Coy Weekly Update - Oregon City Schools

Coy Weekly Update
                                   1/16/23-1/20/23

No School - Jan. 16 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day

STUDENT PICK-UP REMINDER
If you are picking your child up early from school, please let the
school office know in addition to the teacher, so that we can have
your child ready for departure in a timely manner.

Thank you!

                                OUTDOOR RECESS WEATHER CHART
                                As the cold weather is among us, it is important to make sure
                                that students are dressed appropriately for the weather. We will
                                continue to go outside for recess so please make sure
                                students have jackets, gloves and hats as needed. Attached to
                                this article is our Child Care Weather Watch guide that we use
                                to determine if the temperatures are appropriate to go outside
                                or not. Click on the guide to the left to enlarge it and to use it
                                as a handy reference when dressing your children in the
                                morning.

WINTER COATS, SHOES AND BOOTS
AVAILABLE
If your child is in need of a winter coat, gloves, hat shoes or
boots, please contact the school office 419-693-0624 with your
child's size. We received a generous donation of brand new coats, gloves and hats from the
Oregon River-East Teresa Knight of Columbus Council and we have Old Newsboy vouchers
available for shoes and boots.

Please look for yearbook ordering envelope to
     come home soon...ordering happening now!

Building an Emotional Vocabulary with Feeling Words

Parents often encourage their children to "use your words" when getting upset and emotional
about something, but it's not always an easy task for children. If we teach our children feeling
words that are appropriate for their age, it will help expand their vocabulary and support their
emotional growth! Here are some feeling words you could incorporate into their vocabulary
this week:

1. Kind
2. Lonely
3. Misunderstood
4. Nervous
5. Optimistic

Incorporate more feeling words into your everyday vocabulary and don't feel silly if you have to
check this list often. Most adults don't use many feeling words regularly. Sprinkling a few
more words into your conversations and inviting your child to share how they're feeling can go
a long way toward helping them (and maybe even everyone in the family) build a
comprehensive emotional vocabulary.

Parent Group Meeting Minutes 1/10/2023 –
Introductions were made.
Mrs. Molnar explained the need for the parent group to be taken back over by parents. After
covid hit and loosing multiple 4th grade parents from the parent group onto next grades the
parent group has lacked volunteers.
This meeting was held to bring new faces to the table and look for a stronger parent group to
help give our children fun events throughout the year. In order to have the fun events (school
dances, fall festival, trunk or treat, fun day, assemblies, class field trips, etc) the parent group
must fundraise for the funds to have these events.
Past fundraising events have been the Read a Thon, book fair, Chipotle night, Kroger, catalogs,
etc. Jessica Donley and Sarah Jeurgens are Treasurers for the parent group at this moment.
Most parents were in agreement that we wanted all the same fun events that are already
“scheduled” for our kids and want to add even MORE, possibly a 2nd field trip for each class,
and all the 4th grade activities back, all the incoming Kindergarten activities, etc.
In immediate future Coy is looking to completely rebrand the parent group. Willing to throw
away titles of “president” etc, Mrs. Molnar is in full support as to whatever this new group
decides, looking to move forward with another meeting, have a group email that we can send
out newsletters and meeting minutes, and re-establishing the PGA facebook page again. Kirsty
Wilson will be the new keeper of that as she is over the family area in her role as school
counselor, and she will know what students can and cannot be photographed.
The idea of having committees for each event was liked. Have someone in charge of
fundraising, winter wonderland, fun day, etc that way one person isn’t getting burnt out at

handling every single event. In order to become lead on event you would sign up at the
beginning of the year at the first parent group meeting and collect volunteers and details about
the event and send those updates out to the group. Also at first meeting of the year, the budget
and schedule would be created for the year. We do not want to do a ton of fundraising and
have tons of left over money. Nadia is even willing to meet with parents who may not be able
to meet in the evenings and update them in person if that is what we choose.
A couple new fundraiser ideas were brought to the table: Amazon Smiles (get ½ % of most
purchases on Amazon sent to school), BW3 dine in and carryout, and Culvers. Businesses who
want to donate money can do so and we could even make signs, or give a shout out that this
event was made possible by “business name”.
Friday Feb 24th will be a new event BINGO planned by Kelly … and Madeline Fenton. She will
budget $1000 for this event and will bring details to the next meeting.
We will start planning and talking more about Fun Day after the BINGO event. Some food
trucks are already set up for this event.
Next parent group meeting will be scheduled for Feb 7th 7-8pm in the Coy Library. Bring to the
next meeting ideas for the new group, new name, ideas for fundraising, thoughts about
anything discussed at the last meeting.

2022-2023 MUSIC PROGRAMS
Kindergarten: March 23 @ 6:30
1st Grade: Dec. 8 @ 6:30
2nd Grade: Oct. 20 @ 6:30
3rd Grade: Jan. 26 @ 6:30
4th Grade: Nov. 10 @ 6:30 (UPDATED)

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               January
               13 No School - Staff Professional Development Day
               16 No School - Martin Luther King Day
               26 3rd Grade Music Program
               27 Coy Spirit Day - Wear Coy or maroon/gold clothes

               February
               7 Coy Parent Group Mtg @ 7:00 PM Coy Library
               10 Spirit Day - Pajama Day!
               14 Happy Valentine's Day! - parties at teacher's discretion
               20 No School - President's Day
               21 No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences
               24 Coy Spirit Day - wear Coy clothes or maroon/gold
               24 Coy Parent Group BINGO Family Night - more info to come

                   3604 Pickle Road, Oregon, Ohi…   amolnar@oregoncs.org

                   419-693-0624                     oregoncityschools.org/

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EACH LINK/ACCOUNT.

      Oregon City Schools Website Link

   2022-2023 Coy Elementary Handbook Link

        Coy Elementary School Twitter

Lunch Menu

Flyers & Reminders

                               CHS CHEER CLINIC
                                    Students K-6
                                    Clinic: January 19th 5:00 - 7:30 in CHS Cafeteria
                                    Performance: January 20th (arrive at 7:30) performance at
                                    half-time of Varsity game
                                    $30 Early Registration prior to January 6th guarantees t-
                                    shirt

                               https://www.payschoolsevents.com/events/details/24292

TUTOR SMART - OREGON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Beginning January 9th, enrolled students in grades 1-8, get extra practice and support 4 days a
week (Monday-Thursday, 6:30-7:30) in Reading and Math.

If parents have questions they can visit https://www.tutorsmart-toledo.org/ or call Ready to
Read (419.259.5253) for help with registration.

 OCS Flyer & Distribution Link (Click for access)

Coy Collects...

KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS
Please remember that our school gets money from your
grocery shopping by showing your Kroger Plus card at
checkout!

If you have not re-enrolled your Kroger Community Rewards
card for this school year, please do so now.

To re-enroll a card, simply go to
www.krogercommunityrewards.com
· Click “sign-in”
· Put in your email address and password that you used to
enroll your card.
· Click on your name at the top right, scroll to the bottom for
Community Rewards.
· Put in the group number or part of the name of the
organization.
· Choose the correct organization.
· Click Enroll.
You are now enrolled for the 2022-2023 school year of Kroger
Community Rewards.

If you are having an issue with your password and or email
address please 1-800-KROGERS, press 5 for customer service,
press 5 to speak to a customer service representative.

If you are registering for the first time, you will need to set up
an account first.
· For a member to enroll for a card, simply go to
www.krogercommunityrewards.com
· Click “create an account”
· Put in your email address and password. Confirm your
password
· Enter plus card OR alt ID number
· Go to Community Rewards (near bottom)
· Follow through the steps. (Name, address, etc.)
· Put in the group number or part of the name of the
organization.
· Choose the correct organization.
· Click Enroll.

Thank you!