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Congratulations BR Bears!

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Charlotte Goldsberry

Cameron Nyberg

Kainoa Toyooka

Kate James

Angelica Ferrer

Hiro Gibson

Kamryn Abille

Cooper Schuyten

Emmanuel Burns

Evelyn Taatjes

Truman Holyoak

Charlotte Canfield

Leighton Hill

Emma Straumann

Sydney Brandt

Kaisen Olkonen

Hadley Dwinell

Luther Hamon

Ollie Hudson

Jaxson Marquez

Cael Hausdorf

Maiah Taitingfong

Andee Allen

Jordyn Martin

Kaleb Warden

Jackson Whitson

Adam Nold

Nathaniel Lauifi

V OLU ME 1, ISS UE 7

Thank you to all of our students who participated in

our Reading Olympics! You are amazing readers and we appreciate

your effort in getting in those minutes!

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Ben Phayre

Olivia Rowley

Otto Morris

Brooklyn Baker

Camryn Diabo

Makayla Devey

Kiyomi McKenzie

Alijah Logova

Emina Omeranovic

Katie Strong

Students who are chosen exemplify the following:

B– Be Nice

E– Excellent Effort

A– Always Listening

R– Respect for All

S– Service to Others

Reading Olympics

Principal’s Message:

Where did February go? We had snow, rain, wind, and a bunch of excitement here at Brownsville. We just wrapped up our Reading Olympics, had a wonderful book fair, bingo night, Cat in the Hat visited the students yesterday, and our new session of clubs will begin next week. The State delivered some good news as well, informing us that Brownsville has been selected as a Lighthouse School. With this award, comes $20,000 of support to continue our STEM work. In addition, this award puts us in partnerships with other schools around the state to further their STEM initia-tives. I’m extremely proud of our staff, students, and communi-ty.

March is going to be a busy month as well, as we have our Grade 4/5 Musical Performance, our Jog-a-Thon, Rummage Sale, a visit from Taproot Theatre, and numerous field trips. Thanks for your continued support within our active school community.

The month of March also marks an important transition towards the next school year. Currently, we have numerous students that don’t live in Brownsville's attendance area. In the past few years, we have had a huge growth of enrollment and increase of inter-est for students to attend Brownsville. If your student is currently out of Brownsville’s boundaries, it is so important that you fill out a request form. These forms must be filled out yearly, or your child may not be eligible to attend.

Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) is coming up in May, and we are currently preparing. This will mark the third year that we have administered this challenging statewide test. To see sample questions, please visit http://wa.portal.airast.org/students-and-families/ and take the practice test. Just choose the options for the practice test and login as a guest. At this website, you can see the type of questions that will be asked at each grade lev-el. As we get closer to May, we’ll have the schedule of testing, so you can place medical/dental appointments around the assess-ment days.

Enjoy the onset of Spring,

Mr. Tebo

http:brownsville.ckschools.org

Report Your Student’s

Absences online here:

http://brownsville.ckschools.org/about/absences