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Davin Harpe, Principal 887-4707 (Ext. 3046) Email: [email protected] Marianne Dooms, Assistant Principal 887-4707 (Ext. 3047) Email: [email protected] Kassy McIlrath, Student Services Coordinator (Ext. 3048) Email: [email protected] To Contact PIE: [email protected]
SGES Newsletter
VOICEMAIL: 885-5246
Attendance (Ext. 3049) August 26, 2016
SGES Mission The collaborative relationships within the Sugar Grove learning community
inspire our learners to attain personal and academic excellence.
Honesty Car
Active Listener
Dear Sugar Grove Families, Thank you for continuing to support your children with their educational experiences. I am excited to introduce our new Art teacher, Miss Alyssa Huelsenbeck. Miss Huelsenbeck has a Bachelor of Science in Drawing from Ball State University, and she recently graduated from Indiana University with her Masters in Art Education in May of 2016. Miss Huelsenbeck joins Sugar Grove with multiple field experiences, including student teaching at Shonto Prepatory Schools in Shonto, Arizona, as well as serving as the Assistant Director of Fine Arts at a camp in Hoensdale, Pennsylvania. She looks forward to inspiring our kids to find their own voice through art and learn how to express that voice in new ways. Miss Huelsenbeck will begin teaching at Sugar Grove on Monday, August 29. We wish Mr. Treece the best as he continues his career teaching art at Center Grove Middle School North. We have a number of school clubs that are available to students this year, and here are descriptions of some of those that will be offered: Art Club provides an opportunity for 4th and 5th grade students who express high interest and enthusiasm for the visual arts to further their skills and expand their artistic knowledge. Students work individually and collaboratively to create pieces of art that challenge their thinking and problem solving skills. The cost is $10.00 per student, and seating may be limited. Art Club meets for a total of 6 sessions after school, from 3:45-5:00, during the second semester. Sign up forms will be available in January. Exact club meeting dates are still to be determined. Club Sponsor: Miss Huelsenbeck (Art Teacher) Chess Club meets on Friday mornings beginning after Fall Break, and it ends just before spring break. It is a good opportunity for 4th and 5th grade students to learn about the game in a fun and relaxing environment. Interest forms will be sent home in late September. Club Sponsor: Mr. Wooton (5th Grade Teacher) Intramurals is open to 4th and 5th grade students and will meet in the mornings. A wide variety of sports and activities will be explored for all interested parties to participate. Exact meeting dates are still being determined. Club Sponsor: Mr. Mueller (5th Grade Teacher) Math Bowl is a competition for 4th and 5th grade students who enjoy math concepts, including number sense, computation, geometry, measurement, and problem solving. There will be a team of 20 students who will work together in groups to answer questions across 4 rounds of questions. Sugar Grove students will be competing against teams from other schools at a local “to-be-determined” site on February 23, 2017. Interest forms will be coming home soon and weekly meetings will begin after Fall Break. Club Sponsor: Miss Hammer (3rd Grade Teacher) Math Pentathlon is a club focused on math games that promote strategic thinking, spatial/geometric reasoning, and problem solving skills. Students will learn five different games, practice them with other club members during weekly meetings after school, and then compete in a tournament against students from around the area. Sugar Grove has a grades K-1 Math Pentathlon Club and a grades 2-3 Math Pentathlon Club. This year, the competition for 2nd and 3rdgraders will be on May 6, 2017 at Avon Middle School North. Interest forms for the grades 2-3 club will be going home
during the second nine weeks, and meetings will begin in November. The competition for grades K-1 will take place on April 29, 2017 at Southport High School. Interest forms for K-1 Math Pentathlon Club will be sent home in the near future. The K-1 Math Pentathlon Club meetings will begin in September. Grades K-1 Club Sponsor: Mrs. Schoch (Kindergarten Teacher); Grades 2 -3 Club Sponsor: Miss Hammer (3rd Grade Teacher) Music Appreciation Club is made up of students from grades 2 and 3 in the fall semester who are selected on the basis of classroom participation and performance. They will participate in a variety of musical enrichment activities designed to enhance the experiences and knowledge gained in the regular music classroom. During the spring semester, Music Club is for students in grades 4 and 5 and is designed for students especially interested in instrumental music. The fall Music Club will meet 6 times from October through early December. The spring club will meet starting in March. Club Sponsor: Mr. Koenig (Music Teacher) Robotics is a club for 4th and 5th grade students who will complete in the Lego Robotics League. More information about this club will be shared in the near future. Club Sponsor: Miss Shanafelt (5th Grade Teacher) Lego Club is for second grade students. The club will provide additional STEM experiences using Legos. Students will also be introduced to skills they will use if they decide to join Robotics in the future. This club will begin meeting in late January, and interest forms will be sent home sometime in December. Club Sponsor: Mrs. Weidman (2nd Grade Teacher) Spell Bowl is a spelling competition that will take place on November 17, 2016. The club will be made up of interested students who qualify based on a spelling test. All 4th and 5th grade classrooms participate in a “cold spelling” test of words from the current year’s state Spell Bowl word list. This took place in the middle of August. Scores are tabulated, and students that performed at the highest are invited to join. Club Sponsor: Mr. Mueller (5th Grade Teacher) Student Council conducts various fundraising and service projects and provides student leadership in other areas as needed. The application process for Sugar Grove Student Council began during the first couple of weeks in August for interested 4th and 5th grade students. Club Sponsor: Mr. Mueller (5th Grade Teacher) I will continue to share information about additional opportunities for students throughout the school year. Sincerely,
Dr. Davin E. Harpe, Principal
CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 1 Chick-fil-A Spirit Night 4:00-9:00pm 5 LABOR DAY—NO SCHOOL 7 Body Safety Parent Meeting @ MGES 7:00pm 9 Deputy Baird Bullying Program 13 Picture Retakes 13 PIE Meeting 7:00pm
BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION Collect Box Tops for Education. Follow the rules on the form C-L-O-S-E-L-Y. Please TRIM Box Tops before submitting, CHECK the EXPIRATION DATES. Box Tops can be submitted on the forms provided by the school or in a Ziploc bag. Don’t forget to label each form/bag with your child’s and teacher’s names. Turn in your child’s completed form(s) either with their classroom teacher or at the box in the front lobby of Sugar Grove. Supplies: Feel free to photocopy forms on your own if needed, or pick up a copy at the box in the front lobby of Sugar Grove. Keep Saving Those Box Tops!!! Thank You! FREE SUPPLIES FOR SUGAR GROVE! Here is a very easy way your family can earn supplies for Sugar Grove at absolutely no additional cost to you!!! If you haven’t already done so, please link your Marsh Fresh IDEA Card w ith Sugar Grove Elementary School. It is super easy! Just visit: www.freshideasforeducation.com and use this ID#: 28592
We can now register our Kroger Cards to earn money for our school. www.krogercommunityrewards.com use Sugar Grove's NPO# 31483
PROCEDURE TO REPORT A STUDENT ABSENCE—A parent/guardian is to call the school to report a school absence ON THE DAY OF THE ABSENCE. You may leave a VOICE MAIL message at 885-5246. Press 1, and answer the questions, pressing the # button after each response. Voicemail is available 24 hours a day to report an absence. Calls prior to 8:00 am are encouraged and appreciated. If a call hasn’t been received by 10:00am the day of each absence, a School Messenger reminder notification will be delivered by telephone. A call is needed EACH DAY a student is absent. Your child should remain home if they have diarrhea, vomiting or an elevated temperature of 100 or
above. Students may return to school once they have been diarrhea free, vomiting free, and fever
free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.
ALL PRO DADS—What is All Pro Dads? All Pro Dads is a breakfast meeting held once a month before school where fathers and their children meet with other dads and kids to enjoy a Chick-fil-A breakfast in the school cafeteria. At this gathering we discuss a wide range of family topics, spend time together, have fun and equip each other with resources to strengthen our family relationships. Learn more at www.allprodad.com. The dates for this years’ breakfasts are: September 16, November 18, December 16, January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21 and May 19. If you have any questions regarding All Pro Dads, please contact the team captain at [email protected].
BODY SAFETY PROGRAMS—Center Grove Community School Corporation will begin its annual elementary school Body Safety program presentations during the month of September. Please join us for the ADULTS ONLY presentation at Maple Grove Elementary on September 7th at 7:00pm. This presentation will be led by Terry Hall, Sergeant (retired). Terry Hall is a twenty-eight year veteran of the Indianapolis Metro Police Department who has worked the administrative, operations and investigative areas of law enforcement during his career. Sergeant Hall spent seven years in the IPD Sex Offense Branch and was the former director of the “Good Touch - Bad Touch” program for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Sergeant Hall has been involved in Child Abuse Investigations; he has trained over 10,000 prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement officers at the local, state, and federal level.
RENT THE SGES YARD SIGN—For only $20 per day, you can wish your SGES student Happy Birthday! You can also wish their team or club Good Luck or Congratulations! A form is available in the office and on our school’s website to reserve the sign. It is first come, first serve. The form must be completed, accompanied with payment (cash or check made payable to Sugar Grove Elementary), and turned in to Mr. Mueller in room 26 AT LEAST ONE DAY BEFORE YOU ARE WANTING THE SIGN RESERVED! THANKS!
ATTENTION KIDS – NOMINATE YOUR TEACHER FOR TEACHER OF THE MONTH Your teacher could win a $100 IMCU gift card and your class could win a pizza party compliments of Chicago's Pizza. Send your name, address and telephone number along with a 100-word summary of why your teacher should be honored as the IMCU/ICON Teacher of the Month to [email protected]. Sponsored by the Center Grove ICON and Indiana Members Credit Union.
BIBLE CLUB IS BACK AGAIN!!! Our first meeting w ill be on Wednesday, September 7. We w ill meet in the Sugar Grove Library at 8:00 AM sharp. Many families were able to sign up before school started. If you were not able to sign your child up early, please bring your child to our first meeting and they will receive information on how you can officially sign up with CYBC. This year we will be looking at the many HEROS of the BIBLE! I hope to see many former faces and even more new faces. Kids are always encouraged to bring a friend with them!!! CYBC- SUGAR GROVE LEADERS
REMINDER FROM THE CLINIC—Please check in Skyward to see if your child’s immunizations are up to date. If not, please be sure to send updated records as soon as possible. If you have questions regarding immunizations, please contact Mrs. Debbie Hazelbaker in the Sugar Grove Clinic. Corporation wide exclusion date is October 3rd.
LUNCH BOXES—Parents, please be sure to put your students name on or inside of their lunch box, this will help us when misplaced lunch boxes are turned in to the office. Thank you for you help!
BOOK RENTAL Book rental is now due. You may pay by cash, VISA, MasterCard or checks payable to Sugar Grove Elementary. You may also pay online through your Skyward account. If you need financial assistance, please contact the office immediately. The book fees are: Kindergarten $ 174.00 1st Grade $ 163.00 2nd Grade $ 131.00 3rd Grade $ 186.00 4th Grade $ 164.00 5th Grade $ 168.00
ATTERBURY-MUSCATATUCK COMMUNITY DAY EVENT Camp Atterbury is hosting its 2nd Annual Community Day event scheduled for Saturday, August 27, at 10 a.m. This year’s event will kick off at the Veterans Memorial Wall with a welcoming ceremony and tribute to service members and veterans that have deployed through Camp Atterbury and Muscatatuck since World War II. This year the Atterbury-Muscatatuck team has expanded the event to a new location at the Atterbury Railhead and Deployment Center, located across from Johnson County Park. The event will feature a military static display area, community information, live music, food, tours, history re-enactors and live fire demonstration. Visit www.atterburymuscatatuck.in.ng.mil for more information.
Join CENTER GROVE AQUATIC CLUB (CGAC) this Fall to be a part of the exciting sport of sw imming! CGAC
welcomes swimmers of all levels (ages 5-18). Current CGAC Parents and Coaches will be on hand to greet your
family and answer any questions about our swim programs (see dates and times below). For more information, visit
us www.cgacswim.org.
FALL SWIM LESSONS: CGAC is holding swim lesson registration on August 31 from 5:00-7:00 pm at the Center
Grove High School (Hall of Excellence) Natatorium.
PRE-COMPETITIVE AND COMPETITIVE NEW SWIMMER EVALUATIONS: CGAC will hold new swimmer
evaluations on September 8 (5:30-7pm) and September 10 (8:30-10:30 am) at the CGHS Natatorium. Swimmers
will be placed on teams according to their skills and abilities.
STUDENT DISMISSAL GUIDELINES—If your child is doing something other than riding the school bus that is assigned to your home address, it is imperative that you notify us of the change. All changes to regular routines need to be requested by 3:00pm (2:15pm on Wednesdays). Dismissals that require a note or email: *Middle of day pick up in Office for appointments; *Unscheduled end of day pick up in Cafeteria; *Regular Parent pick up in Cafeteria, either everyday or on regularly scheduled days of the week (contact the Office for a form to fill out); *Going to Daycare (list daycare provider—this also includes Honey Grove); *Walking to Brentwood subdivision; *Riding a different bus due to childcare reasons, (requires permission from Transportation) (in your note list bus number and the address students are going to)
Please note that everyone picking up students either from the Office during the day, or from the Cafeteria after school, will be required to show a driver’s license every time they pick up. If it is easier for you to email dismissal arrangements vs. sending a note to school, please email Patty Kaschak, Office Assistant, at [email protected] We appreciate your assistance in helping us get the students home safely.
