Carrillo Community Update

Happy Sunday Carrillo Families!

Last week students completed their first full week of school. and we are back in the swing of things. Teachers are assessing student starting levels in reading and math so that we can help our cougars grow this year.

With "Growing Together" as our school theme, we have set up some new ways to recognize our Carrillo scholars this year. Aside from our monthly Student of ht Month, Golden Spatual, and Classroom Attendance awards, each quarter, we will recognize students for the following...

• Exemplary Attendance. Students who have one or fewer absences and one or fewer tardies are eligible for this recognition.
• Academic Mastery. Students who score "proficient" or higher on their benchmark exams (in grades 2-5) are eligible for this award.
• Math Masters. Students who pass their grade level fact fluency tests with 95% or higher will be eligible for this award.
• Exceptional Growth. Students who make above-average gains on the benchmarks, IXL, or i-Ready will be eligible for this award.

You can help your Cougar make great growth this year by encouraging them to read 20 minutes each night, reminding them to complete their homework, and helping them prepare for their weekly fluency, spelling, and vocabulary exams. Setting aside just a few minutes each night to study for tests, helps student lock their daily classroom learning into long-term memory.

Enjoy your evening and we'll see you all Monday morning for another week of amazing growth!

COMING SOON

• Tuesday, August 20th
• Open House and Annual Title I Meeting from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
• Wednesday, August 21st
• Teacher Professional Day - No Classes
• Monday, September 2nd
• Labor Day - No Classes
• Wednesday, September 18 - Friday, September 20
• 1/2 days for Parent Teacher Conferences

Parents, we love having you in the yard before school starts. Once the whistle blows, thank you for saying goodbye to your students in the yard and allowing them to head into the building with their teacher and classmates. This small action helps students build independence and self-efficacy, skills that translate to student success.

If you need to speak with your child's teacher, we ask that you email them to set up an appointment rather than drop in to see them in the morning. From 8:00 - 8:30, they are finishing the classroom preparations for daily student learning. ALl staff email address are availabel on our website in the Staff Directory.

Thank you for your patience as we get students dismissed as quickly as possible. We need your help with a few things.

17th STREET PICK UP

1. Please park by Tucson Water, or wait in your car.
2. For those waiting in their cars, a school staff member will come by and radio for your student to come to you.
3. Thank you for keeping your music low and arriving after 2:30 pm. Our neighbors appreciate it.
4. Families with only intermediate students (grades 3-5) your students are generally the last to dismiss, if you can arrive at 2:50 that will allow us to help the kinder and first graders off campus and speed up pickup.

FOR PARENTS WAITING INSIDE

1. If you arrive before 2:30 pm we need you to sign in at the main office and wait in the art gallery on the main floor until 2:45.

Extended Day starts tomorrow, Monday, August 12th. For students to attend, they must have BOTH of the following...

1. A completed Extended Day application (1 per student)
2. Fees paid ($125/quarter) and a copy mailed Kenia Alvarado-Martinez

To start Monday, we need both of those no later than 9 am. Payments and applications made after 9 am may start the following day.

We know that being an old school, Carrillo has limited parking. We have only 2 small lots. Thank you for using those and not the parking lots of the nearby law offices. As a reminder, our lots are located directly in front of the school and on the southeast corner of Main and Simpson. That lot is labeled "for TUSD only." Thank you for helping us be good neighbors and keeping residential driveways and business lots open for their customers.

Now that we are i the third week of school, mist students should be ready to walk in the main morning entrance, which is located on 17th street.

The Menlo Park Family Resource Center is offering, a five-week program (called STEP) for parents and caregivers with children aged 9-14. You will learn to promote healthy habits, set guidelines, manage conflicts, and strengthen family bonds. Attendance is important, as each week builds on the lessons from the previous week. Program materials and incentives valued at over $75 will be offered.

Menlo FRC | Tuesdays | 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | Start: 8/27/24 | End: 9/24/24

please contact Becky Jo to register at 520-225-2172 or by email.

The TUSD Mexican American Student Services Department is holding FREE Saturday academic tutoring by qualified teachers to help students with reading, writing, and math.

Limited space available for students in grades 3rd to 8th

When: September through May

Starts: September 7th.

Register by calling 520.232.8566 or by email.

The Menlo Park Family Resource Center is offering bread and produce day to TUSD families on Tuesday, August 20th. When you arrive at the Menlo FRC, please have your student's matric number/student ID#, it is required to sign in for services and classes.

Contact Becky Jo Baker with any questions

520.225.2172 | Email

The accepted norms in any given space have a huge influence on our behavior, especially in a school social setting. At Carrillo we encourage students to promote kind behavior, recognizing that their endorsement can create a ripple effect. We also work to establish a school-wide culture that values and rewards kindness, making it highly visible. Influence can also happen by engaging parents to reinforce kind behavior at home, creating consistent messages between school and home environments. You can support our Kind Campus by encouraging your students to identify kind acts they witnessed at school and writing a "Kind Note" to be read over the announcements. We ask students to include the name of the kind student, the act they witnessed, and how it made them feel. This helps to encourage others to engage in similar kind acts. For your convenience, we've added some kind notes you can print at home.

Thank you to Adrian at Big Frog! This year, when you purchase Cougar spirit gear, $5 will come back to the school to support students. The store has this year's "Growing Together" shirts for students and parents, as well as our classic shirts and some designs from previous years. Check out the store online.

Parents volunteers are welcome on campus. Speak with our office manager (Kenia Alvarado-Martinez) or our Magnet Coordinator (Rebecca Stroup) to learn how you can volunteer! We also encourage families to attend PTO meetings to learn about other ways to support our Carrillo Cougars. We encourage all parents to register as volunteers on the TUSD website as the process takes a few weeks. We ask non-parental volunteers to contact the office before registering as a volunteer so we can explain the process and coordinate volunteer opportunities.

Parents, we are asking for your help with social media. As a reminder, most social media user agreements state that users must be 13 or older to have an account. Please take a moment to discuss the reasons for the age limits with your students.

Most social media sites do not allow attacks or abuse based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability or disease. Please encourage students to be socially conscious and report any accounts that violate those policies directly to the social media platform before blocking the account.

Attendance at school is directly correlated to student achievement, so it is extremely important they are in school every single day to be successful. Research shows that missing more than 8 days of school can cause significant gaps in a student’s education. Please try to schedule appointments or family outings around the school schedule and during school holidays. To help track attendance goals, we've created a "Path to Success" attendance tracker you can use at home to help us make our 95% goal. You can download it by opening the attachment on your computer.

Parents, you can now immediately report an absence from school using ParentVue. This reduces the calls in our attendance office and allows you to directly enter the reason students are absent. To self-report simply follow the steps below.

1. Log into ParentVue from App or Computer
2. Click the "Attendance" tab on the left column on the computer or on the App as soon as you log in the blue "report absence" with a small bell icon is there.
3. On the top right corner of the page it will have a blue link that says "Report Absence" click on this
4. Use the calendar to select dates and the drop-down for the reason for the absence.
5. You may also add notes or upload a doctor's note and hit "save".

Of course, you may still give Ms. Diane Quiroz a ring at (520) 225-1200 if you prefer. Thank you for reporting all absences!

Did you know that all TUSD elementary magnet students are eligible for transportation if they live more than 1.5 miles from the school?

For more information, visit Transportation's website to see if your student qualifies for FREE transportation and to begin routing. We strongly encourage families to consider this option for this school year. It's a great way to help your student develop independence and responsibility. You can also call them at 520-225-6262.

Due to some budget changes, the earliest students can be dropped off is 7:35 am at 17th Street. The office does not open until 8:00 and while Ms. Bittel is usually on campus well before 8:00, she is often in meetings or other parts of the building and unable to hear the doorbell. From 7:35 - 8:00 the only safe drop off is 17th Street. Thank you for helping us to keep all our cougars safe in the morning.

Parent Pickup will continue to be at 17th street. Thank you for remaining in your car. We’ll be using radios and a loudspeaker to call for students this year in hopes of speeding up the process. Please note that the city has redefined some fire lanes that must be kept open along Samaniego with bright red paint. Thank you for not parking or stopping in those spaces. Thank you also for keeping the neighborhood driveways and mailboxes open as a courtesy to our neighbors. Thank you for your help!

We know that the 17th Street area can get a bit congested at pickup. To help alleviate the situation, the City of Tucson has installed new signs to direct traffic and changed the direction of Samaniego Street. The City of Tucson is requesting that families picking up on 17th Street exit the neighborhood using the following route.

• Travel west on 17th Street
• Turn south on 11th Avenue
• Turn west to access the frontage road or turn east to return to Main Avenue and 22nd Street.

Our neighbors kindly ask that you leave the driveways and corners open when you park so they can enter and exit their homes safely. If you do wait in your car along Samaniego, thank you for waiting at the bottom of the hill on the east side of the street so the roadway is clear for all vehicles and families crossing the street.

We are also asking families to arrive no earlier than 2:35 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and no earlier than 1:35 on Wednesdays. Parents of intermediate students, if you plan to arrive at 2:50 or 1:50, that will give the primary students time to load up and reduce your wait time.

Thank you also for being patient, driving slowly, and watching the road carefully. The streets behind Carrillo are narrow and we want to avoid any accidents. Our neighbors kindly request that everyone drive like they live in the neighborhood, and many of our cougars do. Thank you for helping us keep our Cougars and our community safe.

If your child is walking/riding home, thank you for ensuring the office has a note giving permission at the beginning of every school year. Thank you for making any pickup arrangements with your student prior to your student coming to school.

Congratulations to the new PTO Board for the 2024-25 school year. Please check this section of the update regular meeting dates as well as other opportunities to support Carrillo.

• President - Aaron Valencia
• VP - open (Yvette Rodriguez will serve as interim until August)
• Secretary - Margaret Zuniga
• Treasurer - Angelina Celix

Please email PTO if you have any questions.

Thank you to everyone who supported our "BoxTops for Education" fundraiser this year! As of Sunday, August 11th, Carrillo had already earned $44.00! Be sure to check out the Bonus offers, for ways to earn extra box tops.

This year we hope to have more families involved so that we can see even more rewards come back to the school to benefit the students directly. Please encourage friends and family members to download the app from the Box Tops website, select "Carrillo K-5 Magnet School" as their school, and scan their grocery receipts weekly.

LEADERBOARD

1st Place - Kindergarten (50 box tops)

2nd Place - 1st Grade

3rd Place - 4th Grade

4th Place - 2nd Grade

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Mission Statement

Carrillo K-5 Communication and Creative Arts Magnet School engages children's minds, bodies, and senses using multiple modes of learning, thought, and self-expression.

Vision Statement

At Carrillo K-5 Communication and Creative Arts Magnet School, students become 21st Century leaders in a diverse world, through the development of a strong academic core, communication skills and creative arts abilities.