Just a few notes as we get this school year started! Welcome to Gateway Elementary Cottage School and Online School Programs! We love having you join us!
~ Shoes! Please do not wear open toed shoes to school. Please keep P.E. safe running shoes in backpack as you never know when we have P.E.
All students and guests to our classroom should wash their hands when entering the room and after every time they touch food
~One of our handouts explains this years FUN'd RUN! ALL STUDENTS will need a white T-shirt to decorate in Art class. Please be sure to bring these the next time you have class: Cottage 1, Tuesday, Cottage 2, Wednesday.
Please volunteer to be a part of Gateway Watch DOGS (Dads of Great Students) Info. pkt available at office for dads, grandpa's, etc.
~ LEARN Academy (like student council only MORE!) Student leadership opportunities. Let me know if you can bring your student to 7am meetings on Friday mornings
~Group sharing time; every morning, part of our routine is a group sharing time. We really encourage written reports (even just a couple of sentences for the littler kiddos is appropriate). Some of our online students bring work that they have completed at home to share, other students have shown homeschool items like lapbooks, etc. Other kids bring interesting items and tell about them. This is great too! We have had students perform on their musical instruments, sing songs, bring in lego projects, etc. Anything that is exciting to them, except live animals and weapons are not allowed in school. However, written reports will receive a prize that the student selects from the "ducky-bag".
{*Ducky-bag item donations, such as small toys, special notebooks, books, games, etc. are always accepted. These may be second hand items!}
~Please check your students backpacks, as we often send home handouts which may contain important information.
~We have a couple of field trips coming up: ALL PARENTS AND SIBLINGS AND ONLINE STUDENT FAMILIES ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND FIELD TRIPS AND CLASS PARTIES, etc. We have emailed permission slips. Please email and let us know if you need that again.
Our first adventure will be a walking field trip to the Woodland Park Public Library. We will get a personal tour of the library, which includes a few treasures that typical library goers wouldn't know about, as well as really great tips about using their new website and online resources, and the home school resource room. We will bring lunches and eat outside on the Library lawn afterwards (weather permitting).Tuesday Cottage 1 class: September 16Wednesday Cottage 2 class: September 17We will leave the building at 10:40 am (Parents can meet us in the Cottage classroom at 10:30 and walk with us, or meet us at the library)***NEED PERMISSION SLIPS***
Our second adventure will be a walking field trip of the Historical buildings that are managed by the Ute Pass Historical Society. These are the buildings adjacent to the Woodland Park Library. You can learn more: www.utepasshistoricalsociety.
This field trip will only be on Wednesday, October 1st. If you attend a different day or are online only, you are welcome to join us! We will leave the building again at 10:40. We will eat our lunch at Memorial Park then meet at the Ute Pass Historical buildings at 11:45. ***NEED PERMISSION SLIPS***
A note to parents about attending field trips: The school requires all attending parents to fill in the volunteer form to be approved to attend school events that are off campus. Pick up a volunteer form from us or the front office and turn these into the front office ASAP, if you haven't already.
Questions about anything pertaining to Cottage or Online school? Please email us:
Sandy Struble: sstruble@wpsdk12.org
Pippi Howard: phoward@wpsdk12.org
