Sheffield Area Elementary School

Weekly Math Fun: Exploring Math Through Music! 🎶➕🎵 This week, combine music and math for a fun, hands-on learning experience! Rhythm and patterns in music naturally reinforce counting, sequencing, and fractions, making math more engaging and memorable. Math Skills in Music: 🥁 Counting & Skip Counting – Clapping or tapping along to a beat strengthens number sense and multiplication fluency.🎼 Fractions in Music – Whole, half, and quarter notes provide a real-world way to explore fractions and division.🔁 Patterns & Sequences – Repeating rhythms help kids understand predictable sequences and mathematical structures.🎤 Creative Expression – Making up songs or rhythms adds a fun, interactive way to practice math facts. No instruments needed—just clap, stomp, or tap along! Stay tuned for next week’s post, where we’ll bring math into another exciting hands-on activity! 🎶✨📐

It has come to our attention that a student in the district has a confirmed case of pertussis (whooping cough). Pertussis is a highly contagious disease that is spread through the air when an infected person sneezes or coughs. Pertussis begins with cold symptoms and a cough which becomes much worse over 1-2 weeks. Symptoms usually include a long series of coughs (“coughing fits”) followed by a whooping noise. The cough is often worse at night and cough medicines usually do not help alleviate the cough. The Pennsylvania Department of Health strongly recommends anyone with symptoms promptly contact your child’s doctor. Please refer to the link provided on our website for more information on pertussis. https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/signs-symptoms/index.html

🏃‍♀️🌱 Healthy Kids, Healthy Future: Wellness Tips for Families! 🌱🏃‍♂️ Dear Families, Our Wellness Committee is committed to supporting the health and well-being of all students and families in our district! As part of our initiative, we will be sharing practical health and wellness tips to help parents promote healthy habits at home—from nutrition and physical activity to mental well-being and sleep routines. Stay tuned for periodic wellness tips and simple steps you can take to help your child stay healthy, active, and ready to learn! Let’s work together to build a healthier future for our kids! 💙

Weekly Math Fun: Scavenger Hunt Math! 🔍✨ This week, make math active with a Scavenger Hunt Math Game! Instead of solving problems on paper, kids will search for objects around the house to model math equations. Math Skills in Action: Multiplication & Division – Finding and grouping objects reinforces the connection between repeated addition, equal groups, and division as sharing. Problem-Solving – There’s more than one way to represent a number! Encourage kids to find different combinations that match the same equation. Pattern Recognition – Seeing numbers arranged in sets helps build an understanding of arrays and factors. Mental Math – Quickly determining how many objects are needed strengthens number sense and estimation skills. Try using this game to practice skip counting, fractions (e.g., finding half of a total), or even measurement by collecting objects of different lengths or weights! Stay tuned for next week’s post, where we’ll introduce another creative way to bring math into everyday life! 🎲📏

Happy Valentine's Day from Mrs. Lindberg's kindergarteners and their adopted cow Milkyway!

Tuesday, February 18th 🖤🐄🤍Molly The Cow will be visiting SAES Elementary Cafeterias for Lunch with samples of milk and cookies.

See the note below from JiJi. 😁 Have a great weekend!

All after school activities are canceled today, Febrary 13th. All schedules games and practices are postponed or canceled. This excludes any team who has already left for their event.

Weekly Math Fun: Estimation Game! 🤔✨ This week’s activity builds number sense through a fun estimation challenge! Fill a jar with small objects like beans, marbles, or candies, and have your child estimate how many are inside. Then, count together to see how close they were! 💡 Why It Works: - Strengthens estimation skills and mental math - Encourages logical reasoning and number sense - Makes math interactive and engaging Ways to adapt for older children: 📏 Volume and Measurement: Have students estimate the volume of the jar and predict how many objects would fit if the jar was larger or smaller. ➗ Averaging Estimates: Ask multiple people to estimate and have your child find the mean, median, and mode of the guesses. 📊 Data Representation: Record multiple guesses and compare them using a bar graph or line plot. 🔢 Range and Rounding: Give a range instead of an exact number (e.g., "between 50 and 70") and refine the estimate using rounding strategies. Stay tuned for next week's activity, where we'll explore another exciting way to practice math at home! 🎉📐

Today was pjs and popcorn day in first grade! Students worked to earn compliments on their behaviors to fill our star jar. Keep it up, Mrs. Chapman's class!

Book fair runs from 2/13 - 2/21. Don't forget to set up your student's eWallet account for cashless, stress-less shopping. Friends and family can even contribute funds! Set one up here: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/saes. #ScholasticBookFairs

See attched image on American Red Cross: Adult & Pediatric 1st Aid/CPR/AED training for parents/guardians of WCSD students or WCSD students 17 years or older.

❄️ Snow Day Makeup Reminder❄️ Due to the snow days on December 5th and February 6th, school WILL be in session on: 📅 February 14th 📅 May 23rd Please plan accordingly! ⏳📚 #MakeupDays #SchoolInSession

🎉💯 What an EVENTFUL day in Mrs. Lindberg's classroom at SAES as we hit the 100th day of kindergarten! 🎉🥳 From creative hats and mystery bags filled with 100 items to fun activities, our students and staff showed up 100 days smarter, stronger, and more amazing than ever! 📚💡✨ SAES sure knows how to celebrate! 🧡🖤🐾

🎉💯 What an EVENTFUL day at SAES—Mrs. Lindsey's class celebrated the 100th day of school in style! 🎉🥳 From creative crowns and necklaces, mystery bags filled with 100 items, to fun activities, our students and staff showed up 100 days smarter, stronger, and more amazing than ever! 📚💡✨ Kindergarten sure knows how to celebrate! 🎊🐾 Here's to 100 more days of learning and fun! 🧡🖤

All middle school practices and events are cancelled for this evening, including All- County Musical, Jr. rehearsal.. The only exception is YMHS at SAMHS wrestling. They will wrestle prior to the varsity/jv match. No open gyms permitted. BWMS None EMHS Girls Varsity Basketball H Iroquois 7:00 pm (varsity only) (Pending if electric comes back on by 2 pm; An update will be provided by 2PM) In season varsity practices permitted WAHS Swim/Dive @ Mercyhurst Prep 6:00 pm Girls V/JV Basketball @ Erie HS 6:00 pm In season varsity practices permitted SAMHS Boys V/JV Basketball @ Smethport 6:00 pm Wrestling V/JV/MS/Elem H YMHS 5:30 pm In season varsity practices permitted YMHS Wrestling @ SAMHS V/JV/MS/Elem 5:30 pm Girls Varsity Basketball @ Maplewood 7:00 pm (varsity only) In season varsity practices permitted

SAES student Beau Threadgill was the Groundhog Day celebration basket winner thanks to the groundhog sticker on the bottom of his lunch tray! Several other students found heart stickers on the bottoms of their trays, making them the lucky winners of a free snack item from the cafeteria. SAES appreciates our Cafeteria and Nutrition teams for always going above and beyond to create such special forever memories for our students!

Snowman Day with a special tasty bite s’more dessert for everyone that purchased a meal. Also Wellness Day which encourages the students to try and new fruit or vegetable. They receive a sticker if they try the food item.

Students and staff may wear their favorite team gear tomorrow! The cafeteria will be serving kicking off the weekend with a Super Bowl lunch! See details in flyer!

Warren County School District will be operating on a 2 hour delay on Thursday, February 6th.