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Prince Street Elementary

Community Commitment + Exceptional Programs

= Academic Success

PANTHER PRESS OCTOBER 2021

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400 Prince Street Salisbury, MD 21804

410-677-5813

410-677-5865, fax

[email protected]

Friendly Reminders

Prince Street’s doors open at 7:30am, and in-person class begins at 8am. Scholars must be in

their seats by 8am to be marked present. Scholars who arrive after 8am will be marked as late

and MUST be signed in by an adult. Dismissal starts at 2:20pm, and all scholars are expected to

be picked up at that time.

Scholars are required to wear their C.A.P. attire. If you have any questions about what is C.A.P.

appropriate, please review our C.A.P. Policy via the link on our school website or go to the Board

of Education at www.wcboe.org for specific C.A.P. information.

This year, TalkingPoints will be used as an added level of communication between teachers and

parents/guardians. TalkingPoints is not an app or service that parents/guardians need to check or

subscribe to. Instead, daily updates and communication regarding your scholar(s) will be sent to

your phone in the form of a text message.

Scholars are encouraged to wear their house shirts on designated house meeting/celebration days

(House meetings/celebrations are most commonly held on Fridays). The school will send out

information as these events occur.

When any contact information changes (i.e. address, phone number, etc.) throughout the year

please notify the school office in writing as soon as possible.

Mrs. Bacon, our Community Outreach Coordinator, is responsible for keeping you engaged in what

is going on here at Prince Street. In an effort to do so, she will be hosting monthly parent

workshops. If you have any questions or concerns and need to speak with Mrs. Bacon, you can

reach her on her direct line at (410) 677-5215.

Upcoming Events

Fall Fundraiser– September 20th-October 10th

Term 1 Progress Reports Distributed– October 6th

School Closed– October 15th

Trunk or Treat– October 22nd

Title I Parent Night for English Learners– October 28th

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 A

2

3

4 B

5 C

6 D

Term 1 Progress Reports Published to X2 Family Portal

Puberty Parent Video Night 4-5pm

PreK ELA Learning Party 5-7pm

7 E

8 F

9

10

11 A

12 B

13 C PreK ELA Learning Party 5-7pm

14 D

15

Professional Day—School Closed

16

17

18 E

19 F

Parent Workshop: Let’s Get Physical 5-6pm

20 A


21 B

22 C

PreK Field Trip

Trunk or Treat 6-8pm

23

24 25 D

26 E 27 F


28 A

Title I Parent Night for English Learners 5:30-7:30pm

29 B House Celebration 1pm

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October 2021

SEPTEMBER 20-OCTOBER 10 FALL FUNDRAISER

OCTOBER 6 TERM 1 PROGRESS REPORTS PUBLISHED

PUBERTY PARENT VIDEO NIGHT

OCTOBER 15 PROFESSIONAL DAY—SCHOOL CLOSED

OCTOBER 22 TRUNK OR TREAT

OCTOBER 28 TITLE 1 PARENT NIGHT FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS

NOVEMBER 1 PTA NIGHT 4:30-6:30PM

NOVEMBER 4 FALL PICTURE RETAKES

NOVEMBER 5 PRIMARY GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT 5-7PM

NOVEMBER 8 VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION WITH EARLY DISMISSAL AT 12:20PM

NOVEMBER 11 TITLE I MATH NIGHT AT FOOD LION 5-7PM

NOVEMBER 12 TERM 1 REPORT CARDS PUBLISHED TO X2 FAMILY PORTAL

Red Ribbon Week

Instruction at a Glance

Physical Education With Mr. Brown and Mr. Thomas

Scholars will continue working on moving safely in personal space while participating in cooperative games. Primary scholars will focus on locomotor movements and Intermediate scholars will be working on skill based activities and exploring the Fintessgram Pacer test.

Art With Mrs. Rommel

This month in art scholars will explore fall through art. It’s time for colder weather and everything that brings. It’s pumpkins, spiders, and bats for the primary scholars. Intermediate scholars will learn about positive images and negative space as well as how to weave.

Music With Ms. Cook

Welcome back to school Prince Street families! I hope you all had a wonderful summer break. We are ready to rock and roll here in the music room! I have lots of fun ideas for this month, and I can't wait to get started!

I am very excited to announce our new theatre teacher, Mr. Johnson, from Wicomico High School! In October, he will be continuing to teach some of our 3rd through 5th graders the basic principles of acting. The rest of our scholars will be in music with me, expanding their knowledge of dynamics (volume level) and tempo (speed) through singing, instrument playing, and more. My younger scholars will be developing their sense of steady beat, an essential element in all music, and learning the four voices (whisper, talk, shout, and sing) through fun games and activities!

For my orchestra scholars, thank you for joining the program! I am SO happy to have you all learning a string instrument and making music with me. Always reference the calendar I gave out, which has all the dates we meet for orchestra. Scholars will need their instrument and folder for every class! Remember, practice does not make perfect...but it makes PROGRESS! I can take a few more scholars who are really interested. If you want to join, please email me at [email protected].

Miss Cook

P A G E 3

Health With Mrs. Higgins

PreK-2nd Grade: will be working on personal hygiene habits. Scholars will also be learning about how to express their emotions and use manners.

3rd-5th Grade: Scholars will be learning about stress, emotional and physical health. Scholars will learn how to handle their stress in a safe way.

Title I schoolwide schools create school improvement plans

(SIPs) to provide a quality program to meet the needs of all

students. These plans are available for review by all members of

the school community. There may be times when everyone is not

in agreement with the priorities or direction of the plan and may

feel more attention should have been directed to other areas. In

these circumstances, parents are encouraged to share their

comments and/or concerns regarding their school’s SIP with the

school administrator or Title I Office.

To express a concern, an individual may obtain a SIP Comment

Form in the school office. Complete and submit the form to the

Building Administrator and/or Title I Office for review.

PTA Meetings for 2020-2021

All meetings will be virtual and begin at

4:30pm.

November 1st

February 7th

April 11th

YEARBOOKS

We will be looking to sell yearbooks this year.

Please save now so your child can have

memories later. Look for more information to

be sent home in the near future.

Instruction at a Glance

P A G E 4

Guidance Corner With Mrs. Opher & Mr. Raffa

Primary

Our primary scholars will focus on Bullying Prevention. The early years are the time to lay the foundation for appropriate conduct

and responses for our scholars. We will explore the feelings and choices of scholars that may have been involved in scenarios of being

bullied or possibly of being the bully.

The scholars will be presented with the skills and tools to take an active role in their community and school environment in

promoting a bully free environment. Please take time and reinforce the importance of having bully free zones! The scholars will be

taught the three facets of stopping bullying which include to recognize, refuse and report bullying to a caring adult that will listen and

help to keep everyone safe.

If you have any questions or would like more information about our primary scholars (K-2nd), please contact Mrs. Opher at the

school or email her at [email protected].

Intermediate

Wow! One month of school already in the books. Thank you, families, for supporting your scholars! If we can help in any way,

please contact us. You can also find information on our Prince Street Counseling Website. The link to the website is https://

sites.google.com/wcboe.org/psscounselingsite/

October is Bullying Prevention month. Our intermediate grades will be taught using the SecondSTEP Bullying Prevention Unit. They

will learn about what bullying is and how they can be an active part in preventing it at Prince Street and throughout the community.

Please join us in the fight to keep our scholars safe and active participants in the prevention of bullying. If you have any questions

or concerns, please contact Mr. Raffa at [email protected].

Media Corner With Mrs. Deal

Many Parents your students should have begun to bring home library books, except PreK and K. Please help reinforce with your child that it is their responsibility to take care of the books when they bring them home.

Books should be kept in a safe place away from younger brothers and sisters as well as pets.

They should not eat or drink while reading their library books.

Use a bookmark to save their place while reading.

Return books on time.

Establish a routine that will help them to be responsible book borrowers.

In grades 1 -5, taught by Mrs. Deal, we are reviewing how to take care of books and the organization of the library.

In PreK and K, taught by Mrs. McCabe, students are focusing on loving who they are.

Mrs. Deal - [email protected]

[Grade] Instruction at a Glance ELA

Students will be continuing connecting school and home with unit one. We will work on knowing the letters in our name and working on forming letters in writing. We will also learn some of the alphabet such as A, B, M, O. We will be exploring stories with friendships, comparing and contrasting similar tales like Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Math We will be making sets and identifying the

amount of a given set by counting with one to one correspondence. We will be working on learning 2D shapes like circle, triangle and rectangle. We will count sets to ten and rote count to twenty.

Social Studies Scholars will focus on social skills and school

appropriate behaviors and routines. Scholars will explore other cultures through art and music.

Science Scholars are still exploring using their five senses.

Scholars will experience making collages for each of the senses.

Upcoming Events

Culminating Event for Unit 1- October 22nd

Trunk or Treat- October 22nd 6-8

PreK Instruction at a Glance


• Asking and answering questions to deepen understanding by

recalling important details of the text

• Notice and acquire understanding of new vocabulary from the

read-aloud content

• Identify a fiction author’s use of numerals to establish a se-

quence

• Show interest by actively listening to and talking about the story,

to predict what will happen next

• Notice and enjoy alliteration, rhyme, and repetition in the story

and animals in books act like people

• Express opinions about the book and characters in it

• Notice the letters in the illustrations and words and that some

books are organized alphabetically

• Naming the author and illustrator of a story

• Knowing the role of the author and the illustrator in the story.

• Participating in group reading activities

• Working on basic features of print; left to right, top to bottom,

and page by page

• Working on how spoken words are represented in written form

by a specific sequence of letters

• Working on placing spaces between words when writing

• Beginning to read common high frequency words by sight

• Beginning to read with purpose; practicing fluency through daily

poems

• Practicing new vocabulary using activities and songs in class

Upcoming/Daily Assignments: All assignments will be found in Google

Classroom.

Math • Comparing collections/sets of items

• Describing and comparing shapes

• Counting fingers and other objects (hold up a set of

fingers- count them correctly and incorrectly and have the

children give a thumbs up if you are counting them

correctly)

• Understanding “one more” when counting

• Beginning to add and subtract using nonverbal expressions

• Creating patterns using pattern blocks

• Practicing with five frames

• Composing and decomposing numbers in various ways on a

tens frame

• Counting collections in different arrangements

• Beginning to look at number stories

Upcoming/Daily Assignments: All assignments will be found in

Google Classroom.

Social Studies • Continuing to build classroom “community”

• Continuing to build upon our Prince Core 4 skills

Science • Continuing to build classroom “community”

• Continuing to build upon our Prince Core 4 skills

Upcoming Events/Reminders October 15th – schools are closed for students

There will be no term 1 Mid-terms for Kindergartners.

Please connect to our Talking Points/Google Classroom if you

have not already done so.

Kindergarten Instruction at a Glance


Discussing key details in a story

Practicing empathizing with the characters we read about

Retelling a story and sequence of events

Components of a fiction story (author, illustrator, characters, setting, problem, solution)

Reading on individual reading levels

Retelling a story through writing beginning, middle and end

Working on letter recognition, formation, and sounds

Working on phonemic awareness

Vocabulary words through Flocabulary activities and songs

Writing narrative stories

Upcoming/Daily Assignments: Reading 20 minutes every night and signing the calendar.

Math Fact fluency (adding and subtracting with sums

to 20)

Structure (word) problems with basic addition and subtraction

Counting to add and subtract

Counting on the number line

Parts and totals number stories

Continuing to establish routines on DreamBox

Social Studies We will begin Social Studies in Term 2.

Science Discussing what it means to be a scientist.

Discussing what science includes.

Experimenting through observations

Recording our observations in our science

journals.

Upcoming Events School closed October 15

th

1st Grade Instruction at a Glance

1st Grade Instruction at a Glance

ELA 95% Phonics Lessons Include:

Syllables and Multi-syllable words

Initial 3 letter blends and final blends and the Floss rule

Phonograms

Consonant digraphs

Reading:

Writing about fiction books in our reader’s notebooks

Thinking and talking about books

Understanding plot

Thinking about where stories take place

Shared readings

Examples of Read Alouds to be used:

Grandfather Counts

Roses for Gita

Big Mama’s

The Rainbow Tulip

Ongoing Assignments: ReadWorks for reading comprehension,

responding to read alouds in reading journals, i-Ready lessons

for reading support.

Math Skip Counting Patterns

Groups of 10

Addition Number Stories (turn around rule)

Addition strategies (near doubles, related facts, etc.)

Place Value

Combinations of 10 (making 10)

Doubles

Subtraction strategies

Odd & Even patterns

Comparing numbers

Upcoming/Daily Assignments: Unit 1 assessment tentatively

October 14th or 15th.

Social Studies Term 2

Science Finishing up matter unit

Earth’s place in the universe: Measuring earthquakes, vol-

canos, weathering, erosion

Water/Landforms

Upcoming Events Progress Reports Published to Family Portal- October 6th

Professional Day-School Closed- October 15th

2nd Grade Instruction at a Glance


Scholars will be discovering new fiction and

nonfiction texts through our text sets of an

illustration study with Exploring Memory Stories,

Realistic Fiction, Honoring Traditions, Facing

Challenges, the Importance of Determination, and

the Passage of Time. During this time, they will focus

in on lessons about illustrations in fiction texts,

identifying the setting of a story, understanding

plots within a story, character development, and

how characters can change during a story. We will

also be working on our phonics using our second

grade tune up reviewing skills scholars learned in

second grade to prepare them for third grade skills

to come.

Writing

Scholars will be starting to work on our Narrative

Writing Unit. During this time, scholars will master

the art of writing personal narratives, through the

process of planning, revising, editing, and

publishing.

Math

We will be interpreting multiplication and equal

groups to match number stories, using drawings to

interpret division, solving word problems involving

equal groups and arrays, multiplying using strategies

for all products of one-digit numbers are 1, 2, 5, 10,

solving two-step number stories involving addition

and subtraction, and adding and subtracting within

1,000.

Social Studies

Scholars will be working on gathering a stronger

understanding of the Prince Core Four and our 27

Tips for Success through daily lessons and activities.

Science

Scholars will be identifying, describing, and

explaining force, gravity, friction, and speed. Scholars

will experiment with the effects of mass and friction

on speed and motion. We will understand that

friction and other forces have an effect on speed and

motion.

Upcoming Events Progress Reports Published to Family Portal-

October 6th


3rd Grade Instruction at a Glance


In reading, scholars will be reading the

novel, Because of Winn Dixie, and

participating in class discussions and

assignments surrounding this text being

read aloud by their teacher. Students are

reading books at their independent

reading level using RAZ kids and other

reading materials and programs including

NewsELA and iReady. Encourage your

scholar to read 20 minutes a night!

Writers will continue the “Writing

Realistic Fiction” unit. We will be crafting

our own realistic fiction stories by using

the writing process.

In phonics we will focus on vowel team

and vowel+r syllables and simple

multisyllable words.

Math

This month we will be focusing on the

following skills:

Solving number stories Multi-digit addition & subtraction

strategies Area for rectangles Factors & factor pairs Multiples Prime and composite numbers Multiplicative & additive comparisons

A good way to help your scholar at home

is to practice multiplication facts nightly.

Social Studies

We are continuing to review the 27 Tips for Success.

Current Events

Science

Science will start next marking term.

Upcoming Events

October 6th- Midterms in Parent Portal October 15th- No school

4th Grade Instruction at a Glance


Our scholars will finish reading Earthquake Terror and

begin our next novel, Tiger Rising. Some of the reading

strategies we will be examining are summarizing,

compare/contrast multiple characters, describing the

narrator’s point of view, quote and cite from the text to

prove their point, and drawing conclusions.

Scholars will continue their weekly Tier 2 Vocabulary word

study and utilizing their virtual vocabulary notebook.

Writing Workshop: Scholars will be finishing their

narrative stories, participate in a Grammar Bootcamp, and

begin exploring how to write a personal and persuasive

essay.

Math Scholars will continue their study of Unit 1 materials at the

beginning of October. This has involved our study of Order

of Operations, Area, and Volume with 3-Dimensional

Figures. Your scholar will have their first math Unit

assessment for Unit 1 early this month.

We will then begin our study of Unit 2. In Unit 2 of 5th

grade math we begin a study of place value in the base ten

system. We will discuss expanded forms, multiplication

with multi-digit numbers, powers of ten, and near the end

of the month begin studying division strategies with multi

digit numbers as well.

Please remember to encourage your scholar to get onto

Dreambox and practice those math skills! Their goal is 5

lessons per week, but we’d love to see much more!

Social Studies Scholars will continue to study and perfect their

understanding of Prince Street's 27 Tips for Success. We

will also be practicing our SPECIAL First Impressions, be

sure to ask your scholar to practice this with you at home.

Our lessons this month will also include studies of current

events in our country and around our world. We will also

begin a discussion about how people spread across our

world throughout time and history and how that affects

all of us today.

Science In science this month we’ve begun working on Physical

Science by first studying the physical and chemical

properties of matter. We will be doing several hands-on

experiments to investigate these topics.

Then we will transition to a study of physical and chemical

changes within matter involving the 3 states of matter. This

is such a fun unit because we do so many hands on

experiments and investigations together!

Upcoming Events Progress Reports Published to Family Portal- October 6th


5th Grade Instruction at a Glance

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