FROM THE HEALTH OFFICE:
The Health Office is running out of “loaner” pants, given to students when they have an accident at school. If your child has borrowed pants from the Health Office following a potty accident, please launder the clothes and return them to the HO. Thanks!
Dear Parents of Randolph Fourth Grade Students,
Outdoor Education for 4th graders is only 4 months away! At conferences your child’s teacher will talk to you about a wonderful experience that all fourth graders participate in at the end of the school year known as CAMP!
Camp will be held Thurs., May 14th and Fri., May 15th. Part of the success of this overnight camping experience is the participation of parents! We need you to volunteer to come to camp!
As volunteers, parents of our fourth graders can come to camp during the day, evening, and/or overnight! To get ready for camp, parents must be approved as volunteers in LPS. Please go to the LPS website and complete the volunteer forms.
https://wapp.lps.org/gold/volunteer/volunteer.cfm
*Filling out the form is just the first step in the process.
*Filling out the volunteer form does not commit you to being a volunteer at camp, nor does it approve you to go.
*A new form must be filled out for each calendar school year.
*The approval process takes time and we need to get started.
Once again, more information about Outdoor Education will be shared with you at conferences in February!
Kathy Wobig, Chair
Outdoor Education Committee
CALENDAR
Jan. 12 GET meets 8:10
Jan. 12 Report cards due to Dr. B. 4:00
Jan. 14 Elementary Principals meet at LPSDO 7:30-12
Jan. 14 Instructional Conferences grades 5, K, 1 with Dr. B. & Mrs. Bushaw
Jan. 15 Instructional Conferences grades 4, 2, 3 with Dr. B. & Mrs. Bushaw
Jan. 15 UNL Practicum students’ Orientation to Randolph
Jan. 16 Report cards sent home with students
Jan. 19 NO SCHOOL
Jan. 20 Staff meeting 4:00-5:15 p.m.
Agenda: Classroom Instruction That Works 2
Recommendations 1 & 2
Jan. 20 UNL Practicum students start in classrooms Tues & Thurs a.m.
Jan. 20 Kindergarten Parents Meeting with Miss Kulas 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 21 Title 1 Principals Meet at LPSDO 7:30 a.m.
Jan. 21-22 Grade 4 state writing test NeSA-W
Jan. 22 Spanish speaking families will meet at 3:45 with Ms. Kulas
Jan. 26 School Improvement Process committee meets 8:10 a.m.
Jan. 26 Elementary Principals Curriculum meeting at LPSDO 12:30-4:30
Jan. 27 PLC Early Out 2:18
Jan. 27 SCIP meets
Jan. 27 Principals Parent Advisory Committee meets 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 29 Family Literacy Night at 5:30
Jan. 30 DUE: non-stock supply orders
Feb. 4 and 5 Morning Chorus will restart on February 4th & 5th.
Feb. 4 Dr. B’s Science Fair class 3:38-4:30 in the library
Feb. 11 Dr. B’s Science Fair class 3:38-4:30 in the library
Randolph Science Fair is Thursday, Feb. 26.
Dr. B. will have a class after school on Wed., Feb. 4 and Wed. Feb. 11 (choose one) for all students who want to participate in the Science Fair. Students attending one of the classes will receive a booklet of experiment suggestions, rules & requirements, and their tri-fold display board. Each class will be from after school until 4:30. Students will be dismissed out door #3.
LOVE and LOGIC MOMENT
Dr. Charles Fay
Technology and Kids: Real Solutions
Each and every day our kids have opportunities to take cutting edge courses on the ins and outs of the latest technology. Visiting with their friends, they can learn what’s hot, what’s not, and how to work around most technological safeguards we put in place.
While they are taking these graduate-level courses, most of us are working long hours, paying bills, cooking, cleaning, fixing broken stuff and trying to squeeze a few more hours out of each day. As a result, trying to keep ahead of our kids’ technological savvy is impossible for most of us. Watching them every second of the day is also unrealistic. While it’s tough for some of us to admit, we have very little direct control over whether they make good digital decisions…or bad.
Real solutions to technology issues have little to do with technology…and almost everything to do with relationships.
When we have little or no direct control over any issue, we must rely on helping our kids become motivated to make good decisions from the inside-out rather than the outside-in. This means helping them feel so loved that they want to make good choices. This means providing limits in ways that reduce the odds of unwinnable power-struggles. This means allowing them to experience empathy and consequences when they blow it…so that the focus is on their bad decision rather than our anger. It’s all about spending time with them having fun, and showing through our example that there’s more to life than screens and cyber-drama.
Addressing the many tough questions about kids and technology requires much more than a brief article. Therefore, I’ll spend the following weeks providing a series of Insider’s Club tips addressing questions such as:
| • | How to avoid un-winnable power struggles and arguments. |
| • | Techniques for teaching respect and responsibility. |
| • | A step-by-step plan for gaining cooperation from the most challenging kids. |
| • | How to stay sane even when nothing seems to be working. |
| • | Many more Love and Logic skills for parents and educators! |
I’m sure that there will be some lively discussion on our Facebook page as a result!
For more tips to building responsibility and self-esteem in your child who can cope with making the right choices, check out Love Me Enough to Set Limits. Thanks for reading! Our goal is to help as many families as possible. If this is a benefit, forward it to a friend.
Dr. Charles Fay