Akers' Updates
March 22, 2019
School News
Current Enrollment: 995
Enrollment Projections: We are projected (that means what they are predicting) to have 1,029 students next year and be at 18% Econonmically Disadvantaged for the 2019-20 school year. We will continue to be an open campus for transfer students next school year.
Preference Forms
Looking Ahead
- Monday, March 25 - 27 - No Lunch Visitors due to Benchmark Testing - see schedule change
- Tuesday, March 26 - 8:00am Team Leader Meeting
- Tuesday, March 26 - Rennell Showcase
- Thursday, March 28 - 7:50 Staff Meeting
- Wednesday, April 3 - PTO Chick-fil-A Spirit Night
- Tuesday, April 9 - STAAR Testing - 5th Grade Math and 4th Grade Writing
- Wednesday, April 10 - STAAR Testing - 5th Grade Reading
- Friday, April 12 - PTO Family Bingo Night!
Digital Learning Conference
PTO Spring Fundraiser
Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to offer an event for the PTO Spring Fundraiser! I met with PTO on Wednesday and they were thrilled with what was being offered. Please finalize your "entries" ASAP, as they will be taking the dates, times, and descriptions from our sign up below to create the silent auction soon.
Wynter's Awesome Meme Resources!
Tweet of the Week!
Redhawk Reflections
Staff Shout Outs!
- Fifth Grade Team for being helpful during my recovery! I am forever grateful for each of you! -Valerie
- Ms. Rahman, Ms. Beard and Ms. Martinez for being there for the kids, lesson planning, implementing awesome strategies, and going above and beyond for the PPCD kids while I was out. I appreciate you guys more than I could ever express. Thanks for being rockstars. -Bailey
- Marci Walker for making me feel sane, which, honestly, is a little scary! ;-) I'm so blessed to get to work with you! -Michelle B
- Shout out to Wynter for being amazing day in and day out! Thanks for doing a lot of research for a Field Trip! You rock!!! -Kelsey
- Mrs Wilkerson for going to SRC to get all our eco column materials. You are awesome! -Shradha
- Mrs. Patel for getting me the fish as our classroom pet and taking care of it while I was gone during the spring break. You are awesome! -Shradha
- Melissa Smith stayed to make emergency copies for us to review for the benchmark. Thank you for helping us!! -Kristi Shepherd
- Kelly New, Melissa Smith, Anndrea Searby, Tara Myers, and Sherry Johnson for helping me get through the prep for our Benchmark. I would be lost without you ALL!!! Thank you!!! -Kristi
- Shout out to Jodi for hooking my new teacher laptop up to the printer -Heather Martinez
- Shout out to Mrs. Bellomy for guiding and handling most of the field trip sign up process. -Heather Martinez
- Katie for always coming through with the copies when the printer has been down! -Bri Miller
- Thank you Ginger for helping with pizza boxes!!! -Tiffany
- Thank you Shirley McMorris for speaking to a 5th grade student and offering to be someone he can talk to in the future. That was very kind! -Rebecca
- Thank you 4th and 5th grade LA teachers for participating in the Student Treasures book initiative. We appreciate that you are open to trying to new ideas with writing! -Rebecca
- Shout out to Kirsten Lee and Lauren Botley for being there for our staff kids! We are so glad that you both are here to help out!! -Rebecca
- Shout out to Heather Martinez for finding a super fun dinosaur "fossil" recipe! -Emily L
- Carmen, Sherry, and Anndrea for working hard at getting testing groups accurate! Your eagle eyes are most appreciated! :) -Rebecca
- Life Skills paraprofessionals for being so flexible and amazing while Ms. Bell and I are in and out of the classrooms. -Lisa Brenner
- Labbe for being an awesome partner! -Foster
- Ms. Stelly for all your help at car rider this week!!! -Ms. Mauer
- Ashlee Deveraux for going the extra mile making sure we have our copies. -Tammy Martinez
- Mrs. Douglas for sharing her supplies with the Redhawks Care Club for the "Kindness Rocks" project! -Joel Palomares
- Ginger - for always checking to see if she can help deliver papers to the front office for Pre K. It is appreciated. -Mrs. T.
- The Lunch bunch - you will never know what it has meant to me for taking the time to care and lift me up during the last month. Much love to all. -Mrs. T.
- Kelsey French - you know just how to make my day start off with a smile. -Mrs. T.
- Heather for taking charge of getting the Kinder field trip information!! -Brittany
- Thank you Kelcey and Lauren for always being a smiling and offering to help in any way you can! So very thankful to have you both next door throughout the day!! -Brittany
- Thank you Kinder team for taking on my kiddos the Friday before spring break (of all days) when I was sick and doing so with smiling faces! Y'all are the best!! -Brittany
- Shout out to Rebecca for leading our awesome Talk To Me book study! Thank you!! -Kelsey
PD Minute
If you're ever interested in joining #CFISDchat, search for the hashtag on Monday nights at 7:30pm! Someone will post a question and then participants post their answers and respond to each other. It is always a great chat with awesome educators right here in our district! :)