Hello Baltic Families!

What a strange but exciting Winter we have had thus far! One day we are snowed in, the next we are

surfing! We appreciate all of your patience with the school as we battle runny noses, the change in

weather and the arrival of testing. Remember, we are here to give the students of Baltic a wonderful

educational experience and we strive for perfection in having a great day….every day!

And remember to follow us on Twitter. We are trying to get to 100 followers by the end of the school

year. We are @BRPirates.

Have a Great Month!

Mr. Williams

Principal’s Corner

QUICK HITS

Magazine Sale

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Magazine/Goodies Fundraiser from Great American. Your orders will be into the school on February 24 and a notice will go home to alert you to the time. Thank you again for helping make our school that much better with your generosity!

Dress for the Weather

Please make sure that your child is dressed for the weather. There will be days when we go outside and students will need to have hat, gloves and a warm winter coat if they are to go out under certain conditions.

Box Tops

Please continue saving the General Mills Box Tops and send them to the office. This is an easy way to help us earn cash for the school.

Flapjacks and Fun

Flapjacks and Fun will be held from 7 to 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 12. There will be a pancake breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. with games and activities in the gym from 8 to 10 a.m. The basket raffle/silent auction will be held again this year with several great baskets available to place a bid on. Please consider donating an item or two to your child’s basket by Friday, February 26. The grades are combining this year with kindergarten through second grade having the theme of “Family Night.” Third and fourth grade will have the theme of “Baking” with fifth and sixth having the theme of “Arts and Crafts.”

Testing

We will be sending home our Spring testing schedule in the upcoming weeks. We will once again be testing in the areas of Math, English/Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. Testing will take place from mid-April to the first week of May.

February 2016

Award winners from the second nine weeks are as follows:

Perfect Attendance

Kindergarten: Emma Finley, Aubree Jenkins, Kayla Miller, Kendall Yoder.

First Grade: Matthew Frey, Emili Getz, Kylee Jones, Erin Meek, Kayla Miller, Rose Miller, Sophia

Miller, Abigail Steiner, Jadyn Stull, Henry Swartzentruber

Second Grade: Jackson Gerber, Audrey Immel, Adylyne Mahaffey, Kenneth Miller, Lainey Schlabach,

Brody Shull, Benson Yoder.

Third Grade: Brendan Allman, Alexus Immel, Summer Miller, Karson Yackey

Fourth Grade: Gannon Baker, Gavin Harlow, Wyatt Hershberger, Ariel Jones, Jordyn Keim, Spencer

Renicker, Hannah Steiner, Lucas Swartzentruber, Silas Wahl, Jeremy Weaver, Keara Yackey, Grace

Yoder.

Fifth Grade: Jake Braun, Keira Lembke, Natalie Pope, Garen Schlabach, Kaley Simers, Caleb

Stocksdale, Ashlyn Thorne

Sixth Grade: Clayton Burky, Alex Florian, Arin Frey, Savanna Miller, Zenik Patchan, Hailey Troyer.

Principals’ List (All A’s)

Third Grade: Summer Miller, Annie Yoder.

Fourth Grade: Logan Lorenz, Brooklyn Numbers, Hannah Steiner, Grace Yoder.

Fifth Grade: Jake Braun, Cheryl Erb, Reese Graham, Rhoda Yoder.

Sixth Grade: Brayden Adams, Emily Miller, Savanna Miller, Zenik Patchan.

Honor Roll (All A’s and B’s)

Third Grade: Zyler Berry, Jordan Dennison, Katelyn Kitzmiller, Rhaigan Lane, Matthew Raber, Bron-

son Speedy, Luis Wahl, Margaret Wahl, Carolyn Weaver, Heidi Yoder.

Fourth Grade: Mikaela Carr, Gavin Harlow, Elliot Havranek, Caden Haynes, Wyatt Hershberger, Ari-

el Jones, Jordyn Keim, James Miller, Spencer Renicker, Lucas Swartzentruber, Isabelle Tetreault, Silas

Wahl, Jeremy Weaver, Keara Yackey.

Fifth Grade: Nathan Barker, Ricky Booth, Isabella Caris, Isabel Grove, Keira Lembke, Caleb Meek,

Carter Miller, Natalie Pope, Garen Schlabach, Kaley Simers, Caleb Stocksdale, Ashlyn Thorne,

Grace Yoder.

Sixth Grade: Clayton Burky, Alex Florian, Arin Frey, Carson Haynes, Dylon Lawhun, Jaden Lembke,

Kameryn Roubanes, Hailey Troyer.

What’s going on in school?

The winner of the 2016 Baltic

Elementary Spelling Bee was

5th grader Cheryl Erb. Runner-

up was 4th grader Hannah Stei-

ner. Cheryl will attend the Re-

gional Bee on March 5 at Can-

ton GlenOak High School.

Mr. Mike visited Baltic Elementary last month to present his “Officer Phil” pro-

gram. With the use of magic and his trusty dog “Buddy,” Mr. Mike kept the stu-

dents interested and engaged with his talk about character and safety. Thank you

Sugarcreek Police Department for providing this opportunity to our students!

Baltic Elementary, especially Mrs. Elmore and

the kindergarteners, would like to thank Pro-

Via, Wayne Door and James Meek for their

contributions in putting in new windows in

the kindergarten room!

You have helped make our school even

brighter!

For every item sold by a student in the

Dutch Valley Fundraiser, students got

a ticket to place into the can of a

teacher they wanted to pie. We re-

cently held our Pie In the Face Assem-

bly and several students got to partici-

pate when their name was drawn. A

huge thank you to the teachers and to

John Meek for organizing the event!

The Baltic Elementary Star Students of the Month for January are: (Front L-R) Lainey Schlabach, Ben-son Yoder (second grade); Erin Meek, Kayla Miller, Rafael Silva (first grade); Kayla Miller, Emma Fin-ley, Kendall Yoder (kindergarten). (Back L-R) Zenik Patchan (sixth grade); Isabella Caris, Caleb Stocks-dale (fifth grade); Caden Haynes, Silas Wahl, Grace Yoder (fourth grade); Margaret Wahl, Karson Yackey (third grade). Missing is sixth grader Destiny Pope.

A huge thank you to Baltic custodian Rich-ard Zimmerman and his family for their

donation of new dodgeballs and kickballs for the students to use at

recess. We are very appre-ciative and can’t thank them enough! It is a true

show of our district motto for the year of “Love Your

People!”

We would like to send a huge

Baltic thank you to Berlin

Embroidery for their donation

of hats, scarves and gloves to

help our students stay warm this Winter.

We cannot stress enough how

caring they are and how fortu-

nate we are to have area busi-

nesses who care for our kids!

Important Dates

Friday, February 5: Spagetti Dinner to benefit the Raber family, 4-6:30 p.m. at Belden

Center

Monday, February 15: President’s Day (NO SCHOOL)

Monday, February 22: Spring Pictures

Saturday, March 12: Flapjacks and Fun, 7-10

Friday, March 18: End of Third Grading Period