Roosevelt Elementary School                    

   Watertown, South Dakota

   "Enabling All Students to Succeed in an Ever-Changing World"

 

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Quarterly Honor Roll

Roosevelt students in grades three through six are recognized for their academic achievement. To receive this honor, students must have all A’s and B’s as well as an S or above in their specials classes.

Big G Box Tops for Education

Roosevelt has participated in this General Mills sponsored fundraiser for the past 4 years. Every year the families have saved more box tops than the previous year. The money earned from this program is used to fund end of the year activities for the Roughrider and Honor Roll students.

Econofoods Receipts

Every year Roosevelt Elementary participates in the Econofoods Save Our School (SOS) program. This program will award our school with $1000 if we can save and collect $150,000 worth of receipts from their store. With this money, we are able to buy computers, software, playground equipment and improvements, or other student incentives that are above what the school budget will allow. Each year the school has been a part of this program, we have been awarded the $1,000.

Throughout the school year, students are given the opportunity to take part in various contests with bringing in a certain amount of receipts by a given date to earn small tokens.

Students may bring their receipts to school and drop them in a box, or parents may put their receipts in a box that is labeled "Roosevelt Elementary" at the store. Enlist your neighbors, friends, and relatives to save receipts to help Roosevelt.

Campbell Soup Labels

The Learning Center uses Campbell Soup labels as a math project. Twice a year the labels are cut to size, sorted, put in groups of 10’s, 100’s and 500’s. At the end of the year, they can either “cash” in the labels or “bank” them for use at another time. They have received a cassette recorder with listening stations (6,000 labels), computer software (6,200 labels), and a pocket size 35 mm camera (8,000 labels) for their classroom.

Pop Tabs for the Ronald McDonald House

For the past several years, Roosevelt students have been collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House in Sioux Falls. Some years, the second graders have counted the tabs. They have counted as many as 10,000 tabs in one year! Some years they have weighed the tabs. One pound equals 933 tabs. The tabs make wonderful counters for graphing, adding, subtracting, working with place value, and measuring length and weight.

Pop tabs contribute over $1,000 monthly to the Ronald McDonald House. This means that families who need lodging while their child is receiving medical care in Sioux Falls, can stay at this facility for a minimal or no cost fee.

We are proud to contribute to the Ronald McDonald House. Please bring your pop tabs to Roosevelt School is you would like to share in this community service project!

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