Skaggs E-News
January 16, 2020
A Note from Mrs. Lee
Dear Parents,
It has been an exciting week celebrating College & Career Week! We appreciate all the work Mrs. Carranza and all of our teachers have done to spotlight the importance of making goals and preparing for our bright futures!
Congratulations to Audria Tan for winning the campus spelling bee! All of our students did an amazing job as the competition was intense! We are proud of all of our students that studied and prepared for the bee. Audria will represent Skaggs at the district bee. Additionally, we are so proud of Alex Zhu for his writing that was submitted to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Contest for the district. His writing was chosen from so many wonderful fourth grade writers from Skaggs and around the district! Congratulations, Alex!
I hope you and your family are staying healthy during this flu season. Managing flu season responsibly is a team effort. See our tips and resources on the Plano ISD website and remember to keep students with flu symptoms home until they have been symptom-free for 24 hours.
Principal Award Lunch
If your child is a Principal Award recipient, please remind him/her to take their lunch to the school office on Monday, January 27th, during their lunch time. We love getting to know them better!
Donuts with Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Williams
If your child won a "Donut with Mrs. Lee" at the winter assembly, please drop off your child at school by 7:30 am on Monday, January 27th. We look forward to a sweet time with them!
Science Fair
We are so proud of all of our students who participated in the Skaggs Science Fair this year! We had so many wonderfully unique and details projects! Our Science Fair winners are listed below. We appreciate Mrs. Mukherjee for organizing the fair and our judges! Parent viewing will continue Friday, January 17th with a slight change in the time (due to our author visit) from 10:30-12:30.
Author Visit
We are excited to have author Woody Kuon come visit our students on Friday, January 17th and share his books with us! Be sure to ask your students about the author visit!
Skaggs Data
You will find below some helpful links to recent academic data about our Skaggs Stars from TEA. We continue to strive for excellence each day with every student!
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and the students enjoy Monday off in honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Lee & Mrs. Williams
Science Fair Winners – 2019-2020
Grand Prize Winners –
1st Grade – Nirvaan Das – Tweet My Food Up – Engineering Project
5th Grade – Ayaan Hussain – Shadow Bot – Engineering Project
Kindergarten
1st place – Alice Lee – Sprouting Contest
2nd – Kiera Acosta – How Many Seeds In An Apple
3rd – Jason Xin – Table Top Volcano
1st grade
1st – Nirvaan Das – Tweet My Food Up
2nd –Aarish Tikoti – Project Electromagnet
3rd- Evan Ren – Cable Robot
2nd grade
1st –Aidan Zhang – Investigation on Surface Friction
2nd – Revanth Chadalawada – Testing Conditions For Maximizing Casein Production From Milk
3rd- Lillian Ye- Making It Sweeter By Salt
3rd grade
1st – Clare Gituanja – Dirty Snowballs
2nd- Anayah Srivastava – Relationship with Taste, Smell, and Vision
3rd- Velan Jaiganesh – Mighty Magnetz
4th grade
1st – Varun Jhanak – Ray Ray Go away
2nd- Lasya Susarla – Happy To Help
3rd – Ariel Yuan – Are We Eating electricity?
3rd- Manya and Arya Jonnadula – The Effect of Co2 on temperature
5th grade
1st Ayaan Hussain – Shadow Bot
2nd – Aashish Nagarjan – Can You Stop
3rd- Sulaiman Ilyas – How Low Can It Go
State and Federal School Report Cards
The 2018-2019 School Report Cards for Skaggs has now been released, and posted to the Skaggs Elementary School website www.pisd.edu/skaggs.(Click About Us - Accountability Report - School Report Card) The report provides information concerning student performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), as well as information on student enrollment, class size averages, and financial expenditures. The information contained in the School Report Card is described in the “School Report Card Definitions.” The Federal Report Card is also available at https://tea.texas.gov/FRC.aspx. If you have any questions concerning the School Report Cards, please let us know. Thank you for your continued support of Skaggs Elementary School.
Plano ISD 2020-2021 Academic Calendar Approved
Plano ISD’s school calendar for 2020-2021 has been approved and includes two fewer school days for students and teachers, as well as an additional five minutes added at the beginning of the school day.
Other calendar features include a Wednesday, August 12, 2020 start date and a Thursday, May 27, 2021 end date, a full week off for Thanksgiving and spring break is slated for March 8-12, 2021.
New School Hours
7:40 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Lost and Found
Skaggs breakfast
Managing Flu Season Together
Managing flu season responsibly is a team effort. See our tips and resources on the Plano ISD website and remember to keep students with flu symptoms home until they have been symptom-free for 24 hours.
Family/Community Resources
This week we launched a Family Resource page on the district’s website. This page provides a searchable list that families, community members and school staff can utilize to help find community resources in order to meet a family’s needs. The list is searchable by agency name, zip code and category. Categories include such areas as basic needs (food assistance, housing assistance), health care (medical, dental, vision), and mental health (substance abuse, counseling, etc.).
The family resource page can be found at https://www.pisd.edu/familyresources
Skaggs Instructional Model
SHOULD SEE AND HEAR ALMOST ALWAYS
- Respecting student dignity and privacy / Indication of care for students
- Appropriate volume and tone for the situation/grade level
- Clear classroom routines and procedures
- Using appropriate wait time
- Learning based on instructional goal/target/objective
- Student engagement / Awareness of all students / Teacher “withitness”
SHOULD SEE AND HEAR DEPENDING ON SITUATION
- Differentiation / All students working to their potential
- High collaboration and interaction among students
- Greeting students at the door
- Teacher modeling
- Marzano’s High Effect Score Strategies
- Celebrating progress
- Monitoring student progress
- Rigor - Asking in-depth questions
SHOULD NOT SEE AND HEAR
- Negative or demeaning tone of voice
- Yelling at students
- Using only low level questions verbally and on assignments
- Unsupervised students except for exceptional situations
- Disengaged as a whole class
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
__100% of the students are engaged with classroom objectives and learning
__Greater than 80% of the students are engaged with classroom objectives and learning
__Greater than 50% of the students are engaged with classroom objectives and learning
__Less than 50% of the students are engaged with classroom objectives and learning
Skaggs Got Talent
Skaggs Got Talent (SGT) will be on Friday, March 6th during specials classes. If your student wants to share their special skill, please go to the sign up link created for their specific grade level on Pickles Music. The students will be performing in the order they sign up. Our objective is to have fun sharing our skills in a noncompetitive, low-key format for students only.
Carpool
- For safety for all, we ask that your vehicle does not stop on the crosswalk. Please look for pedestrians.
- We appreciate you waiting patiently and following the cars before you. Even when things move slowly, it is safer to wait then to drive around (frog hop) it.
- As always, arriving at school closer to 7:30 am is a win for our children. When they're here early, they are ready for a successful day.
- FYI, your child does not have to wait for someone to open the door. If the car has come to a complete stop, they may open their own door to exit. Thank you.
Absence Procedure
5th Grade Parents
Skaggs Parent Workshop
Jan 13-17: College/Career Week
Jan 14: Science Fair projects due
Jan 20: No School / MLK Jr. Day
Treasure Cart Donations
Suggestions include:
* Mechanical Pencils
* Key Chains
* Smelly Markers
* Bookmarks
* Bouncy Balls
* Bubbles
* Slap Bracelets
January Birthdays
Samah Safyo - 3rd
Molly Davis - 28thLost & Found
Nurses Corner
I just wanted to let everyone know about a great opportunity we have in PISD. The Lion’s club sponsors a yearly vision clinic in which they provide exams and glasses to children that qualify. I have included links to the letters for the two dates (Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 and Tuesday, February 18th, 2020). Please look over the qualifications if your child is one that needs an exam. I have been sending out vision referral letters to those that have not passed their vision exams this year and if your income is a certain level, you may qualify. If you do, please fill out the attached form and submit it to me. I will get a hold of the PISD Lion’s club contact and let you know when you can arrive to have your child examined. Please let me know if you have any questions.
On a different note, there have been some questions about how many cases of flu and strep are in our school currently. Unfortunately, due to HIPPA privacy laws, I cannot disclose this information. What I can do is provide a link that allows you to check the amount of flu cases in the area. This will help you to prepare and monitor your children, but unfortunately, will not tell you specifics. https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/IDCU/disease/influenza/surveillance/2019.aspx
Please know that we are doing everything we can to keep your children symptom free by sending students home that have these symptoms; fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or eye drainage. You can do your part by not sending your children to school if they exhibit any of these symptoms as well. Thank you for your help and have a wonderful winter break!
Parent Workshops
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JhQcy9Zbg-bnlV1Dko8WYrgIM-c1G0LN/view?usp=sharing
Be A Skaggs Attendance H.E.R.O.
After School Chess Club- Register Today
Support Skaggs PTA
There are many ways you can support our PTA! Do you shop at Kroger or Tom Thumb? Do you shop online on Amazon? Simpy add Skaggs PTA to your account as the chosen Organization.
INTERESTED IN JOINING SKAGGS PTA
Looking for members to serve on next years PTA Board! Our nomination committee is looking for members to serve on next years board to make the 2020-2021 school year a wonderful one for our Skaggs Stars!
Available officer positions include:
· President
· Secretary
· Treasurer
· VP of Membership
· VP of Family Programs
· VP of Student Programs
· VP of Ways & Means
· VP of Volunteers
· Communications Chairman
· Environmental Chairman
· VP of Hospitality
Please feel free to contact Yun Chen at skaggsptacommunicationsgmail.com if you are interested in serving or would like more information about any of these positions.
Looking forward to a great year ahead!
Jasper Jazz Auditions
Jasper Jazz invites dancers and performers to the upcoming mandatory Jazz Hopeful Parent meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at the JHS Presentation Room 1100. Learn more about this exciting dance team, pre-tryout workshop dates and get the Tryout Packet in preparation for auditions! See the attached flyer below for more information.
The 2020 SAGE Summer Expo
The 2020 SAGE Summer Expo is on Saturday, February 1, 2020 at Plano Senior High School. This event is planned by the Plano ISD Council of PTAs to provide important resources for all our students and their families, especially those with special needs and gifted students. Please use link below for more details
Recycling shoes and clothing never made more cents
Skaggs PTA Facebook
We are Live in Facebook. Please check out our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/skaggselempta/ .
Follow us! Like us.Volunteers Needed!!
Urgent needs are roomparents. If you are interested in helping out during the 3 parties a year, please email Cathleen Tiscareno.
Volunteer applications must be on file for this current school year. Please fill out your volunteer application at https://oea.pisd.edu/volunteer/
Plano West ELC Preschool 2020-2021 Enrolling Now!
Enrollment is now open for the 2020-2021 school year! Preschool starts in September and goes through May. We are open to all children in the DFW area! You do not have to be a Plano resident to attend our preschool.
Tuition is $240 for 4 days per week. (There is no preschool on Friday.) There is a $120 registration fee due upon enrollment. *We offer a PISD teacher DISCOUNT*
Our morning class of 3 year olds meets Monday-Thursday from 8:30-11:00 AM. Our afternoon class of 4-5 year olds meets Monday-Thursday from 12:00-2:30 PM.
***Follow us on Facebook: Search @PlanoWestELC
***For more info: https://www.pisd.edu/Page/6315
Stop by Nekter Juice Bar today!
Stop by Nekter Juice Bar from 4-6 p.m. this Thursday, Jan. 16 and mention Jasper Jazz to support your drill team!
Shop Rustic Cuff on Feb 5th from 6-8pm!
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, head over to Rustic Cuff at Legacy West to shop unique jewelry from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5. Mention “Jasper Jazz” and Rustic Cuff will donate 25% of the proceeds to the Jasper Jazz drill team. Go Jazz!
Flu Season and Stadium Bag Reminders
Managing Flu Season Together
(Controlemos juntos la temporada de la gripe)
Managing flu season responsibly is a team effort. See our tips and resources on the Plano ISD website and remember to keep students with flu symptoms home until they have been symptom-free for 24 hours.
Reminder: Plano ISD Stadium Bag Policy
(Política del ISD de Plano sobre Bolsas en el Estadio)
The Plano ISD stadium bag policy remains in effect for the second semester sports season. Spectators coming to track and soccer events are encouraged to review the guidelines at www.pisd.edu/bagpolicy. (en español)
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