November 7, 2007

Total enrollment is at 696 students.

Kinder-107

1^st grade-121

2^nd grade-99

3^rd grade-95

4^th grade-91

5^th grade-92

6^th grade-91

Professional Development:

November

5^th Dr. Hord

7^th Parent Contracts

8^th and 14^th with NWREL

9^th and 30^th Reading Leadership Team

15^th Principal and the Law

16^th and 17^th Sub training

28^th Mandated reporting CPS

28^th IAs w/Gretchen

29^th Reading First in Phoenix

PTO Meetings

We had 130 parents at our PTO meeting last night.  We passed out 12 Accelerated Reader certificates, 27 student of the month certificates, 230 perfect attendance certificates, and 150 citizenship awards.  We chose one name from the perfect attendance group to win a bike.  The winner was Leslie Covarrubias Cortez from Ms. Ramirez’s kinder classroom.  The 2^nd graders did retell, sang, summarized Thanksgiving, and took pictures. The next PTO meeting will be on December 18, 2007.  The meeting will begin at 5:30pm in the cafeteria.

Important Dates:

Nov. 1^st Fall Festival 1:00-2:30

Nov. 12, 21, 22, and 23^rd No School

Nov. 19 and 20^th Bus Evacuations

Nov. 20^th 3^rd graders w/Dr. Geyer for dictionaries

Nov. 20^th Progress Reports go home

November 8^th Pizza with the Principal (migrant students)

Nov. 26^th begin DIBELS testing

KUDOS!!!!

Hats on Day! On October 17th

We celebrated Hats on Day in honor of Jacquita Hernandez, a 4th grader in our school who has leukemia. 

Each child may wear a hat to school for only .50.  The money collected will go to the Foundation for Children with Cancer.  We will also be taking donations for the family on that day in the office.  If you would like more information about Hats On Day you can go to their website at www.childrenwithcancer.org .  We collected $282.00 for the foundation and $351.03 for the family.

Fall Festival November 1^st

We had our fall festival from 1:00-2:30.  Each grade level had several activities.  The school made $1,629.48 profit.  Everyone worked so hard, was so well behaved, and kept everything clean.

Rotary Student of the Month for November

is Vanessa Gonzalez in Mrs. Barajas’ class.

Go-Getters are:

Herlen Yeomans in Ms. Topete’s class and

Mario Urias in Ms. Batiz’s class.

21^st Century after school Tutoring

We offer academics, arts and crafts, media club, adult ESL and computer classes, needlework, dance, and many others.  Classes are on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 3:30-5:00 for students in 1-6^th grade. Ms. Colvin is the coordinator.  We will be adding ELL tutoring in late November also as well as Saturday classes.

Respectfully submitted,

Meredith Brooks and Francisca Dickson