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Greetings from Stonegate! I Hope Everyone Had a Great We Know That There Is a Lot of Information Weekend Greetings from Stonegate! I hope everyone had a great We know that there is a lot of information weekend. Below are important regarding returning to school. We will begin to reminders for the 2020-2021 share information with you and hope that you school year to help you stay will start to find it helpful. We will hold a Parent involved in your child’s success at Stonegate Night on Wednesday, February 24th at 6:30 p.m. Elementary. to share important information about reopening on March 15th. Calendar for February 15 - February 19, 2021 Monday, February 15 Here are important dates to know. Please review ● Holiday, Schools Closed them. Tuesday, February 16 ● Morning Announcements, 8:30 Grade Level Return Date Frequency ● Art Night, 5:00-6:15 (Wednesdays remain on the Wednesday, February 17 same virtual ● Morning Announcements, 8:45 only schedule ● PTA Sponsored Mamma Lucia, 5:00-8:00 for all students) Thursday, February 18 K 3/15/21 4 Days/Week ● Morning Announcements, 8:45 (M, T, TH, F) ● Fifth Grade Parent Meeting, 6:30 1 3/15/21 4 Days/Week Friday, February 19 (M, T, TH, F) ● Morning Announcements, 8:45 2 3/15/21 4 Days/Week (M, T, TH, F) Morning Announcements The information is below. 3 3/15/21 4 Days/Week Please click the link below to (M, T, TH, F) join the webinar: 4 No Later 4 Days/Week than 4/6/21 (M, T, TH, F) https://mcpsmd.zoom.us/j/85880861096?pw d=K241dGlJakRFU0M2ZjNOMEw5Q1dzUT0 5 No Later 4 Days/Week 9 than 4/6/21 (M, T, TH, F) Passcode: sharks Webinar ID: 858 8086 1096 LFI (K-5) 3/15/21 4 Days/Week (M, T, TH, F) Calendar Adjustments There will be 3 days of staff preparation ❏ March 8th will be a non-student day Dear Stonegate Community, ❏ March 9th-10th will be asynchronous instructional days Spring Break will remain as scheduled For the coloring aspect of our event, we have Last day of school remains 6/16/21 attached four templates that the students can use. You can print them out and have your Change of Selection crayons, markers or colored pencils ready! ❏ Please reach out to the school administrators, the administrative If you can't print it at home, you can pick up a secretary, or the attendance secretary to copy from the Stonegate Elementary School. We request a change from virtual to in person all hope to see you there! or vice versa. Links to printables ❏ Moving from virtual to in person is based on space availability. We will use a wait http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring- list and will contact you to let you know pages/lebron-james when space becomes available. ❏ Request to move to virtual can be done at http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring- anytime before 2/26/21 pages/sojourner-truth?tag=58772 Upcoming Dates http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring- 2/24 Reopening Parent Night pages/george-washington-carver 2/26 Last day for families to contact school to request changes from their original selection http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring- 3/4 Reopening Parent Night Part 2 pages/maya-angelou?tag=58772 I look forward to our parent nights and answering We can’t wait to see you all questions about our reopening. there! Black Education Matters Art Night On Zoom, from 5-6 pm BLACK EDUCATION MATTERS https://mcpsmd.zoom.us/j/3309345609?pwd=U INC. PRESENTS.... VMyNmt5b25yRlRzQnA4WmZ3eHppQT09 Meeting ID: 330 934 5609 ART NIGHT!! Passcode: 806783 February 16th, 2021 On Zoom, from 5-6 pm Black Education Matters Inc. invites the wonderful Stonegate Elementary students in Grades K, 1 and 2 to participate in Art Night on Tuesday, February 16th from 5-6pm as a part of our Black History Month events that we are partnering with the school to hold! We will be engaging in coloring and other festivities in order to educate students on various black historical figures in an engaging way. Your Student has an opportunity to spread their kindness during their free time that day by creating a drawing of each days challenge and uploading a picture of what they created for the day’s challenge to this Padlet link: https://padlet.com/tiffanie_b_mcintosh/3ouczhxlto 0w9eo9 Students Remember kindness is contagious! Virtual Art Show Contest Stonegate Kindness Challenge Many thanks to all families that submitted artwork for this show! Check out Stonegate’s virtual platform for your art-viewing pleasure!https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/sto negateartshow. Compilation video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WH- uh6eZzA Next Week, February 16th - February 19th is the Stonegate Kindness Challenge in honor of Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17th. Please be on the lookout for the communication with detailed instructions for each day’s challenge. Overview: ● Tuesday, Feb 16th - Be kind to yourself and create an I AM poster ● Wednesday, Feb 17th - Cut out & decorate a happy heart and place it in a window ● Thursday, Feb 18th - List 10 things you are grateful for ● Friday, Feb 19th - Make and display a Dear Parents and Guardians, kindness matters sign In the next two weeks, all students will be taking If you have any questions, please reach out to the the Benchmark Interim 2 Assessment. The classroom teacher or Mrs. Brown at assessment will be administered within your child’s [email protected]. class, most often during the reading block, by the classroom teacher at the times listed below. Some Parents/Guardians of Fifth Grade Students students may be pulled into breakout rooms by other staff members. Please encourage your Dear Parents/Guardians of Grade 5 students, children to try their hardest and give their best This February, Montgomery County Public Schools effort. Additionally, we ask that all parents abide by will be preparing to conduct the universal review of the following expectations to ensure we get an Grade 5 students to determine students’ need for accurate picture of each student’s performance: enrichment and acceleration in middle school. ● Parent/Guardians will not assist the student Parents will receive their student’s information in in any way with answers to test questions mid to late February. As you may recall, parents of using verbal or nonverbal cues or prompts Grade 5 received this communication (Links to an during the assessment; external site.) in December 2020 and we wanted to ● Parent/Guardians will not alter the ensure you had access to this presentation (Links to student’s responses in any manner; an external site.) regarding Montgomery County ● Parents/Guardians will not engage in any Public Schools middle school enrichment and activity that adversely affects the validity, acceleration opportunities that was shared on security, or fairness of the assessment. December 22, 2020. As you continue to have questions, please visit the website (Links to an external site.) for more information along with our Frequently Asked Kindergarten: Questions. Tuesday, February 9 @ 1:00 Thank you, Division of Consortia Choice and Application Program Services 1st Grade: Tuesday, February 9 @ 9:15 Estimados padres/tutores de estudiantes en 5to. Wednesday, February 10 @ 9:05 Grado, 2nd Grade: Este febrero, las escuelas públicas del condado de Tuesday, February 9 @ 10:45 & 1:00 Thursday, Montgomery estarán preparándose para conducir February 11@ 10:45 una revisión universal a estudiantes de 5to. Grado para determinar las necesidades de 3rd Grade: enriquecimiento y aceleración del estudiante en Tuesday, February 9 @ 2:00-3:15 escuela intermedia. Padres recibirán información Thursday, February 11 @ 1:45-2:45 adicional a mediados de febrero. Como recordaran, los padres de estudiantes en 5to. 4th Grade: Grado recibieron esta comunicación (Links to an Tuesday, February 16 @ 10:00 external site.) en diciembre del 2020 y queremos Thursday, February 18 @ 10:00 asegurarnos que usted haya tenido acceso a esta presentación acerca de oportunidades de 5th Grade: enriquecimiento y aceleración en las escuelas Tuesday, February 16 @ 1:45 intermedias en las escuelas públicas (Links to an Wednesday, February 17 @ 9:05-10:15 external site.) del condado de Montgomery que fue compartida el 22 de diciembre en el (downcounty) y 23 de diciembre en el (upcounty) del 2020. Si tiene todavía preguntas, por favor visite la página web (Links to an external site.) para más información acerca de las preguntas y respuestas más frecuentes. Gracias, División de elección en el Consorcio y servicios de programas de aplicación. In order to create the safest access to career exploration this year Stonegate is planning to host another virtual career day. This will be a pre- recorded video shared with our students and the community at the end of April. Stonegate is looking to include a variety of perspectives and careers this year and we need YOUR diverse career experiences! We are looking for parents or individuals in the community who Black History Month is an annual celebration of would be interested in sharing their career with our achievements by African Americans and a time for students by submitting a video of themselves recognizing the central role of blacks in U.S. showcasing their career. history. The event grew out of “Negro History If you are interested in participating in Stonegate's Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. 2021 Virtual Career Day video, please email Woodson and other prominent African Americans. [email protected] with the Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially following information by Friday, February 19th, designated the month of February as Black History 2021. Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also ● Presenter's name devote a month to celebrating black history.
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