The Lisbon Lines
December 18, 2020
Lisbon Elementary School
We are here to help!
Principal, Mrs. Anoff Debra_anoff@hcpss.org
Assistant Principal, Ms. Wright Lashonne_wright@hcpss.org
Principal's Secretary, Mrs. Johnson Christine_Johnson@hcpss.org
Teachers' Secretary, Mrs. Linda Drews Linda_drews@hcpss.org
Teachers' Secretary, Mrs. Johnson Karen_johnson@hcpss.org
Website: les.hcpss.org
Location: 15901 Frederick Road, Woodbine, MD 21797, USA
Phone: (410) 313-5506
Twitter: @hcpss_les
FROM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
This will be the final newsletter before the winter break, so I want to begin by wishing all our Lisbon families a safe and joyous Holiday Season! We hope each of you have a restful break that is filled with warmth, peace, and joy. During the break, I hope that you experience a slower pace with some time to relax and build fond memories that will be treasured in the years ahead. I know that the last four months have been an adventure for students, families, and teachers. I appreciate the faith you have put into our staff as we have navigated this very different school year.
We hope to continue to improve in the new year and we look forward to the opportunities that 2021 will offer.
We have reached the halfway point of the second grading period. Please ensure your child is caught up on all asynchronous assignments, so teachers do not have to spend time contacting you and your child of any missing work. As recommended, next week is a great time to get caught up on missing work since no additional asynchronous work will be assigned.
Our Lisbon Lines Newsletter will return in the new year on January 8, 2021.
Thank you for all of your involvement and your continued support. Wishing you a Joyous Holiday Season and a Happy New Year! Be well!
Mrs. Anoff
IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS
For a complete list of dates and events visit les.hcpss.org/calendar.
December 24 - January 1 - Winter Break - schools closed
January
- 4 - Schools Reopen
- 6 - Lisbon Parent Night (Virtual) 6:30-7:30 p.m.
- 13 - PTA Meeting (Virtual)
- 18 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - schools & offices closed
- 29 - Professional Work Day - schools closed
- 29- End of Second Quarter
NEW INFORMATION
Lisbon Parent Night~ Wednesday, January 6th from 6:30-7:30pm
We are so excited to invite all parents and caregivers who support students at Lisbon to our LES Parent Night on Wednesday, January 6th from 6:30-7:30pm. The LES Parent Night is an opportunity for families to connect in order to learn about available supports that will help make this school year successful. We will focus on topics such as Behavioral Health, Family-School Connectedness, and Social Emotional Skills including Resiliency, Positive Self-Image, and more! This presentation will be facilitated by our School Psychologists, Mary Nalepa and our School Counselor, Jessica Massey, using the Google Meet code: lesparentnight. Please remember, in order to join, you will need to use your child's HPCSS login information.
We hope you can join us! Please reach out to Ms. Massey if you have any questions.
Jessica Massey, School Counselor
jessica_massey@hcpss.org
Supporting Students During Virtual Learning~ Behavior Talks (Video Series)
Behavior Talks is a series of brief trainings created by HCPSS staff. Each video shares useful tips to promote student success related to behavior, social/emotional needs, organization/self-management at home, and more.
INFORMATION WORTH REPEATING
Elementary Student Workload during Virtual Instruction
Families, particularly of primary students, have expressed concerns about the virtual elementary workload including the complexity of asynchronous lessons, the number of content areas taught, and the number of weekly asynchronous assignments. In order to support elementary students with successfully navigating during virtual instruction, the following adjustments have been made:
- Students will only have asynchronous assignments in social studies, science, or health during a given week. There will not be an overlap of instruction or assignments for these content areas.
- Health lessons will be taught for one week during the marking period and include two synchronous lessons and two asynchronous lessons instead of five asynchronous lessons as assigned in the first quarter.
- The length and complexity of social studies, science, and health asynchronous assignments have been reduced.
- Related arts asynchronous assignments have been streamlined.
Instruction During the Week of December 21
During the week of December 21st, no asynchronous assignments in Content, ELA, Math, or Related Arts should be assigned to students. This includes Dreambox and LexiaCore.
Students will have synchronous Related Arts as scheduled but no asynchronous Related Arts assignments. Likewise, synchronous Social Studies instruction will occur on Monday, December 21 for grades K, 2, and 4 and on Tuesday, December 22 for grades 1, 3, and 5; however, there will not be Social Studies asynchronous follow up lessons.
Week of December 21... Great Time to Catch-Up
Do your kids have any missing work to still complete for school? Are they caught up on all assignments for ELA, math, science, social studies, health, art, music, PE, media, and technology? With no asynchronous work assigned during the week of December 21, this is a GREAT time to catch-up on any missed work. Teachers will be able to answer questions during the short week.
Students can submit assignments throughout the Winter Break, but teachers will not be able to check their work or respond to email until January 4.
Please do not wait until the end of the quarter to complete asynchronous work.
How HCPSS Supports Mental Health
HCPSS promotes the mental health and wellness of each of our students to develop their unique strengths, abilities, and characteristics towards success and well-being. Staff consider the variety of factors that impact a student’s functioning such as age, cultural background, social-emotional skills, academic outcomes, and access to resources.
Message from Ms. Massey & Mrs. Nalepa
We hope you’ve been doing well and staying safe during our present circumstances. We are looking forward to connecting with you.
We are available for individual student, parent, and family support. Please complete the appropriate form below if you would like to request an appointment time and we will be in contact in a timely manner with additional information. We are here to help and support all our LES families. Thank you.
Ms. Massey (LES School Counselor)
Form to complete to access Ms. Massey or email: jessica_massey@hcpss.org
Mrs. Nalepa (LES School Psychologist)
Form to complete to access Mrs. Nalepa or email: MNALEPA@HCPSS.ORG
Student's Preferred Names to be Displayed
Display of Student Preferred Name in Google, Synergy, and Canvas:
A new process will be enabled in January 2021 to allow students to show a preferred name in Synergy, Canvas and Google. Students can follow this process:
- Go to hcpss.me
- Go to Synergy
- Click on “Student Info” in the lower left
- Look for the “Preferred First Name” field to see what is there now.
- This name will show in Canvas and Google beginning the first week of January, 2021
- If you do not want this name to show or would like something else to show, contact your administrator by December 21, 2020.
- If you do want this name to show, you don’t need to do anything.
Note: The preferred name will carry over from year to year unless a change is requested. Once a requested change is made, that preferred name will remain for the student’s HCPSS career unless another change is requested through the school secretary/administrator.
For students who are transgender or gender non-binary, there is an additional procedure to mask their legal name and/or gender assigned at birth, providing additional confidentiality. If you think this may apply to you, please reach out to your school counselor to discuss. Let your counselor know that you are interested in learning about the presenting name option/masking process.
If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Anoff (debra_anoff@hcpss.org)
LISBON PTA INFORMATION
GIFTS OF GRATITUDE!!
Thanking a Lisbon Lions Staff member has never been easier!
Lisbon Elementary PTA is starting a new tradition to thank our staff members, The Gift of Gratitude Program.
This program is a convenient way for you to express your gratitude to the hard working and dedicated staff members at Lisbon Elementary. As you know, we do not have indoor access to the school, so we are accepting online contributions through Memberhub. You may also drop off a check or cash in the Lisbon PTA lock box in the LES vestibule. A donation form can be found on LisbonPTA.org under documents.
Simply enter the amount you would like to gift (min $1 per person/$5 per gift), provide the staff member(s) name and the amount you would like to designate to each member. If you wish to contribute to more than 5 staff members, just add another Gift of Gratitude to your cart.
Staff members will receive an Amazon Gift Card equal to the total contribution from all families that designated to gift to them. Your families name will be on the gift but not the donated amount.
We will send out the 1st gift cards to staff on December 23rd in time for the winter holidays, to be included in this gift please submit online by December 21st. Please email Heather Godwin, PTA treasurer at treasurer@lisbonpta.org
MemberHub Click this link to go to Gifts of Gratitude on Memberhub
PTA Points
· Teacher favorites have been posted on LisbonPTA.org. Most of the teachers and staff have filled out a favorites (and not favorites) form. If you are looking to buy a gift or send a sweet pick-me-up or wonder if your child’s teacher really likes pine scented candles, these forms will give you the answers.
· Fundraiser 2021, Lisbon Pride, Virtual 1-mile Fun run and 5k. We have a lot of ideas and a supportive group of parents and teachers who have given us information to plan and have a Virtual Run Fundraiser in April 2021. More information will be shared at the January 13th General meeting. If you would be like to be part of the 2021 planning or the planning committee for future races, please contact 1stVP@lisbonPTA.org.
· We will be collecting pet food and pet items for the Morgan Chapel UMC pet and food pantry through 12/22. If you have pet food that is open, but you will not use, you can tape it shut and the pet pantry will give it to a family. Food for all types of pets and pet needs are needed. Items can also be dropped off at Books with a Past in Glenwood during business hours. PLEASE DROP OFF BY 12/22.
· Lisbon White Pages. We are getting a Lisbon White Pages together to support our families and help when you are looking for a product or service and would like to support local businesses. This is free and will be available on the LisbonPTA.org site. If you would like to submit your business, service, product to the LWP or would like to maintain the LWP please email President@LisbonPTA.org and you will be sent the information needed.
· Donations to community outreach can be made anytime at MemberHub. Community outreach will provide food to Lisbon families whenever possible and we will continue to throughout the year.
· The PTA has a Scrips account that allows you to purchase E-gift cards that also have givebacks to the LES PTA to sign up open the shopwithscrip site and use the Lisbon PTA code. 65DCA4DB74233
· In our MemberHub Store, there are many store gift cards that can be purchased, and the PTA receives a give back. There are also a lot of items that can be purchased that giveback. Scroll through our givebacks portion of our Memberhub store.
· Bushy Park ES has invited Lisbon students to join free afterschool clubs run by Glenwood Jr. Scholars. Clubs include cooking/Baking, Lego, STEM/Engineering, Chess, and Drawing/painting. The google doc to signup can be found on our Facebook Group.
· Become a PTA member!! Volunteering is not required (but we would love if you did). Your membership and donations support Community Night, teacher reimbursements, Stem Night, cultural books and activities, and events that we can hold in-person and virtually. Please support your PTA at https://lisbonpta.new.memberhub.store/store. To pay by check or cash please print out the form at LisbonPTA.org. You can mail it to LES or drop off at the PTA drop box in the vestibule during school hours.
· Lisbon PTA has a clothing and textile bin at the LES parking lot. Getting rid of old, worn, useable, and unusable clothes, Textiles, shoes? Put them in the white clothing bin and the Lisbon PTA gets money for every pound. The Organizations with the top 2 weights for the month get an additional $100.
· Next PTA general meet on January 13, 2021 at 7pm Meet Code LisbonPTA
· JOIN OUR FACEBOOK PAGE: A way to connect with other parents and interactive posts. Lisbon Elementary School PTA https://www.facebook.com/LisbonESPTA
· Documents and information at LisbonPTA.org
HCPSS News
Parents/guardians new to the system are automatically enrolled for email notification, however must opt in to receive text alerts
CONNECT WITH LES AND STAY INFORMED
Website
- Our website, les.hcpss.org, is updated regularly.
- Important news and information is located on the main page of the site including an archive of our weekly newsletter, Lisbon Lines.
- Staff information and email is located under the "Our Staff" tab.
- A subscribeable google calendar is located on the "Calendar" tab.
- Email is our main form of communication.
- You will receive news and information automatically to the email address you provide in your Family File. We will not inundate your inbox with email. Look for the weekly Lisbon Lines on Fridays.
- If you would like email sent to different email addresses, update your email in Family File with the email address you prefer.
- You can subscribe additional email addresses by visiting the HCPSS News site here. http://www.hcpss.org/hcpss-news/
- Weekly announcements, important information, updates, and more will primarily be sent through email.
- You also have the opportunity to opt-in for text messaging