Mathis Elementary Weekly Update
April 19 - April 23
Upcoming Dates
- Teachers are teaching class and students are learning at 7:45 each morning.
- Tardies are counted daily at 7:50 am.
- Dismissal for Pre-K/Kinder students is at 3:00 pm.
- Dismissal for 1-3 Grade students is at 3:15 pm.
- Pre-K/Kinder students are dropped off and picked up at the Early Scholars building.
- No food items or gifts will be accepted for birthday or holiday celebrations.
- April 26-30: Intervention Week
- May 11: Math STAAR Test-3rd Grade
- May 12: Reading STAAR Test-3rd Grade
- May 31: Student/Teacher Holiday
Morning Procedures
- Drop off 7:15 a.m.-7:45 a.m. (both buildings)
- Bus students will enter through the front (sanitize hands at door)
- Drop off students will have temperature checks prior to departing their vehicle and entering the school (sanitize hands at door)
PreK and Kinder students are dropped off at the Early Scholars building located on 516 E. Saint Mary's St. (Drop off time is 7:15 to 7:45 am and pickup is at 3 pm.)
PreK and Kinder will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at the Early Scholar's building.
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade will proceed directly to the classrooms for breakfast (no lingering in the hallways keeping 6-foot distance)
- Tardy at 7:50 a.m. (Tardy slips are being written and after school detention is being served)
- No fever reducing medication should be given to students at home. (No perfect attendance awards issued this year.) Any student who has a fever should be kept at home. Any student who has a fever through our fever check will not be allowed to come on campus.
- Parents will not be allowed to enter the campus at any drop off point.
Attendance:
PreK: 93.71%
Kinder: 88.27%
1st: 88.77%
2nd: 90.15%
3rd: 90.85%
Campus: 89.96%
Our Goal: 97%
We need to raise our attendance in order to meet our goal!
Happy Birthday!
4/19
Hailey Alvarado
Kaydence Guerra
4/20
Gabriella Rivas
4/22
Max Hernandez
Marcello Trejo
4/23
Brayden Watts
4/24
Leonardo Acuna
Ariana Araujo
Gavin Gonzales
Peyton Padilla
Jerry Perez
Urijah Rivera
4/29
Kyelie Moreno
4/30
Javahn Chapa
Jianna Gonzales
Aria Leal
Class Spotlight
In Science class First grade students are learning about the life cycle of plants by observing Lima beans germinating inside Sprout Houses.
Extended Activity (Science Experiment) :
Bags were placed in 3 different areas of the building that receive various amount of light to see if the light affects the process .
Area 1- direct sunlight
Area 2- half direct sunlight and half shade
Area 3- Completely shaded no direct sunlight (producing best results so far)
Campus Students
Student Health:
Parents, please monitor your student's health. The health and safety of our students and staff is our top priority. Students exhibiting signs and symptoms of COVID-19 should not be sent to school. Please call the school for further instructions.
Back Packs:
Students will be allowed to bring backpacks to school.
School Supplies:
Please send your student supplies for the second semester of school.
Grades:
Please make sure that you and your student are logging into Skyward regularly to check for missing assignments. Should you need assistance logging in, please feel free to contact the front office.
Campus Dismissal:
P-K/K: 3:00 pm
1-3 Grade: 3:15 pm
Teacher's Corner
- Teachers in Classroom by 7:15 AM
- Students will be counted tardy at 7:50 AM
- Daily Attendance Slips by 8:00
- Lessons started at 7:45 AM
- Post Attendance at 10:00 AM
- Lesson Plans Due Each Monday
- Weekly Grade Input into Skyward
- Weekly Phone calls to parents. Phone Logs turned into Ms. Rose every 3 weeks.
- Tutorials 3:15-4:15
- Staff Meetings Every Friday
- All gates are locked at 5:00 p.m. daily.
Study Tips
1. Set (and keep) a schedule
2. Make sure they have any materials necessary to complete all assignments
3. Provide an environment conducive to learning
4. Create a daily plan
5. Don’t teach–help them understand
6. Make sure all work is completed
7. Help them check messages and communicate with school
8. Keep in mind that it’s about the child, not the work
9. Learn to identify the barriers
10. Use school resources
Reading, Writing, & Math
Your child reads, writes, and does math in school every
day. What if you could help her do better in all of those
subjects by enjoying activities together at home? With
this guide, you can! Try these 10 ideas to boost her skills
while sharing quality time.
Reading
- Story box-Here’s a creative way to act out stories—and increase your youngster’s understanding of them. Read a story together, and let your child decorate a shoe box to match the setting. If it takes place in a city, she could line the inside of the box with blue construction paper and glue on construction-paper buildings with squares of aluminum foil for windows. Suggest that she add toy animals or people for the book’s characters. Encourage your youngster to retell the story to you. She might move the toys around and use different voices to say lines from the book.
- Audio book library-Make a priceless collection of audio books by recording your youngster—and other family members—reading her favorite books. Ask your child to pick a book and practice reading it. When she can read it with expression and at a good pace, help her record herself. Also, record yourself reading bedtime stories to her, and ask grandparents, aunts, and uncles to make audio books when they visit. Now your youngster can enjoy story time with her favorite people, even when they’re at work or out of town.
Writing
- Family comic strip-Every family has funny tales they love to tell. Pick one that makes your family laugh, and turn it into a comic strip. Maybe your suds-covered dog once escaped during a bath and ran around the house while you chased him. Let everyone pick a part of the story to write and illustrate. Each person can draw his panel on a sheet of paper (stick figures are fine!) and add dialogue. (“Come back here, Roger!”) Have your child glue the panels in order onto poster board and hang the comic strip somewhere for everyone to enjoy.
- Rock-hunt poetry-Anyone can be a poet with this clever outdoor activity. Ask your youngster to search for rocks big enough to write words on with chalk. Encourage him to write a variety of nouns (pizza, truck), verbs (jumped, flew), and adjectives (huge, blue). He might also make a few rocks with common words like the, and, a, and is. Now your child can arrange the word rocks into a poem. Have him read his verse aloud and move the rocks around until he’s happy with it. Then, he could copy his poem onto paper so he’ll have it to keep.
- Trading cards-Designing trading cards can give your youngster experience doing research and writing nonfiction. Let your child choose a category like animals, vehicles, or food. Each family member can make at least three trading cards to fit the category. For animals, your youngster might create cards for a Koala, an Otter, and a Dolphin. She could find facts about them in library books or online (try kids.nationalgeographic.com or kids.sandiegozoo.org). Then, she can write details on one side of each card and draw a picture of the animal on the other. Read each other’s cards—and trade to collect the ones you like best!
Math
- Yarn measurement-Your child can have a ball with this estimation challenge. Ask your youngster to stand somewhere in your house and name a spot she can see. For instance, she might stand by a kitchen chair and “spot” the refrigerator. Then, she should cut a length of yarn that she thinks will reach it. To check her estimate, she can lay down the yarn. How close did she come? Next, let her pick other distances, estimate, and check. As she practices, her estimation skills will improve.
- Number of the day-“Good morning! What’s today’s number?” Start each day with a new number, and find creative ways to use it. Give your child 10 craft sticks, and ask him to write a number (1–100) on each. Put the sticks in a cup, and every morning, he can pull one out to select the number of the day. Then, hold a contest to see who can find it the most times that day, and keep a running count. Road signs, food packages, and clocks, for instance, are great places to find numbers. Or use the number for activities and projects. For 27, play basketball until one team scores 27 points. Or for 63, make a mosaic with 63 tiny squares of construction paper.
- Flip, slide, turn-This stuffed animal game can help your youngster learn about flips (reflections), slides (translations), and turns (rotations) in geometry. Here’s how. Start at one side of a room, and take turns shouting “flip,” “slide,” or “turn.” Each player moves his stuffed animal according to the direction given. A flip is a mirror image—your child could move his animal from its feet to its head or from its back to its stomach. For a slide, simply slide the animal forward one length (so its head is where its feet were). And for a turn, a player should rotate his stuffed animal 90 degrees. The first stuffed animal to reach the opposite side of the room gets first prize!
Remote Learner's with Medical Letter
Grades:
Please make sure that you and your student are logging into Skyward regularly to check for missing assignments. Should they need assistance logging in, please feel free to contact the front office.
Attendance:
Students will log into the Google Classroom or Seesaw for Daily Attendance, Monday through Friday. If they are not making contact with the teacher, they are being marked absent for the entire day.
Tutorials:
Tutorials are mandatory for all remote learners daily as set by the teacher. This will give the students the opportunity to have any questions answered, receive extra assistance or take assessments.
Inspirational Corner
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About Us
Maggie Eckhoff, Assistant Principal
Brenda Leal, Counselor
Email: ppittman@mathisisd.org
Website: www.mathisisd.org
Location: 315 South Duval Street, Mathis, TX, USA
Phone: (361)547-4106
Facebook: facebook.com/mathiselementary