August 21, 2009

New Announcements:

•  Tuesday is almost here! The teachers and staff are gearing up for our children to return from summer break. Our staff have been working hard for weeks preparing their classrooms, preparing instructional materials, and planning for a successful year of learning and growth. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the staff, the parent community, and have even met a handful of students. I look forward to meeting everyone starting on Tuesday.
  
  
•  Impact of 22 to 1: A Lyris was sent out earlier informing our community about the decision to allow for scheduling up to 22 students in our Kindergarten through Grade 3 classrooms. As a result, we were able to minimize the number of resident students who had to be diverted. We are thankful to keep as many of our resident students as possible. However, the change did result in some shifting of our teachers. In one case, one of our teachers was reassigned to another school. We are sad to say "goodbye" to Ms. Joy Dalton, thank her for her significant contribution to Walt Disney, and wish her the best in her endeavors at Hidden Hills Elementary.
  
  
•  "Meet and Eat":  the WDPTA is sponsoring a "meet and eat picnic social on the first day of school starting immediately after dismissal. Bring your own lunch items (and picnic blanket if you'd like). Popsicles will be provided. This will be a wonderful time to meet/greet other families, staff, and our new principal Mr. Nguyen.
  
  
•  Bell Schedule "Shuffle": Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding regarding our new bell schedule. All elementary school sites underwent changes in their bell schedule to equalize instructional minutes. In our case, some changes were driven by the new Traffix program that will offer traffic relief.
  
  We do have one final revision to the kindergarten bell schedule:
  
  AM --
  8:20 am - 11:40 am (early readers)
  9:25 am - 1:00 pm (late readers)
  (11:40 - 11:55 snack break for a.m. late readers & p.m. early readers)
  PM --
  10:35 am - 2:10 pm (early readers)
  11:55 am - 3:15 pm (late readers)
  
  
• Classroom Assignments: the class list is now posted outside the MPR doors
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Recurring Announcements:

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