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Principal’s Message Dear Families,
Welcome to the February edition of our monthly newsletter. Thank you for taking the time to read about what is happening at LCPL Nicholas S. Perez Elementary.
Two of my favorite events are coming soon: Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on Saturday, February 25, and Explore UT on Saturday, March 3. I encourage you to join us as we take family field trips to the University of Texas for both of these fun and educational events. Your children will be more excited than ever about preparing for college! Call the school for more information.
Our teachers will be holding parent conferences for all of their students in February. The official parent conference day is February 20th, but your teachers may be scheduling meetings throughout the month. Please plan to attend this very important meeting. Our school goal is to hold conferences with 100% of our parents. In addition, we will be holding special parent workshops that day. Watch for more information.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, I once again encourage you to work with your children to make some of their own Valentine’s Day cards – especially the ones that they give to their teachers and adult family members. They will be exercising their creativity, practicing their writing skills, and feeling proud of their own creations. As always, please remember to encourage your children to read a book of their choice EVERY DAY. It is the best way to help them get smarter.
Thank you for being Perez Python parents. Have a wonderful February!
David Kauffman, Ed.D. Principal
Fourth Grade Pythons Perform at the Blanton Museum of Art Did you know we have published authors at Perez Elementary? Many of our very own 4th grade Perez Pythons performed public readings of their poetry at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas as part of their collaboration with the Badgerdog Literary Publishing program. Our students did a great job writing and reading their poems. Way to go, Fourth Grade Pythons! Talent Show Perez Pythons will showcase their skills at the Talent Show on Thursday, February 2 at 6:00 p.m. This lively production allows students and their families to perform a variety of acts such as, singing, dancing, juggling, magic tricks, and more. We hope to see you there! Tuition-‐based Pre-‐Kindergarten Do you want your 4-‐year-‐old child to attend pre-‐kindergarten at Perez Elementary or another AISD school but you do not qualify based on income, home language, or active military service? There are a limited number of spaces available in our pre-‐k program for parents paying tuition. Call the school at 841-‐9100 for more information.
LCPL Nicholas S. Perez Elementary
February 2012 Newsletter Moving Together! ¡Juntos en Marcha!
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Community March This year 130 Perez parents, students, and staff members participated in our Family Field Trip to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community March. The group enjoyed musical performances at the capitol building before embarking on a 3-‐mile march to Huston-‐Tillotson University to celebrate Dr. King’s legacy while uplifting diversity and multi-‐culturalism. Everyone who participated received a complimentary Perez t-‐shirt commemorating our participation in the march. Special thanks to the ACE Americorps volunteers who joined us. Plan to join us in the march next year! Perez Recycles Remember that AISD now supports single-‐stream recycling and food waste composting. At Perez, we recycle paper, glass, plastic, and cardboard. We compost food waste, paper towels, and pizza boxes. From August to December this year, we diverted a total of 41,399 pounds of material the landfill through recycling and composting! Our student-‐led Green Team is exploring ways to make Perez even more environmentally friendly.
Volunteers – Can we get at least 3 hours of help from every family? Volunteering benefits your children and helps make our school the best it can be. Thank you to all of the family members who have helped our school by volunteering your time. If every family contributed just three hours per year, we would get over 180 days worth of assistance – the equivalent of a full-‐time employee. Have you already volunteered at least three hours this year? If so, thank you! If not, please consider ways that you can help in the classroom, in the office, in the library, in the cafeteria, or even at home. Call the school for more information on how you can help. Be sure that you sign in when you volunteer, as we will soon be sending a special thank you to all of our volunteers. P.S. Special thanks to all of our families who have volunteered more than 3 hours! Attendance Did you know that there is a strong relationship between regular school attendance and academic performance? Kids who miss class, miss out on learning. Give your children every opportunity to succeed by making sure they attend school regularly.