Ingomar Inklings
Week of October 26-30, 2020
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Monday - October 26 - Wear you Halloween PTO Spirit shirt or Halloween attire (the Spirits shirts will be here Monday)
Tuesday - October 27 - Cohort 1 Halloween Celebration
Wednesday - October 28 - Learning at Home
Thursday - October 29 - Wear you Halloween PTO Spirit shirt or Halloween attire
Friday - October 30 - Cohort 2 Halloween Celebration
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Halloween at IES
Halloween will be celebrated twice! We want our students to have a great day and celebrate.
Cohort 1 will celebrate on Tuesday, October 27
Cohort 2 will celebrate Friday, October 30
- The PTO will send individual bags with a grade-level activity that students can do at his/her desk. Teachers may plan additional activities, games, and/or movies.
- Please be aware that teachers may change his/her schedule on the party days to accommodate the party plans. Your child’s teacher(s) will communicate schedule changes.
- Live streaming will not occur during the Halloween celebration times. Both cohorts will celebrate Halloween in-person!
- Students will be permitted to bring in a costume that can be worn over his/her clothes. They will not be permitted to dress in the bathroom. Please make every effort to keep the costumes simple allowing teachers to address the needs of all students promptly. The IES staff will all pitch in to help students, but there will be no additional volunteers.
- Please place the costume in a bag with your child’s name on it. If the costume is something he or she can wear to school and keep on all day, this is great!
- Students cannot wear a Halloween mask. Students are required to wear a face-covering at all times.
- A Halloween parade will occur at 2:00. It will be live-streamed or videoed allowing families to view the parade. Unfortunately, we can not have visitors come to IES to watch the parade during the day.
- In addition to the Halloween costume days, the PTO Halloween Spirit T-shirts can be worn on Monday, Oct 26, and Thursday, October 29. If you did not order one, no problem as students can wear Halloween shirts or other attire to celebrate!
Thank you to the PTO and volunteers who are helping to make this a great day.
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Welcome Back to IES!
There will be 37 students from various grade levels returning to IES from NACA. We are thrilled to have families return to IES, although they never really left! Due to the higher enrollment, we will be adding a PM Kindergarten class (KD). The teacher will be Miss Caterina Macri. We are looking forward to the five-day return on Wednesday, November 4.
As we prepare for the five-day return, there will be a change to the schedule for Art, Health and Physical Education, Library, and Music. Throughout the Hybrid model, students rotated on a two-week in-person and at-home schedule allowing them to see each special area teacher live. When students return to five-day in-person learning, students will see each special area teacher throughout the week. The new schedule will be posted on the IES website and the teachers’ Blackboard pages. Integrated Arts will continue to be on Wednesdays.
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Spirit Shirts
The Halloween Spirit Shirts are here at IES. If you are in Cohort 1, you will get your shirt on Monday morning. They are already waiting in your homerooms. You can wear it on Monday!
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PTO Homeroom Volunteers
Please fill this form out if you are interested in being a Homeroom Parent for the 2020-2021 school year. There are currently no in-person volunteer options. This job would entail communicating with your class parents on various needs of the PTO and coordinating holiday and end of year class gifts for the teacher if your class so desires. If you are interested in the position for more than one child, please fill out separate forms. You will only be assigned to one class though. Thank you! Please email Tiffany Thirkell with any questions. |
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Birthday Book Club
Would you like to celebrate your child’s birthday in a fun and rewarding way while supporting our school library? Please consider donating a book through the Birthday Book Club! Participation is easy: shop directly through the Library’s Amazon Wish List for great book choices, varied price options, AND earn cashback for IES by using your Amazon Smile account. Click HERE to get started! Thank you for your support and for encouraging a love of reading in all of our students. Questions may be emailed to Mrs. Smokovich. |
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National Drug and Alcohol Prevention Week
October 26-30
North Allegheny elementary schools will celebrate National Drug and Alcohol Prevention Week October 26-30. At each elementary school, we will participate in a variety of activities, using materials that promote good decision-making. Presentations and messages will focus on helping students understand that they are responsible for making healthy choices in life. Choosing to be alcohol, tobacco, and drug-free is one of the best choices that they can make!
Enjoy the following at-home activities from the Red Ribbon Campaign website:
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Elementary Grading Update
With students between in-person and cyber placements for the start of the second quarter, the District will be modifying the ending date for the close of the first quarter marking period for elementary students. This is necessary since report cards need to be finalized prior to rescheduling students who are moving placements for the start of the second marking period which begins on November 4, 2020.
Timeline for Quarter 1 Grades
- First quarter marking period will close on Monday, October 26, 2020, instead of November 2nd.
- Wednesday, October 28 will be an asynchronous day for all elementary students and staff in order to allow staff time to complete grades and enter information into the system for report cards.
- Report cards will be available in the Tyler Portal on Monday, November 2, 2020.
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Guest Substitutes Q&A Session
The District is accepting applications for Guest Substitutes through October 28, 2020. If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about these opportunities, please join us for an upcoming Q & A Session. A teaching certificate is not required. For more information, please visit our website. |
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NASD Offers Free Meals for All Students Every Day
The USDA has recently approved school districts to offer free meals to all students for in-person and remote instruction. Breakfast and lunch (in-person or pickup) is free for all students.
Details about meal ordering and pickup were sent to all families via email.
Meal pickup for consumption on remote learning days will be every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Meals can be picked up at HES, MES, IMS, NAI, or NASH (pickup location will be selected on the order form linked in your email). The deadline to order pickup meals will be every Friday.
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Missed a Newsletter?
All building newsletters are archived weekly on the North Allegheny website. This designated webpage will be updated with links to the previous week’s newsletters at the beginning of each school week by 11:30 a.m. A link to the archive is accessible on the District’s homepage and on each building’s homepage.
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The North Allegheny School District often receives requests for the distribution of athletics and approved non-profit community organization digital flyers. All requests for community flyers to be included in this newsletter must be submitted via email only at flyers@northallegheny.org. Flyers will only be posted and removed from the District website on Friday. Visit our website for details on how to submit flyers. |
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Main Office - 412-366-9665
Nurse's Office - 412-366-9665
Counseling Office - 412-366-9665
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