And the rain continues. . .

Hope you all were able to enjoy this three day weekend!  Crazy that the rain keeps on coming down!!  Looking forward to this four day week and I will have more info on what we will do for field day as the week goes on!

Upcoming Weekly Events 
May 26th-29th, 2015    

 
Monday-   No school!

Tuesday-  Yearbook Signing Party 4:00-5:00
SBDM- will be rescheduled (date TBD)
  
Wednesday-  Talent Show (Kinder, 1st and 2nd grade)
 
Thursday-  Talent Show (3rd, 4th and 5th grade)
   
Friday- Field Day (location TBD)
 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle: Carpe Diem!

Cowboy Courtesy: Carpe Diem! Be the best person you can be.
 
ABC of Etiquette:  All food needs to make it in the trashcan.

Important Reminders and Updates

Field Day 

Due to the crazy weather, we are still figuring out what we will need to do for field day.  We will know more this week and try to make some solutions for what we might do with the weather being so rainy.  

 

Shout Outs!

 Becky Garrett for another wonderful program with our 4th grade recorder ceremony!  

 

Ashley Martin, Laci Garza and 4th grade teachers for their help with the performance and getting the kiddos ready to perform!

 

Marly Natherson and Cindy Schroeder for all of their help getting everything ready to go for the volunteer appreciation breakfast!  

 

Everyone for bringing in items for the parent volunteer breakfast!  

 

Final Quote 

 

Rain, rain and more rain. . .

Upcoming Weekly Events 
May 18th-22nd, 2015    

 
Monday-   Summative Conferences
4th Grade Recorder Concert 8:30am and 6:00pm
Teacher of the Year Celebration 3:15

Tuesday-  Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast 7:30am-9:00am
Angie Out Principal Meeting (AM)
  
Wednesday-  Summative Conferences
 
Thursday-  Have a Terrific Thursday!
   
Friday- Field Day (unless we get rained out)
 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle: Esprit de Corps

Cowboy Courtesy: During an assembly, use audience etiquette.
 
ABC of Etiquette:  Stack trays orderly.

Important Reminders and Updates

 Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast

Please remember to sign up and bring something to help support our parent volunteers!  

Yearbook Party

Please let your parents know that we have moved the Yearbook Signing Party to May 26th at 4:00pm!

Field Day

We will keep you aware of any changes in field day if we need to change the date due to weather this week!  

Shout Outs  

Great job to Becky and the 3rd grade program!  Goal was a huge success!  

Thank you to Ashley, Laci and the 3rd grade teachers for all of their help with the program!  

Alicia for all of her help with getting our author visit set up and ready to go for our kiddos!  

Final Quotes

 

Happy Mother's Day!

It's gonna be another busy week as we keep getting closer and closer to finishing up the school year!  I would like to thank everyone for your patience lately as I have been pulled in many directions with my SFA school, district meetings, job fair and family needs.  

My celebration for the week is that I officially finished my last class for this spring semester today!  Now I have one more year left to go in my program!  (if I can get everything done). . .needless to say as I turn 40 this week I am looking forward to even just a brief moment of rest and relaxation after this semester!  (and maybe a little fun too!)

Upcoming Weekly Events 
May 11th-15th, 2015  

 
Monday-   Summative Conferences
Team Leader Meeting -3:15 C106

Tuesday-  STAAR Reading Re-test
3rd Grade Program - 8:30am and 6:00pm
  
Wednesday-  Summative Conferences
Vertical Meeting
CISD Night at the Ballpark
 
Thursday- Summative Conferences
Author Visit (all day) 
PTO meeting - 9:15 - C106 
   
Friday- Texan Town 
Summative Conferences
TCE Potluck - Summertime - Lounge  
 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle: Service

Cowboy Courtesy: Surprise others by performing random acts of kindness.
 
ABC of Etiquette:  Be sure you have everything you need before you sit down.

Important Reminders and Updates

Author Visit

Don't forget to check out the schedule that Alicia sent out for the author visit on Thursday!

TCE Potluck Friday

This is our last potluck for the year!  Bring any of your favorite summertime dishes so we can celebrate!  I will post a sign-up on the board by the elevator! 

Furniture Counts

Please make sure you are taking inventory of the number of desks and chairs you will want to be getting rid of at the end of they year!  Remember we are not getting rid of the trapezoid computer tables and be careful giving away too many other tables that we might could use for future events or in rooms.  Brett and I will be touching base with all of you about this more later this week!  

May Birthdays

Angie Brooks Applegate - 12th

Lori Vincenzo - 14th

Shout Outs

Lori Vincenzo our CISD Elementary Teacher of the Year!

 Ashlin Bowman for getting to be a first time mommy very soon!  We are so excited for you!

Cathy Wilson for hosting another great dyslexia parent meeting and bringing back so many kiddos from middle and high school to talk and see our kiddos!

Our Kinder team for the awesome job they did at Kinder Round-up welcoming our new Kinder friends!

Kinder round-up helpers: Marnie Cranmer, Cindy Schroeder, Brett Shelby, Mary Kennington, Lorri Brehm, Courtney Rice, Stacey Watson, Kasey Kemp, Morgan Peccarelli, Marly Natherson, Meredith Garnier, Lisa Hansen, Casey Wagner, and Katie Tonemah.  Thank you for volunteering!

Ashley Martin, Becky Garrett, and Laci Garza for the final run of the year with our Mother's Day Marathon!

Kinder team for a successful Muffins with Mom event! 

Final Quotes
A couple of reflective quotes to start to hopefully get me through the rest of my work I have to do. . .then I needed a few funny ones to end my day. . .

 

 

TCE Tours. . .

It's hard to believe we are getting so close to wrapping up this school year!  Looking forward to having our 5th graders and teachers back this week and thank you to all of you who will be helping out with welcoming our new group of Kinder friends to Kinder Roundup on Thursday!

 

Upcoming Weekly Events

May 4th-8th, 2015  

 
Monday-   Have a Marvelous Monday!

Tuesday-  TCE Parent/Community Tours
Dyslexia Parent Meeting
  
Wednesday-  Faculty Meeting - 3:15
 
Thursday- Little Elm STEM Academy Visit
Ashlin's Baby Shower 
Kinder Round-Up 
   
Friday- Mother's Day Marathon
Texan Town 
 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle: Justice

Cowboy Courtesy: If someone is bullying you, let an adult know.
 
ABC of Etiquette:  Never talk to anyone as if they are servants. Treat them with respect and kindness.

Important Reminders and Updates

Final Tours for the Year

We have one more STEM campus wanting to visit us this year as well as one more parent/community tour scheduled.  These tours will happen this week on Tuesday and Thursday. The parent community tour will be on Tuesday the 5th and the other group will come on Thursday the 7th.  The STEM campus is from Little Elm ISD.

If we could please have activities for our groups to see highlighting engineering, design and also technology integration. Also, please make sure that our hallways continue to highlight our learning.  

  Thank you to those team leaders who have already let me know what you will be doing.  If you haven't, please do so tomorrow!  

The parent community tour will visit K-2 in the morning and then 3-5 in the afternoon.  The other STEM group will be coming around 8:30am and stay until around noon. 

Summatives

Brett and I will be sending out calendar invites for our end of the year summatives this week.   

May Birthdays

Angie Brooks Applegate - 12th

Lori Vincenzo - 14th

Engineer of the Week

Please remember that Brett or I will cover a morning/afternoon or lunch/recess duty for you during the week!  Just email us to let us know what might work out!  Also, you may leave early one day once your kiddos are dismissed!

This week we are celebrating:  KaTrina Brown

Shout Outs 

 Alicia Montgomery for getting our Design Challenge kicked off and for working with Cannon Elementary to do so!

Meredith Garnier and Jason as we are so excited for them to be married this summer!

5th grade teachers and all of their preparation for Sky Ranch and getting a chance to help our kiddos to have a blast!

Mary Kennington, Sue Kane and Brett Shelby for going to Sky Ranch and being there to help support our kiddos!

 

Marnie Cranmer on her new position of administrative assistant for HR at the admin building!  We will miss you!!!

 

Final Quotes 

Moving on Into May!!

Well we did it people!  We made it through all of the toughness that is STAAR!! I could not be more proud of our kiddos and all of you for your hard work and dedication!!  It is hard to believe that we are now moving on into May and that we will be wrapping up this 2014-2015 school year before too long!  

Upcoming Weekly Events

April 27th-May 1st, 2015  

 
Monday-   Kick off Design Challenge
Fire drill - 8:15 (will be timed)
Lock Down Drill - 2:00pm (officers will be coming)

Tuesday-  Angie Out Principal Meeting (AM)
Meredith's Shower 3:15- Library 
Progress Reports turned in to Brett
  
Wednesday-  Sky Ranch - 5th grade
 
Thursday- Sky Ranch - 5th grade
   
Friday- Sky Ranch - 5th grade
No Texan Town
 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle: Patience

Cowboy Courtesy: Never cut in line
 
ABC of Etiquette:  If you have to go to the restroom, raise your hand.

Important Reminders and Updates

Final Tours for the Year

We have one more STEM campus wanting to visit us this year as well as one more parent/community tour scheduled.  These tours will happen next week on Tuesday and Thursday. The parent community tour will be on Tuesday the 5th and the other group will come on Thursday the 7th.  The STEM campus is from Little Elm ISD.

If we could please have activities for our groups to see highlighting engineering, design and also technology integration. Also, please make sure that our hallways continue to highlight our learning.  

 Team leaders if you will touch base with me to let me know what will be going on during the visits.  The parent community tour will visit K-2 in the morning and then 3-5 in the afternoon.  The other STEM group will be coming around 8:30am and stay until around noon.   

April Birthdays
Marnie Cranmer - 4th
Brett Shelby - 7th
Laci Garza - 11th
Megan Besozzi - 14th
Morgan Peccarelli - 22nd
Stacey Watson - 27th

Engineer of the Week 

Please remember that Brett or I will cover a morning/afternoon or lunch/recess duty for you during the week!  Just email us to let us know what might work out!  Also, you may leave early one day once your kiddos are dismissed!

This week we are celebrating: Delaine Jordan

Shout Outs

Kelly Spears for all the prep work getting ready for STAAR!  Your organization rocks!  

 

3rd, 4th and 5th grade teachers for all your hard work with tutoring, working on strategies and preparing our kiddos for the big test!  

 

All of our small group testing administrators and monitors for the testing days!

 

Candace Coffee  for also helping do the make up testing!

 

Marnie Cranmer for helping to get all of the food set up each day and Star Primera for getting our potatoes cooked up!  

Final Quote

Triple Days of Testing. . .

All right everyone. . .we are finally here for our next round of STAAR testing.  Please remember that we will let you know each day when we are finished and that the entire building must help to create the best environment possible for our kiddos on these days!

Upcoming Weekly Events

April 20th-24th, 2015  

 

Monday-   STAAR Testing

Tuesday-  STAAR Testing
  
Wednesday-  STAAR Testing
 
Thursday- Make-up STAAR Testing
   
Friday- Texan Town
 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle: Perseverance/Fortitude 

Cowboy Courtesy: Never give up.
 
ABC of Etiquette: Always look a server in the eye when you are ordering, asking a question, or saying, “Thank you.”

April Birthdays
Marnie Cranmer - 4th
Brett Shelby - 7th
Laci Garza - 11th
Megan Besozzi - 14th
Morgan Peccarelli - 22nd
Stacey Watson - 27th

Engineer of the Week 

Please remember that Brett or I will cover a morning/afternoon or lunch/recess duty for you during the week!  Just email us to let us know what might work out!  Also, you may leave early one day once your kiddos are dismissed!

This week we are celebrating: Jenna Taylor

Final Quote  

 

This Month is Flying By. . .

It is so crazy to think that we are already making our way through this spring semester so quickly!  Hoping to have a fairly calm week this week as we get ready for our next round of testing!
 
Upcoming Weekly Events

April 13th-17th, 2015  

 

Monday-   Team Leader Meeting - 3:15 - C106

Tuesday-  Brett out All Day - Region 10
  
Wednesday-  PLC/Vertical 3:15
 
Thursday- Have a Terrific Thursday!
   
Friday- Texan Town
PST/RTI meetings - C106 
TCE Hoedown-5:30-8:30pm 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle: Temperance

Cowboy Courtesy: Be respectful of other people’s
conversations.
 
ABC of Etiquette:  Never start eating off your tray until you are at your seat.

Important Reminders and Updates

TCE Hoedown
Remember that I need you all to spend 1 hour and 30 min. at our TCE Hoedown on Friday.  You can come at any time during the evening event.  It is supposed to last from 5:30-8:30pm.  Please let me know if for any reason you are unable to attend this school event.  

April Birthdays
Marnie Cranmer - 4th
Brett Shelby - 7th
Laci Garza - 11th
Megan Besozzi - 14th
Morgan Peccarelli - 22nd
Stacey Watson - 27th

Engineer of the Week 

Please remember that Brett or I will cover a morning/afternoon or lunch/recess duty for you during the week!  Just email us to let us know what might work out!  Also, you may leave early one day once your kiddos are dismissed!

This week we are celebrating:  Morgan Peccarelli

Final Quote