Dear Park Meadows Families,

We're sending out a friendly reminder to help keep our classrooms focused and productive learning environments for all our students.

We've noticed an increase in the use of cell phones and smart watches during instructional time. To support our teachers and ensure minimal distractions, we kindly ask that you help us reinforce the Park Meadows expectation that cell phones and smart watches remain off and stored in backpacks throughout the school day.

Please be aware that if students do not follow these expectations, teachers will collect the devices and the office staff will store them for the duration of the school day. Parents will be required to pick up the device from the office.

We appreciate your cooperation in helping us create a distraction-free learning environment where all students can thrive!

Thank you for your partnership.

Sincerely,

The Park Meadows Team

Make sure your students are in school everyday. If they need to miss school make sure to call our attendance line at 623-445-4190.

My kiddo is just a couple of minutes late for school, what's the big deal?

We want to take a moment to discuss the importance of punctuality and how it impacts not just your child, but the entire school community.
When a child arrives late to school, even by just a few minutes, it creates a ripple effect. Here's a glimpse of what happens:

1. Impact on Office Staff: Our dedicated office staff must pause their essential tasks to welcome late students. This involves filling out paperwork and entering data into the computer, diverting them from other important duties.
2. Cafeteria Adjustments: To ensure every child receives a nutritious breakfast, cafeteria workers halt their lunch preparations to accommodate late arrivals. This can delay their schedule and impact the efficiency of meal preparation.
3. Classroom Disruption: As the student enters the classroom, the ongoing morning routines and lessons are interrupted. The teacher must pause to welcome the student and catch them up on missed instructions, which can distract other students and disrupt the learning flow.
4. Student Discomfort: We strive to make every student feel welcome, but many who arrive late feel uncomfortable with the attention. This can affect their confidence and focus as they join the ongoing lesson.

Your cooperation in ensuring your child arrives on time helps maintain a smooth and productive learning environment for everyone.

Consequences of Tardies; Our goal is to be supportive, not punitive but we must also have an organized system that supports positive school attendance.

• On the 4th-8th Tardy, a parent letter, email or phone call is made.
• On the 10th Tardy, the student is assigned a detention (Tuesday's at 7:45am or Thursday's at 3:45pm)
• On the 15th Tardy, the parent will attend a meeting with school Administration.

How to help your kiddo at home with Math Computation-Count orally by twos, fives, or tens-Have your child make a number book that contains a page for each numeral from one to ten. On each page, have your child glue clippings from newspapers and magazines illustrating that number concept (two dogs, three ducks, or four horses). As your child progresses with number recognition, they can add to the book and add numerical figures used in various ways-Count and pair objects found around the house and determine whether there’s an odd or even number of items-Review math facts at home, in the car, waiting in line, or during other downtime-Provide your child with verbal math problems. “Take the number five. Add six. Multiply by three. Subtract three. Divide by five. What’s your answer?” Speak slowly at first until your child gets better at solving these mental problems-Help your child identify percentages in signs, newspapers, and magazines-Encourage your child to read nutrition labels, and have them calculate the percent of a specific nutrient in each item

Willy Wonka Releases Golden Tickets!!!

Recently rumors have began circulating that Park Meadows will be having a K-6 FAMILY Reading/Math Night!

Our sources tell us this fun packed event is scheduled for:

When: Tuesday March 11th

Where: Park Meadows Cafe

Time: 5:30PM to 7:30PM

We've heard whispering of...candy graphs, raffle baskets, creative stations, life-size Candyland game, Wonka selfie stations, and more!!!
*Some raffle baskets will be on display in the office for viewing and purchasing your tickets early!

Since this is a FAMILY Night, our sources have told us that pizza, chips, cookies and water will be available for purchase. Individual and combo meal deals will be available. *All proceeds go to buying new books for the students!

More News Flashes to follow. (Keep an eye out for paper fliers)

March is national nutrition month! For more information on food, nutrition and health tips from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, please click on link below:

https://www.eatright.org/national-nutrition-month/resources

Quote of the month:

"Don't let the comfort of today compromise the potential of tomorrow.”

~ Unknown

Congratulations to Team TLC 🤩. They won our third Battle of the Books competition and our overall winner. They will represent Park Meadows at the District Battle March 25th. Woo hoo!

Thank you for supporting the library during the Scholastic Book Fair. I elected to take cash with our profits to boost our supply budget. We've had a number of books damaged this year or lost to liquid damage. Please review book care with your kiddos! Our library will always take donations as you do spring cleaning!

Bring on the #bookjoy-

Mrs. Hinton

dana.hinton@dvusd.org

We are continuing our helping hands incentive this month. As previously mentioned being helpful gives students a sense of purpose: Helping others can provide a sense of purpose and direction in life. Helping others can increased self-awareness: Reflecting on your motivations for helping others can deepen your self-awareness and understanding. Acts of kindness can have a ripple effect, inspiring others to do the same. In summary, helping others is a rewarding and beneficial activity that can improve your emotional, social, and physical well-being.

We will continue to encourage our students to use their hands to help others! Stay tuned for a picture of our cafeteria display of helping hands next month!

Check out our breakfast and lunch menu

Good day Park Meadows Families,

I first want to thank everyone who was able to make it out to our Panda Express FUNdraiser night! The money raise from that night will be going back towards items that will directly benefit the students. Such items are prize box prizes, our award days for students for their Park cards, and supplies for classroom to help support learning. So thank you for enabling us to be able to do that.
With testing coming up, the only FUNdraisers I have are our Kona Ice days during your child's lunch recess. The dates for Kona Ice for the rest of the year are, March 11th, April 29th, and May 13th. Again, thank you again for your continuous support of our students by supporting our FUNdraiser!

Cassandra Fraemohs

Check out what is going on in our campus...

Stay tune for some very important dates in the following weeks. Attendance is very important, please try to schedule appointments after school.

Tentative AASA state assessments dates will be 3/25, 3/27, 4/1, 4/2, 4/7, 4/8, 4/9, 4/10.

Assessments

• 3rd grade will be testing
• Oral Reading Fluency
• Reading Parts I & II
• Math Parts I & II
• Writing
• 4th grade will be testing
• Reading Parts I & II
• Math Parts I & II
• Writing
• 5th grade will be testing
• Science Parts I, II, & III
• Reading Parts I & II
• Math Parts I & II
• Writing
• 6th grade will be testing
• Reading Parts I & II
• Math Parts I & II
• Writing