Pentwater Public Schools

Kindness is Contagious! Family AfFAIR FREE Family Fun Event!

On Friday, Mrs. Fatura‘s advanced chemistry class participated in a Valentine’s Day activity with Mrs. Macher’s 3rd grade students. After performing a demonstration and having the elementary students experience a Valentine‘s novelty, the high school students led them through an inquiry activity. Their task was to observe experiments in order to figure out what caused the balloon to pop out of the packet. Great fun was had by all! ❤️

On Friday, Mrs. Fatura‘s advanced chemistry class participated in a Valentine’s Day activity with Mrs. Macher’s 3rd grade students. After performing a demonstration and having the elementary students experience a Valentine‘s novelty, the high school students led them through an inquiry activity. Their task was to observe experiments in order to figure out what caused the balloon to pop out of the packet. Great fun was had by all! ❤️

On Friday, Mrs. Fatura‘s advanced chemistry class participated in a Valentine’s Day activity with Mrs. Macher’s 3rd grade students. After performing a demonstration and having the elementary students experience a Valentine‘s novelty, the high school students led them through an inquiry activity. Their task was to observe experiments in order to figure out what caused the balloon to pop out of the packet. Great fun was had by all! ❤️

Pentwater Community, please take a moment to fill out our Pentwater School Bond Information survey. This survey will provide valuable insight to the school on a range of topics. Please click the link below to complete the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/88FTN2Z

Good Evening, Pentwater Public Schools will be closed Monday February 8, 2021 due to poor and drifting road conditions. If you have to go out tonight, please be safe. We will see everyone back in the building Tuesday morning. Respectfully, Dr. Scott Karaptian

Good Evening, Pentwater Public Schools will be closed tomorrow Friday February 5, 2021 due to inclement weather. There will also be no virtual learning expectations for tomorrow, enjoy the snow day!. Please be safe and have a good weekend!

Oceana County Economic Alliance, in partnership with Connected Nation Michigan, has launched a Connectivity Community Engagement for Oceana County. The program will leverage data provided by residents, businesses, community organizations, and others to identify problem areas and solutions for expanding high-speed internet (broadband) access across the county. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at https://myconnectedcommunity.org/oceana-county/.

Pentwater Bond Community Forum Information (please refer to our website as dates, times, and links are subject to change) Community Forum #1: 2/23/2021; 6-7pm Phone one-tap: US: +19292056099,,98166155029# or +16699006833,,98166155029# Meeting URL: https://rockfordconstruction.zoom.us/j/98166155029?from=addon Meeting ID: 981 6615 5029 Community Forum #2: 3/11/2021; 6-7pm Phone one-tap: US: +19292056099,,94626838289# or +16699006833,,94626838289# Meeting URL: https://rockfordconstruction.zoom.us/j/94626838289?from=addon Meeting ID: 946 2683 8289 Community Forum #3: 4/7/2021; 6-7pm Phone one-tap: US: +19292056099,,95815686067# or +16699006833,,95815686067# Meeting URL: https://rockfordconstruction.zoom.us/j/95815686067?from=addon Meeting ID: 958 1568 6067

Help us imagine the future of Pentwater Public Schools by attending one of our virtual Community Forum sessions. All of the dates and times can be found on our website under the "Pentwater Bond Information" heading. Thank you for your support! Go Falcons!

A health department representative will be at Pentwater Public Schools on Monday, 2/8, to complete vision and hearing student testing. The grades for testing will be as follows: 2nd/4th for hearing screening and 1st/3rd/5th/7th/9th for vision screening.

Athletic Attendance during Pandemic If you are a student in a full face-to-face learning format you must be in attendance for all periods of the school day in order to be eligible for practice, performance, or competition on that date. If you do not physically attend school, but log in remotely, this does not allow one to be eligible to practice, you must still be present in the building. If you are a student in the Full-Remote Learning format, you must log in for all periods of the school day in order to be eligible for practice, performance, or competition on that date. Exceptions can be made for pre-arranged absences, school-related absences, doctor’s excused absences, or extenuating circumstances which are acceptable to a building administrator. Any student that participates in a practice on the same day of an absence will not be allowed to participate in the next contest. At the end of each day, the school secretary will provide the athletic director with a list of absences. Any student that participates in a contest on the same day of an absence will meet with the coach, athletic director, and parent before returning to the team. Extenuating circumstances will be handled by the coach/advisor, the athletic director, and the building principal.

On Friday, 1/22/2021, the 5th grade students had their last day of music instruction for the current rotation and spent it playing and composing on our NEW Orff instruments!

If you read just 1 book a day to your child, beginning at birth, he/she will have read 1,825 books by his/her 5th birthday. Imagine the vocabulary you would expose your child to and the excitement your child would experience from the magic of reading!

Tune in this morning (Tuesday, 1/19/2021) on the school page at 11am! The HS Jazz Band will be doing a brief Live event for our final exam. Hope to see you there!!

3rd graders working on abstract portraits after reading, “When Pigasso Met Mootisse!”

3rd graders working on abstract portraits after reading, “When Pigasso Met Mootisse!”

All Star Driver Education will be running a late February class for both Segment I and Segment II drivers. The class will be held virtually and testing will be done at Golden Sands Golf Course. The dates are: Segment I Dates/Times (all Seg I times are 3:30pm-5:30pm): 2/23, 2/24, 2/25, 3/1, 3/2, 3/3, 3/4, 3/8, 3/9, 3/10, 3/11 Segment II Dates/Times (All Seg II times are 5pm-7pm): 2/16, 2/22, 2/23 Please go to the link below to register your student: https://allstardrivereducation.netdrivered.com/main/location/PentwaterHighSchool

January 6, 2021 Hello Family and Friends, I am sending this message out to remind everyone that we will be returning back to school full face-to-face (F2F) for students in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade on Monday, January 11, 2021. We will continue with our previous schedule of four days F2F on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday with Wednesdays staying full-remote and students in grades 7- 12th grade will return to the 7period day schedule. We would like to remind our JH/HS students that during the week of January 18-22nd we will be administering final exams for Semester 1 classes. Additionally, due to the less than desirable circumstances of the pandemic, we have made the decision to reduce the weighted category grading for Semester 1 grades for high school students to be as follows: Marking Period 1 - 45%, Marking Period 2 - 45%, and Semester 1 exams - 10%. This represents a reduction from the typical 40%/40%/20% weighted grading scale. No change has been made to JH classes which will be maintained at the 45%/45%/10% weighted scale. The students remaining in the full-remote setting may need to come into school during the afternoons of exam week to take their exams with their teacher. The teachers requiring on-site exams will be making contact via email or communicating this requirement in their Google Meet sessions or Google Classroom communications. Some of the teacher’s exams are project-based and may be completed from home while the standard paper & pencil exam may be necessary to take in person in the school building. Remote students should contact their teachers and make arrangements to take their exam. If you have any questions as to which your child's teacher is requiring, please contact them directly for dates and times. We would also like to remind families who will continue to have their child remain in the full-remote platform to please notify the school of this decision as soon as possible so that we can mark their attendance participation appropriately. I also want to remind and encourage all of you to continue with the required pandemic safety measures and protocols of wearing masks, sanitizing hands frequently, social distancing, and, if your child is not feeling well, please Do Not send your child to school. We look forward to seeing everyone back in the building Face-to-face on Monday, January 11, 2021! Respectfully, Dr. Scott Karaptian

Theo is looking forward to seeing everyone again on Monday, 1/11/2021!