Archive - Jan 16, 2012

Kindergarten Roundup will be held on Friday, April 13, at Lakeview Elementary, so the school is in the process of collecting the names of children in the SCSD who will be attending kindergarten during the fall of 2012. Children must turn five by Sept. 15 to be eligible to enroll in kindergarten.
If you have a child who will attend kindergarten next fall, collecting information will be different this year.

Solon Community School District (SCSD) staff members regularly engage in their own learning during 1 p.m. early dismissals. Staff development time is an opportunity for individuals and teams to focus on areas in which our data indicates we could do a better job of helping students learn essential concepts and skills. In order to monitor progress, a website was created at the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year. The SCSD professional development website has received multiple updates and revisions over the past year. A professional development calendar is viewable on the front page.

To supplement the on-line language program, “Tell Me More,” the library will be sponsoring a weekly Spanish conversation group beginning on Jan. 28 from 11 a.m. until noon in the meeting room. Ann Valenta, retired Spanish teacher, will be monitoring the first meeting and will assist in setting up a format and future meeting schedule. These sessions will be for on-line participants desiring to practice speaking the language, and not lessons for learning the language.

Babygarten will be resuming on Wednesday, Feb. 22, from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m. Children from newborn through 24 months, and their caregivers, may come to any or all sessions. There is no registration. The program includes 20 to 25 minutes of rhymes and songs followed by 30 minutes of play time. This program is specifically designed for one-on-one involvement between parent and child, but an occasional extra sibling would be welcome.

The early out activity for Thursday, Jan. 19, will be crafting thumbies and kazoos from 1 until 2 p.m. for all Solon students. Thumbies are little drawings made out of fingerprints. The kids will stamp their fingerprints on paper and then draw little designs like animals and faces out of the fingerprint. The kazoos will be made from cardboard paper rolls. No registration is required. Elementary age students participating need to be picked up by their parent or caregiver at 2 p.m.
The next movie will be on early out Thursday, Feb. 2, from 1 until 3 p.m.