Synergize

What have YOU been up to over break?

Mr. Williams learned how to 

master the hoverboard,

thanks to techniques

shared by a ten-year old!

We can all learn something from each other!

Yes, we all love to have fun.

Thank You Miss Gayle

Art by Jennifer Shappard

"Christmas is the season for

kindling the fire of hospitality,

the genial flame of charity in the heart."

                                                                                               ~Washington Irving

Gayle's faithful attention to others

will forever be an example

for us all to champion. 

Love & luck to Mrs. Billingsley,

and our best wishes for her retirement. 

An "Early" Gift

 

Elizabeth and Sean Arnold are

excited to share the news:
Miss Anna Elizabeth has arrived!

Just ask grandmother Mrs. Deb Arnold;

this beauty is a lovely Christmas blessing.

Congratulations & best wishes to all.

Begin With the End in Mind

We do things together, that have meaning.

Planning ahead & reaching a goal feels good!

Thank you 4th graders for

collecting items for donation

to the food pantry at 

The United Methodist Village!

Saturday Smile

Do you "sharpen the saw?"  
Kids learn in lots of ways and

lots of places, not just at school.

We should all take time to help others.

Thank you for donating to the

Lawrence County Human Society.

November's Community Cafe

Take three thoughtful, inquisitive kids

along with our guest Mr. Daugherty

and you get the chance to talk about

dreams and ideas that really matter.

We know leaders
are really dealers in hope.  

Sharpen the Saw

Happiness is sharing lunch with
a friend using P.B.I.S. tickets
 collected this fall.
Eating in a classroom instead
of the cafeteria = lots of fun!

Synergize

"We support one another in our learning.

After all, "together is better!"  

For All the Right Reasons

Thank you ROE #12 for all your support!

http://www.roe12.net/

Cafe "Shout Out"

We want to thank the

 owners of Alfonso's.

You helped make the October
 Community Cafe luncheon for 3rd 
graders and our guest so very special!

We appreciate your belief
in and encouragement 

of our young leaders.

Mrs. Wirth said, "We need to support 

and encourage each other

 a little more often."  

"Alone we can do so little
     together we can do so much."  
                                                                ~Helen Keller

Mark the Calendar & Spread the Word

Saturday, November 19th

1st Annual Adult Spelling Bee
Parkside Elementary Gym

6:00 - 9:30 P.M.

West Doors Open For Guests at 5:30 P.M.

Join us for a Fundraiser Supporting Our
NIGHT OWL  
After-school Tutoring Program

Children (12 & under) must be accompanied by an adult

Free Admission            Donations are Welcome

Which team will be the NIGHT OWL Spelling Champs?

Our History:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7pjcRBUbx4

We regret not being able to provide childcare for this event

Program Host, Cra-Wa-La  &  Parkside Elementary School
Night Owls After-school Tutoring Program

618-943-5326

Honoring Our Veterans

As a nation thanked its veterans on Friday November 11th, fourth graders celebrated 

them as well.

We began with The Pledge of Allegiance.

Little did our guests know,

Mrs. Mendenhall was behind-the-scenes

helping coordinate the musical numbers.

Thank you!

Several pupils shared their letters

of love to veterans who were parents,

uncles, aunts, friends, or grandparents.

Guests heard our recitation of 

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Thursday Mr. Cincotti directed 

pupils performing several musical

numbers to honor men & women who serve.

Thanks to our teachers & guests

for joining this special celebration.

It's important to
remember all service men and women.

Lucky are we to honor our veterans!

Work 1st & Then Play

We spend time on things that are important.

We set priorities and then follow through.

Kids who are self-disciplined? Yes!

Our class was in Lexia's fall reading challenge. 

Nationwide, Parkside had a 3rd place finish!

So we celebrated

Thank you, thank you to

everyone who supported us!  

After all, "Readers are Leaders."

One Week Ago

Thanks to  County Clerk Mr. Will Gibson

for allowing pupils to use voting stations

and to Mr. Brandon Stewart for creating

the ballots used in the process.

Parkside held a mock presidential election

Miss Shuff's 2nd graders take turns voting

Pupils voted in the
Community Room on November 1st

1st through 5th graders cast
their votes for president

The final tally showed that 

Donald Trump defeated

Hillary Clinton in our election.

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."  

~Abraham Lincoln

Best Wishes Mr. Lehman

We know everyone has a talent,  

while we all can get better at something.

Thanks to Tucker Lehman for helping

us be strong, happy, and wise!

"Play" IS Serious Business

October 31st....."All Hallows' Eve"

"Good."

"Better."

Hmmm, didn't realize we were

making memories.  We just

knew we were having fun!

Make Time For Fun

"People rarely succeed unless

they have fun in what they are doing."

                                                   ~Walt Disney

October's Young Leaders

Pupils and Parkside guest Brooke Mullins

enjoyed good company and

conversation about habits they're

learning during our fall luncheon.

The "Community Cafe" was a success.

"What we learn with

 pleasure we never forget." 

                 ~Alfred Mercier