Burcham News… April 2019

Dear Burcham Families, We are so thankful for the Burcham Carnival success in 2018. We give families, students, parents, grandparents, community leaders, businessmen, and our staff all the credit and respectfully ask for your help as we get our 2019 Carnival ready. Last year we used some of our carnival money to purchase some more iPads and saved some to add to this years funds to increase the technology we have available for student learning. As we are approaching the end of the year, we will be having many activities and special days that you will want to be a part of. Please know that you are always welcome at Burcham and your children love seeing you at school! Take the time to spend those special days with your kids while they are small. They grow up so fast!

Sincerely, Marla Pankratz, Principal

Super Kids Day has been set! Super Super Kids Day is a day of fabulous stations that engage your child in being physically active. Look for a note on the times and opportunities to volunteer.

VOLUNTEERS HELP US BLOOM!

We appreciate our volunteers who have given t ime and labor to assist us this year. So, i f you have volunteered in the workroom, classroom, tutored, done lunchroom duty, served as an Early Bird Reader, helped with picture day, Book Fair or in any other way, please come to Burcham on Friday, April 5 th at 8:30am! Volunteers wil l be honored at Caring Congregation with a special poem and Volunteer of the Year wil l be announced!! Then at 9:00am we wil l be having a special volunteer breakfast in the Burcham Cafeteria!

NEW Pre-K Students, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade Students ENROLL NOW!

For the 2019-2020 School Year! Parents of any child who doesn’t currently attend Burcham and is 4 or 5 years old or older by Sept. 1st, living in Weatherford School District, need to drop by the Burcham office as soon as possible. Completed packets need to be turned in to the Burcham office ASAP. Parents need to bring the child’s official birth certificate from OK State Dept. of Health, shot record, and Social Security card to us to be copied. If you want to attend Burcham PreK, enroll now to avoid being placed on a waiting list. We have very few spots left. We will be providing bus transportation to licensed daycare homes and centers after AM classes and to pickup PM students.

Upcoming Events… April 3 Kindergarten Graduation Pictures by Life

Touch (Cap & Gown) at 8:30am April 3 Author Linda Shane will be here at 1:30pm April 3 4-H Ladybug Release April 4 PreK to Nursing Home April 5 Caring Congregation 8:30am (Shelton and Vaughan Classes Lead) April 5 Volunteer Breakfast following Caring

Congregation at 9:00am April 5 PreK to Airport April 8 WPS School Board Meeting 7pm April 9 1st Grade to Career Fair at SWOSU April 10 Super Kids Day KG/TK1 AM, 1st PM

April 11 LAST DAY for FROG & SOAR April 12 LAST DAY for Early Bird Readers April 12 Caring Congregation 8:30am (Lindamood and Hartman classes lead) April 15-19 Week of the Young Child April 15 Coalson & Maucks class to Lucille’s for a

field trip April 16 1st Grade Music Concert April 18 KG/TK1 & 1st grade Spring Parties April 18 TK1 to the Stafford Museum at 9:15am April 19 NO SCHOOL!!!! April 26 Caring Congregation 8:30am (Reed and Kardokus’ Classes Lead) April 26 Burcham Carnival 5:30pm-9:00pm April 30 PreK End of the Year Program April 30 Last day to check out books! May 2 All Library Books due! May 2 PreK to Nursing Home May 2 Kindergarten Field Trip to the Zoo May 3 NO SCHOOL!!! May 6-10 Teacher Appreciation Week

From Mrs. Bruner

We have been working on the 1st grade music program! Here are all of the details:

WHEN: TUESDAY, APRIL 16TH, 2019

TIME: 7:00 PM (all classes)

WHERE: PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (High School)

1500 N WASHINGTON AVE

The students will wear their classroom shirts with jeans or dark pants and comfortable shoes. Each classroom already has a class shirt that is a certain color and the teachers will bring these shirts to the program that evening. It will be easier to find your child on stage if you look for their class shirt color! The teachers will slip their shirt over the top of what the students wear that evening then take them off after the program is over. Please have your child wear a t-shirt because it will get hot on the risers. There is no need to dress up. The students will look more cohesive on stage in their class shirts and dark bottoms. Please have your child go to the Eagle Conference Room downstairs at 6:40 where the classroom teachers and myself will be waiting for them. After the concert is over, the teachers will collect their students’ classroom shirts in a designated area on stage. Please listen to dismissal instructions that evening. You may locate your child at the time their class is called and let the teacher know that you are taking them with you. We are so excited to share our program with you and hope to see you all there!

Super KIDS Day Wednesday, April 10th

Kindergarten and TK/1 9:00-10:30am

First Grade 1:00-2:30pm

Author Linda Shane will be coming to Burcham on Wednesday, April 3rd to share her book “A Home For Wingtip”. There will be an order form sent home with your student! Students need to return order forms for the books on or before April 1st. She will not have extra books to buy on-site!

Burcham Elementary Carnival is coming up on Friday, April 26th! We need all our families to plan to come and enjoy the games, activities, food, basket and quilt auctions. We will open outside booths at 5:30pm and inside booths at 6:00pm. The silent quilt auction will go on throughout the evening with bid sheets being picked up at 8:45pm. The basket auction will be at 7:30pm. All activities will wind down at 8:45pm and the carnival will close at 9:00pm.

PRE-K End of the Year Program is Tuesday, April 30th! AM Pre-K class program will begin at 6:00pm and PM Pre-K class program will begin at 7:15pm

Thanks a BUNCH Sonic for donating items for the Pre-K Sonic Day. All those who helped in the cafeteria on Birthday treat days. All those preparing baskets and quilts for the Carnival! All those parents sending items for your class baskets! 4-H for the Ladybug Release lessons! Thomas P Stafford Museum for letting our students come learn

about space!

2018-19 Yearbooks for Sale…..

Order forms for your Burcham Elementary Yearbook have been sent home. Now is the time to buy your yearbook! Yearbooks are $25.00. Our yearbook is a 96-page full color hardback publication. It will feature students and faculty members as well as many special events at all three of our Weatherford elementary schools. This year’s theme “The Greatest School” will be throughout the book and our student artists will be featured on the covers. All schools are ordering fewer books this year, so be sure and order yours soon! You can also order and pay online at Herff Jones secure website: YearbookOrderCenter.com Website may list the school as Weatherford Elementary Schools or as East Elementary. It will not be listed under West Elementary or Burcham Elementary. The order will go to the school the student attends. Order number to enter online to choose our yearbook: 12295

Kindergarten & TK/1st Reading

Readiness Royalty Knows all letters & 100 Book Readers

Eva Littlecalf Paisley Motsch George Roper Zillian Medina Kayden Stice Ryleigh Robinson Wyatt Leger Rayli Palmer Tristen Plummer Kruze Atchley Iree Morales Bentley Monjay Ezekiel Herrera Alberto Herrera Cameron Mashaney Karly Pacheco Shelby Breazeal Honovi Two Babies

KG & TK/1 SMART COOKIE READER

200 books read Malaki Miranda Starla Reeder Tugger Vogt Jaxon Swinney Mason Hollan Jayson Hendricks Nadia Colchado Ryker Lohman Branson Musick Kash Pearce Jax Privett Cameron Anderson Oakley Hibbert Wyatt Biscoe Addison Buller Walker Fansler Paxton Fraxier Maycee Sanders CJ Hammett Isaac Pinon Nicholas Dominguez Chance McDow Aria Henry

KG & TK/1 I ’m Lovin’ Reading!

300 books read Jovi Weichel Wyatt Bruce Ava Vandeburgh Owen Ewalt Zachary Gatlin Bailey Matthews Beau Ferrell Rylee Adams Paris Adams Avere Aranda Scout Sullivan Alyssia Easterling Martinez

1st Grade Principal’s Chair Reading Club

100 Book Readers William Blindy Savannah Otley Courtney Duvall

1st Grade JUNIE B. JONES JOYFUL READERS

200 Book Readers Benny Lopez Jasiel Olivas Daniel Jurado Keith Cornell Caeson Murray Carlos Gonzalaz Sloane Soto Shayla Sullivan Traevon Hardy

 1st Grade Lunch with the Principal Readers

300 Book Readers Jase Bryant Kanen Flanigan Everette Coalson McKenna Gentry Cohen Knutson Levi Metscher Sadie Fuller Grant Callen Remi Munson Kensli Moss Jace Hahn Penny Nix Bryson Miller Nate Shaw William Blackowl Lakynn Merle Owyn Jones Bria Jarvis

1 st Grade Pie in the Face Readers

400 Book Readers

Josue Ramirez Allie Johnson Milo Joiner Taten Tippens Reese Kessler Xander Smith Lundyn Adams Elyse Eaves Anthony Martinez Mollie Grant Lakynn Merle Wrigley Milkeraitis Nora Griffeath Cole Klaassen Gauge Butterbaugh Grant Callen Everette Coalson

1st Grade Rocket Readers

600 Book Readers Madison Royal Blason Gabehart Carter Nicholas Cruz Parkhurst Kash Andrews

Memories for sale! Yearbooks $25