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Motto: Where Eagles S. O. A. R. S-Safety O-Outstanding Behavior A-Academic Excellence R-Respect SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 Our Mission: The mission of Sudlersville Elementary School is to educate and enlighten each of our students through an engaging curriculum and high expectations (for behavior and achievement) by dedicated teachers and staff with support of parents and the extended community. Our Vision: A graduate of Queen Anne's County Public Schools will be well-educated, globally competitive and prepared to become a caring, productive citizen of the 21 st Century Upcoming Events JANUARY 1/2 Schools re-open 1/3 PTA/Movie Night 1/8 BOE Meeting 1/13 Reading Mid-Year Assessment Begins 1/13 SIT @ 2: 45 PM Parent Advisory Council Meeting follows SIT Meeting. 1/15 Early Dismissal @ 12: 00 1/16 Parent Math Homework Help Session 9 -10 am in the Media Center 1/20 thru 22 Schools Closed for Professional Development 1/27 Math Benchmark Assessment Begins 1/31 Magic Math @ 1: 30 1/31 Americanism Essay Contest Ends 1/31 4 th grade field trip FEBRUARY 2/5 BOE Meeting 2/7 Kindergarten Field Trip 2/12 Early Dismissal/Professional Development 2/17 Schools Closed Principal’s News Math Problem of the Month SES students who participate in the Math Problem of the Month are eligible to win a small prize if they answer the word problem correctly. November winners are Fathia Al-Atiyyat, Jordanna Al-Atiyyat, and Willie Brown. Congratulations SES Mathematicians!!

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 AUTHORS OF THE MONTH CONGRATULATIONS TO: * Savannah Fritzsche *Mac. Kenzie Rodriquez *Patrick Born SES Welcomes New Title I Tutors Please join me in welcoming new staff members to Sudlersville Elementary School. They will work with classroom teachers and help with instructional practices. Jennifer Tucker (left to right) Sue Ann Gott, Diana Stevens, Robin Van Meter, Robin Workinger, and Ali Bednarik SGA in the Christmas Parade Mrs. Thren's class participates in a landform science lesson presented by Mrs. Mitchell SES students show their spirit for the holiday. On Wednesday, December 18, students wore silver and/or gold. Pictured: Tracey Beres, Kindergarten teacher and Bricenia Ramirez, Kindergarten student.

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 Pre-K News Kindergarten News We hope everyone has a lovely holiday. To start off 2014, we will continue to focus on the four seasons and how they are different. We will talk about different types of weather and why seasons change. In addition, we will continue sorting objects into categories, recognizing written numerals, making and comparing sets of objects, exploring addition and subtraction with objects, and identifying letters of the alphabet. This a great time of year to do some sensory learning at home. For example, take a cookie sheet and cover it with shaving cream. Have your child practice writing their first and last name, numbers 0 -10, shapes, and letters of the alphabet on the cookie sheet. This is a great activity to help reinforce your child's knowledge of letters, numbers, shapes, and their name. If you have any questions please feel free to contract us. -The Pre-K Team Kindergarten is making great progress with learning to express thoughts and ideas by using letter sounds and the high frequency words. The high frequency words are the words that are inside the cover of your child's red folder. As we prepare your child for first grade, there are things to remember about your child's writing. Letter formation is important! Always have your child start at the top to make a letter. In January, your child will be bringing home a chart that shows the proper way to make letters. Spaces between words are important! Learning to leave a space between words will help your child be a more organized writer. Proper spelling is not so important in kindergarten. We want your child to use his/her letter sounds and write the sounds he/she hears, at this time. Encourage your child to write at home! You can provide different kinds of paper and/or markers and pencils to help make it fun. REMEMBER! Payment for the Chesapeake College trip is due by or before January 6 th. If you need another permission slip, and related information, please contact your child's teacher. Our trip is on Friday, February 7 th. If there is a school delay or school is cancelled, we will have to reschedule for another time. The Kindergarten Team Grade 1 News Merry Christmas!! We know everyone is looking forward to a well-deserved break. We have just finished up our science unit on Life Cycles and will begin learning about Food Chains in January. In math we are counting on a hundreds chart and looking for patterns, as well as skipcounting by 2's, 5's, and 10's. In social studies we will be looking at maps and land features. Please continue to read with your children each night to complete their reading logs. Also, please work with your child on the vocabulary words that are found in their eagle folders. Happy New Year!!! - First Grade Team Grade 2 News January is just about here. Happy New Year to all our families!! We hope you have a wonderful break! Are you making sure your child is reading every night? We can’t stress enough the importance of this nightly task. It’s good for you to read to them too. Make it fun. Not reading? It will show. Our consistent readers tend to make more progress in school! Unit themes we will cover this next marking period are Economics, Physics (Heat and Light), adding and subtracting with double digit numbers and writing opinions. All of the students are working hard and making progress. The second half of the year will be more challenging as we prepare the children for third grade. Respect, responsibility and the Golden Rule are important characteristics to teach the children. Treating others the way you want to be treated is the key to a well functioning society. Talking to your children and modeling good behavior will go a long way towards making them really good citizens. Your second grade team is always here for you. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 Grade 3 News We hope you have a great winter break! Thanks to all the parents who chaperoned for the Science Center field trip. In addition, we would like to thank all the parents who made the holiday breakfast a huge success~ the students loved the yummy food! This month is very busy! The third grade students will take the Common Core Assessment in Math on Monday, January 6 th, 2014. This test consists of multiplication which was taught in Topics 5 and 6. Each student is expected to master their multiplication facts so please keep practicing at home. The multiplication facts are essential because they are a stepping stone to our next Topic which is division. Please make sure that your child is reading and writing for their weekly reading log. The assignment for the reading log will change this month- students will be writing summary paragraphs to correlate with their reading. Every student will also be tested on fluency and comprehension through reading running records. This will show their mid- year reading progress. The month will wind down with schools being closed on January 20 th, 2013 for Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. Also, January 21 st and 22 nd will be professional development for staff. As always thanks for your support and stay warm on these snowy January days! - The Third Grade team Grade 4 News January 31 st 4 th grade will be going to the Du. Pont Theater to watch Freedom Train for a Title-I funded field trip. More information will come home after the new year. Please make sure to send your children in weather appropriate clothing. We can not send children outside for recess wearing shorts and short sleeves shirts. We also request that children wear jackets to school until Spring. We require all of our students to wear their jackets at recess and dismissal times. Upcoming content: Math- We are moving into division starting in early January. Review basic facts with your child please. Social Studies- We will be studying the Revolutionary War. Writing- Our focus will be opinion writing. Art Congratulations students for completing your first projects with line, shape, and color. Students have completed abstract line studies, sombreros, mountain landscapes, turkeys, and creative monsters just to name a few of our exciting projects. Now students are moving on to studying the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, texture, collage, and color mixing. The first projects have been colorful and well done. Please stop in the art room to see all that is going on, as it has been a wonderful start to the year. Enjoy the holidays! Thank you, Cassie Hosler

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 Health Room Since the cold and flu season is upon us here are some tips that will help keep respiratory infections from spreading. Practicing good “respiratory manners” such as covering your nose and mouth with a Kleenex or your inner elbow every time you sneeze or cough, placing used Kleenex in the trash , and washing your hands frequently will help prevent the spread of these illnesses from person to person. Simple tips to follow to help prevent illnesses are as follows: 1. Keep your hands away from your eyes, nose, and mouth. 2. Do not share food, utensils, beverage containers, straws, pens, or make-up. 3. Avoid close contact with people who are ill if possible. If you or your child becomes ill: 1. Get plenty of rest. 2. Drink plenty of fluids such as water, juice, Gatorade, and popsicles. 3. Eat some chicken soup or warm soup. 4. Saline nose drops might help. Get advice from your physician regarding any over the counter medications. Call your physician if you or your child should develop a fever, rash, thick secretions, or a bad cough. When the colds come sometimes the cough soon follows. The Board of Education has a strict medication policy which limits the use of cough drops in school ( due to the active ingredients they contain they are considered a drug). Ludens is the only brand of cough drops which can be given at school with a parent permission note only. All others require a written order from your health care provider in addition to a parent permission note. Here are some guidelines to follow regarding student illnesses: Students must be “fever free for 24 hours without the aid of fever reducing medication”, in order to return to school. If your child receives an antibiotic for strep throat, pink eye, or another contagious illness, they must take the medication for 24 hours before returning to school. Also, your child should not return to school for 24 hours after having diarrhea and or vomiting. These guidelines are in place to protect all students and staff. I’m sure we all agree that students need to be in school to achieve optimal learning. However, in order for our children to perform well and do their best at school they need to be feeling well and be healthy. Stay healthy. Guidance New from the School Counselor New Years bring new resolutions! This is a great time of year to talk to your children about setting goals. Ideas from Parents magazine: start small, let them choose, show them how, applaud their effort. Even our youngest students can make goals (learning to tie shoes, learning letters). Happy New Year! Thank you to the Sudlersville Ruritans for their contribution to the bus behavior incentive. Its so nice to have the support or our community partners! News From SGA: In December, our students made personal care bags for 44 or our neighbors at the Foxxtown Senior Apartments. This is another example of the caring school community we want to have at SES!

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 Parent Involvement Computer Lab availability for parents – Parents took advantage of the open lab the evening of November 20 th. There will be other opportunities throughout the school year. Please let me know if you are interested in coming in to use the computer lab. The Parent Resource Room “Morning, Munch and Mingle” open house was well attended. Parents came to enjoy refreshments, meet other parents, and borrow and take resources to help their students. Stop by the Parent Resource Room at any time sees what is available to you There will be a PAC (Parent Advisory Committee) meeting on January 13 th at 3: 30 p. m. immediately following the SIT meeting. We will be planning for future family events and activities and welcome your input. Any parent interested participating is invited to attend. A notification will be sent home. Please RSVP. Looking ahead – we are having the very popular Family Math Event at the Millington Food Lion again on March 27 th. More information will be sent home! Ms. Eber’s students were treated to an ice cream party for having the largest percentage returned Parent Surveys. Elaine Butler, Parent Coordinator x 234 Math Matters Happy New Year! As the New Year begins, it is a good time to take stock of what your child knows and is able to do and set goals for the New Year ahead. Children in grades 1 and 2 should be mastering their addition and subtraction facts. Children in grades 3 and 4 should be working on the mastery of their multiplication facts. Spend a little time each day working to develop these facts so students have them “at their fingertips” and practice seeing the facts in things you do at home. For example- we can see addition when we count how many cans of soup in the cabinet and then combine the number of cans of vegetables to get a total number of cans. We can compare the number of soup cans to the vegetable cans and subtract to find how many more vegetables there are than soup cans. We can make arrays of cans to make multiplication problems, or separate cans in to equal groups to practice dividing sets. JA in a Day SES is getting ready to host our second Junior Achievement Day on March 25. During the JA in a Day, students spend the whole day learning about good financial choices and how money is made and saved and spent. If you are interested in helping with this great opportunity, contact Mrs. Gloyd, Mrs. Butler or Mrs. Altamirano by January 19. There will be a volunteer training on February 19 from 9: 30 -10: 30 at SES. PROBLEM OF THE MONTH With football season in the “playoff mode”, this month’s problem will test your knowledge of scoring opportunities in the game. Bring your solutions to Mrs. Gloyd by January 27 to be eligible for a prize!

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 The Judy Center Partnership (the Judy Center) Mobile Literacy Fun Bus is back on the road to conduct Vocabulary Improvement and Oral Language Enrichment through Stories (VIOLETS) outreach in the community to bring language and literacy to our rural friends not attending an early childhood program. The piloted program has been well received by parents of young children residing in our community. To increase awareness about the program, the Judy Center Fun Bus will be in the Centreville Christmas Parade on December 13 th, 2013! The Judy Center participated in the recent “SES/PTA Breakfast with Santa” event held on Saturday December 7 th, 2013. The Judy Center was responsible for a craft activity for participants at this event. We had a great time working with parents and children as they created a beautiful Christmas ornament for their tree. A fun time was had by all!!! Moms and their children on the Judy Center Fun Bus. Decorating ornaments at the recent “SES/PTA Breakfast with Santa” event. Important dates to remember: • Remaining December adult education classes will be held on 12/16/13 and 12/18/13. • Judy Center Playgroup will be held on 12/19/13 at SES • The Judy Center sponsored story -time will be held at Sudlersville Memorial Library on 12/19/13. • Read and Rise will also be held on 12/19/13.

SUDLERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Title 1 School & Judy Center Partner JANUARY 2014 Students of the Month Congratulations to the Students of the Month for the month of December! A big cheer for these outstanding students who were recognized for their outstanding behavior!!! Natalie Stinchcomb Christopher Mast Jamahl Thompson Scott Price Nathan Navarro AM Pre-K Mrs. Dean PM Pre-K Mrs. Dean K Mrs. Beres K Mrs. Chance K Ms. Landgraf Katie Galan Perez K Mrs. Munson Enrick Mendoza Andre Young 1 Mrs. Bennett 1 Mrs. Darling Briley Williams 1 Mrs. Davis Meygan Hastings 2 Ms. Eber Darby Skinner 2 Ms. Kane John Rochester 2 Mrs. Troyer Bairon Vasquez 3 Mrs. Bildstein Sophia Mohen 3 Mrs. Leventhal Lacy Ervin 3 Mrs. Thren Parker Dalrymple 4 Mrs. Embert Nathan Leager 4 Mrs. Rosendale Jessica Brown 4 Mrs. Settelmaier