Hello Families! First quarter is coming to an end and Fall break is approaching. We have Fall in our minds, but the desert climate is not cooperating. Hopefully you can take some time and head somewhere much cooler for a few days. I also want to welcome all of our new families that have been arriving throughout the first quarter. Welcome to Tucson and thank you for choosing Borman.

We have many events planned in October, but the biggest is our Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat. We need your help for several of the activities. We need a group to decorate and operate a haunted hallway in the 3-5 hallway. We usually have students volunteer for shifts as scary actors. We also need CANDY donations! Ultimately, Fall Fest is a fundraiser, so it relies on donations of candy for our trunk or treat! Please help if you can.

We will start looking at student achievement data on the quarter benchmarks, iReady, and DIBELS(K-3) and determining the best path forward for each student. If you would like to see how your child did, please ask them to login to Clever, go to School City, and have them show you their test results. You can always reach out to your child's teacher as well.

Please remind your student to be: Responsible, Respectful, Safe, and Kind!

Thank you,

Mr. Huss - Principal

*This is a live document and may change as additional information and dates are added.

October

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hispanic Heritage Month 9/15-10/15

2nd - Bus Evacuation Drills (TUSD mandated student training)

2nd - National Custodian Day

4th - Grading Day - No School

5th - World Teacher's Day

6th - National Instructional Coach's Day

6th - 12th - Fire Prevention Week

7th - 11th - FALL BREAK - No School

14th - Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day

16th - MS Choir @ Sahuaro HS: 1900

17th - MS Fall Coir Festival @PVHS 1000-1200

23rd - Teacher Professional Development Day - No school for students

23-31st - Red Ribbon/Drug Awareness Week

25th - Dominos Pizza

25th Fall Festival/Trunk or Treat - 1600-1900

28th - National First Responders Day

24th - 8th Grade Field Trip- Construction Career Day (all day)

25th - Dominoes Pizza for lunch

25th - Fall Festival/Trunk or Treat

November

Hello!

We are so excited to get started on our upcoming Fall Festival, but we can't do it without YOU! Below are links for both Fall Festival Volunteer sign ups, and Fall Fest Trunk or Treat sign ups. Spouses, squadrons, teams, and clubs are also welcome to sign up for a Trunk or Treat stall. Help us make this one of the best Fall Fests yet! Feel free to reach out to us via email, Facebook messenger (Borman K-8 PTO), or on our Remind (Class name: Borman PTO 24-25, class code: @bormanpto)

Fall Festival Volunteers sign up

Trunk or Treat sign up

We can't wait to see you there!

October PTO meeting TBA

PTO governing board:

Brittney Thomas - President

Devyn Watkins - VP/Treasurer

Sarah Morales - Secretary

PTO is still looking for more board members and volunteers. Please email our PTO for questions or interest!

MFLC-Military Family Life Counselor -Vanessa Aldecoa Work cell #520-310-0060

• Issues addressed by MFLC: School adjustment, deployment & separation, reunion adjustment, sibling & parent-child communication, behavioral concerns, grief & loss

• Weekly PEACE/Deployment Groups with each grade level

• *Focus is on preparing for parents return home. How do I feel my feelings and how does this affect our behavior and emotions.

• Also started new groups for new deployments and talking about ways they are able to stay connected with their deployed parent.

• 1st Thursday of each month, DM MFLC Mtg

• Tuesday Oct 22nd Group Supervision

• Thursday Oct 31st Individual Supervision

Hi families, for the month of October, we will be wearing pink every Wednesday for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We will also be setting up a memorial and survivor poster in the front office. If you would like a loved one honored/represented on our memorial poster, please bring in pictures.

Early Learner Drawing - Tuesdays (K-2nd)

Start & End Date: 10/22/2024 - 12/10/2024, 8 weeks

Registration Link

Elementary Drawing & Cartoon - Thursdays (2nd-5th)

Start & End Date: 10/24/2024 - 12/12/2024, 7 weeks

Skip Date: 11/28/2024

Registration Link

Scholarship Application link

We greatly appreciate your support and are looking forward to another fantastic session with your students!

STARBASE on DMAFB has 3 more current 4th, 5th, 6th grader spots for their Fall Academy that will be held 8 – 11 Oct, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

This is a free STEM Camp. Those interested must email Starbase to register or 520-479-4945.

On 24 Oct, 4 – 6 p.m. the Youth Center will be hosting the annual Lights on After School. All 9 – 17-year-olds can stop by and see what the Youth Center has to offer. Reach out or stop by the the youth center for more information.

On 16 Nov, the Youth Center will host the America’s Color Fun Run at the Golf Course Track starting at 9 a.m. Reach out to the youth center for more information.

A community member suggested that we include a safe technology use section in our family newsletter. While we do teach safe technology practices with our middle school students in technology class(since students take their school laptops home and typically have more access to personal technology), we also want to offer some resources for families with students of any age. For now, I will just share a link to Common Sense Media parent resources. In the future I may share more specific ideas.

Please make sure all health records are up to date. If your child requires medication on site, please come to the health office and drop it off. Children are not allowed to be in possession of medicines or self-administer.

Looking for a part time job? We have a couple of positions open:

• Campus monitor for before school and at lunch/recess (2.5 hours/day)
• Track Coaches for 4th quarter.

Please remember, school starts at 8:20. Please do not drop your students off before 7:45 as we have no campus monitors on site until that time. Students that are dropped off before this are unsupervised and we cannot be responsible for something that might happen.

On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, school ends at 2:30 for K-5 and 3:15 for 6-8. On Wednesday, school ends one hour earlier for teacher PD and planning. Please pick your students up promptly as our monitors leave soon after school ends each day.

Please be patient when dropping off or picking up your student/s in the round-about. Pull forward as far as you can and have your child exit or enter the vehicle as quickly as possible. If you are stuck in traffic along Lightning Drive, please do not drive down the opposite lane to go around. The jam usually moves along in a few minutes. Also, please do not park in the staff parking lot unless you have business in the front office. There is plenty of parking in the dirt outside of the staff lot and across the street.

Would you like to volunteer on campus or help a teacher? You can help with student supervision, work in classrooms, and help with events. Please let us know if you're interested, fill out the volunteer form and we will let you know how you can help!

What can volunteers help do?

• Supporting teachers and staff with non-instructional tasks
• Providing more time for teachers to work with students
• Enriching the curriculum and learning opportunities for students
• Providing one-on-one attention to students who need extra help
• Promoting a school-home-community partnership

Email Principal Huss
Borman School Website
Location: 6630 East Lightning Drive, Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone: 520.584.4600