Freedom Elementary

🍎 Week 3 Learning Boards are updated. 📚 New Learning Boards will be posted every SATURDAY morning as we continue distance learning. 🔖 You can bookmark the following site, otherwise they are always available through the link on your school's website. 🐾 https://www.smore.com/6aqx7-distance-learning

Friday, April 3rd we are here until 6:00 for pick up of locker items and belongings! Drive through the bus lane - we will meet you at your car!

The six elementary schools will have another pick-up of materials on Friday, April 3rd. Instructional materials along with items from lockers and desks will be sent home on Friday from 11:00-6:00. Please come to your child’s elementary school to pick up your child’s books, workbooks and personal items. All items will be pre-bagged for drive thru pick up. Library books may be returned at that time. 🐾

While many South Dakotans stay home during coronavirus, there will be tens of thousands of people who will head to work to keep essential services functioning smoothly for everyone. This week, we recognize the following services. 🧹🔧📦🐕♻️ Whether you are staying home to keep you and your family healthy, or working to provide services essential to keep our community operating, THANK YOU!

We have over 20 ᴘʀᴏᴛᴇᴄᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴛɪɢᴇʀ coloring page submissions so far! 🖨 Print a copy here: https://5il.co/edac. 🏠 Hang your coloring sheet in your window to remind the entire community to ᴘʀᴏᴛᴇᴄᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴛɪɢᴇʀ! To submit a coloring sheet, include your student's first name, school, and teacher's name and do one of the following: 📩 Email a photo of the drawing to Joanne.vermulm@k12.sd.us or ↪ Message the photo to the District Facebook Page

As parents, there are times our children drive us crazy! In this time of rapid change and, for most of us, some kind of confinement at home, this can be especially true. Getting through the day can become tense, and we can be unsure about how to discipline our children. Join this free web-based meeting with Randy Sprick. Randy is a parent (and yes, sometimes his children drive him crazy), a grandparent, and a world leader in effective behavior management. His presentation will cover things you can do to help your children learn to behave better and become more independent and responsible. https://mailchi.mp/safeandcivilschools/webinar-for-parents-80512?e=0674488432&fbclid=IwAR2xXwGNSLojK-ohtWSu31ALeb-1piJ6T5wq43J2Nxo2TCfxofLjH7ikuPo

We are so proud of our Tigers for being part of the effort to protect our community by preventing the spread of illness. This is tough, but we are tougher, and we are all #InThisTogether to #ProtectLikeATiger! ❤️ To show our appreciation, we made a coloring sheet for our Tigers! 🖨 Print a copy here: https://5il.co/edac.   🏠 You also can hang your coloring sheet in your window to remind the entire community to Protect Like a Tiger! To submit a coloring sheet, include your student's first name, school, and teacher's name and do one of the following: 📩 Email a photo of the drawing to Joanne.vermulm@k12.sd.us or ↪ Message the photo to the District Facebook Page

On Wednesday, April 1st (tomorrow), the Harrisburg School District will be distributing a box of nonperishable dry goods, from Feeding South Dakota, to any family that wishes to pick one up. The boxes will be handed out from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, or until they run out, at the school locations that are also handing out grab-n-go meals. These boxes will be picked up from the back of the buildings at the entrances to the kitchens. Boxes cannot be picked where the grab-n-go meals are handed out. We will have signs on the doors indicated which door to go. Only one box is allowed per family. • North Middle School - the door is in front of the long-sloped dock. • Liberty - the rear of the building is located along Willow Street, with the entrance in the recessed part of the building. • Freedom - look for the door near the red dumpsters • Explorer - look for the door near the red dumpsters • Journey - look for the door near the red dumpsters • Horizon - the rear of the building is located off E. Brewster Street, look for the door near the red dumpsters.

⚠️ For the health and safety of our community, effective immediately, all Harrisburg School District playgrounds and outdoor facilities are closed to the public. Thank you for your cooperation.

Although we may be far apart, know our affection for our Tigers is from the heart! ♥️🐾

The Child Nutrition Department is excited to announce that starting TOMORROW we will be offering curbside pick-up of the grab-n-go meals.  You can just pull up to the curb by the building entrance, let the staff know how many meals you need, and we will bring them out to you. Also starting tomorrow there will be some rule and regulation changes that will make the program more accessible to families. • Any child between the ages of 0 to 18 is now eligible to pick up meals. • The child does not need to attend the Harrisburg School District to be eligible to pick up meals. • The child does not need to be present to pick up a meal. This meal program is for the benefit of the children in and around the Harrisburg School District.  Meals that are taken are to be consumed by the children in the household.  Do not ask for meals that are intended to be eaten by adults.

😎 It's a beautiful day! Enjoy the sun, and take care of yourself.

The Distance Learning (Smore) link will be the same each week. It can be accessed on your school's webpage or through https://www.smore.com/6aqx7-distance-learning. Welcome to Week 2! 🍎

The six elementary schools will be doing another pick-up of materials on Friday, April 3rd. Instructional materials along with items from lockers and desks will be sent home on Friday from 11:00-6:00. Please come to your child’s elementary school between 11-6 on Friday, April 3rd to pick up your child’s books, workbooks and personal items. The Distance Learning Smore site for week 2 of learning will be sent to you on Monday.

Art shows that were previously scheduled at some of our elementary schools in April are canceled. 🎨

✅ Impact your Community. Shape the Future. Complete the Census! ‣ School lunches. 🍎 ‣ Plans for highways. 🛣 ‣ Support for firefighters and families in need. 🚒 👉🏼 Census results affect your community every day.

🚨 Don't forget! Lunches are now being distributed throughout the district. 👉🏼 NMS | Explorer | Freedom | Horizon | Journey | Liberty ⏰ 11 AM - 1 PM 🗓Monday - Friday

📩 Several email hosting companies are implementing additional filtering mechanisms due to the increase in COVID-19-related spam and phishing emails.  🔵 This is especially true with high quantities of recipients on a single email such as district communication emails.  It is important to allow both hsdnoreply@harrisburg.k12.sd.us  and harrisburg.school@harrisburg.k12.sd.us in the settings of your email account in order to receive district communications via email.  🔵 Here is a link to this process for popular email accounts:  https://bit.ly/33Jginw 🔵 If you are sure these emails have been whitelisted in your email account, please contact Jean.Hudson@k12.sd.us to verify your contact information.

⏰ Grab & Go Breakfast & Lunches All Week 11 AM - 1 PM

We will start our distance learning journey tomorrow. Below is a link to what is called a Smore, similar to a webpage, that has learning boards for grades JrK through 5th grade. The learning boards have activities and lessons for Wed.-Fri. of this week. Each week a new Smore with new learning boards will be sent to you. If you have any questions about the learning boards or can’t access the Smore or links to the learning boards, please contact your child’s teacher or school. https://www.smore.com/6aqx7-distance-learning