Want to join us in having a happy and healthy heart!? Last chance to jump on board and join our school's heart hero team! You won’t want to miss out on learning 6 ways from our heart heroes on ways to keep your whole heart healthy!!
Be sure to share your page through text, email, or social media with family and friends and tell them about the CHALLENGE you took to stay healthy! They'll definitely want to cheer you on!
https://www2.heart.org/site/TR?pg=company&fr_id=6319&company_id=346557
Dear Rondout Families, Faculty and Staff,
Late yesterday, an Illinois judge ruled on a lawsuit filed by parents in over 150 school districts in the state that challenged state mandated COVID mitigations. While Rondout was not named in the suit, we are in the process of reviewing the implications of the decision on our district established COVID19 protocols. At this time we will continue to utilize the COVID19 mitigation protocols we have in place to provide the safeguards against COVID19 transmission within our educational setting for students and staff.
I will keep you posted on any developments that may impact our district and appreciate your patience as this decision is reviewed. This ruling is complex and legal teams across the state are working on understanding its implications for all of us in Illinois schools.
Thank you for your continued support of our students, faculty, and staff. Your compliance with the district mitigations we have in place have allowed us to maintain in-person learning for these past two years with minimal interruptions. Together we have met the challenges of putting student safety and learning first during our COVID19 journey. Those priorities will continue to be at the heart of our practices. Please be assured that we will be providing you with updates as they become available.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jenny Wojcik
The 3-5 Team is excited to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Monday, February 14th! Along with fun surprises throughout the day, students may create or purchase valentines to be distribute to classmates. Please bring valentines to school by Friday, February 11th, to allow enough time for quarantining before passing them out on Monday. Unfortunately, late valentines cannot be accepted. Please make sure that all valentines are non-edible and that there is one for each student in the class. Classroom teachers will be sending out class lists, if needed.
The K-2 students will celebrate Valentine’s Day with in class activities on Monday, February 14th. If your child would like to bring in Valentine’s Day cards for the class, please make sure they bring enough for all the students in their grade level class. We will have the cards quarantine prior to the Valentine’s Day party. Guidelines for the Valentine’s Day Cards: • Please do not address friends’ names on the cards • NO food or edible treats will be allowed • Please do not lick any cards to seal them – tape or stickers work great! • Put all completed cards into a Ziplock with your child’s name on the bag and return to school NO LATER THAN February 11th. • A card must be made for the number children in your child’s class We will be decorating a Valentine’s Day bag in class to bring home all the Valentine’s Day cards. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out. The K-2 Teachers, Ms. Tesar Mrs. Reynolds Mrs. Sweeney
Congratulations to this year’s Spelling Bee Champion, Mariana. After 16 rounds, Mariana clinched the title after correctly spelling Technique. Mariana will move on to the next round which will take place virtually on February 16th at 6pm. Let’s all wish Mariana luck. Another round of applause for our runner-up, Caitlyn. Caitlyn did an outstanding job and fought until the bitter end!
Despite masks and social distancing, all of our spellers persevered to make Rondouts 2022 Spelling Bee a success! Congratulations to everyone! Looking forward to next year!
SAVE THE DATE!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Kids Heart Challenge is virtually coming to Rondout 2/4/2022 - 2/25/2022!
We are SO excited to partner with the American Heart Association to help our students start developing ways to keep their whole hearts healthy for their whole lives and to help spread the mission and the message of the AHA!
Want to get a jump start on keeping that heart of yours healthy?
Can't wait to celebrate happy, healthy hearts!
Click below to sign up for the Voluntary Kids Heart Challenge!
https://www2.heart.org/site/TR?pg=company&fr_id=6319&company_id=346557
Find a free COVID Testing Site:
We have revised this information due to concerns regarding recent issues with pop-up fraudulent testing sites. Checking with your own medical provider and or use the testing locator on the Lake County Health Department Site will provide you with more reliable information. The link is provided here.
Lake County Health Department
Testing Locator
https://www.lakecountyil.gov/4435/COVID-19-Testing
Due to the COVID surge, we will not be offering after school activities other than the BASE program until further notice. In addition all field trips will move to a virtual format to support student safety and staffing needs.
We have made special arrangements to provide return to school testing for staff and students who are in the testing roster. The Shield test will be administered by our partners at Passport Health as a preventative measure in order to have test results prior to students return to school after break on Monday January 10th. Staff and students who are on the roster may choose to come in during those hours to be tested. We encourage our students to come in for this quick experience. Parents are asked to wait for their child while they are being tested. If your child is currently not on the testing roster and you would like your student to be added to the roster to take advantage of this free service, please notify us no later than 1/5/2022 and return the Voluntary Shield Testing Rostering Permission Form to us. While advance notification is not required, it would be helpful to know who will be participating on January 7th. Please email the mainoffice@rondoutsd.72.org to let us know.
We would like to thank Passport Health and the Shield organization for making this special testing opportunity possible.
On December 22, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. please join our prerecorded Winter Band Concert Zoom!
Parents and students don't forget about Cozy Day tomorrow (Friday)! Students should wear their coziest clothes to school and bring in the weekend in comfort. See you tomorrow!
Good Evening...Happy Wednesday... We will not be having a Parent Coffee this evening (December 15, 2021). Parent coffees will resume on Wednesday January 12, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. Happy Holidays. Looking forward to resuming our "Coffee Talks" in the new year.
RONDOUT’S 2021-2022 SPELLING BEE
Calling all 4th-8th graders!! The S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G BEE is back!! Classroom spelling bees are just around the corner. Parents and students, here is what you need to know:
On Friday, November 19th, 2021 all 4th-8th grade students received a list of study words to help prepare them for their specific, grade level classroom bee. Studying this list will help get your student ready for their grade level classroom bee.
All classroom spelling bees will be administered the week of December 6th.
Please direct all questions to Ms. Grossman
Order the Rondout 2022 Yearbook securely online via the link below!
The final date to order is April 8th!
https://link.entourageyearbooks.com/YBStore/YearbookStoreMain.asp?l=9BD2BD52-54D1-4788-82E1-C8D494068A00
Virtual Veterans’ Day
November 11
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Via Zoom
Daylight saving time is set to end this Sunday, please remember to set your clocks back an hour on Sunday 11/7/2021 at 2 a.m.
K-5 Virtual Family Reading Night
Thursday, November 18, 2021
6:30-7:30 pm
Join us on Zoom for a wonderful evening of
Reading and Fun! Please RSVP by Friday,
November 12. Materials and links will be
distributed in advance.
What's New This Year?
Staff will facilitate activities during 3 different
sessions. Families will be able to choose
which activity they attend during each
session. Running late? Jump into the next
session. To allow for an enjoyable experience
for all, families may not be admitted into
zooms after the first ten minutes of a
session. There will be a self guided activity
available, as well. Having technology issues?
A help room will be available.
We will not release students until the storm passes. We will send a text message to parents when we are ready to start dismissal. Thank you.
Dear Rondout Families, Faculty and Friends,
Due to the excessive heat and the air quality alert in effect we will not be hosting a garden party today. Please plan to join us on Saturday May 31st between 11am and 1 pm. Thank you for your ongoing support. Dr. W.
The Board of Education Meeting scheduled for 5/18/2021 will be rescheduled to the week of 5/24/2021.