Piney Point Weekly
Week of November 1-5, 2021
Upcoming Important Dates
Thursday, November 4 - PTA Spirit Night at Olde Town Pub 4:00-9:00pm
Running Club for students in K-5
Piney Point families, let’s welcome fall with some outdoor fun! In order to continue growth in fitness awareness we are offering the Piney Point Elementary School Running Club for students K-5. Parents must volunteer if the student is in K-1st. Fall practices will be held on Monday afternoons beginning November 8th and continue through December 13th. Registration is on a first come first serve basis, we will accept the first 40 students, for the safety of our runners.
Students are expected to demonstrate respectful and responsible behavior during running club. If a child does not consistently follow these expectations, they will be dismissed from the club. It is a privilege to participate.
Please use the link below for more information and the registration form. The registration form is due November 4th.
Math Night
Math Night at Piney Point
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Time: 5:30 - 7
Location: PPES Cafeteria/Gym
Join us for a fun-filled evening of math activities! Students and family members will have the opportunity to move from station-to-station to play games to help enrich math skills. Mathnasium will be providing raffle gifts and prizes. Our PPES PTA will provide goodie bags for all who attend.
Hope to see you there!
Math Ideas at Home
Need a way to get your child more excited about building math skills at home? A deck of playing cards might just be the answer. These types of math card games work for little ones and older kids alike, Playing games provide opportunities to build social skills and as well as practice basic fact fluency. Try a few!
For our primary students (K-2)
Match to Make Eleven - Lay out three rows of three cards each, face up. Then check to see if you can find any two cards that add up to eleven. If so, remove those cards and set aside. Replace them with new cards from the deck. Continue until you run out of cards or cannot make any more matches.
Flip and Add one or Subtract One - There are a few versions of this basic addition and subtraction game. Start with add one or subtract one: Remove the face cards from the deck. Flip a card. If it’s red, add one and say the sum out loud. If it’s black, subtract one and say the difference out loud. Get the amount correct? You get to keep the cards! You can increase the difficulty of each group by changing the amount you add/subtract. Try 5s and 10s as well.
For our intermediate students (3-5)
Turnover and multiply: This game works best in pairs. One person flips two cards from the deck. The first person to multiply (or add, depending on what you want to practice) values correctly and call out the answer wins and takes both cards. Play continues until all the cards are gone, and the winner is the one with the most cards. See example below: 7 x 4 = 28 (7 + 4 = 11)
Declare a Fraction War - War is one of the original math card games, but this version adds a fraction aspect. Players deal two cards, a numerator and denominator, then determine whose fraction is the largest. The winner keeps all four cards, and play continues until the cards are gone.
Jingle Bell Run in Solomons, MD
Want to enjoy the fresh winter weather along with supporting our community? Come join fellow staff members and Beacon runners at the Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis in Solomons, MD on December 11th. Not feeling like running? Walk! Walking not an option? Come cheer your fellow Beacons on! We love community support no matter how you choose to show it.
Sign up under the team name, "PPES Beacons". Let's work together and support one another with getting active! :) Link for Sign Up
School Nurse Updates
COVID-19 Processes
St. Mary's County Public Schools COVID-19 protocols for Staff and Students are based upon MDH and MSDE Guidance.
When Will My Child Be Sent Home From School Related to COVID?
The school nurse follows the MDH and MSDE Guidance when seeing students in the health suite with COVID-19 symptoms. As outlined in the document, COVID-19 symptoms are any ONE of the following:
fever of 100.4 F or higher
sore throat
cough
difficulty breathing
diarrhea
vomiting
new onset of severe headache (especially with fever)
new loss of taste or smell
When Should I Keep My Child Home From School?
Do not send your child to school if your child is experiencing ANY signs/symptoms of illness. If your child required fever-reducing medication within the past 24 hours to maintain a normal body temperature, your child should NOT be in school.
Please contact Nurse Erica if you have any questions.
PTA Updates
Upcoming Events:
November 4th- Olde Town Pub Spirit Night (4:00 -9:00 p.m.) https://fb.me/e/4vphzTDS3
November 9th- Sweet Frog Spirit Night (4:00 -9:00 p.m.) https://fb.me/e/1AI2xOHKC
Information from past weekly newsletters
Please communicate with the school when your child is absent.
Parent Volunteers
https://www.smcps.org/safety-and-security/volunteer-information
SMCPS Student Device and Resources
https://www.smore.com/c7uap-resource-accountability
SMCPS Technology and Schoology Success Steps for the Beginning of the Year:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EEpoXgdWlw3TPTuuRW79v23KtxglHk2AiES2CGKOHf8/edit
Home Access Center (HAC)
Piney Point Elementary
44550 Tall Timbers Road
Tall Timbers, MD 20690
School phone 301-994-2205