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Text Box: Montgomery College YOUTH PROGRAMS is offering over 200 exciting classes in its   Summer Youth Programs   for students in grades K– 12 who want to do something really different during the summer.   The eight-week program runs from June 22 – August 14, 2009.  Brochures will be posted on our website (www.montgomerycollege.edu/youth).  For further information contact Youth Programs at 301-251-7264 or 301-251-7917.   Text Box: Principal’s Penguin Post    Congratulations to our 3rd, 4th and 5th graders!  We just completed our first week of the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) testing!   Grades 3 and 4 completed the first day of the math portion last Friday and finished up yesterday (Monday). Students in grade 5 will complete their testing tomorrow. I want to thank all of our staff and families for supporting our children---testing is stressful on all of us and can really impact our mood and attitude if we are not careful. I know our children did a phenomenal job despite the pressure they faced!    Attention Page Volunteers! We need any community members who have done volunteer work for our school and/or PTA to come to the school office or contact Mrs. Amelia McGhee to record the number of hours you have worked to date this year.  We want everyone to get credit for what you have done to support our children, whether in the classroom, during an evening activity, or even doing jobs for the PTA outside of the PTA meetings! MCPS is committed to supporting a strong and active parent community and ensuring that family involvement efforts reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of local school communities.  The school system also strives to foster broad-based community involvement by stakeholders with a vested interest in the education of children—we appreciate our volunteers and ask for your continued support!    The 4 school rules should have come home with your child in last Tuesday’s communicator folder.  Our goal at William Tyler Page ES is to provide a safe, pleasant, and stimulating environment for our children and one that is conducive to effective learning.  It is essential that the school and home work closely together in order to provide this type of learning environment for children.  As parents, it is important that you let your child know what you expect of him/her at school and help him/her understand that the school rules must be made and enforced for the good of all children in the school. Through the consistent application of our discipline policy and with your support, we can all help our children mature and develop into happy, self-disciplined and self-reliant individuals. We truly value this partnership!   Quote of the Week:  212° Learning: “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”………..Sandra Carey   PTA Needs

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Text Box:  ESOL testing April 1  30— Grades PreK--5th   This testing is also on the general testing calendar and is mandated state testing. Maggie Jehn and the ELL Team

 

Text Box: Spring Break Sports Camp  is Back!!   James H. Blake HS April 6th-9th Contact: Kevin 240.602.1692   Text Box: EDITOR’S NOTE The Ice Page is distributed every Tuesday. Deadline: Thursday at 3:00 PM   Anyone can submit items: teachers, staff, parents, students, etc.  To have an item included: Leave typewritten info in The Ice Page mailbox in the school office OR send by e-mail to: Robert.Paulsen@verizon.net And acmcghee@verizon.net    Editors: Rob Paulsen, (301) 351-7139 Amelia Mcghee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: 2009 TESTING SCHEDULE   March 20th and 23rd:      Math MSA for 3rd and 4th Grade March 24th and 25th:      Math MSA for 5th Grade April 27th – May 1st:      TN/2 for 2nd Grade May 4th – 8th:                Science MSA for 5th Grade (specific date to be determined) 

 

 

Text Box: Important Dates March 18 – 25:           Testing – See Schedule Below   Monday, March 30:   No School – Teacher Professional Day April 6 - 13:          NO SCHOOL – Spring Break   Text Box: NOTICE FOR VOLUNTEERS Please be sure to record your volunteer hours every time you volunteer.  Schools are required by MCPS to log a certain number of volunteer hours per month.  Due to low reporting, W.T. Page is falling short of that standard.  For your convenience, electronic submission is now available at:   http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/pagees/Volunteer%20Reporting%20Form.pdf   Thanks for your time and cooperation, Amelia McGhee, Volunteer Coordinator   Text Box: Need Help for Gifted & Talented   &  Learning Disabled  Students? See link above Text Box: ********************* An Amazing Slice of Pi! On Friday, March 13, Mr. Selvin's math class celebrated Pi Day (a day early) to mark the calendar's closest approximation of the important ratio of pi.  Pi, represented by the Greek letter , is the relationship between a circle's diameter its circumference.  It is called an irrational number because its digits continue without end and no pattern has yet been discovered.  3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 So far, computers have calculated pi to over 1 trillion digits!  The Guinness Book of World Records claims that someone has recited pi from memory to 67,000 digits!   Mr. Selvin challenged his math students to see how many they could remember and recite.  Congratulations to Asha Kodan, who bravely took the first challenge and was the first student to reach 20 digits.  Since then, several students have taken on the challenge and have come close to recalling 100 digits of pi.  As of this report, Aaron Kyei-Asare was the first student to reach the century mark and has gone on to 114 digits and Michael Hinnant holds the record with reciting 116 digits.    Mr. Selvin has thrown down the challenge that if a student at W. T. Page can recite from memory 314 digits of pi, he will reprise his agreement to dye his hair blond again!

Text Box: A Time for Change Time for you to get involved – SPRING forward and do more for the PTA – MORE for WT. Page.   There are  any number of positions available! Contact:  Dee Ann Klingner,  DeBora King, or The Ice Page for more information or if you have questions. see the PTA link above & to the left for details