Pleasanton Primary School

The Primary family is devoted to educating and inspiring all students academically, socially, and emotionally by giving our love and instilling integrity. We will model the importance of family, faith, and wisdom with our leaders of tomorrow.

The vision at Pleasanton Primary School is to equip and empower a community of life-long learners with the foundation to lead and succeed in our rapidly changing world.

SPECIAL EDUCATION
Students will learn about 2D shapes, sorting colors and shapes, writing letters of the alphabet, fine motor skills, and using a visual schedule.
ECSE is learning about my family and friends, using appropriate social and conversational rules, making and maintaining positive relationships, exploring positions of objects in space, continuing to follow classroom rules and routines, increasing independence, demonstrating control over impulses, and varying the amount of information provided to meet the demands of a situation.
Academic goals are demonstrating awareness that spoken language is composed of smaller segments of sound, understanding how print is used, identifying letters of the alphabet, ask and answer questions about a book that was read aloud, understand and use words, understand the relationship between numbers and quantities. Students will increase body control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.

Language Arts- Students will be able to identify 4-8 uppercase and 4-8 lowercase letters as well as produce 4-8 sounds.

Math-Students will be able to identify 3 numbers, count 3 sets of 0-10 and be able to count to 7.

Language Arts-Students will be able to orally blend and segment sounds in words, recognize and write new sounds/symbols: /n/, /h/, /s/, /f/, /v/, /z/, /p/, /e/, blend and read printed VC and CVC words and change sounds in words to create new words. Students will also be able to demonstrate understanding of key vocabulary, sequence the beginning, middle and end of stories and write and draw events and details to retell a story.

Math-Students will be able to collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories when asked a question, create horizontal and vertical real-object graphs and picture graph and interpret data using a graph and make predictions about the data.

Language Arts-Students will learn to use common and proper nouns, ae, ie, oe, ue words, long and short vowels and will work on knowledge/Reading Comprehension: Fairy Tales and Early American Civilizations.

Math-Students will work on adding and subtracting within 20 and addition and subtraction strategies.

Language Arts- Students will continue to work in Unit 2 of Amplify Skills. This unit focuses on various spellings with an emphasis on vowel sounds. Students read one- and two-syllable words, as well as contractions. They practice with several high-frequency, tricky words. They learn about the use of quotation marks and begin their instruction in the writing process by writing narratives and opinions.

In Unit 3 of Amplify Knowledge students build on their knowledge of Ancient Greek culture through exploration of Greek myths, and recognize the continuing cultural relevance of these stories in literary allusions, common words, and expressions used today. Students learn about gods including Pandora, Demeter, Persephone, and Hercules, and their home on Mount Olympus. Students will summarize a Greek myth and practice plot development by creating a character and writing their own fictional narrative in the style of a Greek myth.

Math- Students will be able to represent a given number and identify missing numbers on an open number line that involves intervals of ones, twos, fives, or tens up to 1,200. The student will also be able to skip count by 2, 5, 10 and up as well as comparing order numbers based on place value knowledge.

Often we find ourselves dealing with challenging behaviors and can use technology as a means of finding peace and calming down an upset child. Below are a few evidenced-based effective strategies to manage challenging behaviors. Just a reminder, there is not a quick fix when it comes to changing a behavior. It takes time and patience, but understand that you are the biggest influence in your child’s life and we are here to help you.

1. Clearly state your expectations in advance: Provide your child with clear instructions on what you expect them to do. Example: “I need you to start putting your toys away.” It is also beneficial to prepare them before doing something. This can look like saying “You have 2 more minutes to play before it’s time to clean up.”

2. Offer limited, reasonable choices: Children need practice on how to take responsibility for their actions. They can learn this by providing them with choices and allowing them to make decisions and then accepting the consequences of those decisions. Example: Your child doesn’t want to put on their shoes. “I need you to put your shoes on” child responds “no!” the parent then can say “ We cannot leave until your shoes are on. You can put on your boots or flip flops. Which one do you want?”

3. Use “when…then” statements: By using “when…then” statements you are providing your child with clear instructions regarding what you want them to do. Your child can learn that by doing what is asked they can receive a positive or negative consequence. You can provide the instructions and tie in a timer. Example: “I’m going to set the timer for 5 minutes. When you work on your homework for 5 minutes, then you will go outside to play,” Be sure to follow through. Children pick up on patterns quickly.

Suzanne Westfall and Abigale Parker

October is Red Ribbon Week, and our focus during Counseling Specials will be Conflict Resolution and Bullying. At the Primary age, students are still learning how to make friends, deal with conflicts, regulate their emotions, and use appropriate social skills.

The first lesson will teach students how to use their big voice to address conflicts with their peers. A big voice does not mean for them to yell; it means to use an assertive voice to tell someone when they are doing something that they don't like. For example, if a student cuts in front of them in line. They will learn to say, "I don't like it when you cut in front of me, please go to your spot or go to the end of the line." In another lesson, the students will learn how to identify a small problem vs. a big problem. We want our students to be able to communicate their feelings, solve problems, and handle conflicts. For the small problems, we ask them to try to resolve them on their own by using their big voice. A small problem example is when someone took their pencil, someone is in their square, cutting in line, and not playing with me. A big problem is when an adult needs to be involved because someone is hurt.

Our students are still learning social skills, such as if they bump into someone, they need to apologize so that the other student doesn't think it was done intentionally. For Bullying, we teach the students that it is when someone is hurting you repeatedly. Sometimes, a student will say, "he's bullying me," and I will say, "What did he say to you?" he said he doesn't want to be my friend." I then explain that he is being unkind, but that is not bullying. The lessons give the students the confidence to handle situations that arise with their peers.

Please know that these lessons continue throughout the year and are reinforced in their classrooms.

Every day that your child attends school is another opportunity to learn something new! Our Primary attendance goal is to have 98 percent of our students attend school every day. Thank you for all that you do to support your child’s learning here at the Pleasanton Primary!

Students who attended all day every day for 6 weeks were entered into a drawing for a board game. Two students from each grade level were picked and awarded a game of their choice.

The First Eagle Prize cart was on Monday, August 26th and the kiddos loved it! The prize cart rolls around every three weeks, so please make sure your child is present so he/she doesn't miss it. Students earn Eagle Bucks by displaying good behaviors throughout the campus and then have the opportunity to spend their bucks on prizes. When they S.O.A.R., it means they are safe, obedient, accountable, and respectful.

In addition, teachers will select one student to receive a Soaring Eagle Award on a bi-monthly basis. Students will be recognized for exhibiting excellent behavior in all school settings. Please ensure that nominated students display excellent behavior in all settings across campus, such as specials, PE, and the cafeteria. A photo of these students will be posted on social media, they will receive a certificate and a golden token from the PBIS book machine.

2-Kinder Family Night

4-ESCE/LS Field Trip

7-10-Homecoming Week

10-Parent Volunteer Information Meeting

11-NO SCHOOL-Teacher Work Day

14-NO SCHOOL-Parent Teacher Conferences

18-Report Cards go Home

23-Kinder Field Trip

24-Book Fair Starts

28-1 Red Ribbon Week

29-Ghostly Reading Night

30-Visit from local First Responders

31-Storybook Character Day

Mark your calendar for our "In Our Book Fair Era" book fair at the Primary, October 25-November 1, 2024

Get ready—the Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school! This is a great opportunity to connect with your child over the thrill of bringing home new books to dive into again and again. Studies show that kids read more when they choose books for themselves. And fostering a love of independent reading leads to a wide variety of benefits—including academic success and improved mental health.

Email: jlsartor@pisd.us
Website: pisd.us/o/primary/
Location: 1209 Downey Drive, Pleasanton, TX, USA
Phone: 830-569-1325