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. ● Your phone number ● Your email address ● Your career Counselor Corner ● Your student(s) name(s) and teacher(s) Career Day is Virtual Again! name(s)

A Message from the PTA

The PTA thanks the over 55 Stonegate Community members and PTA members that joined the PTA meeting last Tuesday! Thank you to Stonegate's Administration for the PTA to support the needs of our school sharing the beginning/preparatory Safe Return To community. School Plans for Stonegate Elementary School. Please join and support the Stonegate PTA's Please join us this Wednesday Feb 17, 2021 Fundraiser at Mamma Lucia 6:30pm-7:30pm Wednesday February 17th 5:00pm-8p STONEGATE'S PTA: YES, YOU CAN LEAD! 18224 Village Center Dr PTA 21-22 BOARD INTEREST MEETING Olney, MD Yes-You!! Stonegate's continuity and success depends on dedicated and committed members, Please mention Stonegate when ordering. Type ready to contribute their skills, talents, creativity Stonegate PTA into Promo Code Box if ordering and energy to Stonegate's PTA. online.

Yes-You! As a strong organization, the Stonegate Thank you to PTA Member Bria Flowers for her PTA needs the diversity of our membership and planning and organizing! Look out for more as the our school communities to be present in our school year continues. leadership. All the different experiences, knowledge, and perspectives help to move Stonegate Membership: Stonegate Elementary forward. The PTA continues to welcome all new members Yes - You! to the PTA. We thank you for your membership! Whether you've been a Stonegate PTA member for a year or 20. Whether your child is in We are 22 memberships away from our 2020- kindergarten or ready to cross the graduation 2021 goal! stage. No matter your first language. No matter where you live. If you care about the children in If you have not joined as of yet, please consider your community, in the county, in the state, and joining the PTA for the 2020-2021 school year! in our nation - You can lead! Click here >>> Register in advance for this meeting: https://stonegate.new.memberhub.store/store https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sc Shark Apparel Store -GsrzouHNaWO2CDYA65Fjicu31fpS1m We are in the process of looking for a new Sharks After registering, you will receive a confirmation Apparel Store. We will update with information email containing information about joining the once we have selected a new vendor. meeting.

PTA volunteer opportunities:

Thank you to everyone who has stepped up to support the PTA with their time and efforts. The Stonegate PTA Fundraiser: PTA runs better with our volunteers. If anyone is interested, please email Tamieka, PTA As discussed at our Feb 3rd PTA meeting, the PTA is hoping to use Restaurant Fundraisers to allow President at [email protected] · Reimagining the PTA through a you are interested in the Equity Hub. Here is the diversity/equity lens. This will be an Google form and the flyer is below in english and ongoing effort however, we would like spanish. to begin this discussion ASAP. Center Location: Stonegate ES Time: Monday - Friday from 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. · PTA Cares Coordinator-organizing Start Date: 01/11/2021 monthly parent/child virtual activities. Examples: Netflix Party, Art Activities, https://forms.gle/jMzZRMe89UJoT1cu6 Virtual Game Night

ChorusThe Hill We Climb- Please continue to return Library Books Any outstanding library books can be returned at this time.

Saturday School for ESOL Families The MCPS Saturday School online program includes one center serving all our English Language Learners. Saturday School " We Climb" is a poem written and recited will also offer FREE ADULT LITERACY classes for by Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of Joe parents of students that attend Saturday School. Biden on January 20, 2021. The poem was written Parents can register at in the weeks following the 2020 United States presidential election, with significant passages https://saturdayschoolgbtla.wufoo.com/forms/pbcrggg written on the night of January 6, 2021, in response 0wd72ly/. All students and families will register to the storming of the United States Capitol. online at www.saturdayschool.org. Scholarships are Gorman was twenty-two years old when she available for students and families in need and can recited the poem, making her the youngest be accessed through this application: inaugural poet ever. https://forms.gle/FUfSsrqP9AMRzuMM7

"The Hill We Climb" was widely praised for its Virtual Learning Supports for Families message, phrasing, and delivery. Critics generally considered the recitation one of the highlights of Please visit this new section on Stonegate’s the inauguration. Many felt that the poem homepage! It includes many documents and videos represented a call for unity and would remain to help families learn and navigate the various relevant beyond the inauguration. Gorman drew technology tools being used during virtual learning. large amounts of attention, particularly on social This page will continue to update, so please check media, after the poem's recitation and several back periodically. collections of her poetry topped best seller lists. If you missed Amanda Gorman recite her poem, I would encourage you to watch it. It was powerful Learning Academy Online, Saturday School and inspiring in every possible way.

Global Children’s Center at Stonegate Equity Hub We are opening on January 11th. We still have space available. Please apply on the google form if ENGLISH https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/ forms/pdf/281-13.pdf.

SPANISH https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/ forms/pdf/281-13_spanish.pdf

Attendance is expected from 9-11:30 and 1:00- 3:15 each day in the live zoom sessions. Should a family opt out of some or all live zoom sessions on a regular basis, this information should be communicated with the school. Students not attending live zoom sessions on a regular basis are required to access the recording of each missed lesson within 72 hours and complete all related work.

Small Group Work: Students will sometimes Important Information engage in breakout sessions with indirect teacher supervision. If a parent chooses for their child not You can find the zoom links for to engage in breakout sessions, they should notify each class in an email sent to the teacher. Students will also sometimes work in your child's @mcpsmd.net one-on-one sessions with a teacher for assessment inbox. Please click on the or support. If a parent chooses for their child not zoom link. Class starts at 9:00 to engage in 1:1 interaction with the teacher, they a.m. Can't wait to see you in should notify the teacher. your zoom classes.

Set up your learning space! We look forward to engaging with your students. It is our hope that Virtual Home Visits: During the first three weeks of every student has a workspace in your home where school, all homeroom teachers will conduct virtual they can arrange their materials, have space to home visits as an opportunity to get to know their write, and use their chromebook or device in a students and begin their partnership with you. comfortable way. All students should be seated During the Support and Science parts of all upright in their workspace during the live sessions. students’ schedules, teachers will meet 1:1 with When students are lying in their bed, it becomes each of their students during the first 2 ½ weeks of difficult for them to attend to the learning. school and during the virtual home visits Teachers are building in movement opportunities. parents/caregivers are invited and encouraged to attend with their child, side-by-side, as available. Recording: As per our previous communication, all Your child’s teacher will communicate the home sessions will be recorded, but parents/caregivers visit schedule and we hope that you'll be able to can opt out of having their child’s image or voice attend at your scheduled time. Students will recorded by completing the Annual Notice for otherwise not attend class during the Support or Directory Information and Student Privacy and Science parts of our schedule for the first 2 ½ submitting it by September 11, 2020 and adopting weeks. the responsibility of turning off their child’s camera and microphone. Here is a link to the form. School Hours Our official school hours for all students K-5, are While advanced strategies to address discipline are 9:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. Students can start to log on at at the forefront of PBIS in the brick and mortar 8:50 for their virtual classes. school building, relationships will be the focus during distance learning. Across the first semester, Synergy PBIS will be used to develop strong relationships, MCPS will use a new student information system connections, and support at Stonegate. Allowing (SIS) called Synergy. Synergy engages parents in for every student to make a trusting connection using an online ParentVUE portal to view student with at least one adult. This will help foster and classroom information, update emergency resiliency, and self-efficacy during this new time of contacts, register or apply for school athletics and virtual learning. Upon return to the brick and special programs, and stay connected with mortar school building PBIS will return to its system teachers and activities happening in schools and of proactive strategies to define, teach, and classrooms. An overview for parents can be found support appropriate student behavior. here Parent Synergy Information

ParentVUE Activation Communication Beginning Friday evening, activation emails and Clothing To Cash Recycling Program letters will be sent to parents. If you have difficulty with activating accounts, or if you do not receive a communication, please contact the help line at 240-740-7023.

School Wide PBIS Virtual We are entering our fourth year as a PBIS school. The committee has worked hard over the summer to refine our positive supports for students. Our Expectations are: ✔ Be Respectful ✔ Be Responsible ✔ Be Committed ✔ Be Safe You will continue to learn more about PBIS upgrades during Pre-service.

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a proactive approach to establishing the behavioral supports and social culture needed for all students in a school to achieve social, emotional and academic success. Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary (school-wide), secondary (classroom), and tertiary (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results

(personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) Clothing to Cash® is a program that collects New and for all youth by making targeted misbehavior less Used Clothing, Shoes, Sheets, Towels, (all Textiles) effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired and pays the school 10 cents for every pound behavior more functional. collected. The program is operated entirely OUTSIDE and will be located in the school parking lot, where students, parents, staff and the community can drop off items throughout the year. They have state of the art photo quantity sensors installed in each bin that report 3 times daily to prevent overflow and allows the company to schedule service as needed (no other companies use this technology). They empty the collection bin, weigh the contents to determine our school earnings and pays our school monthly. The average school (500 - 1000 students) will earn $1000- $2000 yearly if each student would donate just one 13- gallon kitchen size trash bag yearly!! Add in parents, siblings, relatives, neighbors, and staff and Stonegate’s earnings could really increase.

Administration can be reached at: Principal: [email protected] : @StonegatePrin

Assistant Principal: [email protected]

Visit us on the web at: www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/stonegat ees/