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Principal's Safari through April!
Last 9 Weeks for 2023-24 WILD ABOUT LEARNING!
It's raining events in April!! Don't miss out on Yearbook sales, Talent Show, STAAR, End of Year Parties & Awards, and more!
First of all, don't forget that TOMORROW--March 27th --- is Ethridge PTA's Scholastic Book Fair/ In and Out Burger night with performances by our 1st and 4th graders! Purchase your IN and OUT BURGER Tickets ONLINE now!
FYI-- We need to have at least 300 tickets pre-purchased by March 24th for In & Out for them to send their Burger Truck! To pre-purchase your In & Out Burger Tickets today, please click HERE
Ethridge's 1st/4th gr. Patriotic Performance/Burgers and Books Parent Night Schedule:
- 5:00 1st/4th gr. Students arrive and go to Music Room, parents wait in Cafe
- Parents who purchased In & Out Burger tickets can pick up at the PTA table
- 5:05 Principal Welcome and brief PTA mtg
- 5:15 1st gr. performance begins, followed by 4th gr. performance
- 5:20 Front Doors Re-Open for Scholastic Book Fair to all Ethridge families and to pick up pre-purchased tickets for In and Out Burger
- 5:55 1st and 4th gr. families in attendance for performances can line up dor In and Out burger (**Tickets handed out to 1st and 4th gr. families who purchased tickets if they didn't get them prior to performance)
- 6:00 In and Out will start serving to all Ethridge Families
- 7:00 Closing out a great family fun evening!
NOW for April's UPDATES! April is here and May will be here and gone before we know it! These last 2 months will filled with lots of learning, multiple field trips, a bit of standardized testing in 3rd -5th grades, and lots of other stuff in between as we prepare to end the school year with our End Of Year Awards ceremonies and class parties!
Please, Please..... read your teacher's newsletters these last several weeks as there will be very important information about BIG events/activities that you won't want your child to miss out on!
Here are the highlights for April:
3/29 & 4/1 (Fri & Mon)—No School
4/4 (Thurs) —School Librarian Day! Write a kind note/bring something to show your appreciation for our more than AWESOME Mrs. Pierce!!
4/5 (Fri) — On Time, On Target Pizza party for winning classes!
4/8 (Mon) — Total Solar Eclipse – Information and Opt Out letter sent by classroom teachers; alternate recess schedule/ NASA viewing for K-2; outside schedule for 3-5 at points during the event
4/10 (Wed) — LifeTouch Class photos
4/12 (Fri) —Parent Spring Conferences end/ StuCo mtg @3:00
4/15 (Mon) —
Volunteer Recognition Week
Wonder Wagon for K,1--- please reach out to your child's teacher if you would like to volunteer and you are VOLY background cleared!
4/16 (Tues) —
NEW Last Day of Tutoring due to spaced out STAAR tests and more field trips!!
Wonder Wagon Gr. 3-- please reach out to your child's teacher if you would like to volunteer and you are VOLY background cleared!
4/17 (Wed) — STAAR Reading!! Gr. 3-5
4/18 (Thurs) — possible STAAR make ups
4/19 (Fri) — SPRING FLING Carnival sponsored by PTA from 5:30-8:00pm
Week of 4/22-26: College and Career Readiness dress up week! (See flyer for details)
4/22 (Mon) — Talent Show Auditions
4/24 (Wed) — SCIENCE STAAR gr. 5; Super Reader party
4/25 (Thurs) — Fact Master party
4/26 (Fri) — ½ day Early Release 11:45 (HOUSE DAY)
4/30 (Tues) — Choir Field Trip
I hope this brief listing of "Save the Dates" / Highlights helps in your planning over these next several weeks!
Tasia Thompson, Principal
Get your Ethridge YEARBOOK NOW! Order ONLINE!
Silent Auction at Ethridge PTA's Spring Carnival!
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Save the date for our Ethridge PTA Spring CARNIVAL!!
Dancing Is My Jam!
Friday April 12, 2024 @ 5:00pm
The Colony HS Gymnasium
$40
(See flyer for details)