May 7th, 2018 Pony News
On the Side of Hope!
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
You are heroes that give our Ponies Hope!
RALLY FOR THIS WEEK All
Please click on the link to see the sequence of the Rally!
Please refer to this calendar to see when your grade level will be participating in the Rally.
Our Second Annual STEM Night is Thursday, May 24th!
Below is the link to the Google Form about STEM Night. Please complete the form by May 9th in order to give all participants time to collaborate and gather materials.
https://goo.gl/forms/6csj7V4O9aqvbL8h2
I appreciate all you do!
Mrs. Zamora :-)
A MINUTE WITH THE LASes
Kindergarten - May 9th starting at 8:00am with ESL students
3rd All LEP Students and 4th Grade Bilingual - May 24th starting at 8:00am
5th All LEP Students and 4th Grade ESL- May 29th starting at 8:00am with 5th Grade ESL students
Coverage will be provided for your classes.
All Teachers:
Please continue using the accommodations for your LEP students that you checked at the Beginning of Year and Middle of Year on the 2017-2018 Linguistic Accommodations Journal Form in AWARE. You can change, remove, or add additional accommodations or comments in the EOY box at the bottom of the form. Make sure that you have signed off in each of the 3 boxes. These forms are now mandatory in the student's green folders and will also be used for instructional decisions for next year. If you have any questions or need assistance, please let us know! THANK YOU!
Weekly Calendar
Monday, May 7th
- Math EOY Screening 4/23-5/11
- College/U shirt Day
- EOY TELPAS Kindergarten 8:00 to 12:00
- NEU Rally ALL 2:20-2:45pm
- Science LF
- 2nd Field Trip- Dallas Aquarium
- Last week to checkout books
- Brief ARDs for 5th grade
Tuesday, May 8th
- Math EOY Screening 4/23-5/11
- LA K-2
- Science, Math ACT
Wednesday, May 9th
- W.W. Superhero
- Math EOY Screening 4/23-5/11
- Multilingual Coordinator
- LA, Math, Science ACT
- EOY LPAC Kindergarten
Thursday, May 10th
Math EOY Screening 4/23-5/11
Last day of tutoring 3rd to 5th
Mrs. Sanchez- Facilitating RtI meetings
ITF, LA 3-5 ACT
Friday, May 11th
Math EOY Screening 4/23-5/11
Last day of Pony Time 3rd to 5th grades
1st grade - LISDOLA
Celebrate School Nurses’ Day
LVES Spirit Day
Important Information:
Pony Time:
- Last day of Pony Time 3rd to 5th- May 11th
- Last day of Pony Time K to 2nd - May 24th
Tutoring:
- Last day of tutoring 3rd to 5th - May 10th
- Last day of tutoring K to 2nd - May 24th
STAAR Test
- May 14th - No Pony Time on this day.
- May 15th - No Pony Time on this day.
- May 16th - No Pony Time on this day.
- May 17th - Possible STAAR make-ups
PLC sessions
- No PLC sessions on May 8th
- No PLC sessions on May 15th
- Next PLC sessions on May 22nd - We will create rosters for next year using Pinks and Blues.
EOY Staff Party
- May 31st - Location: Valley Creek Church - Next Step Center
Leveled Library
- May 25th - Due Date for the return of all books to the Leveled Library
- Note: You may certainly return books earlier than May 25th. :-)
EOY LPACS
- EOY LPAC Kindergarten May 9th
- EOY LPAC 3rd, & 4th May 24th
- EOY LPAC 4th & 5th May 29th
Staff Shout Outs
- All who are participating in Random Acts of Kindness - you are AwEsOmE!!!
- Mr. Anderson for spreading his smiles and kindness everywhere he goes.
- Mrs. Veronica Hernandez for providing a literacy lesson on the spur of the moment.
- Thank you Mrs. Kilam for donating a book to the library that is so popular there was a 10 person waiting list! The waiting list was reduced to 7 now that there are 3 of the books available! :)
- Click here to submit your Shout Out.
May Birthdays
- Victoria Hamilton May 7th
- Lakshmi Valdes May 7th
- Elizabeth Ramos May 11th
- Lisa Burleson May 12th
- Sandra Zamora May 14th
- Gladys Diaz May 15th
- Iraima Arocha May 17th
- Alexis Stephenson May 17th
- Jerry Green May 19th
- Angela Snyder May 21st
- Barbara Kitchen May 23rd
- Carol Holguin May 27th