Posted by pbouwens | Posted in News from Mrs. Bouwens | Posted on February 6, 2020
When – Friday, February 14 from 1:30 – 2:30
Where – Room 711 (Our classroom)
Games and snacks provided
If students want to exchange cards they are welcome to do that. However, they must include all students if they want to hand out cards at school.
We will be making Valentine bags, for cards, at school either Friday morning or Thursday morning.
Posted by pbouwens | Posted in Mrs. Walcot | Posted on January 19, 2020
A few friendly reminders regarding sick children.
We have had many sick kids these past two weeks. We have seen the following illnesses being reported:
- Common Cold
- Fevers of 100-104: Sign that body is fighting germs
- Strep
- Influenza – Diagnosed and reported to Health Department
- Stomach Virus
We have to be a team to keep these kids healthy and limit the spreading of germs. To do this, please abide by the following:
- DO NOT send your child to school until s/he is fever free for 24 hours. This means fever free with no motrin/tylenol to mask the fever. If your child has as fever, s/he is fighting a virus and is contagious.
- If we call you to tell you that your child has a fever, we need you to pick up your child. We will not send your child back to the classroom to spread the virus. S/he will be in the health room until someone arrives. It’s not fun for a child to be in the health room feeling yucky and waiting a long time.
- If your child has thrown up or has had diarrhea, DO NOT send them to school until they are 24 hours free of this. PLEASE. If they throw up or have diarrhea at school, we will call you and tell you to keep them home until s/he is 24 hours free of the symptoms — without medication to suppress the symptoms.
The school setting is one in which viruses have ample opportunity to spread. We do our best by cleaning regularly — and removing kids who are sick from the classroom space.
Please help us to keep your child healthy and all the other children healthy. Thank you for your help as we work together to keep our school a healthy place!
Posted by pbouwens | Posted in News from Mrs. Bouwens | Posted on January 3, 2020
Patti, just a quick note of thanks to let the generous families of Alward Elementary School how we used their donation.
Thank you so very much for thinking of our patients and families that were in the hospital over the holiday season. Your donations make a huge impact on the lives of many children and youth not just at Christmas but throughout the year. Many of the items you donated we used as personal gifts for patients as we ended up having 9 patients ages 20 months-18 years old in the hospital over the Christmas holiday and Alward was our only donor during this time. So thank you very much!. Items that we did not use as gifts will be used in therapy to work on all kinds of skills while having fun. I was also able to replenish our social areas where patients and their families are able to hang out and enjoy some time together after therapies are done for the day. Your gifts will keep on giving throughout the year and we simply cannot thank you enough for assisting us and our patients and their families in making their stay at our hospital the best it can be.
With sincere gratitude,
Deb Webb Brewer, CTRS
Mary Free Bed Hospital
