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Important Dates- Mark Your Calendar
March 3 Beginning of Pennies for Patients
Collection
March 5 Bus Evacuation Drills
March 10 Kindergarten Report Cards sent
home
March 9 Daylight Savings (Spring Forward)
March 10 Family Fitness 3-4:45 p.m.
March 11 Home and School Meeting 6:30 p.m.
in the library
March 12 Bus Evacuation Drills
March 14 Dental Screenings
March 17 Family Fitness 3-4:45 p.m.
March 17 Last day for Pennies for Patients
Collection
March 21 Good Friday – NO SCHOOL – HOLIDAY
March 24 Easter Monday – NO SCHOOL – HOLIDAY
March 26 Girl Scout Program 3-5:30 p.m.
Girls Grades K-3
March 31 Family Fitness 3-6:30 p.m.
March 31- Apr 11 PSSA testing for Grades 3, 4, and 5
In-house Fundraisers
You have already been asked to complete
booklets with names and addresses of family members for our Time for
Kids Magazine program, and soon you will be asked to complete another
booklet for Weekly Reader. I would like to explain how this helps our
school.
When you complete these booklets, these people are contacted
through the mail to see if they want to buy magazines. To my knowledge,
no one is harassed or pushed to buy magazines. However, for every name
and address completed by you, our school gets 2 free subscriptions to
Time for Kids. The same will be true of Weekly Readers. This is a
substantial savings to us, and some students even get two different
publications if we fill out enough booklets. If any of your relatives is
ever contacted in an offensive way because of this program, please let
me know. I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable about this.
In the fall, we are
considering doing this again with another company that gives us cash
instead of magazines. It is a way for them to get names and way for us
to augment our resources. We very much appreciate your help with this.
Senior Friend Essay Winner!
Mrs. Dill has advised me that Paige
Kearns (4th grade) has won the Special Senior Friend Essay
Contest for 4th grade. Her senior friend is her grandmother.
Paige will receive a $50 savings bonds and be honored at a banquet on
March 3. Congratulations, Paige!
Educational Trips
In the spring we always have a handful
of educational trip requests, and this year is no different. We are
aware that these are family vacations taken during the school year, but
the amount of time taken away from education makes it necessary to
account for the time spent outside school. Your child will be given a
form by the principal or teacher to be completed and handed in the
first day back from the trip. Your child should be writing about
experiences during the trip so that the report is complete upon
returning to school.
Please note
that trips should not be planned during the PSSA testing, which is held
at approximately the same time every year. Next year’s dates are already
on the web site, and the policy is clearly outlined in the parent
handbook that is distributed at the beginning of the school year. Thank
you for your cooperation in this matter.
PSSA Testing – March 31 through April 11
Our statewide testing begins for grades
3, 4, and 5 on Monday, March 31. This is an important set of tests
because it yields individual scores for your child, and it tells us
where our strengths and weaknesses are as instructional leaders.
In
preparation for this testing, please see that your child gets adequate
sleep during that week, and encourage him/her to eat breakfast. During
the testing, our home and school association is providing a nutritious
snack each morning for four days. We hope to finish the testing during
that time and utilize the other days for makeups.
Please work
with us to see that your child gets the best experience possible from
this high stakes testing experience. These scores, especially for the
fifth grade, will begin to shape students’ high school careers.
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