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Dear Patterson Families,

Happy New Year to all of our PRIDE families! The New Year brings a fresh start and a bright future for our second semester of school. This is a great opportunity for parents to encourage children to set goals and commit to a renewed focus on meeting or exceeding those goals. Part of our Patterson vision states: we have a "VISION of excellence in every endeavor involving students' academic, physical, emotional, and social growth". We are dedicated to teaching the whole child, and hopefully some of our students' goals will go beyond the focus of academics. A simple goal of showing kindness can be positively powerful. As always, we thank you for your involvement with homework, character building, daily reading, math practice, and providing support for a variety of school activities. As a team, we will help students meet any goals they have set in order to help create confident individuals.

Second semester we will look forward to adding "Celebrate Learning Nights" on our parent teacher conferences days in February. Before or after your scheduled conferences, you and your child can walk around the campus to see class displays of writing, art and projects to celebrate their learning. We are also excited that each grade level will be planning a "Career Week" in order to bring awareness and inspiration to the many career paths the students will have.

Thank you for choosing to send your children to our “Grade A” school and district. We look forward to another exciting semester of learning, growing, and bringing our community together. Welcome back to school and best wishes for an inspiring 2024!

Warmly,

Sarah Stephens

Patterson PRIDE Principal

New Kindergarten Registration

Parents who live within one of the CUSD elementary boundaries and have a child who turns five (5), January 1-August 31, 2019, should complete their child’s Kindergarten registration online for their CUSD boundary school on Wednesday, January 10th at 9:00 a.m.

2024-2025 Kindergarten Open House Parent Presentation

Thursday January 11th - 2024-2025 Kinder Open House in Classrooms, Hallways, MPR & Library 5:00pm-6:30pm

2024-2025 Open Enrollment Request

Next year’s Open Enrollment Request will begin Monday, January 8th at 7:30 a.m.

Student Intent to Return will open for online submission:

The online Student Intent to Return (SITR) opens Monday, January 30th at 9:00 a.m. - February 17th to collect information from your families to see who is returning for the 2024-2025 school year.

Kindergarten Open House

We invite you to join us for Kindergarten Open House events at the location / date and time listed below:

Arizona legislature mandates special programs to be provided for gifted pupils. Our Gifted Self-Contained Program and Gifted Consultative Services fulfill this obligation for CUSD elementary children. On site testing for placement in our gifted program for the 2024/2025 school year will begin in January.

2nd Grade CogAT On-site Testing – January 16th – 26th

1. All 2nd grade students will be tested (please see attached letter)

3rd-6th Grade CogAT On-site Testing – January 16th – 26th

2. All 3-6th grade students interested in testing need to have permission and be pre-registered for testing.

Teachers or parents may request testing for any 3rd through 6th grade students for the gifted program.

The permission form can be found attached and on the Gifted Testing webpage: https://www.cusd80.com/Page/99460

Tax credit donations can be made anytime and can be credited to your child's extra curricular activity fees. The tax credit reduces your tax burden to the state of Arizona, dollar for dollar. It also reduces your taxable income to the federal government.

Our school uses tax credit donations for enrichment opportunities such as fieldtrips, assemblies, art masterpiece, clubs and many other activities.

To donate, visit the tax credit donation page on our CUSD website: Click Here or contact Shelley Krason, office manager at Patterson Elementary for more information and/or to donate at the school by cash or check. 480-224-3607; krason.shelley@cusd80.com

Thank you so much for your support of Patterson Elementary Students.

Happy New Year from the Patterson library!

As we set goals for the new year remember to include more reading for you and your children.

"Studies have shown that those who read for pleasure have higher levels of self-esteem and a greater ability to cope with difficult situations. Reading for pleasure was also associated with better sleeping patterns. Adults who read for just 30 minutes a week are 20% more likely to report greater life satisfaction."*

As soon as we come back to school, invitations will be sent out for the next Birthday Book Club, celebrating January, February and March birthdays. These are due back on January 23rd so that we can plan the celebration on Friday January 26th. This school year we have already had around 150 new library-bound books donated to our library through Birthday Book Club!

We are excited about our next Scholastic Book Fair which has been moved to the week of February 9-16, 2024 this year. Be on the lookout for the volunteer sign up and class shopping schedule coming soon.

*[Billington, J, (2015) Reading between the Lines: the Benefits of Reading for Pleasure Quick Reads, University of Liverpool p. 7]

January 9th - Students return back to school

January 11th - Payne JHS Music Performance for 4th/5th/6th grade in MPR

January 11th - Running Club Meet at Snedigar Park 3:45pm-4:45pm

January 11th - Kinder Open House 5:00pm-6:30pm

January 15th - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day - No School

January 17th- Battle of the Books 5th/6th Grade in Library 11:40am-1:00pm

January 19th - 4th Grade STEM Presentation-Agriculture in Classrooms

January 23rd- Payne JHS Registration Presentation for 6th Grade in MPR 9:00am-10:00am

January 23rd- Running Club Meet at Snedigar Park (Patterson Hosting) 3:45pm-4:45pm

January 25th - 5th Grade Dance in MPR 6:00pm-8:00pm

January 26th - Running Club End of Season Celebration 7:40am-8:15am

January 26th - 3rd Qtr Birthday Book Club in Library 2:15pm-2:50pm

January 26th - PTO Sweet Treats - Kettle Corn

January 29th-February 2nd - 1st Grade Career Week

January 29th - Pride Picnic -Be Positive in MPR 10:30am-1:00pm

January 29th - PTO General Meeting in Library 3:30pm-4:30pm

January 30th - Student Council Convention at Perry HS 10:00am-1:00pm

Looking ahead to February

February 7th - Spring Pictures

February 8th - Horton Hatches an Egg -Kinder and 1st in MPR 9:00am-10:00am

February 9th-16th - Book Fair in Library

February 12th-16th - PTO P4P Week

February 13th- Agriculture in Kinder Classrooms 9:00am-10:00am

February 15th- Childsplay 2nd Grade 12:00pm-3:00pm

February 19th- President's Day - No School

February 20th - Choral Festival Field Trip at CCA

February 21st - Site Council Meeting in Library 3:15pm-3:45pm

February 23rd- 4th Grade Field Trip Sonora Desert Museum 6:30am-2:30pm

February 26th - Pride Picnic (Be a Friend) in MPR 10:30am-1:00pm

February 28th- Parent/Teacher Conferences- Early Release at 11:40am

February 29th- Parent/Teacher Conferences- Early Release at 11:40am

Patterson Elementary School

Office Phone: 480-224-3600

Attendance Line: 480-224-3603

Fax: 480-224-9404

Click Here for the Patterson Website

School Hours:

8:15 am - Students may arrive to campus

8:35 am - First Bell

8:40 am - Instruction Begins (students are tardy after 8:40)

3:10 pm - Dismissal