Route 40 Elementary School

Monday, November 11th is a 3 hour (12:15pm) early dismissal for students.

The end of the first marking period was November 6th. Report cards will be sent home by email on November 13th, through School Messenger. If you do not have your school messenger set up you will not recieve your child's report card. If you need the access code to set this up, please reach out to Mrs. Bolden.

Please visit the Maryland Statewide Family Engagement Center for more information about parent and family engagement collaboration.

Please remember that if there are ANY changes to your students transportation, you must send a note in with your child or call the school at 301-689-6132, please make sure that you speak to someone, do not leave a message. If the phones are down, the messages don't always come through until later. We ask that you please DO NOT email Mrs. Bolden or your child’s teacher with the change, we may not see the email in time. If you have questions please contact Mrs. Bolden.

The GCPS handbook states that if your child is absent for any reason, a note explaining the absence should be sent in within three (3) days of the absence.Their attendance will be coded accordingly.

Parent volunteers are a vital part of our school routine. We host a regular work session to help prepare supplies on Thursday afternoons from 1:00 – 3:00. If Thursdays don’t align to your schedule, please feel free to call and set up another time to join us. We value the assistance volunteers can provide to our educational program.

As a reminder we still try to take the students out for some fresh air during the winter months. If the temperatures are above 32 degrees we will attempt to out. Please have your students wear a jacket and maybe gloves and hats.

Our Winter Performance is scheduled for Wednesday, December 11th. There will be two showing, 9:30am and 1:45pm. All Route 40 students will participate in this performance and students in 1st-5th grade are able to practice from home by visiting the Music Website. There you will find links to the song each grade level will sing and a Google Slides Presentation with the lyrics. Ms. Linares will send home more information regarding the Performance as the date gets closer, but students can begin practicing now!

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