{"id":9014,"date":"2021-05-01T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvcsd.org\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2021-05-01T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:08:44","slug":"weekly-word-may-1-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/es\/es-letter\/weekly-word-may-1-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Word &#8211; May 1, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear PVES Families,<\/p>\n<p>And May has arrived!\u00a0 I hope that you are all enjoying this beautiful weekend, and that you are looking forward to this busy and productive month.\u00a0 On Friday, we will celebrate our May PV Pride Day, and all staff and students are invited to wear their blue and white colors to show off their school pride. At Putnam Valley, we have so very much to celebrate!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our third and fourth graders who took their NYS ELA Exams this past week.\u00a0 We are always so proud of our students who are so prepared, and who always know how to put forth their best efforts. This week, our third and fourth graders will take the NYS Math Exam on Thursday.\u00a0 Students who have opted out of this testing will complete independent curriculum review work in the classroom during the morning testing hours.\u00a0 Any opt-out students who stay home on this day should not arrive at school before 12:00, so as to not disrupt the testing. Thank you to our amazing teachers who do such a great job each and every day with our students.<\/p>\n<p>Please remember to visit the PTA Virtual Book Fair, which begins on Monday, May 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 Thank you to our PTA who has special surprises in store for our faculty in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week this coming week.\u00a0 Our amazing teachers deserve recognition for their wonderful care and efforts they put into their work, each and every day. This year has certainly brought on some additional challenges, and I thank our teachers for always putting our students first and foremost! We appreciate our teachers!<\/p>\n<p>Please remind your children to wear their seatbelts on the bus, and to continue to seat socially distanced in their seats.\u00a0 I continue to commend our students for the wonderful job they do wearing their masks at school, including during recess.\u00a0 These kids are amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Brief Progress Reports will be mailed to you this week, as a follow-up to our 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Quarter progress monitoring and the Parent\/Teacher conferences that were held. As always, if you have questions, please reach out to your child\u2019s teachers.\u00a0 We want to work together to continue to support your child academically, emotionally, and behaviorally.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the week ahead!\u00a0 May your precious children continue to bloom, just like the May flowers!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nDr. Margaret Podesta<br \/>\nPrincipal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear PVES Families, And May has arrived!\u00a0 I hope that you are all enjoying this beautiful weekend, and that you are looking forward to this busy and productive month.\u00a0 On Friday, we will celebrate our May PV Pride Day, and all staff and students are invited to wear their blue and white colors to show&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/es\/es-letter\/weekly-word-may-1-2021\/\">Continue Reading<span> Weekly Word &#8211; May 1, 2021<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-es-letter","clearfix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014","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=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}