Our Spring flower sale is underway! This flyer and catalogs came home with in-school students last week, if you haven't received yours please email martaroberson@hotmail.com. Online Academy parents can pick up a physical catalog too, by stopping in to the school office.

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Please follow these steps to place your order:

* Please place your order under one code per household, to make pick up easier * all rewards go directly to benefit the school (there are no individual prizes for meeting sales goals) *

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Our April restaurant fundraiser is ALL DAY Tuesday, April 13th (9am to 9pm) at The Chocolate Café!

The Chocolate Café has something for everyone! They serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and of course don’t forget all their chocolates and sweet treats. For every order placed 20% will be donated to the Wickliffe PTO! Please share this flyer with family & friends.

Sandwiches ~ Salads ~ Soups ~ Kids Menu ~ Specialty Drinks

Chocolate Candies ~ Truffles ~ Ice Cream ~ Cakes

We want to show the teachers and staff at Wickliffe how much we appreciate all of their hard work and support during the school year! We invite you to sign up and adopt a teacher or staff member for either a month or for the rest of the school year. Up to 3 families can sign up to adopt the same teacher/staff member. 

During the time you have adopted the teacher/staff member let them know that you are thinking about them! Send them encouraging e-mails, mail them a card, drop off a small treat at the Front Office, etc. 

You do not need to spend a lot of money adopting the teacher/staff member just let them know you and your family are thinking about them and are thankful for all of the hard work!

Sign up to adopt a teacher or staff member The teachers/staff members completed a survey about their likes, favorite candy, etc. Click here to find out more about your teacher/staff member.

Thank you to all who have donated snacks and drinks for the teachers and staff members. The teachers and staff real enjoy and appreciate the treats and drinks! We need your help to keep it going!

If you would like to contribute individual prepackaged food and drinks, our amazing teachers would really appreciate it. Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/teacher_appreciation

• Please drop your items off at Kelley Swiney's porch at 3942 Newhall Rd (or order online and have the snacks delivered to Kelley's address).
• Requested items include: candy, chips, cookies, nuts, trailmix, soda, San Pellegrino flavored water, La Croix, cold brew coffee.

If you have any questions please contact Jennifer Waddell at jenniferawaddell@yahoo.com. Thank you for your support! 

Dr. Imhoff shared this message from our school nurses, on the symptoms to watch for before sending our students to school each day:

• Daily symptom checks: Please continue to conduct a daily symptom check at home for any symptoms related to COVID-19 —  fever of 100.4ºF or higher, chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore threat, new or worsened nasal congestion, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea. If your student is experiencing any of these symptoms, please keep them home, and you may call your school nurse, Janice Walsh, for advice. 

For more information, the UA school district's responsible restart webpage is here.

There is currently no charge for elementary students to buy school lunch through the end of the school year due to a USDA National Waiver.

• IN-SCHOOL: Students let their teacher know their lunch choice on the day (no ordering ahead). To view the full lunch menu, with meal descriptions and nutrition information click here. Below is this week's lunch menu:

• ONLINE ACADEMY: the meal pickup services will continue. Updated information and details will come from Ms. Evans, and on the UA Nutritional Services webpage here. 

If you have any questions, please contact our Nutritional Services department at (614) 487-5244, or by emailing ihunt@uaschools.org.

Two important items for this week...

• Hey Online Academy Friends and Learners! We apologize for the late notice, but we have been watching the weather so that we can pick a nice day for some outside fun!  So, today, Tuesday April 6th from 4:15-5pm we will meet outside at the big toy for some Online Academy screen-free activities!  Join us for sidewalk chalk, bubbles, hula hoops, and popsicles treats! We hope to see you then!

• For those of families who have had older children, you are probably familiar with the YES Program. After almost forty years of presenting this workshop to our K-5 children, the elementary school counselors have designed new lessons. 

As the world changes, so do the safety needs of our students. To ensure that our programs reflect the current research, data, and statistics, we consulted with Dr. Julie Harmon, founder of IMPACT Safety, to discuss the current literature surrounding safety for young children. Julie guided us towards KidPower.org which ultimately led us to Jayneen Sanders and her most recent publications on body safety.

We are pleased to be teaching these new lessons during the month of April for all students. Please look for a handout in your student’s backpack with resources and ideas for continuing this important conversation.

Emerging from the pandemic seems to be in the forefront of our minds. With so much work yet to be done and many COVID restrictions still in place, remaining hopeful can be challenging.

Although this article was written for educators, I think there are many helpful takeaways for parents and caregivers. Nora Fleming embedded many scholarly articles in her writing to demonstrate that the concept of hope and its impact on youth is supported by evidence-based research, not her opinion. Though I have not read each of the articles, the ones that I did read illuminated the concepts that she was discussing.

As always, I hope that this article validates something that you already know about or are doing with your children with respect to building hope as we emerge from this pandemic. Or perhaps, it gives you some new ideas or insights about how to support your families.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/schools-finding-hope-hopeless-time

Until next week,

The Counseling Team (Felice, Rebecca, Megan, Jihyeon, and Syd)