ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title I School Romeo Elementary School 19550 SW 36th Street 19550 SE 36th Street Dunnellon, Florida 34431 Dunnellon, Florida ROMEO INFORMATION CORNER October 6, 2014 Monday Good News Club Starts October 7th, 14th, 21st Tuesday PTO Meetings October 13, 2014 Monday Fire Truck here K-2 from 9:30 to 11:00 am October 20-23 2014 Monday Book Fair October 21& 22 School Pictures October 21, 2014 Tuesday & Wednesday Tuesday October 22, 2014 October 23, 2014 Wednesday Thursday Kona Ice Romeo Round-Up October 23rd-31st Thursday Red Ribbon Week October 24, 2014 Friday October 29, 2014 Wednesday On Top Of The World Grandparent Readers No School– Teacher Work Day Early Release Students release at 12:05 Volume 13 34431 Issue 2 October 2014 Principal Jane Ashman Assistant Principal Curriculum Kimberly White Dean of Discipline Scott Wheeler School Secretary Caroline Spitznogle Guidance Counselors Rosemary Burnett Academic Coach Marie Hoehn Cafeteria Manager Marie Akins Romeo Round-Up The time is once again upon us for Romeo Round-Up. We would like to make this year better than ever! Round-Up this year will be on Thursday, October 23, 2014 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. There is no school on Friday, so we feel it will make this year’s turn out better than ever! We will need donations of bags of individually wrapped candy. Therefore, we have a contest beginning Monday, September 29th. The class in each grade level that donates the most bags of individually wrapped candy will receive a Popcorn Party following Round-Up. We are also in need of individually wrapped baked goods (Lil Debbies, etc.) for the cake walk. You can sponsor this event for $20 and have your name posted at a door. All sponsors will receive one “FREE” Trick-or-Treat Pumpkin Necklace. Volunteers will be needed for set up, take down, and man the Trick or Treat doors. You can purchase tickets for food at the ticket booth. Money will be accepted at the ticket booths only. Food, refreshments, and drinks will be available in the cafeteria starting at 5pm. Trick or Treat necklaces can be purchased in advance for $4.00 each. They go on sale starting October 10th until Wednesday, October 22nd. Necklaces will be sent home on Wednesday, October 22nd to prevent lost necklaces. Necklaces may be purchased the night of Round-Up for $5.00 each at a ticket booth on a first come basis. There are a limited amount of necklaces sold. Trick or Treating will start at 5:30 pm. Round-Up will conclude at 7:30 pm. School Hours Start Time: 7:45 am Dismissal Time: 2:05 pm Early Release: 12:05 pm Save-a-Friend Hotline 1-877-737-4363 Counselor’s Corner Respect Yourself and Respect Others: Main Office: 465-6700 Fax: 465-6701 Guidance: 465-6702 October 23rd -31st is designated as Red Ribbon Week, a time to dedicate ourselves to being drug free. Parents, consider the following actions to help create a drug free environment: Talk with your children, base your drug and alcohol messages on facts, Let your child know about the problems resulting from alcohol and drug use, Set clear rules and be a positive role model. Practice with your child ways to say, “No”, to drugs. Get to know your child’s friends and their parents. Teach your child healthy, positive ways to deal with life’s challenges. Enroll your child in community groups or programs that emphasize a healthy lifestyle. By working together, we can create a bright drug free future for our children. Cafeteria: 465-6703 ~MARION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL SYSTEM~ Telephone Numbers ~MARION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL SYSTEM~ Rosemary Burnett Save-a-Friend Hotline 1-877-737-4363 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 2 PIONEER NEWS PAGE 2 Art Room news Romeo is Diving into Accelerated Reader!! Accelerated Reader is an exciting program that encourages, monitors, and rewards reading. Each time your child reads an accelerated reader book; they go to the computer and answer a 5-10 question quiz to check their understanding of the story. As long as your child read the complete book and it was on their reading level, they should have no problem passing the test. Students get points for each book they read. The number of points is determined by the reading level, the length of the book, and the percentage they get correct on the quiz. Longer books earn more points. Please talk to your child about Accelerated Reader, and encourage them to read and get involved. They can earn prizes and invitations to game days, banquets, and celebrations. I am very excited to announce that Renaissance Home Connect is now available and can be accessed outside of school from any computer with an Internet connection. Renaissance Home Connect is fun and easy to use. It allows the teacher, you, and your child to share information about your child’s progress in Accelerated Reader. ****Falling in LOVE with ART!!!**** The first 9 weeks of school is almost over and that means that Mrs. Love will be leaving Romeo to head over to Dunnellon Elementary for 9 weeks of art while Mrs. Litterine comes here to teach music to our pioneers. Before I go let me tell you of a couple ART EVENTS to plan for. FAFO ( Fine Arts for Ocala) will be the weekend of October 25 & 26. If you or your family have never been to this downtown Ocala art show, you should make this your year to go. If you have been before I’m sure you will be going back and I most likely will see you there. All of our students have been working on masterpieces of art that might be one of the 40 pieces selected to show our Romeo talent. Come out and support the ARTS by attending this free and wonderful weekend of art! Also, we will be showing selected pieces of art at the School Board offices in Ocala in the month of October. Notices will hopefully be coming your way if your child’s art is selected for either showing. As always keep the arts and the fun knowledge of our world’s humanities in mind. Read about it. Draw and paint with your student, and go to a museum if possible with them. The Appleton Museum in Ocala is a wondrous place! Be ART smart! To log in to Renaissance Home Connect Website: https:// hosted257.renlearn.com/72115/ HomeConnect User Name: Your child’s student number (the same number they type in for lunch) Password: Your child’s birthday in 2 digit month and 4 digit year format. For example a child with the birthday April 21, 2004 would have the password 042004. Transportation Hotline Number 352-671-7050 Volume 2 Issue 2 PIONEER NEWS PAGE 3 School Pictures! Scholastic Book Fair The Scholastic Book Fair will be scheduled for October 20th thru the 24th. The book fair will be open during Romeo Roundup October 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Please come in and see the great books available to purchase. The money raised from the book fair goes directly toward library materials and the Accelerated Readers program. If sending a check with your child please put the students name, phone number (with area code), and a physical address on the check (a post office box is not sufficient). Also please make checks payable to Romeo Elementary October 21st & 22nd A great Christmas gift for family! SWI Photography will be here for school pictures. Every student will have their picture made for the school yearbook. Your child's teacher will be notifying parents of the specific day for pictures. Payment must be made on the day your child's pictures is taken, or you can place your order on line before picture day at swiphoto.com/picture day. Click on picture day. Choose Romeo Elementary, then choose your package and bonus options. RED Ribbon Week Red Ribbon Week is October 23rd –30th . Our theme this year is “Respect Yourself and Respect Others!” October 27th-October 31st . Red Ribbon Week Activities include: Monday: “Pledge to be Drug Free!”- Wear Red Tuesday: “Hats off to Drug Free!”- Wear your favorite hat for a $1.00 donation to United Way. Wednesday: Be on the “A” Team– Wear your favorite team t-shirt. Thursday: “Go all out to Fight Drugs!”- Wear everything red from the hat on your head to the shoes on your feet. Friday: “Say Boo to Drugs!”- Wear your Halloween Good News Club Parents! Don’t forget! Good News Club starts on October 6, 2014. Students with permission slips will be dismissed from class at 2:05 to report to the cafeteria. At the conclusion of the Good News Club students will be dismissed at 3:45 to the car rider line or they will be dropped off at Extended Day. If there are changes for dismissal or your child cannot attend that day, please send a note to your child’s teacher. October is Fire Prevention month!! This year students can participate in a Fire Prevention Poster Contest with the chance to be recognized at the Board of County Commissioners meeting. This year’s theme is “Get Down, Get Out”. Get on the Phone!” and is designed to demonstrate the importance of having a family escape plan. Marion County Fire Rescue will be on campus with a FIRE TRUCK on October 13th to do a presentation of Fire Prevention. Teachers will have more information. Student Drop-off/pick-ups: Parents and students please remember that every day, other than early release days, that school starts at 7:45 AM and dismisses at 2:05 PM. Parents that are dropping off tardy students, please remember to walk your children into the front office, so that they can be signed in and given a tardy slip. Unattended dropoffs are not acceptable. Also, if your student is being signed out early, please remember that sign-outs stop at 1:30 in the afternoon. Student sign-outs will not be allowed after this time since students and teachers will be preparing for dismissal. LOST & FOUND Every year we find more and more student clothing, backpacks, and lunch boxes left behind throughout our school campus. Unfortunately, not every item ends up claimed by the end of the year. By marking the inside of your child’s jackets, backpacks, and lunch boxes, we will be able to return lost items to their proper owners! Eating Lunch With Your Child? Parents, if you are coming to eat lunch with your child please check in the front office to get your visitor pass. We invite you to eat lunch with your child in the courtyard. You may only eat with your child; other students are not allowed to leave the cafeteria to eat in the courtyard with your child. If you know ahead of time that you are coming, please let your child’s teacher know. ~MARION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL SYSTEM~ Save-a-Friend Hotline 1-877-737-4363 ~MARION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL SYSTEM~ Save-a-Friend Hotline 1-877-737-4363