NEW!  EXTENDED AN EXTRA DAY until Monday, April 28th! The Community Outreach group of the Tonawanda Leadership Club is hosting an Elmbrook Humane Society Wish List Drive to help our community by donating items that are most needed by our neighborhood humane society.  What? Canned cat food, Canned dog food, Grain-free treats, Peanut butter, Tuna, Squeeze cheese, Fleece pieces (at least 1 foot long). The grade-level that has the most items donated will win popsicles, so please be sure to drop off your donations to Mrs. Frias in her classroom. Donations due Monday, April 28th.  Thank you so much for your generosity and help!

NEW! PTO Boys Bowling Bash Update!  The 2025 PTO BOYS BOWLING BASH sign-up is now CLOSED for Thursday May 1st (3rd-5th grades). If you did not get a chance to sign-up and are still interested in going, please contact Brenda Schmidt at brendaanselschmidt@gmail.com. We still have some spots open on Tuesday 4/29 for K4-2nd grades. You must be pre signed-up to attend this event, it is not a show-up and pay event. LINK TO SIGN-UP TO BOWL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvo0DRRgFhNhkxz1bNVXn_2HE_BqT0D4YeLuqeSB6hqQYxxA/viewform?usp=dialog

There are also volunteer spots open: (Mascot, Photographer and helper, dessert server and clean-up) Link to Volunteer April 29th (K4-2nd grade): https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4BACAE2FABF9C43-55549634-2025       Link to Volunteer May 1st (3rd-5th grade): https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4BACAE2FABF9C43-56063887-2025

 

The health room is running low on boys' underwear.  Falling in a puddle, spilling their milk, and other accidents happen and at times, our students have to change clothes.  If you are cleaning out your children's dressers, please think of us. We love donations of gently used underwear, especially for our young learners 4 - 8 year olds. 

 

SAVE THE DATE! 4th and 5th Grade BAND and ORCHESTRA concert at Tonawanda on Tuesday, May 6 at 6:00 - 7:00 PM.  We are looking forward to sharing this evening of music with our 4th and 5th grade families!  

Student Arrival, Dismissal, and Transportation Reminders!

As always our students' safety is our highest priority! As you know, the times of student arrival and student dismissal are our busiest times in our parking lots and neighboring streets. As always, please use caution and drive slowly in our parking lots and around our surrounding neighborhood streets. Additionally, please continue to be considerate of our neighbors. Thank you, always, for your patience, understanding of, and cooperation with our procedures and expectations as they are put in place for student safety. Please review our arrival and dismissal plans linked here.   

 

IMPORTANT! Change of Plans for After-School Dismissal. Please notify us of any change in your child(ren)'s after school dismissal plans.  Please send an email to your child's teacher and copy both our administrative assistant Mrs. Michelle Kiese at kiesem@elmbrookschools.org and our health room assistants at tonawandahealthroom@elmbrookschools.org  as early as you can in the morning, but for certain before noon.  After 12 noon, we cannot guarantee that your child's teacher will get the email as they are busy teaching and working with our students, and likely not checking email. If plans change after 12 noon, please call the MAIN SCHOOL OFFICE at 262-785-3950 to talk to Mrs. Michelle Kiese about the plans. Thank you for your assistance in keeping consistent plans for your child(ren) and for communicating with us when the plans need to change.

 

Please keep up to date! Background Check Process for Volunteers!  We love our family/parent/grandparent volunteers! We wanted to share the process for becoming a volunteer in our schools. Please see https://www.elmbrookschools.org/departments/human-resources/how-to-volunteer-in-elmbrook for all the information including completing our district's volunteer background check process.  You will need to renew this process every two years. There is an approximate two week processing time before you are able to volunteer in our school. Thank you! 

 

Monthly attendance email will be sent for your child(ren). Email communication sample:  The School District of Elmbrook is committed to student achievement and every school day counts. Regular school attendance promotes continuity of the learning process and academic success of every student. Frequent absences deny students the benefit of planned classroom instruction, participation, hands-on or active learning, and can rarely be regained despite extra instruction or support. Every month, we will update families on their child's attendance in an effort to work collaboratively to ensure regular attendance for all Elmbrook students.  Then specific attendance information will be shared regarding your child.  Wisconsin law allows for families to excuse their children from school up to 10 days per school year.

 

Student Attendance Matters! Accurate student attendance is important to us. If your child(ren) will be absent from school, please email our attendance office at TonAttendance@elmbrookschools.org and your child(ren)'s teacher(s) OR call our main phone line 262-785-3950 and select option 1. Please indicate the reason for their absence. Please try to do this before the start of the school day or at least by 8:50 AM.  The tonattendance email mailbox is monitored only through approximately noon each day. 

 

Medically Excused Absences: Families may submit verification of medical appointments and/or illness from a medical provider to the school attendance office in order to be reflected in their child(ren)'s attendance.  With these medical verification documents, the documented absences will not be included as a part of the up to ten allowed days of absences per school year. 

 

Vacation Request Form linked here. Please complete this form for trips when your child(ren) will miss 3 or more school days due to the vacation. Please complete this form with as much advance notice as possible. Thank you!

 

Follow our Tonawanda PTO on social media! The PTO Instagram account is @tonawandaPTO and join the private Tonawanda Parents Facebook group. To join, please provide the grade/assigned teacher for one of your children in order to be approved to join, so we can keep it to our community.

 

Family guests may join their child(ren) for lunch in our cafeteria. Due to limited space in our cafeteria, only your child(ren) may join you at the "guest table" (unfortunately no friends are allowed to join) and families must PRE-REGISTER to join lunch by calling the office at 262-785-3950 or email Michelle Kiese at kiesem@elmbrookschools.org within the week of your planned visit as we have a capacity of 8 guests for lunch each day. Thank you for your understanding! 

 

Bus Information:  Go-Riteway is the bus company that serves our Elmbrook School District. Bus route information for the 2024-2025 school year will be sent via email to your family in mid-late August. If you have questions, please connect directly with Go Riteway at 414-249-5048. Sign Up for the Here Comes the Bus app! You can track your child(ren)'s bus for the before school and after school routes!  Please see the link for more information on the Here Comes the Bus app. Due to large ridership on our buses,  only routed students will be allowed on the buses again this school year.  We cannot have unrouted students ride home with other students on their buses for playdates. Only routed and assigned bus riders may be on our buses.  Thank you for your understanding!