Horace Mann Insurance has partnered with our school and has donated rewards for students both with perfect attendance and students who have been working on not being tardy and attending school everyday.  A drawing was held on Monday, June 3^rd for the following prizes:

Headphones:                        

Holden Blair Crase

Yahir Olmos Lopez

Digital Cameras:

Leslie Flores Reyes

Nathaly Carmona

Bikes:

Annie Doering

Lance Brunkal

Great job students for being here everyday and working hard on attending school and being on time; attendance is key to academic success!

Thank you Horace Mann Insurance for your support and partnership with Keizer Elementary School!

Our first year participating in Pennies for Patients proved to be a stunning success.  Students busily collected spare change for about a month, from December 5th through January 10^th, and deposited their contributions in classroom collection boxes before watching those boxes begin to fill the collection jar.  Specifically, the Pennies for Patients drive asked kids to collect spare change from friends or relatives--or from under couch cushions--to drop in our giant, 5-gallon collection jar to help people with various blood cancers. 

     From the generous total Keizer Elementary students collected, it’s easy to see that our students lived the December Character Trait, “Caring,” to its fullest extent.   Their efforts earned something greater than spare change: they earned the gratitude of cancer patients and their families.

   Oh, that trickle of cash turned into more than 100,000 coins, totaling $1267.44!  In fact, the coin counting machine at MAPS Credit Union broke mid-way through the counting task, but fortunately, the mechanical cash counter at Keizer branch of U.S. Bank took over to finish tabulating the total.  One can’t put a price on caring, of course, but for those brave young cancer patients, perhaps $1267.00 is a good place to start! 

Keizer Elementary wants to encourage our students to be at school on time every day.  To promote great attendance, we are challenging our students to improve their attendance or keep up their efforts.  From March 11^th through May 31^st, all students will have an opportunity to earn a lottery ticket to win a bike and helmet donated by our new business partner, Horace Mann Insurance.

Rules for the Perfect Attendance Spells Success

competition are as follows:

· Students must have perfect attendance between March 11^th-May 31^st to earn a lottery ticket.  Perfect attendance =

 no tardies  or absences—excused or unexcused.

· Students with most improved attendance will also earn a lottery ticket.  This includes students who had chronic poor attendance issues prior to March 11^th and turned it around by being on time and in class regularly.

· A master list of students who earned a lottery ticket will be given to teachers on Thursday, May 30^th.

All those names will be entered in a drawing done on KKTV on Friday morning, May 31^st. The winner will also be announced and parents called to pick up bike.

The bike is on display in the office area!

Plan on having dinner prepared and served to you by your teachers.  They will even do the clean up!

Stay and play in the Play Place for as long as you wish!

 ·      When:  March 12^th    ·      Time: 4:30 – 7:30 p.m.     ·      Where: McDonald’s (Play Place) across from Fred Meyer North on River Rd.

Help support your school.  Every $1.00 spent earns $0.25 for your classroom!

100% of donation goes to school.  Use cash or debit card.

ReadAcross America’s Family Literacy Night is tomorrow night Thursday, Feb. 27th, at Keizer Elementary from 6-8 p.m.  Bring the entire family for Dr. Seuss games, Scholastic Book Fair and Seussical songs performed by the 2^nd Grade students.  Every one who participates will win raffle tickets towards a Kindle or other great prizes.