New Dates for Your Calendar

Testing Dates

As you may have seen in the Friday Folder, there has been a change to our dates for end of the year testing.  The Social Studies test that was scheduled for this week has been moved to May 4.   Our testing dates are:

April 30 - PARCC Unit 1 Math

May 4 - AIR Social Studies

May 6 - PARCC ELA

May 7 - PARCC Unit 2 Math

All testing will be first thing in the morning and we ask that you please refrain from scheduling appointments on these dates.  NO pre-approved absences will be honored for these specific dates.

Book Fair!

This week is Spring Book Fair in the SLE Library!   Students will visit the book fair during their regularly scheduled library times.  (see "SPECIALS" tab above if you are not sure when your child goes to library.  Family Night is scheduled for Wednesday, April 22.   

Music News

Please mark you calendar for the following music concerts if your child is in 4th grade chorus.   

Thursday April 30

1st Grade / 4t Gr. Chorus

6:30 PM @ SLE

Wednesday May 13th

All District 4th Grade Chorus Concert

7:30 @ KHS

April Updates

Columbia Intermediate Parent Input Forms
In the Friday Folders this past week (April 10) the Parent Input Forms were sent home for class placement at Columbia Intermediate.  This is your chance to communicate the needs of your child prior to class placement for 5th grade.  Please take the time to fill out the form and return to school by April 20.

Mark your calendar for Monday, May 18 at 6:30pm  --- this will be the Columbia Intermediate Parent Information meeting.  The meeting will be in the Columbia Intermediate Cafeteria.  We encourage you to attend this meeting as this will help you help your child in the transition from 4th to 5th grade.   

This is a very exciting time for your child.   The transition can also cause some anxiety.  To assist students in this transition, classes will be visiting CIS the week of May 18 for a tour and interaction with a 5th grade class.  Look for more specific information as the date approaches.

Art to Remember orders due Tuesday, April 14. 

End of Year Testing

We are getting ready to begin our second round of PARCC testing.   This time, we will be completing the End of Year testing, and just as before, testing will be first thing in the morning ask that you please refrain from scheduling appointments on these dates and no pre-approved absences will be honored.  The testing dates are as follows:

April 30 - PARCC Unit 1 Math

May 4 - AIR Social Studies

May 6 - PARCC ELA

May 7 - PARCC Unit 2 Math

All orders are due April 14th

Two ways to order:

-online with a special online code that is on the order form

or

-check made out to SLE

All orders help raise money to purchase art supplies for our school.

Thank you for your support!

Questions?  shoffert@kingslocal.net

March Update

Testing News
PARCC Testing will continue this week.  We thank you for your support in getting the students to school on time this week so that we could begin testing sessions on time. The students have been great in rolling with the changes in schedule and working during the testing times.   There was a minor network problem Friday morning, but we adjusted to test in the afternoon and the students applied themselves and worked hard.  Please keep encouraging them to not stress but show their best.  We are so lucky to have such outstanding fourth graders.  The remaining testing dates are:

Monday, March 9th: Social Studies (75 minutes)

Wednesday, March 11th: ELA Unit 3 (60 minutes)

Friday, March 13th: Math Unit 1 (80 minutes)

Monday, March 16th: Math Unit 2 (70 minutes)

Testing Tips:

1. Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep the night before testing.
2. Please make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast the morning of testing.
3. Please tell your child to just try their best and not stress out over these tests.

Instruction Continues

Please note that even though we are currently in the middle of the PARCC Performance Based Tests, this only accounts for a small part of our school day and instruction continues in all classes. Students are still expected to complete homework assignments. Please check planners nightly for assignments and due dates.

School Calendar
Due to the snow day last week, the new last day of school will be Tuesday, June 2nd.

March Happenings:
March 13 - PTO March Madness Fundraiser

March 19 and 26 - Parent/Teacher Conferences

March 26 - 4th grade to Riversbend Country Club for Etiquette Lunch

March 30 - April 6 - Spring Break

Welcome back!

SNOW DAYS!!
Well, that was a week!   Hopefully we have winter behind us now, and spring is in view!!  Please mark your calendars, that the last day of school for students will be June 1st.  Since we have exceeded our 5 allowed calamity days, we will now have to extend the year by two days.  These days are already part of the Kings school calendar.  Please plan accordingly.

PARCC TESTING NEXT WEEK
Please take note that next week we will begin the PARCC Performance Based Assessment Tests.  The dates are listed below and each test will begin first thing each morning listed, so please be at school on time.  Thanks so much for your cooperation and support.

Testing Dates:

Tuesday, March 3rd: ELA Unit 1 (75 minutes)

Thursday, March 5th: ELA Unit 2 (90 minutes)

Monday, March 9th: Social Studies (75 minutes)

Wednesday, March 11th: ELA Unit 3 (60 minutes)

Friday, March 13th: Math Unit 1 (80 minutes)

Monday, March 16th: Math Unit 2 (70 minutes)

Testing Tips:

1. Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep the night before testing.
2. Please make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast the morning of testing.
3. Please tell your child to just try their best and not stress out over these tests.

March Happenings:
March 13 - PTO March Madness Fundraiser. Look for more info coming home soon as well as info on contributing to our class baskets.

March 19 and 26 - Parent/Teacher Conferences - Your child's reading teacher will be contacting you with more information

March 26 - 4th grade to Riversbend Country Club for Etiquette Lunch

March 30 - April 6 - Spring Break

Mid-February Checkpoint

Just a few items for this week:

1. THANK YOU so much for joining us for the PARCC information meeting last week.  If you were unable to attend, the handout from the meeting was sent home in the Friday Folder this past week.   As we get closer to the testing dates or as you explore the information and websites we gave you, please let us know if you have any questions.

2. Reminder:  VALENTINE CARD EXCHANGE will be TUESDAY, FEB. 10.  This is completely optional.  Students will have the opportunity to exchange cards with homeroom classmates during afternoon homeroom time.

3. There will be NO SCHOOL Friday, February 13th and Monday, February 16th.

4. Gifted Testing: The deadline to submit gifted referral form and permission to test for our spring Gifted Testing window is Tuesday, February 17.  These forms can be found on the district website or picked up in the school office.

February Updates

To assist parents in understanding the upcoming PARCC Assessments, we have scheduled an information night. 

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

6-7pm

SLE Science Lab

We will go over:

• what the specific assessments include
• how PARCC differs from previously given OAA tests
• how tests will be administered
• what parents can do to help your child prepare 

Please mark your calendar and we hope to see you there. 

The 4th grade will have an optional Valentine's Day card exchange with students in their homerooms on Tuesday, February 10 at the end of the day.  This will not be a party, but a simple card exchange.  If students wish to participate, they should bring cards for classmates in their homeroom class (ready to be passed out) on that day.  

SLE Student Council now has a school supply store open for 3rd and 4th graders on Monday and Wednesday mornings.   The supplies are not quite as plentiful as you see above, but there are pencils, pencil sharpeners, erasers, glue sticks and notebooks for sale.   Supplies are all under $1 -- if you have difficulty getting to the store and your student needs to restock something, this is now an option available to them.

Please remember that we monitor the temperature daily to determine whether or not students will be going outside for recess.  4th grade recess us not until 1:15, so it is possible some days our students will go out when earlier recess times had to be indoor.   Because of these daily changes, please make sure your child is dressed for the weather with heavy coats, hats and gloves.  

Starting in February the E-Club will be kicking off our 2015 NO WASTE LUNCH CAMPAIGN!!!   We're looking for students at lunch who are doing their best to use reusable containers! The less waste, the better!!!  Check out the commercial we created in 2013 to kick off our efforts!

E-Club_NO WASTE LUNCH COMMERCIAL 2015