Spring Creek’s Annual Field Day will be held on Wednesday, May 31st with events beginning at 8:15 a.m. The students will be participating in activities over the course of the morning. Please remember to send children in the proper attire, hats and sunscreen are a good idea, for this fun morning of activities. Our PTO is hosting a hot dog lunch for students during their regular lunch hours. (Hot lunch will NOT be available.) Details will be sent home. Please call the school if you have questions!

Spring Creek’s Awards Assembly is scheduled for Wednesday, May 31st at 1:00 p.m.  Please join us in our year-end celebration of success. After the assembly fifth grade parents are invited to a small reception of cake, provided by our PTO.

AWARDS ASSEMBLY – May 2017

Do you have gently used children’s books laying around your home that your student is no longer interested in reading?

If you said yes, then please consider donating them to Spring Creek for our Spring Book Swap.

Spring Creek will be hosting a school wide book swap where all students can come to the library and take home a “new” book for summer the week of May 15^th-19^th.

• What we need: We are looking for gently used books for our K-5 students. We need books for all levels of readers – picture books, chapter books, non-fiction, etc.

• When should you bring them to school? The library will be accepting books April 10^th-May 5^th.

• Where should you bring them? You can send them to school with your student, or drop them off at the library directly. There will be a drop box for books outside the library door.

• Who should you contact if you have any questions? Please contact Amanda Nunn at anunn@acsd1.org.

•   Open to adults
•   TCI (teaching with comprehensible input) based*
•    Free childcare for children 12 years and younger

   Thursdays starting on April 6th from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

   Laramie High School – Room 2020
  Facilitated by Brittany Welch – LHS Spanish Teacher

• Teaching with Comprehensible input (TCI) is a process – a body of approaches, techniques and strategies that prioritizes the delivery of understandable messages that are personalized, meaningful, interesting and relevant to students.

The third and fourth grade GATE classes at Spring Creek have been studying water.  As part of this unit, we learned how to conserve and care for our water in Laramie, and also learned about water crises around the world, especially in India. Read more about our project at: http://oneworldonewell.weebly.com/

We have made bookmarks to raise money to help people in India. People can help by purchasing one (or several!) of our conservation bookmarks. (If you would like to order a set of bookmarks, please email ahayden@acsd1.org or hommen@acsd1.org.)  All proceeds will go to the Nature’s Water Filter organization to be used for water filtration systems. The money we raise will benefit the people in India and it will help them deal with their water crisis.  You can also help by donating money directly to the organization. Please visit our gofundme project site: https://www.gofundme.com/natures-water-filter

Parents and Guardians

You can take advantage of our Text Messaging Service

Our school utilizes the SchoolMessenger system to deliver text messages, straight to your mobile phone with important information about events, school closings, safety alerts and more.

You can participate in this free service* just by sending a text message of “Y” or “Yes” to our school’s short code number, 68453.

You can also opt out of these messages at any time by simply replying to one of our messages with “Stop”.

SchoolMessenger is compliant with the Student Privacy PledgeTM, so you can rest assured that your information is safe and will never be given or sold to anyone.

Information on SMS text messaging and Short Codes:
SMS stands for Short Message Service and is commonly referred to as a “text message”. Most cell phones support this type  of text messaging. Our notification provider, SchoolMessenger, uses a true SMS protocol developed by the telecommunications industry specifically for mass text messaging, referred to as “short code” texting.  This method is fast, secure and highly reliable because it is strictly regulated by the wireless carriers and only allows access to approved providers. If you’ve ever sent a text vote for a TV show to a number like 46999, you have used short code texting.

Looking for a way to enhance your child’s home reading experience?  Title 1 Reading is offering “Reading Connections” that provide fun activities and stories that you may use at home to support your children’s reading skills. 

Early Years May 2017 English
Early Years May 2017 Spanish
Beginning Edition May 2017 English
Beginning Edition May 2017 Spanish
Intermediate Edition May 2017 English
Intermediate Edition May 2017 Spanish

Albany County School District has approved four additional half-days to the elementary school calendar to provide teachers with more professional learning time:  These days are:

Friday, November 4
Friday, January 13
Friday, April 7
Friday, May 26

School will be dismissed on all scheduled half-days at 11:35 am and sack lunches, instead of a hot lunch, will be available from the kitchen for students.  This lunch will be recorded and charged against the student’s account.  Please click here to access the District’s 2016-2017 School Calendar to review all school dates.

Common sense tells us that kids who miss school miss opportunities to learn. Some absences are just unavoidable. But, how much is too much? New research tells us that missing an average of just two days a month makes a child much more likely to fail a subject or to not graduate from high school. This research also points out that parents often underestimate the effects of missing school. It’s in everyone’s interest that students are at school the vast majority of the time. Thank you for making attendance a priority at Spring Creek Elementary School.

http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/new-research-shows-nearly-half-american-parents-underestimate-harm-school-absences

Join Us at Linford Elementary School

June 12- August 11 for Summer Lunch!

All young people under age 19 may join us for free lunch! Adults $3.90

11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Daily

Call 721-4482 for more information on lunch.

Transportation will be provided to Linford from Indian Paintbrush, Slade, Spring Creek, and Beitel each Day!
(Call 721-4470 for transportation information.)

Summer Lunch June July 2017          Summer Lunch July August 2017

We are posting flyers given to us by outside organizations on our Community Flyers page for those of you who would like to keep up to date on the various activities going on in our community.

 InfoFinder i – Bus Stop Locator System
The District has implemented a new bus stop locator system. This system allows parents to enter a home address and locate the nearest bus stop and the pickup time for each school.  Click on the icon to left to  access the system.