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

I know every day is not easy doing learning online through Canvas without our teachers and classmates. It is just not the same as being together in the classroom. I want to thank all of our Schweitzer parents and families for supporting your children in this learning process. I also want to thank the teachers and staff for rising to the challenge of creating a brand new online learning platform. Our teaching and learning in Neshaminy is forever changed as a result!

#WE GOT THIS!

Stay Healthy,

Dr. Amy Orlando

Principal

We are so excited to bring you Virtual Field Days next week for all K-8 students and families! We have a wide variety of activities for you to participate in. Please view the video below for an overview of the Virtual Field Days. Please click the link below, while logged into your Neshaminy Student account to sign up for our LIVE Zoom Trivia on Thursday June 4th and/or Friday June 5th. Students that sign up will receive an email on Wednesday, June 3rd with a link to their scheduled LIVE Zoom session. We are excited to see photos and videos of you participating in the fun event.

Field Day Overview Video

Thursday Sign-Up Form

Friday Sign-Up Form

Go BLUE! Go RED!

Thank you,

The Physical Education Department

The current Albert Schwetizer PTO Board has been working with Dr. Orlando throughout the year to plan for upgrades to our Schweitzer playground. Funds were raised to replace the current swing sets that are no longer to code based on new regulations. We will have a 2-bay swing replaced outside the kindergarten classrooms and an 8-bay swing set put it along the playground side of Harmony Road. A proper rubber border will also be installed around both swing sets with mulch. In addition, we will get 2 benches to sit on around the playground. THANK YOU to the Albert Schweitzer PTO for supporting this project! The donation of the playground was approved at the NSD March School Board meeting. We are looking to continue with Phase 2 and 3 which will hopefully consist of more playground units and possibly a Challenge Course in the field. More to come!

A schedule will be coming out from the buildings on when parents can come and pick up student items. Homeroom teachers and staff will be assisting by bagging the items from the classrooms including student desks and cubbies. There will be a schedule for parents to do a contactless pick-up from Schweitzer. Dr. Orlando will send the schedule out to parents via ParentLink once it is finalized.

Coming soon…Title I Virtual Summer Reading Event hosted by the Schweitzer reading specialists, Ms. Maurizi and Miss d'Entremont. Be sure to sign up up for the invite once it is sent out via Parent Link. To accommodate busy schedules, this parent and family engagement event will be offered at various times during the week of June 7th via ZOOM. The invite will be sent out by next week.

First graders in Mr. Wells, Mrs. Dyas, & Mrs. Bullick's class took a virtual Field trip to the zoo on Thursday, May 7th. They brought their bagged lunch and virtual chaperones and saw so many cool animals. What fun!

Mrs. Flynn's class celebrated 'Red Nose Day' in their virtual Zoom meeting this week. Mrs. Flynn sent each student a red nose in the mail to wear proudly for the celebration along with extra noses for siblings. 'Red Nose Day' is a campaign to end child poverty, one nose at a time. Through the power of entertainment, Red Nose Day raises money and awareness to ensure children who need our help the most are safe, healthy and educated in America and around the world. Mrs. Flynn made a donation to the campaign on behalf of her 2019-2020 first grade class.

Kindergarten teachers at Albert Schweitzer are keeping students motivated by doing a "drive by" to each student's house. They are surprising them with personalized posters to let them know they are thinking of them and miss them. Here is Miss Supowitz surprising twins Zian and Catty in their driveway!

Mrs. Cahill mailed out a Mother's Day project to all of her students. It included a letter on how to make a Mother’s Day card with a flower that also doubled as a Science project. The flower bloomed when they put it in water. On Canvas, she posted the video to go along with the Mystery Science project. The students were able to create the special card as a present for their moms on Mother’s Day. The class also does weekly Zooms together just to say hi and touch base with each other. They’ve also done fun activities like playing a guessing game with facts the children have shared about themselves. Mrs. Cahill reads the facts and the class has to guess who they are talking about. They also do weekly lunch bunches just like they would have at school!

Students in Mrs. Cridland's second grade class received cardboard memes of their teachers in the mail along with a poem and a copy of the story Flat Stanley at Bat. It was a way for Mrs. Cridland and Mrs. Merrill to visit their students and go on fun adventures - at least in the form of cardboard and paper cutouts! The teacher cutouts had dinner with their students, were part of a pizza cooking show, visited Core Creek Park, and even helped make some art projects with some of the 2nd graders.

Mr. Ponza and his students have been having lunch on Wednesdays via Zoom. They meet online to talk and watch funny video clips and read stories to connect to classmates. They also do a weekly 'Show and Tell' and 'Dance Party' on Fridays for students to share, hang out, and have fun!

Mrs. Bullick meets with her students twice a week for 'Lunch Bunch' to talk, have lunch together, and connect. Mrs. Bullick and other teachers have also found creative ways to connect with students. After reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, her students received a writing assignment and a flat version of their teacher in the mail. Here is Isabella cooling off in the pool with “Mrs. Bullick!"

A new PTO Board has been elected for the 2020-2021 school year. We thank all of our parent volunteers for their willingness to volunteer for our school community.

Please Welcome Our New PTO Board

President: Ashley Smith

Vice Presidents/Fundraising Coordinators : Kate Hennessey, Cynthia Ritchie and Kate Doherty

Correspondence Secretaries: Krysta Szymanik and Brooke Buttari

Recording Secretaries: Stacy Pruner and Melanie Panichelle

Treasurer: Krysten Howard

Parliamentarian: Victoria Lee

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/

June 3rd & 4th: Virtual Field Days (No Online Canvas Lessons)
June 11th: 4th Grade End-of-Year Celebrations
June 12th: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
June 14th: Progress Reports Available Online

~~ WE BUILD FUTURES ~~