Highland Elementary School

🎃🍬 Trail of Treats & Fall Parties – Friday, October 30! 🐾💙

We're looking forward to a day full of fun and excitement at Highland! With so many wonderful community partners joining us, let's show them what makes Highland Elementary such a special place! 💙

Let's put our best Wildcat paws forward, lead with pride, show respect, and have courage as we LET OUR LIGHTS SHINE! 🌟🐾

🍂🐾 Highland Happenings for Families! 💙

📣 From the Desk of Dr. Moore

It's going to be a FUN and BUSY week at Highland! 🎃 We're celebrating Red Ribbon Week with spirit days, cheering on our Wildcats, and wrapping up the week with Trail of Treats and Fall Parties! 🍬🏀

🦆 SURPRISE DUCK DAYS ARE COMING! 🦆 Students AND teachers will have surprise opportunities to collect ducks throughout the month! The catch? You have to be at school EVERY DAY to collect them all! You never know when a duck might make an appearance! 👀🐥

Be sure to check out this week's newsletter for important dates, reminders, and upcoming events!

💡 Let Your Light Shine!
💙 Lead with Pride. Show Respect. Have Courage. 🐾

📚💙 Wildcat Literacy Matters! 🐾⭐

Did you know that just 20 minutes of reading at home each day adds up to over 120 hours of reading in a year? That’s a lot of pages, new discoveries, and opportunities to grow!

Whether it’s reading a bedtime story, sharing a favorite book, or letting your child read to you, every moment counts. Make reading part of your daily routine and watch your Wildcat grow! 🐾📖

🏡 Family Action Step: Set aside 20 minutes tonight to read together! Let your child choose the book, find a cozy spot, and enjoy a little reading time as a family. ❤️📚

Every book. Every conversation. Every day. It all matters. 💙🤍

🐥💙🤍WILDCATS, GET READY FOR A SURPRISE! 🤍💙🐥 🎉 When will SURPRISE DUCK DAY be?! 🤔 WE DON’T KNOW!! 😎🐤 That’s what makes it so much fun! Keep showing up, being present, and making a difference because you never know when Surprise Duck Day might happen! 🦆✨ 🐥 Be here EVERY DAY to collect all the ducks! 🐥 From cool shades 😎 to silly hats 🎩, bows 🎀, and fun surprises, you never know which duck you might get! Let’s see how many ducks our Wildcats can collect! 🐾💙 Show Up • Be Present • Make a Difference! 💙🤍 Highland Elementary — GO WILDCATS! 🐾🐾

🌟🌟Highland Bright Spot🌟🌟 Did you know that Highland offers BAND two days a week!! 🥁🎺🎷🪊 5th graders can choose to participate in band, learning about different instruments, and much more! We are so happy to have Mr. Kidd with us each week!

Academic practice for this coming week Monday and Thursday from 3:00-4:00 pm

Mrs. Bevins' classroom celebrated a great week of learning with donuts and juice. We have had a great week learning division and reading poetry.

Our 4th graders have been reading about some spoooooky spiders this week! Within their passages, the students were able to find the topic, main idea, and supporting details! They worked together to create graphic organizers, then write and present their summaries! Such creepy crawly fun!!!

For the past few weeks, the 5th grade Language Arts classes have focused on finding Problems and Solutions within Historical texts. They created their own t-charts to present examples from their passages.

Mrs. Wright’s Kindergarten Class had so much fun reading Spookley the Square Pumpkin! We made our own Spookley craft and snack and loved learning, that just like Spookley, we are all special in our own way! 🎃✨

Members of the Highland Blessing Box and Lighthouse Teams braved the morning chill to load the box with food they have donated and collected to share with our community.

Miss Fairchild's first grade class went on a leaf hunt today and did some leaf etchings using crayons and paper!

🚌 Bus Transportation Update Highland families, please be aware of the following transportation changes for this afternoon: Bus 31 & 93 will run late bringing students home as both buses were combined in 31. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to get all of our Wildcats home safely! 💙

Today is a practice NTI Night! Check rooms on JC app and/ or student folders for more information!

🚌 Bus Transportation Update

Highland families, please be aware of the following transportation changes for this afternoon:

Bus 93 will run late bringing students home, as it will make stops at the middle and high school first.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to get all of our Wildcats home safely! 💙

🐾💙 5TH GRADE FUNDRAISER: TATTOO A TEACHER! 💙🐾 Get ready for some fun! Our 5th graders are hosting a Tattoo a Teacher Fundraiser, and we need your help! Students can choose ANY teacher and purchase a temporary tattoo for them to wear proudly on Thursday, October 29th! 😎 💵 Tattoo Prices: ⭐ Small: $1 ⭐ Medium: $3 ⭐ Large: $5 When to Buy: Friday, October 23rd – Wednesday, October 28th Tattoos will be available for purchase during the school day. Let’s show our teachers some love, have a little fun, and support our amazing 5th graders! 💙🤍 Which teacher will YOU tattoo? 🐾

🎈🎈Red Ribbon Week Starts Next Week 🎈🎈

Mrs. Bolden's class used cooperative learning to plan a voyage in fifth grade social studies. It's going to be smooth sailing ⛵️ for these Wildcats! 🧭

Congratulations to Mrs. Bevins' classroom for being the winner of the Highest Attendance award for September!! 🎉🎉🎉

This is the schedule for academic team practice for this week.