New River Elementary’s Reptile Review

Principal Update:

Dear Reptile Families,

We’ve had a great start to the 2021 year and are working to set realistic and achievable goals with our students. We have had several changes to teachers and learning environments as we welcomed many students from online back into the brick and mortar classrooms. While we have tried to keep consistency, it has been difficult with the current pandemic. Thank you for your continued support in our effort to ensure that our students are learning and thriving.

Please continue to encourage your child to be reading at home. Starting in kindergarten, if a student reads 20 minutes a day at home, they will hear 1.8 million words per year. They will have read for 851 hours by 6th grade and on standardized tests, they will likely score better than 90% of their peers. Please look for our flyer coming home at the end of the week for our 2nd Virtual Scholastic Book Fair. Click on the following link to access the virtual book fair from January 25th- February 7th .

Thank you,

Colleen Wilkinson Principal cgwilkin@pasco.k12.fl.us

PTA News:

You can support the New River PTA and help fund activities and rewards for our students AND teachers simply by doing your normal shopping on Amazon with the Amazon Smile program. Type smile.amazon.com into your browser and select New River Elementary PTA as your charity of choice and Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase to our school at no additional cost to you! Smile is also available through the Amazon app for Apple and Android!

Virtual Book Fair:

We will be having a virtual book fair from January 25th- February 7th. We are having a school wide competition. If we reach $1000 in book fair sales Mrs. Basinger will randomly select a students name that purchased books from the book fair and they will get to throw a pie at her face. If we reach $1500 in book fair sales Mrs. Wilkinson will kiss a reptile. If we reach $2000 in book fair sales we will have a school wide pajama day. Follow this link to order on January 25th .

PE News:

Happy 2021!! In January, we are concentrating on sportsmanship and teamwork. We will also be stressing the importance of good nutrition. We will be continuing with Reptile Run and are playing cooperative games. Brick and Mortar students are learning to do the long jump, hurdles and relay races. We hope that they will go out for track when they hit middle school!! Field Day shirts are on sale now! Please buy a field day shirt to show your spirit on field day and to help support the PE Dept. www.pasco.k12. fl.us/acorn

Important Dates:

February 3rd- Early Release Day

February 15th- No School: President’s Day

Kindness Week:

February 8th - 12th

ALL WEEK: Classroom Bingo & Kindness Scavenger Hunt

Monday, Feb 8th: “Encourage your Friends to be Kind” (Wear a motivational shirt)

Tuesday, Feb. 9th: “Be a Rainbow in someone else’s cloud” (Dress up in your grade level color:) Kindergarten - Red 1st Grade - Orange 2nd Grade - Yellow 3rd Grade - Green 4th Grade - Blue 5th Grade - Purple

Wednesday, Feb. 10th: “Crazy for Kindness” (Crazy hair day or wear a hat)

Thursday, Feb. 11th: “Look for the Good in Others” (Wear sunglasses)

Friday, Feb. 12th: “Show your kind heart” (Wear pink or red)