REMINDERS!!!

Important Dates


5/29 - 2nd Grade Awards - 8 am

5/31 - Last Day of School - Early Release 11:45 am







Sunday, January 28, 2018

New This Week - January 29, 2018

Curriculum this week

Language Arts in Spanish: 
     Spelling - test Friday 2/2
     Writing - friendly letter
     Library - Wednesday
Math: 3D Shapes - using TinkerCad to create a robot from 3D Shapes
Engineering: Producers & Consumers - Beginning our Package Engineering Unit



If you can donate a bottle of hand sanitizer to our 2nd graders, we would appreciate it! 



GT LEAD & Aspire Academy GT Testing for Grades 1-4


The parent information meeting will be Thursday, February 1 from 6:00-7:00 pm at the Professional Development Education Center in Colleyville.  Please make plans to attend this meeting to learn more about testing and qualifying for Cannon's GT LEAD program and the Aspire Academy at Glenhope Elementary for the upcoming school year. The parent nomination window for GT LEAD and the Aspire Academy opens February 2-16, and parents need to complete a Parent Inventory/Permission-to-test form found on the district website under Advanced Academics. Testing will begin February 26.


If you have any questions, please email our campus GT specialist at Melanie.Gable@gcisd.net.  


Field Trip Information

2nd Graders will celebrate Engineering Week with a trip to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History on February 20th.  Please return student permission slips and $5 as soon as possible.


Parent Technology Academy

GCISD's Technology Department has planned some wonderful parent information sessions for the spring semester! Parent Technology Academy is a free monthly series by GCISD Technology developed to help educate our community about our ever-changing digital world. Check out the dates & topics below! Each session is approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes Q&A.

Thank you to all of the parents that attended the session last week on Internet Safety. Stay tuned for more information coming soon about the following topics!

FUTURE SESSION TOPICS:

February 20 - Top Apps that parents need to know about
Bear Creek Elementary cafeteria - 6 p.m.

March 20- Mobile App and Social Media awareness and branding
Grapevine High School library - 6 p.m.

April 19- Tops Apps that parents need to know about
Colleyville Middle School cafeteria - 6 p.m.

May 22- Internet Safety ( Digital Citizenship) – tools for at home Internet filtering
Colleyville Heritage High School library - 6 p.m.

Mrs. Blizzard's Parent Newsletter


Read Mrs. Blizzard's Parent Newsletter here.

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