OCTOBER 2024 Newsletter

1 Honor Choir Performance at MHS 7:00 p.m.

2 PTO Meeting Library at 4:15 p.m.

4 Fantastic Friends! Convocation with Officer Weaver of Martinsville Police Department.

4 End of 9 Weeks

7 Grade 3 Math ILearn Checkpoint 1

7 Grade 3 History Museum

8 Grade 3 ELA ILearn Checkpoint 1

9 eLearning Day (Asynchronous) & Parent Teacher Conferences

10 Parent Teacher Conferences (After school)

14-19 Fall Break

21 Donuts Delivered to Classrooms for Honor Roll

22 Grade 4 ELA ILearn Checkpoint 1

24 Honor Choir Practice 7:45 a.m.

24 Unified Track Meet

25 Grade 4 Math ILearn Checkpoint 1

27 Second Grade PLTW Learning Trip to Brooklyn

28 Second Grade PLTW Learning Trip to Brooklyn

30 Grade 3 History Museum

30 Trunk or Treat 5:30-7:00 p.m.

31 Fall Parties 2:00 p.m.

1 Cookies and Clay 6:00 p.m.

3 Daylight Savings Time Ends

5 Fall Picture Retakes

7 Honor Choir Practice 7:45 a.m.

8 Spell Bowl Practice

11 Veterans Day Program 10:00 a.m.

11-12 3rd Grade PLTW field trip

12-14 Book Fair

12 Spell Bowl Practice

13 PTO Meeting 4:15 p.m.

13 Spell Bowl Competition

14 Honor Choir Practice 7:45 a.m.

14 Vision Screenings for Kdg, 1st and 4th grades

14 Grandparents Night 5-7 p.m.

15 Spell Bowl Practice

18 Spell Bowl Competition

18-19 3rd Grade Field Trip to Brooklyn Stem Academy

21 Honor Choir Practice 7:45 a.m.

25-29 Thanksgiving Break

School Commitments to Families During an eLearning Day:

Families can expect:

• Students will have remote learning activities that reinforce grade-level Indiana Academic Standards.

• Delivery of remote learning activities will be sent out via Google Classroom or Seesaw. Additional guidance/mini lessons may be given during scheduled Zooms/videos.

• Families can contact school personnel, including their child’s teacher, administration, and counselor, through dojo, email or phone calls.

• Students will receive feedback on their work, and teachers will monitor and track their engagement.

Student Expectations During eLearning Day:

• During remote learning, elementary students are expected to login to their Seesaw or Google Classroom accounts. All assignments and attendance questions will be posted by 9:00 A.M.

Grade 3

October 7 ELA

October 8 Math

Grade 4

October 22 ELA

October 25 Math

Officer Weaver with Martinsville Police Department will be here on October 4th to share a positive message with our K-4 students.

We will cut the ribbon on our book vending machine. All Fantastic Friends for October will receive a token for the book vending machine!

Fantastic Friends for Anti-bullying month consistently model being kind, safe, and respectful.

• Kind and encouraging to everyone
• If they mess up, they fess up and apologize
• An upstander–if they see something, they say something
• Makes others feel welcome and important

The Anti-bullying Pledge will be signed during the classroom nurture group.

School-wide Anti-Bullying guidance lessons-Be an Upstander!

We will unveil our Bruin Pledge…

As a Bruin, I will learn, serve, and lead.

I will choose kindness. I will make safe choices.

I will show respect to others and myself by giving my personal best.

I am smart! I am capable! I am important!

I am Bruin!

Character Lifelines recognition and daily announcements (all year).

Revisit STOP WALK TALK strategies.

“You’ve Been Caught” student recognitions happen all year!

Student Ambassadors will share Fantastic Friends announcements.

Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, November 3rd. Please turn your clocks back 1 hour on Saturday evening.

The following students were selected as Students of the month for August: Lyric Luckey, Samuel Whipp, Daisy Patterson, Lilia Zimmermann, Maelyn Brooks, Carter Staehler, Liam Phelps, Greyson Garza, Beverly Goocey, Everly Bennett, Lou Dickerson, Tana Western, Laighton Shaw, Forest Whitaker, Gavin Goss-Mattos, Everleigh Dickerson, Gareth Bryant, Lillianne Robbins. August's character lifeline was Do the Right Thing/Treat People Right.

Meet the PTO Board

Co-presidents: Ky Sumner and Katie O’Neal

Vice President: Amanda Thomas

Treasurer: Leann Moss

Secretary: Amy Purkey

Upcoming Events

10/30 Trunk or Treat 5:30-7:00 behind Smith School. (Candy donations accepted starting 10/1)

Meeting Times

PTO meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 4:15 p.m. in the library.

The following dates are tentative: Oct. 2, Nov. 13, Jan. 8, Mar. 5, Apr. 2.

Everyone is invited and welcome. We hope many will participate.

Follow us on Facebook:

Smith Fine Arts Academy PTO

ParentSquare is the MSD of Martinsville’s tool to communicate with Artesian families.

Families may register for an account and set their preferences for how they’d like to receive messages from us. For example, many parents only want to receive a text, while others prefer email, and others choose both. If you download the app (it’s free!), you can also get notifications via the app.

Another feature of the app is that it allows users to select their preferred language.

In emergencies or when notifying school families is urgent, ParentSquare will use all methods of contact, including a phone call, text, email, and app notification (if we have the correct information and if you’ve downloaded the app).

If you do not register with ParentSquare, you will still receive an email when we use ParentSquare to send a message.

Registering your ParentSquare account

If you do not have an email from the MSD of Martinsville inviting you to create a ParentSquare account, please notify your community.relations@msdmartinsville.org and we will send you the invitation. While you do not need to create an account to receive messages from us, you will have greater flexibility to tailor the ways you receive messages from us if you have an account.

Once you have created an account, there are additional resources available to help you tailor your account to meet your own preferences.

Questions? Email community.relations@msdmartinsville.org

Click this link to apply! Applying has benefits for the school and your family. If you have questions, check out the video.

All visitors to MSD of Martinsville Schools during the school year will be required to have a Limited Criminal History Check. Completed background checks are confidential and will be kept in the school office. A valid driver’s license or state-issued ID will be required for the background check. Please complete the Background Check Form, available in the office, and present your ID to the office at least a week prior to visiting or volunteering. In order to keep our students safe, individuals who do not have a valid driver’s license or state-issued ID will not be allowed access to our building or our students. Please note: If you have a misdemeanor conviction within the last 5 years or a felony conviction within the last 10 years, you will not be allowed to visit/chaperone during school hours. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we keep student safety a priority!

The building opens at 8:25 a.m. Students should not arrive before that time since there is no supervision. Please monitor the time your child leaves for school to make certain he or she does not arrive before 8:25 a.m. We ask that you call the school office (342-8488) by 9:30 a.m. if your child is going to be absent or tardy. If we have not heard from you, you will receive a phone call informing you that your child is not in attendance. A note is necessary the day your child returns if you do not call the school.

· Please share our dismissal procedures with any friends and/or family members who will be responsible for picking up your student.

· To change your student’s dismissal procedure, please call the office at 765-342-8488 ext 3 before 3:00 p.m. We may not be able to accommodate dismissal changes after 3:00 p.m. Please do not leave a message when making a dismissal change.

· If your child is a car rider, please stop by the office to pick up a green sign to place in your car during dismissal.

· Car riders, bus riders, and daycare students will begin dismissing at 3:30 pm. Walkers will be released at approximately 3:45 p.m., after all buses and car riders have departed.

· Students who are being picked up early must be signed out in the office by a parent, guardian, or emergency contact.

The goal of the clinic is to keep everyone safe and healthy.

We would like to remind you that if your child has a temperature of 100 degrees or higher, they will not be permitted to stay at school.

Students must be fever FREE for 24 hours without medication to return to school. They must also be vomiting and diarrhea FREE for 24 hours to come to school.

Please talk to your children about hand washing and personal hygiene.

If your child borrows clothes from the clinic, PLEASE wash the clothes and return them to school.

It would be extremely helpful for students in Pre Kindergarten and Kindergarten to keep an extra set of clothes in their backpacks in case of an emergency. The state is requiring immunizations to be up to date by September 3rd. Students not up to date will be unable to attend school on September 4th.

Here is our current vision schedule; please note that this could change.

10/01: Centerton

10/03: Green

10/22: Wooden

11/04: Paragon

11/07: Poston

11/14: Smith

11/19: Bell

Menus are available at the beginning of each month and can be found at: artiescafe.org .

Lunch payments may be made, and meal/textbook assistance forms may be completed, online at artiescafe.org.

Student Lunch: $2.75

LUNCH SCHEDULE

PREK

10:45-11:15

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

It is the responsibility of the students to maintain a healthy and respectful-looking appearance while attending school and school activities. Specific regulations of the dress policy:

· Clothing and/or accessories which are indecent or displaying/inferring offensive or lewd words, sayings, and/or pictures is considered a violation. Clothing and/or accessories may not display any forms or references to alcohol, tobacco products, and/or illegal substances.

· Short shorts, halter tops, net shirts, tank tops with spaghetti straps, and midriff tops are not permissible.

· Shoes should be appropriate for safety and comfort. Flip flops and shoes with wheels are not permitted at any time. Students must wear tennis shoes to Physical Education. High heels, and sandals without backs are not permitted.

· Hats and sunglasses are not to be worn in the school building except on designated days.

· The wearing or displaying of any gang related article of dress or adornment is not allowed at school or any school activity.

· Any attire that disrupts the educational process or puts a student at risk, such as clothing that does not fit appropriately, or leaves underwear exposed, is not permitted.

M, T, TH, F ARRIVAL

Doors Open: 8:25 am

School Begins: 8:40 am

WEDNESDAY ARRIVAL

Doors Open: 9:25 am

School Begins: 9:40 am

DAILY DISMISSAL

Daycare/Car Riders/Bus Riders: 3:30 pm

Walkers will be released after all busses and car riders have departed.