Meadow Hall Staff Newsletter

A huge Congratulations to Suchita Vozenilek for winning the "Outstanding Paraeducator" award! She is a huge asset to our Autism program and we are lucky to have her here and working with our students. Way to go, Suchita!!!

Click on the link for information on our new ELA curriculum CKLA (Content Knowledge Language Arts). Please make sure you have signed up for ELA summer training.

PDO # 92428 All Classroom Teachers, ELD, Special Educators

PDO # 92297 Planning Alternate Learning Outcomes (ALO) with the new curriculum

PDO#92429 DIBELS training for any teacher not yet trained

We are delighted to let you know that the Meadow Hall ES class photos are now online for viewing and purchasing. Now that the pre-orders have been sent home, please send this information to your parents. The flyer is attached, with a hyper-link to view the galleries.

Or, to view the Class photos, go to www.freedpics.com

Enter the password: MEADOW24CL

Time to start promoting culture night! Attached are the entry form and packet.

Attendance Updates – Asynchronous Learning Day and Take Your Child to Work Day

I received the below information this morning related to attendance taking for both today’s asynchronous learning day and Thursday’s Take Your Child to Work Day. This information was also shared with your principals.

• Asynchronous Learning Day, April 22 – Student attendance is defaulted to Present. Students have up to 10 school days to submit work. The teachers will notify you of students whose attendance needs to be updated at the end of that time period.

• Take Your Child to Work Day, April 25 - The parent/guardian must submit an attendance note indicating that the student was absent from school to participate in Take Your Child to Work Day. Once the note is received, you will update the student’s attendance for that day to EXC (excused).

Move Up Morning is an opportunity for grade-level teams to share expectations with students as they prepare for the next school year. It is a chance for students to ask questions about the next grade level. Each grade level will visit the next year's teachers.

Save the Date: Friday, May 3rd

Please click here for the detailed plan.

New Reading Curriculum Demo Account Information

MCPS is excited to adopt Amplify CKLA across PreK-5 ELA classrooms and Amplify Boost Reading K-5 for the 2024-2025 SY. Click here if you would like an opportunity to explore curriculum pacing, assessments, scope and sequence and more by setting up a Demo account.

Please make sure you have signed up for ELA required summer training.

PDO #92428 REQ: New Elementary English Language Arts Curriculum Implementation for Educators (In-person)

There will be a planned monthly update to the Performance Matters platform on April 27th. Included in the update is a change to some of the features in OLA Student Status that are expected to improve the functionality and workflow of the platform. We would like to inform you of these changes prior to them going into effect. The changes are described below.

Change #1: In OLA Student Status, the word SUBMITTED will be replaced with the word SCORING. You will see this change when viewing the “buckets” and in the Choose an Action drop down in OLA Student Status. You will also likely see this change in the Assessment Completion Report.

Change #2: Once the word change from SUBMITTED to SCORING goes into effect, users will no longer have the ability to manually move student assessments from Submitted/Scoring to In Progress. Users can only move students to In Progress once the assessment has a Finished status.

IT'S CONCERT SEASON!

Meadow Hall 4th and 5th graders in instrumental music and chorus are excited to show off what they have learned at the spring concert on Monday, May 13th. We will have an in-school concert for students during the day, and then will have our evening concert for families, staff, and community members at 7:00pm in the Rockville High School auditorium.

Please remind your students of proper audience etiquette for the in-school concert (quiet and listening while students are playing, clapping at the end of songs, and congratulating performers on a job well done), and come support our students for a musical evening! If you are available to help out with shuffling groups of kids and supervising those waiting to play during the day or at RHS in the evening, please let myself (Isabela Rey) and Maestro (EJ Wogaman) know. We appreciate your support of the arts here at Meadow Hall!

Career day is scheduled for Monday, June 10th. If you know anyone that would be willing to be part of Career day, please let Ayoka know. Here is the sign up link for volunteers, please share:

https://forms.gle/cpNdKTbvhVCMETDJ8

Please send out the permission slip and payment information on Tuesday, 4/23. Extra copies can be found in the workroom.

We are encouraging all families to pay online- the directions are attached to the permission slip- if they need support, they can contact the office.

When students bring back the permission slip, please indicate it somehow (placing an X or Y) in the “permission slip” column next to their name with the date returned on this sheet. Ms. Ainsworth will reconcile the list of those who paid online before the workshops. If students bring in cash or check, teachers need to fill out this form AND record the amount/date on the sheet under the correct heading (“cash amt” or “check amt”) All money must be brought to Renifer by 1:30pm on the day they bring it in.

The cost of the workshop is $9.

May 14th : Election Day Bake Sale

May 21st 5pm - 9pm: Giuseppi's fundraiser

May 23rd: 5th grade students visit Wood MS

May 30th : 5th grade field trip to Washington D.C.

June 11th 6pm - 7pm: 5th grade promotion at RHS

June 12th : 5th grade celebration at Meadow Hall (during the school day)

It's that time of year! MCAP testing begins April 8th and MAP testing begins May 6.

FY24 Spring Testing Dates – check to see the dates for each test

Teacher/Locations for MCAP – check to see who is testing and which locations are being used

Next PTA meeting will be on Tuesday, May 7th at 7pm

Mad Science - forms should be sent home by now

Complete April 22nd PD for MCEA members - Due May 10

Monday, May 6

- Patrol Picnic

May 6 -10

- Staff Appreciation Week

Monday, May 13

- Instrumental Music and Chorus Concert @ 7pm at Rockville HS

Tuesday, May 14

- No School

May 15-17

- mini-Scholastic Book Fair

Thursday, May 16

- Family Culture Night

Wednesday, May 22

- Field Day

Thursday, May 30

- Grade 3 Field Trip

- Grade 5 Field Trip

Email: Ilana_N_Simhon@mcpsmd.org
Website: https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/meadowhalles/
Location: 951 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD, USA
Phone: 240-740-5260