Preston Elementary School -

🇺🇸🐾 American Education Week is almost here! PES is celebrating November 16–20 with a fun spirit week! ❤️🤍💙 Check out our daily themes and join us in showing your Panther pride all week long! 🤠🐾

❤️ Red Ribbon Week at PES! ❤️ Our Panthers showed their school spirit during Red Ribbon Week with themed dressup days, classroom activities, and lots of reminders about making healthy, safe choices! We loved seeing everyone participate, especially our Pre-K 3 students celebrating Orange Day! 🧡 ❤️ Proud of our Panthers for making positive choices!

🎻🎶 What a special treat for our Panthers today! For the first time, we welcomed the CRMS and CRHS orchestras to PES for a wonderful performance! It was even more special to see some familiar faces returning to their old stomping grounds! ❤️🐾 A special thank you to Mr. List, Mr. Cheezum, and Mrs. McAllister for bringing these talented musicians to share their love of music with our Panthers! 🎶👏

🐾🍕 PTO Fundraiser Winners! 🎉 A big THANK YOU to everyone who supported our Joe Corbi’s fundraiser! Congratulations to our top-selling classes: 🥇 1st Place: Mrs. Daffin’s class 🥈 2nd Place: Mrs. Piasecki’s class 🥉 3rd Place: Mrs. Brown’s class All three classes earned a pizza party to celebrate! 🍕 Special congratulations to Hadlee and Riley, our student sales contest winners! Each earned $25 to the Book Fair AND ice cream for a month! 🍦📚 Thank you to our amazing PTO, families, and community for supporting our Preston Panthers! ❤️🐾

🤠🐾 WANTED for Showing PAWS! We’re wrapping up Quarter 1 by celebrating six more Panthers who were caught being PAWsome! ❤️ From working hard and helping classmates to showing kindness and being great friends, these Panthers are wonderful examples of our PAWS expectations! Congratulations to Cash, Evie, Gideon, Mabel, McKenzie, and Aaliyah! We’re so proud of you! 🐾⭐ #SaddleUpForSuccess #PantherPride

🤠🐾 Celebrating Quarter 1 at PES! We loved celebrating our Panthers at our Quarter 1 Awards Ceremonies! ❤️ Students in PreK4 through 5th grade were recognized for demonstrating our PAWS expectations, attendance, Golden Lasso awards, and accomplishments in their specials classes. Our 3rd–5th graders were also recognized for academic achievement and honor roll! We are so proud of all our Panthers and their hard work throughout the first quarter. Keep shining, Panthers! 🐾❤️

🐾 Panther Winter Apparel is HERE! ❤️🖤 Show your Panther pride and stay cozy this winter! Our PES apparel store is officially open with new designs, including hoodies, sweatshirts, long sleeve tees, and more! 🛍️ Shop here: https://stores.inksoft.com/pre098 📅 Order by November 22! Grab some Panther gear for the whole family! 🐾

📚 Panther families, come browse the Book Fair with your kids this Monday, November 9! Stop by PES anytime from 4:00 to 5:30 PM and pick out your next read together. New this year: no sales tax! 🐾

What a special afternoon at PES! 🇺🇸 We were so proud of our Panthers as they carried the flags through the gym and sang for our veterans. We loved having our very own Mr. David Rosario as our guest speaker! 🥰 A big thank you to our music teacher, Mr. List, for putting the whole program together and helping our kids shine! Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate our veterans and to the families who shared photos for our Wall of Honor. To our veterans: thank you for your service. It meant so much to be able to honor you here at PES. ❤️🐾🇺🇸

Wow, what a day at PES!! ❤️🐾 Our Panthers got to show their grandparents around their classrooms, share a favorite book during Stop, Drop & Read, make crafts together, and pull up an extra seat at lunch. The smiles in these pictures say it all. 🥰 Thank you to all the grandparents and special guests who spent part of their day with us, and to our PES staff for making everyone feel at home in Panther Hall!

Grandparents, bring a favorite book and join us at PES tomorrow, Friday, November 6! ❤️🐾 Stop, Drop & Read is at 9:30 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m. At 2:00 p.m., we’ll honor our veterans with a program featuring our very own Mr. David Rosario. Gym seating opens at 1:45. Bring a copy of a veteran’s photo if you’d like to add it to our Wall of Honor. We can’t wait to see you! 🇺🇸

Second grade took the fun to JZ Farms last week! 🌽🍂 From the corn maze to jumping and an adventure course, our Panthers enjoyed a beautiful fall day with friends. Thank you to our staff and chaperones for making it a great trip! 🧡

Our Staff Panther Hall of Fame welcomes Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Harris! 🐾 ⭐ Mrs. Ellis—for keeping our cafeteria running smoothly, hosting PES’s first Farm to School luncheon, and creating CCPS’s first elementary culinary club! She’s helping our young chefs build cooking skills, confidence, and safe kitchen habits. ⭐ Mrs. Harris—for nurturing our littlest Panthers and creating Little Makers Loose Parts Club, our first club for Pre-K through second grade! She’s giving our younger Panthers new ways to explore, build, and create. Hats off to you both for going above and beyond for our Panthers! 🤠❤️

One more treat from last Friday’s Halloween parade! 👻🎃 Give it up for our PES Boo-tiful Best Costume Award winners! 🏆 Bob Ross took first place, followed by an umbrella jellyfish and a pair of LEGO soccer players! From a homemade robot to a combine, our Panthers thought of everything. 🧡🐾

Poppin’ into PD! 🍿🤠 A little sweet and salty treat for our PES staff during today’s professional development. We appreciate all they do for our Panthers! ❤️

Happy November! Please take a moment to read the PES November Family Newsletter for important information and upcoming events. https://app.smore.com/n/ctfs4

More Halloween fun with our PES family! 🎃👻 Thank you to our staff and families for making our classroom celebrations so special! 🧡🐾

Our biggest and best Halloween parade yet? We think so! 🐴🤠🐾 THANK YOU to our community stakeholders for bringing the goodies so ALL our Panthers could trick-or-treat, and to our staff and families for joining the fun! 🧡 More Halloween smiles coming soon! 👻📸 Special thanks to: 🎃 PTO & PTO Grandparents 🎃 Caroline County Library 🎃 Burke & Herbert 🎃 Town of Preston 🎃 Preston Ford 🎃 Bartenfelder 🎃 Colonels 🎃 Preston Fire Department 🎃 Choptank 🎃 PES Team 🎃 Bethesda Wesleyan 🎃 Nagel’s Hardware

🎃🚜 Our PreK 4 Panthers took their learning to the farm last Friday! Thank you to Bartenfelder Farms, one of our wonderful community partners, for welcoming our littlest learners for some fall fun! We’re grateful for the opportunities you help create for our Panthers. 🧡🐾 🌻