Welcome to Our 22-23 School Year

It's nearly time, friends! Our classrooms and learning spaces are once again coming to life! We are SO grateful for the hard work and creative dedication put in over the summer months by Nona and her cleaning crew (as well as the Westfall boys!) They have worked diligently to deep clean Rose Park and we are happily spic and span waiting for our students! You'll note the new facelift around our grounds as well! We're grateful for updated landscaping that took place over the summer months! And? Our Rose Park Ranch! It's currently taking shape both in construction and in the plans for this school year! Thank you for your patience as we finally get to usher in this new adventure into the life at Rose Park. To say that I am excited would be a massive understatement!

Meet little Rosie and Parker! They'll be moving in soon! 💝

The theme we will be unpacking together as a school community this year is "Streams of Living Water". Our children will hear the words Jesus spoke at the Festival of Tabernacles found in John 7:37-38 'Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” and apply this truth to their lives. As our children's teachers, we are encouraged to bask in this truth as well. When we come to the water and receive LIFE from our Jesus, we are made whole and belong fully to God. Please pray regularly that our children grasp this deep truth and make it their own in their lives during this year and all that God has in store for them in their lives. 

Supplies

Here is what we need you to do:

1. Open the box and find the packing slip.

2. Check off your items, make sure they are in there and initial the packing slip.

3. Break down boxes and put them in the dumpster outside. 

4. Bring packing slip to office and put in green bin for us to file. 

Our Dates!

As is agreed upon in our contract, teacher days officially begin the week of August 15. Having said that, I have seen EACH of you working hard already all summer long! I pray you have also enjoyed adventures, laughs, learning, challenges, creativity and JOY this summer as well! Good time away brings a healthy balance to our lives! 

• Monday, August 15 we will work together at Rose Park starting at 8:30 and working until 10:30. Please plan on meeting together in the Media Center. This meeting is for all elementary teachers, preschool teachers, enrichment teachers, enrichment aides, preschool aides, ESS teachers, ESS aides and classroom teacher aides, classroom interventionists and ENCORE. We'll likely be all over the building. Please bring your charged up computer if you have one, creative brain and honest feedback. Let's go! More details on the WHO and WHEN are being ironed out. Thank you for putting a placeholder on this date. Lunch will be on your own for this one. 
• Preschool please meet in the staff center of SS at 12:15 for a PK staff meeting. 
• 3:00 EpiPen training for RP preschool staff training in the media center. This should be a quickie. 

• Tuesday, August 16 will be an all-district day starting with breakfast on Main Street (high school) at 7:30. Eric and Doug have plans for us. We'll receive fine-tuned details of that day soon. Please keep a place holder in your calendar for PD work the whole day. 
• Preschool please meet for 12:30-4:00 CPR training in the high school home economics room. 

• Tuesday evening will be our Preschool Meet The Teacher event. This will be from 6:30-7:30. Preschool teachers and Aides we appreciate your time and willingness to meet families. 
• Wednesday and Thursday, August 17 and 18. This is a new, critical learning opportunity for teachers at HC. Staff from each building will learn together through this two-day training. RP, PR and MS will be the first rotation of the two-day training. The learning is called Restorative Practices. You can learn a little about how this will impact your teaching here. Please plan to meet for both of these days of learning from 8:00-3:30 in the middle school auditorium. 

• Thursday, August 18 in the evening we will hold our Ice Cream Social! This event will be open house style. Families are welcome to bring supplies, find the classroom, meet with you for a moment and enjoy ice cream on the playground. This event will be from 6:30-8:00. We ask that all Rose Park staff attend this event. Hourly staff will be paid for their time. Encore teachers and non-classroom staff please be ready to scoop some ice cream on the playground. Teachers and classroom aides, please have a blast meeting the children God has placed in your care for the year. I'll be the bouncer at the front door 😎
• Friday and Monday, August 19 and 22 use as you need in order to be prepared for your children on Tuesday morning. 

• First day of school is Tuesday, August 23! We have a half day of school. Dismissal will be at 11:30. It may be wise to include this note in your teacher blogs as well. We're trying to blast out this timing but could easily be missed in the shuffle of all the things. 

• Meet the Teacher night for K-5 is Thursday, August 25 from 7:00-8:30. We'll have full details on this event to share at our staff meeting on the 15th. 

Staff Details 

Our staff folder can be accessed here and we'll walk through this together. Our encore scheduled can be accessed here and we'll DEFINITELY walk through this one together!