Martinez ELC Newsletter

Martinez Early Learning Center is committed to creating a safe, nurturing, and innovative learning environment for our students, that encompasses kindness and fosters foundational skills for all students to be successful in kindergarten and beyond.

We are Safe,

We are Kind,

We are Mariposas Ready to Learn.

The safety of our students and staff is the most important thing at Martinez. We strive to make the campus a place where students can focus on their learning. As part of our safety practices, we perform periodic drills. See the chart below to learn about the different drills we do in the campus. If you happen to arrive to the school in the middle o a drill, we ask for your patience.

We know you love your child and want to always do what is best for them. We want to share some amazing ways to support the oral language and verbal reasoning development of your little one. These strategies will help them to continue growing and blossoming. The counselor will offer a free class on Wednesday January 22 from 9:00 to 10:00 AM in the family center. This training is based on the new book from Dr. Tricia Zucker, Strive-for-Five Conversations. We hope you are able to come and enjoy a morning of learning new strategies to keep supporting your child.

It is hard to believe the school year is in its second half. To celebrate the milestone of reaching 100 days of school, we are going to have a day to either dress up as a 100 year old person or wear 100 items on their shirt. This is a great opportunity to work together as a family preparing the outfit for this day. We look forward to see all your creativity in action. Please make sure the attire remains appropriate for school and playground.

Black and white are the colors of the 101 days of school. The theme of the day will be to dress up as a Dalmatian. You can dress your child in black and white, add dots, ears, and painted nose to be part of this day's theme. Please make sure the attire remains appropriate for school and playground.

During the week of February 10 to 14 we will celebrate kindness at Martinez. We will have different ways to dress up and opportunities to perform acts of kindness each day.

• Monday 10th, Team Kindness. Wear your favorite sports team shirt of jersey.
• Tuesday 11th, Peace, love, and kindness. Wear tie-dye.
• Wednesday 12th, Kindness rocks. Dress like a rock star
• Thursday 13th, Powered by kindness. Dress as your favorite super hero. (No masks or weapons)
• Friday 14th, We love Being Kind. Wear Valentine's day colors red or pink.

Remember all attires for this week must be classroom and playground appropriate.

The time has come to have another memento of this amazing year at Martinez. We will have Strawbridge studio taking pictures of classes on Friday January 24. You can dress your child up for this picture. Remember to keep shoes appropriate for classroom and playground, no high heels.

You can go to www.strawbridge.net and use the code FM443516 to purchase the picture.

You can buy now the Martinez shirts for your child. You can come to the school's front office and pay cash or you can use the School Cash App clicking on the link CLICK HERE. The shirt has a cost of $20 dollars and is one of the ways we raise funds for our student fund. We appreciate your support buying the shirt.

Things to remember about attendance procedures at our school:

1) School starts at 8:15 a.m.—students who are not in class at this time are considered tardy. Students who are 30 or more minutes tardy, will be considered as a “POD30”, which is a part-of-day attendance violation.

2) The official attendance time to determine if a student is absent or present for the day is 10:00 a.m., students must be on campus at this time.

3) Dismissal is at 3:40 p.m.—students may not be released after 2:30 p.m. because dismissal procedures will have already started.

4) Students who are picked up before dismissal time will be considered as an “early leave”, which is a part-of-day attendance violation.

5) Excuse notes for absences must be returned no later than 3 days after returning to school.

6) Only 10 parent excuse notes will be allowed per year, without extenuating circumstances.

7) Only 10 doctor/clinic/nurse excuse notes will be allowed per year, without a medical need documented by your doctor and verified by the school nurse.

We are using ParentSquare to communicate with our families. All messages from the district and the school will be sent through this platform. Teachers have the option to use Class Dojo or ParentSquare, be in the lookout from messages from your child's teacher. Please use the links below to dowload the ParentSquare App

Contact Us

Website: https://martinez.aliefisd.net/
Location: 10807 Boone Loop Rd, Houston, TX, USA
Phone: 281 988 3510
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AliefMartinezELC
Twitter: @Martinez_ELC