Peirce Update
Friday, March 10, 2023
March 29th - Conference Day
Conference Day
10:00am-1:00pm
2:00pm-5:00pm
Celebracion de Arts
Celebración de Arte is a Peirce Community Event that showcases student-made art. The first-floor hallways are bursting with beautiful visual art made by Peirce students from every grade level. In addition, we will have student music and dance performances, a silent auction, and food. Along with arts and crafts activities for all ages we will also be holding an Artisan Craft Market open to parents, students, and community members
to sell their arts, crafts, and homemade items.Artist • Crafters • Vendors
Do YOU or Your Peirce Student want to sell crafts, original art, homemade items, jewelry at the Artisan Craft Market?
See flyer for more info on how to rent table space OR sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/yvck79dm
Teaching for Artistic Behavior in Room 110 Kindergarten art: Teaching students how to think like artists by envisioning, observing, engaging, persisting, and reflecting on what they choose to create.
Building Rocket ship and testing gravity in Room 122.
B103 played a gross motor game that was a variation of musical chairs inspired by Mrs. Moritz.
MYP Year 3 Robotics Elective
SCIENCE MYP Year 3 Review session on Kinetic energy
Physical Education - Fun moderate to vigorous activity time
Peirce STEAM Night - March 15, 2023
STEAM Night is for ALL Ages
This event will take place in the main hallway and cafeteria at the Peirce Main Campus on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from 5-6:30pm. All ages are welcome to participate in all of the activities!
This is a free event put on by the staff at Peirce for the families at Peirce.
We hope to see you all there!!
IB Learner Profile of the Month
Open-Minded
We critically appreciate our own cultures and personal histories, as well as the values and traditions of others. We seek and evaluate a range of points of view, and we are willing to grow from the experience.
What can you do at home???
1~Model open and accepting behavior for all humans
2~Nurture respect and love for all living things
3~ Expose your child to a variety of cultural experiences
4~ Visit Explore and More Children's Museum to "travel" around the world
5~Read and tell stories from around the world
6~Watch movies that show other countries cultures
7~Listen to a variety of types of music
8~Read and write different forms of poetry
9~Learn about how different cultures celebrate holidays
10~Prepare and taste foods from other countries
Friends of Peirce
T-Shirt Sizes Needed
Dear Families:
Move-A-Thon is our annual student-led fundraiser where we walk from school to either the lakefront or a park. Each year students get a free t-shirt to wear for Move-A-Thon Day. This year Move-A-Thon is taking place in May. To get ahead and ensure that we have all of the information that we need, please complete this form indicating your child's t-shirt size, no later than Friday, February 24th. If you have any questions, please reach out to Kimberly Lebovitz at kclebovitz@cps.edu.
Volunteers Needed
Greetings, Peirce Community! Kindly save the date for Move-a-Thon 2023 ~ it will be held on Friday, May 12th! Kindly consider filling out this form to volunteer!
(Please also save the RAIN DATE which is Friday, May 19th!)
¡Saludos, Comunidad Peirce! Guarde la fecha para Move-a-Thon 2023 ~ ¡se llevará a cabo el viernes 12 de mayo! ¡Considere amablemente completar este formulario para ser voluntario!
(¡Guarde también la FECHA DE LLUVIA que es el viernes 19 de mayo!)
Peirce Move-a-Thon Volunteer Form/Formulario para voluntarios de Peirce Move-A-Thon
Aspen Parent Portal Accounts
Having difficulty paying for field trips or student fees in Aspen? Checking your child's grades?
- Aspen Parent Portal is different from Aspen Student Portal
- Student Fees can only be paid through the Aspen Parent Portal
- If you do not have an ASPEN Parent Portal account please fill out the New ASPEN Parent Portal Account, so that Sally Suarez can start the process for you.
- If you are locked out of your ASPEN Parent Portal due to forgetting password or username please fill out this ASPEN Parent Portal Password Reset.
Attached is a PDF with step by step instructions on how to create your ASPEN Parent Portal account once you receive an invitation from ASPEN. The Services and Supports web page has video resources.
Only one ASPEN Parent Portal account is needed to access information for all of your CPS student(s), you can add multiple students to the same parent account.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Sally Suarez, ESSuarezdeDuran@cps.edu.
Quick Links
- Family Handbook
- PK Handbook
- Specials Schedule - see when your child will have Art, Dance, Drama, Music, PE & Spanish
- Meal Viewer (English | Spanish)
- Booklist
- Accommodations for Meetings (Right side)
COVID Testing
- Submit Student Vaccinations
- Report a COVID Positive Case
- COVID Testing Sign Up, enter student ID number
If you hear about harm that has happened in the school community, you can report in a variety of ways:
- Contact any school administrator - contact information found on the staff directory
- Incident Reporting Form
- Suggestion Box
- Report to CPS directly
Upcoming Events
March
12th - Daylight Savings - Spring Ahead
14th - FOP Meeting via Zoom - 6:30pm
15th - STEAM Night at Peirce - 5:00-6:30pm
16th - LSC Meeting - 6:00pm
17th - No School
24th - Career Day
24th - Peirce Parent Basketball - 6:00pm
29th - No School - Conference Day
31st - Peirce Parent Basketball - 6:00pm
IAR Assessment - 3rd-8th Grades - March 21-23 & March 27-28
Helen C. Peirce School of International Studies
Email: lzaimi@cps.edu
Website: peirce.cps.edu
Location: 1423 W Bryn Mawr Chicago, IL
Phone: 773-534-2440
Facebook: facebook.com/peircecps