Chalk Talk

Attendance Line: 529-4304 Office Line: 529-4228

Mrs. Sandra Powers Hayes Elementary School October 2013

Dear Hayes Families,

September has flown by! During the month of September the Hayes

students have been Shooting for the Stars by being respectful and

responsible! Our students show respect by being courteous to other; kinder

than necessary is the Hayes Way! At Hayes students are responsible for

their choices and we encourage them to make good choices every day!

During my daily classroom walk-throughs I see students engaged in

learning. I see students working cooperatively in small groups, I see

teachers working with small groups of students, I see teachers working one

to one with students, I see students working in pairs, working

independently, and working as a whole class. Good instruction + student

engagement = LEARNING!!! Please talk to your child’s teacher about

how you can support learning at home. One huge support is to be sure your

child is reading each night for at least 20 minutes. This extra at home

reading practice has tremendous impacts on your child’s reading progress

and success. To facilitate a “happy read-aloud” time with your young child

you might try…..

Bite your tongue-most of the time…If your child is making it through

most words, but doing it at a snail’s pace, be patient and let him/her

continue on. They need practice. Frequent interruptions can interfere with

comprehension and the pleasure of reading.

Use pictures as helpers…Reviewing pictures in the storybook before

reading it gives your child an idea of what the text will be about.

Encore! When he/she finishes a passage or story, ask them to read it again.

Your interest will build self confidence in both skills and reading.

Your child has the opportunity to practice his or her math each night with

IXL. If you have not received your child’s log-in information please

contact their teacher.

What is in your backpack? When you set time to go through your child’s

backpack you will discover a lot about what he/she did in school. Doing

this together provides you an opportunity to have them teach you the

content/concepts they have learn as well as make specific positive

comments about their learning!

Be there! Regular attendance and being on time sets up a good pattern for

your child’s entire school year! Show your child the importance of school

by being there and being on time!

IMPORTANT DATES IN OCTOBER

October 8th - The Third Graders will take their Reading portion of the

Ohio Achievement Assessment

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 MARKET DAY PICK UP

CAFETERIA 3-4 pm 5th Grade Committee Meeting

7:00 pm LRC

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 4th FIELD TRIP

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

EARLY RELEASE 2:15 pm

OCTOBER 7-11

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 KDG FIELD TRIP TO APPLE FARM

PTO MEETING 7:00pm LRC Ohio Achievement testing 3rd

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 FIRE ASSEMBLY 1:20 pm

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

PICTURE DAY

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16

Kindergarten Vision Screening

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

EARLY RELEASE DAY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

NO SCHOOL NEOEA DAY

OCTOBER 21-25 PTO BOOKFAIR

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 OPEN HOUSE 6:30-8:00

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 1ST GRADE FIELD TRIP PLAYHOUSE SQUARE

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 2:30 Fall Room Parties

Lakewood Board of Education:

Edward Favre, President Betsy Bergen Shaughnessy, Vice President

Linda Beebe Tom Einhouse

Emma Petrie Barcelona

Member

Open House October 22 6:30-8:00 pm

Open House is a family night where K-5 level students and their

families have an opportunity to see samples of their children’s work,

meet and visit teacher(s), and learn about their grade level

curriculum.

Parents have an opportunity to sign up for a preferred time slot for

conferences held November 6, 7, & 8th during Open House.

Picture Day

October 10

You may purchase portraits by placing your money in the completed order form to

be given to the photographer OR you can order on line at http://mylifetouch.com

using the online order code WP903724Y0.

If your picture is not satisfactory or if your child was absent on picture day, the

photographer will be at Hayes again on “retake” day (November 26 - Preschool

also).

Remember, all students must be photographed for school purposes.

SUPERINTENDENT’S MESSAGE

After months of community engagement and gathering feedback from Lakewood

residents over the last year, the Lakewood School Board placed a 3.25 mill bond

issue, plus a 0.5 mill permanent improvement levy – set aside to maintain buildings -

on the November ballot. This bond issue will result in replacing Grant, Lincoln, and

Roosevelt Elementary Schools and finish renovations at the high school by rebuilding

the east end.

This bond issue finishes rebuilding Lakewood City Schools and the State will pay

half! If this bond issue passes, the State of Ohio will contribute $50 million to

construction costs –meaning the project costs much less for our residents.

This issue finishes the Master Facilities Plan. The Plan includes environmentally

friendly, energy efficient, safe and secure school facilities that will:

Lower operating costs.

Ensure up-to-date classroom space.

Improve instructional technology and digital applications.

Modernize safety systems.

New buildings will reduce waste and provide a better learning environment. New

buildings will lower operating and maintenance costs of our school buildings, which

average 80 years old. All students throughout the District will have the opportunity to

learn in quality facilities. This plan also eliminates all modular units across the street

from Lakewood High School.

All buildings, to date, have been completed on time and on budget. For less than $11

per month on a $100,000 property, the construction process will be complete and

Lakewood will have new school buildings throughout the community, which will be

an asset for all of Lakewood.

Jeffrey W. Patterson

Superintendent

Board of Education

Edward Favre, President

Linda Beebe, Vice President

Tom Einhouse

Emma Petrie Barcelona

Betsy Bergen Shaughnessy

You’re Invited to PTA District Conference

All PTA members and PTO members are invited to attend the Ohio PTA District

Conference hosted by the Lakewood Council of PTAs on Thursday, October 10th

from 4:15pm-9:00pm at Garfield Middle School. Many workshops to help your

PTA/PTO will be offered including a session on the Third Grade Guarantee facilitated

by the Lakewood City Schools. Other workshops being offered are: a special

elementary/middle/high school roundtable, financial best practices, Common Core

State Standards, early reading, 21st Century Communication, and many more.

Included will be a session on Reflections, the National PTA arts program. PTO

members and families joining a PTA will be eligible to participate in Reflections and

enjoy the many membership perks exclusive to PTA members as well as access to

register for the District Conference. The Lakewood PTA/PTO community is very

fortunate to have this conference close to home this year! Please see the registration

form for the schedule and additional information. Attendees are not required to stay

for the entire event. Dinner is included. For more information, or if you have

questions, email lakewoodcouncil@gmail.com.

Field Trip Permission Slips

Throughout the school year teachers plan various field trips that relate to the

curriculum. Although attendance is encouraged, all field trips are optional for the

students. Parents will be informed when a field trip occurs and where the students are

going. Please make sure you have given permission for your student to participate.

You can access our permission slip online through the info snap process. Your

student will not be able to attend without permission.

READING MENTORS NEEDED FOR PROJECT MORE

Do you enjoy reading? Do you have some extra time on your hands? Do you get a kick out of working with children? If so, Lakewood City Schools could use you. The district’s elementary schools participate in Project MORE, a reading mentoring program that aims to boost literacy among students with disabilities and students at risk for reading failure, and they need adult volunteers to make it work. We are looking for adults who can give 30 minutes of their time, two days a week to read with students. More than 240 districts in the state are currently using Project MORE with great success. The program is affordable for districts while offering the one-on-one support these students need to be successful readers. If you are interested in being a reading mentor, please click here for more details and contact information.

Hayes Elementary PTO NEWS:

Thank you to all who attended our first PTO meeting. Our next meeting is Tuesday

October 8 at 7pm in the LRC we hope you come back.

The first fundraiser Market Day Seasons of Sharing went home at the end of

September~order forms are due back to school with payment Wednesday October 9th.

The Scholastic Book Fair will be at Hayes October 21st thru October 25th~more

information will be sent home shortly

Hayes PTO sponsored Fall Parties will be in the classroom on Thursday October 31st.

Your room parent will contact you shortly.

PTO DATES TO REMEMBER:

10/1 Market Day Pick Up 3-4pm

10/8 PTO Meeting 7pm

10/21-10/25 Book Fair

10/24 Market Day order forms due

10/29 Market Day Pick Up 3-4pm

10/31 Classroom Parties 230-3pm

CHOOL IN THE CINEMA:

Presented by the Lakewood Council of

PTAs

The Friends of Lakewood Public Library and the Lakewood Council of PTAs

are pleased to present School in the Cinema, a film series about education in

the United States and around the world. These documentary films examine education from several points of view.

We hope the series is thought-provoking and generates conversations about education in Lakewood and the world

beyond. Come share your thoughts.

Visit www.lakewoodpubliclibrary.org/film for more films.

Brooklyn Castle (2012) Directed/Produced by Katie Dellamaggiore

Brooklyn Castle tells the stories of five members of the chess team at a below-the-poverty-line

inner city junior high school that has won more national championships than any other in the country. The film follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the chessboard, and is as much about the sting of their losses as it is about the anticipation of their

victories. Ironically, the biggest obstacle thrust upon them arises not from other competitors but from recessionary budget cuts to all the extracurricular activities at their school. BROOKLYN

CASTLE shows how these kids' dedication to chess magnifies their belief in what is possible for their lives. After all, if they can master the world's most difficult game, what can't they do?

Thursday, October 24th at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

American Promise (2013) Directed by Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson

American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American

parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way

through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys' divergent paths from

kindergarten through high school graduation at Manhattan's Dalton School, this provocative, intimate documentary

presents complicated truths about America's struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportunity.

TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (2007) Directed by Kim Longinotto

Variety describes it as a film "mixing ferocity with tenderness, delicacy with tenacity" — exactly like the unusual

school it explores. In Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, one of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers takes a vérité

look at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. Mulberry's heroically forbearing staff

greets extreme, sometimes violent behavior with only consolation and gentle restraint. Kim Longinotto's

unblinking camera captures an arduous process and a nearly unhinged environment, but it also records the daily

dramas of troubled kids trying to survive and the moments of hope they achieve with Mulberry's clear-eyed staff.

Thursday, November 21st at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium