Rays Update

Rays,

I cannot believe we are almost in October. I wanted to thank all the parents who attended Coffee with the Principal this week. We had a great discussion around instruction and student learning at Reagan. While we may not be able to offer this every month, I will be creating a video for October that allows parents a look at all the student experiences and clubs we offer at Reagan. Be on the lookout for this video soon. I look forward to seeing everyone at our Back-to-School picnic next Friday, October 4th.

We wanted to send our Rays Update out early this week to let you know that we will have a lock down drill on Friday September 27th. Picture Day is also tomorrow Friday September 27th.

For our lock down drill we would like you to know that the announcements will state this is a drill and students will be notified that this is not a real lockdown. We wanted to give our community the opportunity to speak with their child(ren) about the drill and answer any potential questions prior to Friday. Our goal is to make sure all students feel safe on campus and not catch any of them by surprise.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Alison Pennington

Principal

X: @ReaganELemCP Instagram: @reaganelem_rays

Ray Families,

We would like to let you know that we have been monitoring our attendance and tardies for the first seven weeks of school. We have noticed significant decreases in attendance on Mondays and Fridays. It is imperative all students are on campus learning each day of the week. We have two attendance laws that must be followed in Texas. One is for the number of unexcused absences (10 total per year) and the other is for the number of minutes a student is in class throughout the year.

We have also noticed multiple students are coming to school late (any time after 7:30); this counts as a tardy. We are concerned because students who are tardy on a regular basis miss a significant number of instructional minutes. For example, a 2nd grade student who is 10 minutes late three times per week will miss 40% of the weekly instruction during Number Corner, an essential component of our math curriculum.

October 4: Reagan PTA Back to School Picnic, Spirit Shirt Friday

October 8: Chipotle Give Back Day

October 14: Parent/Teacher Conferences, Student Holiday

October 15: PTA Family Fitness Night

October 29: Sonic Give Back Day

November 4 & 5: Student Holidays

My name is Carol Bowers and I am the school counselor at Reagan Elementary. I spend most of my time with students in classroom guidance lessons covering a variety of social skills. Our goal at Reagan is that students receive guidance lessons with the school counselor about once a month. Please check out Counseling Corner for more information and resources. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to me at Carolina.Bowers@leanderisd.org or call 512-570-7200.

If your family has a pet and would like their pet's picture displayed in my office please send a photo to my email, send your child with a picture of your pet(s) and/or ask your child to draw a picture of your pet and we’ll proudly display them in the counselor’s office.

2024 - 2025 Destination Imagination

All registration forms are due by 3:00 pm on October 1, 2024.

If your child is interested in participating in DI, please follow this link for more information:

Destination Imagination

Hi,

Many parents have asked about volunteer opportunities. As mentioned above in the principal message we are working on creating a video that will highlight our volunteer opportunities as a campus. I wanted to make sure I clarified volunteering and RAPTOR. This year the district moved to a new system. When you apply to be a volunteer through Leander ISD (https://www.leanderisd.org/volunteering/ ), it was communicated that you should see volunteer opportunities for your campus through Raptor. This function is currently not working. To make our community aware of volunteer opportunities through PTA; PTA will be making sign-up forms for volunteer opportunities until this is fixed. This is a district wide issue, and they are working with RAPTOR to fix the concern.

PLEASE join our Reagan Literacy Partners Team by volunteering to read for 30 minutes, ONCE a week with 2 students, 15 minutes each, in a one-on-one reading time! It's fun and rewarding to help our young students become better, more confident readers with a greater love for books!

For more information, please contact Heather Bonham, Reagan's Literacy Partner Coordinator, at 512-656-9933 OR register to volunteer at education-connection.org.

Dear Reagan Parents,

We are students in the Incubator Vista Ridge program, which helps students develop a company and learn entrepreneurship skills. We have an idea for a new product that deals with child safety in the kitchen. In preparation for a presentation in November, we are gathering feedback from parents in the district. We would like your input on our idea, and ask you to fill out this quick 5-minute survey for some feedback on our child protection product by October 10th.

Survey

Thank you for your help!

Josefa Cannon, Ibrahim Yacoub, Riley Wallace, and Megann Keller

Contact Information: toohotfortots@gmail.com

Email: reagan@leanderisd.org

Website: https://reagan.leanderisd.org

Location: 1700 E Park St, Cedar Park TX

Phone: 512-570-7200