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Maple Dale's Parent Newsletter
December 18, 2020
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Letter of the Week
Coming Up...
December 19:- All Pro Dad Virtual Meeting
December 19-January 3: Winter Break
December 19: All Pro Dad Meeting ( See more information below)
January 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day- No school
January 28: End of 2nd Quarter
January 29th: No school- Teacher Records
Attendance Updates
Thank you!
From the PTO - For ALL Families
Thank you!
Buckabee Brownies
Marx Bagels
Currito Blue Ash
Green Farm Juicery
Cookies By Design
Dunkin Donuts Montgomery
Jersey Mikes Blue Ash
LaRosas Blue Ash
We greatly appreciate their support.
All PRO Dads December Meeting
You are invited to a virtual meeting of the Maple Dale Elementary All Pro Dads chapter on Saturday December 19th from 8:30am – 9am. This virtual meeting will be held here:
Topic: Dec Maple Dale All Pro Dads meeting
Time: Dec 19, 2020 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/93275169399?pwd=TWFrOFJBZ1RUWWZDSjcwaXU2Z3FQZz09
Meeting ID: 932 7516 9399
Passcode: MDAPD!
The theme this month is humility.
HUMILITY
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself. It means thinking about yourself less. It means putting someone else’s needs and desires before your own. Someone who has humility thinks about serving others rather than their own pursuits. People who have humility have a stronger sense of identity, character, and belonging.
This is a virtual meeting so RSVPing is optional. Here's the link to RSVP:
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Child Nutrition News
Virtual Families - Ordering Curbside Meals for 2021
Reminder to all virtual families to continue to order meals for your virtual students for pick up every Wednesday. You will need to fill out the order form and choose which weeks you will pick up meals.
Please, only order for the weeks you can be there. We prepare enough meals for every family that orders each week, and when no one shows up, some parts of those meals will have to go to waste. ORDER VIRTUAL MEALS HERE
Virtual Meal Curbside Pick Up will resume on Wednesday, January 6th. More information can be found here. Look for some new menu options in your bags in January!
FREE MEALS FOR ALL SYCAMORE STUDENTS EXTENDED
For all of the families that have been taking advantage of the free breakfast and lunches for ALL Sycamore schools and students this opportunity had been EXTENDED until the end of the 2020-21 school year!
All Sycamore families can enjoy free breakfast and free lunch all school year long.
Click here for more details for face to face families.
Click here for more details for virtual families
PEBT
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently authorized the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) through the 2020-2021 school year. To qualify for P-EBT during the 2020-2021 school year, children must be approved for free or reduced-price meals either in the 2019-2020 or the 2020-2021 school years.
If families qualify for free or reduced price meals LAST school year and you have not filled out a form yet for the 2020-21 school year, it is important that you fill out a form again this school year if you feel you will qualify.
If families did not qualify for free and reduced priced meals last school year but believe they might this school year due to financial changes during this unprecedented time please fill out a free and reduced price meal application online here. Any families who qualify this school year will not only receive P-EBT for each student they have in the district, but also receive free or reduced priced meals for the first 30 days of next school year.
We understand that everyone is receiving free meals this school year, but filling out this form is necessary for ANY other benefit that it provides - this includes but is not limited to the P-EBT through ODJFS, fee waivers, extracurricular waivers, building assistance programs, etc.
More information on filling out a free and reduced price meal application can be found here.
Contact the Child Nutrition Department with any further questions. (513) 686-1796.
CogAT Updates
If your 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade child took the CogAT in November, please check your child’s e-bakpack on Parent Portal for the results of your childs’ CogAT test. These test results are one measure of your child’s ability and not intended to be an all-inclusive report. Please keep in mind that other factors can also influence a child’s performance on an assessment on any given day. If your kindergarten or first grade child took the CogAT, those scores will arrive in January since those students took the paper-based assessment which takes longer to score.
The purpose of this assessment is to provide you with information specifically about your child, but ability tests can also be used to identify children as gifted in the area of superior cognitive. According to the state of Ohio, a student can be identified as superior cognitive gifted if he/she has received a composite score of 2 standard deviations above the mean minus the standard error of measurement. What does this mean in relation to the CogAT test your child took? If a student in grades K-2 achieves a composite score of 127 or in grades 3 – 12 achieves a composite score of 128, he or she is identified as gifted in the area of superior cognitive. You can click here to better understand how to read your child’s report.
Please note that in order to be placed into accelerated programming in Sycamore, grades 3 – 6, a student must have a composite standard age score (VQN) of at least 128 on the CogAT 7 in addition to a minimum of 95th percentile on one administration of the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) in the content area of Math and/or Reading. To qualify for double accelerated math, a composite standard age score (VQN) of at least 144 is required in addition to a minimum of 98th percentile on one administration of the MAP Math test. If your child has met the district criteria for gifted programming in grades 3-6, more information will be provided from your building’s Gifted Intervention Specialist at a later date. Additionally, we will run every student through our matrix after the January MAP testing to determine additional qualifiers at that time. Note that new placements will begin in the 2021-2022 school year.
Single subject acceleration involves the assigning of a student to a higher grade level content area than is typical, given the student’s chronological age, for the purpose of accessing appropriate learning opportunities in one or more subject areas. Although instructional practices such as curriculum compacting and differentiating instruction can provide meaningful educational experiences for the academically gifted students, there are unique situations in which such strategies are insufficient for fulfilling the academic potential of a gifted student. In such instances, single subject acceleration may be considered as a viable option. If you would like more information regarding Sycamore’s acceleration process as an alternate means of qualifying for gifted programming, please contact Mindy Zellner at zellnerm@sycamoreschools.org.
It is our hope that this information will help you to better understand your child’s test results. Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact your building Gifted Intervention Specialist or Mindy Zellner @ zellnerm@sycamoreschools.org. Please note it may take some time to respond to emails until after winter break.
Sincerely,
Mindy Zellner
Mindy Zellner
District Gifted Coordinator, K-12
Mental Health and Covid
Great presentation from Mindpeace for educators and parents on "What to Look for During COVID" for Elementary age kids.
Covid-19 Weekly Stats
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Website: http://www.sycamoreschools.org/Domain/12
Location: 6100 Hagewa Drive, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Phone: (513)686-1720
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