Park Elementary School - Helping Unique Students Develop

Roadrunners- a reminder that HUSD 3 will be on Thanksgiving break November 20th-24th with school resuming on November 27th! We are thankful for every HUSD 3 Roadrunner! Enjoy a safe and healthy holiday!

The Diversity Committee and Park Elementary are excited to celebrate Native American culture through dress. Please see the dress-up days for Native American Week as part of our Native American month celebrations.

Who loves our schools? FAMILIES love our schools and when families love our schools they come to APTT! We had a great turn out at our APTT night! Families were engaged and enjoyed learning these foundational skills! Thank you so much for your participation! We are especially grateful for El Rancho who donated dinner! Our community sure LOVES OUR SCHOOLS!

There is no better way to show that you LOVE OUR SCHOOL, Park Elementary than by attending our first Academic Parent Teacher Team Meeting tomorrow, October 25th. This year, we are starting a little later to ensure that all families have an opportunity to attend! First Grade will begin at 5:15, and Kindergarten will start at 6:30. APTT strengthens the teacher-family relationship by focusing on student academic growth and achievement. APTT elevates the efforts of traditional parent-teacher conferences by inviting all families of the same classroom teacher to meet together rather than individually. There will be childcare provided so that you can have a parent night out!

Greetings Roadrunner! Please join HUSD #3 for our 13th Annual Walk With Me to Be Drug Free Walk to School and our inaugural Love Our Schools Day on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. All buses will drop off students at the Old Courthouse for a Drug Free and Love Our Schools rally followed by walking to school. Parents, family and community are invited to participate. Breakfast for students will be served. The rally will begin around 8 am. Thank you for your participation and thank you for being drug free and loving our schools!

Please join us for our first Academic Parent Teacher Team meeting for the 2023-2024 school year! You will have the opportunity to meet with your child's teacher and other families of students from the class to collaborate and support each other and your child's learning. You will learn about foundation skills that are important for your child's success at their grade level, learn games/activities to support your child with those foundational skills and set a goal for your child to work on before our next meeting in January. Please see the attached flier for times and details.

Red Ribbon Week is next week! Remember, on Wednesday, October 25th; busses will drop students off directly at the Courthouse for breakfast and the Drug-Free Rally. If you do not want your child to walk to school, please drop them directly off at the school!

Grade 1 students have been studying a world of books this past quarter, which harnesses students' inherent desire to read and learn. Through text, they journey to new places, meeting diverse characters whose lives change positively because of books. Through these texts, they form information to answer the Essential Question: How do books change lives around the world? Students in Mrs. Sanchez's class created dioramas to represent the core texts students read; Tomás and the Library Lady, Green Eggs and Ham, and Waiting for the Biblioburro.

Homecoming Week is coming up! We are excited to participate in our first set of dress-up days as a school!

Miss World Arizona Sukie Cheema paid a visit to Park Elementary School, where she once attended as a student. She stopped and posed for a picture with Mr. Fred Jackson, former Park Elementary second grade teacher, who is featured on the mural.

Park Students and Staff would like to thank everyone who purchased books at the book fair. You helped us earn $1,390.32 in Scholastic Dollars. Scholastic Dollars are used to purchase new books for our library.

You may notice your student coming home with some books today! Thanks to HUSD's Johnson O'Malley (JOM) program, each student had $20 to spend in the Scholastic Book Fair. We are grateful for great programs like JOM which help support our students!

Greetings Families! We are excited to see you at individual conferences tonight, 9/5, from 4-7 and 9/7 from 1-4. Remember, 9/7 is a half-day. As part of our Impact Aide funding, we request that all families complete a Parent Survey. You can access it from the Park website or by visiting the link below. https://forms.gle/AGhH5DKfafuan4di8

Get ready to smile! Tomorrow is picture day!

Picture day is coming up on 9/5! We look forward to seeing the smiling faces!

Greetings Roadrunners- a quick reminder that HUSD will not be in session on Monday, September 4th for Labor Day! Also, parent-teacher conferences are next week! Have a great weekend and thanks for your partnership in Helping our Unique Students Develop!

Please stop by Park School's Book Fair during Parent Teacher Conferences. Thank you in advance for supporting our school book fair and creating a love for reading with your child. See attached flier for dates and times. You can also visit the Book Fair Homepage https://www.scholastic.com/bf/parkschool

Do your kids ever talk to you about Baby Echo or Mommy Echo? These are puppets we use when teaching Fundations, our foundational phonics program. Echo may say something and the students repeat, or echo, after. This helps reinforce phonemic awareness skills which are critical to students early literacy skills!

With our new ELA curriculum, Wit and Wisdom, our kindergarten students are teachers are going to the NEXT LEVEL! Students have been exploring their five senses and reading about their five senses. Today, students in Mrs. Reid's class completed an assessment where they chose a body part and described what they do with it. Each student the. Said, "With my __, I __." We have raised the bar for our students and they are rising to those expectations!

Please stop by Park School's Book Fair during Parent Teacher Conferences. Thank you in advance for supporting our school book fair and creating a love for reading with your child. See attached flier for dates and times.