Upcoming Events September 9/2…Board of Education Meeting @ 6pm 9/7…School closed 9/8…SIT...

Upcoming Events

September

9/2…Board of Education Meeting @ 6pm

9/7…School closed9/8…SIT meeting @ 2:459/9…School Picture Day9/10…Back to School Night @ 6pm9/15…Boy Scout meeting @6pm9/21…PFY begins9/22…PAC meeting @ 8:30am9/23…Multicultural Proficiency

meeting @ 1:309/24…Eagle Squad Tryouts @ 2:25

October10/1…Title 1 Night/Dinner @ 6pm10/7…Unity Day10/8…SES to receive Character

Counts State Award10/9…PBIS Run/Fundraiser After

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A Title 1 School & Judy Center PartnerSeptember 2015

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY

Our Mission: The mission of Sudlersville Elementary School is to educate and enlighten each of our students through an engaging curriculum and high expectations (for behavior and achievement) by dedicated teachers and staff with support of parents and the extended community.Our Vision: A graduate of Queen Anne's County Public Schools will be well-educated, globally competitive and prepared to become a caring, productive citizen of the 21st Century

Where Eagles S.O.A.R.S-SafetyO-OrganizationA-Active Learning R-Respect

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Picture includes: Michele Hampton, SES Principal & SES Staff

Sudlersville Elementary School Teachers Prepare for a New School Year

During the week of August 24th, the Sudlersville Elementary School teachers participated in professional development, collaborative planning, data review, and organizing their

classroom. Professional development for the teachers included information on the new reading series published by McGraw-Hill, the new elementary report card, the new STAR 360 assessment, as well as, strategies for an exemplary instructional program. It was a productive week, and the teachers are ready for the SES

Eagles, and prepared for the 2015-16 school year!

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLA Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner

September 2015

SES Team Members


September 2015

SES Holds PAC Meeting

On July 27, 2015, SES scheduled a Parent Advisory Council Meeting. The team discussed upcoming parental involvement activities, budget, and some student data for this school year. Parents and staff were in attendance. This gives parents a voice in decision-making. We planned the annual Title I meeting/dinner for October 1st. This will be in informational meeting. We will provide WatchDog information, information about the new report card, as well as, Title I activities. We will provide pizza that evening, and parents will rotate to attend the informational sessions offered. We hope that you will be there!!

Welcome back to school!

We have a lot of new and exciting things happening in the classroom for our students. This year our county adopted a new reading series that will support the Maryland College and Career Ready Standards. We are excited for the new stories and all the online components that can be used in the classroom. This year kindergarten through fourth grade will also take a universal reading and math assessment known as STAR360. This assessment will be administered on the computer and is about 20-30 minutes in length for each subject area. The data from the assessment will provide teachers with immediate feedback on the strengths and needs of the students in their class. We are looking forward to a great year with all of these new resources!

Mrs. McNeil

SES Eagle Squad tryouts will take place in the gym on Thursday, September 24, 2:45 - 3:45 pmfor third and fourth graders. Letters explaining this program will be sent home with students on September 9.

The first grade students at Sudlersville Elementary School are eager to see their classroom after arrival on the first day of school, August 31st. Students arrived with smiling faces and looked forward to meeting their classmates and new teacher for this school year. It will be a good year!

SES Students are Ready To Go!

Pre-K News

Kindergarten News

Grade 1 News


September 2015

We are excited to begin our learning adventure in September! It was great to have the opportunity to meet our new students and parents during our conferences in August. As we briefly discussed during our conferences, homework in kindergarten will begin in October. Prior to the start of homework, you are encouraged to read with your child so that he/she can meet his/her reading goal. We are looking forward to a fantastic year!

Mrs. Beres, Ms. Landgraf and Mrs. Munson

Welcome to 1st grade! This is going to be such an exciting and important year. Thank you for sending in all of the supplies so far. Please make sure you label book bags, lunch boxes and coats when it comes time for that. The temperature in our classrooms varies so you might want to send in a sweater or sweatshirt.

Your child will be bringing home important papers in their communication folder each night. The folders are labeled "Leave Home" and "Bring back to school". Please be sure you check the folder each night and return anything that needs to come back to school. Also please check your child's agenda each night and initial the behavior calendar. We will discuss these things more at Back to School Night on Thursday, September 10. We hope you are able to attend.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions. You may now leave a message on each teacher's voicemail and we will try to get back to you within 24 hours. Thank you for all of your support and we look forward to a fantastic 1st grade year!

Welcome to Pre-K! We would like to thank all the parents for coming to the Pre-K Camp and the Teacher/Parent Conferences. If you have any further questions about your child’s conference please feel free to write a note and place it in your child’s Communication Folder, call us during our planning time from 11:30-12:00 or email.We will be starting our year off with a new Theme titled “My School and Me.” We will be learning about school rules and routines, meeting school staff, learning to be problem solvers, singing songs and listening to stories about our bodies and our feelings. Please remember to check your child’s folder each night, and talk to them about their day at school. We are looking forward to a fun school year!The Pre-K Team

Grade 3 News

Grade 4 News


September 2015

Spectacular September

Welcome to third grade! It has been a great first few days of school and the students have jumped right into the new routines and have adapted very well to their classroom environment. Please check your child’s agenda daily for upcoming events/ daily behavior and homework assignments. We look forward to seeing all the students as well as the parents at our “back to school” night on Thursday, September 10th, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. In closing, we are looking forward to a great year and please feel free to contact us at any time.

Mrs. Bildstein, Mrs. Leventhal, Mrs. Thren

So our summer has officially come to an end. We look forward to an amazing school year. We have heard amazing things about this super sweet class and we can't wait to meet all of our students and families. We have A LOT to accomplish in 4th grade and we know they are up for the task.

BABY NEWS: Mrs. Boulay and her husband welcomed their first child, Isabelle, early in August. Mom, dad, and baby are doing great. She will return in October.We are happy to have Ms. Steele on board with us as Mrs. Boulay's long term substitute. Please help us welcome and make both ladies feel welcome on our 4th grade team.

FIELD TRIPS: We have a field trip to the Sultana Schooner in Chestertown, MD mid-September please look for the field trip forms to come home the first week of school.

Hope we can meet all of the parents and families at our back to school night!

Grade 2 News

Welcome to Second Grade!!! We are excited to be starting a new school year here at SES. We are looking forward to meeting all our incoming second graders (and their parents) and hope you are ready to learn and have fun! Your second grade teachers have been hard at work preparing materials and planning the second grade curriculum. During our first several weeks of school, we will focus on getting to know one another, learning classroom procedures, reviewing class and school rules and forming our routines. Please watch carefully for information coming home in homework folders. Many papers will need to be completed and returned.Back to School Night is Thursday, Sept. 10th. Parents, please join us on this very special evening so you can get a good handle on our procedures, expectations and the second grade curriculum.Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher throughout the year with questions, concerns, ideas or comments. We are looking forward to a terrific year!

The Second Grade TeamMrs. Troyer, Mrs. Embert, Ms. Davis and Miss Eber


September 2015

Music

Welcome back! Get ready for another musical year at SES!

Performance Dates:

There are two scheduled concerts at SES this year:

Winter Concert: Wednesday, December 16th, 6:30 pmSpring Concert: Wednesday, May 25th, 6:30 pm

Winter Concert performers include the 2nd grade classes, the Winter Chorus (3rd & 4th grade students), and the Winter Recorder Club (4th grade students).Spring Concert performers include the 1st grade classes, The Spring Chorus (3rd & 4th grade students), and the Spring Recorder Club (4th grade students).Winter & Spring Chorus:Chorus groups are open to all 3rd & 4th grade students. Letters and participation forms for the Winter Chorus will be sent home in October. A separate letter and participation form will be sent home in the spring regarding Spring Chorus. 4th grade students can join both the Chorus and Recorder Club each season.

…speaking of recorders… 4th Grade Recorders:4th grade students will be using recorders during music class this year. All students will be given the opportunity to purchase a recorder. Letters and order forms will be going home at the beginning of September. Recorders will be $5.00 this year. Purchased recorders will be distributed to students the first day was use them in music class. If you already own a recorder, you may use it! However, please bring it in for Mr. Harrison to inspect to make sure it is indeed a musical instrument and not a toy recorder. If you are unable to purchase one right away, you can borrow one during class time.

Winter & Spring Recorder Club:Recorder Club groups are open to all 4th grade students. This group provides a way to show off recorder skills and repertoire that is being learned in music class. Letters and participation forms for the Winter Recorder Club will be sent home in October. A separate letter and participation form will be sent home in the spring regarding Spring Recorder Club. 4th grade students can join both the Recorder Club and Chorus each season.

Open Computer Lab on Back to School Night, September 10th I look forward to seeing all our new and returning families on Thursday, September 10th for our annual Back-to-School Night! For all our families who do not have access to the internet at home; our computer lab will be open at 5:00pm on Back-to-School Night. This is a great opportunity to complete your annual emergency form, which will now be completed online using Queen Anne’s County’s new InfoSnap program. All families should have already received a personal email inviting you to log in to InfoSnap to complete your child’s “returning student registration” – which takes the place of the emergency form and the calendar handbook policy forms that would be sent home at the beginning of each new school year. Don’t have an email address? This will be an opportunity to create one! Staff members will be available to assist you with this process.

Mrs. Conner

Guidance


September 2015

Math Memo

Welcome back to another fantastic year at SES! Hopefully you included some form of math in your summer activities and are ready for this year. If your student participated in the online Tenmarks program, send any certificates to your child’s teacher by September 9th . (They will be returned.) At some point in the next few weeks, we will have an ice cream social for those who show they participated.

Welcome back to school! We, at SES, are excited for new school year full of reading, learning and most of all, fun! We have many new programs this year. Queen Anne’s County Public School has adopted a new reading series, Mc Graw Hill’s Reading Wonders. This program offers highly motivating texts, engaging activities and a quality technology component that is aligned with the Maryland College and Career Ready standards. The students will have an opportunity to access the McGraw Hill books, games and materials online at home. More information will be sent home in the beginning of the year. We will also be starting to use STAR 360 as a universal screener throughout the County. It is an assessment that will be given to all elementary students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade. Kindergarten students will be taking the Early Literacy assessment starting in the middle of the year. First graders through fifth graders will be taking the Reading and Math assessments three times a year. Importantly, each assessment is on-line and takes only twenty to thirty minutes. The STAR 360 data will help teachers to design lessons to reinforce and extend our students’ learning.

Reading

Lastly, our summer reading incentive is coming to an end. We have challenged all students to read for 2 steps or 30 minutes each weekday for a total of 100 steps. There is still a little bit of time to reach the reading goal. Each participant must turn in their completed reading log by Friday, September 11. If your child needs another reading log, please contact your child’s teacher. Students who successfully complete 50 steps will participate in an ice cream social and earn eagle bucks. Students who complete all 100 steps will receive an additional reward. I hope that everyone had a wonderful summer full of reading fun! We are so excited to be soaring into another fantastic and fun year at SES!

Thoughts for the month:Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.A bicycle can’t stand alone because it is two-tired.A hungry clock goes back four seconds.A calendar’s days are numbered.

Smile and be happy! Until next time..:)

Parent Involvement


September 2015

Welcome parents and students to our 2015-2016 school year! I know it will be another successful year! Please be advised that our Parent Resource Center is open to all our parents. We have very helpful information to share with you, and we have several resources that can be borrowed to help parents and students at home. We are in room #9 in front of the Kindergarten classrooms.On September 10th, 2015 we will have our “Back to School Night” please note that I will be conducting a Volunteer Orientation immediately after the classroom visitations in the school’s cafeteria. It is mandatory that all volunteers and field trip chaperones attend an orientation and complete necessary forms (Volunteer Application and Volunteer Information) each year they plan to volunteer and/or chaperone a field trip. The “Back to School Night” volunteer orientation will be one of the few that will be offered during the school year. Please plan to attend. Furthermore, the computer lab will be open to all parents starting at 5:00 pm who need to complete any school forms online. There will be personnel available for support and help.

Also, I would like to invite all parents to our PAC (Parent Advisory Committee) meeting on September 22nd, 2015 at 8:30 am in the school’s cafeteria. We will be planning for upcoming events during the school year. As a school, we value and greatly appreciate your input and participation in our events.

Please mark your calendars for the Title I Information Dinner on October 1st, 2015. During the Title I Information Dinner we will be presenting and introducing the wonderful and successful WATCH D.O.G.S. program, as well as other important information regarding our school. More information will be sent home soon.

Thank you,

Dwanya AlvarezBilingual Parent Coordinatorx234

The PTA along with the PBIS committee will be hosting a Color Run here in Sudlersville on Friday October 9th. This is a big fundraiser to help SES continue the programs that the PTA provides to our school and allows the PBIS to continue with their monthly incentives. Please be on the lookout for registration forms coming home the first week of school. Cost of the run: (includes Color Run shirt, running #, and 1 color packet)Students 5 & up: $25 (any QACPS student applies)Non-students: $30Family of 4: $85Family of 5: $105We will also be sending home a sponsorship form. This will be used to offset some of the cost of the run. Ask family members, neighbors, co-workers, friends to sponsor you and your student on this run. These sponsor donations will allow you to spend less out of pocket for registration. (Example: if your child collects $20 from sponsors, he/she will only have to pay $5 additional dollars to register for the race)Thank and we can't wait to see you there.


September 2015

HEALTHROOM NEWS

Any medication brought to school must be in the original container for nonprescription, or the pharmacist bottle for prescription medication. These medications must also be accompanied by a “Physician Medication Form”. Some doctor’s offices have copies of these forms, or you may ask the nurse in the health room for this form at any time. A responsible adult must bring in the medicine. This is a policy of the School Board and the Health Department.

Parents please place a change of clothes (T-shirt, shorts, underwear & socks) in your child’s back pack. These will really come in handy if for some reason your child has accidentally messed their pants, vomits, or gets wet. We do not have a supply of clothes in the health room, so an extra set tucked in the bottom of the backpack can really save the day.

Please be sure to keep current phone numbers on file, in the event of emergency. It is also important to have a “back-up” plan for students to be picked up due to illness or injury. The health room is active, and it does not have availability to keep students for the day, nor should a sick child be sent home on the bus.

Head lice happens. Make it a habit this new school year to check your child’s hair at least 2 times a week for signs of head lice. This preventive tip is so worth the effort.

*Attention Parents*According to Maryland School Immunization Regulations, to be allowed in school, students must be immunized according to the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene vaccine requirements for children enrolled in Maryland schools.All students entering Kindergarten must show proof of two measles and two varicella vaccinations.All students entering 7th grade must show proof of one Tdap and one meningitis vaccination.All new or transferring students must provide a copy of their immunization record before attending school.Take Note:

Students must provide a copy of their immunization record showing compliance by the first day of school. ORStudents must provide a copy of their immunization record by the first day of school with a copy of their scheduled appointment card/fax from the doctor of the appointment. The appointment must be within the first 20 calendar days from the start of school.Students who come to school without their compliant immunization record or without their immunization record and scheduled appointment card within the first 20 calendar days will be pulled out of class and sent home until we receive proper documentation.

** Parents, there will be an immunization clinic on Tuesdays 9/1, 9/8, and 9/15 at the Queen Anne’s County Health Department in Centreville for these new vaccine requirements from 3:30pm to 7pm free of charge. No appointment is necessary.

Thank you for your support.


September 2015

The Judy Center is ready for the 2015-2016 school year with many exciting changes and opportunities for parents of children attending Sudlersville Elementary School. We are partnering with Chesapeake College once again to offer English classes (ESOL classes) at Sudlersville Elementary School on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6 pm – 9 pm. Registration will be held September 9th and 16th from 6 pm – 9 pm at Sudlersville Elementary school. Childcare will be provided by the Judy Center during registration and classes. We are also expanding our adult education opportunities to offer other trainings and class opportunities for parents interested in attending college.

The Judy Center is again hosting Playgroup on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9:30 am – 11:00 am. Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning (SEFEL) will be incorporated into the Frogstreet curriculum driven Judy Center Playgroup as well as Pre-K and Kindergarten with the help of the Judy Center Early Childhood Liaison, Lori Yarbrough.

We are proud to announce Angie Soto’s shift to her new position as Judy Center In-Home Interventionist/Home Visitor. She will be available to provide homework help home visits to parents and children at the request of the child’s Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom teacher. She will also provide outreach educational opportunities utilizing Frogstreet Bilingual curriculum to parents of children (birth - 4) residing in the Sudlersville area. The Judy Center’s outreach efforts are beneficial in helping parents prepare their children for school success.

Please help us in welcoming new Judy Center staff member, Dawn Meyers, who will be a part-time Administrative Assistant, Salisbury University Bachelor of Social Work intern, Kendall Savage, and Andrea Daniels, Judy Center volunteer.

And last but not least, the Judy Center is the Dolly Parton Imagination Library affiliate for Queen Anne’s County and we welcome you to enroll your child in this free service. The Judy Center funds this initiative through generous donations from our primary grant, and community donors, the Centreville Rotary Club, Queen Anne’s County Council for Children and Youth, and the Women and Girls Fund. Upon enrollment, a child will receive a free book every month until they reach the age of 5 years old. Our hope is that by helping a child build a family library of books, families will read together.

ESOL ClassesSudlersville Elementary SchoolMonday/Wednesday Classes6:00 – 9:00 PM

September9/21 – First night of class (Orientation)October10/14 – No Class (Schools closed)November11/23 and 11/25 - No class (Thanksgiving holiday)December12/16 – Last day of fall termJanuary01/6 – Spring-term classes begin1/18 – No classes (MLK Birthday)February2/15- No classes (President’s Day)March3/23 and 3/28 – No class

(Spring Break)May5/27 – last day of class

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