April 11, 2025

Six Weeks To Go!

This week, several students realized there were only six weeks left in the school year. They couldn't believe the end of the year was so close. Time flies after Spring Break! STAAR will take up some of our remaining time, but we will focus more on the days we don't have STAAR tests. This week, we talked with all three classes about their expectations for the rest of the year, including how each student wants the last six weeks to go. I'm happy to say your kiddos all want these remaining weeks to be great! 

Part of our STAAR prep includes helping students believe in themselves, especially when they struggle to do just that. Struggling with something often makes finally understanding it more rewarding, and this is a concept we try to teach your kiddos. As we've mentioned in a previous newsletter, helping students avoid becoming so frustrated that learning breaks down is a big part of what we do. This goes hand in hand with teaching students to advocate for themselves and their needs so they are prepared to do this in middle school. These discussions also focus on the importance of balance, and we will continue to help your kiddos work on maintaining their balance until the end of the year. We've got this!

Save the Date

Friday, April 18th

• Good Friday- No School

Tuesday, April 22nd

-5th-Grade Science STAAR Test

Charged Chromebooks and Headphones For STAAR

Parents, please have your child bring headphones to school starting Monday for our upcoming STAAR reading test. They can keep them in their backpack, but we want to ensure students have access to headphones because what we have in the classroom isn't always reliable, and we have a limited amount available. We would also like to ask you to remind your kiddos to charge their devices for our STAAR tests. We don't want any student to run into issues for the test due to their device not being charged. 

Thank you so much for helping us with this!!

Please Register Your Child For Next Year!

New and returning students can register for the 2025-2026 school year.

GCISD is in the planning stages for the 2025-2026 school year. It is important for you to register your child as soon as possible, as it will affect the number of teachers retained on every campus in the district. Thank you!

Teacher Emails

Should the need arise for you to contact one of your child's teachers for academic questions/concerns/comments, or anything else, here are their email addresses:

6th Grade Accelerated Math (@iUPrep) - chad.baker@gcisd.net

5th-Grade Math- ashley.carter@gcisd.net

Science/Social Studies - christi.robertson@gcisd.net

ELAR - rion.wahpekeche@gcisd.net

Please do not hesitate to contact us. Our goal is to respond the same day if possible, but it may be the following morning before we can. 

Curriculum 

ELAR:

• I can explain an author’s purpose and message within various texts.

• I can analyze how an author’s use of language, voice, and mood makes their writing more interesting.

• I can identify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory and use these types of sentences in my writing.

Math: 

• Next week, we will continue to review our math skills in preparation for STAAR.

Science: 

• Next week, we will continue to review for our upcoming Science STAAR test.

Social Studies:

• I can identify the goals the Progressive Movement worked toward and was able to achieve.

• I can explore the cause-and-effect events that led to the war.

• I can describe the effects of the Treaty of Versailles.

Feedback

We know we aren't perfect. Please click the link below and give us feedback on the first two weeks of school. We'd love to improve, and we'd appreciate your feedback. Thanks in advance!

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