One PAC, One GOAL

• Please see the important information below about our American Education Classroom Visits and Award Assemblies.
• If you have not had a chance to complete the survey, please do so. We value your feedback and would love to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to complete the survey.

• November 11- Schools Closed for students- Parent Teacher Conferences
• November 18- Start of American Education Week and Spirit Week
• November 18- 1st quarter awards assemblies
• November 19- Family Visitation Day for American Education Week
• November 20- Picture Retakes
• November 21- Parent Advisory Meeting 9:45 a.m. Patuxent Building
• November 21- Donuts with someone you are thankful for- PTO event in the Appeal Building
• November 22- Donuts with someone you are thankful for- PTO event in the Patuxent Building
• November 27-29- Schools/Offices closed for Thanksgiving Break

Students that will receive an award for our first quarter Awards Assembly should have received an invitation this past week. Please come celebrate with us! Once the grade level assembly is over, we expect our students to return to class to finish their school day. Thank you for supporting the learning taking place each day, celebrating with us and allowing your student to remain at school.

Time of the Assemblies are below. Please note the time change.

Awards being given are the following:

• Character Traits: Compassion, Generosity and Self-Control
• Wolf PAC Pride- Students who go beyond each and every day to display the HOWL expectations of having respect, being on task, working to be kind and leading with integrity.
• Most Improved- Students who have shown extreme growth in one or more areas to include: academic success, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, responsible decision making and relationships skills.
• Honor Roll (Grades 3-5)- Students who earned A's and B's for all graded subjects including resource, band and strings.
• Principal Honor Roll (Grades 3-5)- Students who earned all A's for all graded subjects including resource, band and strings.

For the week of November 18-22, we will celebrate as a campus with a spirit week and classroom visits. Please see below for the Spirit Week and scheduled classroom visits. Please note in grades 1-5, parents will have an opportunity to visit their child's resource during the grade level visitation time. Please sign in when you arrive on this day. We look forward to seeing you!

We wanted to reach out to all our PAC families to see if anyone would be interested in becoming a substitute teacher here at PAC.

As a substitute teacher you could be on the same schedule as your children, choose to work only at PAC, and can choose to be a long-term substitute at times as well. If interested, please apply on the Calvert County website or contact PAC directly and we can help you get started.

The PAC PTO is excited to announce our first annual Holiday Vendor Market!!
Join us for:
🎟️Raffles on prizes donated by local businesses
🛍️Variety of vendors
🎅🏼Pictures with Santa and Mrs.Claus
☕️Hot cocoa
🖍️Holiday crafts
🍽️ Food trucks
And so much more wintertime magic ✨

We are still accepting vendors, crafters, makers and businesses so if you or someone you know would be interested in a spot please email: patuxentappealpto@gmail.com

Please review the PAC Family Handbook and complete the brief survey indicating you have read the handbook.

• School hours are 9:25 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. Kiss and Go line will close at 9:20 a.m. Morning openings begin promptly at 9:25 a.m. Students are expected to be in class and ready to go by 9:25 a.m.
• Dismissal begins promptly at 4:05 p.m. We ask if you are arriving early to sign your child out before the end of the school day, you must arrive prior to 3:50 p.m. In order to minimize disruptions during the end of the school day, students will not be called for an early dismissal after 3:50 p.m.
• If your student is being picked up early, please send in a note or an email to PACAttendance@calvertnet.k12.md.us letting the office know about the early departure. If someone other than the parent/guardian is picking up a student, written permission is required.

The Childhood Initiative Power Pack (CHIPP) weekend meal program sponsored by the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is currently at capacity and no additional applications will be accepted at this time. Families interested in weekend meal support can still be added to the HeartFELT program sponsored by our local churches.

We are happy to tell you that Patuxent-Appeal Elementary School is a part of a program called:

Heart F.E.L.T. (Feeding Empty Little Tummies)

This program is offered through some of our local churches. Your child is eligible to receive a small bag of food for the weekend every Friday. The food is provided to you at NO cost. Contents will include small meals/supplemental items and snacks for the weekend.

If you have any questions about this program, please feel free to contact a member of the Behavioral Health Team, Mrs. Repass at 443-550-9721 or Mrs. McDermott at 443-550-9682.