Special Events, Important Dates to Remember
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DOLTON – RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT 148 WE Are The Park Panthers P ARK E L E M E N T A RY S CHOOL D ECEMBER 2 0 2 0 N EWS “PARK SCHOOL W HERE L EARNING I S F UN” From the Principal’s desk Dear Park School Parents and Families, Our MOY (middle of year) assessments in reading and math will begin November Special Events, 30-December 18, 2020. Students in grades K-2 will not test. Testing will take place at home. We ask that parents and guardians do not assist your child. We Important Dates need the students to complete the assessments independently. to Remember: Grades 3, 4 and 5 will test the week of November 30- December 4. Grade 6 will test the week of December 7- December 11 Make-ups for students in grades 3-6 will be December 14 – December 18 Nov. 30 - Dec. 18 Students will test in reading using Renaissance which takes 45 minutes. Star Reading & Ready Math Students will test in math using Ready math for 3 days/30 minutes per day. testing. Students should be seated in a quiet area and near good lighting. Dec. 2- District 148 Elementary Students must have their video on so the teacher may see them during the entire th testing session. 4 grade Science Fair via Zoom meeting id TBA. Students should not use a calculator unless instructed by their teacher. Your child’ teacher will give the assessments. Dec. 7-11 Winter Coat Distribution Again, please do not assist your child. for selected students. It is hard to believe that it is December! It feels like the school year just began with distributing technology. Our nation has been faced with a major setback, yet Dec. 11- School Improvement Day we are persevering and Park School could not accomplish this plight without great 12 noon dismissal. parents and guardians. There are only 13.5 instructional days during the month of December. Each day of instruction will be vital and with school being out for winter Dec. 15 - School Board Meeting 5pm. break we want our students to relax and enjoy their time off but take a little time to read a good book or exercise. Ongoing research shows that family engagement in Dec. 14 - Family Cooking Night via schools improves student achievement, reduces absenteeism, and restores par- ents’ confidence in their children’s education. Students with involved parents or Zoom 6pm. other caregivers earn higher grades and test scores, have better social skills, and show improved behavior. Dec. 18– Second Quarter Ends. Attach a retractable net to your dining room table, and presto: table tennis! (Watch out for chandeliers.) Dec. 21 - Jan. 1 Winter Break. For yoga, families recommend the Cosmic Kids YouTube chan- nel and app. An app called Sworkit lets you build your own Jan. 4 - School Resumes after workout, based on duration and type of exercise; it offers kid- Winter Break. specific options. Send your kids on a scavenger hunt to find specific types of items in your house. Then, make them race to put it all back. The most significant type of involvement Ms. D. Wilson is what parents do at home. By monitoring, supporting Park School Principal and advocating, parents can be engaged in ways that ensure that their children have every opportunity for [email protected] success. Enjoy this time in December during the winter break and please remain safe. 1 Office News Ms. Zambrano [email protected] & Ms. Brown, [email protected] Administrative Support Attendance is taken each day at 9am. It is important for your child to be present in their Zoom classroom. Teachers will post attendance to indicate your child’s presence or absence for the day. Automatic robocalls will con- tact you if your child was marked absent. Many students are logging into Zoom but leaving. Students will be marked absent or half day if they are not in full attendance. Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a requirement into law mandating a 5-hour minimum requirement for traditional public schools. We are currently utilizing our school day with the re- quired time remotely. Students should be working on their learning paths in Ready Math from 2pm to 3pm. Please mark sure your child is logged into Zoom from 9am to 2pm Monday-Friday. The office would like to remind you that when your student will be absent from the Zoom meeting, please call the office at (708) 849-9440 by 9:00 am to report the absence. It is very important to always keep the office updated with any phone number(s) & email changes. When you receive a phone call/message from Park School, please listen to the entire message first. Note the person who called you. When you return their call, we will know who to connect you to. The Students of the Month for November Kindergarten Ms. Watson. .Andrea Derzon Kindergarten Ms. Shaw. .Joanna Lee 1st Grade Ms. Moyenda. .Antonio Gutierrez 1st Grade Mrs. Lopez . .Armando Avila 2nd Grade Mrs. Gatheright . .Neilayal Burnett 2nd Grade Ms. Johnson. .Jocelyn Lee 3rd Grade Ms. Brush . .Charity Thomas 3rd Grade Mrs. M. Robinson . .Aubrey Killingsworth 4th Grade Ms. McMillian . Denise Logan 4th Grade Mrs. R. Smith . .Savannah Finch 5th Grade Ms. Genco . .Alayah Hunter 5th Grade Mrs. Wheaton . .Jocelyn Garces 6th Grade Mrs. Lovejoy . .Makayla Allen 6th Grade Mr. McKnight . .Edwin Salas 2 Kindergarten 1st Grade News Hello First Grade Families! Hello Parents and Guardians, It was a pleasure to meet with our It seems so hard to believe that our little parents for our virtual Parent Teacher kindergartners have completed their first quar- Conferences. Your continued support is ter at Park School! We are privileged to have appreciated. The First Graders have been met and talked with all our families during doing a great job participating in zoom Parent Teacher conferences. However, if you classes each day. still have any questions or concerns regarding We would appreciate it if you would your child's progress, please call or message us reinforce zoom etiquette (rules) with your to arrange a meeting to discuss the needs of child to help their day go smooth- your student. ly. Please remind your child that there is We are continuing our work on letter NO eating or drinking around the com- names and sounds, sight words, initial sounds, puter. ending sounds, and counting syllables. Please We appreciate your assistance with continue to encourage your child to write their technology, helping your child during name, the letters, and the numbers to reinforce zoom, assisting with homework assign- handwriting. We are encouraging the students ments and logging into different web- to work neatly in math. We are continuing to sites. Your child will benefit from your count objects up to 20, write numerals 0-20, assistance. and recognizing numbers up to 25. We are We would like to wish each one of you a very practicing the basic adding skills of add one Safe and Happy Holiday Season! more and take one away. The students have also been learning about living and nonliving [email protected] things and their needs. Please start a conver- Mrs. Lopez sation with your child on this topic. You’ll be impressed by how much they are learning. Also, be sure that you are reading with your child for Ms. Moyenda [email protected] at least twenty minutes each day. Thank you for partnering with us! With Love, Miss Watson and Miss Shaw Miss Shaw [email protected] & Miss Watson [email protected] 3 2nd Grade News 3rd Grade News The Second Grade Team Greetings Parents and Guardians. Happy December to our Second Grade Parents. Our second graders are working diligently in Ready Gen. Our new story is Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday, and in I Thank you for those parents/guardians who were Ready Math we will begin addition, subtraction with two numbers, able to attend Parent-Teacher Conferences! We appreci- time and money. In Social Studies we will work on a plethora of ate all of the support and concerns that you have shown Scholastic News articles and other resources. In Science we will thus far. If you were not able to attend, please feel free learn about the Water Cycle. We are also working on being an to contact your student's teacher and set one up. active listener in Character Education. During ReadyGEN, we are building our stamina. Our students have been progressing well with a few This is great as this means students should be able to issues with technology every now and then. As we continue work- work and read independently of the teacher while the ing with the Zoom platform, the students are becoming more com- puter literate. Our kids are also learning how to be good citizens teacher works with small groups of students in breakout in their zoom community by following the zoom room rules, and rooms. We are finishing up Module A and moving into using good zoom etiquette. Our students are being responsible for Unit 1 Module B. The theme is Observing the World turning in their work on time and logging into zoom in the morning Around Us. We will be focusing greatly on main idea and again after lunch. We are very proud of our hardworking and central message. students. Thank You to all of our parents for your cooperation and In Math, we are continuing to become more flu- patience because we are all in this together. We Are One! ent with multiplication. Please practice addition, subtrac- Zoom Room Rules: tion, and multiplication at home to help with fluency.