Our Book Fair is open! Empower your kids by letting them browse and choose books in the fun, interactive Virtual Book Fair. Visit Wickliffe's Scholastic Homepage to experience the virtual fair with your student and to shop! 

It's time to order your Square 1 Art keepsakes! Square 1 Art keepsakes make great gifts and are a great way to share your children's artwork with friends and family. 

Due to our change to Enhanced Distance Learning, accessing your child's artwork and ordering will be done online. (We will provide your child's artwork stickers at a later date.) All students' artwork has been uploaded to the Square 1 Art website. Please visit www.Square1Art.com/Shop to find your child's artwork and start shopping! Detailed instructions on this process can be accessed here.

The ordering deadline for our fundraiser is Monday, December 7th. 

Orders submitted by 12/7/20 will be shipped to your house by 12/19/20. Just in time for the holiday season! 

Please contact Dawn Hofherr (dawn.hofherr@gmail.com) with any questions. 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! We are excited to partner with Dewey's Pizza in Grandview for our next restaurant fundraiser. Join us in ordering from Dewey's Grandview next Wednesday (December 9th) 4pm-9pm, mention this offer and a portion of your check will be donated to our school! Please share this flyer with family & friends.

• If you would like to choose a child or a family to shop for you can access the Sign Up Genius here: Holiday Gift Sign Up so you can select a child to help this holiday season. 
• We will have a contactless drop off for gifts the week of December 14th- 18th, more details will be provided nearer the time.

We are excited that we can still help others this year even though we can’t volunteer in person. If you have questions, please email Sarah Oberlin at soberlin@uaschools.org.

As we return to Enhanced Distance Learning, many of our teachers are continuing to go into school to teach their classes via Zoom. 

A little pick me up during the day lets our teachers know that we appreciate all they are doing to keep our children learning. If you'd like to contribute, please click on the sign up genius for all the details and to add your name to the sign up.

If you have any questions please contact Jennifer Waddell at jenniferawaddell@yahoo.com. Thank you for your support! 

These organizations donate money to our school as you shop! Please consider using these reward programs to benefit Wickliffe PTO as you are doing your Black Friday and holiday shopping this year. Thank you for supporting our school.

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Any student enrolled in Upper Arlington Schools, including UA Online Academy, may order meals by clicking here. When selecting your lunch pickup location, please scroll to the bottom of the list and select the building you would like to pick up from under the "District Wide Pick Up Locations." Please complete your order by midnight the day before pickup.

What is the cost for meals? Thanks to a USDA waiver, all students enrolled in Upper Arlington Schools (preK-12) will be able to receive free lunch through the month of December, or until federal funding is no longer available. 

Where and when is pickup? For Wickliffe Progressive, pick up your student's meal at the school's main entrance 2405 Wickliffe Road, from 11:45am - 12:30pm Mondays thru Fridays.

Tips and Tricks: How to assign your student's classroom teacher in the directory

The directory is set up to allow you to search for the contact information of your student's friends in multiple ways - by student or by parent, by name or by grade.

We also have the option to search by classroom teacher but in some cases the assignment is missing. To match your student to their teacher:

• click the link below,
• if prompted, sign in (with your email address and password)
• select the appropriate teacher name from the list, and
• click save.

https://wickliffepto.membershiptoolkit.com/membership_step2

If you notice a friend is missing their teacher assignment, please pass this tip on!

For privacy reasons, the directory is only available to PTO members - to join please click here. If the $25 dues are a barrier to joining, please send an email to wickliffepto@gmail.com for the fee to be waived.

• Please join us on Sunday evening, December 6th, from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM https://zoom.us/j/7191866057 for our next Parent Coffee. This conversation is entitled, “Navigating the Holidays.” As we know, staying connected with our Wickliffe families is more important than ever. We hope you can join us for this discussion.

• Online Academy MeetUp - Please have your OA learners join us for a Holiday Hangout on Thursday, December 3rd from 11:00 to 12:00 on Zoom  https://zoom.us/j/7191866057 for games and a craft.  All your child needs is 6 pieces of paper (any kind will do), a pair of scissors, a glue stick, and their imagination. It is a great way to stay connected with each other while learning apart.

As we head back to Enhanced Distanced Learning, I decided to reread an article about tips for learning online. Since this is our third time doing this (once in the spring, the start of the school year, and now) we all have different feelings about EDL. Some families are relieved to be back home away from the potential threat of COVID while others are dreading the idea of having to juggle work and school for the next month. As I often remind your children, whatever you are feeling is an okay feeling to have at this time.

So, please remember to practice self-care and self-compassion so that you can be your best self. Remember to have realistic expectations for yourself and your children so that you are not in a constant state of frustration and disappointment. And please practice forgiveness for yourself and your family. We are all doing our best!

As always, I hope the article either affirms for you something that you are already doing or is a gentle reminder of things that you might consider trying.

https://www.usatoday.com/covid-19-tips-parents-successful-online-learning

Onward,

The Counseling Team (Felice and Rebecca)