News Archive: May, 2007

May 24, 2007 Please be advised that the school buses are running about one hour behind schedule for drop off today (May 24) because several busloads of AGI students returning from a field trip to the Philadelphia Zoo are stuck in traffic. The field trip buses are expected back at the PLE/AGI campus by about 4 p.m. today. AGI and Penn London students will then load the buses and be transported to their designated stops. This estimate is based upon the expected 4 p.m. return time for the field trip buses. AGI and PLE buses normally leave the campus between 3:10 and 3:20 p.m. for the afternoon run.

May 23, 2007 The end of the school year is quickly approaching.  When planning your summer days, include lots of ways that summer reading can be an integral and fun component of your child’s day.  Children can gain reading skills by keeping the reading habit alive.  Library and bookstore trips can be browsing times when your child becomes familiar with many different types of reading materials. Road trips and Audio Books are a wonderful combination. Listening to a good book can make those miles fly by!  The West Grove and Chester County libraries have extensive collections.

Independent summer reading should be interesting and enjoyable for your child.  Magazines, joke books, how-to books, and even comic books get two thumbs up.  Summer is prime time for reading stories together. Include stories you love, ones that may be too difficult for your child to read alone, or simply good books that interest both of you.

A list of suggested summer reading is included. Encourage your child to choose informational books as well as fiction titles.  Reading informational books can build your child’s background knowledge for the coming school year.  Combining reading with hands-on activities will enhance understanding even more.

Get ready to enjoy those lazy days of summer and make reading a summer habit.  Remember to have your child pack some reading materials in the suitcase!

Happy Reading,         
Patti Hill, Wendy Marinelli , Debbie Parker, and Lucy Rosen 

Literacy team

Summer Reading

• Summer Reading Suggestions
• Reading Olympics (information and reading list)

May 23, 2007

• Send in 07/08 transportation requests.
• Return 07/08 surveys.
• Return school property (classroom or library books, school materials, etc.)
• Take home personal property.
• Pay lunch charges and any other bills.
• Claim Lost & Found items.
• Return Visitor/Volunteer badges

Please return all school property and clear all debts before the last day of school.

May 23, 2007Please pay all charges by June 1.  (Checks are to be written to AG Food Services.) No lunch charges will be permitted after June 1. The salad bar will not be offered after June 8.

     If your student has extra money in his/her account, it will remain there for use in the next school year, including those students who will be moving on to the middle school.  (Their PIN also remains the same as they move from AGIS to the Middle School.)

May 23, 2007If you have obtained your clearances, but have not volunteered this school year, please volunteer before the last day of school.  In order to keep clearances active for next year, you must volunteer at least one time during the current school year.  Otherwise you will have to re-apply for clearances next year.  If you child is moving on to the middle school next year, your clearances will follow you.

May 23, 2007

     Need to plan for a summer birthday party?  We can help!  The AGIS PTA is selling the remaining directories for just $5 each, on a first come, first served basis.  Please enclose your $5 (checks to AGIS PTA) in an envelope marked “PTA Directory,” and your directory will be sent home via backpack mail. 

The directory update was sent home last week to all current directory holders.  If you did not receive yours, please contact Peggy Bell-Cole.

May 22, 2007 Please plan to attend the Barnes and Noble Book Fair scheduled for Friday, June 1, from 6:30-8:00PM.  Last year AGIS received over $450 from profits from the sale, which were used to purchase new books for the school.

     Mark your calendar for June 1 and join in on the fun of selecting new books to read this summer. »Download Flyer

May 9, 2007 Student placement for the 07/08 school year will be determined using the following criteria:

Brothers & sisters are placed in the same schoolhouse.

Students are equally mixed by gender, race, & ability.

Each class receives a heterogeneous mix of instructional levels.

Students are placed so that their instructional needs may be met.

Placements take into consideration the social & emotional needs of each student.

The principals, along with grade level teachers & counselors, participate in this process.

     Should you feel the need to communicate specific insights to the AGIS administration and next year’s teacher, please put these thoughts in writing.  These insights can refer to a program, instructional grouping, organizational pattern, learning style, or social & emotional needs.  Personal requests for specific teachers will not be honored.  Address your letter to the principals and return it right away to AGIS. The deadline is Friday, May 18.

     Students will receive notification of their 07/08 classroom placement in mid-August via mail.

May 9, 2007 Planning bus routes for the 2007-2008 school year will soon be underway.  All students will be assigned to their home bus stop for the coming school year, and current day care arrangements will be deleted.  A new transportation request form for alternate arrangements must be submitted each new school year. 

     If your child will be regularly using a bus stop different from your home bus stop next year, even if it is the same arrangement as this year, you must put it in writing.  Transportation Request Forms are available on our AGIS website and in the office at your request.  It is necessary to have the name, specific address, and telephone number of your day care provider, as well as a clear explanation of the request, especially if there will be day variants. 

May 9, 2007 About 400 students in grades three through six at Avon Grove Intermediate School joined together on Friday, April 27, to form the shape of a giant autism awareness ribbon. The day was also a schoolwide spirit day to commemorate the end of Autism Awareness Month, which occurs annually each April. Students and staff were encouraged to wear red, yellow or blue – the colors of the autism ribbon, which is made up of interlocking puzzle piece shapes. The autism puzzle ribbon represents the mystery of autism, the diversity of the people living with autism, and the bright colors of hope. »Read More

May 9, 2007 Ms. Marlese Henderson's class and Ms. Kelly Cooper's class in the Red Pod hosted a four-day Lemonade Carnival to raise awareness and funds to benefit the second-annual Alex’s Virtual Lemonade Stand project, and the effort to find a cure for childhood cancer. The students raised $1,845. »Read More

May 9, 2007 Congratulations to Mrs. Dianne Salerni for the publication of her book titled High Spirits.  It will soon be available at Barnes & Nobel bookstores.  Mrs. Salerni is one of our classroom teachers in the purple schoolhouse.  We are so proud!  Congratulations!

May 9, 2007 The Bridge is a neighborhood volunteer organization that helps meet the physical needs of local families by supplying food and clothing at no cost to them. Items are distributed every Tuesday evening and Saturday morning from a storage trailer located behind the Church of the Nazarene on State Road in West Grove. The Humanitarian Club of the Avon Grove High School is one group that supports The Bridge.

         The school nurses at the Avon Grove Intermediate School would like to sponsor a school-wide food and clothing drive to benefit The Bridge. Our drive will take place from May 14th until May 25th, 2007. In addition to gently used, clean spring and summer clothing items for children and adults, we would like to collect the following food items:

3rd graders – canned vegetables

4th graders – canned fruit, canned juice, juice boxes

5th graders – pasta products/rice/macaroni and cheese

6th graders – canned meats/boxed all-in-one meals

         All donations can be brought to school and placed in the collection boxes outside of the nurses’ office during the two weeks of the drive. If you have any questions, please call the AGI school nurses, Mrs. Dundon and Mrs. Lee, at 610-869-2010. Thank you in advance for your support.

 

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