Thank you to a guest speaker...

I would like to say thank you to our guest presenter in Science class a week ago. We liked all of the cool things you brought in for us to study. Okay, some people appreciated the rubberized sheep stomach more than others...but it was all interesting and appreciated! Thank you, Trisha!

Lunch this Tuesday

We will be ordering pizza for lunch this Tuesday, February 4 and next Tuesday, February 11. Get your order in at the administration table by 10:00am on those days if you would like a pizza for your family. Cost is $5 plus tax for a whole pizza.

(Did anyone notice I went from rubberized sheep stomach to lunch?)

Valentines Day

February 11, REACH will celebrate Valentines Day during lunch break. Students can decorate a box or bag for friends to distribute valentines into. Leave your decorated container on the table in the entry. We will open them after kids have eaten lunch.

Afternoon only students: we would love for you to join us. If possible please come a little early and join the fun.

FYI, this will be a pizza lunch day so you have the option of packing the valentines but not also the lunch!

Field Trips, Olympics, and Birthdays 

Areas of Parent Partnership are just exploding! What a super group of people.

Field Trips

Thank you, Shelby, for organizing the field trip many of us enjoyed today at the Kansas Museum of History for KS History Day. We are happy to announce that Shelby has a passion for field trips and has volunteered to be the field trip coordinator for REACH. If you have any suggestions or thoughts for her you can pass them on to her in person or go through the REACH email address.

Olympics

Campfire time (right after lunch break, before afternoon classes resume) has taken on a fun focus of the 2014 Olympics. Thanks to Chrissy,  who has organized an activity for students to participate in tracking a country's progress in the games, and learning a few facts about the country they choose. Some students picked out countries this last week. If you would like to join in the fun, see the poster at the administration table for which countries are still available.

Instructions for the 2014 Olympics Activity:
1. Place your name on the sign up sheet by the country you want to follow.
2. Bring in a picture of your country's flag. This can be hand made or printed off from the computer.
3. Write down 3-4 facts about your country on a small sheet of paper (no bigger than a 6x6 inch paper). The flags and facts will be displayed on a poster board for everyone to see.
4. Keep track of the number of medals your country wins each day of the Olympic games and bring your medal totals to REACH each week. We will be keeping a sticker chart of the number of medals each country wins.

Birthdays

Student Birthday recognition. While we would like to find some reason to party and eat treats everyday, we decided once a every 4 weeks or so would work! Krystal has volunteered to coordinate a celebration that will recognize all the students who have a birthday in a particular month. At the end of lunch on the first Tuesday of each month, we will take a moment to sing to all the birthday students of the month; any parents of those students who wish to participate can help with a special treat. As this idea was just conceived, we will combine January and February on this Tuesday, February 4 and Krystal will bring cookies. A school email will be sent out if you would like to contact her to help.

Second Semester is Underway!

It has been wonderful to see everyone again as well as meet some new faces! Even though this semester started with cold weather, we were warmed up with laughter. (I still chuckle remembering the exclamations from some of the younger students in sewing class when they got their machines going.)

I want to say thank you to our special guest in geography class for sharing your experiences of living in Germany.  I don't know if I will eat popcorn in the future with powdered sugar, but it was interesting to try it that way!

Field Trip

An email was sent out to all student families regarding an upcoming opportunity for a field trip. If you did not receive an email, please let us know.

Lunch

We will be ordering pizza for lunch. If you did not write your order down last week, you may add it to the order sheet at the administration table if you arrive by 10:00am. Cost is $5 plus tax for a whole pizza.

Brrrrr!

We wanted to remind everyone that REACH follows USD 437 for school closings due to inclement weather conditions. So while we are hoping to see everyone in a couple of days, watch the school closings list and if district 437 is on it for Tuesday, January 7, then REACH will also be closed.

Stay warm!

Happy New Year everyone!

We are looking forward to seeing some old and new faces as this school year continues with the Spring Semester this Tuesday, January 7.

If you have any paperwork or payments to finish, please arrive a few minutes before the start of your first class and take care of that at the registration table. Thank you!

Food allergy alert!

We do have some attending who have a food allergy, the most serious to peanuts. We would like to ask that any food or snack brought that could possibly be shared would not contain any peanuts. Thank you!!