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We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Hoping to see you all very soon. We miss your giggles, smiles, and excitement to learn new things.
Sorry kids! We have been notified that we will not be able to have our book give-a-way this Friday at the Lunch pick-up due to the new restrictions. We will try to have it in the future. SORRY!
Come in an get a free book!
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Thank you VETERAN'S and thank you families of Veteran's!
One of our Kindergartener's was excited to get her first Parkside Proud t-shirt today!!
We miss you! Here's an "AIR HUG" from all of us at PARKSIDE!
30 minutes left! Come get a free book. We close at 12:30 today (Friday, Nov. 6th) and if you have a Kindergarten or 2nd Grade student pick up you sack as well.
One more of our students celebrating spirit week by dressing up in a beautiful princess costume!
South Sound Reading Foundation will be visiting Parkside!
Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour before you go to bed tonight.
Students dressed up for virtual class costume zoom.
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Today is the last day to enter the PTSA Spooky House Contest.
Students having fun dressing up for virtual spirit week!
Students if you have some pictures of yourself participating in our Spirit Week we would love to see them. These pictures can be shared with us at pespix2share@tenino.k12.wa.us. If your mom or dad emails a picture to that email address they are giving Tenino School District permission to post them on our Parkside Facebook Page, Twitter, and Parkside Website. We won’t be able to put all the pictures up that you send us but we are going to try to put up several a day celebrating you, our wonderful PENGUINS! We miss you kids so much. Please keep attending your Zoom meetings each morning and doing your lessons each week. Continue to listen to your parents and be a helper at home. We look forward to seeing some great pictures of our awesome students.
Re-Opening Update Letter https://5il.co/m3kh
Dear Tenino Families:
Thurston County Superintendents met early this morning with the Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Health Officer Dr. Abdelmalek. In the past few weeks, COVID transmissions have risen severely, reaching record high levels. As a result, we need to postpone our in-person hybrid instructional model at Parkside and Tenino Elementary. However, because we can safely provide educational services for small groups and special programs, we are permitted to continue to serve these students at all our schools. Bottom line, we will continue with the remote learning model we began on September 9th.
This trend makes working toward the increase of in-person instruction very difficult. That said, we do not want to start the hybrid model, only to shut it down again quickly. We do not want to do that to our students, parents, and staff. Therefore, we are going to delay the start of hybrid instruction until the data and direction from public health shows we can do it safely.
I am extremely sorry to share this message to you. I know we were excited to see students returning to school. We were surprised to see the COVID transmission rate change so drastically. The health of our students and staff is paramount, and we know case transmissions have to be low for the in-person hybrid model to succeed. Until we are permitted to reopen, we will continue to plan and prepare for hybrid instruction and be ready to transition to in-person learning when permitted.
Thank you for your support and patience as we work together as a community to focus on returning our students to school. We recognize the disruption of the school year has had a significant impact on our students, our families, and our staff.
Regards,
Joe Belmonte
Parents you should have received an email about 5:00 p.m. tonight from the Tenino School District. In the email you will see a survey that will help us with our planning as we move into our next stage of re-opening schools in Tenino.
Thanks for your time.