- Read Aloud With Children
We hope you everyone can join us for Family Fun Night on Friday, February 12th from 6:00 - 8;00 p.m. We'll have Valentine Bingo, balloon artists, the Disco Room, the Red Hot Relay and many, many more Valentine-themed, family-oriented, fun-filled events at the evening of free activities for East End students, their families and guests. We are thankful to our PTO for their sponsorship of this great event. The only costs for the evening will be for those who choose to eat supper in the cafeteria. Hot dog plates, complete with chips and a drink will be available for $2.50 each. Hope to see you at Family Fun Night!
Some facts to consider about blood donation:
Every 3 seconds in the United States, someone needs blood.
One out of five people who enter the hospital will need blood.
Only 5% of the population will ever give blood in their lifetime.
No matter what type of bood you have, your blood is needed.
You can make a difference that is live-saving for someone else.
Please consider giving joining us for the Blood Drive during Family Fun Night. If you need a form to sign-up for a donation time, please call the school at 855-7860.
The February 5th edition of Principal's Good Book is published. Congratulations to each of the students who were submitted by their teachers for this week's publication! We are proud of each of them!
East End students are again featured on the SDPC Web site. These are pictures from the 2nd and 3rd Grade Honor Roll Recess. Our students had a great time at the HR Recess!
Each month the East End Elementary faculty selects the Best Bulldog of the Month. This month, there was a four-way tie for this honor. Selected were Kitty Adams, art teacher, Steve Gilstrap, PE teacher, Amy Segee, guidance counselor, and Deirdre Stokes, teaching assistant. Congratulations to each of our Faculty Bulldogs of the Month for January. We are proud of each of you! Thanks for all that you do for the students at East End!
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East End 1st graders are featured on the district's Web site as they display their work from the study of Mary Cassatt. Great job, first graders!
Our East End faculty who chaperoned our Best Bulldog Lunch at Joe's are featured on the district Web site. Thanks to each of these dedicated faculty members for their work on behalf of the East End students!
East End is again noted on our school district Web site (http://www.pickens.k12.sc.us) with one of our candid photographs from the National Elementary Honor Society Induction. Pictured from left to right are: Kinsley Deck, Pace Dillon, Andrew Stanifer; Levi Segee; Sarah Campbell, John Thomas Spitzmiller, Tanner Semones, and Matthew Rodriguez.
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Be saving your pennies to vote for either Batson Bulldog or BB Bulldog as this is a boy and girl compeitition for "bragging rights only" as our School Improvement Council gathers pennies to support our Pups' Pantry at East End. We'll begin wiht a kick-off at Family Fun Night on Friday, February 12th and conclude on Friday, February 26th. Our Pups' Pantry will be organized by our guidance counselor to send home Pup Packs of food and other necessiies to our East End families in need. So, gather your loose change and support our efforts to reach out to others at East End. Thanks to our SIC for their support! Thanks to each of you for your support!
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We are thrilled to share with you that East End has again achieved the measures required by NCLB (No Child Left Behind) federal legislation and met AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) from our PASS (Palmetto Assessment of State Standards) testing from Spring 2009!
These results compare the percentage of our students meeting standard (either Met or Exemplary) on the PASS test in math and English Language Arts (ELA) to the standards established as a result of NCLB. As NCLB was passed in 2001, each state was required to set measures that increased over a 12 year period from 2002-2014 that would indicate if public schools were achieving with all groups of students, including sub groups of children who are either free or reduced lunch, limited English proficiency, students with disabilities or minorities
AYP is an “all or nothing measure” as SC Department of Education notes as all subgroups must be met or the school does not meet AYP. These measures increase over this period of time, with the goal that 100% of the students would meet the achievement measures by 2014.
These score requirements have grown since 2002, resulting in higher expectations over the 12 years. Even with the increased rigor of testing requirements when the test changed from the PACT test to the PASS test, East End continues to meet the requirements. Thanks to a dedicated faculty, super students, and a supportive parent population, achieving AYP continues to be an accomplishment for our school.
This information is being released by our State Department of Education today to all state and local media. We wanted to share this great news with you. Our students continue to achieve. Thanks to each of you for your continued support of the school. We look forward to continued success with your support.
Established as a national effort near Super Bowl weekend, the Souper Bowl of Caring is an outreach in schools and businesses to request donations of canned goods (most often cans of soup, resulting in the Souper Bowl designation) to support charitable organizations. East End will again participate in this endeavor to support those less fortunate by collecting non-perishable food items to stock the pantries of local charitable organizations.
Our desire is to benefit the pantries of many local groups. The number that we can assist will be determined by the amount that is donated.
We will begin this effort today and it will continue through Friday, February 5th. Our hopes are to support many local charities who feed the less fortunate with our Souper Bowl of Caring. We also plan to use this effort to begin our East End Pups’ Pantry to feed families at East End. We will organize “Pup Packs” to send food home with children whose families could benefit from additional resources for feeding their families. At least one full meal will be sent home with a child each time in these packs. While this will be a confidential service, we plan to do this often and as much as needed in order to help our East End students and their families. This will be coordinated through our guidance office with the participating families.
Our plans are to make our pantry a multipurpose one that grows to meet many needs of our EEE families. We hope you will join us and send in non-perishable food items that will assist those in need either at a local charitable organization or through our East End Pups’ Pantry.
Your donations of non-perishable food items will be greatly appreciated. If everyone gives a little, much can be accomplished by our combined efforts.
For quite some time, we have talked about our desire to open a pantry to supply the needs of our children at East End. We have a school supply closet, but have felt the need to extend this beyond school supplies. With the cooperation and support of our School Improvement Council, we will be opening a Pups’ Pantry. From this Pups’ Pantry, we will provide Pup Packs (meals packed into bags and/or backpacks), to send home for our children and their families.
In addition to the Souper Bowl of Caring, we will hold a Pennies for Pups campaign with the support of our SIC and PTO that will begin on Family Fun Night on February 12th. Pennies as well as other coins, will be collected to begin our Pups’ Pantry account from 2/12 until 2/25. From these proceeds, we will be able to purchase supplies for our families in need. This competition will be the East End Boys (led by Batson Bulldog Pup) against the East End Girls (led by BB Bulldog Pup). No prizes are awarded, just bragging rights for being the group that raises the most funds for our Pups’ Pantry. We hope you can join us in supporting our Pups’ Pantry and/or the Souper ‘Bowl of Caring efforts. Thanks to our SIC and PTO! As always, thanks for your support of EEE.
Our desire is to benefit the pantries of many local groups. The number that we can assist will be determined by the amount that is donated.
We will begin this effort today and it will continue through Friday, February 5th. Our hopes are to support many local charities who feed the less fortunate with our Souper Bowl of Caring. We also plan to use this effort to begin our East End Pups’ Pantry to feed families at East End. We will organize “Pup Packs” to send food home with children whose families could benefit from additional resources for feeding their families. At least one full meal will be sent home with a child each time in these packs. While this will be a confidential service, we plan to do this often and as much as needed in order to help our East End students and their families. This will be coordinated through our guidance office with the participating families.
Our plans are to make our pantry a multipurpose one that grows to meet many needs of our EEE families. We hope you will join us and send in non-perishable food items that will assist those in need either at a local charitable organization or through our East End Pups’ Pantry.
Your donations of non-perishable food items will be greatly appreciated. If everyone gives a little, much can be accomplished by our combined efforts.
For quite some time, we have talked about our desire to open a pantry to supply the needs of our children at East End. We have a school supply closet, but have felt the need to extend this beyond school supplies. With the cooperation and support of our School Improvement Council, we will be opening a Pups’ Pantry. From this Pups’ Pantry, we will provide Pup Packs (meals packed into bags and/or backpacks), to send home for our children and their families.
In addition to the Souper Bowl of Caring, we will hold a Pennies for Pups campaign with the support of our SIC and PTO that will begin on Family Fun Night on February 12th. Pennies as well as other coins, will be collected to begin our Pups’ Pantry account from 2/12 until 2/25. From these proceeds, we will be able to purchase supplies for our families in need. This competition will be the East End Boys (led by Batson Bulldog Pup) against the East End Girls (led by BB Bulldog Pup). No prizes are awarded, just bragging rights for being the group that raises the most funds for our Pups’ Pantry. We hope you can join us in supporting our Pups’ Pantry and/or the Souper ‘Bowl of Caring efforts. Thanks to our SIC and PTO! As always, thanks for your support of EEE.
For quite some time, we have talked about our desire to open a pantry to supply the needs of our children at East End. We have a school supply closet, but have felt the need to extend this beyond school supplies. With the cooperation and support of our School Improvement Council, we will be opening a Pups’ Pantry. From this Pups’ Pantry, we will provide Pup Packs (meals packed into bags and/or backpacks), to send home for our children and their families.
In addition to the Souper Bowl of Caring, we will hold a Pennies for Pups campaign with the support of our SIC and PTO that will begin on Family Fun Night on February 12th. Pennies as well as other coins, will be collected to begin our Pups’ Pantry account from 2/12 until 2/25. From these proceeds, we will be able to purchase supplies for our families in need. This competition will be the East End Boys (led by Batson Bulldog Pup) against the East End Girls (led by BB Bulldog Pup). No prizes are awarded, just bragging rights for being the group that raises the most funds for our Pups’ Pantry. We hope you can join us in supporting our Pups’ Pantry and/or the Souper ‘Bowl of Caring efforts. Thanks to our SIC and PTO! As always, thanks for your support of EEE.
Recently, it has been highlighted that in today’s world with more communication tools than ever, we are communicating less effectively with each other. Communication skills include reading, writing, listening and speaking. With our busy lives, we spend less time talking with each other, listening to each other, and use other forms of communication rather than the spoken word. Reading is also placed on the back burner of our daily activities.
Facts like this remind us again of the importance of reading aloud to our children of all ages. Yes, read alouds are important for the children who have not learned to read, but are just as important for children who can read.
Mem Fox, the author of Reading Magic states if everyone “understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent—and every adult caring for a child—read a minimum of three stories a day to the children in their lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.” This statement is filled with challenges. Yet, what if we did this? Would we see a difference? At East End, our teachers are reading to our students and reading to them often. As children hear stories read, they have good models of reading that can impact their own reading skills. We are working on this at East End to expose our children to many authors and many ways of writing. We need your help in this venture.
Find books that you enjoy (maybe even some that you enjoyed as a child) and read them to your child. Talk about the stories read. Make predictions about what is going to happen. Compare the story read to other stories. There are many things that you can do with your child as you read. Discuss what you have read. If a child is only calling a word and does not understand the meaning of the word or the meaning of what has been read, they are not reading. Talk about the words and their meanings. Make sure your child understands the vocabulary.
In Jim Trelease’s book, The Read Aloud Handbook,, he shares that “the more you read, the better you get at it, the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it; the more you do it.” He is a lifelong advocate of reading to children. This is another challenge to us at school and home to read often to our children.
We hope you will join us in this partnership as we work to read to our children and read to them often. If this partnership between the home and the school continues, we are certain to improve the reading skills of our children.
Mem Fox also states in Reading Magic that “continuing to read aloud to our children at home should solve most reading problems and will always be a lifeline to their happiness, their literacy, and their future. .Each family that reads aloud from January 15th - February 15h will receive special recognition on the Reading Wall of Honor. In addition, each person will receive a special reward. We hope everyone can join us in this effort. .
East End's Student Council is featured on the SDPC Web site. Great job, Student Council!
One of the great pictures made during our first grade Scarecrow Day is featured on the district Web site. Pictured is Mrs. Byars' first grade class. Thanks, first grade teachers, for your work on making Scarecrow Day a great instructional day for our students!
The October 30th edition of East End Elementary News is published. Read for information on East End being named a Promi5e Place by America's Promise Alliance. This is a result of East End having the 5 promises of the America's Promise Alliance with are: caring adults, safe place, effective education, healthy start, and opportunities to help others. We are thrilled with this designation of a Promi5e Place by this national organization.
- caring adults
- safe places
- healthy start
- effective education
- opportunities to help others
This Summit was attended by governors, mayors, community delegations, and prominent business leaders from across the nation. It was sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community Service and United Way of America. These groups became the Founding Partners of America's Promise Alliance. Retired General Colin Powell was the Founding Chairman of America's Promise Alliance. Alma Powell is currently the Chair of the Alliance.
At the Summit, a declaration was issued by the living Presidents. Read the link for more information about the original summit.
In our PROMI5E PLACE designation, the s in the word promise is replaced by a 5 to designate the 5 promises that each PROMI5E PLACE offers for the children and youth of our nation.
In our letter from America's Promise Alliance it states, "America's Promise Alliance is pleased to inform you that East End Elementary School has been designated a Promise Place. Congratulations on this achievement and thank you for all you do to ensure that the youth of your community receive the Five Promises!
By providing access to caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, an effective education and opportunities to help others, you are helping to prepare the young people you serve for success in school and life. Our research shows that young people who receive four of the Five Promises are far more likely to be successful, to get A's, to avoid violence, and volunteer. You are directly contributing to those outcomes by leveling the playing field for youth across racial and economic lines."
We are thrilled and honored to be a PROMI5E PLACE.
The South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC) has published Family-Friendly Standards to assist all SC families with standards at each grade level. The EOC states in the publications, “A good educational system provides many tools that help children learn. Academic standards are useful in making sure that teachers know what is to be taught, that children know what is to be learned and that parents and the public can determine how well the concepts are being learned.”
It is our hope that these will prove to be good resource tools for you this year. The EOC Web site states, “Each guide shares important information about the South Carolina Academic Standards. These standards outline state requirements for your child’s learning program and what students across the state should be able to do in certain subjects.”
http://eoc.sc.gov/informationforfamilies/FamilyFriendlyStandards.htm
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Family-Friendly Standards from SC EOC for 5K
Family-Friendly Standards from SC EOC for 1st
Family-Friendly Standards from SC EOC for 2nd
Family-Friendly Standards from SC EOC for 3rd
Family-Friendly Standards from SC EOC for 4th
Family-Friendly Standards from SC EOC for 5th
K4 Report Card
Distributed at the end of the 2nd and 4th nine weeks.
K5 Report Card
Distributed each nine weeks. The first report card is given to parents in a parent conference as the teacher reviews the child's progress to date
1st Grade Progress Report
1st Grade Report Card
Distributed each nine weeks. The first report card is given to parents in a parent conference as the teacher reviews the child's progress to date.elp
If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher or call Mrs. Day, principal, for assistance. We'll be glad to help in any way needed. Our goal is to keep you well-informed of the asssessment guidelines and process for the early childhood grades.
In order to help our families better understand the reporting process for progress reports and report cards, we are offering the following information to assist you at each grade level.
SDPC Guidelines for Early Childhood Grades
Link to SDPC Assessment Page
This practice of giving fishbowls has continued throughout out the years. Students receive fishbowls for many different positive traits, accomplishments, or behaviors. Fishbowls can be given for great participation in a related arts class, for improving on a spelling test, for being kind to a friend, for learning a new concept of skill, and for many other things. Student names are turned into the office and placed into grade level "fishbowls." Because we have so many great things happening at East End and because we don't want anyone who is recognized for accomplishments to miss being recognized, we honor many students each week. In the years prior to the current administration, the names were only eligible for the week that they were submitted by the adult. We want all our children to receive affirmation for their work and made the decision to change this to acknowledge all fishbowl recipients by keeping their names in the fishbowl so that they would be recognized at some point rather than starting with empty fishbowls each week.
The primary recognition is for the child to have his or her name called over the intercom with the morning announcements and coming to the main lobby area after the announcements and receiving a treat, most often a special sticker, from the administration. We celebrate fishbowls and all fishbowl recipients. In keeping with our East End Elementary School mission statement of "Excelling in Academics, Encouraging Character, Embracing the Community, and Seeking success for all students", we honor and rejoice in the fishbowl accomplishments.
So, at East End, our fishbowls have no fishes, but have many, many student names acknowledging their excellent academics, character, courage, citizenship, and success.
In addition, we have a weekly Principal's Good Book publication. Student names are sent to Mrs. Day by the teachers for students achieving an accomplishment that notes they should be published in the weekly Principal's Good Book. The students' names on the weekly Principal's Good Book are called over the intercom with the Friday morning announcements, have their name and picture published on the Principal's Good Book listing for the week, and receive a special sticker noting their accomplishment for the week. The Principal's Good Book is located in our school lobby as well as published on our school Web site.
A new recognition initiated this year is Positive Bulldog Recognition for students demonstrating great citizenship and behavior. Their names are submitted by Mrs. Day. Each student receives a certificate for Positive Bulldog Recognition noting the reason that the student's name was submitted. The certificate is signed by Mrs. Day and the students are recognized in the minoring announcements. We have had many Positive Bulldog Recognitions this year. East End students are doing a great job with citizenship and behavior.
A new recognition that begins this year is the Best Bulldogs. Each teacher will be asked to select one student per homeroom who has exhibited the characteristics of being the "Best Bulldog" in the classroom. These students will be treated to a special lunch in their honor as well as receive a free treats noting this special recognition.
We are making extra efforts to recognize and encourage the best in all of our students. East End students are the best and we want to be sure that they know we acknowledge this and encourage them to be the very best that they can be as a young person.
Report to Parents
