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May 9 update
What’s going on in your Kyrene District schools
Kyrene
de las Brisas
May
12-16 is Staff Appreciation Week at Brisas!
This week the PTSO will be treating the staff to many surprises and
treats, as well as a luncheon on the 14th to show them how much we
appreciate them for the tremendous job they do. Please join us in letting
the staff know how much we appreciate them.
Thursday,
May 15th the Brisas Gecko Players will present the Music Man at 7:15 pm in
the multipurpose room. The
Players are directed by our 5th grade teacher, and very talented drama coach
Joe Grube and assisted by Diane Burt. There
are approximately 95-100 students in kindergarten-5th grade that participate
in the Gecko Players and Set-N-Design Club (directed by Jeanne Berk).
Kyrene
del Cielo
The
Multi-Age chose a Science theme for Cielo’s Celebrate Learning Night on
May 1st. The students completed a science experiment at home,
took pictures of each of the scientific steps of the experiment, and glued
all to a poster board. The poster boards were displayed for the evening to
the delight of our Multi-Age community!
Students shared their experiments and all that they learned. The
students have been busy writing stories, both persuasive and imaginative!
Art projects accompanied the writing; cereal boxes or clay both work great
for students to illustrate settings, characters, and problems! Students are
preparing for the end of the year by finishing literature studies and
finalizing all Math learning. Thank you to our parent community for the
incredible support that has been given us this academic year. We are so
fortunate at Cielo to have the finest parent volunteers!
We are looking forward to our Water Sports Days on May 20th and 21st.
Kyrene
de las Manitas
Joanne Thomas and
her class had their annual parent and community luncheon on Friday May
2.This year the theme was western and all the children had on cowboy hats
and a sheriff badge for their nametag.
There were 43 guests at the luncheon including State Senator Slade
Meade, Kyrene Board members Rae Waters, Assistant Superintendents Dr. David
Schauer and Terry Tatterfield, District office support staff, Manitas staff,
and parents of the children in the classroom.
Kyrene
del Milenio
Second
graders will be attending The Phoenix Symphony - Symphony for the Schools
Program, on Thursday, May 15th. The
hour-long thematic musical program features "Music and the Arts" -
a paint, poetry and movement to music contest.
Barbara Garrett, Milenio's music teacher, has arranged for this
special field trip.
Milenio
College is coming to Milenio! Milenio College is an opportunity for students
in 4th, 5th and 3rd/4th grade multi-age classes to experience a workshop,
based approach to learning. Grade
level and special area teachers will facilitate learning using thematic
instruction. Students, selecting workshops based on their interest, will be
teamed with other students attracted to the subject of the course. Milenio
College begins Wednesday, May 21st.
Kyrene
de la Mirada
The
staff will host a tea to honor its volunteers on Tuesday, May 20 at 2:45 in
the multipurpose room. The
theme of this year's tea will be "Mirada Volunteers are a 10" to
tie in with the school's tenth year anniversary.
All community volunteers are welcomed.
Invitations were sent home last week.
For further information please call the school office (480) 783-2900.
The students in
Tracy Knowlton's kindergarten presented the play "Peter Rabbit" to
family and friends on May 8th. Candy
Blakemore's kindergarten students will present the play "The Little Red
Hen" to family and friends on May 22. The play will be followed with an
ice cream social.
The
student council, under the direction of Linda Virden and Susan Edinger,
treated the staff to a luncheon on May 7 for Teacher Appreciation Week.
The Elephant Bar in Chandler provided food. Student council members set up and decorated the tables for
the staff.
Students
in Amy Parrot, Shannon Fossett, Lynn Levos, Sarah Fahey, Gwen Turner and
Janice Burski's first grades will present the musical "Mother Goose
Rhymes" on Monday, May 19th at 6:30 in the multipurpose room.
Music teacher Scott Harnish will direct the musical.
Kyrene
de los Niños
The first graders
are up to their elbows in dirt learning all about plants! They are busy
growing vegetables and rooting new plants from cuttings. In the computer
lab, they have drawn and labeled all the parts of a flowering plant. A
highlight of the plant unit is a book each student is writing and
illustrating called "A Seed Grows." The book focuses on the life
cycle and parts of a watermelon plant. Students are using a multitude of art
media to complete this colorful book. Upon completion of this book, the
first graders will hold a watermelon celebration! Niños Volunteers were
invited to attend an appreciation tea on Wednesday, May 7th. We certainly
appreciate all that they do for our students and for our school.
Kyrene
de la Paloma
This
week we proudly recognize some very special students, our Pueblo Middle
School student volunteers. These
students get up extra early to come to Paloma before their school day begins
at Pueblo, to assist teachers and students in our classrooms and our
library. We appreciate their
help, and we enjoy seeing our former students serve as helpers and role
models in our school. Our
Pueblo volunteers are invited to a recognition breakfast in our library on
Friday, May 16, at 7:15 a.m. We
would also like to extend a thank you to Mrs. Karen Crane, for coordinating
our student volunteer program.
Kyrene
del Sureño
Kyrene
del Sureño School will be having a Papa John's Pizza night on Thursday, May
15. Papa John's pizza will
donate part of the proceeds to the school's PTO fund.
Papa John's also donates a pizza party to the class with the most
pizza's ordered. So take a
night off from cooking, call Papa John's on Rural & Ray at (480)
456-5252 and be sure to mention Sureño.
C.
I. Waggoner
Waggoner
teachers were given the "royal treatment" during Teacher
Appreciation Week! They were
treated to a wonderful breakfast by the office staff, along with treats, and
flowers from Waggoner's Student Council. Poet-in-Residence, Jennifer Doering,
wrote a special poem for teachers, which was presented by Student Council
representatives during morning announcements.
The Waggoner PTO also presented Waggoner teachers with a special
gift. Thank you to everyone, including parents and students, for
making all the teachers feel so appreciated!
Congratulations to Extended Resource teacher, Shelly Halbig, for
being nominated for the Council for Exceptional Children's Special Education
Teacher of the Year! Congratulations,
also, to Waggoner 3rd grade teacher Sue Foley, who was nominated for the
Council for Exceptional Children's Teacher Award!
Lastly, congratulations to Waggoner Speech teacher Marva Mount, who
was nominated for the Council for Exceptional Children's Related Services
Teacher of the Year. Waggoner
teacher are great!! Mrs. Mount
is also promoting Better Speech and Hearing Month at Waggoner. Mrs. Mount
has put together bulletin board display at Waggoner with valuable
information on speech and hearing issues, along with providing many
challenging activities for the staff as the week progressed, related to the
science of speech and language. Students
in grades 2-5 completed the AIMS testing last week with flying colors. This
week, all students at Waggoner took the district math test- the MSS.
Results will be distributed to parents toward the end of May.
Waggoner's Site Council is currently accepting applications for
positions on the Site Council for 2003-2004.
Parents are needed to serve on the council, along a community member.
Be a part of making Waggoner the best it can be by applying to serve
on the Site Council. The
deadline is May 21. Meetings
are held once a month, in the evening.
Please contact the office (783-1900) for more information.
Mark your calendars now for the Yearbook Distribution and Signing
Party- this Friday evening, May 16, from 5:30-7:30pm.
Come get all your friends and teachers' autographs!
Kyrene
Aprende Middle School
The
Aprende Sixth Grade Band, under the direction of teacher Tracy Werner,
performed in the Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association's Middle
School Concert Festival of April 16th, at Independence High School and
received a Superior rating. The
7th Grade Band performed on April 9th at Red Mountain High School and
received an Excellent rating, and the 8th Grade Band performed on April 30th
at Independence High School and received a Superior rating.
Congratulations to all the Aprende Band students on their outstanding
performances!
Kyrene
Middle School
On May 14th
Kyrene Middle School's eighth grade drama students will present
"General Valley Hospital", a one-act soap opera parody by Judy
Wicklund at 6:30 pm. At 8:00
pm, drama students will present "Snapshots" a variety show of
glimpses at teen life by Tamara Tudor.
On May 19th Kyrene Middle School's seventh grade drama students will
perform original scenes that they have created and written themselves.
Performances will be held at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
KMS drama class performances are free and take place in the KMS
multipurpose room.
Kyrene
del Pueblo Middle School
Next
year's sixth grade students from Kyrene de la Mirada and Kyrene de las
Manitas elementary schools visited Pueblo's campus this week.
They toured the campus with a student guide, met their future
teachers and ate lunch in our school cafeteria.
Parents
from our PTA honored teachers at an appreciation luncheon on Wednesday, May
7th. PTA president for 2003-04,
Holly Peterson, outgoing president Roseann Osborne Perez, and sixth grade
parent Janis Shafer were present to deliver their message of thanks and
serve lunch to staff members.
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