Newsletter

Flight Plan: Week of April 14th, 2022

Important Dates

April 19th Board Meeting

April 30th Spring Celebration and Auction Tickets On Sale Now!

Coffee Talk with the Directors March 16th, 30th, April 4th, 13th, and 20th from 9:00-9:45

May 2nd Class Pictures

*Lost and Found is now located on the fence by the pick-up area*

Calendar

4/5 Black hawk adventure at Gowen Field

4/5 has spent the year making trips out to Gowen Field to STRABASE, a program that teaches Idaho students Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math! This week for their trip they learned all about military helicopters, and how they are operated! They even got to see skilled pilots fly and flip them mid air!

Planting Flowers for Pollinators

This Spring semester, 2/3 is studying pollinators, and habitats! They have already learned about different species who pollinate, and after a visit from the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley they also learned about conservation. This past week, with the help of some parent volunteers, 2/3 planted lots of Idaho native species, and flowers which are very important to our community pollinators. There will be some very happy bees this spring and summer!

Ukulele Jams!

While Anser doesn't have an official music teacher, one our 1st Grade Crew leaders finds a way to bring music to her classroom! Jess is pictured here with her Crew strumming on her ukulele and singing about plants. Currently, 1st grade is studying life cycles of plants, and even growing their own seeds! What a perfect way to solidify these students' learning, through music!

Spring Celebration-Masks Optional

The Covid Response Team approved optional masking at the Spring Celebration. The event will take place indoors and outside, the gym doors will be open for good ventilation and we are managing gathering size by hosting two sessions of the event, from 12-3 and 4-7. This an adult only event. We hope all of our parents will attend, and make the masking choice that is right for themselves and their family.

Family Council needs you!

Anser’s Family Council supports the education program of the school, develops a strong family community and serves as conduit between parents and the school administration for communicating parental ideas and concerns. Family Council supports the school with the Back to School Picnic, parent/family social events, provides feedback on policies and procedures brought to the committee, and supports volunteerism within the school. Family Council meets one time per month, August-May, with occasional additional meetings for subcommittees. Elections will be held to add new Family Council members in May. If you would be interested in learning more about serving on Family Council, please reach out to Family Council President Dave Nelson at vandalfan@gmail.com.

Transportation Update

At its March 15^th meeting, the Anser Community Board voted to start an independent transportation program. This vote came after a second year of receiving no bids from local transportation companies to provide the service. Anser staff have secured two buses and are building the necessary processes to begin providing transportation in the fall. More details about routing and a survey to understand the transportation needs of our families will be sent in the next month. Anser families can help us get this program off to a good start by contributing to the Fill-A Need at the Anser Spring Celebration. All funds raised in this year’s Fill-A-Need will be used to support the startup of the Transportation program, and to pay for using the buses for Fieldwork and Adventure next school year. If you, or anyone you know has a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and would be interested in learning more about being a bus driver for Anser, please contact Anser’s Site Manager, Steve Womack at swomack@ansercharterschool.org

Learning Celebrations

Listed below are the currently scheduled Celebrations of Learning/Exhibition Nights. This list will continue to be updated as the remaining crews schedule!

Kindergarten: May 3rd

1st Grade: May 12th

2/3: April 21st at Municipal Park

6th: May 19th

JH: May 25th

COVID-19 Info

Anser is committed to providing timely and transparent information to our community regarding Covid-19. You can find links to recent communications, data on Covid cases within the school and in the larger community using the links below. As always we are here to answer your questions. If you need additional information please email Anser’s Health Screener at healthscreener@ansercharterschool.org

US Covid-19 County Community Levels

Breakfast and Lunch Calendar

Lunch Calendar is back!

Helpful Quick Links

COVID Page

Responsive Return Plan

Staff Contact Info

Governance

Health Screener- Sara Jepson healthscreener@ansercharterschool.org

Homeless Student Liaison- Hillard McMorris- hmcmorris@ansercharterschool.org

Foster Student Liaison- Siler McCraw- smccraw@ansercharterschool.org

Looking for help, but don’t know who to ask? info@ansercharterschool.org

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