Pemberton Elementary

Reminder of next week's schedule for students of Wicomico County Public Schools: Wednesday, April 1 is now a full school day. Thursday, April 2 is a makeup day (for a school day missed for winter weather) with 3-hour early dismissal. Schools and Central Office will be closed Friday, April 3 as well as Monday, April 6 for Spring Break.

Letter days for elementary students (including those at Pittsville Elementary & Middle) are posted each week during the school year. The schedule of letter days is on school web pages in Live Feed, and on the school system's website, in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

Please note that for next week, April 1 is now a full school day. April 2 is a makeup day with 3-hour early dismissal. The school system is closed April 3 for Spring Break.

Parkside Planetarium Presents: "Forward to the Moon" at 6 p.m. March 26, 27 and 30. Be in one of the 65 comfy seats at a show as Kari Byron from Crash Test World and MythBusters launches us on a journey beyond the Earth towards a sustainable future in space.

NASA’s 21st century Artemis program, named after the Greek moon Goddess and twin of Apollo, is the next step in our mission to explore the universe and land the first woman and person of color on the surface of the Moon. This show is produced by Fiske Planetarium in collaboration with TEND Studio. Run time is 22 minutes. Suitable for age 8 and up.

Tickets are just $5 plus a $1 transaction fee, and must be purchased through gofan.co at one of these links:

Thursday, March 26, 6:00pm: https://gofan.co/event/6247751?schoolId=MD22646

Friday, March 27, 6:00pm: https://gofan.co/event/6247750?schoolId=MD22646

Monday, March 30, 6:00pm: https://gofan.co/event/6247749?schoolId=MD22646

Nothing like a Paint Night with your girls! 🎨💙 Thank you to Mrs.Bell,Mrs.Williams and Ms. Schlegel for making it happen for our G.E.M.S. ladies last week. ✨

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🎶 🐼 We are so proud of our Pemberton All County Elementary Schools (ACES) Choir students who performed at the 2026 ACES concert this Saturday at WiHi. We thank our Music Teacher, Ms. Jessica Windsor for her support throughout ACES rehearsals and for leading our students with the singing of the National Anthem at each of our basketball games this season too! Congratulations to our Pemberton ACES students of: Aranza "Gigi" Porras-Arroyo, Aria Cottman, Camila Herrera Garcia, Julissa Destin, Makenzie Morris, Nhaylani Banks, Nova Bell & Nyomi Williams!

Letter days for elementary students (including those at Pittsville Elementary & Middle) are posted each week during the school year. The schedule of letter days is on school web pages in Live Feed, and on the school system's website, in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

Looking for something to do this Saturday, March 21st?

Join 90 of the finest 3rd-, 4th- and 5th-grade singers from Wicomico County Public Schools for a concert at 2 p.m. in the Wicomico High School Auditorium. Join the ACES Choir (ACES = All-County Elementary Schools with intermediate grades) to Travel All Around the USA," under the direction of Ms. Brown of Willards Elementary and Ms. Rush of Delmar Elementary with accompaniment by Mr. Evans of Northwestern Elementary. You'll love the musical tour on which our student singers will lead you, in sings learned and refined through weeks of practice.

Doors will open at 1:30 p.m. for seating. Tickets are $5 each. (WCPS staff members get in free with their badge.) We hope to see you there as the ACES Choir demonstrates why Wicomico County Public Schools is consistently named one of the Best Communities for Music Education.

Don’t forget! Create a Book Fair eWallet for your child NOW so they can shop cash-free, worry-free, and independently! It’s easy to set up and easy for others to contribute funds! Start here: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/pembertonelementaryschool. The Book Fair ends on 3/27!

Sheriff Mike stopped by last week to share one of his favorite stories with Mrs.Rickards kindergarten class. 📚⭐

🤗🐼🥳 Our Competitive Destination Imagination (DI) Team competed at UMBC for the DI Maryland State Tournament this Saturday! We are so proud of our DI Competitive Team Members: Weston Arnie, Solomon Etteyit, Makenzie Morris, Aranza "Gigi" Porras-Arroyo & Logan Simshauser! We thank Mrs. McDonough who has served as a Facilitator and Appraiser for DI and our Team Managers of Mrs. & Mr. Arnie for their support and dedication to our team throughout this very successful DI season! Through this season, our team won 1st place at the Old Bay Regionals and earned the opportunity to compete as the only team from Wicomico County Public Schools at UMBC today. We are so proud of their hard work and accomplishments!

Important reminder: Monday, March 16 is now a school day with 3-hour early dismissal. This makes up the first of three days missed due to winter weather conditions. (The other two makeup days, also with 3-hour early dismissal, are on April 2 -- with April 1 now a full school day -- and June 12. ) March 16 is no longer a staff professional day, as shown on the original approved calendar..

Letter days for elementary students (including those at Pittsville Elementary & Middle) are posted each week during the school year. The schedule of letter days is on school web pages in Live Feed, and on the school system's website, in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

Scaly, slimy, and absolutely amazing! 🐍 Our kindergartners got up close with some incredible reptiles and loved every second.

👉👉Swipe through to see our Beary Best Attendance Winners 🐼 For the month of February: Pre-Kindergarten: 🐼🏆 Goes to Ms. Venere & Mrs. Sontakke’s Class at 97.37% Kindergarten: 🐼🏆 Goes to Mrs. Rickards & Mr. Jenney’s Class at 97.31% 1st Grade: 🐼🏆 Goes to Mrs. Shaver’s Class at 98.69% Second Grade: 🐼🏆 Ms. Horn’s Class at 97.25% Third Grade: 🐼🏆 Goes to Mrs. Kopp’s Class at 96.08% Fourth Grade: 🐼🏆 Goes to Mrs. Grant’s Class at 97.94% Fifth Grade: 🐼🏆 Goes to Ms. Cooling’s Class at 97.35% Classes receiving a certificate for having 94% or higher for the month of February: Mrs. Koerner & Mrs. Stonnell’s Class at 97.13% Ms. Setzer & Ms. Campbell’s Class at 94% Mrs. McClintock & Mrs. Sullivan’s Class at 95.54% Ms. Oleszczuk & Mrs. Harrison’s Class at 94.76% Ms. Carapico’s Class at 94.49% Ms. Lloyd’s Class at 98.14% Mrs. Lobus’ Class at 96.38% Ms. Hicks’ Class at 94% Ms. Voyce’s Class at 94.25% Mrs. Davis’ Class at 95.24% Ms. Joseph’s Class at 94.40% Mrs. Owens’ Class at 94% Mrs. McDonough’s Class at 94.43% Mrs. Thompson’s Class at 97.79% Mr. Dulany’s Class at 96.08% Ms. Kenna’s at 96.08%

📖​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Last Friday, Ms. Carapico’s 1st grade class and Ms. Hicks’ 2nd grade class kicked off their first Buddy Reading session! The 2nd graders chose their own books and spent the week practicing before reading aloud to their 1st grade buddies. Next time, the 1st graders will take a turn reading to them!

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🌟🐝 A huge shoutout to our amazing spellers, Michael Muriuki and Fedemica Deshommes, for representing our school at the 2026 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee at UMES! We also want to thank Mrs. McDonough for her incredible support 💙

Green eggs, jeans and a whole lot of school spirit! 💚👖📚 Day 5 of Read Across America Spirit Week at Pemberton Elementary supporting the Imagination Library!