John G. Tower Elementary

Dear Tower Parents and Guardians, Please do not forget about picture day.

District Attorney John Gillespie came to Tower yesterday to visit with our third, fourth, and fifth graders about the dangers of fentanyl, peer pressure, cyberbullying and other pertinent topics to this age group! We are so very grateful to Mr. Gillespie for taking the time to invest in our students. Thank you KFDX for covering the story! You can view it here at: https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/wichita-county-d-a-encourages-students-to-discover-passions-make-positive-choices/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1DCqPDJPR1hoA4xbsLnVPTJtyQTL08Us330iRKVbkuiNL4C7tJH6S4SAY_aem_amuidyXmL28ngD2BFhJ7kw

📚 Attention Burkburnett Bulldogs! 📚 Guess what? It's time for a FOUR-DAY WEEKEND! 🎉🐾 Here's the scoop: 🍂 Monday (Oct 14): No school - Columbus Day 🗓️ Tuesday (Oct 15): No school - Parent-Teacher Conferences Parents, don't forget to mark your calendars for Tuesday's conferences! It's a great chance to chat with your child's teachers. 🍎👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 Students, enjoy your extra-long weekend! Whether you're catching up on sleep 😴, hanging out with friends 👫, or getting ahead on homework 📝 (we can dream, right?), make it a good one! See you all back at school on Wednesday, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed! #BurkburnettISD #LongWeekend #ParentTeacherConferences

Dear Tower Parents and Guardians, Thursday, October 17, 2024, will be picture day. Both classroom and individual pictures will be taken. Please see the graphics for the picture codes if you would like to preorder.

Our 3rd Graders had a Spooky Challenge today in STEM Club with Mrs. Blue. Students were challenged with designing the longest and strongest bone bridge! We discussed the structure and function of different materials that provide stability to allow their bridge to stand (just like our bones help provide our bodies structure).

Mrs. Blue's 2nd Grade STEM Club is off to a wonderful start! Students learned that spiders can regrow an entire leg! We connected this to the medical field and the use of prosthetics. Our design challenge was to help create a new leg for Frank the Spider. I think we have some future medical engineers in our class!

Congratulations to all who participated in the "Is there anything I could do to HELP you?! " project! We had so many entries! Here are the 5 WINNERS of the "Smoothie King" gift certificates! We sincerely thank our Tower PTO for providing these certificates for us! Your participation in their fundraisers assures that important projects like these continue! Here are the happy faces of the 5 winners! Congratulations to Kenley, Hawkins, Julia, Erica and Emmie!

Congratulations to first grade, winners of the Golden Shoe Trophy today!

Kindergarten students read, wrote and represented numbers 0-9 in math today! Each student had their own pizza and toppings! Students had to read the numeral, place the correct amount of toppings on the pizza and write the numeral on a white board! Huge shoutout to Pizza Hut for our kindergarten donations of the personal pan pizza boxes for our lesson today! We even got a pretty special treat of cheese pizza that we got to eat afterwards!🍕🖤🧡

Mrs. Antonio’s class started their Friday morning with a guest reader! Evie cashed in dojos to read to another class! Ms. Stolle's class also had a guest reader today! Anique cashed in her dojo points to read to our class! Way to go girls! 🖤🧡🐾

Did you know that November is National Veterans and Military Families Month? Check out this Military Family Strong shirt! This is a fundraiser to help support Tower's military events and programs, like our Braveheart Club, Student 2 Student program, Veterans Day, Purple Up and more! Get your preorder in before it is too late. Oh, and shipping is available, so share with your friends and family, near and far! https://shop.signonsigns.com/products/2024-military-family-strong-tee?variant=50401650737441

"Service above self." With no benefit to themselves, Mr. Billy and Mr. Scaling stayed very late yesterday to help set up the sound system for Golden Shoe Day today. I'm honored to know them both!

We can't wait to see everyone at Golden Shoe Day tomorrow! Which grade will take home the trophy?!

Our Bravehearts got messy this morning! They each were able to tie dye their own shirt, which we will use for future events. It was all hands-on deck- and we are so proud of our older Bravehearts as they stepped up to help our younger students.

Dear Tower Parents and Guardians, Picture order forms will be sent home in the next couple of days. Individual and group class photos will be taken on picture day, Thursday, October 17, 2024.

All 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders recently brought home the parental consent for our Student 2 Student club. Do not forget to complete the online application. Both the consent and online application need to be completed for all applicants by October 3rd. Here is the link for the online application- https://forms.gle/JhPuarzyxHi1qU3s7

We've had lots of kiddos cash in their ClassDojo points to spend time with Officer Deason. What awesome kids - and a pretty special officer, too!

Kindergarten students and staff showed Bulldog pride today by wearing a hat! 🧢🐾🏈

Fall Picture Day Thursday, October 17, 2024

Kindergarten students and staff showed bulldog pride by showing up in red for color wars today! 🔴🏈🐾