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September,
2006 Welcome
Back!!! I hope
this first edition of the “Middleton Messenger” for the 2006-2007 school
year finds your family in good health and ready to begin what is going to
be a fantastic year. This newsletter will contain general school
information from the school office and will be sent to you once a month.
Each teacher and/or grade level will also be sending you information
specific to that grade level. All information will be available on our
website, www.ccboe.com/middleton. There
are many opportunities for you to make that difference in your child’s
education. In addition to the daily responsibilities of assisting with
homework and checking your child’s work, there are numerous other ways
that you can be involved. Our Open House is this Wednesday, September 6 at
6:30 PM. Parent Conference Day is November 7. Please communicate with your
child’s teacher through the Agenda Book (Grades 2-5), using email (if that
is the teacher’s choice) or by calling the school. Volunteer your time,
either during the day if you can, or by helping out with special events.
Volunteers do make a tremendous difference, and your child will appreciate
that you are helping out in the school.
Greg Miller Principal New
Staff Members Join Our Family One
of the more exciting parts of my summer was to interview and hire people
to become part of the Volunteer
Breakfast
We will be hosting a breakfast on Friday, September 22, at 8:30 AM
for those parents, grandparents, and guardians who would like to volunteer
in the school this year. You will learn about different opportunities to
help our school. Your children will be invited to eat breakfast with you
before they go to class. We made the breakfast early enough in the morning
so that many of you might be able to attend before heading off to work.
Hope to see you there!!!!
In addition to Open House on
September 6, we are also having a Grandparents/VIP Day on Monday,
September 11, from 9:30-11:00 (AM Pre-K, Grades 3, 4, and 5 only), and from 1:30-3:00
(PM Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grades 1
and 2 only). Grandparents or other Very Important People (VIP)
in your child’s life can visit the school and sit in on your child’s
classroom. There will also be an opportunity for the grandparents/VIP’s to
have their picture taken with your child. Pictures will be in by
Thanksgiving, making this a wonderful gift to give. We hope to see you
there. School System Assists with
Beginning of Year Supplies
Again this year, Mr. Richmond, Superintendent, and the Charles
County Board of Education again provided supplies such as tissues, wipes,
sealed baggies, crayons, colored pencils, and paper towels. The system
funding of these basic supplies is another way in which the superintendent
and the Board of Education is responding to needs in the schools. We would
like to thank both Mr. Richmond and the Board of Education on this
initiative.
Safety continues to be a
priority for the staff and students at Arthur Middleton. I would like to thank everyone who
is following our guidelines for arrival and dismissal procedures. Please
continue to be mindful of the students while driving around the
school. Please obey the speed
limit and yield to the pedestrians in the
crosswalks. Additional safety guidelines
include: v
Always sign in when visiting
us. Wear your visitor's badge
where it is visible to everyone. There is a computer sign out system in
the front office this year that prints out a badge for you.
v
Remember to sign out when you
leave. v
Students must be signed out
when they leave before dismissal.
Only persons designated on the emergency card can sign students
out. A note from the parent
will suffice if we can verify signatures. v
Please update the information
on your child's emergency card as needed. (ex.-new phone numbers, new
address, change of persons designated to pick up
students) Middleton a “ With this new school year, we
are implementing a new policy.
It is called PBIS.
This stands for Positive Behavior Incentive and Services. With this new policy comes a lot
of positive reinforcements.
This policy will give the students at all times a chance for
redemption to correct negative behavior. Instead we will be using
clips. There will be four
colors that the children can be on during the day. The colors are blue, green,
yellow, and red. Throughout
the day the children will be moving their clips according to their
behavior. This movement could
be the result of chronic mild behavior such as calling out, getting up out
of his/her seat, talking back to an adult, leaning back on chairs, not
doing his/her homework, not completing class work, and not paying
attention. Depending on the
severity of the behavior will depend on the color he/she moves to. During the course of the day, your
child will have the opportunity to redeem him/herself by correcting
his/her behavior. He/she
could have moved the clip to yellow, but he/she might have changed the
behavior and was able to go back to green. They can only move up the chart
one time, but can move down as many times as necessary. In your child’s agenda each day
will be the color they were on that day. Fundraising Opportunities
We hope that you can contribute to our fundraising efforts this
year. We will have a one-time major fundraising starting September 14.
Students have the catalog from Cherrydale Farms, a leader in school
fundraising in the country. 40 percent of the total amount goes back to
help with assemblies, student incentives, supplies for volunteer work,
parent night activities, etc. There is also a way to purchase items
through Cherrydale Farms via the Internet, while helping Middleton
Elementary at the same time. New and Improved
Website
Please
take the time to check out our website, www.ccboe.com/middleton. Thanks to Karen
Ferruzza, our outstanding media specialist, for maintaining our website.
There are links to computer based activities that are age appropriate that
your child can do at home. In addition, you will find the monthly
newsletter, important school and county-wide school events, and links to
staff email. We hope that you will find the website useful. Please let us
know if there are other ways in which we can improve the website. Previous
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