may 2011 eagle eyes newsletter

Eagle EyesEastvalley Elementary School

The Eastvalley PledgeOn our wings,

we pledge to do our best, in our country and in our school.

We fly beyond the common, being respectful to all people,

in all we do at Eastvalley.

A look Inside this Issue .....- 4th Grade Land Grab- Photography Contest- EV Teacher of the Year- Newbery Winners- Cobb County Writing Fair

Eastvalley Elementary SchoolNational School of ExcellenceKaren Wacker, Principal

2570 Lower Roswell RoadMarietta, GA 30067(770) 578-7214

School website: www.EastvalleyElementary.com PTA website: www.eastvalleypta.org

May 2011

a Publication of your Eastvalley PTA®

Georgia

Tai TerryCo-President, Eastvalley [email protected]

Becki GoodloeCo-President, Eastvalley PTA678-488-1636 [email protected]

Student Signatures in SpaceIn the Fall of 2009, Eastvalley Elementary was chosen to participate in “Student Signatures in Space” in celebration of Space Day. Our school was given a poster for students to sign before it went off to space.

The poster went on a mission aboard the Space Shuttle and was then returned to Eastvalley, along with a photograph of the mission crew. It was especially exciting because NASA’s Space Shuttle program is winding down, and very few schools have the opportunity to participate in this great honor. You can see the poster and photo of the mission crew displayed right next to the cafeteria.

Character Kid Bicycle AwardEastvalley is excited to announce the winner of the Character Kid bicycle award! Mr. Jerry Groce from Eastvalley’s Parner in Education, Tiger TaeKwonDo, generously donated the bicycle to recognize a student with exemplary character. Tiger TaeKwonDo is a Character Development Center which fosters important life skills such as respect, perseverance, motivation, and self-control. Students who were Eastvalley “Character Kids” from August through May were eligible to win the bicycle in a random drawing.

Frank Graba from Mrs. Levinson’s fourth grade class is the grand prize winner. Congratulations Frank!

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May 2011Eagle Eyes a Publication of your Eastvalley PTA®

A Letter From Our PrincipalHi Eastvalley Family,

Happy Summer!!!! Eastvalley is undergoing a major construction project this summer thanks to your SPLOST dollars. I wanted everyone to know what will be happening to our school during the summer weeks. Before we break for summer, all teachers and staff members (yep, even me!) have to pack everything in our classrooms and offices. Technology will be removed and stored elsewhere in the county while the construction is taking place.

On the construction list will be:1. Sprinklers throughout the building2. New lighting throughout the building3. A new clock system throughout the building4. New flush valves in all the bathrooms5. A new hot water heater6. A new sidewalk & awning that will go from the from the front door all the way to the gym - a beautiful design too!!7. New sidewalks and awnings to all the trailers8. A new fire road to allow access of a fire truck during an emergency to the back of the school

We are so excited that all of these improvements will be taking place here at Eastvalley. Unfortunately, it does mean the building will be completely shut down to everyone. I actually will be working at another school this summer, because I will not be allowed in my office. What that means for you is that you will not be able to come up during the summer to pick up any records or register your child on any given day. If you call the school during the summer, the phone calls will be transferred automatically to my “summer” office. Please understand that I cannot access any records if you call me over the summer. We’ll have to wait until we are allowed back in to the school after construction is complete to get those records.

We will have a registration day for new students July 27 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. We have been told we will be allowed in the cafeteria only on that day to get registration done. Please bring: certified copy of birth certificate, Social Security card, Immunization form, Vision, Hearing and Dental form, 2 proofs of residency in the Eastvalley attendance zone and picture ID. Any records (report cards, testing) from a previous school would also be very helpful if the child is entering any grade except Kindergarten. Please call the office if you have other questions about registration (770-578-7214).

Enjoy your summer vacation! School starts August 15 at 7:50 a.m.

Ms. Karen Wacker Principal

Karen Wacker, Principal




A Letter From our Eastvalley PTA PresidentsHi Eastvalley Families,

What a great year! It’s hard to believe the end of the school year is here. It has been a pleasure to serve as your PTA Co-Presidents this year. We have planned and executed many fun family events, learned a few things and really enjoyed helping the Little School with a Big Heart. We could not have done any of it without the help of so many of you

giving up your valuable time and lots of effort. Thank you for all your hard work!

A quick note: Be sure to check the school website for information about pre-ordering school supplies. We would like to offer this as an option and as of Eagle Eyes press time, are working hard to get this accomplished. If you have

any questions, please contact Becki Goodloe at [email protected].

We hope everyone has a great summer. Please be safe, get outside, relax and most of all, have FUN! The new school year will be here before you know it. By the way, if you’d like to get a head start on your Reflections entries this summer, the theme for the 2011-12 school year is “Diversity means…..” For more information, go to www.georgiapta.org. We’ll see you next year!

Tai Terry and Becki Goodloe Your Eastvalley PTA Co-Presidents 2010-2011

Eastvalley Teacher of the Year Congratulations to Eastvalley’s Teacher of the Year, Virginia Morgan. Mrs. Morgan is one of our fabulous 5th grade teachers (the ‘Mo’ of ‘Co/Mo’). She is dedicated to educating her 5th graders, making learning fun and applicable, and is well-loved by her students, the whole 5th grade, and the Eastvalley staff.

The Co/Mo 5th grade class congratulates Mrs. Morgan and thanks her for a great year.

Virginia MorganEastvalley’s Teacher of the Year

Farewell to Mrs. Edie Oliver and Ms. Kathy HoffmeisterWe are sad to say good-bye to Mrs. Edie Oliver and Ms. Kathy Hoffmeister.

We will miss Mrs. Oliver’s friendly face in the office and the love she has showered on our children. We wish her much happiness with her family. Best wishes to Ms. Hoffmeister. You will be missed by your Eastvalley family.




Relay for LifeThe “Color Us United” Relay for Life team

comprised of staff members from Eastvalley and

Sedalia Park Elementary Schools exceeded their

fundraising goal this year due to the support of our

staff, families and community. We would like to

thank all of you for helping us raise funds for The

American Cancer Society and let you know that as

of today, we are the #1 fundraising team in all of

Cobb County! Thank you.

Eastvalley Scholarship WinnerCongratulations to Will Moran for winning the Eastvalley Scholarship. Will is graduating from the Wheeler High School Magnet program, and will be attending the University of Georgia. You may recognize him as the son of our beloved Media Center Parapro, Cindy Moran.

He is a member of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, Math Honor Society, Music Honor Society, Helping Hands Service Club, and Leadership Club. He played tenor saxophone in classroom band for four years, in the Jazz Band, and in the Wildcat Pride marching band for two years, and was the Drum Major his Senior year. His Senior project and internship was with his former teacher, mentor and friend, Mr. Fred Stillwell, of East Cobb Middle School.

Eastvalley CharactersSuper Chicken, Goldiclocks, Honey Hundreds, and Mr. Heart wish you all a wonderful summer! We look forward to seeing you next school year.




Wagons Ho! Fourth Grade Land Grab!

Fourth graders participated in a Land Grab simulation activity on May 3rd. The students formed groups, planned for

their supplies, and constructed a homestead for the activity.

To gain a “Deed” to their land, the pioneers had to have

a mode of transportation (wagon/horses), stake off a 10

foot by 10 foot claim, build a house, “farm crops”, and

stay on the claim for five years. Life wasn’t easy in the

West, as our fourth grade pioneers found out! The West

was filled with bandits and claim jumpers. The students

learned so much about life on the frontier, even experi-

encing a mini “gold-rush!” Thanks to our parent

volunteers for making this great learning opportunity

possible!




Character Kid - CommitmentMay 2011

Grade Teacher StudentK Diamond Deepika MogiliK Hestad Cole GumpertK Hoffmeister Catie CroweK Mathews Will PenuelK Whitaker Makenzie HollifieldK Zajac Vijay Shastri1 Fortune Kristen Taylor1 Hathcoat Isabella Dougherty1 Magee Kathryn Shetty1 Mauldin Isabelly Cizerza1 McClellan Ethan Lu1 O’Meara Sufian Elbedour1 Shapiro Shreyan Bose2 Healy Nicholas Santana2 Henderson Sydney Shushan2 Moot Sarah Smith2 Osburn Liam Horsman2 Roberts Zaniyah Greene

Grade Teacher Student3 Amon Sam Hudson3 Baker Haden Wise3 Barrett Brian Kent3 Jinks Lia Tablada-Munoz3 Winslett Pia Valencia4 Greenfield Maimounata Haidara4 Kraeger Dylan Valencia4 Levinson Shoshana Sangros4 McDonald/Volk Shun Cunningham5 Branham Isabella Beccari 5 Cordova/Morgan Caroline Singer5 Davis Gabriel Cibrian5 McFarthing Marilin HernandezPreS Daniels Sloan RyanMulti-age Orr Matthew BeckMulti-age Friedman Kendal Anderson




Look Who’s Talking BooksMay 2011

Grade Teacher StudentK Diamond Mackenzie GarrettK Hestad Akram FayedK Hoffmeister Holt ReevesK Mathews Emma MullerK Whitaker Ansley YoungK Zajac Emaline Rault1 Fortune Austin Norman1 Hathcoat Amna Ali1 Magee Leah Caldwell1 Mauldin Kallie Woodall1 McClellan Mikey Marino1 O’Meara Badr Alshaer1 Shapiro Abby Lewis2 Healy Kaniah Pearson2 Henderson Natalie Pineda2 Moot John Bunch2 Osburn Madisyn Goldstein2 Roberts Tylar Davis

Grade Teacher Student3 Amon Nandini Bagdi3 Baker T.J. Ozkan3 Barrett Dylan Pollock3 Jinks Tanner Gottschalk3 Winslett Parks Broyles4 Greenfield Lili Staten4 Kraeger Magsun Graba4 Levinson Jacob Jeffords4 McDonald/Volk Wendy Li5 Branham Shannon Stewart5 Cordova/Morgan Shanzeh Bokhari5 Davis Brien Podhaisky5 McFarthing Justice MacePre School Daniels Alayah PutnamMulti-age Orr Andrew Luyeho

Eastvalley Reading Club - EVRC

Congratulations Eastvalley Readers - Our reading goal for the year was 27,000 points and you have earned 32,331.7!!!We had 127 students who qualified for our end of year Super Points Party!

Thank you Super Chicken for promoting our Chick-fil-A Cluck& Moo Reading Award by participating in the announcements and autographing the students’ group photos.

Our Super Readers in the 300+ Points Club

Grade Student Points Grade Student Points3rd grade Lily Jokay 332.2 4th grade Lindsey Rhyne 312.14th grade Shoshana Sangros 674.6 5th grade Joseph Coles 573.34th grade Saketh Lakshmanan 614.9 5th grade Drashti Zalavadia 493.54th grade Katie Slade 548.0 5th grade Grace Brannen 467.64th grade Farah Abaza 546.5 5th grade Margaret Fleming 374.94th grade Archisha Ghosh 545.2 5th grade Timothy Buchanan 332.2




First In Math

Congratulations to 4th graders, Saketh Lakshmanan and Archisha Ghosh who finished the year in the State Top 10 and the National Top 100.

The Top Ten Eastvalley players are:

Grade Name Teacher Stickers4th Grade Archisha Ghosh Ms. Kraeger 20,992

4th Grade Saketh Lakshmanan Ms. Greenfield 20,774

3rd Grade Adeboye Adeoye Ms. Baker 7,961

3rd Grade Nandini Bagdi Ms. Amon 6,868

2nd Grade AJ Mattox Ms. Moot 6,460

2nd Grade Gabriel Chung Ms. Roberts 6,171

5th Grade Demilade Adeoye Mr. Davis 5,132

2nd Grade Christian Hurn Ms. Moot 4,858

5th Grade Paige Nicholas Ms. Branham 4,624

1st Grade Ronit Sehgal Ms. Hathcoat 4,618

Need a Summer Tutor?Don’t want your child to fall behind this summer?Do you want to make sure your child is ready for the next grade level? If you answered “YES” to any of the above questions, Mrs. Swafford is here to help! With over 10 years of teaching experience in grades 2-4 and over six years of tutoring experience in grades K-7, she is just the teacher to make sure your child is well prepared for the 2011-2012 school year. She will even come to your

house so it is convenient for you! If interested, contact her at [email protected] or [email protected]. Hourly rates do apply. Email for details.

Photography ContestCongratulations to these students who participated in the “Love of Reading: Photography Contest”.

Pictured are: Shreya Joy, Leah Caldwell, Abigail Wheeler, Rachel Larsen, Vijay Shastri, Shrusti Joshi, Emaline Rault, Erik Larsen. Not pictured: Alex Said




Media Center News Mrs. Janice Ritt, Media Specialist Ms. Cindy Moran, Media Paraprofessional

Eastvalley Elementary School is known for its wonderful readers…and we have the statistics to back up this statement!

Newbery AwardThe Eastvalley Newbery Award was created in 2005 to encourage our students to read a higher caliber of books and

to take on an individual challenge. This year we are proud to honor nineteen students, the highest number of winners

ever! Congratulation goes to: Joseph Coles, Gabriel Cibrian, Shoshana Sangros, Andrew Long, Shun Cunningham, Sydney Agans, Drashti Zalavadia, Mason Favro, Anna Freeman, Margaret Blakeley, Radha Changela, Xavier Conway, Farah Abaza, Archisha Ghosh, Lindsey Rhyne, Raymond Shen, Aubrie Holcomb, Charlie Zimmerman, and Megan Bunch.

Four of these students have won this award before. They are: Anna Freeman, Margaret Blakeley, Archisha Ghosh, and Mason Favro. Each one of these students has passed over twenty Newbery book AR tests with an 80% or more.

First Student to Read al 89 Newbery Award BooksWe are very proud of the fact that this is Mason Favro’s fourth time earning the Newbery award. However, Mason did not stop at reading just forty Newbery

Award books. He decided to make up his own challenge and read all 89 Newbery

Award Books. Finding books that were published 89 years ago was a challenge in

itself. With the support and encouragement of his parents, Mason located and read

all 89 books. To our knowledge, Mason is the first student at Eastvalley, as well as

the first student in Cobb County to accomplish this! Mason demonstrates that he

strives to do more than what is expected of him! We believe this attitude will take

him far in life. We are looking forward to honoring Mason’s unique achievement at

the Fifth Grade Awards Assembly in May. Congratulations, Mason!

Media StatisicsNumber of books checked out from the Media Center this school year over 42,834 Number of Accelerated Reading points earned this school year over 30,356

Number of books/items added to Destiny this year 810 Value of items added this year $ 12,298.37

Mason Favro




Cobb County Writing Fair

Liat Klemm, an Eastvalley first grade student was chosen as a runner-up in the Cobb County Writing Fair. Here is Liat with her certificate awarded at the Cobb County reception held in April. Congratulations Liat!

Volunteer of the Year Congratulations to Teresa Long!

She is this year’s Volunteer of the Year. Teresa has spent countless hours quietly working away in the Media Center and in the classroom.

Cluck and Moo AwardThe Cluck & Moo Award was created in January 2011 for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Graders to encourage them to set an individual reading goal, and to honor our generous Partners in Education, Chick-fil-A.

The students took on this challenge and we are proud of the following 23 Cluck & Moo winners:

Emma Williams, Vijay Shastri, Katie Childress, Jared Loncar, Madison Jones, Devon Walcott, William Hestad, Ronnie Klemm, Beau Baker, Shreya Joy, Sarvesh Balamurugan, Lamar Sanjase, Brianna O’Connor, Hailey Miller, Aerial Hines, Arshia Charkian, Will Mahoney, Cameron Bleshoy, Tyler Richardson, Paden Watts, Aashi Shivastava, Jacob Levinson, and Ved Zalavadia.

Cluck & Moo winners for April: Paden Watts, Ved Zalavadia, Aashi Shivastava, Jake Levinson, Cameron Bleshoy and Tyler Richardson.

Classified Employee of the YearCongratulations to Eastvalley’s Classified Employee of the Year, Rosa Martinez! We thank Ms. Martinez for her hard work and dedication in keeping Eastvalley clean and beautiful




Carta da Nossa Diretora

Olá Famílias da Eastvalley,

Feliz Verão!!!! Eastvalley passará por um grande projeto de construção neste verão com seu dinheiro do SPLOSH. Quero dizer a todos o que acontecerá durantea as semanas do verão. Antes das férias do verão, todos os professores e funcionários (eu incluso!) teremos que embalar tudo das salas de aulas e escritórios. Os materi-ais de tecnologia serão removidos e armazenados no escritório central do condado durante a contrução.

Na construção a lista será:1. Sistema de extinção nova durante todo o edifício2. Iluminação nova durante todo o edifício 3. Um sistema de pulso de horas durante todo o edifício4. Válvulas niveladas novas em todos os banheiros5. Um calefador de água quente novo6. Um passeio e toldo novo que vão da porta da frente da escola até a porta do ginásio(um projeto bem bonito!!)7. Passeios e toldos novos em todos os trailers8. Uma estrada nova para permitir ao carro de bombeiros em caso de emergência atráz da escola.

Estamos muitos contentes que todas estas melhorias estarão ocorrendo na Eastvalley. Infelizmente, isto significa que o edifício estará interrompido completamente a todos. Estarei trabalhando em outra escola neste verão, porque não serei permitida entrar no meu escritório. O que isto significa que você não poderá vir a escola durante o verão pegar nenhum registro ou registrar sua criança nenhum desses dias. Se você telefonar para escola , as chamadas de telefone serão automaticamentes transferidas à meu “escritório de verão”. Compreenda por favor que não terei acesso a nenhum registro durante o verão. Teremos que esperar até que sejamos permitidos entrar na escola depois da contrução para ter acesso aos registros.

Teremos um dia de matrícula para os novos estudantes no dia 27 de Julho das 8:00 às 18:00hrs. Iremos estar na cafeteria da escola para matrículas. Por favor traga: Cópia da certidão de nascimento, o cartão do social Security, a forma das vacinas, dental, visão e 2 provas de residência de que mora na zona da escola Eastvalley e um docu-mento de indentificação com o retrato. Qualquer (boletim, testes) da escola prévia será também muito útil para a criança que esta entrando em qualquer série, exceto o jardim da infância. Por favor telefone se tiver alguma outra dúvida sobre matrícula (770-578-7214).

Aproveite as férias de verão! As aulas começam no dia 15 de Agôsto às 7:50hrs.

Karen Wacker Diretora




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McCleskey–East Cobb Family YMCA

DATES TO REMEMBER May

23 - 3rd grade Awards Assembly 8:10 4th grade Awards Assembly 9:10 CRCT math retest (5th)

24 - 5th grade picnic at Terrell Mill Park 1:30 dismissal for ALL students

25 - 5th grade Awards/luncheon 1:30 dismissal for ALL students Last Day of School!

June June 1 Eastvalley closes for summer construction

July July 27 New student registration 8 a.m.- 6 p.m.

August 12 - Sneak a Peek 1-3 p.m. 15 - First day of school

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2100 Roswell Road Suite 2182Marietta, GA 30062770-509-2345

“A perfect summer day is when the

sun is shining, the breeze is blowing,

the birds are singing, and the lawn

mower is broken.”

Have a great summer folks!

may 2011 eagle eyes newsletter

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