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R. Elisabeth Maclary Elementary School works hard with parents to ensure the highest level of success for their children. Parents play a critical role helping their students succeed and your support is the most important factor in your child's ability to grow and learn, but R. Elisabeth Maclary Elementary School can help. Don't hesitate to contact us with any questions or if you would like to discuss how you can best help your child.
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Fundraising
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Fundraising allows R. Elisabeth Maclary Elementary School to provide more opportunities for our students. Through fundraising events, online auctions, and rewards programs like eScript, it's now easier than ever to make a difference in our school community. Every little bit counts.
Your contribution is important to us, and together we can help R. Elisabeth Maclary Elementary School provide a superior education and learning environment for our students.
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Box Tops for Education
Box Tops Coupons - Clip Box Tops coupons from hundreds of participating products found in your local grocery store and send them to your school. Your school earns 10¢ for each Box Top redeemed.
Box Tops Marketplace - Shop online at your favorite stores like JCPenney and Lands' End through the Box Tops for Education Marketplace. Your school earns a percentage of each qualifying purchase at no additional cost to you.Box Tops Reading Room - Buy books through the Box Tops Reading Room and your school earns up to 6% of each qualifying purchase.My Class Essentials – Purchase items for your child’s classroom at the My Class Essentials registry.Bonus Opportunities – Enter sweepstakes and participate in other promotions to earn cash for your school. Learn more about bonus opportunities. -
Tutoring Resources
Children who struggle in school benefit from tutoring, which helps them gain confidence and skills if they have fallen behind. Even if your children are excelling in school, tutoring can still be of great benefit, boosting their confidence and preparing them for the next level.
Tutoring services may be available through the school, but parents are encouraged to take on an active role by home tutoring their children.
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Financial Literacy
Teach Your Children Well:Money Lessons Kids Need to Know Before Leaving Home(BALTIMORE) In today's material world, young people become consumers at an increasingly early age, spending billions of dollars of their own and their parents' money each year. But having purchasing power doesn't equate with having financial awareness. After answering a 35-question test in last year's U.S. Treasury sponsored National Financial Literacy Challenge, the 46,000 high school students who participated received an average score of 56% (a failing grade). This demonstrates that many young adults are in need of further personal finance education. Those students who fail to learn money management skills before they leave home are likely to confront financial problems and economic hardship later in life. Here are five money concepts that all children need to learn before living on their own:- Save now for rainy days. Saving is a foundation for financial wellness, because it helps us prepare for emergencies and achieve short and long-term goals. Children can learn about saving from a very early age. When they are old enough to ask for toys, books, or video games, show them how to save for the things they want. An allowance is a very good tool for teaching this concept. To help promote this idea, open a savings account with your child at a bank or credit union.
- Money comes with hard work. Children need to realize that money is not freely given; it is earned through work. To teach this concept, assign age-appropriate chores and rewards. Ask young children to help with simple tasks like setting the table. As kids grow older, assign harder tasks with more responsibility, such as mowing the lawn or weeding the garden. If you give your kids an allowance, tie it to the successful completion of their assigned jobs.
- A budget helps you plan. For most kids, budgeting is a foreign concept. The best way to teach them about how it works is just to show them. To demonstrate this concept to younger children, take a stack of Monopoly money, and explain that this is how much you make every month from work. Then divide up the bills into piles to show how much goes toward food, your home, savings, and charitable organizations. It's important to show that you have a conscious plan for managing your money. Consider including young adults in monthly bill paying sessions. This will give them a realistic understanding of how much living expenses actually cost.
- Interest adds up when it's compounded. Compound interest simply means that the rate at which your money earns interest increases over time. To help kids understand this concept, start by asking them: Would you rather have $10,000 or a penny a day doubled for 30 days?" Believe it or not, a penny a day doubled for 30 days adds up to more than 10 million dollars! While no investment doubles daily, this example drives home why compound interest is important. The CCCS of MD & DE web site (www.cccs-inc.org) has an interactive Financial Tool you can use to demonstrate how compound interest works.
- Use credit cards wisely. Children need to be taught from an early age that credit cards are not free money. Use age-appropriate lessons to teach how credit works. Help older children understand the costs of credit and the importance of making more than minimum monthly payments on credit cards with this example: Say your credit card carries an interest rate (APR) of 16% and you owe $3,500. If you don't charge anything else and make $120 in payments each month, it will take 37 months to pay off what you owe. You will have paid nearly $4,430 -- or about $930 in interest alone. Also encourage teens in your family to visit the CCCS of MD & DE website resource page and view our educational video "How to $pend the Rest of Your Life Now That You're on Your Own."
When it comes to financial literacy, young people can use all of the help they can get. Advocate making financial education a mandatory graduation requirement for all high school students. Ask your local PTA to place financial literacy on the agenda for its next meeting. Contact those who determine what's included in course content. The money management lessons your children master now will help them long into the future. -
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy In the School SettingDonna Polecaro, MOT, OTR/L
Fine motor skills refer to one's ability to grasp and utilize an object with their hands. Young children learn this through bathing, dressing, writing and cutting. Academic occupational therapy is therapy designed to assist the child with fine motor activities to be successful within the school setting. This starts with pre-school aged children. One of the most important things you can do to assist your child in the development of fine motor skills is to make a game of it. Children love games and if they think it's a game and not work they're more inclined play along. The following are some ideas you may wish to use.- When teaching your child how to cut make wide straight lines on paper, tell your child the scissors are hungry monkeys and they have to open their mouth wide before they can take a bite of a banana.
- Use very small bits of crayon about an inch long. I prefer to use thin crayons opposed to thick. Children have small hands and therefore the use of thin crayons is not cumbersome in the child's hand. Have them play follow the leader with the crayon, you make a line they make a line and so on, or use for coloring.
- Q-Tips for painting pictures. Cut the Q-tip in half before they paint.
- Squirt bottles in the bathtub. Fill the bottle with colored water and have them squirt the bathtub walls or if it's warm outside draw a target and have them try to hit the target.
- Play clothes line with your child. Have them go around the house and collect clothing items you ask for, them have them attach the clothing to you with cloths pins. This is a two part activity. They have to follow directions finding the clothing and then they have to pinch the clothes pin to open it and attach the clothing to yours.
- Make circles on a piece of paper. Have your child peel stickers and place them inside the circles.
- Play with Play-doh. Make pretend food with the play-doh like spaghetti. Give your child a piece of dough about the size of their palm have them roll it into a ball using two hands; try not to roll it on the table. Then have them pinch pieces off and roll into smaller balls with their fingers for the meatballs. Pinch more dough off and roll it on the table with only the index and middle fingers to make the noodles.
- Draw pictures with your fingers in pudding, jello or sand.
- Make macaroni necklaces or bracelets. You can also use buttons or beads.
- Draw a picture of a person without facial features. Have them press their index finger onto a stamp pad then use that finger to make the eyes, nose and mouth. You can also make insects this way.
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Title I
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