Thank you to our first grade team for collaborating to bring our students together for a morning meeting read-aloud in the open classroom!

Kudos to our second grade team for their work in developing students’ background knowledge about the Civil War time period in their CKLA unit!

A big thank you to our third grade team for hosting the embryology unit through the 4-H program. The students are so egg-cited!

If you have a shout out for someone on our team, please send it to Brooke or Dave by Thursday at noon!

As a reminder, if you are in need of any balloons for the PBIS collaboration lesson this month (Teamwork for the win), please let Brooke or Dave know.

March 23 - Wildcats Around the World Event - Schedule of the day here - Dress in clothing representing your heritage

March 24 - April 23rd - Messiah University Sophomore Field Experience - Link to Sign-up

March 25 - 1st Grade to MMS Musical (AM)

March 25 - 2nd and 3rd Grade to MMS Musical (PM)

March 26 - Super Paw Deadline

March 27 - Occupational Wellness Day - See information below!

March 30 - Pre-K Soccer Shots

March 30 - Rakestraw's Dine Out - Shep Guest Scoopers Night - - Sign up here!

March 31 - March Community Meeting at 1:30pm

March 31 - Staff Liaison, 2:30 pm

April 1 - MASD Wildcat Wednesday!

April 1 - No faculty meeting! Collaborative planning from 3-4pm

April 2 - 6 - No School, Spring Recess

April 8 - Teaching Round Interviews at Shep

April 8 - PTO Meeting via Zoom, 6pm

April 9 - PSSA TA Training, 2:30 pm

April 13 - Pre K Soccer Shots

April 15 - Curriculum Connections, 3pm at Shep - Work time for Class Composer Cards

April 20 - Pre K Soccer Shots

April 22 - Elmwood Principal/Counselor Visit, 3rd grade, 1:05pm

April 22 - 24 - PSSA Testing, grade 3 (ELA)

April 27 - Pre K Soccer Shots

April 27 - Super Paw Deadline

April 28 - 29 - PSSA Testing, grade 3 (Math and Make-ups)

April 30 - Life Skills Field Trip to Adventure Park

April 30 - 1st Grade to Environmental Center, 8:30am

April 30 - Community Meeting, 1:30pm

Wildcats Around the World: At the faculty meeting, you discussed splitting your class into color groups - - HERE. You were also given stickers to correspond to those assigned color groups. Please assign your students to one of the color groups and also write their names, with sharpie marker, on the corresponding colored tag. Students need to be assigned to their groups by March 16th.

Be a Guest Scooper at Rakestraw's: Click HERE to sign up for Monday, March 30.

Homeroom teachers - If you would like to do an activity March 27 related to careers please see the link below to a Power Point presentation. Also attached is the hand activity.

If you would like to do this activity, let me know and I will get you copies.

Whose Hands are These Activity Page

Powerpoint for Occupational Wellness Day

The PSTAT PSSA Training for 2026 is now available. This is the required online training for all PSSA Test Administrators (TAs) at Shep.

Access the Training Here: Online PSSA Training

Who This Applies To

3rd Grade Teachers, Learning Support, ELD, and Reading Specialists

If you complete the online PSSA TA training and submit your certificate to Dave by Tuesday, March 17, you will receive trade-off time for the Curriculum Connections meeting on Wednesday, March 18. This means you will not need to attend the Curriculum Connections session from 3:00–4:15 PM on March 18.

If the training is not completed by March 17, you will be required to stay on March 18 and complete the online modules during Curriculum Connections.

Support Staff

If you complete the training outside of the school day, you may record 1 hour on your timecard.

PSSA Testing Dates

    •    ELA: April 21, 22, and 23
    •    Math: April 28 and 29

Additional information about the PSSAs will be shared in upcoming newsletters.