{"id":8388,"date":"2020-10-30T11:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvcsd.org\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:14:33","slug":"weekly-word-october-30-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/es\/es-letter\/weekly-word-october-30-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Word &#8211; October 30, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear PVES Families,<\/p>\n<p>We are having a festive day here at PVES, with lots of orange, black, and purple clothing!\u00a0 Our students bring the joy to every day, and although Halloween is a bit different this year, we are having a healthy and happy day here. Thank you all for your support and cooperation with all we are doing in the best interests of the children!<\/p>\n<p>The PVEF Trunk or Treat is taking place tomorrow, at 11:00 AM, in the middle school parking lot! Go enjoy some safe Halloween fun at this drive-by event! Thank you to the Putnam Valley Education Foundation for all they do for our entire school district!<\/p>\n<p>The month of November is a very busy one in our school.\u00a0 Please check the calendar carefully for school closures, parent conference dates, and holidays.\u00a0 Schools will be closed on this Tuesday, November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, for Superintendent\u2019s Conference Day.\u00a0 Schools will also be closed on November 11<sup>th<\/sup> for Veteran\u2019s Day, November 13<sup>th<\/sup> for PVES parent\/teacher conferences, and November 25<sup>th<\/sup>, 26<sup>th<\/sup>, and 27<sup>th<\/sup>, for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 The 12:00 noon dismissal for parent\/teacher conferences will take place on Thursday, November 19<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 (Parent conferences for Special Area teachers will take place that afternoon and evening, and teacher conferences are being scheduled for that night).\u00a0 Please be sure you have reached out to all of your child\u2019s teachers to set up these important first quarter conferences.\u00a0 Brief narrative Progress Reports will be provided to you to help with this school\/home communication.<\/p>\n<p>Our PTA Virtual Book Fair will be coming soon!\u00a0 This virtual event will be taking place from Monday, November 16<sup>th<\/sup> through Friday, November 20<sup>th<\/sup>!\u00a0 What a great opportunity this will be to purchase wonderful books and holiday gifts!<\/p>\n<p>I have an <strong><u>important message<\/u><\/strong> about any school days that are delayed due to inclement weather.\u00a0 In the event of a <strong>2 or 3-hour delay<\/strong>, our students will be staying at school longer in the afternoon, in order to protect instructional time. Therefore, if we must delay the start of school due to snowy roads, our students will be <strong>dismissed at 3:30 PM<\/strong>.\u00a0 The bus routes will be the same as on other days, but buses will leave PVES at 3:30 instead of 2:45 PM.\u00a0 Please plan on adjusting your pick-up times on <strong>School Delay <\/strong>days if they should occur.<\/p>\n<p>Please check our website for our classroom Remote Schedules that would be used in the event of a COVID-related school closure.\u00a0 If a closure or quarantine should occur, your students would follow their daily schedules remotely with their classroom teachers, specialists, and special classes (gym, art, music, technology) throughout the school day.\u00a0 Google Meet links are posted on these schedules, which can be found on the top right of our elementary website in red.\u00a0 Hopefully, we won\u2019t need to use these schedules, but it is good to be prepared!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the weekend ahead! May the month of November be a peaceful and healthy one for all! Please check for details about our Thanksgiving Food Drive!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n<p>Fondly,<br \/>\nDr. Margaret Podesta<br \/>\nPrincipal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear PVES Families, We are having a festive day here at PVES, with lots of orange, black, and purple clothing!\u00a0 Our students bring the joy to every day, and although Halloween is a bit different this year, we are having a healthy and happy day here. Thank you all for your support and cooperation with&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/es\/es-letter\/weekly-word-october-30-2020\/\">Continue Reading<span> Weekly Word &#8211; October 30, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-es-letter","tag-covid19","clearfix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}