Conner Street Elementary School

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. We are doing it a day early, since tomorrow is early dismissal. We will dismiss at 11:30 am. The next PTB/LSIC meeting will be Tuesday, April 22nd at 7:00 pm. The last day for after school tutoring is Tuesday, April 22nd. We will be taking our End of Year iReady Benchmark for grades 3-5 April 22nd and 23rd. Grades K-2 will be taking theirs in May. We will be holding another awards assembly for those that tried their best. Our 3rd – 5th graders will be taking the WV General Summative Assessment the week of May 5th. April 24th is movie night for grades K-2 and April 25th is movie night for grades 3-5. Permission slips will come home early next week. The book fair will run the week of April 28th. Our second annual Spring Arts Night will be Tuesday, April 29th – we will have student singing, Family Night at the Book Fair, student art displayed and literacy activities. The event will run from 5:30 – 7:00 and both grades 2 and 3 will be performing. Second grade will begin singing at 5:45, we will then clear the cafeteria and allow 3rd grade parents to enter. The 3rd grade will begin singing at 6:20. We will also have a fun scavenger hunt for those that want to participate before or after the performances. All grades are invited. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. Just a reminder, please do not drop off outside food for students for lunch. If your child is signed out for an appointment, and you are picking up fast food, they need to finish that before returning to school. All outside breakfast food/drinks must be finished before going to the classroom. Friday, April 18th is a 3-hour early dismissal. We will dismiss at 11:30. The next PTB/LSIC meeting will be Tuesday, April 22nd at 7:00 pm. We will be taking our End of Year iReady Benchmark for grades 3-5 April 22nd and 23rd. Grades K-2 will be taking theirs in May. We will be holding another awards assembly for those that tried their best. April 24th and 25th will be our next movie night. Information will come home that week. Our second annual Spring Arts Night will be Tuesday, April 29th – we are still working out the details, but we will have student singing, Family Night at the Book Fair, student art displayed and literacy activities. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. Anything left in our lost and found at the end of day today will be donated to a clothing closet. Any new editions from today, will be kept. Spring Break is March 31st – April 4th. Spring Pictures are April 10th – Order Forms went home earlier this week. Friday, April 18th is a 3-hour early dismissal. We will dismiss at 11:30. Our second annual Spring Arts Night will be Tuesday, April 29th – more information coming soon. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. Our lost and found is overflowing with items, some have been there since August. Any items still in the Lost and Found on Friday, March 28th will be donated to a local clothes closet. Ms. Audra has posted several pictures on our Facebook page displaying the items. Spring Break is March 31st – April 4th. Spring Pictures are April 10th – Order Forms will go home soon. After Spring Break, we will be starting “One Book, One School” and reading the book James and the Giant Peach. It is a classic, fantasy story. There are some sad themes in the beginning, as the main character has a tough home life. Ultimately the book explores the themes of overcoming adversity, and the importance of friendships and family, even if the outcome is unexpected. The AG bus will be coming the week of April 14th. Also, the week of April 14th we will be celebrating an Undercover Spirit Week where staff will have themed dress-up days and the students will attempt to guess the theme. So, if you see us wearing weird outfits at drop-off, do not be alarmed. Our second annual Spring Arts Night will be Tuesday, April 29th – more information coming soon. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. Kindergarten registration at Conner Street is March 18th and 19th. If you plan to register your child for kindergarten, please call Ms. Lisa or Ms. Kathy to make an appointment for registration. Reminder – if you live out of zone, you MUST register you child at their home school. We will discuss this summer if we have room for out of zone waivers. Yearbooks for this year are now available for pre-order. Order forms came home earlier this week, and online sales are available. Our lost and found is overflowing with items, some have been there since August. Any items still in the Lost and Found on Friday, March 28th will be donated to a local clothes closet. Ms. Audra has posted several pictures on our Facebook page displaying the items. Spring Break is March 31st – April 4th. Spring Pictures are April 10th – Order Forms will go home soon. Have a great weekend.

Friday is the last day to purchase a chance to pie a staff member in the face. Chances are $1 a piece, students can buy as many chances as they like.

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. Our Annual School Carnival is tomorrow. The carnival runs from 12:00 - 3:30 pm. Bags of tickets are available for purchase for $10. Our PTB needs cake donations for the cake walk. If you are interested in donating, please bring those to school prior to the start of the carnival. Kindergarten registration at Conner Street is March 18th and 19th. If you plan to register your child for kindergarten, please call Ms. Lisa or Ms. Kathy to make an appointment for registration Pi Day is coming soon and we will be celebrating with another Pie Your Teacher in the Face event. Raffle tickets will go on sale next week. It is $1 per ticket, so if a student brings $10, that is ten tickets. Students will be able to place their ticket in the bucket of whichever staff member or staff members they want a chance to pie. All tickets at the end of the event will be placed in a bucket to have a chance to pie Ms. Bird, Ms. Audra, or myself. The last day to buy tickets is Friday, March 14th. The actual event will be on Monday, March 17th due to other scheduled events. Next year’s yearbook will be available for preorder starting today. Flyers will go home next week, but the information is attached to our Facebook post. We have switched companies and are very excited about a new look and quick turnaround. Yearbooks will still be delivered in the fall, due to wanting to include Field Day and end of school photos. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. I apologize in advance because there is a lot of information. We selected our February iReady Winners this morning and they all were able to take a trip to the book vending machine. Check out the post on our Facebook to see the winners. We will have a drawing again in March. Next week is Read Across America Week, so of course we are going to make it fun with dress-up days. Sleepy Monday – Wear your PJs Green Eggs and Ham Tuesday – Wear Green One Fish, Two Fish Wednesday – Wear Red or Blue Wacky Thursday – Wear Your Wacky Clothes Oh, the Places You’ll Go Friday – Wear your Favorite College Gear Also, each homeroom will be competing in Dr. Seuss trivia to win prizes. Our Annual School Carnival is Saturday, March 8th. The carnival runs from 12:00 - 3:30 pm. Bags of tickets are available for purchase for $10. Next week our PTB will be sponsoring a canned soda drive. The homeroom that brings in the most soda for the carnival will receive a free bag of tickets per student. The winner will be announced at the end of the day on Friday, March 7th. Also, our PTB needs cake donations for the cake walk. If you are interested in donating, please bring those to school Friday, March 7th. Kindergarten registration opens at Conner Street on March 18th and 19th. If you plan to register your child for kindergarten at Conner Street, please call Ms. Lisa or Ms. Kathy starting Monday, March 3rd to make an appointment for registration and to schedule a time to pick-up the packet in advance. If you live out of zone, and plan to bring your kindergartner to Conner Street, they must be registered at their home school first and we will discuss out of zone waivers once we have our numbers here at Conner Street. Pi Day is coming soon and we will be celebrating with another Pie Your Teacher in the Face event. Raffle tickets will go on sale the week of March 10th. More information will be on next week’s call. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Updated School Calendar Information – both February 28th and March 3rd are now regular school days. Once we get official word about change to the end of the year calendar, we will update you. Updated Menu Changes – February 25th will be Baked Steak and February 28th will be Beef Nachos. Read Across America Week is the week of March 3rd. We will be celebrating with the following dress-up days. Monday – Sleep Monday – Wear your Pajamas Tuesday – Green Eggs and Ham Tuesday – Wear Green Wednesday – One Fish, Two Fish Wednesday – Wear Red or Blue Thursday – Wacky Thursday – Wear Your Wacky Clothes Friday – Oh, the Places You’ll Go Friday – Wear Your Favorite College Gear Our School carnival is Saturday, March 8th. More information coming soon. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, and Happy Valentine’s Day. Here is your weekly call out. Monday, February 17th is now a regular school day. February 28th and March 3rd are also now regular school days. As of now, the last day of school for students is still June 3rd. This will be altered if additional weather cancellations occur. Next week is Kindness Week at Conner Street. We will be observing the following dress-up days: Monday – Peace, Love and Kindness – Wear Neon or Tie-dye Tuesday – Hunting for Kindness – Wear Camo Wednesday – A Heart Full of Kindness – Wear Pink or Red Thursday – Wild About Kindness – Wear Animal Print Friday – Dreaming of a Kind World – Wear Pajamas Tuesday, February 18th is our PTB meeting, as well as LSIC. The meetings start at 7:00 pm. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Smencil sales have been extended to Monday. Orders are due Monday by 8:00 am. We do have extra yearbooks from last year for sale. They are $20. We are very excited about this year’s yearbook and have already started the design process with a new company. We have posted a link on our Facebook page to allow families to upload photos to be considered for the yearbook. Right now, we have a ton of pictures for the first day of school, but would love more Halloween Party, Trunk or Treat and Christmas Party photos. Valentine’s Parties are on Friday, February 14th. These are student/teacher parties only. February 14th is also a 3-hour early dismissal. Classroom teachers and/or homeroom parents will be in contact about any items needed for the parties and whether they will be decorating boxes or bags. Monday, February 17th is now a regular school day. February 28th, will also likely be a regular school day, but we are awaiting official word. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Yearbooks have been delivered and we do have a few extra. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please send $20 in an envelope with your child’s name. We have switched yearbook companies for this school year, and we are very excited about what we are seeing so far. One of the hardest parts of building a yearbook is finding the pictures to fill the pages. With our new yearbook company, we can offer a link where families can upload pictures to possibly be put in the yearbook. That link is on our Facebook page, as well as our school webpage. Please use that link to upload photos of the first day of school, class parties, Trunk or Treat, or any other school activities. These pictures are not public. Our annual Smencil Sale will take place the week of February 2nd. Next week our Kid’s Heart Challenge will start. Students will be bringing home information from Coach Cummings, and we do have an introductory video on our Facebook. Valentine’s Parties are on Friday, February 14th. These are student/teacher parties only. February 14th is also a 3-hour early dismissal. Classroom teachers and/or homeroom parents will be in contact about any items needed for the parties and whether they will be decorating boxes or bags. Monday, February 17th is now a regular school day. This day is being used to make-up our last snow day. The first five snow days do not need to be made up due to our banked time in the school day. Please make sure to circle the block in the morning, we again are getting backed up at the exit of our lot and we cannot pull parents into the loop if the parents in the front cannot exit. Have a great weekend!

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Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. We will be doing a celebration assembly for students on January 30th where we will be raffling off our prizes. We will be attempting to video the assembly and post on our Facebook page. We also have something new and exciting coming to Conner Street in the next few weeks, more information coming soon. Grades 4-5 movie night will be Friday, January 31st. Yearbooks were just delivered, we are working on sorting those and getting them to the students. We did get those handed out at the end of the day. We will deliver books to Hurricane Middle for those that are now in 6th grade. We will update you when we are ready to sell extras, if we have any. The company did not send the current events inserts that were $1.50 extra. Mandie is trying to get in touch with them to get them sent. Once we get them (if we do) we will get them to the 16 students that ordered them. Our annual Smencil Sale will take place the week of February 2nd. Valentine’s Parties are on Friday, February 14th. These are student/teacher parties only. February 14th is also a 3-hour early dismissal. Classroom teachers and/or homeroom parents will be in contact about any items needed for the parties. Have a great weekend!

Hello Conner Street families. This call is just to remind you about dinner and a movie this week. Grades K-1 are Thursday and 2-3 are Friday. All money and permission slips are due tomorrow. If the permission slip did not make it home please just send a note giving your child permission to stay with the $5. Please include your contact information on that note and pick up each evening is at 4:30 PM. Archers if you have not already checked the information that was shared by Coach Helen, please do so or contact Coach Helen if you have not already received the announcement.

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. We do have several extra class photos available for purchase. If you are interested in purchasing one of the photos, please send $10 in an envelope clearly marked with your student’s name and the teacher’s name. We only have a limited supply, and they will be sold on a first come basis. If necessary, we will draw names to determine who receives a photo if we end up running out. We are still in the middle of our second iReady Benchmark and we are seeing great scores across the board. Keep reminding your students to keep working hard. We will be doing a celebration assembly for students on January 30th where we will be raffling off our prizes. We will be attempting to video the assembly and post on our Facebook page. There is no school for students on January 17th due to a professional learning day for staff. There is also no school on January 20th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day. Tuesday, January 21st will be our next PTB and LSIC meeting - starting at 7:00 pm. Grades K-1 will have a movie night on Jan. 23rd and grades 2-3 will have a movie night on Jan 24th. Grades 4-5 will have a movie night the following week. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. We do have several extra class photos available for purchase. If you are interested in purchasing one of the photos, please send $10 in an envelope clearly marked with your student’s name and the teacher’s name. We only have a limited supply, and they will be sold on a first come basis. If necessary, we will draw names to determine who receives a photo if we end up running out. Our Mid Year i-Ready Benchmarks will now begin next week. To motivate our students to do their best, we will be doing prize raffles for those that try their hardest. Each student that works diligently will receive a ticket to be entered into the raffle. Please discuss with your students about doing their very best. Grades 3-5 will be running a testing schedule and will take the benchmarks on January 15th and 16th, Grades K-2 will be testing at the discretion of the classroom teacher. There is no school for students on January 17th due to a professional learning day for staff. There is also no school on January 20th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day. Grades K-1 will have a movie night on Jan. 23rd and grades 2-3 will have a movie night on Jan 24th. Grades 4-5 will have a movie night the following week. Have a great weekend and stay warm!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. We do have several extra class photos available for purchase. If you are interested in purchasing one of the photos, please send $10 in an envelope clearly marked with your student’s name and the teacher’s name. We only have a limited supply, and they will be sold on a first come basis. If necessary, we will draw names to determine who receives a photo if we end up running out. Our next i-Ready Benchmarks will start the week of January 6th. To motivate our students to do their best, we will be doing prize raffles for those that try their hardest. Each student that works diligently will receive a ticket to be entered into the raffle. Please discuss with your students about doing their very best. Grades 3-5 will be running a testing schedule and will take the benchmarks on January 7th and 9th, Grades K-2 will be testing at the discretion of the classroom teacher. This may change depending on weather. There is no school for students on January 17th due to a professional learning day for staff. There is also no school on January 20th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day. The second semester begins on January 21st. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. We know it is a day early, but with tomorrow being a 3 hour early out we wanted to make sure we got that reminder out there. We will be dismissing at 11:30 am. If your child is going home in a different manner than normal, please send that in writing to the classroom teacher. Christmas Break runs from December 21st – January 1st. Students in grades K-5 return on January 2nd. PreK does not return until Monday, January 6th. Class Pictures have arrived and have been sent home with those that ordered. We do have a few extra, so if you are interested in purchasing one, we will send that information out after break. Our next iReady Benchmarks will start the week of January 6th. To motivate our students to do their best, we will be doing prize raffles for those that try their hardest. Each student that works diligently will receive a ticket to be entered into the raffle. Please discuss with your student about doing their very best. Grades 3-5 will be running a testing schedule and will take the benchmarks on January 7th and 9th, Grades K-2 will be testing at the discretion of the classroom teacher. Finally, if your child is celebrating a birthday and you want to drop off treats that MUST be cleared with the classroom teacher FIRST. Do not just show up with items without getting approval. Have a great weekend!

The Putnam County Collaborative Pre-K Program will begin registration for their FREE Four-Year-Old Pre-K Program as follows: Beginning January 21, 2025, at 8:00 AM, parents/guardians may register their child by visiting www.putnamschools.com and selecting the following menu tabs: MENU > PARENTS > PREK. Click the “Sign-Up” button to begin the registration process. Parents/guardians may call Putnam County Schools at 304-586-0500 ext. 1133, ext. 1178, or ext. 1122 for assistance if internet access is unavailable. To be eligible, children must reside in Putnam County and turn four before July 1, 2025. More information about FREE Putnam County Pre-K can be found at putnamschools.com or by calling 304-586-0500 (ext. 1133, 1178, 1122).