| Principal’s Message A quick reminder that Picture Retakes will take place on Tuesday, October 21st. If your child missed picture day or you’d like a new photo taken, this is the perfect opportunity. Just a reminder, next week, October 20–22, will be full school days (no early dismissal) for all students, followed by Fall Break October 23–27, returning to school October 28th. We hope everyone enjoys a restful and fun long weekend when it arrives! We’re also excited to share more about how students can earn tokens for our Yeti Book Vending Machine each month! Each class will receive two tokens: One token will be entered into a random drawing based on reading minutes logged in Beanstack. The second token will be awarded by the teacher for literacy-based progress, such as strong growth on Acadience progress monitoring, excellent effort during ELA, or consistent engagement in reading.We can’t wait to see students motivated and celebrating their reading success through these fun rewards! Thank you for continuing to support literacy at home, it makes such a difference. |
 Important Reminders Halloween – Halloween is quickly approaching! We will be holding our annual Halloween Parade as well as our classroom parties on Friday, Oct. 31st. The parade will start at 9:15 inside and we will proceed outside to the parade route around 9:30. Parents are encouraged to line the parade route and cheer us on. We are following the same parade route as last year. Parking is challenging on Halloween. You are encouraged to park in one of the two church lots across the street from the school. We would love you to then spread out throughout the route so we have the community and parents cheering us all along the route. We will have the 5th grade lead us and then have 4, 3, 2, 1, and Kinder follow. Please help your child to pick an appropriate costume. Here are some guidelines: No face masks or full-face paint. We need to be able to visually identify students in costumes. Costumes that are provocative, revealing, sexual in nature or employ questionable props are not permitted. Costumes that depict violence, alcohol, or drugs are not permitted. Fake (or real) weapons are not permitted. Costumes that can be offensive or perpetuate a stereotype of someone’s culture, gender, heritage or religion are not permitted. Costumes should not hinder your ability to participate in classes Costumes should include shoes Costumes and dressing up is optional Here is the parade route and map. |
 Upcoming Events 10/21 Picture Makeup Day 10/22 End of Quarter 10/23-10/24 Fall Recess- NO SCHOOL 10/27 Teacher Professional day- NO SCHOOL 10/31 Halloween Parade 9:15-10:30 11/3-11/7 Red Ribbon Week 11/4 Classic Skate Night 5:00-8:00pm 11/7 Fundraiser Kick Off and Net Positive Assembly 11/7-11/21 PTA Fundraiser 11/11 Veteran’s Day Assembly 11/12 PTA Meeting 9:15am 11/25 Turkey Trot 11/26-11/28 Thanksgiving Break  Beanstack Road to Success Bike ChallengeLet’s read our way to success! From October through March, students can log their reading minutes in Beanstack and complete the Road to Success Challenge. Along the journey, readers will earn small prizes as they hit different minute milestones. The more they read, the more rewards they earn — and at the larger milestones, students will receive entries into a drawing for a brand-new bike! Let’s see how far our readers can go on the road to success! |
| Veterans Day Information On Tuesday, Nov. 11th at 9:30 AM, we will be holding our annual Veterans Day Assembly. We will send an invitation for the assembly next week, but we wanted to put it on your calendars. We would like to invite any veterans in the community and their families to attend a small breakfast at 9:00 and then they will proceed to the assembly.If you are planning to send a veteran to the assembly, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/Pg1jCtgipBU1BAuG8Attached is a poster for students to fill out to be displayed in the hallway at Glacier Hills on our Veterans Day Wall of Fame. Please fill one out if you have a veteran you would like to highlight. https://docs.google.com/document/d/16FCtQwZ3xCa7y_Thed2fdzP6BMXah42M/edit  |
 Beanstack UpdatesCurrently we have 89% of our students who have logged their reading on beanstack! We have logged 231,365 total minutes of our 550,000 minutes goal!Our top classes currently are: Ms. Robbin’s Class Ms. Curtis’ Class Ms. Case’s Class  Fastest Class in the SchoolWe are continuing our tradition of “Fastest Class in the School” challenge this year, where each class in the school participates. I have them continuously run for 5 minutes (or walk, or jog – they always have the choice!). But we don’t stop for 5 minutes! Each lap is counted on a hand counter, and then I divide that number by the number of students in class that day, for average laps per student. It has proven to be a fun way to get students moving, focus on heart health, and increase stamina! I wanted to announce our overall school winner, as well as each grade winner. These classes will have their picture displayed on our poster outside of the gym, and the title of “Fastest Class in the School” until the next times we test, in January and April. The following are our fall winners: Overall Fastest Class: WILSON! 5th grade: CASE 4th grade: WHITNEY 3rd grade: KVAAL 2nd grade: HANDLEY 1st grade: BEUTLER Kinder: ROUNDY |
 Attendance Matters!Being on time each day makes a big difference for both students and teachers. To encourage strong attendance, each time 92% of a class is on time and present, their teacher adds a puzzle piece to the class’s Attendance Yeti. Once the Yeti is complete, students get to spin one of two prize wheels—one with exciting activity-based rewards like the Blizzard Blast Zone or a Read-a-Thon, and another with fun Yeti-themed items like erasers or sunglasses.Here’s how our grade-level attendance averaged out this past week: Kindergarten: 91% 1st Grade: 93% 2nd Grade: 90% 3rd Grade: 95% 4th Grade: 93% 5th Grade: 88% Overall School Attendance: 94% |
 PTAThe next meeting is: November 12th at 9:15am in the PTA Room (Rm 201). Red Ribbon Week is approaching. Red Ribbon Week November 3-7 Monday Nov. 3-Class Pledge Day! Tuesday Nov. 4-Yeti Strong, Drug Free All Along! Wear your Yeti shirts to school AND our FREE event at Classic Skate night! Thank you to Silcox and Jolley’s Pharmacy for sponsoring this event! Wednesday Nov. 5-“Put a cap on drugs!” Wear your favorite hat to school! Thursday Nov. 6-“Grownup me will be drug free!” Come dressed as your future career! Friday Nov. 7-Wear Red! It’s time for reflections! This year the theme is: I Belong. Reflections is a PTA sponsored event where students get to submit their original work in 7 different areas. 2D art, 3D art, photography, dance choreography, music composition, film production, and literature. All entries will be submitted online. Our schools deadline is October 22nd. Whenever a student finishes a submission, we are highlighting them at Morning Mindfulness and they will be given a pin! Watch for a flyer coming home next week with more information. Here is the poster.Link for Reflections video. Here is another resource with great information about Reflections.Link for PDF flyer. |
 Contact infoIf you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us. You can reach out via the following links: 801-826-9825 www.glacierhills.canyonsdistrict.org- Julie and Sam Julie Winfree Julie.winfree@canyonsdistrict.org Samantha Harris Samantha.harris@canyonsdistrict.org |