Brown Local Schools 3242 Coral Rd NW, Malvern, OH 44644 JANUARY 2021 330- 8 6 3 - 1 3 5 5 EDUCATING OUR STUDENTS TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD VISIT OUR WEBPAGE @ www.brownlocalschools.com

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January Dates February Dates March Dates 1-3 - NO SCHOOL - Winter Break (school 11 - KG-12th Parent/Teacher Conferences 19 - NO SCHOOL - Teacher In-Service resumes Monday, January 4th) 4:30 - 7:30 PM END OF 3RD NINE WEEKS 15 - NO SCHOOL - Teacher In-Service 15 - NO SCHOOL - President’s Day 3/29-4/4 - NO SCHOOL - Spring Break (school END OF 2ND NINE WEEKS resumes Monday, April 5th) END OF 1ST SEMESTER 18 - NO SCHOOL - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day EMERGENCY CLOSING INFORMATION URGENT Brown Local School cancellations, delayed starts and early dismissal information Schools encourages all will be communicated via the following notification systems: families to have a contingency PHONE: One Call Now school messaging program (Please be sure to keep your plan, or back-up plan in case the contact information current in the school offices. Call 330-863-1355 to update decision is made to have a delayed your contact information.) start or early dismissal on any given school day. It is important to keep your TELEVISION: WKYC-TV 3, Newsnet TV 5, Fox 8, WTOV Channel 9, WBNS Channel emergency contact information up to date 10 for our ONE CALL NOW phone communi- cation system. If you have RADIO: WTAM 1100AM, WMVX, WMJI,WGAR,WAKS,WMMS,WHLO,WKDD,RADIO changed your phone num- FREE OHIO 1350AM,WHBC 1480 AM/MIX 94.1 FM, WTUZ 99.9 FM, WJER 1450 ber, disconnected your land AM, WCRF 103.3 FM, WCLV 104.9 FM line or have a different work phone number, please ONLINE: cantonrep.com, wkyc.com, wtam.com, wmvx.com, wmji.com, call the school office at wgar.com, kisscleveland.com, wmms.com, 640whlo.com, wkdd.com, 330-863-1355. 1350radiofreeohio.com, newsnet5.com, fox8.com, WTOV9.com, wjer.com

Did you know that Ohio offers a free program to assess CHILD FIND and support child development from birth to age three?! Early Intervention (EI), is a program that will come to your Child Find is the process of locating, evalu- home to evaluate your child to see if they may qualify for ating, and identifying children with disabilities support. EI providers are well-trained professionals who use who may be in need of special education and a non-judgmental and compassionate approach that em- related services. Local school districts are powers parents with skills, tools and confidence to nurture required by federal and state laws to find the healthy growth of their children. A student who receives children who may need special education services through Early Intervention is automatically con- services and related services. nected with the Local School District to support the transi- If you know of a child who is suspected of tion to preschool services at age three. Refer a child to having a disability under IDEA or Section 504, Early Intervention by visiting this link: https:// contact Dawn Kaufman, Director of Special ohioearlyintervention.org/referral or by calling 1-800-755- Education, at 330-863-1355, or via email at 4769 (GROW). [email protected]. P A G E 2 Fifth grade students recently learned about the unique characteristics of each planet by creating a collaborative poster. Each student was responsible for a section of a poster and worked hard to complete their portion. Once each piece was completed, the students joined their pieces of the poster with others to create informative and creative masterpieces.

Reminders from the Cafeteria Middle School Reading Challenges

Just a reminder that virtual meal pick-ups are every Every nine weeks, students read their assigned genre novels and complete a project to present to Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a Holiday) for the the class about one of their books. The kids are remainder of the school year. Pick up time is from getting very creative with their projects! 9:00am - 10:30am at door C3 at the school. It is also important for all stu- dents to turn in an ap- plication to qualify for free or reduced meals. This benefits the Food Service Department by allowing our district to receive additional federal fund- ing. Check out the district nutritional web- site for menus and upcoming events or local harvest of the month items. The Brown Lo- cal School Nutrition Team is excited to be serving your child breakfast and lunch!

Elementary student council members recently completed their first com- munity service project for the year. They wanted to clean up the parking lot loop and playground from all the trash and debris. After the leaves fall, it clogs up the drains. Student Council members cleaned up all the leaves in the loop for recycling and Mrs. Zuniga took it to the drop off site. Mrs. Zuniga has a shout out to ALL students at Malvern for making sure they do not leave trash laying around be- cause only a small bag of trash was collected on the clean up day. Elementary Student Council members are Aubrey Diehl, Mason Wetherwax, Wade Barkley, Luca Marinucci, Olivia Maher, Alexis Yost, Ella Debo, Bren- nan Mitchell, Alana Par- tain, Bella Potter, and Teagan Spencer. Thank you for showing your community pride!

BROWN LOCAL SCHOOLS Mrs. Spurgeon and Miss Cunningham's P A G E 3 7th grade students recently read the novel, Fever 1793. This novel is about the Yellow Need an OLD Yearbook? Fever epidemic that hit Philadelphia in 1793. The main character’s family owns a coffee- Wish you had a copy of house. Students learned how in Colonial the yearbook from your America, coffeehouses were a place where senior year? Realize you can’t find one of your high people went to have conversation, discuss school yearbooks? No local news, debate politics as well as problem! We have several eat and drink. The 7th grade students had their own version of a extra copies of past year- coffeehouse with food and drinks that we read about in the nov- books (at reduced prices). el. Students completed tasks about politics of the time, drew the Please email Mrs. Kee coffeehouse as described in the book, and compared and con- (keen@brownlocalschools. trasted Yellow Fever with Corona Virus. Gingerbread, corn- com) with the year you are looking for, and we bread, Indian pudding, apple cider, coffee and tea were all en- can let you know if we joyed as students worked collaboratively to complete each task. have any available! Colonial attire was even enjoyed by some.

“To catch the reader's attention, FAMILY SCIENCE NIGHT — Although we cannot have our traditional, in- place an interesting sentence or quote from the story here.” person Family Science Night, Science Club is hard at work making it an interac- tive, at-home event! Supplies will be provided, as well as instructions and expla- nations for each experiment. Participants will be added to a special Google Classroom page where they can watch videos prepared by Science Club mem- bers that will walk them through each experiment. Be on the lookout on our school website and Facebook page for further details!

Mr. Ware’s class is working on Biome projects. They are working hard at creating and designing their own Girls Basketball Biome boxes. Each box has to in- 1/30/21 8th Grade at Strasburg - IVC Tournament TBA

2/6/21 High School hosts IVC Showcase 1 PM

2/17/21 High School at Sectionals 7 PM clude 3 animals and 4 different types 2/20/21 High School at Sectionals 1 PM of plants or trees. Mr. Ware is very Boys Basketball pleased with the way the students are working, and the biome boxes look very creative and well put together. 1/30/21 8th Grade hosts IVC Tournament 10 AM

1/30/21 7th Grade at Sandy Valley - IVC Tournament TBA

2/13/21 High School hosts IVC Showcase 6 PM NHS News

2/23/21 High School at Sectionals 7 PM The Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by the National Honor Society has been rescheduled for February 9th 2/26/21 High School at Sectionals 7 PM from 1 pm - 5 pm at the First Christian Church in Malvern. Wrestling Please visit RedCross.org to sign up.

2/3/21 High School at Claymont - IVC Tournament 5 PM Congratulations to Tristan Phillips and Gabrielle Ritter for being inducted into 2/18/21 Jr. High at Claymont - IVC Tournament 5 PM the National Honor Society! 2/27/21 High School at Sandy Valley - Sectionals 9 AM Members were busy in the month of December, collecting gifts to assist 25 area Other Important Dates families for Christmas. Please watch the Hornet Pride page for upcoming details about the blood drive and other activities sponsored by the students. 3/8/21 OHSAA Spring Preseason Meeting TBA

3/10/21 Spring Sports Picture Day 2:45 PM

3/17/21 Winter Sports Banquet 7 PM JANUARY 2021 Return Service Requested Brown Local Schools Postage Non Profit Organization 3242 Coral Rd NW Malvern, OH 44644 U.S. Postage Paid Malvern, Ohio Phone: 330-863-1170 PERMIT No. 20 Fax: 330-863-1172

Brown Local Board of Education Tami Hulit, President

Tara Bowe, Vice President

Nathan Bush

Kimberly Engle

Dechelle Thompson Postal Patron Mark Scott, Superintendent

James Carman, Treasurer Malvern, OH 44644

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MALVERN KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION for 2021-2022

Kindergarten Registration and Screening for the 2021-2022 school year will be held at Malvern Elementary School on Thursday, April 8th and Friday, April 9th, 2021. Parents that have children who will be eligible for Kindergarten in the Fall of 2021 can call the Elementary office to make an appointment for screening (children must be 5 years old on or before August 1, 2021). Appointments can be made by calling 330-863-1355. Elementary office hours are 8 am until 3 pm. Children need to be with their parent(s) during this screening process. The screening will take ap- proximately one hour. Parents must bring the following paperwork with them to the screening in order to register their child: Child’s Birth Certificate, Child’s Social Se- curity Card, and Child’s Immunization Record, 2 forms providing proof of residency, driver’s license for picture I.D., and custody papers, if applicable.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS from the TRANSPORTATION OFFICE

 Students must be at their designated bus stop prior to the bus arrival! They need to allow 10 minutes either way of their scheduled stop times, for time fluctuations on the bus routes.

 Bundle Up! Students need to keep warm at the bus stop, but they also need to be able to see and hear what’s going on around them. When bundling up your child in the morning, make sure he or she still has an adequate line of sight and can hear traffic and other noises.

 Watch your step! When walking on snow covered or icy surfaces, watch where you are walking, take shorter, more deliberate steps or do the “penguin shuffle”.

 Hold On! The seemingly simple task of getting on and off the bus can be taken for granted. Always use the handrails.