January 29, 2010 News&Views MAPLE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 3623 W. Whiteland Road

Bargersville, IN 46106 Ph. 881-0561 (Attendance ext. 1763) Fax 889-2553 www.centergrove.k12.in.us

Shelley Coover, Principal Ron Siner, Assistant Principal Rhonda Orth, Secretary

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

February 1 Day 1

Writing Club 8 am

February 2 Day 2

Math Pent. Div.II till 4:45

Math Pent. Div III 7:45 am

Math Bowl 8 am

February 3 Day 3

AJ’s 3:00-4:00

Bible Club 8 am

February 4 Day 4

Math Bowl 8 am

February 5 Day 5

Kdg Tuition Late Payment…

Add $20 if after 2/6/10

February 8 Day 1

NO Writing Club today!!

February 9 Day 2

Hearts for RILEY

Math Pent. Div II till 4:45

Math Pent. Div III 7:45 am

Math Bowl 8 am

February 10 Day 3

Hearts for RILEY

AJ’s 3:00-4:00

Bible Club 8 am

February 11 Day 4

Hearts for RILEY

Math Bowl 8 am

February 12 Day 5

Hearts for RILEY

Happy Birthday, Honest Abe!

MAPLE GROVE VISION/MISSION STATEMENT

S.T.A.R.S. - Students, Teachers, All Reaching Success

Strong, comprehensive education program - Teaming with parents and the community - Adapt to our changing world -

Respectful to one another - Safe environment

PRINCIPAL’S CORNER

Believe it or not, it’s almost time for ISTEP+!

ISTEP+ testing dates for 3rd, 4th and 5th

grades will be here before we know it! Please

keep these dates in mind as you schedule

doctor/dental appointments or trips that will

require your child to be out of school:

March 1-11 Applied Skills Testing

April 26-May 5 Multiple Choice Testing

Thank you again for partnering with us to

achieve the FOUR STAR status.

Please plan to attend our February 11th PTO

meeting to help us celebrate!

DISMISSAL at 3:00

AMK 9-11:15

PMK 12:45-3:00

DISMISSAL at 3:00

AMK 9-11:15

PMK 12:45-3:00

HEARTS F R RILEY

Student Council will be selling

suckers with a special heart

message during lunch on

February 9,10,11,12

for only .25 cents!

Students can buy a sucker and

heart and send to a special friend

or teacher!

Proceeds go to Riley Hospital

THE CENTER GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION PRACTICES EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT.

The next newsletter deadline is Tuesday, February 9 at 4:00 pm

Join the 2009-10 CGMSN Cheerleaders at their Winter Cheerleading Clinic and the North vs. Greenwood home basketball game! This cheerleading clinic is for all girls in grades K-5 and will be held at the CGMSN gymnasium on Saturday, January 30. Girls who participate in this clinic will learn 2 sidelines, 1 cheer, and 1 dance; then they will get to perform with the middle school cheerleaders at the game against Greenwood Middle School during halftime on Tuesday, February 2 at 5:00pm. The cost is $30 per girl, which includes a North Cheer Camp t-shirt (if registered by Friday, 1/15) and 2 tickets to the game (one for the child,

one for an adult). Registration is open up to the day of the clinic, but t-shirts cannot be guaranteed after the 15th. Clinic information and registration packets can be picked up in your school office.

In the event that school must be closed because of weather conditions,

notification will be made through the Internet and area radio and television

stations listed below: RADIO 93.1 FM-WIBC, 102.3 FM-WCBK, 97.1 FM (HANK FM) and B105.7 TELEVISION CHANNEL 4,6,8,13 and FOX 59 The Alert Now System will also be used. ***Please note that if there is a two hour delay on a Wednesday, there will NOT be early release.

5th grade parents—We need PHOTOS!

We are working on the picture CD for the end of the year ceremony. We need pictures of the 5th grade students

while in Kindergarten through 5th grade. Please send photos in an envelope with your name, phone number,

and room number to Luke Dever or Ella Brown. All photos will be scanned and returned ASAP. You may also

electronically send photos. Deadline is March 22. Questions? Call Lynn Dever @ 535-6201 or

mdever5697@aol.com or Laura Brown @ 422-8108 or brownLK@aol.com

VALENTINE’S DAY PARTIES WILL BE ON FEBRUARY 12: Party times are as follows:

Half Day Kindergarten - 10:45-11:30 am

Full Day Kindergarten - 1:30-2:15 pm

1st - 5th grades - 2:45-3:30 pm

We encourage all to honor Maple Grove’s policy of permitting only those children enrolled in the classroom

at holiday parties (siblings or other children may not attend for multiple reasons). To help with the eco-

nomic challenges faced by many of our families, teachers and parents agreed not to have treat bags this

year. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your head room parent!

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO ALL!

PTO MEETING February 11,6:45-8:00 pm

LGI or Media Center

AGENDA

Learning Programs at CG

Guest: Dr. Janet Boyle

Public Educational Funding Update

Guest: Beth Heavin

Race Chase

Bring a

Friend!! We will

have cake

and punch

to

celebrate

our

4

school! star

A friendly reminder to our Center Grove Bible Club 4th & 5th Grade Student Leaders…

Your deadline to register for the Student Leader Retreat is February 3rd/4th. The Retreat is

being held on Friday, February 19-Saturday, February 20. Cost is $15.00

CONGRATULATIONS to the students that earned a because of their Excellent Attendance for the 1st Semester! (1st and 2nd 9 weeks) Eli Ader, Luke Ader, Nora Ader, Abigail Alchin, Julia Alessandri, Lucy Arbuckle, Halie Barron, Patrick Baysinger, Allison Beach, Ryan Beach, Cole Beasley, Ellie Bemis, Evie Bemis, Brandon Biszantz, Brice Biszantz, Carly Bjerregaard, Lucas Boha, Spencer Brewton, Ashley Briscoe, Secilia Brooks, Sophia Brooks, Allison Brown, Ella Brown, Haven Brown, Christopher Buechter, Aidan Burress, Cayden Campbell, Collin Campbell, Riquel Cantleberry, Jacob Cssey, Sara Clark, Shawn Clark, Tetyana Clements, Marissa Connelly, Ana-Elizabeth Cook, Madison Coy, Zoe Crabtree, Bryce Crump, Corey Daffron, Emily Davidson, Briana Dyer, Andrew Eads, Ashlynn Estabrook, Alexandria Fanter, Ashlee Fisk, Mateo Franco, Jacob Galyean, Andrew Gavin, Gavin Gavorski, Henry Gay, Lauren Gay, Jenna Gladish, Cayley Golay, Morgan Golay, Cooper Hardin, Jeremy Harris, Haley Hash, Olivia Hefley, Lindsey Held, Jaden Hippenmeyer, Gage Hobein, Gavin Hoffman, Brooklyn Hornaday, Brooklyn Hoskins, Alissa Houpt, Evan Jackson, Taylor Jarosinski, Ava Johnson, Robert Kidwell, Elizabeth Kuebel, Garrett Lane, Michael LaRocca, Mikayla Lay, Anna Line, Piper Lovell, Zoe Lovell, Alexis Lucas, Lillian Lucas, Sida Lucas, Adrienne Manifold, Jakob Marlin, Makayla Marlin, Gavin Mathes, Cole McNeill, Lauren Miller, Shelby Miller, Kimberly Montgomery, Anne Morris, John Morris, Samuel Muesing, Schyler Ochsner, Tyler Olston, Audrey Parker, Emily Parker, Kaitlyn Parker, Justus Pender, Kayla Pender, Dye;Shea Pery, Anthony Peters, Kaitlyn Petrow, Andrea Pierce, James Pierce III, Jacob Polacsek, Andrew Rattin, Madelyn Ruff, Bradley Rundquist, Andrew Sauter, Aaron Seidle, Hannah Sendek, Austin Shelley, Grace Skillman, Michael Sloan, Anthony Smith, Breanna South, Brayton Spetter, Skyler Spetter, Andrew Stafford, Jacob Tallman, Priyanka Thomas, Kimberlee Townsend, Gracie Vance, Casey Venable, Andrew Veteto, Sapna Vyas, Savannah Waddick, Austin Watts, Kyle Watts, Bryce Webster, Nick Wicker, Kelti Wise, Carter Zuch. CONGRATULATIONS to the students that earned a because of their Excellent Attendance for the 1st 9 weeks! Gavin Anderson, Max Baker, Meghan Barber, Ethan Barron, Evan Brinkman, Hunter Burnett, Kyle Burress, Sydney Carlsgaard, Carissa-Anne Cook, Michelle Cox, Preston Crooke, Alexander Dafforn, Jacob Dalton, Luke Davis, Jalen Dent, Luke Dever, Cooper Drake, Quinn Ealy, Blake Eichelberger, Paige Epperson, Alicia Fahn, Jaedon Fields, Cheyenne Finney, Cliff Fisher, Nathan Foster, Emma Franco, Dillon Gardner, Ella Gilpatrick, Holly Handlon, Zaira Haney, Lindsey Hardin, Sarah Haynes, Brittany Henderson, Courtney Henderson, Abigail Herbst, Adam Hering, Katrina Hestand, Taylor Hestand, Rebekah Hinkle, Andrew Hodges, Zachary Hodges, Ella Hoffman, Madison Hoffman, Bailey Horton, Margaret Houpt, Wesley Hunt, Emily Ireland, Robin Jones, Eva Kissel, Dominik Kluthe, Alexander Lutz, Brooklyn Lutz, Tony Martin, Lucas Maurizio, Mitchell McCann, Ethan McGee, Blake McNeil, Arjun Menon, Benjamin Miesse, Peyton Morris, Allison Neihart, Nathan Olson, Sarah Pack, Parthiv Patel, Lillian Peters, James Phillips, Dylan Piatt, Allison Pierce, Kyle Pogue, Andrea Polacsek, Logan Ray, Reece Raymond, Ava Riddle, Alexander Roedeske, Aydan Roedeske, Alyssa Ruble, Adam Russell, Andrew Russell, Daniel Russell, Jeffrey Sauter, Abigail Seitzinger, Kurt Sendek, Elijah Smith, Nicholas Smith, Kristen Stewart, Matthew Stone, Luke Sturdivant, Daisy Surface, Molly Surface, Mason Sutton, Brittany Tapp, Mayla Taylor, Ella Thompson, John Tichenor, Katie Tyson, Hannah Veteto, Garrett Wade. Rachel Warner, Sidney Warner, Austin Watson, Stephen Watson, Sophia Watt, Zachary Wells, Jacob Wilson, Emma Wolf, Samuel Wong, Elese Wright.

P.E.E.L. (Partners Enhancing Environments for Learning) volunteers are encouraged to spend time in their respective

schools assisting classroom teachers. Our hope is that your help frees the teacher to spend more time in planning for in-

struction and for helping individual and small groups of student’s progress toward their goals. Many teachers will invite you

to be that extra helper with students.

On Tuesday, February 2, 2010, you are encouraged to attend the next training session, RTI (Response to Interven-

tion), Part 2, at North Grove Elementary School. We will begin the session at 12:30 pm and end at 2:30 pm. The first hour

will be studying the RTI initiative as a group while the second hour will be ’hands-on’ learning as we disperse in several

classrooms to assist during RTI times. If time allows, we will come back together as a group to discuss what we learned as a

result of the experience.

Please register for attending this training session by contacting Jan McNaught at janmcnaught@gmail.com by Monday,

February 1, 2010.

Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 16, 2010, for the next PEEL training session. We are privileged to have

Jay McNaught, Sr. Manager of Learning, Education and Development for Pfizer, who will be presenting “Strength Finders”

training. His session will help parents understand the importance of recognizing and developing strengths in children.

Training will be held at the Educational Services Center at 4800 W. Stones Crossing Road and will begin at 1:30 pm and end at

3:00 pm. The evening session will begin at 6:00 and end at 7:30.

Attention all Center Grove Girls! Center Grove Lassie League softball is holding registration for all girls ages 4-18 years. The Lassie League facili-ties are located on Morgantown Road, south of Center Grove Middle School North. The facility features 10 beauti-ful, lighted fields where girls are taught basic fundamentals of girls fast pitch softball. With the perennial and re-cent successes of the Class 4A high school state champion Trojans, softball will continue to be a fun and team oriented sport for all girls to participate and enjoy. Registration can currently be completed online at www.cglassieleague.org. Fees range from $75.00-$125.00 depending on age. Early registration discounts do not apply. Registration is open until April 5, 2010. We look forward to seeing you at the ball park this spring.

Attention all Center Grove Boys! Registration for the Center Grove Little League 2010 spring season is now underway. On-site registration will be held Saturday, January 30th at Dick’s Sporting Goods located at the Greenwood Park Mall from 10:00 am-5:00 pm. You can also register on-line or learn more by visiting their website at www.cgll.com. Additional information can be obtained by calling their 24 hour voice mail system at 881-6704. Little League Baseball is available to youth ages 4 through 18 as of April 30, 2010. We are not affiliated with the girl’s Lassie League softball program. Please register early, players registering may be put on a waiting list and not guaranteed a spot on a team.

Looks like Santa Claus was spotted visiting Maple Grove students before Christmas Break!!

He handed out candy canes to all the students after their lunch, then visited all of the

kindergarten classrooms to drop off a special book for each and every good boy and girl!

That must have been A LOT of BOOKS!!

Be sure to check out the Maple Grove website for forms/information

on the US CENSUS 2010 as well as ‘My Coke Rewards’ program for

our school. Also visit the website for the February Lunch Calendar

and some other ‘really great stuff!”