Pitching In. Teachers and Staff of the Year. Important Reminders

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1 April 2016 Pitching In Would you like your child to be more responsible hardworking, and persistent? Here are ideas for working as a family to help your youngster develop these important traits. A group approach-thinking of herself as a team player can encourage your child to be responsible. Explain that your family operates as a team. Everyone must play to get things done. Example: You take her shopping for her clothes and sports equipment. She chooses her outfit each morning and keeps track of her bat and glove. Hard workers wanted-your youngster probably has regular chores to do. You can motivate her to work extra hard by placing want ads on the refrigerator. Choose a challenging job, and offer a benefit. Example: Wanted a hardworking family member to clean out a corner of the basement. Reward a place for your child and her friends to play. Sticking it out-working toward small goals can make it easier to complete a big task, Perhaps your family room needs a fresh coat of paint. Write down the steps (move furniture and lay down drop cloths, prepare walls, roll paint on walls, paint trim). Tell your child you ll take a fun break after each step is done )go to playground, take a bike ride). (Source- Home and School Connection)Secondary Story Headline) Important Reminders *St. Jude Math-a-thon Money is due April 6th *Future Rebels Baseball Game at South Greene April 5:00 pm Teachers and Staff of the Year We would like to congratulate and more importantly thank our Teachers and Staff members of the year. Mrs. Roderick was voted Teacher of the Year for Middle School Grades (6-8), Mrs. Cindy for Elementary Grades (K-5), and Mrs. Judy was our Classified Staff of the year. We could not do what we do without our Teachers and Staff. Thank you all!

2 DeBusk Beta Club The DeBusk Staff would like to welcome nine new members to the DeBusk Beta Club. In order to qualify the new members must have achieved an overall 3.5 grade point average for the school year. We will be having the Beta Club Induction Ceremony on May 6 th at 12:45. Please join us to welcome the following students: Riley Fillers, Sydney Gentry, Haylee Key, Ashlyn King, Nathan Lisenby, Lexi Miller, Evie Rader, Dakota Seaton and Anna Willett Notes From Polly Parents check out this website, commonsensemedia.org. It provides lots of great advice for dealing with all the media options we have in our world. For example read the following excerpt : "Temporary" pictures and videos. Nothing shared between devices is truly temporary, even when an app builds its whole marketing around it. Compromising pictures and texts get kids in real trouble because they believe what they're sending is private and will disappear. What to do: Let your kids know that nothing they send is truly temporary, and it's easy for others to share what you've sent. Because it's often hard for kids to really consider consequences, and they might think it won't happen to them, it might be worth sharing some of the recent cases of kids getting in legal trouble because of "disappearing" pictures. PTO Warm weather, birds chirping, flowers blooming, and less than 9 weeks left of school are just a few things to bring a smile to our faces. PTO is winding down with: *Perfect, Perfect Attendance Reward field trip planned for April 28th. The kids voted to spend a day and have lunch at Wallabies in Johnson City. The permission forms will be sent home as the date gets closer. Please remember that eligible students cannot miss one minute of one day or be signed out early. *Volunteer Breakfast May 10 *Teacher Appreciation Dinner May 16 Remember Snack Shack is every Friday. Also, come out and support your PTO at our next meeting Tuesday, April 12 th at 5:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria. We will be discussing next year s calendar of events and would love to have your thoughts. Debi Alcantara PTO President (for calls and text messages) alcantard@greenek12.org Notes from the Nurse Rashes in young children can be upsetting, but they're common and often not serious unless there are other symptoms. 1. Find the cause Try to figure out whether the rash is due to coming into contact with a common irritant such as poison ivy, chemicals, soaps, nickel jewelry, or a pet. 2. Clean the skin- Wash the rash with a mild soap but don t scrub, rinse with warm water. 3. Treat Symptoms Put a wet cloth on the rash to ease the pain and itching, Trim your child s fingernails to help prevent scratching, put soft gloves on your child at night to avoid scratching. When to call your doctor Your child is younger than 6 months, has a fever accompanied with the rash, a rash that oozes or appears red or swollen, rash in the diaper area or skin creases, rash that peels (especially on the palms or soles), Has flat, small red spots on the skin that don't fade if your press them, has hives, or has bruises not due to an injury. (Source American Academy of

3 Baseball We have some exciting matchups coming for DeBusk Baseball in April. Dates to remember will be April 4th, when we will be taking on Nolachuckey AT South Greene High School for a Future Rebels game. Game time is 5:00. Then on April 11th, there will be an opportunity for you to catch the softball and baseball teams playing on the same day here at DeBusk. Softball will start at around 5:00 and baseball will follow that game and play til it gets too dark to see. Softball Front row L to R: Sydney McDonald, Sydney Gentry, Whitney Casteel, Jenna Gallihar, Madison Cox, Lexxi Miller Back Row L to R: Haylee Key, Evie Rader, Brianna Laws, Maisie Silvers, Haley Gosnell, Taylor Bailey The DeBusk Lady Braves were runner-ups in the local Greeneville Lady Marlins Middle School Softball Tournament over the weekend. They placed 2nd out of 13 teams from the area. Playing 8 games in 3 days! So far this 2016 season the DeBusk Lady Braves are 4-0!

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