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MABLE WOOLSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Bullet Bits

March 1, 2010

Our mission is to discover and encourage human potential,

foster thinking skills, and promote a love for learning.

Mable Woolsey will be conducting pre-registration for kindergarten on April 22^nd and 23^rd. There will be four sessions on those two days. On the 22^nd we will have a session at 5:30 pm and one at 7:00 pm. On the 23^rd, we will have a session at 9:30 am and at 1:30 pm.

If your child will be five years old before September 1^st, you should come to the pre-registration. We need parents to come with their child, a birth certificate, and any pertinent medical information. Please call the school office at 289-4134 to make an appointment for one of the times.

During the weeks of March 1 and March 8, we will be giving ISAT tests in the third and fourth grades. The third graders will take tests in Reading, Mathematics, and Writing. The fourth graders will take tests in Reading, Mathematics, and Science.

It is important that you see that your child gets a good night’s rest. It is also important for the students to have a good breakfast. All 3^rd and 4^th graders will be offered a free breakfast on testing days. We want our students to do their very best on the tests.

These tests are important because they measure our students’ knowledge in these areas and also help us to adjust our curriculum if necessary.

Parking has been improving throughout the year! I want to thank everyone for trying to make this process as simple as possible. You may drop your students off at the cones that are set up in the morning. We just cannot park there.

Please do not double park after school! This is a safety issue. If there would ever be a need for an emergency vehicle to come down Pleasant Ave. it would be nearly impossible. This is also a safety issue since our students are small and you can’t always see when a child is crossing the street between cars. Please keep the safety of our students in mind when driving and or parking around the school.

This year our school carnival will be held at our school. With our new building, we should have plenty of space, rain or shine.

The Carnival will be held on Saturday, April 17^th. The cost will be $5 per person. More details to come later!!

Our American population continues to grow at a fast rate. To keep track of our growing population every ten years The US counts its population. The census is an important way to determine how resources for communities and federal money will be distributed amongst the U.S. population. According to the 2000 census, the estimated U.S. population was 281,421,606.

Actually the census is a requirement of Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States. It calls for actual enumeration of the population, or the act of counting, every 10 years ending in zero.

In March 2010, the census forms will be mailed to your household. There will be ten questions that you will be asked to fill out and return in a prepaid envelope. If you don’t fill out the forms, then a census taker, enumerator, may visit your home and ask you to answer the short questions.

It’s safe to give your information to a census enumerator. All Census Bureau employees take an oath of non-disclosure and are sworn for life to protect the confidentiality of the data. The penalty for unlawful disclosure is a fine of up to $250,000 or imprisonment of up to five years, or both.

Census information affects the numbers of seats each state occupies in the U.S. House of Representatives. And people from many walks of life use census data to advocate for causes, rescue disaster victims, prevent diseases, research markets, locate pools of skilled workers and more.

The 2010 Census will help communities receive more than $400 billion in federal funds each year for things like:

Hospitals, job training centers, schools, senior centers, emergency service, bridges, tunnels and other public works projects.