Phil Predicts More Winter
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It’s official – we have six more weeks of winter. This winter’s weather has been very wishy-washy, switching from very mild to very cold and back again. Our students sometimes forget it IS still winter, and don’t button up their coats or wear hats and gloves when going outside. Many are suffering from earaches, head colds, and stomach flu symptoms right now. Please help keep your kids well with plenty of fluids, increased hand washing, and proper bedtimes with a full night’s sleep. Wearing layers of clothing to school helps them be comfortable in the classrooms, making it easier for them to learn. Please send hats and gloves with them, as we try to go outside for recess as often as weather allows.
Rose from the Missouri Lions Saving-Sight program provided a FREE vision screening to 82 of our Pre-K through 3rd grade students and to some of the Parents as Teachers kids. Six kids were found to need further evaluation from an eye doctor to help improve their vision. This very fast, FREE screening detects SEVEN different vision problems that can make it harder for your children to see and to learn. We are very lucky to have this FREE screening available every fall here at Green City R-1 Schools.
In March the PSP Dental Program returns to provide the second fluoride varnishing to our elementary students who received the fluoride varnishing in September. I hope even more of our students will take advantage of this FREE program in the fall, which helps protect their growing smiles.
This April the Sullivan County Health Department will again be providing a FREE vaccination clinic here at Green City School during school hours to help our 7th, 11th, and 12th graders prepare for their fall immunization needs. Students entering the 8th grade are required to have the meningococcal (MCV) vaccine along with their tetanus booster. Students entering the 12th grade are required to have a meningococcal (MCV) booster. There are also many colleges now requiring incoming freshmen to have a meningococcal (MCV) booster as well. Please contact the school nurse with any questions you have. More information will be sent home in March about the upcoming vaccination clinic.
We work hard~! We play hard~! We are GC~! Beth Beyer, RN