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Principal’s Message Keeping Skills Sharp Over the Summer The “lazy days” of summer are just around the corner. As you are finalizing summer plans for your children, I encourage you to, indeed, make time for some “lazy days.” While incredible enrichment programs and camps abound, children also benefit from having some down time, when they can develop their creativity through exploring their own interests. There are many summer reading programs in the community that can afford your children the opportunity to visit faraway places and investigate any subject imaginable, without ever leaving the comfort of their own backyard! I encourage you to look into participating in the Pima County Public Library’s Fizz Boom Read! Program (opens May 22) and/or programs through local bookstores. In addition, below is an article summary by Kim Marshall (in the Marshall Memo 528, March 17, 2014) about a study related to maintaining students’ math skills over the summer: Attacking Summer Slide in Math In this School Library Journal article, New York youth services coordinator Lisa Kropp cites a Duke University study showing that students’ summer learning losses are greater for math than for reading – all students, wealthy and poor, lose about 2.6 months in their grade-level equivalency in computational ability over the summer months. One way of countering this is Bedtime Math www.bedtimemath.org, a program that emails parents a daily math problem with three levels of questions: wee ones, little ones, and big ones. The questions all refer to the same story and get progressively more challenging. Last summer, Bedtime Math teamed up with the Collaborative Summer Library Program to offer a math tie-in called “Summer of Numbers” http://www.cslpreads.org. Families can use math reading logs to track when children answer a math riddle, and these can be turned in for an incentive prize at participating libraries. “Math? Yes, Math. In Summer” by Lisa Kropp in School Library Journal, March 2014 (Vol. 60, #3, p. 22), no e-link available THANK YOU! A huge THANK YOU to our Family Faculty Organization for their ongoing efforts to support and enhance the educational experience for students at our school. This year, in addition to providing teachers with classroom funds, funds for field trips, various classroom/grade level grants, and other things, the FFO supported the following two projects around our campus.
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Our Inclusion Team worked with students to beautify the garden area outside of classroom 108:
Our Student Council created a Buddy Bench on the upper field of the playground. As described on the website, www.buddybench.org, this, “is a simple idea to eliminate loneliness and foster friendship on the playground.”
Family Survey As parents/guardians at Ventana Vista, we very much value what you are thinking about our school, and your child’s experiences here. Every spring, our Site Council administers a Family Survey. Both the staff and Site Council analyze the results in an effort to continually improve our program. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at the following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YX2XSJW
Thank you, in advance, for your feedback.
Catalina Foothills School District
Dr. Mary Kamerzell,
Superintendent 209-7500
Governing Board Members
Carole Siegler, President 529-1379
Sherri Silverberg, Vice-President 615-9224
John Bergan, Member 878-6180
Eileen Jackson, Member 299-3828
Mary Lou Richerson, Member 299-4746
State of Arizona Legislative Representatives for CFSD
(please check www.azleg.gov for contact information)
Legislative District 9 Senator Steve Farley
Rep. Ethan Orr Rep. Victoria Steele
DATES OF INTEREST Friday, May 9th •Spring Book Fair Family Night 5-7PM Monday, May 12th - Thursday, May 15th •Spring Book Fair (see flyer for days/times) Monday, May 12th – Friday, May 16th •Staff Appreciation Week Tuesday, May 13th •EARLY RELEASE (last one!) Gr. 1-5 8:00-1:30 AM Kinder 8:00-10:15 PM Kinder 11:15-1:30 Saturday, May 17th •End of Year Carnival 3-5 pm Tuesday, May 20th •NO EARLY RELEASE •All-School Assembly @ 1:45, (including the Minute to Win It challenge!) Wednesday, May 21st •Fifth Grade Farewell @ 1:00 PM •Last Day of School for Students!
Mission Statement
The mission of Catalina
Foothills School District and Ventana Vista Elementary School is to guarantee that
each student achieves academic and personal excellence, becomes a lifelong learner and is a
responsible citizen of the world, by engaging all students in meaningful
programs which meet the highest educational and
ethical standards within a caring, collaborative learning
community.
Office Hours for 2013-2014 are:
7:30 AM – 3:30 PM
7:30 AM – 2:00 PM (Early Release Tuesdays)
Main Office 209-8000 Health Office 209-8004 Attendance Line 209-8090 FAX 209-8070 Durham (Bus) 615-7635
Spring Musical Performances
First/Second – 5/14 @ 1:30
Third – 5/15 @ 11:00
Fourth/Fifth – 5/19 @ 9:30
School Tool Box Supplies for 2014!
See the attached flyer
regarding information about ordering your school supplies for next year online! You can
start ordering as early as 4/28, and supplies will be
delivered to your home this summer.
Want to shop for your own school supplies instead?
Lists will be posted on Ventana Vista website in
early June.
Summer Office Hours
Mon. - Thurs. 7:30-3:30 Fridays Closed
Summer Shutdown June 30th – July 11th
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Don’t Forget!Register for Camp Foothills Today!
Register now for weekly or Online: https://
cs.cfsd16.org/webreg2In Person: 2101 E River Road
Endless Summer Fun!
Leadership Circle Members ($1000+)
Kenneth Adler
Klaus and Cheryl Axen
Jeff and Julie Baron
Denise Beattie
Kenneth and Sandy Belkoff
Khush and Amy Bhola
Adriana Boiangui
Jeff and Kathryn Burgess
Zachary and Pam Butcher
Jim and Victoria Capin
Rick and Tess Chua
Conrad Clemens
Leslie and Mike Cohen
Lori and Russell Cohen
Paula Collins
Stephen Curtin
Samir Dahdal
Peter Deluca
John and Julie Farbarik
Bradley and Anita Feder
David and Diana Freshwater
Scott and Angie Goorman
James and Luisa Guise
Ralph and Jan Gutbub
Tim and Angela Hodges
Lyssa and Stuart Holmes
David and Lori Iaconis
Mary Kamerzell
Marisol and Dennis Kenman
Bob and Nancy Kersey
Ario and Neda Kiarash
Thomas and Lisa Kramkowski
Mark and Maria Kross
Julie and Brian Larson
Manzanita FFO
Dan and Trish McCabe
Paul and Kathie Melde
Mayra Melendez
Omar and Amy Mireles
Beatrice Muller and Tod Lauer
Laura Nagy
Sue and Bill Pekarske
Samata and Rajesh Prasad
Peter Pritz
Robert and Robin Randall
Raytheon Financial Gift Matching Program
Russell and Mary Lou Richerson
John Rosegrant
Jennifer and Steve Roth
James and Kate Schwartz
Paul Schwyhart and Judith Gordon
Dev and Olivia Sethi
Heather Sipos
Texas Instruments Matching Gift Program
Jim and Ae Todsen
Kristofer and Janet Tvedt
Kent Vincent
Edward Wellman
Susan Wick
Jesse and Kelly Wild
Perry Abbott
Bedri Abubeker
Srikar Adhikari
Mireille Algazi
Jose Alicea
Christine Aronoff
Jill and Mark Bell
John and Kerrie
Bergan
Lindsay and Scott
Biaggi
Gary and Ione Bohay
Martin and Jessica
Brandt
Peter and Jenny
Burrows
Trina Callie
Jack Campbell
Carla and Todd Case
CFHS FFO
Eugenia Chen
Robert and Nancy
Clark
Stephen Coughran
Jason Crane
Kay Dean
Cheryl and Mike
DeConcini
Paula Dunn
Ty Endean
Amita Fadia
Charlie and Kristin
Finley
Katherine Ferguson
Paolo Goes
Michael and Lori
Gross
Anne and Lukas
Gruber
Pankaj Gupta
Brenda Harrington
Cliff Harris
Jeffrey Hellbusch
Mark Hertenstein
Albert Hoflack
Daniel and Shari
Hofstadter
Chris Holbert
Brian Kahn
Douglas Kelly
Theresa and Edward
Keefe
Susan Kowalcek
Amy Krauss
Ashleigh and Michael
Kruk
Cheryl Lamdan
Todd and Jenny Lessie
James Lonergan
Zhenqiang Lu
Sandra Lueders
Ronald Lynch and
Heddwen Brooks
Jill and Kevin Madden
Sheldon and Page
Marks
Nancy and Scott
Martin
David and Stacy
McHorney
Juliet McKenna
Jeff and Debbie
Missimer
Patrick and Shannon
Murphy
Paul Myrdal
Rincon Pain
Management
Jim and Nancy
Rodolph
Jed and Alissa Sadalla
Alif Sarah
Vance and Louise
Saunders
Stefanie J Schluender
Gregg and Kimberly
Sciabica
Bake and Patricia
Shaffer
David Sheinbein
John and Carole
Siegler
Sherri Silverberg
Steven Siwik
Bill and Nancy
Sjostrom
Keith and Jennifer
Soderberg
Leslie and Kevin
Stockton
James Robert and
Susan Stofft
Rachel Stover
Elizabeth Strange
Martin Stupka
David Trabert
Laura and Ray
Wallace
Colin and Shelley
Watson
Megan Wood
Cynthia Wood
Peter Xu
Joanna Yip
Friends of the Foundation ($500+)
Dollar a Day Supporters ($365+)
Julia and Neal Armstrong
Richard Ashley
Lori and Javier Badillo
Joseph Ballantyne
Mark and Jill Bell
Eric Bergstrom
Charles Bertsch
Dan and Vicki Beskind
Art Cake
Jaclyn Callahan
Sara Carlo
Francisco and Mara Castro
Stephen Cohen
Daniel and Molly Copley
Lynn Cosgrove
Stephen Crawford
Holly Crawford
Kate and Chris Darling
Tami Dittmar
Kimberlyn and Andy Drew
Terry Fortunato
Andrew Grall
Lalita Hadley
Gary and Yvonne Huckleberry
Shamim Ismail
Todd and Eileen Jackson
David Jacobs
Glen and Patty Jaquette
Amy Jobst
Margaret Kivel
Rebekah Kolonelos
Diane Koss
Mark and Maria Kross
Mark Lin
Elizabeth Longenecker
Daming Liu
Keiko and Ryan Matika
Beth Mercaldo
Linda Nelson
Bradley and Jacki Nichols
Robert and Mary Norwood
Brian Ocain
Kristine Palm
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Heather Reed
Hani Rizk
Patrick Robinson
Julia and Wayne Rudnick
Thomas Ryan
Harold Segel
Sherri Silverberg
Theodore Spencer
Bob and Lisa Swift
Ajay Tuli
Jeff Vollin
Colin & Shelley Watson
Karl and Zarina Young
Thank You to the Families and Businesses Who Have Supported the Foundation and District 16 this Year
2013 – 2014Dollar a Day Supporters ($365+), Friends of the Foundation ($500+), and
Leadership Circle Members ($1,000+) as of May 1, 2014
Khush Bhola, M.D.
Thank you to our CFSD Foundation sponsors: