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Click the button below to view the calendar for November. Information for the Daily Specials Schedule for Grades 1 through 4 is listed further down the page.

Highlights:

• 11/05/2025 - student council - 8 am (student council students only)
• 11/07/2025 - picture retake day (see information below)
• 11/14/2025 - Project TEAM day - wear t-shirts
• 11/17/2025 - NO SCHOOL for students - Teacher In-Service
• 11/18-12/18 - Fill the Bus Food Drive - see information below
• 11/19/2025 - PTO Scholastic Book Fair - during the school day; 5-8 pm for families
• 11/25/2025 - Project Team Reward
• 11/26-11/28/2025 - HOLIDAY/SCHOOLS CLOSED

It is important when dropping off students during morning arrival that you wait in line and DO NOT go around other cars, buses, or vans in the drop off line. This is for the safety of our students as well as our parents/guardians. Thank you for your cooperation.

Student report cards will be available to view in your child's Sapphire portal on Tuesday, November 25th. Please click the button below to see information on student report cards.

The lost and found area is growing! if your child is missing a hoodie, sweater, sweatshirt, or a jacket, please encourage them to stop by the lost and found racks in the lobby area to retrieve the missing item.

Spring Grove Area School District is in the process of searching for the next Superintendent of Schools and committed to keeping the public informed. The button below will take you directly to the district website for all of the up-to-date information.

SNAP benefits may be ending in November which will affect students and families. New Hope Ministries offers a mobile food pantry. Please click the button below for mobile pantry locations and calendars for November and December for dates of the mobile pantry.

If you would like to have your child's picture retaken, please return the entire picture packet on picture retake day to give to the photographer.

If your child was absent on picture day (10/02/2025) or is new to the school, they will have their picture taken on retake day. To order pictures, please contact the office for a picture day envelope OR order online at Lifetouch.com and use code EVTG23BGW.

Parent Teacher Conferences can be requested at any time throughout the year. However, we are holding Monday, November 3, Thursday, November 6, Monday, November 10, and Thursday, November 13 for our evening conferences. If you have not signed up for a conference with your child's teacher, please contact the school office to schedule a conference - 717-225-4731 x 1500. Thank you!

Click the button below to see the lunch menu for November. This will take you to the district website to see all menus.

Our 4th grade students have been recording the morning announcements each day. If you would like to watch the morning announcements, please click the button below. You just may see a future news person!

⚠️Important: When entering absence dates, only include the actual days the student was not in school. If the student was absent for one day only, the start date and end date should be the same.

🆚Excused and Unlawful - What's the difference?

What are excusable reasons that require only an excuse card?

1. Illness of student- 1 or 2 days absent
2. Family emergency - as approved by attendance officer
3. Required court attendance
4. Death in immediate family

What are excusable reasons that require an excuse card and medical note?

1. Illness of student - 3+ consecutive days absent
2. Obtaining professional health care or therapy service rendered by a licensed practitioner

What are excusable reasons that require a pre-approved educational trip form? (5 days per school year)

1. An educational experience or trip planned by family
2. Participation in a project sponsored by a statewide or countywide 4-H, FFA
3. Observance of a religious holiday observed by a bona fide religious group
4. An out-of-town funeral that requires more than a day or two out of school

What are unlawful reasons to be absent?

1. Absences which do not meet the criteria indicated above shall be considered an unlawful absence
2. Absences that are not documented with an excuse card/medical note within 3 days as outlined in the handbook

Click the link below to view the district's full Attendance Policy. Any questions, please reach out to our attendance secretary, Mrs. Sarah Thompson, thompsos@sgasd.org or 717-225-4731 x 1561.

Paradise Elementary Attendance % Report for October 2025

Kindergarten: 95%

First Grade: 95%

Second Grade: 96%

Third Grade: 95%

Fourth Grade: 95%

Building: 95%

It is important that we have the correct emergency contact information for your child's Sapphire portal. Please look at your child's information to ensure that all information is correct. If you have any additional contacts to add that your child can be released to, please send this information to the school office to include the contact's name, relationship, and phone number.

For any changes to your email or phone number, those changes can be made by you in your child's Sapphire portal.

We celebrated the fun of the Fall season in P.E. with our “Spooky Gym” stations again this year! Students engaged in 6-7 stations during 2 P.E. classes that each had a fun Fall theme such as the “Spider Climb”, “Bat Cave”, “Bone Yard”, “Broomstick Races”and many others! Each station focused on various psychomotor skills, eye-hand coordination, teamwork and cooperation activities.

• November Physical Education will include Turkey-themed activities and Thanksgiving games as we enter the holiday season!

Wellness topics for the month of November will include investigating future careers and completing one of the Pennsylvania Department of Education Career artifacts for each student’s portfolio.

• All grades will have a safety lesson and we will begin our nutrition unit leading up to the Thanksgiving break.

Day 1 & 3: Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Frymyer, Mrs. Huppman, Mrs. Tanczos, Mrs. Clark & Miss Gault

Day 2 & 4: Mrs. Frey, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Kern, Mrs. Crouthamel, Miss Martin, & Mr. Wertz

Please remind students to wear their sneakers on these days!

The annual Fill the Bus Canned Food Drive in partnership with the National Honor Society at the High School will take place from 11/18-12/18/2025. Please bring in any of the items listed on the picture below and place in the collection bins that will be in the lobby. Thank you for your support of this worthy endeavor!

There will be a friendly competition between the grade levels. Please see the reward choices below.

Kindergarten - Movie

First - Movie

Second - Movie

Third - Movie

Fourth - Extra Recess

Day 1 - Fitness or Art/String Lessons

Day 2 - Art or Fitness

Day 3 - Fitness or Library

Day 4 - Library or Fitness/Instrumental Lessons

Day 5 - Wellness or Music

Day 6 - Music or Wellness

Please note that students in grades 1 through 4 will have two days of Fitness this year. It is important that they wear sneakers on the days they have Fitness.