Grizzly Growl: October 24, 2025

November 3, 2025
5:54 pm

Dear Granite Families,
I hope you have a lovely fall break with a bonus day Monday! Our teachers will be engaging in professional learning for half the day.
Our faculty is in the midst a year-long book study of the book Engagement by Design (Fisher, Frey, et.al.). Monday, we are talking about clarity for engagement. We all love working toward an achievable goal. When students know what they’re learning, why it matters, and how to know when they’ve learned it, their engagement in learning increases. Monday will be the first in several upcoming faculty discussions on clarity in learning.
As always, thank you for supporting our wonderful school community. Please reach out anytime with questions or feedback.
Warmly,
Elcena Saline

Red Ribbon Week

This year our PTA has planned A Red Ribbon Week Celebration of Healthy Choices & Creativity
“Creep It Real: Building a Scare-tastic Community Together!” 📅 October 27–31, 2025
This Halloween season, our hallway will be transformed into a not-so-spooky space filled withcreativity, community, and important messages about:🧠 Making healthy choices🕷 Supporting one another🎨 Expressing ourselves in fun, positive ways
What’s Happening:🦇 Tuesday – Students decorate bats with brave or kind messages🕸 Wednesday – Spiders and webs filled with supportive words👾 Thursday – Silly monsters with positive traits and calming tools

Halloween Information for Friday 🦇🪦🎃

Costumes – we can’t wait to see all our Grizzlies dressed up in their costumes!

Students can wear costumes to school
We recommend students wear regular clothes under so they can take the costume off after the parade
Masks may only be warn during the parade
Absolutely no facsimiles of guns allowed with costumes
Other weapons (pirate swords, ninja stars, light sabers, etc.) can be carried during the parade then put away. Students may not pretend to use their weapons on other kids.

Parade

Our parade will start around 9:20 and we should be outside around 9:30 exiting the 5th grade doors
All grown-ups can watch the parade from the west and north playgrounds along the cone path.
Please do not bring animals

2nd Grade Program

Once the students parade back into the building, we finish the parade.
All grown-ups coming for the program, will need to get their visitor sticker and wait in the main hall until the parade passes by.
Once the program is over, please exit through the office. Thank you!

Class Parties

Please see information from your teachers about class party times and needs
All edible items have to be store bought and packaged.

Wellness Night Coming Soon

Families, please mark your calendars for our Wellness Night on November 4th from 6:00-7:30.
This year’s Wellness night is going to be our best one yet and we can’t wait! More details will be in next week’s Growl.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday October. 27 – No School Professional Learning Day
Tuesday – Friday Oct. 27-31 – Red Ribbon Week – see details above
Friday Oct. 31 – Halloween parade outside
Friday Oct. 31 – 2nd Grade Program for Parents 9:30 (doors open after parade ends)

Next Week

Nov. 3 – Nov. 7 – Wellness Week
Tuesday, Nov. 4 – Wellness Night 6:00-7:30
Thursday Nov. 6 – Friday, Nov. 7 – SALTA Testing for students who applied.

Granite Elementary