School website address:

https://sites.google.com/epschoolsri.com/silver-spring-elementary-sch/home

The Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System (RICAS) will be administered to students in grades 3, 4 & 5 starting the week of April 4th. The full schedule is below.

Students in grade 5 will also participate in the Next Generation Science Assessment (NGSA) in late April.

Get a good night sleep each night to do his/her best on the tests.

Arrive to school on time at 8:40. Students who arrive after testing begins will be unable to enter a testing area.

Eat breakfast. Breakfast will be served to all students prior to the start of testing.

Bring his/her district issued Chromebook to school fully charged.

Do his/her best on the test. We want our students to show what they know!

Thank you for helping our students prepare for RICAS and NGSA assessments.

Spots available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registration is at Invent.org in English & opens at 10:00 am on April 12, 2022.

Register at INVENT.ORG/CAMP or 800-968-4332

Camp Invention® is for children entering grades 1st-6th.

Location: Martin Middle School

111 Brown Street, East Providence, RI 02914

Date: June 20 - 24, 2022

Time & Cost: 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM | Free!

THIS CAMP IS FULL!

The Rhode Island Department of Education will be holding a lottery in early May 2022 for the East Providence Pre-Kindergarten Program. The link below is NOT FOR REGISTRATION, but to receive notification when the lottery opens for registration. Interested families should fill out the survey to receive such notification. If you have any further questions, please call 401-270-7571 or email eperez@epschoolsri.com.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdn-Y5IUKy5upPnh5OkLSheNe_GrArRR1-EyIS7f44OgetvQQ/viewform

East Providence Pre-Kindergarten locations:

Oldham Elementary School Martin Middle School

60 Bart Drive 111 Brown Street

School wide expectations are shared with our school community on a daily and weekly basis. This ensures that all members of our school community know what to expect when he/she is at school.

Star Students are selected based on how they model Attendance, Achievement, Participation, or Kindness, and their names are announced on a weekly basis in our Monday Morning Announcements. This is a great way to celebrate our role models!

Our COVID community level has remained low over the last few weeks! COVID-19 by County | CDC

However, COVID is still with us. Please be safe by staying home when sick and testing to rule out COVID when indicated.

Currently, we are seeing cases of the stomach bug, strep throat and the flu as well as seasonal allergies.

If your child is ill, please contact your child’s pediatrician and alert the school nurse.

THANK YOU!

Is it a cold, the flu, COVID, seasonal allergies?

How to tell if it’s a cold or seasonal Allergies: Children’s Health experts weigh in

Seasonal Allergies in Kids - On Call for All Kids

K-12 Testing Online Appointment: https://covid.ri.gov/testing

Contact Nurse Maria via Dojo, phone or email, if your child is ill/meets testing criteria.

Phone: 383-0908

Email: mfazioli@epschoolsri.com

Our PTC meeting is scheduled for

Thursday, April 7th at 6:00 p.m. ~ CANCELLED

NEXT MEETING IS MAY 5TH AT 6:00 PM

This month's PTC meeting will be in person.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Reach out to our PTC Preseident, Aly Laughlin, if you would like to help with events and/or if you have any questions regarding the PTC.

Aly's email address is: alytheia16@gmail.com

Stay tuned for our restaurant of the month fundraiser!

Amended 2021-2022 District School Calendar

Students who pass four (4) i-Ready lessons per week, two (2) reading and two (2) math, are entered in a raffle.

Please reach out to your child's teacher or Mrs. Francescon for more information regarding this initiative.

Show your school spirit by participating in Spirit Days!

It is easy and fun. Follow the schedule below and come to school dressed to reflect the Spirit Day theme.

In April we focus on the # 6 Habit for Successful Silver Spring Stars

6. Exercise

Exercise boosts brain power and improved academic results

Check out What Happens When Kids Don’t Exercise

Regular exercise relieves the stress response and releases feel-good hormones.

Try these options:

• Before or after dinner walks

• Dance Party

• Basketball

• Clean Up Race

• Red Light Green Light

Check out this 3 minute video-

How Playing Sports Benefits Your Body

Silver Spring extends a warm heart-felt Thank You to all families who took the Family Surveyworks! Survey. We had 93.6% family participation which is truly remarkable. Surveys are closed, but the SurveyWorks! Process is not over. The next step is receiving the responses. When we review the feedback, your responses to the questions, we’ll know the vast majority of our school population is represented. Our School Improvement Team and PTC look forward to analyzing the results. Our goal is to better serve the students and families of Silver Spring.

Attendance

The Seven Habits for Successful Silver Spring Stars were created to help improve attendance. One of the best attributes about Silver Spring is the strong teachers who LOVE teaching and students who LOVE learning... If they are not here we cannot teach them.

Students must be present 90% of the time in order to be in good standing by the Rhode Island Department of Education. Currently, we've been in school 75 days. If a student has been absent 6+ days, they are considered chronically absent by the RIDE. (Quarantine absences are not factored into this number.)

Families should make every effort to get students to school every single day. If a student takes days off for vacations or birthdays, and later needs to be quarantined, the absences add up quickly. If there is an appointment, please attend school before and/or after.

We are here for you. Feel free to reach out to Mrs. Francescon

on Class Dojo or email DFrancescon@epschoolsri.com

Each student is assigned a Chromebook once the student has returned the signed Acceptable Use Policy: Computer, Technology, Internet and google for Faculty, Staff and Students Instruction - Instructional Resources and Materials page and the Chromebook Loan Agreement page.

These and other documents can be found at the District's website: https://epschoolsri.org/parents/

The end of the school year is fast approaching and with that often comes stress. Stress may be related to testing or upcoming transitions related to friendships, family, or school. Practicing regular meditation is one way to combat stress and build resilience.

The Mayo Clinic provides information about meditation. “Meditation can produce a deep state of relaxation and a tranquil mind. During meditation, you focus your attention and eliminate the stream of jumbled thoughts that may be crowding your mind and causing stress. This process may result in enhanced physical and emotional well-being.

When you meditate, you may clear away the information overload that builds up every day and contributes to your stress.

The emotional benefits of meditation can include:

• Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations

• Building skills to manage your stress

• Increasing self-awareness

• Focusing on the present

• Reducing negative emotions

• Increasing imagination and creativity

• Increasing patience and tolerance”

Some beginning meditation practices for kids can be found with this link:

https://www.moms.com/meditation-techniques-kids-easy/

For some strategies to help your child cope with anxiety around test taking watch this fun video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHmFTnkqdz0

Happy Birthday to Our Amazing School Community Members!

April Birthdays

Na'riah Branch (4/2)

Arianna Senna (4/6)

Daniel Landry (4/7)

Julia Sullivan (4/11)

Sophia Lima (4/12)

D'Moni Richardson (4/18)

Arsha Askie (4/19)

Yinlon Chung (4/19)

Lucas St. Onge (4/20)

Perry Theuman (4/20)

Alina Ndanga (4/23)

Jahvon Hazard (4/24)

Adewale Pierre (4/25)

Abbey Iacavone (4/30)

Ms. Anderson (4/10)

Mrs. Daly (4/14)

Mr. Boucher (4/16)

Mrs. Fitterling (4/16)

Mrs. Thibault (4/26)

Mr. DeCarvalho (4/27)

To complete a free/reduced lunch application, please click here.

https://www.myschoolapps.com/Application

https://epschoolsri.org/parents/

This school year we will be using My School Apps for the Free/Reduced School Lunch Application program. No more paper applications to complete and return to the school office. Apply for meal benefits online from the privacy of your home, or anywhere with an internet connection.

While everyone will be receiving free breakfast/lunch this school year, we are still encouraging parents/guardians to fill this application out. In particular, it will help parents/guardians for the first month of school in September 2022. If students qualify for free/reduced lunch now - that will continue on through until for the first 30 days of school - roughly the second week of October.

Because of the great response to the Feinstein Jr. Scholar Golden Ticket promotion, Mr. Feinstein has decided to continue drawing winning numbers through summertime school vacation!

Winning numbers will continue to be announced every Monday on WPRI Channel 12 during their prime time 4:30 p.m. news program and repeated the following day on our Facebook and Virtual Club right up until the end of August.

So, check your ticket each week to see if you and our school are winners! If you have a winning ticket, hold onto it until the start of school in the fall and present it to Mrs. Avila then. What an exciting moment that would be!

If you are wondering which educational and fun books, games, and/or manipulatives will help your child develop academic and social emotional skills, the list below may help you thanks to our staff's suggestions. Happy Holidays!

Social Charades and other SEL games (https://www.thepathway2success.com/using-games-to-teach-social-emotional-skills/)