Arrowhead News
Week of January 4-8
Happy New Year!
Arrowhead Forward and K-2 playground relocation update:
In preparation for the upcoming Arrowhead Forward building project, construction vehicles arrived at Arrowhead this week and began the K-2 playground relocation process. The K-2 playground will be relocated to our 3-4 playground area. Please know that with the upcoming building project, traffic patterns may be impacted. In the interest of student safety, recess locations will also be reassigned to the side playground as the K-2 recess area will be fenced off. Lastly, in speaking with the contractors and construction team, there may be some noise coming from the construction area. The contractors indicated that based on the location of the new school building, and in conjunction with our current school, noise interruptions should be minimal. Also, fencing is scheduled to be installed around the construction area later next week or during the early week of January 18th. I will continue to take pictures and share the progress as we move forward with the Arrowhead Forward construction project.
Student material pick up date: Friday, January 15, 2021
Our next student material pick up date will be held on Friday, January 15, 2021 from 8AM-6PM in the Arrowhead Gymnasium. Masks must be worn inside the building. Families may enter Arrowhead through the back parking lot gymnasium doors
Picture Day Update:
We are tentatively scheduling picture day for the week of February 22nd. More information about the specific dates and days will be shared with families soon.
Virtual learning this week
K AM Mrs. Fischer's class counting picture animals during math.
K AM Mrs. Raley's students counting farm animals with Mrs. Pashley.
Mrs. Fischer's PM students met in breakout room where they created elephants for the letter E.
Grade 1 Mrs. Clark's students writing long a and magic e words
Grade 1 Mrs. Kennedy's class reading using long a and magic e words.
Grade 1 Mrs. Fitzgerald's students learning about words to measure time.
Grade 1 Mrs. Moyer's class changing short "a" vowel words and using the magic "e."
Grade 2 Mr. Stegmann's class learning about genre and expository text
Grade 2 Mrs. Keffer's class reading and learning about informational text "yo-yo's"
Grade 2 Dr. Morgan's class reviewing the vocabulary word "object"
Grade 2 Mrs. Reid's class shared examples of similes.
Grade 3 Mrs. Fontanella's students worked through multiplication and division problems this week.
Grade 3 Mrs. Grabfelder's class working on their 7 times tables.
Grade 3 Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Pashley use Kami and a snowman game to teach multiplication tables.
Grade 3 Mrs. Vallerio's class working on their multiplication using the Kami App.
Grade 4 Mrs. Johnson's class working on fractions and mixed numbers
Grade 4 Ms. Bradenberger's students working on improper fractions and mixed numbers.
Grade 4 Mr. Yosifon's students learning fractions
Miss Young's class worked on math fractions and common denominators this week.
Mrs. Smith's grade 4 health class
Mr. Horn's grade 4 health class
Mrs. Montare reviewing our five sense from the library with Kindergarten
Mrs. McDonough grade 3 students made snowflakes in art class this week!
Talking to Children about the Events at the Capitol this Week
It can be difficult to talk to our children about topics that may frighten them like the tragic events at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week. I have included some resources for parents to help guide those important conversations. As always, we encourage students and parents to reach out to our staff for support.
How to talk to your kids about the chaos at the Capitol (National Geographic)
Talking to Children About Violence: Tips for Parents and Teachers (NASP)
Below is the link to the Family Center. Within this link you can find grade level information regarding "I CAN" statements which can be accessed by clicking on grade level resources.
Transportation Update
This information only pertains to families who have chosen to personally transport their child/ren home from school (PM car riders).
For the safety of our students, we have implemented a new ‘End of Day’ transportation procedure for regular car riders. According to the survey you filled out earlier this year, your child is to ride home by car each day they attend school in person. If you have changed your mind, and would prefer your child take the school bus home, kindly send me an email with your changes. If possible, we would like to keep your child’s means of transportation the same each day they attend school.
All families that had elected to be ‘end of the day car riders’ will be assigned a number which will serve as a quick identifier for regular car riders. Each family will receive 2 copies of a dashboard car number sign which is meant to be placed on the passenger side dashboard of the designated parent or guardian’s car.
Of course, if you have an emergency and you need your child to ride home in a different manner, please email Barb Goff (bgoff@methacton.org) and copy Adriana Rundle (arundle@methacton.org)
Dell discounted savings offered to students, staff, and families
The district uses dell technology and as a result we are able to extent discounts and savings to our students, staff, and families. See attached flyer below with information provided from the district.
Message from Nurse Kelly
Important Reminders to keep our Arrowhead family safe and healthy as we begin hybrid learning:
1. Stay home if ill, please refer to the Methacton School District Student Self-Screening Checklist
2. Report any absence to the child check line @ (610)-831-5331. Please be mention any symptoms the student may be having or any COVID-19 exposure.
3. If you have traveled, or plan to travel, to an area where there are high amounts of COVID-19 cases, it is recommended that your student stay at home for 14 days upon return to Pennsylvania.
Please refer to https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Travelers.aspx for updated list, as it changes often.
4. Please complete or update the Student Health Form, in Power School and/or the pink paper form that we sent home earlier this school year.
Let us all work together to make Arrowhead a safe place to learn.
Please contact the School Nurse with any questions or concerns.
(610) 489-5000 ext. 44203
***IMPORTANT PLEASE READ***
Dear Arrowhead families,
Please click on the link below to read the Student Self-Screening Checklist per the Montgomery County Department of Health.
Pick up your child's Methacton Device
If you have been using a personal laptop or other device for at home learning it will be necessary to pick up a Methacton device if you choose the on premise Hybrid option. Only Methacton devices will work when your child/children are in school.
1. Parents can stop over to the Technology Office M-F in the back of Farina Administration Building next to the high school baseball field from 8am to 3:30pm
2. Parents can sign up for a pick up time at https://www.methacton.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=183&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=4513&PageID=1
during our extended Wednesday hours. (to 7:00pm).
Arrowhead Kindness Project
Click on the word document below for information about this year's Arrowhead Kindness Project.
Do you want to help with Arrowhead Announcements?
We are interested in having our students participate in our morning announcements. We created a flipgrid topic link so students can record themselves making announcements. They can say the pledge allegiance, the Arrowhead School pledge or tell a joke. This is completely optional. If you allow your child to create a flipgrid video, this will provide the consent for the video to be shared during our morning announcements. Again, this is an optional activity and it will only be shared with your agreement. If you are interested in creating a flipgrid video, please click on the flipgrid link https://flipgrid.com/e75120f3
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Arrowhead Elementary School
Email: aroberts@methacton.org
Website: https://www.methacton.org/Domain/375
Location: 232 Level Road, Collegeville, PA, USA
Phone: 6104895000 44200