November Calendar 2 - Fall Social/Book Fair, 5:30-7:00pm 6 - Parkside Blood Drive, 3-7 PM 7 - Basketball: Parkside @ Richards 9 - Veteran’s Day Program, 1:30pm 11 - Harlem Wizards Basketball Game, 2:00pm, Columbus North Gym 13 - Roller Skating Party, 6-8pm, Columbus Skateland 14 - Basketball: Parkside @ Schmitt 19 - Basketball: Lincoln @ Parkside 20 - PTO meeting at 1:30pm 21-23 - NO SCHOOL: Thanksgiving Break 28 - Basketball: Taylorsville @ Parkside

November 2018

Christopher L. Smith, Principal Dana Bodart, Assistant Principal

Fall Social/Book Fair Friday, November 2

Students will visit the book fair with their classes Friday during the day.

Friday evening, everyone is invited to come back from 5:30-7:00 to shop the book fair and enjoy a hot chocolate bar!

Newsletter Want to receive this newsletter via email? Email the office at ebersoldk@bcsc.k12.in.us Did your family receive more than one paper copy? Please let us know so in the future we will only send one. This helps our school save paper and be more environmentally friendly.

Parkside Blood Drive

Tuesday, 11/6/18 3:00PM - 7:00PM Parkside Parking Lot

To schedule an appointment, visit www.donorpoint.org & use Sponsor Code A922. Students can earn prizes by recruiting donors! Donors must be 17 years old (16 with signed parent permission slip), meet height /weight eligibility requirements, be in good general health, and present a photo I.D. at registration. Not sure if you are eligible? Visit the eligibility page of our web site, or email specific questions to Eligibility. More questions? Contact: Shannon Crawford (scrawford@indianablood.org).

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Notes From the Office 2019 Edna V. Folger Outstanding Teacher Award

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2019 Edna V. Folger Outstanding Teacher Award. Deadline for nominations is 4 p.m. on Friday, January 18, 2019. The winner of this award will receive a stipend of $4000 and their name will be added to the permanent plaque located in the Columbus Learning Center. Any full-time elementary or secondary school teacher or educator working at a public, private, or parochial school in Bartholomew county is eligible to receive the award. More information is available in the main office or you may download the nomination form at www.iupuc.edu/ctl.

Dress for Recess It is getting colder outside, please dress your children appropriately for the weather. We go outside for recess daily as long as the temperature is over 20 degrees.

Background Checks In order for you to volunteer in the classroom or to attend a field trip with your child’s class, you must complete a background check every year. You may download a form from the Parkside website by clicking on the parent tab at the top of the page. Forms are also available in the office. If you are eating lunch with your child, please bring your drivers license or photo id with you. Everyone must be checked in through our new Safe Visitor program.

Major Saver Cards This week was the start of our Major Saver Cards fundraiser. Information about the program came home with your students after having a school assembly on Wednesday. Proceeds from the selling of this card will directly benefit our school and the BCSF, Bartholomew Consolidated School Foundation. Major Saver is a Restaurant and Activity Discount Card. There are 21 great local offers for only $15. When selling the cards you may accept cash, checks, or credit cards. Make checks payable to Major Saver. If a student sells 10 or more cards, they will earn a Limo ride to a Pizza Party! The last day to turn in orders for the cards is November 5.

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Parkside Elementary - 1st nine weeks Honor Roll

Gold: Arsh Attar, Blainey Bennett, Braden Bostic, Andrew Brown, Kara Buntin, Michael Crossman, Julia Reese Euler, Damaris Garcia, Amber Gibby, Luke Hensley, Sara Hobbeheydar, Lukas Hoehn, Rhea Jain, Yuka Kawanami, Grace La Sell, Emmersen Logston, Daniella McNeill, Hitashi Patel, Andrew Qin, Rishabh Rajesh, Darby Rocker, Chloe Rommeck, Izabella Ross, Skyelar Ross, Parth Shah, Samuel Song, Cole Stevens, Steven Sun, Neal White, Kyleigh Wolf, Kendall Yamcharern, Nurfatihah Zulkifly Silver: Hunter Beesley, Aidan Brown, Chloe Davis, Maria Delgado, Dhruv Deshmukh, Nadia Espejel, Holly Evans, Augustus Gaylord, Ananya Genge Patil, Meadow Glady, Emily Haines, Jacob Hefner, Jacqueline Hernandez Ortiz, Donovan Hicks, Dumo Kak, Charley Kerber, Mikhail Machavariani, Draven Martinez, Kadence McClintic, Samuel McGhehey, Addisyn Milenbaugh, Teagen Pelo, Grayson Pezold, Daniella Preston, Benjamin Psota, Elijah Psota, Liam Rarey, Lillian Retz, Aiden Rice, Karla Silvestre Gaspar, Srilakshmi Srivathsan, Kira Streit, Cole Vreeland, Lakshmi Yepuri

2018-2019 Student Council Members

4th Grade: Deeksha Yerragolla Sydney Bostic Sophia Gallion 5th Grade: Nino Akhalaya Logan Vanzant Lauren Degner Ahalya Singh Lily Guo Leo Iorio 6th Grade: Daniella McNeill Emerson Logston Rhea Jain Srilakshmi Srivathsan

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First Lego League Competition Nov. 10

The First Lego League competition will be held from 8-4 at the FFY on November 10th. Any who wish to come and support our two Parkside teams is welcome.

D.I. Call Out - November 12 Parkside’s Destination Imagination call out meeting will be held on Nov. 12th in the cafeteria at 6pm. More information will be coming home in the Tuesday folder.

Math Bowl Call Out - November 13 Math Bowl Call Out! Please plan to stay after school on Tuesday, November 13th to hear about MATH BOWL and to take a qualifying exam. Students can prepare for the exam by working on math websites like ixl and Khan Academy. This year the focus will be Geometry and Measurement, so study those specifically! The MATH bowl program covers standards taught in grades 4-7!. Good luck with try outs! If you have any questions please contact Mrs. Logston at logstone@bcsc.k12.in.us

Spell Bowl November 16 Spellers have been working hard to memorize 750 difficult words! The final team members include Nino Akhalaya, Advait Aras, Kiara Athaide, Lauren Degner, Wyatt DeHart, Clemence Delfosse, Nitya Garg, Harshil Gandhi, Lily Guo, Dylan Jahula, Sanjeet Mane, Hitashi Patel, Rishabh Rajesh, Shashu Sabapathy, and Parth Shah. The competition will be held at Southside Elementary on November 16th at 5:00! Best wishes Spellbowlers! You have learned a lot!

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Music Notes 3rd and 4th Grade Adventure Concert Field Trip The students in the 3rd and 4th grade music classes will be attending a concert performed by the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic on Tuesday, November 13 at 9:00 am in the Columbus North Auditorium. Before attending the concert, the students will learn about the instrument families of the orchestra, listen to some musical excerpts, and discuss the lives of some of the composers that wrote the music that they will be hearing. Permission slips were sent home in the Gold Folders on October 30 and should be returned to Mrs. Dell by November 9 along with the $5.00 concert and transportation fee.

Veteran’s Day Program Each year the students at Parkside School present a program to honor our Veterans and this year’s program will be on Friday, November 9 at 1:30 pm in the school gym. As part of the program again this year, pictures of Veterans in uniform will be displayed on a large screen during a special song sung by the Parkside Choir. If you would like a family member or friend included in this slide show, please send a picture of them in uniform to Mrs. Dell by November 7. Photos should include the name of student that brought the photo and their classroom so that the photo can be returned after it is scanned. Pictures can also be sent digitally to dellk@bcsc.k12.in.us. If you sent a picture for last year’s program, there is no need to send it again this year since it is already included in the slide show. A special invitation form was sent home in the Gold Folders for students to invite a Veteran that

they know to the program. The bottom portion of the form should be returned to Mrs. Dell by

November 7 so that adequate seating can be set up for our special guests and their families.

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Third Grade

Third Grade - Stone Soup Opera Miss Bodkins' third grade class will be presenting a "Stone Soup Opera" on Tuesday, November 20th, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Harrison Room. The children will perform an opera/musical which will be followed by a Stone Soup and Haystack Cookie lunch for everyone. We have a really special program planned just for you so please put this date on your calendar and plan to attend if you are able! =]

Grade Level News

Miss Bodkins: Daelyn Diaz Bronson Hunter Anna Ruble

Mrs. Rawlins: Tripp Maddox Hayden Henry Taylor Streit David Garcia

PE News Roller skating is coming to Parkside! I am very excited about this, and I hope that your child is excited as well! It will be a great way to get some exercise during the cold December days. I have shared this information with your child, but I realize that sometimes that information doesn’t make it back to the parent. We will be skating from November 26-December 21 during PE classes. It will be during your student’s normally scheduled PE time. Here are some details about our skating program: We will be using skates from Skatetime. These are guaranteed safe for our gym floor. Unfortunately, we can’t let kids bring skates in from home because they may be safe for our gym floor, or they may not be. The company provides wrist guards, elbow pads, and knee pads. Students are welcome to bring in a bike helmet to use when skating. If your student doesn’t know how to skate or has never been skating, this is a great opportunity for them to learn. For the first day, there will be SkateTime Skate experts to teach the kids how to start, how to stop (without crashing), and what to do if they feel like they are falling. After that I will be taking over. - Ms. Wiley

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Fifth Grade Fifth graders spent October 1st-3rd at Bradford Woods! The trip was a huge success! Students learned about tons of science concepts, including ecosystems, animal adaptations, the water cycle, food chains and food webs. They even learned about and caught benthic macroinvertibrates. Are you curious? Ask a fifth grader to tell you what THAT means! Along with all the science, students wrote stories, performed skits, presented the weather, learned about the American flag, and Native Americans. The weather was beautiful, and we enjoyed time with friends working as a team. We also took plenty of time to sing songs and be silly. The teachers got in on the act, showing off their crazy acting and singing skills at the nighttime campfire. Even the mosquitoes couldn't ruin all the fun!

Grade Level News

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Pre-K Edwards - Spiders! Edwards Pre-K has been learning about spiders, playing spider games, and doing observational drawings of spiders.

Pre-K Morlok - Fall Fun! Mrs. Morlok's Pre-K class enjoyed a crisp walk to the corner of Westenedge and Rocky Ford to visit the small pumpkin display there. Each student was able to buy a $1 pumpkin to carry back to our classroom. We measured and weighed our pumpkins and then painted them to bring home.

Grade Level News

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Counselor’s CornerCounselor’s CornerCounselor’s Corner

The Giving Tree will once again be coming to

Parkside!

Beginning November 27th

through Wednesday,

December 6th, we will be collecting NEW mittens,

gloves, hats, and scarves for children in need in

Columbus! Please bring these items to school and

hang them on our tree in the main lobby.

Thank you for spreading kindness

and care to others this holiday season!

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WalkWalkWalk---thethethe---Plank Winners and ThanksPlank Winners and ThanksPlank Winners and Thanks Thanks to everyone who turned in an envelope for walkathon! Congratulations to our grand prize winner

Tora Vreeland in Mrs. Taylor‘s room. Tora has won the ultimate prize pack which includes a fitness

tracker and a set of passes to great activities around the city.

The grade level winners are as follows:

Pre-K TIE: Lucy Henderson in Mrs. Morlok’s room and Alistair Chesney in Mrs. Edwards‘s room.

Kindergarten is William Burnett in Mrs. Grider‘s room.

First grade is Jonah Henrichsen in Mrs. Champlin’s room.

Second grade is Emma Spock in Mrs. Sprong’s room.

Third grade Lillian Thrash in Miss Bodkins’s room.

Fourth grade Isaac Henrichsen in Mrs. Ruble’s room.

Fifth grade Lauren Degner in Mrs. Logston’s room.

Sixth grade Grace LaSell in Mrs. Rawlings’s room.

The grade level winners will be receiving a Parkside beanie hat.

We also have a prize for the class who had the highest percentage of envelopes returned…

that was Mr. Hashman’s class. The class that collected the largest amount of money is…

Mrs. Sprong’s room. Those classes will each celebrate with an ice cream party later in the year.

Mr. Hashman and Mrs. Sprong will also receive individual prizes for this award.

And now for the mystery prize winners:

Abby Eaton in Mrs. Sprong’s room won a basket of books and a gift card to Viewpoint Books.

Anand Neela in Mr. Hashman’s room won the Parkside spirit package.

Darby Rocker in Mrs. Stroh’s room won a night at the movies including a gift card to AMC Theatres.

Walkathon Sponsors:Walkathon Sponsors:Walkathon Sponsors:

Platinum Elwood Staffing Rich Anthony McDonalds Gold Northside Pediatrics – Dr. Iorio Tipton Park Dentistry Silver Columbus Parks and Recreation Bronze Bartholomew County Historical Society Columbus Rock Gym Creative Concepts, Inc. Special Thanks to: The Family of Sin Lee The Family of Rajrishi Sangolli The Family of Alexander Alatriz

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PTO Meetings Are For Everyone!PTO Meetings Are For Everyone!PTO Meetings Are For Everyone! Interested in learning what the PTO does or want to become more involved? PTO Meetings are generally held the third Tuesday of the month. Come to our meeting on November 20 at 1:30pm or contact Renee Degner at degners@att.net to learn more.

Thank you Arni’sThank you Arni’sThank you Arni’s The Parkside PTO would like

to thank Arni's Restaurant for

donating dinner for our teachers

during conferences!

Roller Skating PartiesRoller Skating PartiesRoller Skating Parties Join us Tuesday, November 13 at our next skating party! And mark your calendars for our 2019 skating parties: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 & Thursday, May 9, 2019.

Times will be 6-8pm at Columbus Skateland.

Entry is $3 per skater and includes skate rental!

Parkside Pirates

You are invited to our

next PTO Meeting:

Tuesday, November 20

at 1:30pm

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The world famous Harlem Wizards are returning to Columbus, November 11th to get “schooled” by the “BCSF

Stars” basketball team including Mr. Smith.

The event is taking place at Columbus North Memorial Gymnasium, 1400 25th Street. Doors will open at

1:00PM and the game tip off will be at 2:00 p.m. The afternoon promises to be a fun filled event that is great

for kids and adults and will guarantee to put a smile on your face! This event is hosted by The Bartholomew

Consolidated School Foundation (BCSF).

At a Wizards’ game, you will witness amazing basketball talent combined with hilarious comedy. It’s two

hours of family time where parents, grandparents, and kids can all laugh together. When you’re in the stands,

you’re more than a spectator; you’re part of the show with loads of audience participation. The experience can

only be summed up in two words: Awe-Inspiring! Check out last year’s event: Harlem Wizards vs BCSF

Stars 2017

This year we have added a little something special for kids and veterans.

For Kids - 3 kids (and their parent or guardian) will have a “once in a life time” opportunity to win a chance to

have ice cream with 3 time NASCAR champion, Tony Stewart! All you have to do is come to the game and

be there during the 3rd quarter for the chance to be chosen. The date for the ice cream with Tony event will be

in the near future.

For Veterans – BCSF has received a donation to give a free ticket to 200 veterans to thank you for your ser-

vice to us all! If this is you, please contact bruins@bcsc.k12.in.us to get your ticket.

Come cheer Mr. Smith and watch the BCSF Stars “school” the Harlem Wizards!

Tickets can be purchased online at www.bcsfstars.org or in person at Viewpoint Bookstore - 548 Washing-

ton St and BCSC Administration Building 1200 Central Ave.

See you at the game!

Hey Kids! Want to have some ice cream with me,

Tony Stewart?

Come to the Harlem Wizards vs BCSF Stars, stay

until the 3rd

quarter drawing and you could win!

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