Crestwood Primary School News

Striving to meet the needs of Every Child, Every Day

April 2011 Volume 1, Issue 7

Crestwood Primary School

11256 Bowen Road

Mantua OH 44255

330.422.3104

330.274.2537

FAX 330.27.3824

www.crestwood.sparcc.org

Mrs. Trivelli

Principal

Miss Gordon

Guidance Counselor

Mrs. Gries

Mrs. Simpson

School Secretaries

Mrs. Ondash

School Nurse

Board Office

330.274.8511

Bus Garage

330.274.2776

Crestwood Primary School April Newsletter

Dear Parents,

April showers bring May flowers! Let’s hope we have finally seen the last of the snow that we have had all winter. All of the students are starting to notice the signs of spring around our building with the buds that are beginning to sprout.

Our parent information night for children entering kindergarten in the fall will be on Thursday, April 7th at 6:00 p.m. in our cafeteria. The evening will begin with a presentation from our kindergarten teachers, as well as the school nurse. The PTO will again invite parents to join and participate in our school community. Parents will have the opportunity to complete unfinished paper-work, as well as tour the building.

If you know of any parent who has not yet picked up a registration packet please encourage them to call the school office or go to the district website at www.crestwoodschool.org. The kindergarten information will be on the main page and the Primary School link.

Finally, Friday, April 29th the Outdoor Education Committee will be hosting the annual Earth Day celebration. This after school event has many activities for families. The PTO will also be assisting and volunteering at the various sta-tions set up on the Primary and Intermediate campus. Please look for further information coming home about this event.

Preschool:

The preschool children have been busy with transition meetings to prepare for Kindergarten. The preschoolers have also been working with the 5th grade Charge students to learn the letters of the alphabet and numbers.

Crestwood Primary

Kindergarten:

Math- We have been working hard on calendar activities and money. The students are learning the coins and how much they are worth. Science- We went on a habitat hike with Mr. Sorrick. We looked for animal tracks and found many in the snow. Reading- We are working hard on letters, sounds and sight words. We are also working on writing words and sentences. We encourage all students to work on IXL Math at home.

First Grade:

First graders have been busy learning new vowel combinations in words, writing paragraphs, and celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday. We have been practicing money concepts and exploring force and motion with mag-nets. Students are participating in the Flat Stanley project and learning about special cities and places all over the country.

Dr. Seuss Week in First Grade!

The first grade students in Mrs. Picone’s and Miss Benton’s class celebrated the books of Dr. Seuss during the week of his birthday, March 2nd. Some stories read were: Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, If I Ran the Zoo and There’s a Wocket in My Pocket. Both classes integrated that week’s lessons and skills into learn-ing about the books of Dr. Seuss. We had a great time learning rhyming skills, long vowels, painting animals that we would put in the zoo and eating green eggs and ham too! Mrs. Trivelli came in and read a Dr. Seuss book to our class, titled I Can Read With My Eyes Shut.

First Graders created characters based on Mrs. Trivelli reading to first graders.

If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss.

Mrs. Picone’s class in their “cat hats” based on the story, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Second Grade:

The second graders are busy learning about the Earth and Space. They have been observing and filling out a moon journal at home. Social Studies lessons are focusing on economics. Mr. Booher's room is working in groups to create a city. Other classes made and sold friendship bracelets to raise money for a classmate who moved. Many different St. Patrick's Day activities took place. All second grade students have just completed two weeks of testing. The Iowa and CogAT tests will now be sent off for grading.

Community Service Project:

The young entrepreneurs in Ms. Boyle’s and Mrs. Grebb’s second grade have been busy crocheting bracelets to meet the demand of the new business, Friendship Bracelets. The business began after the students ex-pressed an interest in helping one of their friends, Emily Ziska, who until recently had been a student in Mrs. Grebb’s class. Emily’s baby sister, Isabella was born with a rare autoimmune disease. Isabella is currently being treated in Cincinnati and Emily’s family has relocated to be near her. The students wanted to do some-thing to help Emily and the idea of using their new found crocheting skills to make friendship bracelets to sell was born. Many different skills go into making the bracelets. The children had to measure the length of the yarn, advertise for the business by making posters and doing morning announcements over the loud speaker.

The students also had to count money and make change during the sale. Many economic terms were also reinforced during this project. For example the classes experienced a scarcity of bracelets when they sold out on the first day of the sale, even though they had made 300 bracelets! This experience made the topic of supply and demand and the difference between consumers and producers more concrete for the students. Most importantly, the students learned to think of others to make a difference! The second graders raised $550.00 for the family!!

Thank you for your continued support of Crestwood Primary School. Please feel free to contact me at 330-422-3104 or at btrivelli@crestwoodschools.org if you should have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Beth Trivelli

Congratulations to these students for being “caught in the act” in the

month of March!

Grade K Grade 1 Grade 2 Emily Ballentine Jynx Bretz Brianna Bates Angelina DiGrino Evan Daniels Brooke Behnke Emmett Doyle Tara Gall Paige Besmen Brendan Fejes Vincent Giulitto Summer Daniels Molly Gilles Jackson Hager Madison Davis Olivia Glova Isabella Kotkowski Megan Dolan Kevin Hesler Jason Latine Lydia Faldowski

Grayson Hoover Iris Lind Lydia Griffin Bruce Kachenko Danny Masiello Isaac Guyette Kylee Kading Allie Owen Megan Hale

Dash Katz Shannon Reddick Ryan Hopkins McKayla Lawson Timmy Sommer Wyatt Hunter Madison Robertson Carmen Wolff Devyn Kashery Ella Leister Joey Wolff Ally Sabol Olivia Sayre Jacob Zamora Jilliane Soboro Adon Semety Justin Zito Maggie Turpel Hunter Yoder

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Robyn Gregel

Treasurer Treasurer Treasurer Treasurer

Gwen Mason

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Jodi Masiello

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Laura Pheneger

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Annette Thompson

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Carolyn Wysong

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Jennifer Latine

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Michelle Stone

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Jennifer Latine

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Amy Graves

Cathie Smith

Fall FestivalFall FestivalFall FestivalFall Festival

Debbie Tracy

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Annette Thompson

April’s Classroom Guidance Topic is Careers

This month K-1 students will learn what it means to work and why people work. They will also be introduced to some of the different careers that people have today. Exposure to careers at an early age is beneficial in preparing our students for the world of work. Many of the skills they are learning here in elementary school will be skills they will need to use when they enter the world of work.

**Second grade students will learn about careers in May.**

Body Safety Lessons

Ms. Heather Lanfranchi, Child Violence Prevention Specialist from Townhall II in Kent will be visiting our school April 27-29. She will be talking to all second grade classes about body safety. Look for more information to come about these lessons.

Turnoff TV Week

Purpose: Turnoff TV Week is about spending more quality time with your family and do-

ing activities that do not involve the TV, video or computer games! It’s an opportunity for fami-lies to come together to have some fun!

How: To participate in this all you need to do is turn off your TV and join in a variety of alter-

native fun family activities (see below!)

When: April 18th -21st, look for more information in early April.

Still not convinced? Check out these statistics!!

Average time kids spend watching TV each day: 4 Hours

Children spend more time watching TV than in any other activity except: sleep

Percentage of kids with TV in their bedroom: 54

Percentage of Americans that regularly watch TV while eating dinner: 66

The average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day. In a 65-year life, that

person will have spent 9 years glued to the TV.

Fun Family Activities

• Visit the library and check out fun books to read for the week

• Put together a puzzle

• Bake cookies with your family

• Have a sleepover with friends

• Play cards or board games

• Make crafts

• Ride your bike, take a walk, or visit the playground

• Plan a dinner menu where everyone can help make dinner

• Get together with kids in the neighborhood and play an outside game

• Write letters or make cards for family/friends out of town

And many more…

Counselor’s Corner

Volume 1, Issue 7

Upcoming Events

Market Day Thurs. April 7th 5:30-6:30 p.m.

This is a Thursday pick-up rather than the usual Tuesday.

Kindergarten Parent Information Night Thurs. April 7th 6:00 p.m.

There will be a “Kindergarten Parent Information Night” for parents on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at the Crest-

wood Primary School cafeteria. NO child care services will be available at this time. All questions can be directed to the Crest-

wood Primary School at 330-422-3104.

Next PTO Meetings Thurs. April 14th 2:15 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Please note there will be an evening PTO meeting this month in addition to the afternoon meeting. If you haven’t been able

to attend meetings before due to the afternoon meeting time, this is your chance! We want to see new faces and inform you on how

you can be involved.

Spring Food Drive Week of April 11th-15th

Please bring in canned goods and non-perishable food items for a spring 4C food drive! 4C’s will receive additional funds to

match each item brought in! This is a great way to help out our community at this time. The PTO and 4C’s greatly appreciates

everyone’s generosity during the fall food drive and we look forward to another successful drive this spring. Boxes for the non-

perishable food items will be placed at the ends of each hallway.

Earth Day Celebration Fri. April 29th 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Crestwood Outdoor Education Committee presents our Earth Day Celebration April 29 4:30-6:30 at the Crestwood Elemen-tary School Campus! Please join us for an afternoon of celebration for our Earth. Our Earth Day celebration consists of Several educational hands on stations including crafts, face painting, nature investigations, and even habitat hikes. We have several outside agencies visiting presenting information at the stations. The PTO is providing food for purchase at the event and there will be a limited supply of t-shirts (see attached T-shirt design flyer) and tote bags available for purchase. Please plan to join us! A great deal of time and planning goes into our celebration. It is a special event entirely for the children.

Spring Box Top Contest

Here’s the scoop: Our last box top contest was such a success that we thought we’d do it again.

The contest will run April 4-15th. So look for box top sheets to be coming home with your child after

Spring Break! The top three classes will each win an ice cream party! Couldn’t ask for better incentive

than that.

WHOOOOOOO ARE YOU?

Mrs. Brugmann's kindergarten class finally got to go outside for a habitat hike in March looking for animal evidence. The students were sooooo excited to find owl pellets, which ac-cording to our nature expert Matt Sorrick of Hiram college were Barred Owl pellets. We have a real stuffed Barred Owl diorama from the Cleveland Natural History Museum visiting

our class.

In honor of Earth Day, the month of April has been designated as “Science

Month” at CPS. Each week there will be a different science theme that focuses on

plants, animals, rocks and minerals, and earth conservation. Students will learn

about each of these themes and participate in various environmental science ac-

tivities. Please be sure to attend our 7th annual Earth Day Celebration on Friday

April 29th from 4:30-6:30pm at CPS. We will wrap up our Science Month with “Go

Green” week, which features daily environmental themes. More details are to fol-

low about this month’s exciting activities.

National Run a Mile Day

May 6th 2011

5:00pm

Crestwood High School track

Crestwood All Sports Boosters will sponsor Crestwood Youth Track in national Run a Mile Day for all students ages K-8th grade. This is a national event to honor the breaking of the 4 minute mile. The event is free and all participants will receive a certificate of completion. So come on out and run a mile with us!!! Information will be coming home with students and will be available at the schools. Questions can be referred to Mrs.Thigpen 330-274-2249 or Mrs. Ondash 330-274-3103.

Hershey Track Camp

June 13-18

Crestwood High School track

Crestwood All Sports Boosters will sponsor Crestwood Youth Track in hosting a Hershey Track camp and meet in June. This is a 4 day camp culminating in 2 meets. Friday will be ages K-8 and Sat-urday will be ages 9-14. We will work on skills in a variety of events and athletes will choose up to 3 events for the meet. Ages 9-14 can qualify for the Hershey State Meet in Columbus by winning their event on Saturday. Information will be coming home with students and will be available at the schools. Questions can be referred to Mrs. Thigpen 330-274-2249 or Mrs. Ondash 330-422-4103

Earth Day T-Shirt Sale

Our Earth Day T-Shirt Sale ended March 25th, however, I can still take orders until April 7th. T shirts are Tie died blue and green with children holding hands all around the outside circle of the Earth. The image was designed by 2nd students Nolan Wysong and Megan Dolan. There is an Earth message. T-shirts are 10.00. Checks are to be made to RDP Sports. Sizes available are YOUTH S M L or ADULT S M L XL XXL. You may send orders or checks into me by April 7th. Students will receive their shirts prior to our Earth Day Celebration on April 29th.

Kindergarten Sunflower House Help

After 7 years of doing the preparing, rototilling, and mulching, Mrs. Brugmann is in search of a parent or parents who would take over the preparation of the sunflower house. Please contact Mrs. Brugmann at cbrugmann@crestwoodschools.org if you would be inter-ested in preparing our sunflower circle here at school in April so we can do our planting in mid May.

Earth Day Volunteers Needed

Our 7th annual Earth Day Celebration will be held on Friday April 29, 2011 from 4:30-6:30pm. We have several hands-on learning stations planned for kids and families to en-joy. We are looking for volunteers to help run them during the celebration. If you are inter-ested, please contact Natalie Harr at nharr@crestwoodschool.org. The Outdoor Education

Committee appreciates your

support!

Mrs. Curfman is collecting clean, flat, bottle caps from glass bottles. (She will be spray painting them, so it doesn't matter what they are.) She will be using these in an Earth Day project at the school cele-bration. Caps are needed by April 16.

Have and old cell phone or used ink cartridges to throw away? Students are collecting these items to

earn money for Crestwood schools. Collection boxes will be distributed and drop off locations will be

announced soon. For further information contact Annette Thompson at 330-298-3151.