Clearspring Howl

hank you for making sure your students are ready for school each day in the appropriate clothing for outdoor recess, checking folders and communicating when needed. It's going to be great week at Clearspring.

As most of you know, Ms. Leaman's last day was Friday. We are in the process of hiring a new attendance secretary. In the interim Mrs. Gruber will be running the office as a one woman show with help from other staff members as much as possible. We ask for your patience in the next few weeks as we make sure to find the best new staff member to join our school community. If you have any changes to dismissal needs we ask that you continue to email your student's teacher and Mrs. Gruber.

All grade levels will participate in mid-year assessments in the month of January including Dibels, MAP-P/M (math) and MAP-R (Reading) and WIDA for our emergent multi-lingual learners. Teachers will communicate individually when those test dates will be so that students and families are well prepared to be attendance and use their effort, persistence and motivation to show us what they know.

• You can send in a check, cash or add money to your student's cafeteria account at myschoolbucks.com.

Each year our counselors, Mr. Bock and Ms. Kane organize a career day for our students. In the morning students rotate around the school building getting the opportunity to hear from some of our amazing community members and they career paths they have chosen. In the afternoon students experience a "profession" wax museum presented by the 5th grade.

We are looking for community members of all backgrounds and careers to speak with our students the morning of Friday, March 13th from 9:00-11:00 (Four 20 minutes sessions). If you're interested in being a part of this memorable experience for the students of clearspring, please share your in for below and Mr. Bock or Ms. Kane will contact you.

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WINTER will be upon us shortly and and we'd love to highlight your family's traditions, hobbies and holidays during this season. Do you love winter sports? Snow Days? Matching Pajamas? Lighting Candles or putting up lights? Share a photo with us so we can celebrate all of our amazing families. Photos shared will be shown on morning announcements, slideshows within the building and in our Husky Howl. We can't wait to see your photos!

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Regulation IFD-RA, Curriculum Transparency and Requests to Be Excused from Instruction, allows parents or guardians to determine whether the use of specific core instructional materials substantially interferes with their sincerely held religious beliefs. This document contains all of the “refrigerator” documents for the 3rd marking period. You may request your student be excused from a specific resource using this form

• Jan. 6 - Damascus Cluster PTA Meeting
• Jan. 12 - Community Roundtable with Councilmember Dawn Luedtke
• Jan. 23 - PTA Snow BAll
• Feb. 5 - Clearspring PTA Meeting

• The homeroom class in each grade with the most PTA members will win a popsicle party!
• The top class overall will earn a donut party and their teacher will receive a $25 Amazon gift card.
• Contest ends Friday, January 23rd.
• Become a member now!

Visit us at clearspringpta.givebacks.com

Meet the Clearspring ES PTA Board

• Vivian Bakal, President
• Marcie Raum, Vice President
• Maya Yovcheva, Secretary
• Candace Maynard, Treasurer

Want to volunteer? We LOVE volunteers!

Email us at Clearspring.PTA@gmail.com

Volunteers for student activities must take the MCPS Child Abuse and Neglect Training