Important Health and Safety Update | |
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The CDC has released new guidelines for individuals with any respiratory illness. As the threat from COVID-19 becomes more similar to that of other common respiratory viruses, the CDC is issuing Respiratory Virus Guidance, rather than additional virus-specific guidance. This brings a unified, practical approach to addressing risk from a range of common respiratory viral illnesses, such as influenza and RSV, that have similar routes of transmission and symptoms and similar prevention strategies.
CDC’s first recommendation for people who get sick with a respiratory virus is simple: Stay home and away from others. It suggests returning to normal activities when symptoms have been getting better overall for 24 hours, and if a fever was present, it has been gone for 24 hours without use of a fever-reducing medication. A five-day isolation is no longer required, and masking days 6-10 is no longer required.
We will update the language in our handbooks to reflect this new guidance.
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SA Talent Show on Thursday, April 11 | |
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Calling all Jaguar performers! The SA Talent Show will take place during chapel time on Thursday, April 11 at 9:15 a.m. If your child would like to participate, please email Lizzy Roy by April 4 with the following information: Student name/grade, parent name, talent, and song (if applicable).
Students in first through eighth grade may participate. Students may participate individually or as a group. Each student may perform one talent in the show. All acts are to be roughly two minutes or shorter.
There will be a mandatory practice after school the week of April 8 (Mon., Tues., or Wed.). The date for the mandatory practice will be finalized once all student acts are submitted so that we can work around after-school activities. Please plan for your child to provide a full dress rehearsal performance on that day.
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Read Across America Week: Character Dress-Up Day tomorrow and this week's Read-a-thon | |
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Let’s get excited about reading! Each year, readers all across our country celebrate the joys of reading during this week's National Read Across America Week. In honor of this special week, students are invited to come to school dressed as their favorite book character tomorrow on Monday, March 4.
We would also like to celebrate reading throughout the entire school week of March 4-8 with a schoolwide read-a-thon. Each student is encouraged to read independently or with a parent for at least 15 minutes each day and record their reading time on the chart provided. Once all slots are filled, students may turn their reading log into the library to receive a special Dr. Seuss bookmark. Happy reading, Jaguars!
-Mrs. Zino
View the Read Across America Read-a-thon Chart
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SA Summer Camp: Early Ed. and Grades 1-8 Programming now enrolling! | | |
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Salisbury Academy is happy to share that registration is open for this summer's Early Ed. programming for rising JK and K students!
This engaging summer program follows SA's school year curriculum with learning themes that follow nature's seasons and encourage discovery. Each day at summer camp, students will grow through exploration of the natural world, pattern play, rhythm and music, physical movement, and language development through relational conversations.
Program hours are 8:30 a.m. (with option to drop off as early as 8 a.m.) to 2:30 p.m. with an option to add an Extended Day package until 5:30 p.m.
Learn more and Register for Rising JK and K Summer Camp 2024
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Grades 1-8, SA Summer Camp
SA Summer Camp 2024 will be full of action, from outdoor exploration, to babysitter training, to acting, dance, art, music, and more! Program registration is open for students in rising 1st-8th. Sign up and view the 2024 summer camp offerings, weeks, hours, and cost at:
SA Summer Camp for Rising 1-8
| Student volunteers: SA Summer Camp is accepting student volunteers and assistants from grades rising 7th-12th. If your child is interested, please contact Dakota Raney. | |
Tentative SA Calendar for 2024-25 | |
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Eco-Warriors Lower School Club in ASK
Meet The Eco-Warriors! I’m Mitchell Bobrek, this year's After-School Eco-Warrior Club leader and SA's Sustainability Coordinator Intern for 2024. I'm also a sophomore at Catawba College majoring in environment and sustainability with a concentration in natural resource management and a minor in GIS. Although it feels like the year just started, we’re halfway through the spring semester, and the eco-warriors have been working hard and learning about the natural world around us!
So far, we’ve discussed how different parts of nature work together to create the environment; we have looked at the rings on trees, looking at their stories, and we have drawn out the stories of our lives to match. We have also made a cover board and placed it by the Salisbury Academy Organic Garden to watch a small patch of grass become a habitat for the bug life on our campus!
Lastly, every student involved in the Eco-Warriors club has their own Eco-Warrior notebook, made to track our activities and connect the lessons we learn outside to the ones we learn in class. Diagrams, poems, and predictions are all held in our notebooks and expand our understanding of the world around us.
In the next few weeks, we will continue to observe our cover board plot and start seedlings in plastic bags to watch their growth and eventually give the students something to bring home!
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