From the Principal:
Greetings:
I wish you all a very safe and enjoyable holiday break. We hope to see our students back in our Wildcat World of Virtual Learning in the new year of 2021! Please be mindful of the following dates:
- 12/21 - 1/1 Winter Break
- 1/4 Students return to Virtual Learning from Winter Break
- 1/13 Last Day of 1st Semester
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Sagamore Hills Angel Tree
Thank you to everyone who helped fulfill the wishes for this year's Angel Tree. Thanks to you and the amazing Sagamore Hills community- we were able to fulfill all the wishes this year!!
Counselors will be collecting gifts at the school on Monday from 3pm-5pm.
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Book Fair Order Pick Up: Wed from 10am-2pm
Thank you for your support of Sagamore's online book fair! If you ordered a book, these are now available for socially distanced pick up. Please come to Sagamore this Wednesday Dec 16th from 10am-2pm to get your orders- they will be in front of the school. You can also pick them up Thursday Dec. 17th from 2pm-3pm.
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DeKalb School of the Arts' celebrates The Nutcracker!
DSA’s Nutcracker tradition continues, this year in a virtual setting. Enjoy DSA’s full-length Nutcracker in a Nutshell performance from 2019! Watch (free!) at: https://youtu.be/L7ZrjCjKSsk.
And once you’ve been inspired by these amazing dancers, there’s Nutcracker Dance Alongs!
Join the fun as DSA Dancers teach you how to march like a soldier, twirl like a snowflake, and leap like the Sugar Plum Fairy. Watch (free!) and choose your dance level at https://bit.ly/DSANutcracker.
For more dance fun (free!), tune into DSA’s dance-inspired story time series Bedtime for Ballerinas http://bit.ly/DSABedtime and original student choreography in Dance for Filmhttp://bit.ly/DRCdance4film.
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Congratulations to this year's Region 1 & 2 PTA Reflections winners!
Literature: 2nd place Ruby Homes, 5th grade
Visual Art/3-D: 1st place Veda Nagrani, 1st grade
1st Place, Ruby Holmes, 5th grade
Film: 2nd place, Sahir Arif, 5th grade
Dance: 1st place, Hypatia Sutton-Brown- Fox, Kindergarten
Photography: 1st place, Logan Firfer, 5th grade
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Yearbook Pictures Needed
What's your Wildcat been up to? The Sagamore Hills Yearbook Staff needs your help--We'd like to see pictures of your students doing virtual school and other activities!!
Show us some pictures of your kids playing outdoors!
https://forms.gle/Qw4sGDLJCmgYdM7o7
We are excited to feature YOU in the yearbook. Thank you for helping us tell the story of the year,
Sagamore Hills Yearbook Staff
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Support Sagamore when you shop for Holiday Gifts!
You can now use amazon smiles while shopping on your phone:
here is a link for Amazon Smile to set up in the app.
https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=15576745011
Here's how to sign up for AmazonSmile:
- Visit smile.amazon.com.
- Sign in with your Amazon.com credentials.
- Choose a charitable organization to receive donations, or search for the charity of your choice.
- Select your charity.
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Library Books Available for Pick-Up
Sagamore Hills Library will be circulating books for students via on-line holds and curbside pick-up! Directions, calendars, and updates will be placed on our Sagamore Hills Website -Media Center Tab-Curbside Pick-Up.
It's easy to place a hold on books through our library catalog Destiny.
- Watch the link to my tutorial "How to Place a Hold in Destiny"
- Use this direct link to the Media Center Page to access our Destiny catalog
*Our Monday/Thursday circulation calendar provides a 2-3-day quarantine period for books.
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Be Heard! Sagamore Hills Virtual Suggestion Box
The PTA has created and is monitoring a virtual suggestion box for your comments, ideas, suggestions, or questions. This is an anonymous form, or you can optionally leave your name if you'd like direct follow-up. The PTA will route your comment to the appropriate staff members at Sagamore or handle it directly.
Sagamore Hills Elementary Virtual Suggestion Box
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Have you bought your agenda? Be sure to register with Membership Toolkit and Support the PTA
Sagamore Hills is using Membership Toolkit for our online directory and school store for the 2020-2021 school year. Please click on "Membership Toolkit" to confirm your family's contact information and make your online purchases. A folder is required for Kindergarten students. A folder/agenda combo is required for 1st-5th grade students. These purchases, as well as yearbooks from the 2019-2020 school year, will be distributed soon. Teachers will encourage students to use their agendas with virtual learning.
You can also use this link to join and support the PTA -- your help is critical this year!
- The PTA:
- Provides funding for scholarships
- Sponsors School Events – Sock Hop, Family Movie Night
- Facilitate communication between school administration, teachers, and parents.
- What will the PTA do during the virtual portion of the school year?
- Help families fill the gap between county and school resources
- Keep parents connected during this very disconnected time
- Provide funding for teachers in the classroom
- Additional teacher training for virtual learning
- You can support the PTA with dues/donations or your time
- We need a VP of Academic on our board
- We always need more English to Spanish translators
- Room parents
Sign on to Membership Toolkit and visit the online store to join and/or donate to the PTA. One and Two Adult memberships and donations in increments of $30, $50, & $75 are available for purchase. Your support is much appreciated and crucial for the PTA to keep up with programing during the year.
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Become a Wildcat Sponsor Today!
Do you own a business and want to sponsor the PTA? Please see our website http://sagamorehillspta.org/sponsor for information and pricing. This is a great way to increase your business exposure and help your school "Be More." Become a "Wildcat" sponsor today! Please email fundraising@sagamorehillspta.org for more information or if you have any questions. |
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