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Dear South Shore families,

Welcome Back from Spring Break! I hope that everyone had a fun and relaxing few days. Spring is here and excitement is in the air as we continue to have a wonderful year of learning here at South

Shore. As always, we greatly appreciate the combined efforts of all as we support our students in successfully meeting the highest of standards set before them!

It’s hard to believe that we are about to begin our last marking period of the 2017-2018 school year on April 13th. The beginning

of a new marking period is the perfect time to set goals for the next quarter. As we enter the month of April, our teachers and staff

continue to introduce and review rigorous academic skills and content across all grade levels. With roughly three weeks remaining before our PARCC testing weeks, it is imperative that our students

are present each day and eager to actively participate in applying the purposeful teaching and learning taking place. Please look at the testing calendar below. During this testing window, please

support your child by having them at school and on time each morning, having a good breakfast and well rested from the night

before. We thank you in advance for your support as students excel for the rest of the school year.

Stacy Shafran Stacy Shafran

Principal

SOUTH SHORE ELEMENTARY

APRIL 2018MISSION

STATEMENT

The mission of South Shore Elementary School is to provide a

respectful environment which nurtures and encourages curiosity, confidence, open-mindedness and action so that all

students will become 21st Century Learners. We respect the diversity of

our students and embrace their creativity and talents as strengths to initiate positive change in the world.

We rely on collaboration, commitment, and effective, open communication in

the process of helping each student reach his or her full potential.

PRINCIPAL ’S MESSAGE 1

SSES APRIL CALENDAR 2

IB/PRIMARY YEARS

PROGRAMME 3

L ITERACY NEWS 4

MESA NEWS 5

2018/2019 K INDERGARTEN

REGISTRATION5

GUIDANCE NEWS 6

WELCOME OFFICER T ILLER 6

NEWS FROM P.E. 7

NEWS FROM MUSIC 7

NEWS FROM ART 8

NEWS FROM MEDIA 8

NEWS FROM HEALTH ROOM 9

MAKE YOUR MARK AWARDS 9

INSIDE THIS ISSUE :

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

April 26th

3rd Grade

Math

am & pm units

April 27th

3rd Grade

Math

am & pm units

April 30th

3rd Grade

ELA

am unit

May 1st

3rd Grade

ELA

am unit

May 2nd

3rd Grade

ELA

am unit

May 3rd

4th & 5

th Grade

Math

am & pm units

May 4th

4th & 5

th Grade

Math

am & pm units

May 7th May 8th May 9th

4th & 5th Grade

ELA

am unit

May 10th

4th & 5th Grade

ELA

am unit

May 11th

4th & 5th Grade

ELA

am unit

South Shore will be administering PARCC to

our 3rd-5th grade students on the dates shown. Please, help support your child’s success on

PARCC by helping them to be well rested, in school and on time.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2

3

24 Club, 3-4 pm

4 Popping Pandas 8:20-8:35 am

Kindergarten Registration begins for

2018/2019

5 6 Classic Photography to be at South Shore for

Club photos

7

FOTA (Festival of the Arts)

9 am– 12 p.m. @ Old Mill Complex

8 9 Box Tops

Collection

Popping Pandas 8:20-8:35 am

Speed Stacks 2:40-3:00 pm

Artworks Club 3-4 pm

10

24 Club, 3-4 pm

Running Sports Club, 3-4 pm


TWO HOUR EARLY DISMISSAL

End of 3rd Marking Period

PTA Meeting @ 7:15 p.m.

12 5th Grade

Exhibition

TWO HOUR EARLY DISMISSAL

End of 3rd Marking Period

13 Beginning of 4th Marking Period

Family Fun Night PTA sponsored Sk8Zone

5-7 pm

14

15 16 Popping Pandas 8:20-8:35 am



17 TWO HOUR

EARLY DISMISSAL Professional

Development for Staff

18Popping Pandas 8:20-8:35 am

19 20 Report Cards

Go Home

21




Karate Club 3-4 pm

24

24 Club, 3-4 pm

Club SciKidz 3-4pm



26 27Dress to

Impress Day

Karate Club 3-4 pm

28 .PTA’s

Play Your Part “y”

24th Annual Dinner, Dance & Auction @ The Byzantium,

on Riva Road @ 6:30 pm




Karate Club 3-4 pm

1 May

24 Club, 3-4 pm

Club SciKidz 3-4pm


South Shore Elementary School

April 2018


3

Bowie Baysox

Night

Chorus

4 Look and Learn– Book Study/Inquiry 9-11 am

Karate Club 3-4 pm

5

Bowie Baysox

Read & Hit a

Homerun

Event

Easter/Spring Break

4th Grade to Arlington Echo

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ttitu

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Pandas In Training

We cordially invite our soon-to-be kindergarten students to join our Pandas in

Training troop. Once a week for one hour, you and your child will come to South

Shore to engage in learning activities that will emphasize early reading skills while

acclimating your child to our school.

Session Dates

April 30th, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

May 7th, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

May 18th, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

Please make sure to RSVP to the office as space will be limited.

It is time for the Bowie Baysox Read & Hit a Homerun Program! Students that complete the Read & Hit a Homerun program by reading 4 or more books by

Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 will earn one free ticket to a Baysox game on Saturday, May 5th! There will be an exciting pregame parade where students can go on the

field! If you want to enjoy this fun event, complete the form that was sent home and turn it in to your teacher by April 4th! There are extra forms in the office if

you need a new one. We would love for everyone to participate in this fun-filled program! If you have any questions, they can be directed to Mrs. Down

([email protected]).

Mrs. Sarah Down Reading Specialist

French Corner Bonjour South Shore families,

In April at the French corner we will work on an elaborate description of spring to help with our reading and writing practice. We will learn new songs to help us review old vocabulary and add new. The fun with conjugating verbs will continue through games and acting in classic stories, like Goldilocks and The Three Bears and The Raven and the Fox.

Merci,

Maria Mihova French Teacher

mailto:[email protected]

News from the Panda Café

Many of our students are now buying lunches on a daily basis. Our café staff works very hard in the cafeteria to serve daily a healthy, fun and nutritious lunchexperience for them. Because of this increase to the number of lunches being served, our students sometimes do not have enough time to eat that nutritious lunch without rushing.

We are going to begin an experiment after our spring break. On a daily basis, we will be serving our “Grab and Go” lunch boxes at a station located in the cafeteria and not go through the serving line. At this station, they will have a choice of the box lunch andmilk along with whole fruit and bagged vegetables.On Fridays, we will serve boxed pizza lunches.

During this trial throughout April, we will be try this process and then evaluate to see how well this worked for the children. Please feel free to give us your input and any additional suggestions.

Mrs. Lis Sorensen Mrs. Birna Orlove Cafeteria Manager Cafeteria Assistant

2018/2019

Kindergarten

Registration

Beginning Wednesday,April 4 kindergarten registration begins for the 2018/2019 school year. Parents should stop in the office be-tween the hours of 9 a.m. — 2 p.m. to register their child. Please bring your child’s

1. birth certificate2. immunization record3. two proofs of residency, one of which

must be a mortgage/lease document and the second of which may be a utility bill, cable bill, paystub, or a banking statement. Please help spread the word to families who do not yet have school age children in our area. Registration numbers are closely monitored and will impact staffing for next school year.

Congratulations to all of our MESA Club members who participated in this year’s MESA Day competition. Everyone did an amazing job collaborating and coming up with unique ideas! This year’s students competed in the Bridge Design and the Effective Communication projects.

Congratulations to Isabela, Emma, Ben, Aris and Ethan who won 2nd place for their project based on raising awareness for

the Diamondback Terrapins!

Guidance Corner

During the month of April, I will be conducting Career Awareness Lessons. In Kindergarten through 2nd grade classes, we will be focusing on exploring different careers and the tools they use. In 3rd through 5th grade classes, we will be focusing on career inventories and career clusters. On Friday, April 27th, we will have Dress to Impress Day. All students are encouraged to come to school dressed as their desired future career. A reminder will be sent out as we get closer to the date. These lessons will help students understand the connection between school and the world of work and to plan for and make a successful transition from school to postsecondary education and/or the world of work. Please contact me at (410) 222-3865 or [email protected] if you have any questions,comments or concerns about our Career lessons.

Mrs. Jaclyn Haslun School Counselor

Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks Before and After School Child Care programs begin registration online

April 4th at 8:00 a.m. for the 2018/2019 school year. Go to their website at http://

www.aacounty.org/services-and-programs/before– and after-school-program for more

information.

Out of Area Reminder

The out-of-area process for the 2018/2019 school year opened on March 1st and for, South Shore, ended on March 23rd. Anne Arundel County Board of Education has closed our school to any NEW Out of Area Transfer requests.

Moving forward any NEW requests made for students who do not reside in South Shore’s bona fide residence area will be denied.

Welcome Officer Tiller

Have you heard the news? South Shore Elementary has been assigned a patrol officer, Officer Tiller, Badge #2176, from the Western District Station. Officer Tiller has been working out of that district for two years. She loves children, physical ed-ucation, and lunch times. She intends to be checking on our school and our students on a regular basis, checking into the classrooms and engaging with the children. She is hoping to eventually becoming a school resource officer.

mailto:[email protected]

Announcements…

Announcements… Thank you to all the

families that participated in the Lucky Leprechaun Fitness Challenge with your students!

Primary grade level families, please work with your students on learning to tie their shoes.

Encourage healthy eating habits at home. Please make sure all parents with students in

Beauty and the Beast take note to ALL dates both rehearsals and performances. Students need to attend all practices!

All South Shore families are welcome to the Beauty and the Beast performance on April 26th at 6:30 p.m. at Chesapeake High School. It is free and features the Ballet Theatre of Maryland as well as 4 other elementary schools and some of our awesome 4th and 5th graders!

Be on the lookout for our after school sports club and field day information coming soon!

Thank you to all families that participated in raising money for the American Heart Association! It truly does make a difference. We raised over $9,100 dollars! Thank you for being heart heroes!

What are we learning this month? Volleying (K-5th) Fitnessgram Testing (3-5th) Nutrition and Parachute (K-2) Dance Fitnessgram testing includes the Pacer

running test (aerobic capacity), pushups and curl ups (muscular strength &endurance), and sit and reach (flexibility).

Please remember to send your students in sneakers on their PE days! Boots and flip flops are not acceptable PE shoes.

For details, please visit our website: SouthShoreCulturalArts.weebly.com

Follow us on twitter @SouthShorePE

Physical Education Ms. Courtney Rice

Music Notes… What are we learning this month?

K/ 1st: Songwriting and Orff Instrument Skills

2nd: Drumming and Orff Instrument Skills

3rd: Recorder and Orff Instrument Skills

4th and 5th: Ukelele and Orff Instrument Skills

Upcoming Dates:

May 3rd: Bowie Baysox National Anthem Sing

May 10th: Chorus, Beauty & the Beast Concert

May 14th: Grandparents Day

Mrs. Emily James General Music and Chorus Teacher

ART Miss Hipp

What are we learning?

5th Grade: Silhouette paintings (Sharing the Planet) 4th Grade: Still life marmotinto sand paintings (How We Organize Ourselves) 3rd Grade: : Brush-painted Fans(How We Express Ourselves)2nd Grade: : Ceramic coil pots (How We Organize Ourselves) 1st Grade: : Self-Portrait (Where We Are in Place & Time) Kindergarten: Clay bugs (Sharing the Planet)

For details, please visit our website: SouthShoreCulturalArts.weebly.com

News from Media

Spring is in full bloom in our media center. Black Eyed Susan Voting: What is the Black-Eyed Susan Book Award? The Black-Eyed Susan Book Award is a children’s choice award for the state of Maryland. Each year since 1992, the Black-Eyed Susan Book Award has been given to authors and/or illustrators of outstanding books chosen for the award by Maryland students. The award seeks to promote literacy and lifelong reading habits by encouraging students to read quality, contemporary literature. All grades will be using an online voting process to choose the winners for the Black-Eyed Susan book award for 2017-2018. Check out this year’s nominees: http://www.bcpl.info/find-materials/black-eyed-susan-award-2017-2018 .

Chessie The Chessie book club students are making great progress! The year is sailing by quickly for our Chessie students. We will be docking in May and having our Chessie celebration in early June. Students should continue to bring their Chessie books every Monday. It has been wonderful watching our Chessie students progress with their reading skills!

We could never have made such progress without our wonderful Chessie volunteers.

SCRATCH: Students in grades three through five will be introduced to Scratch in April. What is Scratch? Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animation with people from all over the world. As children create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically. Scratch is designed and maintained by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

Grades K-2 will be continuing to develop their coding skills on code.org

Access online databases at home: Access Pebblego, Britannica, WorldBook, and more! mackinvia.com Select South Shore Elementary Username is their lunch number Password is the last 4 digits of their lunch number

Mrs. Cynthia Bark, Media Specialist Mrs. Sandi Kane, Media Assistant

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjC7oCeqMLSAhUG8CYKHRlzDgwQjRwIBw&url=http://bongiornos.info/mnggrif-green-crayon.asp&psig=AFQjCNGXrOS6AMvK9-Rw-YFdZXKwe06v7A&ust=1488904657322990

http://www.bcpl.info/find-materials/black-eyed-susan-award-2017-2018

http://www.bcpl.info/find-materials/black-eyed-susan-award-2017-2018

http://www.mackinvia.com

ATTENDANCE INFORMATION

The attendance rate for the month as of March 31st is 94.6 %.

Our year-to-date rate is 95.8 %. Keep up the good work!

Maryland has established 94% annuallyas acceptable.

Thank you for encouraging good attendance habits with your child!

Make Your Mark Awards

Each week, teachers select one student from heir class

who is “Making Their Mark” which can be noted in any

one of many ways that reflect our IB attitudes in the

classroom.

These twelve attitudes are: curiosity, enthusiasm,

creativity, tolerance, commitment, cooperation, respect,

appreciation, independence, integrity, confidence

and empathy.

Week of March 5—March 9, 2018

Jase W., Hawken G., Francisco M-G. Abigail V.,

Avery B., Anthony A-P., Jennifer H-H., Jose C-U.,

Aria A., Vivienne T., Rajko S., Austyn B., Aspen A. and

Adison S.

Week of March 12 –March 16, 2018

Nathaniel J., Leon T., Anthony G-A., Bryan L-M.,

Colton C., Mackenzie L., Anja H., Caeden R., Jordyn J.,

James E., Alex S., Lacy C., Jocelyn L, Jaelyn H.

and Adison S.,

Week of March 19—March 23, 2018

Kayden N., Lucy S., George B., Theodora H.,

Aaliyah C., Trace J., Ian F., Daniel G-C., Morgan D.,

Charlie D., Lee-Ann H., Fallon L. Donnie B.,

Zachary B. and Adison S.

News from the Health Room

Bicycle Safety: Myths & Facts

Myth: My child doesn’t need to wear a helmet on short

rides around the neighborhood.

Fact: The majority of bike crashes happen near

home. Wearing a helmet at all times helps develop good

habits.

Myth: Any helmet will work just as well as a bicycle

helmet.

Fact: Only a bicycle helmet is made specifically to

protect the head from any fall that may occur while

biking.

Myth: I should buy a bicycle that my child will grow

into.

Fact: Oversized bikes are especially dangerous. Your

child does not have the skills and coordination needed

to handle a bigger bike and may lose control.

Myth: It’s safer for my child to ride facing traffic.

Fact: Your child should always ride on the right, with

traffic. Riding against traffic confuses or surprises

drivers.

Myth: Bike reflectors and a reflective vest will make it

safe for my child to ride at night.

Fact: It’s never safe for your child to ride a bike at night.

How can I tell if a helmet will keep my child safe?You should only buy a helmet that meets the safety standards of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Check for this label inside helmet.

How should a helmet fit?

It should be worn squarely on top of the head, covering

the top of the forehead. If it is tipped back it will not

protect the forehead. It fits well if it doesn’t move

around on the head or slide down over the eyes when

pulled. Adjust chin strap to fit snugly.

*Courtesy of American Academy of Pediatrics

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