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Sanderson Elementary School - 1450 Marietta Road - Lancaster, OH 43130 740.687.7354

A Monthly Newsletter for Sanderson Elementary School Families Vol. XI Issue IV

February 2012

Student Day: 8:55 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Web page-- http://www.lancaster.k12.oh.us then choose Sanderson

IMPORTANT DATES: February with nearly six months of learning behind us. The Ohio 6-10 Kindergarten Registration--see details below Achievement Assessments will be taken at the end of 7 100th Day of School! April for all Ohio elementary students and our children 7 PTO Family Dance—6:30 – 8:00 p.m. will be ready to show their very best. Please plan ahead 8 Family Lunch – K-VanBuskirk – 12:30 so your child has the greatest opportunity to shine. Be 9 Family Lunch – K-Geil – 12:30 sure to consider these dates when scheduling family 10 Family Lunch – K-Smith – 12:30 activities. It would also be a good idea to inform coaches 10 Valentine’s Day Parties – 2:45 p.m. of this important week so student schedules can be as 10 ―Twin‖ Spirit Day—Student Council normal as possible. Testing dates will be from 14 Student Council in the Library – 8:15 a.m. Monday, April 23rd through Friday, April 27th, 2012. 15 Late Start for students by 2 hours—Teacher Thank you for your continued support as we give our Meeting students the best possible opportunity to do well on all 20 NO SCHOOL – President’s Day assessments. 21 Art Camp #5 Mrs. Carol Spires 23 Interim reports come home 24 Spring Pictures—prepay plan—watch for details IMPORTANT INFORMATION 28 School Board Mtg. at ESC--5:30 p.m. KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION IS HERE! Any family who has a child who may be attending IMPORTANT DATES: March Kindergarten next fall, please read below! 6 Election Day—remember to vote! 17 County Spelling Bee at OU-L–10:00 a.m. Who: Children who are 5 years old by August 1, 2012 13 Student Council in the Library – 8:15 a.m. What: Lancaster City Schools’ Kindergarten Registration When: February 6th - 10th from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 13 PTO Meeting in the library – 7:00 p.m. th 23 Third Grading Period ends February 9 from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Where: Sanderson Elementary or your neighborhood school 27 Art Camp #6 How: Complete the registration forms at Sanderson 27 School Board Meeting at ESC—5:30 p.m. 30 Grade cards go home Be sure to bring: * Your child’s Birth Certificate TESTING DATES – PLEASE PLAN AHEAD! * Your child’s Social Security Card * Any custody papers (if applicable) Our teachers are teaching the State Standards, students * Proof of Residency – Please bring 2 document who are working hard are making excellent progress and verifications of your address. Examples: signed rental we thank you for your daily parental support from home. agreement, a bill, driver’s license or other document Please continue to reinforce high expectations and good with parent/guardian’s name and same address on it. study habits. We need to keep the momentum going, If you have court papers, please bring those with you as well. If you have questions, please call 687-7354.

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LANCASTER CITY PRESCHOOL PERFECT ATTENDANCE – 2ND NINE WEEKS Families of 3 and 4 year olds who would like to attend 98 Sanderson students can claim Perfect Attendance for Lancaster City Preschool for the 12-13 school year the second 44 days of school!! Congratulations to… should call Tallmadge Elementary (611 Lewis Ave.) at 687-7336 right away for an application. Lydia Alexander Abagail Day Garen Feisel Matthew Seymour Lily Palmer Rachel Riggs HEAD START APPLICATIONS Rayce Shaeffer Mia Matchett Kyanna Eppley Lancaster Fairfield Community Action Head Start/Early McKenzie Metz Gavin Smith Izaiah Sullivan Head Start is a Child Development Program for pregnant Aidan Winters Emma Wyse Corin Andrews women and for children ages birth to five. Head Kadin Mallory Abigail Williams Aidun Randolph Start/Early Head Start offers part day and home based Parker Cohen Brody Ehorn Austin Evans services. There are centers located throughout Fairfield Breahna Hagans Karina Leach Dylan Mathias County. Head Start/Early Head Start eligibility is based Parker Schenk Shawn Six II Tyler Albertson upon family income and the number of persons in the Evan Alspach Mariana Fuentes Sarah Garlinger household. All children applying for Head Start services Alexandria Jurecki Lukas Lang Kendra Lortz must be three by August 1st or five after August 1st of Anthony McNichols Eli Smith Nella Stansberry that school year. Families wanting to enroll must Zachary White Emerson Frasure Brandon Hewitt complete an application with proof of family income Owen McCandlish Alianna Palmer Kolson Pugh attached. Applications are now being accepted for the Caleb Sampson Makayla Brill Amarissa Kerns coming 12-13 school year. Hayes Houseworth Jacob Nicholson Madelyn Davis Mason DuBois Mackenzie Lape Ryan McGill COUNTY SPELLING BEE at OU-L Kayley Brunton Kayla Day Trevor Riggs Congratulations to our 4th and 5th grade Spelling Reanna Fertig Noah Johnson Ben Jurecki Champions and Alternates! They will be participating in Hailey Wyse Zachariah Walker Caleb Tiller the County Spelling Bee on March 17, at 10:00 a.m. in John Appleton II Trinity Barringer Denaya Drum the auditorium at Ohio University-Lancaster. Christopher Meek Adam Nebbergall Grace Mahon Blake Ranegar James Sunkle III Simon Voight Grade 4 Champion: Maddy Good Wyatt Watson Caleb Boring Wesley Brown Alternate: Jade Aznoel-Azry Evan Cruit Paige Eckertson Chloe Roberts Amelia Stansberry Lexi Thomas Isabella Walker Grade 5 Champion: Anna Gilmore Skyler Bates Jesse Brunton Anna Hartig Alternate: Crystal Hershberger Chandra Destadio Andrew Everett Riley Griffith Thank you for representing Sanderson! Macey Gunther Crystal Hershberger Hannah Miller We wish you luck!! Emily Sampson Abigail Cohen Reed Smith Nathan Fitchpatrick Gavin Hossfeld Elise Johnson STORE-PACKAGED TREATS Taylor Williams Matthew Lang Abigail Mahon Due to numerous students with food Dakota LeMaster Brandon Johnson YOU ROCK!!! allergies, the Lancaster City Schools have Zachariah Walker won the Sanderson Shark T- adopted a policy that allows only pre- shirt—Congrats, Zach! packaged food items at school parties and functions. Fresh fruit, vegetables, pretzels and pre-packaged treats are permitted. THANK YOU, VOLUNTEERS! Thank you! Sanderson is full of parents and community volunteers every day! They SANDERSON YEARBOOK help in classrooms, hallways, the cafeteria, the library Our Sanderson Yearbook is being compiled by Jill and lab, the playground, workroom, from home, by Gilmore, with the help of a group of picture-taking fifth phone—in many, many ways! Their time graders. Yearbooks will cost $13.00 each. Order forms and contributions to our school community will be sent home with each child and extra forms will continue to make Sanderson a wonderful be available on the table outside the office. Don’t miss place for children and their families! your chance to keep the memories!! We thank you very much!

shark scene news - Page 2 PTO NEWS WEATHER-RELATED CLOSING OF SCHOOL Winter weather will soon arrive and some days it may PTO Family Dance be necessary to delay or cancel school due to weather On Tuesday, Feb. 7th, our PTO will host conditions. If it is necessary to delay or close school, our second ―Family Dance‖ in the gym. these stations will broadcast the news: Come enjoy Valentine decorations, live DJ TV Stations and there will be pizza, chips, fruit and water WCMH Channel 4 – NBC will be available to purchase. WXYS Channel 6 - ABC WBNS Channel 10 - CBS PTO MEETINGS Radio Stations Please plan to join us for our monthly meetings in the library: WTVN AM 610 March 13th at 7:30 p.m. WLVQ FM 96 (QFM96) April 17th at 7:30 p.m. WHOK K-95 May 8th at 7:30 p.m. WLOH 1320 AM We will be planning favorite spring events. WBNS AM 1460 Your input and opinions are important! WCOL FM 92 WSNY FM 94.7 (Sunny 95) STUDENT COUNCIL NEWS Parents /families will receive an automated phone call from the school district when school is delayed

or closed. The One Call Now Alert System is updated TWIN SPIRIT DAY IN FEBRUARY! th daily with primary phone numbers. Be SURE we Friday, February 11 will be our next School Spirit have your current number. If you are not interested Day—TWIN DAY! You may dress to match one or in receiving an Alert phone call in the mornings, you more friends and come to school as twins, triplets, or may go on-line at the website below and OPT OUT more matching friends! of the One Call Now system. Please do not call the

schools for information related to school closings. IMPORTANT REMINDERS Otherwise, you need to watch TV or listen to the radio for the latest information concerning school closings. LUNCH CHARGES You may also check the Lancaster City Schools website Lunch charges are due the day after the charge is issued. at www.lancaster.k12.oh.us after 6:00 a.m. It is also Ideally, no further charges should be issued until the important for your child to be aware of arrangements previous charge has been paid. However, we do have a you have with family or friends in the event that school limit of three charges that may be made before receipt of must close early. payment. If we do not receive payment, students will be permitted only to eat a peanut butter and jelly lunch. LANCASTER CITY SCHOOL BOARD You may also prepay for lunches by putting money in Remember, you can now observe our LCS Board your child’s lunch account by the week, every other Meetings in the comfort of your own home! The week, or by the month. Payment may be made to the meetings are broadcast through our Lancaster Schools cashier in cash or by check made payable to Sanderson Network (LSN) on Time Warner Cafeteria. Channel Six or digital Channel Nine. Please see the Board STUDENT DROP OFF/PICK-UP AREA Meeting schedule below. Please be aware that police officers have ticketed All meetings begin at 5:30 p.m cars parked or waiting in the bus lanes or in no at the ESC on Broad St. parking zones. Please drive your student to the end of the sidewalk by the ball diamond backstop (there February 28 is a sign posted there) to let them off so they can walk March 27 on the sidewalk and not between buses. The area by April 24 the double front doors is not a safe drop-off area. All May 22 parents must park their cars and wait by the big tree June 19 or gym steps to pick up students after school. No Thank you, Board Members: student is permitted to walk across the parking lot Amy Eyeman, Gary Mauller, without an adult. Kathy Kittredge, Tom Shaffer and A.Lise Ricketts!

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