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August 5, 2016
Principal's Message

We had a great first full week of school!  Teachers have been working hard assessing students and analyzing their data to design targeted instruction to best meet the needs of our students.  In particular, this past week all of our students participated in the DIBELS benchmark assessment.  This reading assessment is given 3 times during the year.  This assessment looks at early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade. It helps us regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills. This will help us monitor your child's growth in their reading skills throughout the year.

It is going to be an exciting weekend with the Summer Olympics kicking off this evening!  I hope you will have a chance to enjoy some of the events and help cheer on our USA athletes!  Also, Tuesday we have our PTO Informational event at 6:30 PM.  Come learn about our wonderful PTO and ways you can get involved to help support White Lick students and staff!  

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Susan Wise
Principal
Counselor's Corner
Body Safety Parent Preview Night: Tuesday, November 1 from 6:00 - 7:00 at Eagle Elementary (cafeteria)
Parents are invited to attend this meeting to learn about the age-appropriate lessons that will be taught to your children this school year by the elementary school counselors. Unfortunately, recent counts show that sexual abuse of children takes place more often than we would like to believe. As a result, our children need to be taught assertiveness and self-protection skills to prevent such tragedies. This program is presented in a non-threatening, informative way.
 
Parents, please join us so that you can see the videos and hear about the lessons that will be presented at each grade level. For the lessons we will be using the same videos as last year for all grades with the exception of 4th grade.  A new video will be used this year.
PTO NEWS TO KNOW   
LIKE US: www.facebook.com/WhiteLickPTO
VISIT US:  www.whitelickpto.org
 
"Nothing you ever do for children is ever wasted." - Garrison Keillor
 
PTO Volunteer Forms - Please make sure to turn in the pink half sheet volunteer forms that were passed out at Meet the Teacher Nights. If turned in by Fri., Aug 5th, you will have a chance to win a $20 Kroger Gift Card. The winner will be announced at our Tues., Aug 9th General Meeting, though you need not be present to win.
 
General Meeting - Our first meeting of the school year will be Tues., Aug 9th at 6:30pm. Our first meeting is filled with information about all 22 of our amazing committees! Join us for the best meeting of the school year as well as desserts and coffee!  
 
Colts Tickets - Our Tues., Aug 9th meeting will also be the last chance to DONATE TO WIN Pre-Season Colts Tickets! For $1 you get one chance and $5 gets you 6 chances to win two tickets to the Colts v Philly Eagles game on Sat., Aug 27th at 7pm. Section 422, Row 1, Seats 21 and 22. Thank you to the Wagner Family for the donation of the tickets.
 
Spirit Wear Sale - Our online Spirit Apparel Sale has been extended through Mon., Aug 8 at noon! ORDER your Brownsburg purple to support our schools at many upcoming events! Thank you to those who have already ordered! Items will be delivered the week of Aug 15 and sent home with your student. We will host another sale in early December so be ready to do some Christmas shopping with the PTO. Contact Mrs. Tammy Huggler ( thuggler@brownsburg.k12.in.us) or Mrs. Megan Gregory ( mgregory@brownsburg.k12.in.us) with questions.
 
Labels for Education - NEW INFO! As of August 1, 2016 only UPCs with the Labels for Education logo will be accepted and redeemed for points. The folks at Campbell's have begun the process of removing the logo but there will be a limited number of products that contain these labels in stores through August 1, 2017. Please watch your shopping cart closely for these labels so we can take advantage of shopping from their educational resource catalog before the program completely ends. Check out the complete list  of participating products here. For more information contact Ria Steffey ( Ria.wlpsg@att.net).
 
Coke Reward Codes - DOUBLE POINTS are just around the corner! Save your codes so we can earn 2x points on participating Minute Maid, Powerade and Dasani products. Either send in your codes to WLE, or you can enter them yourself at www.mycokerewards.com and donate them to White Lick. For more information contact Ria Steffey ( www.mycokerewards.com).
BCSC Central Calendar is Filling Up

CLICK HERE to visit the online BCSC Central Calendar.  It has already been filling up with school events for the new year.  You can also find the link under the Communication or Resources tab, at the bottom of the homepage.  You can separate White Lick events when you click Featured Calendars in the upper right corner of the BCSC calendar.  

Create a customized calendar for your family with My Dynacal.  You can sign up with an e-mail address and a password and then select the events (including individual sporting events) that you would like to see in your family's calendar.  Create a name for the calendar and then Click "iCal Subscription" to generate a link that can be imported into your own Outlook or iCal.
Check out the Flyer Folder
CLICK HERE to check out the Flyer Folder for information on other community events.
White Lick Office Team

Susan Wise
Principal
Pam Larkey
Counselor
Julie Copeland
Instructional Coach
Besty Hamer
Treasurer
Ginger Bright
Admin Assistant
Jan Kennedy
Nurse
  White Lick Elementary | (317) 852-3126
1400 South Odell Street, Brownsburg, IN 46112

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