**** FOUR STAR SCHOOL ****

Patti Duckworth, Principal 887-4707 (Ext. 3046)

Email: duckworthp@centergrove.k12.in.us

Jenny Settle, Counselor (Ext. 3048)

Email: settlej@centergrove.k12.in.us

Voicemail: 885-5246

SGES Newsletter

Attendance Hotline

885-5246 (Ext. 3049)

January 27, 2012

SGES Mission The collaborative relationships within the Sugar Grove

learning community inspire our learners to attain

personal and academic excellence.

Honesty

Carin Active Listener

Greetings!

Intense instruction is going on strong at

Sugar Grove as we enter this six week time

frame before ISTEP+ administration begins.

ISTEP+ 2012 will be administered between

the dates of March 3-14 for the Applied

Skills section, and April 30th-May 9th for

Multiple Choice component. The Third

Grade IREAD exam will also take place in

March, from the 19th-21st. Teachers are

in high gear now to insure that our students

are fully prepared to succeed on these

assessments. Because this is such a critical

time of instruction, we ask for your support

to make every effort for our students to be

in class each day. After observing every

classroom this week, I am confident that the

quality of classroom instruction will bring

great results! Thank you as always for your

continual support!

Mrs. Duckworth

CALENDAR

FEBRUARY

1 Early Dismissal 3:00pm 2 Chick-fil-A Spirit Night 4:00-9:00pm 6 Market Day Order Pick Up 6:30-7:30pm

6 Book Fair Family Night 6:00-8:00pm 6-10 Book Fair

7 PIE Meeting 6:30pm 8 Early Dismissal 3:00pm 10 Mid-Terms Sent Home 13 Dads Club Meeting 6:30pm 15 Early Dismissal 3:00pm 16 Spring Picture Day 17 All Pro Dads Breakfast 7:45-8:45am

18 SGES Carnival 12:00n-4:00pm 20 NO SCHOOL—President’s Day (Possible Snow Make- Up Day) 22 Early Dismissal 3:00pm

THE CORE ESSENTIAL FOR JANUARY IS SELF-CONTROL

“Choosing to do what you should do instead of what you want to do ”

SUGAR GROVE CARNIVAL IS COMING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18th 12:00n-4:00pm

The Carnival will be coming to Sugar Grove on Saturday, February 18th, Noon-4:00pm. We will be needing lots of volunteers to help make this event a successful one. There will be games, bounce houses, food, and a silent auction. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Nikki

Moore at 534-2127/nikwaymoore@earthlink.net or Kim Davis at 414-5962/jeffandkimdavis@sbcglobal.net

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR DECEMBER

CORE ESSENTIAL WINNERS!!!

Primary: Andrew Dile, Jack Forrest, Jacob Garmon,

Austin Green, Kaitlyn Haynes, Matthew McRoberts,

Kiersten Smith and Madeline Sprouse

Intermediate: Charles Dilk, Braiden Doane,

Alex Dokmanovich, Piper Geniec, Jessica Holland,

Sarah Kish, Alyson Martin and Jenna Otto

You may order online at marketday.com until 11:00pm on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012. Pick-up date is Monday, February 6th from 6:30-7:30pm. If you have any questions about this fundraiser or would like to volunteer, please contact Michele Miller at 317-534-7816.

Market Day will be doing a Spring Connect 2 Win beginning January 29th. They are once again offering a chance to win an Apple iPad and other great prizes. It’s simple to enter--go to www.marketday.com/connect and enter your name, email address, phone number and school name. Sugar Grove could possibly win up to $1,000 as well, with your participation. You can enter by your mobile phone and you can even enter if you have already registered with Market Day. Current customers will NOT be automatically entered. Entry deadline is April 28, 2012. Sugar Grove had a winner in the Fall Connect 2 Win, Miranda Mayes won a $25 Market Day Gift Certificate.

If you have not setup an account for our ebook collection, you might want to try it. Go to the corporation homepage, click on “Academics” and then “IPossibilities Project”. Open the Digital eLibrary and follow the directions to setup an account. As with all new things, the first time is a little “scary”, but once you are familiar with the

process you will love it!

BIBLE CLUB—Bible Club will meet every Wednesday morning at 8:00am in the LGI Room. Students have the opportunity to come for a morning of fellowship, study and fun. If you have questions, or would like more

information, please feel free to contact Denise Griffin (jdekgriffin@att.net, 418-6597) or Lori Roehling (laroehling@sbcglobal.net, 887-6172).

MARKET DAY—Help support Sugar Grove and keep your freezer full by simply placing your order online at marketday.com—it’s that easy! During our February sale, (taking place now) you can receive a FREE 4-pack of cookie dough cups with your $40 purchase and a FREE 1 lb of Chicken

Gems with your $90 online purchase. Just use promo code FEBBONUS.

Our Frequent Buyer program will be offering a FREE cooler tote (holds up to 24 soda cans) when you buy 3 items. To qualify, make two $40 purchases between February & April, then place a third order of $40 in May to receive a FREE cooler tote at your May sale pick-up.

BOXTOPS & LABELS—The first 9 weeks we have earned $1,178 for our school. Our goal is $3,000 this year, and I think we can reach it! Keep saving those labels!!! Please turn in the box tops and soup labels separately. Extra “points” will be given to those families that label their submissions with the name, classroom number and the number of box tops or soup labels in the

package. We do not need separate envelopes for families with multiple children at the school. Just add the names in the family to the package. If the packages have trimmed labels or box tops, even more extra points will be given, and it will help your child’s classroom get closer to our grand prize. What is that prize? The classroom for grades K-2 and the classroom for grades 3-5 will each get a fabulous POPCORN PARTY, as well as, a bag of candy to share. In addition, any child that turns in a total of 10 box tops and/or soup labels will receive a small prize.

ALL PRO DADS—The next All Pro Dads breakfast is Friday, February 17th in the SGES Cafeteria from 7:45am-8:45am. Doors open at 7:30am and the event starts promptly at 7:45am. Please return your Sign-Up forms by Wednesday, January 18th. If you have questions, please contact Bill Weinberg @ 889-7324 or weinbergfamily@sbcglobal.net or Kris Griffith at 710-

4791or kgriffith@comptonmechanical.com

YEARBOOKS—If you haven’t already ordered your copy of the 2011-2012 Sugar Grove Elementary Yearbook, order forms have been sent home with all students this week. Deadline to send in your order is Friday, February 24th.

NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY: If you and your family are among those who have chosen to use our new ebook library, congratulations and hooray!!

If you check out a book from the elibrary, you will receive an email reminding you that your ebook is soon to be removed from your reading device. This notice does not come from the school library. We have had some confusion by parents who think they are being notified about a hard copy book that their child checked out from the school media center. Ebooks

will automatically return to the ecollection when your checkout time expires. You do not need to do anything. Regular library books will be collected at school during Specials. We will notify you with a notice if your child has an overdue book.

PAPER RETRIEVER RECYCLING—Our paper recycling fund raiser runs all year. Please continue to feed our bin so we can continue to earn money for our programs.

OUR BIN LOVES: OUR BIN DOES NOT LIKE:

Magazines Cardboard

Newspapers Cereal Boxes Catalogs Soda Can Boxes Office Paper Plastic Home Paper Metal Envelopes Paperback Books

Old School Work Workbooks Brochures Receipts

We appreciate your support of our paper recycling fund raising program and hope that you will continue to support us all year long.

EMERGENCY SCHOOL CLOSINGS

In the event that our school must close because of weather conditions, notification will be made through the internet and area radio and television stations as follows:

Radio: Television: 93.1 WIBC-FM Channel 4, 6, 8, 13 and Fox 59 102.3 WCBK-FM 97.1 HANK-Fm B105.7 FM The Alert Now System will also be used. Please note that if there is a two-hour delay on a Wednesday,

there will NOT be early release.

ATTENTION ALL 5TH GRADE PARENTS: Get a jump start in preparing your child for 6th grade by getting their immunizations up to date! The Indiana State Department of Health requires the following additional immunizations for all students entering 6th grade:

One meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4). One Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis) booster, after 10 years of age. Two doses of varicella vaccine (or a history of chickenpox disease).

We wanted to let you know now so you will have plenty of time to schedule an appointment to update your child’s immunizations with their medical provider. If you are uninsured or your current insurance plan doesn’t pay for immunizations, your child might be eligible to get them at the Johnson County Health Department for a

small fee. Please call the JC Health Department at 346-4368 for more information. After your child receives these immunizations, please send in or fax a copy of their updated immunization record to the school clinic. Please contact your school nurse or clinic assistant if you have any questions.