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The more ways your child learns something the easier it will be for them to understand it. Encourage your child to explore information and ideas by seeing, hearing, and doing. Seeing Drawing pictures can help your youngster visualize concepts. Have your child make a comic strip based on a nonfiction book. Each frame could show one step in the water…

An important message regarding all Howard County Public Schools for January 17 All Stevens Forest Elementary after-school activities scheduled for today, January 17, including Cozy Night and after school tutoring are canceled due to forecasted weather conditions. Cozy Night will be rescheduled for February 7 at 6:30 p.m. Unless the school is otherwise notified, students scheduled for after-school activities will…

We have some exciting new Instructional Seminars that will be starting in February. These seminars are open to all students in grades 1-5. These interest-based seminars run between 8 – 12 weeks. Seminars take place either before school, from 8:00-8:45 am, or during the grade level recess time. Most seminars will begin the week of February 4 and end in…

A huge “Thank You” to Mrs. Bacon, Mr. Stabile, and our wonderful SFES Chorus, Choir Chimes, and Band/Strings musicians for their heartwarming and impressive performances during the recent winter concerts. We were so please by the community support as these students shared their many hours of practice and talent. What a way to start off the new year!

What’s the best way to keep your child inspired to learn? Help them learn to motivate themselves! Raise a self-motivated youngster with this advice. Point to the Future Your child may feel more motivated to learn something if he or she understands how it will be important later. Tell them about ways you use school subjects like math and writing…

Stevens Forest Families, The ongoing shutdown of the federal government has caused financial hardship for too many of our friends and neighbors. Additionally, we know that students are experiencing anxiety and fear for their family's financial situation. I wanted to let you know of a few supports that are in place to help at this time. Howard County families who…

In order to support families of children headed to kindergarten, the Office of Early Childhood Programs is pleased to announce the upcoming Road to Kindergarten informational workshops. Howard County families with children who will be five years old by September 1, 2019 are invited to come with questions and concerns pertaining to the kindergarten process. The workshop offers information for…

Many great instructional seminars recently ended! We hope that the students enjoyed being part of Space, Planets and Stars, Tangrams, Origami, Mystery Festival, Fiber Arts, Rubik’s Cube, and Simple Machines. There are three seminars which will be continuing after the Winter Break. They are Dice, Cards and Dominoes (Gr 2), Unheard Perspectives (Gr 3-5) and Battle of the Books (Gr…

Does your child prefer to read alone, with family members, or in the company of friends? With these ideas, they can do all three this winter. Choose themes Encourage your child to read more by coming up with wintry themes for choosing books. For example, they might name “ice-skating” or “penguins” and pick out a biography of an Olympic skater…

The Howard County Public School System is collaborating with the Howard County Department of Community Resources and Services, the Howard County Library System and the Community Action Council of Howard County to provide nutrition for children in need during the winter school break. Free meals will be offered at two Howard County locations on Thursday, December 27 and Friday, December…