The Texan Star March 6th

You’re invited! Join us for Prairie Trail Elementary's Open House on March 7th from 6-7pm! Students are excited to showcase their classrooms and highlight their amazing work from this school year. This is a come-and-go event, so feel free to drop by at your convenience.

If the weather permits, we encourage walking as parking lots may be crowded. Let's make it a fun and memorable evening celebrating our students' achievements together! See you there!

Get yours to guarantee you get a yearbook this year. A small amount will be for sale when the yearbooks come in, but we can't guarantee you get one.

Pre-order ends this Friday, March 8th.

Let's give a BIG shoutout to all of our participants in this year's Talent Show. It was an amazing night filled with singing, dancing, jokes, magic tricks, and so much more! Thank you to Mrs. Goldman and our PTA for putting together such a memorable event!!

Unit 3 is over Empathy and Kindness. The next lesson is #14 during the week of Mar. 4th

Here are the links to the overview of the lessons:

English

Spanish

For links to all the lessons for the entire year, CLICK HERE.

Sunday, March 10th is the beginning of daylight savings time! Set you clocks forward one hour before you go to bed on Saturday night.

Hello Prairie Trail Families,

On Monday, April 8, Dallas will be the largest city in the path of totality for the once-in-a-lifetime Great North American Eclipse. We are excited to share this milestone with your students, and want to make sure they are able to experience the eclipse in a safe manner. Please keep reading for Lewisville ISD’s plans by grade level:

Grades K-2
It is not recommended that our youngest students view the eclipse outside. Instead, K-2 students will have the opportunity to watch NASA's live stream of the eclipse. We encourage you to view NASA’s other online resources to explain this event to your student.

Grades 3-5
Students in grades 3-5 will have the opportunity to go outside to view the eclipse in the early afternoon on April 8. The Perot Museum has generously donated protective eyewear for each student to wear, and our campus staff will monitor students to ensure the eyewear is on correctly before inviting students outside. The eyewear provided from the Perot Museum is thousands of times darker than standard sunglasses to protect students from the concentrated solar rays. To learn more about safety considerations associated with the eclipse, including skin protection, click here.

If you do not wish for your student to view the eclipse, click HERE to complete the exemption form. Students who do not go outside will be able to watch NASA’s live stream of the event in a monitored classroom.

Many of our staff members have already incorporated this event into their lesson plans to enhance the educational experience for all students. We are excited for our students to experience this once-in-a-lifetime event, and witness science in action! As always, parents are the ultimate decision-makers on whether or not their students will attend school. If you choose to keep your student home to view the eclipse, please notify our school as you would for any absence. It will count towards one of your ten allowable ‘parent note’ absences. Please consider allowing your child to be present as much as possible during the school day. Technically they are marked ‘present’ if they are here at 9:00 am. This is a great learning opportunity to experience together with your teacher and classmates!

If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at 469-713-5980 or email your child’s teacher.

Thank you,

Wendi Vaughn

Principal

This month we’re swapping out our usual Staff Luncheon for grab-and-go box dinners from McAllister’s Deli the afternoon of Open House.

Our teachers work so hard to get everything ready for our parents at open house and most of them hardly have a moment to breathe between the end of the school day and the start of open house. So we’re making sure they all get a bite to eat before welcoming you into their classrooms to show off all the wonderful things your kiddos have been working hard on all year!

We’ll provide the box dinners but we need a little help from our wonderful Prairie Trail community to spoil them with an assortment of their favorite drinks as well as some items to replenish the teacher lounge. Click here to sign up to bring an item or two to give our teachers & staff a full meal during their very long day. If online shopping is preferred, you can shop our Amazon list at HERE. Items needed for the staff luncheon/lounge are noted as “teacher lounge”.

If you’ve never attended a Prairie Trail PTA Spring Fest Carnival before, you are in for a major treat! This community event hosted by our PTA features carnival rides (the BIG mechanical kind - it’s a legitimate carnival!), TONS of bounce houses, games, inflatables, food vendors, concessions and more!

Entry is free, but you’ll need a wristband to enjoy the rides & inflatables. Check your child’s backpack for order forms and more information, or go online now and get yours today before the early bird pricing ends!

Get ready for SPRING BREAK!!! Bring $1 and rock your favorite hat & shades all day long at PTE this Friday!

All proceeds go directly to the 5th grade field trip fund.

KINDER! This is your time to shine! Each month we’re asking one or two grades to practice their good citizenship skills & give back to the Prairie Trail community. For the month of March, we’re asking Kindergarten to help by donating items to our snack pantry.

Help us restock the snack pantry by bringing in snacks like individually wrapped bags of pretzels, goldfish, applesauce pouches, nutri-grain bars, nut-free granola bars or raisins/craisins during the week of March 4th. You can also shop directly from the snack wishlist at https://tinyurl.com/PTSNACK and select “Prairie Trail Elementary'' to have it shipped directly.

Popcorn & a Movie! What’s not to love? Grab the family, a blanket and/or some chairs, and join your favorite PTE friends for a MOVIE NIGHT at Prairie Trail!

Can’t wait to find out which movie we’ll be watching? Check back next week for more details!

✋🙋🏽‍♀️🙋‍♀️NEW VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP ALERT!🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏾‍♂️✋ Click the links below to volunteer during the months of MARCH & APRIL. We can’t wait to see you! :)

📚📚 March/April LIBRARY HELPERS📚📚

📝 March/April COPY ROOM HELPERS📄

🐶 WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) Spring 2024 🐾

Dad, Papá, Baba, Grandpa, Uncle, Papaw, Father, Abuelo, Daddy…whatever name the special kiddo in your life may call you, Prairie Trail NEEDS YOU!!!

Did you miss the kickoff event? No worries! You can still be a part of the Watch D.O.G.S.

How do you get started?

• Make sure you have an updated Background Check Volunteer / Home
• Background Checks have to be done every year.
• Read through the slide deck from last night's event: Linked HERE!
• Don't forget the Safety and Security slides: Linked HERE!
• Optional - Order a shirt https://shop.dadsofgreatstudents.com/shop-all/

***Need more info? Please email Matthew Kulik watchdogs@prairietrailpta.org or Amber Bearden, VP of Volunteers volunteers@prairietrailpta.org.

March 4th – March 8th is National School Breakfast week. All week long we will have special promotions, and student favorites served in the cafeteria for breakfast. In addition to this, all Elementary Schools in LISD have been selected to participate in a special raffle.

Any student who eats breakfast with us every day during National School Breakfast week, will be automatically entered to win a free pair of beats wireless ear buds! We will randomly draw a student and announce the winner the week we return from spring break.

Open to boys and girls in 1st-6th grades.

Date: March 11-13

Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

For questions, reach out to Head Coach, Matthew Wright at wrightma@lisd.net.

Click here to register: https://tinyurl.com/MARCUSBBALLCAMP

For ALL the latest info & more upcoming events, hop on over to our PTA WEBSITE at www.prairietrailpta.org. 🌐👀

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Calling all new students! LISD enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year is now OPEN! Do you have a Kindergartener? Let's help you get them enrolled. The form for Prairie Trail Kindergarten can be filled out HERE!

Recognize Someone submissions are open again! Would you like to recognize a staff member at Prairie Trail or LISD, click here to type a quick note. It will be printed on a nice post card and delivered to that staff member. It is free for you, but worth so much!! :)

https://www.lisd.net/recognize

Have you missed an event that happened at PTE this year? Check out all the pictures from this school year at this LINK. Pictures are sometimes added a little later so you might check back to see if you missed any.

• March Elementary Breakfast Menu

• March Lunch Menu

To get to your child's meal account: RevTrack link

Check out dates for the school year.

• 5th - PTE gym used as a polling site for Elections - 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
• 7th - Open House 6:00-7:00 pm
• 8th - Early Release at 11:45 am
• 11th-15th - Spring Break
• 18th-21st - 2nd Grade Swimming Classes -
• 20th - 3rd Grade Field Trip to the Symphony
• 22nd - PTA Movie Night
• 25th-28th - 2nd Grade Swimming Classes -
• 26th - NEW Safety Patrol Parent Meeting - 6:00 pm
• 29th - School Holiday - No School

• 1st - No School - Bad Weather Day
• 5th - Progress Reports
• 5th - Volunteer Breakfast at 7:30 am
• 9th - Spring Fest Auction Opens
• 12th - Spring Fest 5:30-8:30 pm
• 13th - Service Saturday - 8:00-10:00 am - help us pick up after Spring Fest
• 15th - STAAR Pep Rally
• 16th - Spring Fest Auction Ends
• 17th - Reading and Writing STAAR Test for 3rd-5th Graders - Campus closed to all visitors
• 17th - Kinder Field Trip - Crayola
• 18th - Spring and Class Pictures
• 18th - PTA Board Meeting 9:45 am
• 18th - PTA Meeting and 1st Grade Performance - 6:30 pm
• 19th - Safety Patrol Changing of the Guard
• 24th - Science STAAR Test for 5th Graders - Campus closed to all visitors
• 26th - Early Release Day - 11:45 am
• 26th - Progress Reports

• March 7th - Open House 6-7 pm
• April 12th - Spring Fest
• April 17th - Reading and Writing STAAR (3rd-5th grades)
• April 18th - Spring Picture Day (Individual and Class)
• April 24th - Science STAAR (5th grade)
• May 2nd - Math STAAR (3rd-5th grades)
• May 10th - Field Day (May 16th is rain out day)
• May 22nd - 5th Grade Celebration
• May 23rd - Last Day of School

Need some ideas to keep the kind acts going? Check out the Random Acts of Kindness Calendar below. One kind act can change someone's day!

The 2024-2025 School Calendar has been approved by the school board. Check it out at this LINK.

Email: prairietrail@lisd.net
Website: lisd.net/prairietrail
Location: 5555 Timber Creek Road, Flower Mound, TX, USA
Phone: (469)713-5980
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prairietrailes
X (Twitter): @PrairieTrailES