Email: aorlando@neshaminy.org
Website: www.neshaminy.org
Location: 30 Harmony Road, Levittown, PA, USA
Phone: 215-809-6380
Facebook: facebook.com/Schweitzeres

Students all over the globe are taking advantage of Home Learning opportunities. The goal is to keep your mind engaged and active as we take a break from being in our traditional Albert Schweitzer classrooms. Please be sure you are clicking on the elementary home learning opportunities to practice reading and math activities as well as movement and brain breaks! It's important that we keep a routine at home during this time. Set a schedule each morning and stick to it! Many parents are asking what that schedule should look like at home.

This is a picture of Ella & Brooke, my daughters doing their distance learning for their school. We try to start early and do reading, math, and writing activities each day. We are loving the online read alouds, and today we visited the San Diego Zoo! The panda cam was their favorite. And I never knew that giraffes only need 5-30 minutes of sleep each day! They even sleep standing up! So cool. We also do the live drawing lessons from Mo Willems at 1:00 pm each day.

I would recommend 1-2 hours of practice with the home learning opportunities each day with physical activities dispersed in between. Think of it in chunks. 15 minutes of math practice then take a break. 15 minutes of reading a book and retelling the story and then take a break, record a video of you explaining a cool fact you learned at the Sand Diego Zoo website and post it to Seesaw for your teacher.....then keep going! Be sure to visit our Neshaminy School District COVID-19 website daily for updates. The website offers information for picking up a technology device if needed, picking up free and reduced lunch meals for students, Bucks County and PA Department of Health Resources, a list of local food pantries, and more.

Stay Healthy,

Dr. Amy Orlando

Principal

We are still staying busy with schoolwork during our time off. Staff at Albert Schweitzer held a virtual staff meeting via Microsoft TEAMS yesterday. Kindergarteners in Ms. Supowitz and Ms. McHugh's class also held a virtual class meeting via ZOOM! Administrators have had continuous meetings to communicate with each other and plan next steps through TEAMS and ZOOM. The learning and growing continues. Thank you to students, families, and staff for their dedication as we work through this time.

We enjoyed a fun-filled School Meeting learning more about Dr. Seuss and the love of reading on Monday, March 2nd. Thank you to Ms. Maurizi and Ms. d'Entremont for engaging the audience and keeping our love for reading and books alive! The school listened to a read aloud video by a staff of the book The Cat in the Hat and competed in a Nearpod Quiz by class to test their knowledge of Dr. Seuss characters and stories. So much fun!

We were so thrilled to have author/illustrator Deborah Deeken at Albert Schweitzer the week of March 2nd in celebration of Read Across America. She met with each grade level in our library and talked about how she became an author, examples of her writing during the phases of writing her books, and how to become a published author ourselves. Thank you to our PTO for sponsoring her visit!

We were fortunate to have administrators read to every one of our classrooms!

A special thanks to Our Guest Readers:

Mr. Joseph Jones, Superintendent

Mrs. Michelle Burkholder, Director of Elementary Education

Dr. Robert McGee, Director of Secondary Education

Mr. Anthony Devlin, Director of Pupil Services

Mr. Paul Mahoney, Supervisor of Pupil Services

Mr. Kevin Burns, Director of Security

Mr. Joe Rischow, Supervisor of Purchasing

Mrs. Dawn Kelly, Principal at Car Sandburg Middle School

Mrs. Kelly Kozik, Director of Human Resources

We held a Parent University for Kindergarten parents on Wednesday, March 11th. Parents gained background knowledge in phonemes. Parents also did hands-on activities with their children in phoneme segmentation, blending, and identifying sounds in words. Thank you to Ms. Maurizi, Ms. Supowitz, Mrs. Kurley, & Mrs. McHugh for hosting the night!

In art class, students created work of art for the Square 1 Art Fundraiser with the PTO. This fundraiser allows you to purchase keepsakes with your child’s artwork printed on them. Due to the school closure, we have made some changes to the ordering process for the fundraiser. You can still order keepsakes with your child’s artwork printed on them, but they will be sent to your home rather then the school. Just follow the link in the flyer below and search for your child’s artwork by entering the state, school name, and your child’s name. We have free stickers with each child’s artwork printed on them, and we hope to be back in school soon so we can give them out. If you have questions, please feel free to email Mrs. Todd at ttodd@neshaminy.org.

Thanks,

Mrs. Tod

Families can now search for art codes!

UPDATED INSTRUCTIONS!: Do you know you can now search for your child's art code for our school's Square 1 Art fundraiser online?

Simply click on Square 1 Art shopsite, and click on "Find Your Child's Art", and enter your state, school name, and your child's name. Your child's art code will appear. Once you enter your child's art code provided, you may view your child's art, and order products! (Mobile Users: If you are already logged in to your Square 1 Art account, and do not see "Find Your Child's Art", scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click on "view full site" and the page will re-load and you will see, "Find Your Child's Art Code".

Do you need help? Just contact customer care at service@square1art.com or at 888.332.3294x1 or fill out a request for help by clicking on the green button below.

All PTO events including elections are currently on hold during our time off. We are continuing with our Staff spotlights and fun weekly events on the PTO Facebook page. If anyone has not joined the Facebook page, please do! Thank you to all who have participated in the Facebook events. If anyone has any other ideas for fun activities, please share on our page. Please stay safe and healthy during this time away and we miss you!!

Thank you,

Albert Schweitzer PTO Board

Kindergarten registration for the 2020-2021 School Year is now open. Please register online and make sure to enter 2020-2021 as the school year. REGISTER BY MARCH 1, 2020 TO GUARANTEE PLACEMENT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE: https://hac.neshaminy.org/eo_parent/User/Login.aspx

• To be eligible for Kindergarten, children must be five (5) years of age on or before September 1st.
• To be eligible for First Grade, children must be six (6) years of age on or before September 1st.

All registrations are by appointment only. No walk-in registrations are accepted.

• Prior to an appointment being scheduled you must register online and complete an onlineapplication.
• After your application has been reviewed, you will be contacted to schedule an appointment.

All registration appointments are conducted at the Pupil Services Office located at:
Maple Point Middle School
2250 Langhorne-Yardley Road
Langhorne, PA 19047

You may email any questions to registrar@neshaminy.org or contact the Central Registration Office at 215-809-6547.

We are working hard to keep our Albert Schweitzer Facebook page updated with lots of photos from school events. Please be sure to visit our site often and 'Like' our page!

https://www.facebook.com/schweitzeres/

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