Paul Smith Elementary

Good Evening Franklin Families, I am reaching out to report that we have had 2 students at the middle school and 2 students at the high school test positive for Covid-19. The two middle school cases were expected based on prior contact tracing and no additional contact tracing was necessary due to the students being in quarantine. The two high school students have not been on campus recently so no close contacts were identified. We are all set for in-person learning at both schools tomorrow. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent

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Good Afternoon Franklin Families, This is a reminder that all 3 schools will be fully remote tomorrow, Wednesday, April 7th due to second dose staff vaccinations that were administered today. Meals will be delivered during the morning middle/high school bus run and the middle school will be serving hot meals at the cafeteria window until 12:00. We appreciate your continued support of our staff wellness.

Good Afternoon Franklin Families, I have been informed of a student testing positive at Franklin Middle School today. Contact tracing was minimal and will be completed this afternoon. We are all set to open for in-person learning for Cohort A students tomorrow morning. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent dlegallo@gm.sau18.org

Good Afternoon Franklin Families, I am reaching out to inform you that 2 elementary school students have tested positive today for Covid-19. Contact tracing will be completed by this afternoon and we will be all set to open for in-person learning tomorrow for Cohort A students. A reminder that we will be fully remote in the district this Wednesday because of staff 2nd dose vaccinations tomorrow. Please let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent

Dear Franklin Families, I am reaching out to you today with a couple of updates. We had two reported student cases over the weekend, one at Franklin Middle School and one at Franklin High School. Contact tracing and notifications have been completed. I also wanted to inform you of the Governor's Order #89 requiring schools to open 5 days per week for in-person learning for families that want it by April 19th. We have accelerated our planning to meet this timeline. Additionally, we still will be offering fully remote learning to families that select this option. In order to accommodate students attending 5 days per week, students will have 3 ft. distancing in the classroom, masks will be worn at all times in the classrooms with scheduled mask breaks throughout the day, buses will run with up to 2 students per seat, and lunches will be served with 6 ft. social distancing. We have been collecting information from you regarding your student attending in-person or remotely since last week. If you would like to change your student's status from in-person to remote or remote to in-person based on this new information, please contact the school office. Please let me know if you have any questions, Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent

Good Evening Franklin Families, I have been notified of 2 positive student cases at the elementary school today. Contact tracing and notifications have been completed. I hope that everyone has a safe and healthy weekend. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent

Good Evening Franklin Families, I am reaching out to inform you that a student at Franklin High School tested positive for Covid 19 today. Contact tracing and notifications will be completed this evening and we will be open for Cohort B students tomorrow morning. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent

Good Morning Franklin Families, I am writing to you today to update you on our staff vaccination efforts. We have scheduled 2nd dose vaccinations for our staff on Tuesday, April 6th and Tuesday, April 13. We will have 60 plus staff members receiving vaccinations on each of these days. Several districts have run into issues with staff calling out sick the day after the administration of the second dose due to experiencing symptoms. This has led to either last minute closure of the schools or pivoting to remote status in the early morning hour before school starts. In order to avoid the confusion of this scenario, I am notifying you in advance that we will be fully remote at all 3 schools on Wednesday, April 7th and Wednesday, April 14th. The days will run similar to our remote Mondays with as many as our staff as possible providing on-line instruction. Staff that are unable to provide on-line instruction due to illness will provide assignments to students for the day. I wanted to give you advance notice of this so you could make the necessary arrangements for your students on those days. I appreciate your understanding as we work to complete the vaccination of our staff members. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo Superintendent dlegallo@gm.sau18.org

Live Theater This Weekend!! A number of high school students, as well as some staff, will be performing this weekend in Franklin Footlight Community Theatre's production of The Good Doctor!! This is an amazing opportunity for our community and a chance for our students to work with many experienced adults from around the Lakes Region! Shows run Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 2 pm (March 18-21). Tickets are available online at www.franklinoperahouse.org!

CORRECTION: Bus 806 will be about 20 minutes LATE tomorrow morning for food distribution. Thank you.

Good Afternoon: Bus 806 will be about 20 minutes tomorrow morning for food distribution.

Dear Franklin Families, We have completed our contact tracing process and all notifications have been made for our positive staff member case at the elementary school from yesterday. Thank you for you patience as we worked through the process. I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent dlegallo@gm.sau18.org

Dear Franklin Families, I have just been notified that a staff member at the elementary school has tested positive for Covid-19. We are initiating the contact tracing process. I will let you know when we have completed the process and notified all close contacts. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent dlegallo@gm.sau18.org

Good Evening Franklin Families: I have just been informed of related positive student cases at both Franklin High School and Franklin Middle School. There has been no contact with any students due to vacation so we are all set for in-person learning tomorrow. Please remember to stay vigilant with our mitigation strategies: mask wearing, social distancing, and frequent hand washing and sanitization. Sincerely, Daniel LeGallo Superintendent

Good Afternoon Franklin Families: We will be fully remote tomorrow due to the storm. There will be no meal deliveries or pick ups.

Good evening Franklin Families, This is just a reminder that we have a remote day of school tomorrow in the Franklin School District. We will be delivering double meals tomorrow morning due to the potential storm coming Monday night into Tuesday morning. Our window at the middle school will be open for meal pickups tomorrow until 12:00. Stay tuned for further updates on the incoming storm.

We were super busy bears last week in kindergarten doing all things gingerbread man related! We read a variety of gingerbread man stories, completed gingerbread man STEM projects, and even went on a scavenger hunt trying to find a gingerbread man who was loose in the school. Here are some images of Miss Kneeland's class on their scavenger hunt. We had so much fun giggling down the halls and reading all the clues that he left us. One student couldn't figure out how he was leaving clues so quickly, so we decided he was probably really good at teleporting! We even thought we could see all his little crumbs throughout the halls.

Happy Friday from Mrs. Gregg! My 3rd grade foxes have been very busy this week. Currently we are in Mission 3 of our math program, Zearn. We are practicing our multiplication facts and learning different strategies to help us decompose those tricky numbers. They are doing a great job and continue to work hard. Since February is Black History Month I have been reading books about African Americans who were an important part of U.S. history. My kiddos have learned about Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, and Bessie Colman. We are continuing to practice our cursive and now that I have taught all of our lower case letters I'm writing our daily morning message in cursive. The kids love being able to read in cursive. We are looking forward to our Valentine's day activities and celebrations next week!

Good Afternoon Franklin Families, I am reaching out this afternoon to let you know that 2 students have tested positive today, one at the high school and one at the middle school. The high school student contact tracing will be completed by this evening and the high school will be open for in person learning tomorrow for Cohort B students. The middle school student attended school yesterday so the middle school will be fully remote tomorrow so that the contact tracing can be completed. I will let you know tomorrow afternoon when we have completed the contact tracing and what the status of school will be for Friday. Please reach out to me if you have any questions. Sincerely, Dan LeGallo SAU 18 Superintendent dlegallo@gm.sau18.org