The Rosa Lee Carter Register May/June 2017 May Calendar May 4th—5th Grade Chorus Concert May 9th, 10th, 11th—Mornings with Moms May 16th, 17th— 1st Grade Performance May 20th—Kids Connect Glow Run May 29th—No School June Calendar ● June 1st—DARE Graduation ● June 6th—4th Grade Field Trip ● June 8th—5th Grade Graduation at Rock Ridge High School ● June 9th—5th Grade Promotion Party ● June 9th—Last Day of School ● Web Calendar From the Principal’s Pen: It is hard to believe that the end of the school year has arrived! The year’s end always brings a tremendous sense of accomplishment. So many lessons, activities, and projects come to fruition in just a short period-of-time. From our launch of Personalized Learning to the highly engag- ing Project Based Learning lessons, our students have proven that excellence in learning is essential for a successful year. To our 5 th grade graduating class-– congratulations on your achievement! The RLC staff wish you all the best as you move to your new middle school. If this is your last child to leave RLC, the staff would like to thank you for your support and for the guidance that you have provided for your child(ren). We look forward to hearing from our rising sixth graders in the future and we hope that each of them will have gained a firm foundation from their education while at RLC. For those families who will be returning in the fall, school will begin on Thursday, August 24th. Our Back to School Nights will be held after school commences for our students Grades 3-5 on August 29 th and Grades K-2 on August 31 st . Open House for all students will be held on Wednesday, August 23 rd . More information will be sent to parents over the summer. I would like to remind our parents to have their children read each day during sum- mer break as this will decrease the chances of regression. Making this part of your daily routine will positively affect your child in preparation for his/her return in the fall. Please continue to visit our website for easy reference to Back to School activities, grade-level supply lists, and pertinent announcements. Thank you for making this a tremendous year at RLC! You should be very proud of your children and our teachers. RLC has a wonderful reputation of excellence and this is due to a strong partnership between home and school. I look forward to us reaching new levels of success next year. The sky is the limit for our students! Please spend valuable time with family and friends this summer, come back refreshed, and ready to begin a new school year. Have a wonderful summer and thank you for your constant support. Mrs. Ann Y. Hines
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The Rosa Lee Carter Register
May/June 2017
May Calendar
May 4th—5th
Grade Chorus
Concert
May 9th, 10th,
11th—Mornings
with Moms
May 16th, 17th—
1st Grade
Performance
May 20th—Kids
Connect Glow
Run
May 29th—No
School
June Calendar
● June 1st—DARE
Graduation
● June 6th—4th
Grade Field Trip
● June 8th—5th
Grade Graduation
at Rock Ridge High
School
● June 9th—5th
Grade Promotion
Party
● June 9th—Last Day
of School
● Web Calendar
From the Principal’s Pen: It is hard to believe that the end of the school year has arrived! The year’s end always brings a tremendous sense of accomplishment. So many lessons, activities, and projects come to fruition in just a short period-of-time. From our launch of Personalized Learning to the highly engag-ing Project Based Learning lessons, our students have proven that excellence in learning is essential for a successful year. To our 5
th grade graduating class-– congratulations on your achievement! The RLC
staff wish you all the best as you move to your new middle school. If this is your last child to leave RLC, the staff would like to thank you for your support and for the guidance that you have provided for your child(ren). We look forward to hearing from our rising sixth graders in the future and we hope that each of them will have gained a firm foundation from their education while at RLC. For those families who will be returning in the fall, school will begin on Thursday, August 24th. Our Back to School Nights will be held after school commences for our students Grades 3-5 on August 29
th and Grades K-2 on August 31
st. Open
House for all students will be held on Wednesday, August 23rd
. More information will be sent to parents over the summer. I would like to remind our parents to have their children read each day during sum-mer break as this will decrease the chances of regression. Making this part of your daily routine will positively affect your child in preparation for his/her return in the fall. Please continue to visit our website for easy reference to Back to School activities, grade-level supply lists, and pertinent announcements. Thank you for making this a tremendous year at RLC! You should be very proud of your children and our teachers. RLC has a wonderful reputation of excellence and this is due to a strong partnership between home and school. I look forward to us reaching new levels of success next year. The sky is the limit for our students! Please spend valuable time with family and friends this summer, come back refreshed, and ready to begin a new school year. Have a wonderful summer and thank you for your constant support. Mrs. Ann Y. Hines
This has been such an exciting year in art! Both Ms. Hassinger and Mrs. Solazzo have seen so much artistic growth this year.
It must be spring because both teachers are working on clay tiles and basket weaving with fifth grade, sewing and weaving in the round and with fourth grade, weaving on a loom with third grade, making fiber art pot holders in second grade and paper weaving with first grade.
We are looking forward to a fantastic fourth quarter in art.
The Artist’s Brush
This quarter in music, Kindergarten will be working on their show! More
details will be coming through your classroom teacher. First grade has
been working very hard on their show and they are excited to present it to
you on May 16th and 17th! They are also learning about Vivaldi’s Four
Seasons. Second grade will be focusing on new rhythms, music symbols and a new composer, George
Gershwin. Third grade will be learning about octaves, writing a boom whacker composition and listening
to movie music by composer, John Williams. Fourth grade will be finishing their recorder unit soon! They
will then begin to review and learn solfege and talk about new composers, Rogers & Hammerstein and
their musicals. Fifth grade will be focusing on syncopations, learning their DARE graduation song as well
as their 5th grade promotion songs. They will also be listening and discussing music by The Beatles.
Grades 1-5 will also be working on a Ukulele unit in this quarter! We look forward to ending the year on a
During the months of May and June the students will be preparing for fitness testing and continuing with some units that focus on team work and communication. Our K-3rd grade classes will not be taking the fitness tests but will be engaged in fitness station activities that will help prepare them for the fitness tests as they get older. All students will be working on improving skill with short handled implements along
with playing a game that incorporates chasing, fleeing, and dodging. Our field days are coming up at the end of May/June and we will be giving the teachers more information soon to pass along to the parents.
Stay active!
Physical Education
The character trait for this month is: Respect!
Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule • Be tolerant and accepting of differences • Use good manners, not bad language • Be considerate of the feelings of others • Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone • Deal peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements We will be discussing with the students the importance of respecting self, others, and property, our three respect rules at Rosa Lee Carter. Please talk with your child about this character trait and ways he or she can demonstrate it on a regular basis. Parents, thank you for your continued support!
In an article published in the April 11, 2011 issue of Psychology Today, Dr. Judy Willis points out that the best jobs in the 21st century will go to applicants who can think. Humans will not be able to compete with computers when it comes to remembering facts and data; the successful adult will be that person who can analyze information, adapt to new sets of circumstances, collaborate and cooperate with others, and communicate effectively.
As you make plans for the summer, try to find activities that help your children acquire these attributes. Look for activities that promote interpretive thinking, creativity, and interaction with the environment and others.
Are you going on a trip this summer? Your children can be responsible for the task of packing their own suitcases. This is a good way for them to practice predicting and planning ahead. If a favorite toy is forgotten, the consequence will be real but not overwhelmingly negative.
You will likely have your children accompany you on day-to-day errands during the summer. Work with them to list and prioritize the jobs to be accomplished. Help them think flexibly about the best order in which to do errands based on their importance and the spatial considerations of getting from one place to another. If your child discovers that the ice cream melted because the grocery shopping was done before the trip to the post office and dry cleaner, it is a great lesson on considering multiple criteria!
Perhaps your children want to build something or learn a new skill this summer. Assist with verbalizing goals, as well as making a timetable for achieving them. How might a need for help or materials be communicated? What are multiple ways to accomplish the objective?
While children have fun this summer, they can be acquiring the essential skills that will serve them later in life. The saying that children’s play is their work is very true!
It has been a pleasure working with your children this school year, and I look forward to another wonderful year of SEARCH beginning in September! Until then, one valuable source of inspiration for summer activities is the LCPS Gifted Education website’s challenge page: http://cmsweb1.lcps.org/page/642. In addition, the National Association for Gifted Children has a collection of activities to keep children engaged during the summer.
For this final quarter of the year (hard to believe!), we will be focusing on a variety of topics throughout the grade levels. Classes will receive guidance and instruction on proper and appropriate research techniques, identifying genres, reference books, database and internet use, traditional literature, and book selection. We are also continuing with the creation of a MakerSpace in the library that will be available to students and staff next school year.
Students will be able to check out books from the library until May 26. On that date, all books are due back to the library as per Loudoun County Public Schools policy. Please encourage your students to be responsible RLC Coyotes and return their library books by that day. It helps us tremendously with our end of the year inventory and decisions for future library purchases. Thank you for your help with this.
Mrs. Boettke and Mrs. Goldberg
Library
Field Trips in the Classroom???
Our students are enjoying going on ‘field trips’ around the world from the comfort of their classroom. Kindergarten students were able to go to a zoo in San Diego, third grade students traveled to Greece and see the Acropolis, and fifth grade students were able to explore underwater habitats. Google Expeditions made all of this possible!
• The Loudoun Education Association (LEA) has invited SEAC members and community
participants to attend an “ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) Stakeholder Group Meeting”
on April 25th at 4:30pm
• LCPS will hold a second “Specialized Reading Instruction Stakeholder Advisory Group
Meeting” on April 27, 2017; while this meeting is not open to the public, input may be directed to
Lorraine Hightower and Jackie Baker who will attend to represent SEAC.
• PEATC will be offering two “State Complaint Workshops with Hank Millward,” from the VA
Dept. of Education on May 10th and May 11th. Please go to www.peatc.org to register.
• SEAC will be offering a 2017 Parent Input Survey in May 2017; the survey link will be available on
the www.lcps.org/seac webpage as well as via Facebook.
• On May 17, 2017 at 7pm, SEAC and LCPS will host the “Recognition for Excellence in
Supporting Special Education” awards event in the School Administration Building. SEAC
members and community participants are encouraged to attend and join this special celebration!
S.E.A.C.
A reminder that as of May 1st Loudoun County School Nutrition Services DOES NOT ALLOW any accounts to carry a negative balance. If a child does NOT have funds available at the time of purchase for a breakfast or lunch then a cheese sandwich and milk will be given.
The Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee (MSAAC) is tasked to:
Advise the local school system of the educational and cultural needs of the minority student.
Cultivate an equitable educational experience for all students that will positively im-pact achievement gaps.
Submit periodic reports and recommendations on how to improve the minority stu-dents' educational experience
Create a forum of safe and respectable communication between parents, teachers and administrators.
Help parents and educators collectively understand the importance of nurturing a climate of cultural sensitivity in an academic/social environment that is increasing in diversity each year.
Facilitate an environment where teachers and parents can recognize, honor and
MSAAC is dedicated to further the academic, social and cultural development of every
student and to ensure that the needs of all minority students are met.
MSAAC is committed to developing school cultures that create a learning environment where every minority student is afforded the opportunity to achieve their full potential and is recognized as an integral member of the student body.
MSAAC is striving to ensure that the LCPS community is culturally competent and pro-vides fair and equitable instruction to all LCPS students.
Supporters of MSAAC also include parents, educators, administrators, business repre-sentatives and other interested community groups.