March 1 - Kindergarten and Alt Kindergarten Registration Open

March 1 - Youth Art Month

March 10 - No School for Students - Teacher PD

March 17 - St. Patrick's Day

March 21 - Monthly PTO Meeting

March 29 & 30 - 3rd Grade ELA Ohio State Test

News from Mr. Campbell

Starting this month our SRO Officer Nichols will be here everyday. We have so happy to welcome him to our Edgewood family!

March begins out State testing season. Here are some tips to make sure your child is ready for their OSTs:

• The night before do something fun!

• Go to bed early

• Wake up with a smile

• Eat a healthy breakfast

• Sing a happy song

• Show what you know

• Try your best and check your work

• Be positive … You got this!

Below is our State Testing schedule:

3rd Grade ELA - March 28th & 29th

3rd Grade Math - April 25th & 26th

4th Grade ELA - April 18th & 19th

4th Grade Math - April 27th & 28th

This month’s PTO meeting will be held Tuesday, March 21st at 4:30 PM. Our PTO is still looking for people to work as co-chairs for our officer positions. If you have interest in taking a more active role in the PTO this is a great opportunity to do so.

If you have not had a chance to participate as a Watch D.O.G. this year, or if you haven’t since the new year and you would like to give it a try please reach out to our Lead D.O.G. Grey Huston. You can reach him via email at grey.e.huston@gmail.com. Thanks again Grey for leading this work for us.

Dean of Students

The first 2 months of 2023 have flown by! Students have been focused on problem solving during their Second Step lessons this past month. When kids start to identify problems and develop solutions on their own, they can reduce conflict, stress and anxiety. Developing problem solving skills will be important as we start to get outside with the warmer weather. Take some time to talk to your kids about how they can solve problems at recess, at home, with friends, and even with their schoolwork.

News from the Nurse

⛄It’s cold outside! Make sure you are layering your kiddo up and sending them with a hat and gloves so they are warm at recess.❄️

Clothing items in the clinic are limited. Please consider always keeping a change of clothing in your child's backpack. No matter what grade they are in. Spills, puddles, rips, and accidents can happen to anyone! Be sure to check as the weather changes that the extra clothes are appropriate for the temperatures outside. If your child does borrow clothes from the clinic, please wash and return them so that I have things available for the next student that needs them.

**I will always gladly take any donations of clothing items!

Cough drops: If you are sending in cough drops into school with your student, please be sure to make sure the cough drops are nonmenthalated and are not the lollipop kind. A good brand to go for is Luden’s. Also be sure to include a signed note giving your permission to administer the cough drops to your student.

Birthday reminder: We love celebrating birthdays! We do not allow food treats to be sent in anymore but we are always happy to pass out nonfood items such as pencils, stickers, crayons, plastic toys, crafts or fidgets. Please reach out to your child's teacher for guidance or recommendations.

Student Absences

Student Absences: If your child is going to be absent from school, you will need to report the absence on the absence hotline at 937-578-6815 or

email EdgewoodAttendance@mevsd.us. Please state the student’s name, your name, teacher’s name and reason for the absence. You need to report your student’s absence prior to 8:55 AM. The absence line is available 24 hours a day for your convenience.
If you have a doctor’s appointment, please ask for a dr. excuse so the absence can be coded as a dr’s excused absence

We wrapped up our unit on Arctic animals and we have enjoyed some fun Valentine books, now moving onto Mo Willems. We will read pigeon, piggy, elephant, and knuffle bunny books. Soon we will begin a unit on fairy tales covering the three little pig stories and many other fairy tales. With our writing, we continue to work on our 5 star sentences. Begin our sentence with a capital letter, use a space in between our words, spell sight words correctly, stretch out unknown words to write the sounds we hear, and ending punctuation. In Math, we are continuing with our fact challenge while working on continuing with comparing numbers, non standard measurement, and solving addition/subtraction word problems. Few notes below:

Snack and water: please follow the allergy safe snack list and only send in water (juice gets sticky in the room

Recess: Please remember that the weather is getting chillier and we will go outside as much as possible for recess. Please send kids to school with coats, hats, and gloves when appropriate. If you are in need of any of those things, let us know and we can figure something out for your student.

Dr. Suess week is coming up so be on the lookout for more information about that in our classroom newsletters.

Weather: Please remember that the weather is getting chillier and we will go outside as much as possible for recess. Please send kids to school with coats, hats, and gloves when appropriate. If you are in need of any of those things, let us know and we can figure something out for your student.

Snack and Water Bottles: Also, we are still doing a mid-morning snack to help us focus and keep learning until our 12:30 lunch time. Water bottles are still highly encouraged but please no juice, tea, or pop.

We have been learning more about main idea and details. We've learned a lot about silent e and starting to learn about vowel teams. In writing we are swinging back to persuasive writing and will have a book review party to try to persuade another class to love our favorite book as much as we do. In math we are learning about measuring with objects and working hard on our math fact fluency. In social studies we are learning about maps and landforms.

As always please let us know if you have any questions!

2nd graders' SEL lessons remain focused on problem solving and finding solutions that are fair, respectful, and safe. Math continues adding and subtracting three digit numbers. Students should review telling time and recognizing coins and their values. In Reading students have learned to compare and contrast two different nonfiction texts. We are moving on to the author’s purpose: entertain, inform, or persuade. In writing students write directional steps to complete a task. Social Studies introduced landforms and map skills. Their final project is creating their own country using their new map skills Remember to read 20 minutes each night and log the minutes down in their Book- It calendar.

Weather: We will go outside as much as possible for recess. Please send kids to school with coats, hats, and gloves when appropriate. Also, an extra set of clothes in their book bag or cubby is always a good idea in case your child gets wet at recess or has a spill at lunch.

Important Dates for 3rd graders:

March 29th & 30th - State Reading Test

April 26th & 27th - State Math Test

Third grade students have been having a fact fluency competition. All classes have been doing a fantastic job and have either passed their goal or are 1-2% away from their goal. In math, we have been working on finding the area of a rectangle and will move on to finding the perimeter of a shape soon. In reading, we have been working on using comparing & contrasting in both non-fiction and fiction texts. In writing, we are completing our writing camp leading up to the state test. We are reviewing everything we have learned: Correct punctuation & capitalization, writing a topic sentence or restating a question, being able to provide reasons & examples to back up our topic sentence as well as writing a proper conclusion.

4th Grade SEL lessons in February continued to work on Problem Solving. During these SEL lessons students learned the STEP process for solving conflicts that they might encounter. (S - say the problem, T - think of different solutions, E - Explore the outcomes of the solutions, P - pick a solution). Please help to encourage your student to use the STEP process; especially when it comes to friendship problems at recess. In writing we are starting our Famous Ohioan research project. Students each have selected a person to research and write an informative essay. Then they will participate in a Wax Museum presentation; more information will be provided as the project progresses. As a reminder students should be reading 20 minutes and fill out their reading log; homework is handed out on Monday and is due the last day of the school week.