The School District has

received additional flexibility

and has expanded food

service meal sites and

times. The following loca-

tions will be serving Grab

and Go meals for all chil-

dren 18 and under.

LOCATIONS

BAKER Baker School

LAUREL HILL

Laurel Hill School

CRESTVIEW

Northwood ES, Riverside ES

NICEVILLE/VALP

Lewis School, Plew ES

DESTIN Destin ES

FORT WALTON BEACH Wright ES, Edwins ES,

Mary Esther ES

MEAL PICKUP TIMES

Weekdays from 7:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

*State food service guidelines require the student to be

present in order for meals to be distributed.

Principal Notes We sure do miss you! I hope you enjoyed some family time over spring break.

In an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Governor DeSantis made the decision to close public school campuses until May 1, and possibly beyond. This decision was made in an abundance of caution as a preventative measure to limit the spread of illness in our community.

The good news is online learning will continue. Today as I write this, the first day of online learning….Plew has over 600 students logged in and working on their course work! Please reach out to your teacher first if you are experiencing any kind of difficulty, if they can’t an-swer your questions call the Tech help desk: 850-897-2966. If you still need an iPad, call Plew and set up an appointment ASAP! We are here to help!

These are challenging times, but we’re going to work through them together. Plew is more than a school—we are a family, and we’ll continue to learn and grow until we can be to-gether again. With compassion and grace, Mrs. Matz!

Online learning is underway. Students 4th 9 weeks grades will be determined based on student performance on Odysseyware (ELA and Math), Social Studies Weekly and Sci-ence Pearson. Continue to check your child’s teachers’ OCSD Online As-signments folder on our website.

~Laura King, Assistant Principal

Mrs. Graham

She’s a really great teacher and has done a great job communicating with myself, and my student. ~Anna Dezalia

Mrs. Guyer

My favorite teacher! She is always supportive and patient! ~Katie Darnall

Mrs. Harper

She writes up and takes care of the honor roll. Jody also helps me ALL the time.

~Jami Nespoli

Mrs. Rodgers

She cares about all of her students. Her compassion for them is evident! She is amazing! ~Cyndi and Gabe Garner

Please have your child complete ALL required course work online in order to receive grades for the last 9 weeks.

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

COUNSELOR’S CORNER

Plew Panthers-

I know you are working hard with your online studies. Please know you have a lot of people that care about you and want to help you. As you are learning online and overcoming obstacles you may need someone to talk to about these new changes. Remember the safe adults in your life that can be good listen-ers. Also, I would love for you to visit my OSCD Online Assignments under the Plew homepage (I am under “Special Areas”). I have lots of books on video with various themes about feelings and situations you may be going through now. Parents, I have a Parent Resource page under my assignments too. Please visit my page. If you would like to talk to me, please email your classroom teacher or email me directly at Heather.McClaren@okaloosaschools.com

I look forward to supporting you in this new adventure!

SPEECH

Now might be a good time to have a guide on suggested media times for spe-cific ages from the American Academy of Pediatrics. There is also a link on how media affects communication!

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/media/Pages/default.aspx

https://blog.asha.org/2018/02/26/help-families-find-a-screen-time-balance/

~Anita DeVuyst, M.S., CCC/SLP

FRONT OFFICE

Students, Parents/Guardians:

We just wanted to say that we miss your beautiful faces and hope that you are doing well and getting through online learning. Please don’t hesitate to call us in the Front Office if you need anything. We’re here for you! Office Hours 7:30am-3:00pm; Phone:850-833-4100

~Ms. Love and Mrs. Morton

We have 199 library books still

checked out. Please help us get

them all returned. Overdue books

may be dropped off in the box by the

front office from 7:30am-3pm, M-F. If

your reader has lost or damaged book

(s), please make payment to Plew

Elementary. Should you locate the

lost books and they are in good condi-

tion, we will gladly refund your mon-

ey.

Music, Art, Library, and PE have cre-ated a Facebook group to see what our Panthers are doing at home dur-ing school closures. If you would like

to join, search Plew SPECIALS on Facebook. You will be asked to an-

swer 2 questions before being able to complete your join request. Thanks

for supporting our Special Area Teachers!!!

Our third graders raised $771.01 (in change!) for the Choctawhatchee

Basin Alliance!

Fifth grade is sad to report that due to an abundance of caution and un-der the direction of the CDC and the Governor, Space Camp will be closed through May 22. As a result, our camp trip had to be cancelled. We apologize for any inconven-ience. A full refund will be issued. Your child's homeroom teacher will be in contact with you soon with more details. ~Your 5th grade teachers

Coke Update

Please continue to help us by col-lecting Coke product caps, codes from cardboard packages and the black square from the bottom of

Dasani water cases.

Also, continue to save/scan receipts for Box Tops.

HELPFUL HINTS FOR ONLINE LEARNING

Elementary 3-31-2020

ClassLink access to Odysseyware should be working; we are finding that some users are not waiting for the Sin-gle-Sign On process to complete (up to 10 seconds) when they click on the Odysseyware App in ClassLink before attempting to move forward or closing the app and assuming the SSO does not work.

<<<<Odysseyware student app in ClassLink

If waiting does not resolve the issue and the student is stuck at the Odysseyware site, they can get through by entering their One Okaloosa ID/username (but in all lowercase letters). The password for Odysseyware is the word student, which also must be lowercase. This username and password configuration is specific to Odysseyware and will not work anywhere else. Again, try waiting up to 7 seconds when clicking the Odys-seyware link in ClassLink before trying this method.

On a district iPad, students should access ClassLink using the app that is installed on the device, not by going to ClassLink through the internet.

In addition, iPad users who are using their personal device may need to download the Classlink Launchpad app from the App Store.

Once a student is logged in to Odysseyware, if they actually click the sign out button, the single sign on will not work the next time. The student should just click the X at the top right of the page if they are a single user of the device and that will keep Odysseyware working for them.

For those using personal laptops, they may need to download the Chrome browser extension if they are using Chrome. They may also need to install the Classlink OneClick extension (from Google Chrome) found here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/classlink-oneclick-extens/jgfbgkjjlonelmpenhpfeeljjlcgnkpe?hl=en

For Chromebooks, if a student has a district-issued Chromebook but has never logged in to one on the network during the school year, they will not be able to log in at home. SOLUTION – The school may take any Chromebook and log in as the student on the network (student does not have to bring the exact chromebook back to school). Tell the student/parent to wait twenty (20) minutes and try to log in again. We are handling this issue when it is called in to the help desk.

If multiple students are using the same iPad, they must sign out of ClassLink before the next student can use the device.

To sign out -

HELP DESK 897-2966

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