Spotlight on Van Buren

New Spotlight on Van Buren

Every month we will have a spotlight, highlighting all the amazing things happening at Van Buren! Our Kids, Staff and community are amazing and need to be showcased on all the awesome things happening everyday. If you have something you want to see in the spotlight send it to VBESPTU@grmail.com.

New Dry Erase Tables

PTU purchased 7 dry erase tables for each grade’s classroom. These tables allow kids and teachers to work on problems together by drawing out answers, practice spelling words and so much more. Kids and teachers alike have been excited to use these tables over the last week.

Veteran's Day

Van Buren students honor their family veteran's by creating bricks to post on the veteran's wall. During the assembly the students heard from veteran's and handed out thank you cards to all veteran's in attendance during the ceremony.
5th grade was then able to go downtown to watch the Loveland Veteran's day parade, this trip was sponsored by the Loveland Lion's Club. The 5th graders were happy to be able to watch the parade and chanted USA through most of it.
Students also wrote letters to veteran's which somewhere handed out at the veteran's day assembly and some  are mailed out to veteran's around the country.
THANK YOU to all the Veteran's in our Van Buren Community and world wide for your dedication and service!

Teacher Spotlight

Mr. Rauer - 5th grade

This month we are giving a shout out to Mr. Rauer and all his hard work with our student leadership! Student Leadership has raised money and purchased a video camera and equipment to create a newsroom. They have started recording daily morning news segments to inform the entire student body of upcoming events and cool Van Buren news. We are working on ways to share these news segments out with our entire community and will update on how's, when's and where's these broadcasts will be available.
The first news cast aired this morning during the Monday assembly! Thank You Mr Rauer for this awesome learning experience for our kids, YOU ROCK!

100 Mile Club

With all the warm weather this fall the kids have been going strong in 100-mile club. With 80 kids with 5 or more miles, we have 18 who have earned their t-shirts by running 25 miles, and 6 kids with over 50 miles. More kids reach milestones every day! Way to rock it this fall!!

Van Buren Book Share

There has been a book share set up in the hall way outside of the office. This book share is designed for all kids to have access to books to readapt anytime. Kids can take a book then return it for another book. If you have book to donate you can drop them off in the office.

What's Next.....

Food Drive

Our school is collecting canned food this year. All donated food will help local families. Please send in non-perishable items with your student and support this worthy cause. The class with the most items collected will have a class  Ice Cream party! 

Pajama Drive

Olsons' Pajama Project was created to honor the late Sharon Olson, a longtime teacher and school board member in Loveland.  Due to the generosity of the Thompson School District community, hundreds of Thompson School District students received new pajamas right before the holiday season last year.  This year, pajamas will not only go to Thompson School District students, but extra pajamas will be sent to students living on the Pineridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.   Flyers will be distributed as soon as they are printed, so please send the flyers home with your students by the end of the week.  NEW pajamas will be collected in the plastic tote in the lobby until December 9th.   The school that collects the most pajamas will have the official Olson's Pajama Project traveling trophy for 1 year!
Website: Olson's Pajama Project Website
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Olsons-Pajama-Project/1503959186538532