School #65 Newsletter: The P.E.A

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School #65 Newsletter: The P.E.A.K

Roosevelt E.C.C. #65

249 Skillen Street, Buffalo, NY 14207

www.buffaloschools.org/PS65 T: (716) 816-3430

The P.E.A.K. Roosevelt #65

E.C.C. Newsletter

Leading Students to their

Highest Potential!

P-Parent Partnerships

E-Engaging children

A-Aligning Resources

K-Keeping the

commitment

March Events

3 SBMT Meeting @ 4:10 PM

10 SBMT Meeting @ 4:10 PM

17 Satisfactory Attendance

Incentive

23 PTO Meeting @ 10AM

19 2nd Quarter Awards

Assembly

26 Black History Virtual

Celebration

Click here to access the link to SAY YES Virtual

Learning Centers

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Dear Roosevelt Families!!!

We were excited to see a portion of our Roosevelt ECC #65 family

back in the building and look forward to phasing in a portion of our 3rd

and 4th grade students soon. We are always in awe of the support our

families offer and appreciate you being a part of our community.

On Wednesday, March 3rd and Wednesday, March 10th at 4:00pm we

are hosting an SBMT Meeting to discuss next year’s budget and

welcome you to be a part of our decision making. We continue to

encourage you to remain involved, engaged and supportive more than

ever. You make our role as administrators a joy through your

commitment to your children and to our school community.

Helpful Information:

• Students in ALL grades should have received a tablet for

instruction. If you did not and would like assistance with the

process, please inform you child’s teacher and/or call 816-7100 for

assistance.

• Arrival and Dismissal Times: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM – teachers are

expected to take attendance by 9:20 AM AND for each subject

throughout the day.

• VISITORS/PARENTS: Parents are always welcome, however,

this year meetings and conferences will be done via phone and

remotely.

• BREAKFAST & LUNCH PROGRAM: Breakfast and lunch will

be served on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11am-1pm;

items may be picked up from the school.

• UPDATE/ CHANGE OF ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER: It

is essential that we keep updated and accurate personal information

for each student in case of an emergency. If any personal

information changed during the summer please go to

www.buffaloschools.org/contact to update your information.

• Homeroom Parent Volunteers Needed: We are looking for

Homeroom Parent Volunteers to assist in various ways. Please

express your interest with your child’s teacher. Please consider the

various opportunities to participate in our school and be an active

member of the Roosevelt Family.

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Homeroom Parent Volunteers Needed (cont.):

Parents are welcome to:

• Become a Virtual Homeroom Parent/Caregiver,

• Assist with planning of our monthly events,

• Attend and be a member of the monthly School Based Management Team,

• Attend monthly parent workshops,

• Attend and be a member of the PTO,

• Share the beliefs and traditions of your culture,

• And we are open to your suggestions

As always, if you have any specific questions or concerns, please feel free to contact your child’s teacher or

the main office.

Educationally,

Michelle Hope-Barnes, Principal

Amy Chavez, Acting Principal

Stephanie R. Adams, Temporary Assistant Principal

Please use the QR Code to access the Daily Screener before arriving to school.

Mrs. Attia, Mrs. Filion, Miss Sayre, Mrs. Nia, Mrs. Rios, Miss Thompson

Happy March!! Last month was very exciting. In February we celebrated the 100th day of school, Groundhog

Day, Valentine’s Day, and Black History month with songs, books, and projects. In March we are excited to

celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and welcome Spring! In ELA we will learn different ways to stay healthy. We

will also learn letters Oo – Qq. In Science we will learn about our 5 senses and how they help us explore the

world. We will also discuss the change of seasons. In math we will continue learning a new number each

week, we will get all the way up to 20!! We will also explore measurement and shapes. We recognize and

appreciate all your hard work; parents and students. You are all doing a wonderful job and we look forward

to celebrating your success with a virtual award ceremony this month!! Please continue to practice letters

Aa-Nn, number 0-16, and read daily.

~ Pre-K Team!

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Mrs. Prescott, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Steger, Ms. Reynolds, Mrs. Isaacs

Dear Parents,

Wow, it is already March. March is a very long month for the students and teacher alike, however we encourage

the children to come each every day (remotely or in person).

We want to encourage the adults at home to review the sight words with the students daily. It is very important

to have the students exposed to their full name, numbers, shapes, colors and full sentences. If were to come

together as a community and work together we will win this fight against this virus. This virus is not going to

take our children’s education away from them.

In ELA, we are going to continue writing full sentences and labels. We are going to be learning about nature all

around us, oceans and waterways, outdoor adventures, and making discoveries. We will be reading from our

Big Books and discussing and interpreting Read Alouds. We will be answering Essential Questions and learning

new high-Frequency words such as be, into, that, who, will and your.

In Math, we will be starting our Math Module 4 book. Module 4 marks the next exciting step in math for

kindergartners, addition and subtraction! They begin to harness their practiced counting abilities, knowledge of

the value of numbers, and work with embedded numbers to reason about and solve addition and subtraction

expressions and equations. In Topics A and B, decomposition and composition are taught simultaneously using

the number bond model so that students begin to understand the relationship between parts and wholes before

moving into formal work with addition and subtraction in the rest of the module.

This year is zipping by us and before we know it we will be in the warm weather once again. We want all of the

families of Roosevelt ECC to stay healthy and safe.

Sincerely,

The Kindergarten Team

This Photo by Unknown Author is

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Mrs. Daley, Mrs. Fox, Mrs. Lis, Mrs. Lockhart, Ms. Slagor

Will March come in like Lion or like a Lamb? Either way our students are working very hard to stay focused

on learning new material and preparing themselves to be a little bit more independent.

We have just begun our new Module 4 in Math and our learning about ones, tens, place value, the place value

chart, greater than and less than. We will be adding and subtracting through 20. Please continue to work with

your child to memorize math facts.

Our writing is improving with each assignment we are given. Ask your child who he/she wrote a Friendly

Letter to and ask them what it was about. We are expanding our sentences by using adjectives to describe,

telling why, and even asking questions. It is very important that your child practices Sight Words every day

for at least 10 minutes and read a book or be read to.

Reminder all students must bring a fully charged iPad to school each day that he/she is at school as well as

all workbooks and notebooks. We do not have any extra materials to give to students.

If you have any questions or concerns, please send a note in your child’s folder or by using our Class DoJo.

Thank you for your continued support and continued assistance and patience through this school year.

Mr. Hodgson, Ms. Peart, Ms. Zilliox, Mr. Begiers, Ms. Bernhardt, Ms. Wallace

Dear Parents and Guardians,

March is here and hopefully it will be a lamb all month, I think we all need it! It has been a pleasure to have

some of the student body back in school and hopefully we can add more back soon.

ELA – The skills we are working heading into are:

Author’s Purpose-There are three reason an author writes they are to Persuade, Inform, or Entertain.

Cause and Effect- Why something happens and what caused it.

Story Structure- Characters, Setting and Plot. Plot has a beginning, middle and end with a problem in the

beginning.

Keep reading daily for 20 minutes a day.

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Math- We are focusing on addition and subtraction word problems both single and multi-step. It is important

for the students to follow the 5- Task Process when solving them:

1: Read the problem

2: Underline the question and restate the question into a statement

3: Circle your key numbers and words

4: Write an equation, draw and solve

5: Check and complete your statement

When working have the students explain their thinking.

Science and Social Studies- We will be going into the plant and animal section for science. We will look at

what plants and animals need as well as life cycles for each before looking at animal habitats. In Social

Studies we will look at people who provide services and those who make a difference.

Hope you all have a great month!!

Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. Perrin, Ms. Santoro, Ms. Whitt, Ms. Franceschini

It is the month of March and our third-grade students are marching towards fourth grade. This month in

reading we are still working on answering HOT (higher order thinking) questions using the RADD method.

RADD is the acronym for Restate the question, Answer the question, Detail from the text. Our students should

always provide two detail directly from the text when answering a question. In math, we are working on area.

The formula for how to find an area is L X W= A. That is length, times width, equals, area. Also, this month we

will begin our module on fraction. In social studies we are studying how communities build a nation. We are

looking at how the past has shaped our present. In Science we are studying the climate. Your child should be

able to explain why different regions have different climates. Thank you for all that you do to assist your child

and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Educationally yours,

The Third Grade Team

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Ms. Bluntt, Ms. Panzica, Ms. Guadagna, Ms. Tripp, Mr. Vazquez

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ENL

Mrs. Jordan & Ms. Bell

Hello! As-Salam ‘Alaykum! Mingalaba! Ni Hao! Bonjour! Merhaba! Hola! Jambo! Namaste! Mbote!

In March, we will continue our IRLA (Independent Reading Language Assessment) program as we practice

our reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in English. We will also be using Journey’s and Heggerty

lesson plans to work on sight words and letter sounds.

Remember to send us pictures of any classwork for an extra point on Class Dojo!

Parents, continue to speak your home language as we want all our students to know how important their

cultures are in our world!

Thank you! - Mrs. Jordan & Ms. Bell

Welcome to the Library

Ms. Andrzejewski

For the younger grades: To start off the month, the children will hear the story Rosie Revere, Engineer by

Andrea Beatty. Next, the theme will be St. Patrick’s Day with stories. To finish off the month, the children

will be read the picture book Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match written by Monica Brown, which has the

theme of the uniqueness of every individual.

For the older grades: To start the month of March, the students will be read a Swahili folktale called

Imani in the Belly by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate. They will hear facts about St. Patrick’s Day from the

book St. Patrick’s Day: Parades, Shamrocks and Leprechauns by Elaine Landau. Then, for Women’s

History Month, the book She Persisted, 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton

will be read.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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Character Counts! with Roosevelt Bears with Service Learning

Ways to Continue Character Counts! at Home

• Discuss the 6 traits that all Roosevelt Bears practice each day: Respect, Responsibility, Trustworthiness

Caring, Fairness, and Citizenship.

• Ask your child what each trait means.

• Think about ways to practice each trait with your child. This can be done at home and while in the

community. The possibilities are endless. Something as simple as holding a door open for someone, to

discussing the rules of a game before it is played.

• For more information, visit: www.charactercounts.org

CC! Thursdays: Remember to wear your grade level color on Thursdays!

Pre-K: Trustworthy-BLUE

Kindergarten: Respect-YELLOW

First: Grade Responsibility-GREEN

Second: Fairness-ORANGE

Third: Caring-RED

Fourth: Citizenship-PURPLE

Mr. Morton & Ms. Serio, Physical Education Parents, and guardians I am excited to share that the students that have already joined us in our building have been doing an excellent job in Physical Education class. At the same time students joining us from home continue to be engaged and active. We are looking forward to having more of you back in the building starting March 15th. I also wanted to announce that starting immediately we will be sending home a walking field trip permission slip. In order for your son or daughter to be able to participate in Physical Education class outside on our field, they will need to fill out and return this permission slip. Since we don’t have access to our gymnasium currently, we are looking to get students outside for Physical Education class as soon as possible. However, we won’t be able to do so if permission slips aren’t returned. Also please have your child come to school prepared to go outside if the temperature is above 45 degrees and the weather forecast is for relatively dry weather. Again, please return those permission slips as soon as possible so that we can move from in classroom Physical Education to having class outdoors. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at the email addresses below. Mr. Morton ([email protected]) & Ms. Serio ([email protected])

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Mrs. Kupiec, Literacy Coach

From the Literacy Coach,

Hello Families. I hope you are all well! We have now completed the DIBELS MOY assessments and STAR

math MOY assessment. Teachers have been actively analyzing student data during our grade level meetings

and making any needed adjustments to the RtI block in Reading. Please ask your child if their Reading group

has changed. If you have any questions about your student’s current level in reading or would like to speak

to me about DIBELS data, you can reach me at school at 816-3430 ext. 1123 or during my Parent/Caregiver

office hours.

Our 3rd and 4th grade students are now preparing the NYS assessments in ELA and math and our 4th grade

students in Science. The NYS ELA assessment is scheduled to take place April 21-22. The NYS math

assessment is scheduled May 5-6. The NYS Science Performance assessment is scheduled from May 25-

June 4, and the Science Written test is scheduled June 7th. Additional information will be forthcoming.

Please read below on how to help your child prior to taking state standardized assessments. The most

important things you can do as a parent/caregiver are: to ensure your child/ren are well rested, and they have

breakfast at home or in school the day of testing. We always tell the students to” do your best.”

As always, please feel free to reach out to me at school if you have any questions.

From https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/homework-help/study-skills-test-taking-

tips/standardized-tests-prepare-and-interpret-results.html

How Can You Help Your Child Prepare for Standardized Tests?

Teachers tell us that successful test-takers tend to be students with good attendance, homework, and study

habits; therefore, your daily assistance with homework and attitude toward school have the biggest impact on

your child's performance. However, there are keyways you can develop his test-taking ability.

• Optimize brain power.

Teachers say the students who struggle the most on testing days are the ones who didn't have enough

sleep or a good breakfast the day of the test. Also, students who are physically or mentally unprepared

often encounter problems. Make sure she has every tool she needs — pencils, an eraser, paper, a

calculator, etc. laid out the night before, as well as any preliminary paperwork filled out, if possible. If

she isn't feeling well on the test day, it's better to keep her home and let her make up the test later rather

than risk poor performance.

• Encourage good study habits and challenge critical-thinking skills.

Reviewing test-taking strategies is important, but monitoring overall academic progress and staying in

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good communication with the teacher will help you ward off potential problems. Good reading skills

factor heavily in a timed test, so encourage reading (consider magazines, newspapers, or even comic

books if he shies away from books) as much as possible. Testing also measures critical-thinking ability,

so ask him to discuss ideas or voice his opinion often to stimulate these thought processes.

• Know what to expect.

Most teachers will send home information about the test schedule and class preparation plans well

before the test date. However, if you don't hear from your child's teacher, you should contact her to find

out:

o What is the name of the test, and what will it measure?

o What's the format? (multiple choice, essay, short answer, etc.)

o How will the class prepare in school?

o How is it scored? Will students be penalized for incorrect answers or should they guess

randomly when stumped on a question?

o When will you receive the results?

o What are the test's implications? Will it affect your child, school, or both?

o Are there any specific ways you can help your child prepare?

• Look at your child's past performance.

If she scored low in a particular area, you may want to provide her with exercises that reinforce that

subject. Aim for activities that simulate the testing experience, such as multiple choice geometry

questions or vocabulary practice that asks her to identify antonyms or synonyms. Workbooks geared

towards standardized test preparation often provide these kinds of exercises. Avoid drilling her in areas

where she excels; you run the risk of boring her and her losing patience with testing.

• Provide practice opportunities.

You may be able to request sample or practice tests from your child's school or find them at the library.

Be sure to time any practice tests (assuming the standardized test will be timed) so he's not surprised by

time constraints on test day. Start practicing several weeks before the date and keep study sessions short.

Setting small goals, such as learning five new words each session, will help him measure his progress

and boost his confidence. Make sure he takes the night before the test off — cramming can increase his

stress level.

• Relax and remain positive.

The best test-takers are confident, committed, and at ease. Even if you are nervous about her

performance, be wary of transferring that concern to your child. You never know, some kids actually

enjoy tests! If she is likely to get nervous, practice a few relaxation techniques, such as counting from

one to ten or taking deep breaths, which can help her relieve tension during the test.

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CLRT-Cultural Linguistic Responsive Teaching

The purpose of Cultural Linguistic Responsive Teaching is to establish a community that embraces, values, and

responds to the growing needs of our diverse student population and to provide meaningful learning experiences

that inform, train, and support systemic culturally and linguistically responsive practices.

Upcoming Monthly Meetings for Caregivers:

HEAR YEE, HEAR YEE Roosevelt ECC #65 is looking for you

This Photo by Unknown

February PTO Meeting

Please join us Tuesday, March 23rd at

10:00 am for our next PTO meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74407097668

?pwd=KzBUOG0wWHVVd05CYTQvdHdl

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Meeting ID: 744 0709 7668

Passcode: cZQrc0

We need parents and community

members to have a voice in the

decision making here at Roosevelt ECC

#65. Join our Site Based Management

Team (SBMT))! This team is responsible for

making school-wide decisions

concerning student education, school

events and activities, overseeing other

school groups, and implementing the

school initiatives.

NEXT MEETING:

March 3, 2021

@ 4:10 PM

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Mrs. Austin, Attendance Officer~ (716) 249-0997

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