February 12, 2016

The Little Bulldogs Tidbits

Principal’s News

Contents

Principal’s News 1 Upcoming Events 1 Pre-K News 2 Kindergarten News 2 First Grade News 2 Second Grade News 2 Third Grade News 3 Fourth Grade News 3 Fifth Grade News 4 Sixth Grade News 4 Cafeteria Menu 5 Counselors News 5 P.E. News 6 Nurse News 6 Migrant News 6 Special Programs News 6 Library News 6

Mrs. Michelle Rodriguez

La Pryor Elementary Campus

Happy Birthday! Feb 16 – Jisela Lopez Feb 19 – Dareon Vasquez

La Pryor Elementary Parents/Guardians,

Happy Valentine’s Day weekend to our La Pryor families! Our gift to

you and your loved ones is a three day weekend… as there is no school on

Monday, February 15th

. Classes will resume on Tuesday, Feb. 16th

, along

with after school tutoring.

Also, we do not have Saturday tutoring this weekend because of the 3-day

weekend but we will have it next Saturday, Feb. 20th

. I want to thank the

parents of those students who attended Saturday tutoring this past

weekend. We had a great turnout and the students were so positive!!!

Progress reports did go out this week for the 3rd

week of the 3rd

quarter. If

you did not receive your progress report, please don’t hesitate to contact

the office so that we may provide you with another copy.

We also hosted Milk & Cookies in the library @ 6:00 p.m. this past

Monday and had a good turnout. It is such a joy to relax and enjoy time

with our students and parents. Our Migrant department also hosted an

information meeting for parents yesterday. Please don’t hesitate to contact

the school if you have any additional questions regarding services.

Again, we wish you a relaxing and enjoyable three day weekend. Thank

you so much and have a great weekend and Go Bulldogs!!!

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS WITH THESE IMPORTANT DATES:

Feb 13 – NO SATURDAY TUTORING

Feb 15 – NO SCHOOL – STUDENT/STAFF HOLIDAY

Feb 19 – Individual Spring Pictures (No Group Sittings)

Sincerely, Michelle I. Rodriguez

No School -

Monday, February 15th

President’s Day

Classes will resume

Tuesday, Feb 16th.

Pre-Kindergarten News

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Mrs. Dube & Mrs. Gonzales’ Pre Kinder News:

ELA-Letter Pp, Wh-Questioning Game, Sight Words Math-#15, graphing SS- Valentine's Day, Neighborhood Science-pets, How they Move Thanks to all the parents who participated in our Valentines boxes. They were very creative!! Please remember to read and return your library books. Thanks!

Kindergarten: Mrs. Mireles and Mrs. Ball

Kindergarten: Mrs. Mireles and Mrs. Ball Reading: Our students will recognize that new words are created when letters are changed, added, or deleted. Social Studies: Students will describe how technology helps accomplish specific tasks and meet people's needs. Math: Students will be working with two dimensional shapes. Science: Student will be learning about basic needs of living organisms and identifying living and nonliving objects. Please check take home binders daily!

Mrs. Howell & Ms. Elrod:

Ms. Elrod’s classes are learning about comparing and

contrasting stories, animals and words. We have are

reviewing digraph SH, digraph PH, combination WH, and

final stable syllables BLE, PLE, FLE, GLE, DLE,TLE, and

TION . We are also reviewing long vowel i using as in

fly, fight and ride. In social studies, we will be learning

and writing about presidents and patriots.

In math we will be moving into unit 10 – Operations

Using Data Representations - This unit bundles

student expectations that address interpreting,

representing, explaining, generating, and solving

addition and subtraction situations as well as

applying basic fact strategies and properties of

operations to solve addition and subtraction

problems using the data from picture graphs and

bar-type graphs. In Science we will move into unit

8 – Investigating Living and Nonliving - During this

unit, students sort and classify living and nonliving

things based upon whether or not they have basic

needs and produce offspring.

Kindergarten News

First and Second Grade News

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Second Grade News

Ms. Ybarra

The Third Graders will learn to find the perimeter of a figure.

They will review telling time from an analog clock and digital

clock. The students will need to solve problems with elapse time.

Please, work with your child on telling time.

The Fourth Graders will continue to work on decimals. They will

need to compare different amounts of decimals. The students

will identify and recognize decimals on a number line. Please,

work with your child on telling time on a clock and finding the

elapse time from one activity to another.

Mrs. Nevarez

3rd Grade & 4th Grade

In third and fourth grade ELAR we are learning about Text Structure of

Nonfiction Text with the focus on Time order/Sequence.

Reading Homework for 2/16-2/19

3rd: Animals Feel Emotions

4th: Australia

Mrs. M. Jones’ 3rd

and 4th

Grade Science & Social Studies

Classes

3rd Grade – Students will be reviewing for their Unit Test next week. 4th Grade- A few of our Native American projects. 3rd Grade – A few finished solar system projects we did in class. 4th Grade- This week, students reviewed and tested over renewable/nonrenewable resources Unit.

Third & Fourth Grade News

Mrs. C. Lopez - Students in second grade science and social studies have been very busy. Students are still trying to get

used to me, the new teacher, and new expectations. They are getting used to new schedules and routines. That has been the

hardest because time seems to fly. For this past week, students have been learning about the weather where they have to observe,

measure, and record temperature, wind speed, rain and observe clouds and to be able to tell what kind of clouds they see. In social

studies students have been learning about Inventors and Innovators and to tell the differences. This has been an eye opener for

the students because they realize that as young as they are they too can become an inventor or innovator without intending to

be. These roles happen just by being curious and following though. Over all students have been doing well. I do ask to please send

your child ready to learn in school every day. Their presence in school in is greatly needed!

Mrs. M. Lopez - In reading this week we reviewed what good readers do when they are reading. Students worked on making

predictions, asking questions, clarifying and summarizing as we began to read The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. We

began our reading homework this week and I am so excited with how the students have responded with being responsible in

completing their work! Thank you parents for your support! In math we continued to work on subtraction with regrouping and solving

one-step word problems. We used math manipulatives, poems, and catchy alliteration to remember how and when to regroup. Next

week we will start our unit on collecting data and organizing it into bar and picture graphs.

4th Grade Native American Projects

3rd Grade Solar System Projects

Science- Mrs. Lopez

5th Grade

The fifth graders will describe how the flow of energy derived from the Sun, used by producers to create their

own food, is transferred through a food chain and food web to consumers and decomposers.

6th Grade Sixth grade will continue to classify rocks as metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary by the processes of their formation.

Social Studies- Mrs. Ontiveros

5th grade students have been learning how immigrants had to move to a different country in looking for better life. They are also learning how immigrants were mistreated throughout their lives because they were different and did not fit in to Americans life style. 6th grade students are developing a better understanding in how some Europe countries became united and labeling the locations of those countries on a Map.

Mrs. Ontiveros – ext. 335 Conferences; 8:00-8:30 & 10:30-11:00

ELA- Mrs. McHazlett

Hearts, Chocolate, Love and R-E-A-D-I-N-G! 5th and 6th graders have focused on characterization and setting this week. We also took mini benchmarks to help us identify strengths and weaknesses at this point in the year as well as work on stamina and focus for an extended period of time. Please continue to read with your child EVERY evening and emphasize how important it is to have a positive attitude and to always do their very best! I believe in your child and know they can be successful! ***We are still missing a lot of library books. We have given your child a list of books that are owed along with the cost of each book if it is lost. Please help them to look for these over the weekend so they can check out books for class.

Math- Ms. Rangel

Continuation: The fifth grade students will be spiraling on Categories 1, 3 and 4. Category 2 will be the category of focus during the next several weeks. The sixth grade students will work on stem-and leaf-plots and histograms. *HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ASSIGNED ON WEDNESDAY AND DUE ON FRIDAY. *REMINDER: STAAR Math test will be on March 29

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Fifth & Sixth Grade News

6th grade creating

Sedimentary,

Metamorphic, and

Igneous Rocks in

the Science Lab.

PRE-KINDER MENU

Feb 15-19

ELEMENTARY MENU

Feb 15-19

SUPPER MENU

Feb 15-19

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Greetings, parents! The school year is quickly passing and with

it come all the new challenges as our children progress and grow

older. Parenting is the most challenging and yet rewarding

aspect of our lives; and, like most parents, we may often feel

stumped when it comes to disciplining our children. We may

question whether or not we are making the best choices possible

for our children to be healthy individuals. Thankfully, there is

much literature available to assist us with making good decisions

when it comes to disciplining our children and providing them

with structure. Two authors in particular who have taken a very

successful approach are Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John

Townsend. Provided is a link to an article that discusses their

work along with other authors who provide valuable information

for parents to provide the most effective structure and

discipline for their children. I hope that you are able to be

provided with some valuable

insight…….http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Features/Magazine/20

14/clear-expectations-for-kids.aspx Thank you, parents, and

enjoy your three day weekend!

3rd thru 6th grade is working on physical fitness gram testing. The test contains a mile run, sit-ups, pushups and flexibility. Pre-K thru 2nd grade

continue to work on their motor skills thru activities.

Message from Nurse Becky

“Lice” Starting to see a few students with lice, please check your children hair, if your child has lice please treat with over the counter or prescription medications, remove eggs. ( do not use shampoo with conditioner or conditioner before applying medication for lice and don’t wash hair for 1-2 days after using the medication this may reduce the effectiveness of the lice medications.) Soak combs and brushes in hot water for 5-10 minutes. Machine

wash and dry on hot cycle linens and clothing worn 2 days prior to treatment. Items that are not washable dry clean or place in plastic bag and store for 2 weeks. Retreatment may be needed 7-10 days if eggs hatch( the eggs left in hair or that may be on hair that has fallen from head of child and remains on

child clothing, caps sweater etc. To comply with the Texas State Law, the following restrictions apply to taking medicine by students while at school:

1. All medicine is to be brought and kept in the school nurse’s or Elementary / High School Office. 2. Prescription and non-prescription medicine must be in original container.

Prescription must be in a container with the pharmacy label for that student. 3. If a prescription or non-prescription medicine must be given during the school day, It must be accompanied by a note,

signed by a parent or guardian giving school personnel directions for this administration (time and dosage)\ 4. School personnel will not give any medicine. Including Tylenol, unless it is provided by you,

In the appropriate manner as stated above. These restrictions are necessary for protection of the health and safety of your child. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Medication administration forms can be found on the school web page under “Nurse” or you can ask in office for a copy.

Special Programs News:

To parents of Students with Special Needs, Region 10 ESC, in collaboration with the Texas Education Agency has created the Texas Special Education Information Center (SPEDTex). SPEDTex is a resource designed to inform and support parents, teachers, and anyone who is committed to the success of children with disabilities. Please visit the SPEDTex website at www.spedtex.org for more information.

From the Library:

We had a great turnout Monday night at Cookies & Milk! Mrs. Rodriguez read a book about Valentine’s Day and the students, along with their parents, made a valentine for that special someone. Hope to see you at the next Cookies & Milk. Our Spring Book Fair will be here before you know it! I’ll let you know more about that next Friday. Students, keep up the great work in Accelerated Reading, keep earning those points! Enjoy your weekend….

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