Eagle Eyes - Eastvalley Elementary School
Eagle Eyes - Eastvalley Elementary School
Eagle Eyes - Eastvalley Elementary School
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<strong>Eagle</strong> <strong>Eyes</strong> a Publication of your <strong>Eastvalley</strong> PTA® August February 2009 2010<br />
A Letter From Our Principal<br />
Page <br />
Dear Parents,<br />
<strong>School</strong> website: www.<strong>Eastvalley</strong><strong>Elementary</strong>.com<br />
The school year is moving along quickly! The teachers and students are<br />
working hard to ensure that all Georgia Performance Standards are<br />
mastered. Great instruction is going on in all <strong>Eastvalley</strong> classrooms to<br />
engage students in performance based lessons. No longer is it good<br />
enough to use rote memory, but rather the phrase “show what you know”<br />
comes in handy. Students are expected to know, understand, do and<br />
communicate what they are learning.<br />
One snapshot of how students will show mastery of grade level standards<br />
is the Criterion Referenced Competency Test, or CRCT. Those tests will<br />
Karen Wacker, Principal be given beginning on April 14 and ending on April 23. We need ALL<br />
students (1st-5th) to be ON TIME and present in school on those days!<br />
Please do not make dental or doctor’s appointments on any of those days. If you child is sick or has a fever, of course<br />
you will need to keep them home. Thanks for looking at your calendars and marking those days as critical school days.<br />
<strong>Eastvalley</strong> will celebrate Staff Appreciation Week March 8-12. You should have recently received a PTA flyer asking for<br />
a family donation. When we celebrate the staff, we celebrate everyone! Teachers, bus drivers, parapros, office staff,<br />
custodians, lunchroom staff and administration are celebrated for their efforts in making <strong>Eastvalley</strong> the wonderful school<br />
that it is! Here are a couple of ideas for you to celebrate with us:<br />
1. Put a sign in your neighborhood thanking the bus driver for keeping your children safe. They will love<br />
seeing it while driving on their route.<br />
2. Have your child make a card for their teacher (and parapro if they have one) saying thank you for making<br />
learning fun.<br />
3. Send a note to Food Dude and his staff for preparing delicious breakfasts and lunches.<br />
4. Make a sign for the custodians that keep our school clean and safe.<br />
5. Send notes to the office staff saying how much you appreciate their service.<br />
6. Create a card for Nurse Ashley that she can display in the clinic.<br />
I know each of you will find a way to celebrate the staff at <strong>Eastvalley</strong> and it will be all the thanks everyone needs. We<br />
have very special families who are great at giving thanks!<br />
Mrs. Moot Receives Science Award<br />
We have some great news to share with all of our parents, staff and<br />
students! Mrs. Lindy Moot, a 2nd grade teacher at <strong>Eastvalley</strong>, was<br />
named the Georgia <strong>Elementary</strong> Science Teacher of the Year by the<br />
Georgia Science Teachers Association! Wow!! What a great award<br />
for a great teacher and for the entire school of <strong>Eastvalley</strong>. We are<br />
fortunate to have some of the greatest teachers around and it’s nice<br />
when someone else recognizes it also.<br />
Karen Wacker<br />
Principal<br />
Mr.s Lindy Moot<br />
PTA website: www.eastvalleypta.org
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