• October 8 - Walk to School Day
• October 8- Picture Day
• October 13 - No School - Columbus Day
• October 14 - Institute Day - No Student Attendance
• October 25 - Trunk or Treat at Glenside 12:00-2:00
• October 31 - Half Day for Students (dismissed 11:05); Fall Parade/Party

Fall Celebrations

Students and staff will be able to wear a costume or pajamas on Friday, 10/31. Students should not wear costumes that are gruesome, have weapons, or include a face mask that hinders visibility. Also, no candy or food treats can be brought into the school that day. It is an early dismissal on 10/31.

Lunch Menu Picture Choices

If you are looking for pictures of the menu items for the lunches, please look at this document. It has pictures for each of the days.

Elementary Picture Menu.pdf

October's Key-Failure Leads to Success

View failures as feedback that provides you with the information you need to learn, grow, and succeed. When we live the Key of Failure Leads to Success we see failures as feedback, we learn from them and make the changes needed to be more successful in the future.

To live this Key successfully we may need to change the way we think about failure. Rather than viewing failure in a negative way where we put ourselves down and think WE are a failure, think of failure as a valuable learning experience. When we look at our mistakes with a view to learning from them, rather than sending ourselves negative messages, we are on the path to success.

SEL NEWS

Sept 2025 SEL News.pdf

Glen Hill Home Support for Math

Parents/Guardians, Student math skills can be supported both at school and at home. Here are some ideas of what you can do at home to support your student’s math skills. Thank you for your support, Mrs. Kuchta Glen Hill Math Coach (K-4) dkuchta@queenbee16.org Online Math Games for All Gra...

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Fall Benchmarking

Three times a year, all of our students participate in our benchmark assessments. These assessments help our teachers to plan for the students, as well as help us to know where our students are excelling or needing some more instruction in the areas of math and reading. For our Fall Benchmarking, all students in grades 1-4 will take the NWEA assessment as well as the AIMsWeb assessments. Kindergarten students take the AIMsWeb assessments only in the fall. Your student’s teacher will share the results of this assessment with you at parent teacher conferences. We will hold these benchmarking assessments again in the winter and spring.

District Required Drills 

The first priority in District 16 is the safety of our students. Each year we practice fire, shelter-in-place, lockdown, bus, and evacuation drills in all of our schools, as required by the law. Although we hope that we never have to implement any of our emergency plans, we realize how important it is to have our students and staff prepared. The drills will take place throughout the school year.

Phone & Smart Watches

We are asking for your assistance regarding the cell phone policy at school. As a reminder, phones can be brought to school, but they must be turned off and kept in students’ lockers. Students should not be bringing them into the classroom or using phones during the school day.

Smartwatches can be worn during the day but should not be used to contact families while at school.

Coming into the Building?

Reminder-any time you are coming into the building, please be prepared to present identification, such as a Driver’s License or state ID. This is especially important when you are picking your student up from school early. At times, there may be other people coming to pick up your student from school. Please inform them of our policy. If we see that the person is not on your student’s pick up list, we will ask for ID, as well as make sure the person is someone who is allowed to pick up your student. It is important that we maintain systems for students coming in and out of the building throughout the school day.

September Dynamic Dolphins

We would like to congratulate our September Dynamic Dolphins. All month, these students exhibted the qualities around our October Key-Integrity. These students showed others what it means to be an honest person who cares about what others think.

• KDG- Amelia B, Chloe N, Emily R, Kayla B, Tavia V
• 1st- Selene P, Evelysse B, Cara R, Maggie T, Elyase R, Natalie M
• 2nd- Tereza B, Ava S, Hareem R, Karla P, Natasha C
• 3rd- Valerie H, Yaeili P, Ranora G, Hamza B
• 4th- Abdur-Rahman, William V, Aiden A, Emily B, Matthew M

Birthday Treats

Please do not send in food items or balloons to celebrate. These items will be returned home. If you would like to send in a celebration item to share with the class, novelty items such as pencils, bubbles, Play-Doh, and stickers are acceptable. This is optional for all students.

D16ElemMenu25-26.pdf

2526DistrictCalendar-Approved2102025 (1).pdf