Seth Paine’s Principal Press
October 2012
Volume 3, Issue 2
The mission of Community Unit School District 95 is to inspire all
students to be passionate, continuous learners and to prepare
them with the skills to achieve their goals and flourish as responsible, caring citizens in a global community.
Fall is here!
As the cooler weather approaches, I would like to remind all of our
families to make sure that your children are dressed appropriately for
school. Make sure that your children are wearing coats, bringing
gloves/mittens, hats, etc. The students go outside almost everyday and
we want to make sure that they can all go out to play comfortably.
Local and State Testing
Attention Parents—Students in grades 2-5 will be bringing
home testing results on October 5th in their backpacks. Grades
2 and 3 will have their Fall MAP scores, which gives our teachers some baseline data on the performance level of your child.
Grades 4 and 5 will have their Fall MAP score and last year’s results from their ISAT testing that took place in March. If you have any questions
on how to read the testing results or would like to discuss further what these results mean, please feel free to make an appointment with your child’s teacher or
myself in the school office. You may also visit www.nwea.org for detailed information about MAP testing or http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ for information regarding the ISAT results. In regards to ISAT testing our building performed well this
past school year. In the next newsletter, I will have more specific data to share.
Hats Off for Cancer
On Friday, October 12th we will host our second annual “Mad Hatter Day” for Hats
off For Cancer (http;/www.hatsoffforcancer.org), an international non-for profit
that brings awareness to childhood cancer. We will be collecting donations to benefit pediatric cancer patients. Please see our website for full details of our event.
http://www.lz95.org/schools/seth_paine_elementary/
seth_paine_elementary_school.aspx
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Other Important News
Indoor Air Quality Committee—We are actively looking for a few
more parents to serve on the Seth Paine Indoor Air Committee. We currently have only two parents serving on our committee. If interested,
please contact me at 847-438-2163 or cshapiro@lz95.org
Brainpop—The PTO has purchased a 24 hour building license for all of the students here at Seth Paine. It is an excellent program providing video tutorials and
games in all curricular areas K-6. Please visit www.brainpop.com (3-6) or
www.brainpopjr.com (K-3) and check it out. The user name and password are the
same for both sites. Username: sethpaine Password: dragons4
Contact Me – Have a question or a concern? Please feel free to contact me. You
can reach me at #847-438-2163 or via email at: cameron.shapiro@lz95.org
Important Dates to Know
Oct. 3—PTO meeting @ 7PM
Oct. 4— PTO Bingo Night
Oct. 8—No School—Columbus Day
Oct. 12—Hats Off for Cancer
Oct. 17—Early Release at 12:50 PM
Oct. 19—Vision and Hearing testing
Oct. 26—PTO Freaky Friday 7-9 PM
Oct. 27—PTO Spooky Saturday 5-7 PM
Oct. 31—Halloween Parade in the afternoon