Week at a Glance May 29-June 1, 2018

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

Keeping this one short and sweet! The checkout list is coming soon!  :)  Happy Last Week!

Tuesday May 29

>8:15 and 1:30 Cultural Explosion Performances

>Support staff and para summatives today and tomorrow

Wednesday May 30-Kids 1/2 Day

>8:oo-4th Grade Awards

>9:00-3rd Grade Awards

>10:00 2nd Grade Awards

>11:00 1st Grade Awards

>1:00 ARD (Mier/Hernandez and Sanders)

Thursday May 31

>8:00 5th Grade Awards

>10:00 Kinder Awards

Friday June 1

>Checkout Day! (checkout list coming soon!)

>8:30 Breakfast in café A

>11:30 Sanders working at Irving High Graduation

>6:00 Staff EOY at Sanders House! More details coming soon

Growing Greatness in Every Student Every Day! 

Week at a Glance May 21-25, 2018

Last Full Week of School in 2017-2018

Have a great last full week of school... I can't believe it flew by this fast! Let us know if you need anything! We appreciate you all more than you know! Happy last Monday... :)

~Shout out to Rosa Fernandez and our wonderful Parent Volunteers for receiving the GOLD Seal of Excellence Award and $400 at the Seal of Excellence Ceremony on Friday! 
~Shout out to Janie Martinez for working alongside Rosa to get parent classes an other initiatives going this year!
~Did you know...  Our GOLD Award winning Volunteer, Maria Belen Perez volunteered 755 hours?! That is almost 5 months of volunteering at 40 hours per week! AND our SILVER Award winning volunteer, Maria (Carmen) Ortega volunteered 509 hours this year! That is over THREE months at 40 hours per week! (and I think there are unaccounted hours in there!) WOW!  Words cannot express how grateful we are for these two ladies and all they do for our school. 
~Shout out to 3rd-5th grade teachers for making it through STAAR week. YAY!  We are proud of all of your hard work!  Also, big shout out to K-2 teachers for all the support and quiet hallways!

Reminders THIS WEEK:
>Grades due on Wednesday
>Review behavior expectations EACH day and before EACH transition. 
>Support staff and paraprofessionals will have summatives this week
>LPAC EOY Meetings Mon-Wed

Monday May 21
>Welcome back, Mrs. Orton!
>9:00 ARD (1st grade/Ojeda/Pinto)
>3:45 CIC

Tuesday May 22
>9:00 ARD (Kinder Cortez/Chaffin)
>10:30 ARD ( 4th Ashley)
>1:00 Sanders off campus for meeting
>3:30 Tiffany Conorino Wedding Shower!
>5:00-7:00 PM Kinder Round -Up!
>Happy Birthday, Mirna Lucero!

Wednesday May 23
>LAST SET of GRADES DUE!
>10:00AM Geo-Bee! Good Luck Mrs. Anderson, Ms. Hancock, and our 5th grade geography wiz-kids!
>3:30 Mrs. Nancy Hutchinson and Ms. Delsa Castro's Retirement Party! 

Thursday May 24
>5th Grade Track Meet @ Irving Stadium! (Sanders attending)
>8:30-11:30 Gorena @ testing coordinator training
>11:00 ARD (possible admin at Keyes)

Friday May 25
>EOY Party!!
Dress code- only require spirit T-shirt (any-even the Penny Run). If anyone wears shorts-adults and students-must be appropriate length. (Stay safe with fingertip length) If dress code is in question-call office before calling home. 
>10:00 Irving Reads for 10 minutes!
>4th grade DBQ due

Upcoming Dates:
~May 28 Memorial Day Holiday
~May 29 Cultural Explosion
~May 30 1st through 4th Awards
~May 31 Kinder and 5th Awards
~June 1   Staff End of Year Breakfast and Check-out Day!

Growing Greatness in Every Student Every Day! 

JHE Week at a Glance May 14-18,2018

An Ode To Teacher Moms

It’s time to get up! I’ve got to wash my hair!  I wonder what the kids will wear today?  I’m so tired.  I stayed up too late working.  Honey, can you help me out?  No, I haven’t made the coffee yet!  Can you make the kids their lunches?  I’m so tired.  Don’t tell me I have to get gas too! 

I watched my wife get ready for school every morning for about 10 years.  Well…sometimes.  Most of the time though, she got up before I did.  Looking back, I had it pretty easy.  She got the kids ready, made their lunches, made sure they had their homework completed….and so on. Then, after a full day of standing, bending, kneeling, and teaching, she stayed after school to work on lesson plans and other things that are required of a teacher to be ready for the next day.  All while the kids hung out waiting for mom to finish.  Then she would come home, make dinner, help the kids with their homework, clean the house ---you know the story.  I had no idea.

Then one day…I became a teacher.  The first thing I did was call my wife and apologize to her for all the times I didn’t help out when I could have-when I should have.  She has forgiven me, but I’ll net forget the sacrifice she made for our family.

Being a teacher is hard.  Being a teacher mom is even harder! Every day, I watch teacher moms come to work with their kids in tow.  Many of us have no idea how their morning has gone, what battles they had to fight or ignore.  And still they come, ready to teach and love other people’s kids.  I see examples of this in the office I share with a principal mom.  I see this in the classrooms I walk through.  I see this in the hallways and on the softball field.  I see this everywhere and every day at John Haley. 

Thank you all for the sacrifice you make on a daily basis- the time away from your families, energy, money, and emotion you pour out to make others better.  You truly are amazing!  I hope your Mother’s Day was filled with blessings as you truly are a blessing to all of us!

Love, Mark

~Shout out to Caitlyn Gray for going to an Art reception with a student for winning an Art Concept.
~Shout out to Sandra Plascensia for helping test all 2^nd grade students on MAP language. 
~Shout out to PTA for the great lunch on Friday!

Reminders THIS WEEK:
>STAAR TESTING MON-WED! QUIET HALLS PLEASE!

Monday May 14
>STAAR Testing 3-4 Math 5th Math re-test

Tuesday May 15
>STAAR Testing 3-4 Reading 5th Reading re-test
>2nd Grade Zoo Field trip! Have fun!

Wednesday May 16
>STAAR Testing 5th Science; make-up testing

Thursday May 17
>LPAC Meetings all day
>9:00 Game Truck for chocolate sales
>3:30 Softball!

Friday May 19
>9:00 Parent Center Seal of Excellence Ceremony @Singley! (YAY ROSA! We are getting a GOLD!)
>Core team meeting TBD

Upcoming Dates:
~May 22 Kindergarten Round Up 5:00-7:00
~May 23 Nancy and Delsa's Retirement Party!
~May 24 5th Grade Track Meet
~May 25 EOY Party and Irving Reads
~May 29 Cultural Explosion
~May 30 1st through 4th Awards
~May 31 Kinder and 5th Awards
~June 1   Staff End of Year Breakfast and Check-out Day!

Growing Greatness in Every Student Every Day! 

Week at a Glance May 7-11, 2018

Inspirational Weekend
Thank you all so much for your donations to Coach Rector's weekend. It was an amazing sight to see. Ya'll, she cried when she read your comments in that book. Thank you for those heartfelt words.
If you ever needed validation about being an educator...seeing something like this would seal the deal. Students from the past 25 years were there to support her. And it's not like she was an "easy" teacher. She was tough... she pushed us...she  put up with probably too much. She got on to us in biology. She yelled at us on the field. She made us pull tires for punishment... But she knew when we needed comfort too. And hugs... and understanding. And a trip to a college campus. 

I hope your kids come back now and then and tell you what you meant to them.  Its more than you know if you take the time to build relationships. (She told me she had no idea that she meant this much to people.) 

Have a fantastic Teacher Appreciation Week. You all deserve all the love for the sacrifices you make for our students! I am proud as always to work alongside you. #JHESTRONG!

~Shout out to Coach Fulton for coming out and running a 5K all the way in Weatherford. Ya'll... that course was 75% uphill... make sure you give her a high five! (I think I owe her!)
~Shout out to Caitlin Gray for winning $500 dollars for her classroom from the Retired Teachers Association! She was chosen out of around 100 teachers! WOO HOO!
~Shout out to Nancy Hutchinson  for advocating for a student so he can be placed in an appropriate classroom for his learning! So awesome that you continue to do this for our kids!
~Shout out to everyone that has been DRA/EDL testing. Thank you for working hard to collect the most accurate information on our kids so we can make the best possible instructional decisions possible!

Reminders THIS WEEK:
>Last set of PROGRESS report grades due on Thursday!
>TESTING continues... DRA/MAP/Fluency/etc

Monday May 7
>Jeans all week
>Book Fair last day!
>Lunch provided by Slim Chickens!
>Contracts to be signed today!
>9:00 ARD 5th Hancock/Anderson/Gorena
>9:30 ARD 5th Hancock/Anderson/Gorena
>10:00 ARD 5th Hancock/Anderson/Gorena
>10:30 ARD 5th Hancock Anderson/Gorena
>1:00 ARD 3rd Morales/Mier/Sanders
>1:15 504 (Martinez/Fountain/1st grade-Jayden)
>2:00 Parent Class-Gardening
>3:30-5:15 Softball 

Tuesday May 8
>You are "Nothing Bundt" the Best! (treat in lounge!)
>ELAR Planning Day
>9:00 ARD (Anderson/Hancock/Gorena)
>1:15 Parent Class-Fruit Infused Drink Class
>2:00 ARD Ojeda/Pinto/Fountain

Wednesday May 9
>Math Planning Day
>We love you a "Waffle Lot"! Breakfast
>9:00 Sanders in budget meeting on campus
>2:00 Parent Class-Choosing the best Discipline 

Thursday May 10
>Progress Report Grades DUE! (last ones for the year!)
>Special Delivery Today! Ice Cream and another surprise!
>9:15 2nd Grade program in cafe
>1:00 ARD (Kerans/Smith/Sanders)
>3:30-5:15 Softball
>Nancy Hutchinson being honored tonight at the Retiree Banquet! 

Friday May 11
>Lunch provided by PTA-Hamburger Man!
>Prize drawings on announcements!
>Happy Birthday Christine Balmaceda! 🎉
>Summative Conferences held by today!
>Sanders out 
>2:00 Parent Class-Diffusing Family Disagreements

Upcoming Dates:
~May 14-16 Round 2 of STAAR-3rd, 4th, and 5th Science
~May 18 Parent Center Seal of Excellence Ceremony
~May 22 Kindergarten Round Up 5:00-7:00
~May 23 Nancy and Delsa's Retirement Party!
~May 24 5th Grade Track Meet
~May 25 EOY Party and Irving Reads
~May 29 Cultural Explosion
~May 30 1st through 4th Awards
~May 31 Kinder and 5th Awards
~June 1   Staff End of Year Breakfast and Check-out Day!

Growing Greatness in Every Student Every Day!