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We hope that you had a great weekend! This week we are moving right along with our next deep dive in our relationship/community building focus in the Early Childhood building. Our focus this week is all about Project Based Learning (PBL) and how we use this learning system in building community.

Project Based Learning gives students an opportunity to learn content standards by posing a meaningful question to explore and engage in a real world problem to solve, or a challenge to design or create something. Students do this by inquiring about the topic by asking questions and developing their own answers. Students then create high-quality products and present their work to other people. Students often learn success skills through PBL such as critical thinking, problem solving, and working collaboratively with their peers. Below are current units that some of our grade levels are focusing on to build community and connection within their classrooms and our larger community.

Our Kindergarteners are currently learning about communities by working to answer this question...How can we, as authors, teach others about our classroom community? The students are exploring various types of ways to build a classroom community. They are using team building activities to get to know one other, establish classroom norms and start to build relationships with one another. Students will use number sense and pre-writing skills to create and publish a classroom book that can be shared with families/our school to educate them on their classroom and community members.

First graders are learning about communities by working to answer this question; How can we, as PCS cartographers, help new families experience our special school space? 1st grade students will be asked by school leaders to help create a fun and memorable tour of the school so that new families can find and learn about each special space. Students will build on prior learned community skills to help them learn more about the school community and they will dig into teamwork skills and learn about the importance of roles to support the outcome of the final product.

In this project, students will learn mapping and other geography skills to help them create maps to be used during new family orientation/open houses that guide others throughout the building. Students will additionally learn narrative writing skills so that they can write and tell stories about the special places that their maps lead to. Teams will present their maps to cartographers to gain feedback and they will present their final maps and stories to school leaders during a practice open house. Student maps and stories will be used throughout the year with 1st grade volunteers to help run the tours.

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Students celebrate summer reading: Students who took the summer reading challenge are celebrating their reading with an ice cream party on September 15th and 29th! If your child missed the challenge, be on the lookout for upcoming reading challenges in the winter and spring!

September is Library Card Sign Up Month

Stop by any SLPL branch to sign up for a library care OR get an ecard to access all of the library's digital content here.

Students with a library card can get free online tutoring between 2pm and 11pm daily here!

Save the dates for our Fall Book Fair! October 24-26 after school and during conferences in the Library (building C)!

Letter From our Parent Community Group:

With so many new families joining our community here at Premier Charter School (PCS) in the last year or two, we wanted to introduce you to the Parent Community Group. Everyone with a student at the school is automatically part of this group. Our only goal is to help facilitate a community mindset among the families at PCS. We are not PTO/PTA because there are legal and financial requirements that would not benefit us. We do have one admin as a liaison to the group, Kim Wright, but do not require any teachers or admins to be involved. We do not raise funds for the school. Any money we bring in, gets spent on community events and teacher appreciation week. Fall Fest, Pancake Breakfast, Mother/Son -Father/Daughter, and Movie Nights are generally break-even events after all the costs. Their purpose is just to be fun events for families to get together outside of school hours. Our fundraising is done mainly through family nights at local restaurants, spirit wear sales, the fall & spring sales (pizza, cookie dough, candles, etc.), and Music Bingo night. The PCG purchases the Walk For Hope shirts for the entire school, sponsors Teacher Appreciation Week, and throws the End of Year Celebration. The money we bring in from our handful of fundraising events is what we put into building the community with events outside of school hours. Anything that happens in the school buildings is run by the administration, not the PCG. All PCG events require parental attendance, as we are not covered to be responsible for students. The PCG has no say in what the administration does. They may ask the PCG for help with some of their projects, but those will be overseen completely by admin. Our focus is only to make the community at PCS feel like family. We hope this clears up some things for those who had questions about what exactly we do as a group.

If anyone has any further questions, you can email us anytime at Parentcommunitygroup@gmail.com

Here is a link to our live calendar with all our events

PCS Parent Connection (google.com)

If you have Facebook, please join our Facebook group, please note, this is not the official school Facebook page, but a PARENTS group.

Premier Charter School Parents | Facebook

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