Dear Spring Creek Families,
I definitely felt the love on Valentine’s Day. Thanks to all of the families and students who sent me Valentine’s cards. Receiving them truly filled my heart with LOVE. The students were so happy. I have settled in to being Principal at Spring Creek and truly love my job!
Some of our families prefer text with a link to the newsletter because they don’t have email or internet at home. Others prefer email only. Some prefer both. In an attempt to communicate with as many people as I can, I send out my newsletter multiple ways.
We have a Cheetah Awards Assembly this Friday 2/21/20 at 8:20. Students will receive an award for kindness. Monday, Feb.17th is a holiday. School will resume on Tuesday, 2/18/20. Report cards go home on Feb. 28th. The week of March 2nd-6th will be shortened days for parent conferences. Please remember to pick up your students at 1:42 during conference week. Please stop by our Book Fair that week.
PTA News:
We need your help please!
Comedy & Bingo Night Adults Only Fundraising Event:
Do you have a Timeshare, Hotel or Airbnb connection? Perhaps you have a connection to a business, artist or service. Our amazing PTA is working on a big fundraiser in April (Tentative date, April 3rd) where we will have an adults only evening of comedy, BINGO, a live and silent auction. Please share your connections for auction items with Jennifer Graue:Graue.jennifer@gmail.com
Spirit wear orders will start on Feb. 24th and go through March 8th.
Safety Update:
Each month, we have a safety drill (Fire, earthquake and Lockdown). The students have been doing a fantastic job of practicing the drills and quietly listening to directions. This month, I rescheduled our fire drill to this Friday, Feb. 21st at 9:30. We will practice evacuating to the Beth Ami parking lot. All of our door windows have or will have blinds to cover windows on the doors. Two thirds of them have been installed. Thanks to our district office for paying for these.
Book Faire Coming soon: Spring Creek is partnering with Scholastic to put on a Book Fair before and after school during conference week, 3/2-3/6. This amazing event takes place at the Spring Creek library. It promotes reading and raises much-needed money to replenish and/or update the Spring Creek library. Please sign up to help using the sign up genius link! We especially need afternoon cashiers!!!
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Kathy Pecsar at KPecsar@rvusd.org
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0845AEAE28A7FB6-spring4
Parking: Be a Part of the Solution: Thank you Spring Creek families for helping be a part of the solution to our parking, pick up and drop off. I would love to have more parent/grandparent volunteer help, even if you only have 15 minutes. Thank you in advance for using the crosswalks only and staying in your vehicle in the white curb drop off zone. The idea is to keep pulling forward in the white zone. Please set an example for our students by using crosswalks.
Proud Principal: When students demonstrate character traits such as kindness, respect, perseverance, hard work, passing a level of Lexia, learning all of the sight words, etc., teachers will send them up to the office to receive a sticker that says “Your Principal is Proud of You.” Additionally, a note comes home to you as to why your child was selected for the Proud Principal Award. Each Friday I will take photos of all of the students who were sent to the office and put the photo in my weekly newsletter. Seeing kids in my office making positive choices is so rewarding. Here is a photo from Fridday, Feb. 14th.
I am so proud of these students!!
SCIENCE LAB | Ms. Anie Morey is our science facilitator. Part 2 of 2 |
Thank you Ms. Anie for making science so fun. | Students are taught science in their classroom and then go to the science lab every other week for hands-on instruction with our science facilitator. Here are some recent photos of some of those hands-on moments. Mystery Science is the curriculum used in the science lab and it is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. (NGSS) This is a third grade science unit with the focus on forces: Students were asked to build a bridge that could hold as many pennies as possible. The idea was to build a bridge using only two pieces of regular copy paper. Students designed a bridge and when the bridge failed, they had to redesign and try again. After three iterations many found success. |
Upcoming Events:
February
17th - Lincoln’s Birthday / Presidents Day NO School
28th - Report cards home
March
2nd-6th Conference Days - Shortened days
Shortened day
Book Fair
Performing Arts Day Rescheduled for May 22nd
9th SC STEM Museum This will be amazing.
10th Matanzas STEM Museum
10th- 2nd Grade Field Trip to Sonoma County Fairgrounds 8:30-11:55
11th 3rd Grade Tie Dye Day
23rd Disaster Drill
25th PTA Meeting General 6:30 Matanzas
26th 3rd Grade Field Trip to Charles Schultz Museum
27th - SSC / ELAC
TBA - Dine and Donate
Thank you for your understanding when getting both emails and texts regarding the Cheetah Chatter Newsletter. Some of our families do not have computers or the internet, I send out information in a variety of ways to accommodate all families and to ensure that everyone receives the information.
Here is the link to this week’s flyers. https://www.rvusd.org/o/spring-creek/browse/75189
Happy Valentine’s Day
Warm Regards,
Shawne Kearney
Spring Creek Principal