Calling All Sixth Graders

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1 August 13, 2015 Fall Parent Teacher Conferences will be in the Parks Gym Tuesday, September 1 st from 3:30pm 7:00pm Wednesday, September 2 nd from 2:30pm 6:30pm Thursday, September 3 rd from 2:00pm 5:00pm Progress Reports will be given to parents at Conferences No school on our professional growth training day, Friday, September 4 th No school on Labor Day, September 7 th Fall NWEA testing starts Monday August 17 th - Be rested and ready! Fall sports tryouts begin Tuesday, August 18 th Please take time to read the attached notifications and forms found at the end of our newsletter. Friday, September 18 th from 1:30pm 2:55pm is the Sixth Grade Mixer Dance Student Council News Connolly s Student Council had an informational meeting on Wednesday, August 12 th. Students interested in applying for STUCO officer positions need to pick up an application as soon as possible. All applications must be received by Tuesday, August 18 th with all required components complete. Presidential campaigning occurs from August 20 th - 24 th. Only eighth graders interested in the presidential officer position are allowed to campaign. If you have any questions, please contact the STUCO advisor - Mrs. Olsen. Student Council is selling SaveAround Coupon Books for $ Please consider purchasing one to support Connolly Middle School. They will be available in the office until August 28 th.

2 Calling All Sixth Graders Sixth Graders Music and Friends Sixth Grade Mixer Dance Make sure to attend the very first dance of the school year! WHO: Only sixth graders WHEN: Friday, August 28, 2015 WHERE: Connolly Cafeteria WHAT: Sixth Grade Mixer Dance WHY: Meet new friends at the mixer COST: $3.00 per ticket SNACK PACKS: $5.00 Snack Bar items are available. The dance is from 1:30 until 2:55pm sharp. You must have a ride home. NO BUSSES!! You need to have your ID and lanyard to purchase a ticket during lunches that week. You cannot attend the dance if you are listed on office probation or library probation. Make sure all books from fifth grade are returned to our library. Scholastic Book Fair During the week of Parent/Teacher Conferences, September 1 st through the 3 rd, Connolly will host a Scholastic Book Fair in the school library. The book fair will be open during the evening when conferences are in session as well as before and during school. Please stop by to check out new books, support the school, and the Connolly Library. See you at the Book Fair!

3 Busy on Curriculum Night? Parents, if you missed our Curriculum Night and Title 1 Parent Night on August 11 th, please view our Title 1 video. The link to the Title 1 video (in English and Spanish) is (and that's a capital "I" not a 1). We look forward to working with all of our parents this year and if you have any questions regarding Title 1 and your student, please contact Mrs. Udall Schulte, Mrs. Dorn or Mrs. Olsen at Connolly. Connolly Middle School National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) Current NJHS members will meet this month to discuss the focus for the school year. Specific meeting times will be announced during lunches. Listen for news! Students in seventh or eighth grades interested in applying for NJHS will be eligible in October after the first quarter grades and GPAs are posted. Look for more information in October, Sixth graders interested in NJHS will be eligible at the end of the semester in January, Look for more information at that time. Parents All students must have their parent/guardian sign page 3 of the student discipline handbook and return it to their teacher as soon as possible. If you have not seen a paper copy of this you may find the handbook on the Tempe Elementary Schools website. The link for the handbook is on the following webpage: You may print page 3 and sign that for your student to return to school. Parents and Students - Bell Schedule This year, Connolly s first bell rings at 8:15am, the tardy bell rings at 8:20am and the dismissal bell rings at 3:20pm Monday through Thursday. Friday s schedule starts the same as the other days, but dismissal time is 1:30pm. Please note that our starting time this year is 30 minutes later than last year. Due to the later start time, students may not be on campus before 7:50am. Tempe Elementary School busses drop off students at 7:50am. Connolly s cafeteria begins serving breakfast at 7:50am. Connolly teachers are out supervising the students at 7:50am. Please refrain from dropping students off early. We appreciate your help keeping your students and our campus safe. If you have any questions, please contact an administrator or School Resource Officer Baggs.

4 Booster Club The Connolly Booster Club needs your support! Donations are being accepted to fund activities for students and to assist teachers in purchasing supplies. Please contact to learn how to donate! You can also attend Booster Club meetings which are held the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00pm in the Connolly Library. The second Booster Club meeting of the year will be held Tuesday, September 1 st. Come join us and thank you! Cafeteria Reminder If you were on free and reduced lunches last year, and haven t turned in your new pink application, you need to do so. Applications expire in September and it takes time for new ones to be processed. Applications can also be done online through the Tempe Elementary School website, If you have already received a letter telling you that you have been approved, then you may ignore this reminder. If you have any questions, please check with Mrs. Harris, Cafeteria Manager, at X4812. Our Newsletter This issue of the Connolly Newsletter will be the only issue this month. For the months from September through March, it will be published on the first and third Thursdays. With testing and so many other activities in April and May, there will be only one issue in those months. The publishing dates for those months will be determined closer to the time, when testing dates are set. The newsletter will feature various items throughout the year, so stay tuned!

5 PARENT NOTIFICATION OF TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS: As a parent of a student at Tempe Elementary School District No. 3, you have the right to know the professional qualifications of the classroom teachers who instruct your child. Federal law allows you to ask for certain information about your child's classroom teachers. It is our goal to give you this information in a timely manner if you ask for it. Specifically, you have the right to ask for the following information about each of your child's classroom teachers: Whether the Arizona State Board of Education -Certification Unit has licensed or qualified the teacher for the grades and subjects he or she teaches. Whether the Arizona State Board of Education has decided that the teacher can teach in a classroom without being licensed or qualified under state regulations because of special circumstances. The teacher's college major; whether the teacher has any advanced degrees and, if so, the subject of the degrees. Whether any teacher's assistant or similar paraprofessionals provide services to your child and, if they do, their qualifications. If you would like to receive any of this information, please contact the principal of your child's school who will assist you in getting the requested information. Como padre de familia de un estudiante del Distrito Escolar de Tempe No. 3, usted tiene el derecho de saber los titulos profesionales de los maestros del salon de clases. que enseñan a su hijo/a. La ley federal permite que usted solicite cierta informacion acerca de los maestros del salon de clases de su hijo/a. Nuestra meta es de proporcionarle esta informacion dentro de un termino de tiempo, si usted asi lo solicita. Especificamente, usted tiene el derecho de solicitar la siguiente informacion acerca de cada uno de los maestros del salon de clases de su hijo/a: Si la Unidad de Certificacion del Consejo Estatal de Educacion de Arizona ha otorgado licencia o calificado como maestro para enseñar las materias y los grados que esta enseñando. Si el Consejo Estatal de Educacion de Arizona ha decidido que el maestro puede enseñar en el salon de clases sin haber sido autorizado o titulado de acuerdo a los reglamentos estatales debido a circunstancias especiales. El area de especialidad del maestro en la universidad; si el maestro tiene titulos de post-grado, y si este es el caso, cuales son las areas de estos titulos. Si algun asistente de maestro o para-profcsionales similares proporcionan servicios a su hijo/a, y si este es el caso, cuales son sus certificaciones. Si a usted le gustaria recibir cualquiera de esta informacion, sirvase ponerse en contacto con el director/a de la escuela de su hijo/a, quien le ayudara a obtener la informacion requerida.

6 Gifted Child Find Tempe Elementary District #3 offers gifted testing in the areas of verbal, quantitative (math), and nonverbal reasoning on a State Board approved test for gifted identification. Referrals for testing of students in kindergarten through eighth grade come from teachers, administrators, parents, and students. If you would like to recommend a student for testing, referral forms can be requested from the school office or the Gifted Education Department. Referral forms can be completed at any time during the school year. Three opportunities to test are provided during the school year, although individual students may only test once per year. The next test session will be held August 31 September 15 and the referral deadline for this test session is Wednesday, August 19. Additional opportunities to test will be available in January and April. If you have any questions about referring your child for testing, contact our gifted teacher or the Gifted Education Department at Hallar a Niños Superdotados El Distrito Escolar de Tempe No. 3 ofrece administrar pruebas para niños superdotados en las áreas de razonamiento verbal, cuantitativo (matemáticas) y no verbal en un examen aprobado por la Mesa Directiva Estatal para la identificación de niños superdotados. Las referencias para las pruebas de los estudiantes de kínder a octavo grado se hacen a través de los maestros, administradores, padres de familia y estudiantes. Si le gustaría recomendar a un estudiante para las pruebas, los formularios de referencia se pueden solicitar en la oficina escolar o en el Departamento de Educación para Niños Superdotados. Los formularios de referencia los puede llenar en cualquier momento durante el año escolar. Se ofrecen tres oportunidades para administrar la prueba durante el año escolar, aunque algunos estudiantes pudieran hacer esta prueba una vez por año. La próxima sesión de pruebas se llevará a cabo del 31 de agosto al 15 de septiembre y la fecha límite para entregar la solicitud de esta sesión será el miércoles, 19 de agosto de Habrán otras oportunidades para hacer las pruebas en enero y abril. Si tiene alguna pregunta sobre cómo referir a su niño para una prueba, favor de contactar a nuestro maestro de niños superdotados o al Departamento de Educación de Niños Superdotados, al

7 August 3, 2015 To Parents/Guardians of All 4 th 6 th Grade Students: A law in Arizona (Arizona Revised Statute A.26) requires all public school students in grades 4-6 to recite two-sentences from the Declaration of Independence at the beginning of the first class of every school day. Beginning Monday, August 10 th, all Tempe School District #3 4 th 6 th grade classrooms will be reciting the following excerpt each morning. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. If you object to having your child/ren join in this recitation, they may be excluded by filling out the form at the bottom of this letter and returning it to the school office. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Sincerely, Kathy Mullery Principal I give my permission for my child/ren to participate in reciting the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence at the beginning of each school day. I DO NOT give permission for my child/ren to participate in reciting the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence at the beginning of each school day. Child s Name Teacher Parent/Guardian Signature Date

8 3 de Agosto, 2015 Para los Padres de Familia / Guardianes de Todos los Estudiantes de 4º, 5º y 6º Grados: Una ley en Arizona (Estatuto Revisado de Arizona A.26) requiere que todos los estudiantes de las escuelas públicas de 4º, 5º y 6º grados, reciten dos oraciones de la Declaración de Independencia al inicio de la primera clase de todos los días escolares. Empezando el lunes 10 de agosto, todos los salones de clases de 4º, 5º y 6º grados del Distrito Escolar de Tempe No. 3, recitarán el siguiente extracto todas las mañanas, sólamente en inglés. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. A continuación se encuentra la traducción de esta recitación: Conservamos estas verdades para ser auto-evidentes, de que todos los hombres están creados por igual, de que ellos están dotados por su Creador con ciertos Derechos intraspasables, que entre éstos están la Vida, la Libertad y la búsqueda de la Felicidad. Para estar seguros de estos derechos, los Gobiernos se han instituído entre los Hombres, derivando de sus justos poderes del consentimiento de lo gobernado. Si usted se opone a que su(s) niño(s) participe(n) en esta recitación, se le podrá excluír llenando la forma de abajo de esta carta y regresándola a la oficina escolar. No dude en llamar si tiene alguna pregunta. Muy atentamente, Kathy Mullery Director/a recorte aquí Doy mi permiso para que mi(s) niño(s) participe(n) en recitar en inglés el extracto de la Declaración de Independencia al inicio de cada día escolar. NO doy mi permiso para que mi(s) niño(s) participe(n) en recitar en inglés el extracto de la Declaración de Independencia al inicio de cada día escolar. Nombre del Niño/a Maestro/a Firma del Padre / Madre / Guardián Fecha

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