Pleasant Hill Elementary School

Calhoun County Schools received a $20,000 grant from the Sisters Health Foundation to provide tobacco prevention/intervention and mental health awareness & wellness: Train Your Brain; Help, Hope, Live in Calhoun for students through a brokered partnership with Westbrook, Minnie Hamilton Health Systems, Communities in Schools, 21st Century Learning and the Brother Up Foundation. We appreciate the additional support to continue our focus of help by creating a framework for connectedness and improvement in the lives of our students and families.

Save the Children has an opportunity for children and families in Calhoun County! We offer weekly Parent Child Groups throughout the county. The focus of these groups will be Kindergarten Readiness Skills for children 3 to 5 years old, but all younger siblings are also welcomed to attend. Snacks will also be provided! One lucky parent/caregiver will win a small door prize. During the weekly Parent Child Groups, we will be exploring the following Language, Literacy and Math Kindergarten Readiness skill areas: Knowing about the alphabet, books and print; talking and listening; understanding words and sounds; numbers, counting, patterns, sorting and classification; comparison, measurement and geometry. These are all critical skills that your child needs in order to be prepared for Preschool and Kindergarten. I look forward to meeting you and helping prepare your child for school success! These groups are great for those who are entering Preschool for the 2023-2024 school year. They will help them become familiar with the school, classroom and staff. Group location and dates for the week of May 2-5, 2023 ▫️Tuesday 11-12 Calhoun Family Resource Network ▫️Wednesday Upper West Fork Park Offcial Site 2021 1 to 2 p.m. ▫️Friday: Arnoldsburg Elementary School 1-2 p.m Pleasant Hill Elementary School 4:30-5:30 p.m.

PTO Meeting, Monday, May 1st at 4:00 in the PHE Cafeteria. This will be a meeting for election of officers for next school year. Everyone welcome! We would love to grow our PTO parent participation.

Be on the lookout over the next couple of weeks for bags that say Book Hunt on them. I will be hiding several of them throughout the county. Once you and your child have found a bag please, tag me in a post that you have found one of the the Book Hunt bags, private message me showing me or come to a group and see what all we do during these groups. My goal is to bring more awareness to, two of the programs we offer families in Calhoun County with children 5 and under. These 2 programs are Early Steps to School Success and Early Steps to Kindergarten Readiness.

Save the Children has an opportunity for children and families in Calhoun County! We offer weekly Parent Child Groups throughout the county. The focus of these groups will be Kindergarten Readiness Skills for children 3 to 5 years old, but all younger siblings are also welcomed to attend. Snacks will also be provided! One lucky parent/caregiver will win a small door prize. During the weekly Parent Child Groups, we will be exploring the following Language, Literacy and Math Kindergarten Readiness skill areas: Knowing about the alphabet, books and print; talking and listening; understanding words and sounds; numbers, counting, patterns, sorting and classification; comparison, measurement and geometry. These are all critical skills that your child needs in order to be prepared for Preschool and Kindergarten. I look forward to meeting you and helping prepare your child for school success! This week will be making Bubbles and talking about sorting and counting. Group location and dates for the week of April 24-28, 2023 ▫️Tuesday 11-12 Calhoun Family Resource Network ▫️Wednesday Upper West Fork Park Offcial Site 2021 1 to 2 p.m. ▫️Friday: Arnoldsburg Elementary School 1-2 p.m Pleasant Hill Elementary School 4:30-5:30 p.m. This week will be making Bubbles and talking about sorting and counting. If you have any questions, I can be reached at Pleasant Hill Elementary School at 304-354-6022 or Arnoldsburg Elementary School 304-655-8616 Derba Smith, KRA, or email d.smith@k12.wv.us.

Heartwood in the Hills

Reminder: We will be having Kindergarten Readiness Groups at the following locations and time this week. ▫️Tuesday: Calhoun Family Resource Network 11-12 ▫️Friday: Arnoldsburg Elementary School 1-2 p.m. Pleasant Hill Elementary School 4:30-5:30 p.m. ▫️We will be discussing Earth Day and making seed pods. ▫️If you would like more information, please, call Debra Smith, KRA at 304-354-6022 or 304-655-8616

Good luck at the state Social Studies Fair today! #calhounproud

Below, you will find a link to Elementary School K-5 Summer School registration. If you would like your child to attend, please use the below Microsoft Forms Link to sign up. In addition to this provided link, there is also an option to register with a hard copy. These copies came home with PHE students yesterday. https://forms.office.com/r/apJ9khg9qU

Good evening, Calhoun County students will be off on Friday, April 14 for Faculty Senate and professional development. Staff will report as scheduled.

Save the Children has an opportunity for children and families in Calhoun County! We offer weekly Parent Child Groups throughout the county. The focus of these groups will be Kindergarten Readiness Skills for children 3 to 5 years old, but all younger siblings are also welcomed to attend. Snacks will also be provided! One lucky parent/caregiver will win a small door prize. During the weekly Parent Child Groups, we will be exploring the following Language, Literacy and Math Kindergarten Readiness skill areas: Knowing about the alphabet, books and print; talking and listening; understanding words and sounds; numbers, counting, patterns, sorting and classification; comparison, measurement and geometry. These are all critical skills that your child needs in order to be prepared for Preschool and Kindergarten. I look forward to meeting you and helping prepare your child for school success! Group location and dates for the month of April: Calhoun FRN on Tuesdays (4/11,4/18,4/25) from 11-12 Upper West Fork Park on Wednesday (4/12, 4/26) from 1-2 Pleasant Hill Elementary on Friday’s from (4/21,4/28) 4:30-5:30 Arnoldsburg Elementary on Fridays from (4/21, 4/28) 1-2 Here’s a tip card to use with your littles. Acting Out: Every child sometimes does something they should NOT do. Use this time to talk to them about WHY they should not have done it. Then ask them to draw and picture of what happened on a piece of paper. On the other side of the paper, have them draw what they could have done in a better way. Ask them why this new idea would be a better choice. Brainy Background: Using this strategy changes you approach from dealing with misbehavior to growing and learning. Coming up with new solutions helps your child learn to avoid going on autopilot. Instead, they can think of better ways to deal with problems. Suggested age: 4-5 years If you have any questions, I can be reached at Pleasant Hill Elementary School at 304-354-6022 or Arnoldsburg Elementary School 304-655-8616 Derba Smith, KRA, or email d.smith@k12.wv.us.

Good Evening. This is a reminder that tomorrow, Friday, March 31st, all students will be attending Student Interest Day at Calhoun Middle High School. Pleasant Hill students will board buses after lunch to attend and then return to our school by 3:00 for regular bus/parent pick up dismissal.

Mrs. Sims 3rd grade home room was the February attendance winner. Today they got to show off some dance moves!

You are invited!

Pizza, juice, and a movie!!! Congratulations to Mrs. Bush's Pre-K class for having the highest attendance percentage for December.

ASPIRE after-school will be at CMHS on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, for Family Fun Night. Families are invited to attend. Students will ride bus to CMHS from PHE. Afterschool busses will leave CMHS at 6:00 p.m.

Reminder: We offer Kindergarten Readiness Groups at the following locations and time this week. Tuesday's-Calhoun Family Resource Network 11-12, Wednesday's-Upper West Fork Park Official Site 2021 1-2 p.m. , Thursday's-Pleasant Hill Elementary School 4:30- 5:30 p.m., and Friday's- Arnoldsburg Elementary School 2-3 p.m. During the weekly Parent Child Groups, we will be exploring the following Language, Literacy and Math Kindergarten Readiness skill areas: Knowing about the alphabet, books and print; talking and listening; understanding words and sounds; numbers, counting, patterns, sorting and classification; comparison, measurement and geometry. These are all critical skills that your child needs in order to be prepared for Preschool and Kindergarten. I look forward to meeting you and helping prepare your child for school success! If you have any questions, I (Debra Smith,KRA) can be reached at Pleasant Hill Elementary School at 304-354-6022 or Arnoldsburg Elementary School 304-655-8616, or email d.smith@k12.wv.us.

Communities in Schools Doing a Sesame Street Group with Kindergarten on resilience.

Reminder that there will be no Afterschool programing this week (3/20/23 to 3/24/23) due to Parent-Teacher Conferences. Elementary Parent-Teacher Conferences will be on Tuesday, March 21st from 4:00 - 7:00.

Good Morning, In an effort to continue to improve our parent involvement at PHE we would like your feedback. Please take a moment to complete this quick parent involvement survey. https://forms.office.com/r/yYQNx4hgPM Thank you, Ashley Cunningham Principal, Pleasant Hill Elementary