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Week of September 24th
Week of September 24th
Hello Families!
Happy Rosh Hashanah to those who are celebrating.
We wanted to make sure you save the date. Parent conferences will be held on Monday, October 13th. More information will be coming soon.
Reading: We will be continuing our Nonfiction unit this week. The focus skills for this week will be central idea and summarizing. For the central idea, we will be using a strategy called Boxes and Bullets. We will read passages and identify the central idea and supporting details. Students will record the Central Idea and Details on sticky notes made into the Boxes and Bullets graphic organizer (see below for examples). We will have our next Book Club meeting on Friday, September 26th. Students have reading, sticky notes, and double-entry notes due for this meeting. Please check in with your child about their assignment.
Writing: This week in writing, we will be continuing our work on developing our nonfiction writing. We have already picked a topic and written thesis statements. This week, we will plan out each section's central idea and details. We will make some connections to reading because our planning will also use the boxes and bullets strategy.
Grammar/Word Study:
This week, we will be thinking about Parts of Speech. There are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions.
We will be developing our vocabulary this week using Flocabulary. Students will wear a name tag on Thursday that says, "Ask me what _____ means." This will encourage them to teach their word to others.
Social Studies: We will start the week by talking about the Mayflower Compact, one of the important representative governments in the colonies. Then, we will examine the Virginia House of Burgesses, another of the first representative governments in the United States. Finally, we will compare the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. We will talk about the differences in the reasons for founding, geography, economy, and government.
On top of all of the amazing learning we are doing, some important dates are also coming up. They are:
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @ 5:15- PTA Meeting
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @6:00 - Hey Dude, Nice Shoes- Parent Presentation
Friday, September 26, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 3
Friday, October 3, 2025 from 5-7pm- Spooky STEAM Night
Friday, October 10, 2025- Fall Picture Day
Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 6pm- PTA Movie Night
Friday, October 10, 2025- End of First Nine Weeks
Monday, October 13- Student Holiday / PARENT CONFERENCES
Monday, October 13-Friday, October 17- Book Fair
Monday, October 27, 2025- Author Visit: Nocholas Solis
We also have an important announcement:
A Note from Ms. Gagliardi and Ms. Wood
Two important notes in case you missed our Parent Night last week.
First, we are doing 5th-grade class shirts through Amazon this year. The Woodliardi pairing color is Navy. You can order using this link.
Second, our 5th graders have an amazing opportunity to celebrate their elementary school journey with a special field trip to Reunion Ranch in May! This trip is designed to be a fun-filled celebration as our students prepare to transition to middle school. We are considering using charter buses this year. However, charter buses would require additional funding beyond our regular transportation budget. Please fill out this form to help us to gauge parent interest and support before moving forward with planning.
From Cafeteria:
Grandparent's Day is coming up soon - Sunday, September 7th. We would like to welcome our grandparents to lunch. We will extend this invitation to the remaining Fridays in September if you are unable to make it on the 12th. Grandparents are welcome to sit with their grandchildren during lunch, bring a special lunch for their grandchildren, or join them in eating from the cafeteria. There will not be a special lunch, it will be a Friday Pizza lunch. IF your child's grandparents will be ordering pizza, we need you to email your child's teacher with the number of people ordering so that there is enough food. Thanks for your help with this! They will also need to bring the exact amount of $4.50 per adult lunch.
From Ms. Mensing
Dear Families,
We are excited to host author Nicholas Solis! This visit has been made possible with support from our Sommer PTA and funds raised through our Scholastic Book Fair (our next one is coming October 10th).
If your family would like to pre-order one of the author's books, he will personalize it on the day of the event. Click here to pre-order!
From Mrs. Macre:
Parents, on Friday, you should have received an email from Round Rock ISD about the Panorama Survey. Round Rock ISD Board Goal Four measures student perceptions of Sense of Belonging, Safety at School, and Student Self-Efficacy. Since 2023, the district has used a survey from Panorama Education to help us understand these perceptions.
In previous years, parents could opt-out of this survey. However, with the passage of Senate Bill 12, your student must be opted-in for them to participate.
To review the questions on the survey, please click the link.
3rd-5th Grades: Student Perception and Climate
See this link for more information
The survey will be administered during the weeks of October 6-17 (Fall Survey) and March 2-13 (Spring Survey). To give your consent for your student to take the survey, please view this email and make your selection by September 29, 2025.
From PTA
PTA Membership
Join our PTA!!! No Volunteering Required! Don't forget to add a student membership! Join Here!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Show off your school pride by rocking your Stallion gear every Wednesday!
Snap a pic in your spirit wear and tag us on Facebook or email (sommerptaspiritwear@gmail.com) for a chance to be featured or win a prize! Let's turn the halls into a STAMPEDE of Red and Gold!
1st General Meeting
1st General Meeting
We are excited to host the Hey Dude, Nice Shoes! Anti-Bullying presentation on Thursday, September 25th. Mrs. Carolyn Brown does an amazing job and will be holding a parent session that evening. We will have our first General PTA meeting at 5:15pm with the presentation immediately following around 6:00. We would love to have you join us for both! Come meet some other stallion families. You do NOT want to miss this event! This event is co-hosted by our fabulous PTA! We will have high school students volunteering for childcare in the gym while parents attend the event. Students will be able to write notes of appreciation to staff members during this time, along with other activities.
https://calendar.app.google/o749U5MaQLooGooR6
STEAM NIGHT
STEAM NIGHT
The PTA is thrilled to announce the return of STEAM Night—and this year it’s going to be a little spooky! Join us for an evening packed with hands-on activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math that are guaranteed to be loads of fun. Students are encouraged to come dressed in their favorite spooky costumes!
Friday, October 3rd - 5:00 – 7:00 PM
This is our 2nd Annual STEAM Night, and you won’t want to miss it!
To make this event successful, safe, and fun, we need lots of parent volunteers.
Spooky Steam Night at Sommer- PARENT VOLUNTEERS ONLY
Please review the available slots and sign up where you can. If you’d like to help with prep work from home, email us at sommerptasteamnight@gmail.com.
Thank you for supporting our school community—we couldn’t do it without you!
Reflections Program
Calling the creators of tomorrow!!!
Theme for Reflections 2025-2026 is "I Belong",
The PTA Reflections Program gives space for students to benefit from creative expression and help in finding their own voice in telling their unique story. Express your artistic talent in 1 of the 6 arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, or 2D Visual Arts.
Accepting digital submissions only
Check eligibility criteria before sending entries @https://www.txpta.org/reflections-participation
At east one member of the household must be a PTA member to be considered - Join PTA
Student Entry form is must & Check guidelines before submission : Scan QR code or click here
Submit digital file with entry forms @ patsysommerptareflections@gmail.com
For Visual Arts entry if submitting the original artwork, please drop it off at the Patsy Sommer front office
More than 1 entry in any category, requires additional student entry form to be submitted.
DEADLINE for Submission: Monday, October 20th, 2025
Flyer.pdfStart With Hello Parent Flyer 2025.pdfWeek of September 15th
Week of September 15th
Hello Families!
Reading: We will be continuing our Nonfiction unit this week. The skill focus for this week will be nonfiction text structures and the author's purpose. These are review skills from previous grades. At the beginning of the week, we will be taking notes on author's purpose and the 5 text structures. As part of the notes, students will be identifying keywords to help them know which structure their reading is in. Then, in the middle of the week, students will read different nonfiction passages and work with a partner to identify their text structure and the author's purpose for the texts. We will end the week by reviewing everything we have learned so far about Nonfiction Texts. We will have our next Book Club meeting on Friday, September 19th. Students have reading, sticky notes, and double-entry notes due for this meeting. Please check in with your child about their assignment.
Writing: In writing this week we will be brainstorming topics for our expository nonfiction writing. To do this, students will create an expert list to see what topics they are already knowledgeable on. This writing will not be researched, so students must pick a topic they are "experts" in. Then, we will be working on drafting thesis statements. Students' thesis will be the guide for their expository writing.
Grammar/Word Study: This week, we will learn about the root -dict. This means to speak. Students will be given 10 words using this root to learn the meaning of. Students will have a word study quiz on this Friday, September 19th over this week's words and last week's.
We will continue to focus on capitalizing proper nouns. This is a review skill from previous grades, which is very important as we continue into 5th grade.
Social Studies: We are starting our colonization unit in Social Studies. We will be starting the unit by reading the book Encounter by Jane Yolen. Students will think about the different perspectives presented in the book (colonists and native tribes). Then, students will use the ethics and paradox depth and complexity icons to dig deeper into those perspectives. Then, we will learn about a couples type of government- Monarchy, Democracy, and Republic. Finally, we will discuss the colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth, why they were founded, and what life was like for a colonist in one of these colonies.
On top of all of the amazing learning we are doing, some important dates are also coming up. They are:
Monday, September 15-Friday, September 19, 2025- Start with Hello Week
Friday, September 19, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 2
Monday, September 22, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 23, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @ 5:15- PTA Meeting
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @6:00 - Hey Dude, Nice Shoes- Parent Presentation
Friday, September 26, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 3
Friday, October 3, 2025 from 5-7pm- Spooky Steam Night
Friday, October 10, 2025- Fall Picture Day
Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 6pm- PTA Movie Night
Monday, October 13- Student Holiday / PARENT CONFERENCES
We also have an important announcement:
A Note from Ms. Gagliardi and Ms. Wood
Two important notes in case you missed our Parent Night last week.
First, we are doing 5th-grade class shirts through Amazon this year. The Woodliardi pairing color is Navy. You can order using this link.
Second, our 5th graders have an amazing opportunity to celebrate their elementary school journey with a special field trip to Reunion Ranch in May! This trip is designed to be a fun-filled celebration as our students prepare to transition to middle school. We are considering using charter buses this year. However, charter buses would require additional funding beyond our regular transportation budget. Please fill out this form to help us to gauge parent interest and support before moving forward with planning.
From Cafeteria:
Grandparent's Day is coming up soon - Sunday, September 7th. We would like to welcome our grandparents to lunch. We will extend this invitation to the remaining Fridays in September if you are unable to make it on the 12th. Grandparents are welcome to sit with their grandchildren during lunch, bring a special lunch for their grandchildren, or join them in eating from the cafeteria. There will not be a special lunch, it will be a Friday Pizza lunch. IF your child's grandparents will be ordering pizza, we need you to email your child's teacher with the number of people ordering so that there is enough food. Thanks for your help with this! They will also need to bring the exact amount of $4.50 per adult lunch.
From PTA
PTA Membership
Join our PTA!!! No Volunteering Required! Don't forget to add a student membership! Join Here!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Show off your school pride by rocking your Stallion gear every Wednesday!
Snap a pic in your spirit wear and tag us on Facebook or email (sommerptaspiritwear@gmail.com) for a chance to be featured or win a prize! Let's turn the halls into a STAMPEDE of Red and Gold!
1st General Meeting
1st General Meeting
We are excited to host the Hey Dude, Nice Shoes! Anti-Bullying presentation on Thursday, September 25th. Mrs. Carolyn Brown does an amazing job and will be holding a parent session that evening. We will have our first General PTA meeting at 5:15pm with the presentation immediately following around 6:00. We would love to have you join us for both! Come meet some other stallion families. You do NOT want to miss this event! This event is co-hosted by our fabulous PTA! We will have high school students volunteering for childcare in the gym while parents attend the event. Students will be able to write notes of appreciation to staff members during this time, along with other activities.
https://calendar.app.google/o749U5MaQLooGooR6
STEAM NIGHT
STEAM NIGHT
The PTA is thrilled to announce the return of STEAM Night—and this year it’s going to be a little spooky! Join us for an evening packed with hands-on activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math that are guaranteed to be loads of fun. Students are encouraged to come dressed in their favorite spooky costumes!
Friday, October 3rd - 5:00 – 7:00 PM
This is our 2nd Annual STEAM Night, and you won’t want to miss it!
To make this event successful, safe, and fun, we need lots of parent volunteers.
Spooky Steam Night at Sommer- PARENT VOLUNTEERS ONLY
Please review the available slots and sign up where you can. If you’d like to help with prep work from home, email us at sommerptasteamnight@gmail.com.
Thank you for supporting our school community—we couldn’t do it without you!
Reflections Program
Calling the creators of tomorrow!!!
Theme for Reflections 2025-2026 is "I Belong",
The PTA Reflections Program gives space for students to benefit from creative expression and help in finding their own voice in telling their unique story. Express your artistic talent in 1 of the 6 arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, or 2D Visual Arts.
Accepting digital submissions only
Check eligibility criteria before sending entries @https://www.txpta.org/reflections-participation
At east one member of the household must be a PTA member to be considered - Join PTA
Student Entry form is must & Check guidelines before submission : Scan QR code or click here
Submit digital file with entry forms @ patsysommerptareflections@gmail.com
For Visual Arts entry if submitting the original artwork, please drop it off at the Patsy Sommer front office
More than 1 entry in any category, requires additional student entry form to be submitted.
DEADLINE for Submission: Monday, October 20th, 2025
Non Fiction Text Features Chart.pdfShirt.pdfCharter Buses.pdfStart With Hello Parent Flyer 2025.pdfInvite to Sign Up.pdf
Week of September 8th
Week of September 8th
Hello Families!
I hope you are all enjoying the cooler weather.
Reading: We will be starting our Nonfiction unit this week. The skill focus for this week will be nonfiction text features. Students will work to understand the purpose of the text features and the information they provide readers. We will look at an article where the words are removed with just the text features left behind. This will show us the important role text features play. Then, we will look at the passage with the words added back in. Finally, students will add their own text features to an article that is missing them. I am also excited to say that we will be starting our first round of book club at the end of this week. For this first round, we will be reading graphic novels and discussing them. Students got their books on Friday, September 5th. We will have our first official meeting on Friday, September 12th. Students have reading, 5 sticky jots, and 3 double entry notes due on Friday.
Writing: In writing, we will start the week by doing our writing benchmark for the beginning of the year. This information will help to form writing goals in this unit. For this, students will be asked to write about a nonfiction topic. This will help to determine what students know about nonfiction writing.
Grammar/Word Study: This week, we will learn about the root -spec. This means to see or look. Students will be given 10 words using this root to learn the meaning of. Students will have a word study quiz on Friday, September 19th over this week's words and next week's.
We will continue to focus on capitalizing proper nouns. This week, the focus will be on capitalizing organization names. This will be an important stepping stone as we prepare for next week's lesson on acronyms.
Social Studies: This week is we will be celebrating Constitution Week. We will be spending this week discussing important parts of our Constitution, including the executive branch. We will start by learning about the constitution as a whole and then 6 presidents who made a big impact on our country: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D Roosevelt.
On top of all of the amazing learning we are doing, some important dates are also coming up. They are:
Friday, September 12, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 1
Monday, September 15-Friday, September 19, 2025- Start with Hello Week
Friday, September 19, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 2
Monday, September 22, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 23, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @ 5:15- PTA Meeting
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @6:00 - Hey Dude, Nice Shoes- Parent Presentation
Friday, September 26, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 3
Friday, October 3, 2025 from 5-7pm- Spooky Steam Night
We also have an important announcement:
A Note from Ms. Gagliardi and Ms. Wood
Two important notes in case you missed our Parent Night last week.
First, we are doing 5th-grade class shirts through Amazon this year. The Woodliardi pairing color is Navy. You can order using this link.
Second, our 5th graders have an amazing opportunity to celebrate their elementary school journey with a special field trip to Reunion Ranch in May! This trip is designed to be a fun-filled celebration as our students prepare to transition to middle school. We are considering using charter buses this year. However, charter buses would require additional funding beyond our regular transportation budget. Please fill out this form to help us to gauge parent interest and support before moving forward with planning.
Mrs. Hollis and Mrs. Macre- No Place for Hate
Are you interested in being an ambassador, leadership or coalition member for the No Place for Hate. Mrs. Macre and Mrs. Hollis are hosting the first No Place for Hate meeting Wednesday, September 10th at 7:15am in the library. We are looking for students who can help support the mission to create a school environment where everyone belongs and is safe at school. Please complete this form.
Even if your 4th or 5th grade student is unable to attend the first meeting but is interested in working with No Place for Hate they can complete the form. Please feel free to reach out to Mrs. Hollis or Mrs. Macre if you have any questions.
See you there!
From Cafeteria:
Grandparent's Day is coming up soon - Sunday, September 7th. We would like to welcome our grandparents to lunch on Friday, September 12th. We will extend this invitation to the remaining Fridays in September if you are unable to make it on the 12th. Grandparents are welcome to sit with their grandchildren during lunch, bring a special lunch for their grandchildren, or join them in eating from the cafeteria. There will not be a special lunch, it will be a Friday Pizza lunch. IF your child's grandparents will be ordering pizza, we need you to email your child's teacher with the number of people ordering so that there is enough food. Thanks for your help with this! They will also need to bring the exact amount of $4.50 per adult lunch.
From PTA
PTA Membership
Join our PTA!!! No Volunteering Required! Don't forget to add a student membership! Join Here!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Show off your school pride by rocking your Stallion gear every Wednesday!
Snap a pic in your spirit wear and tag us on Facebook or email (sommerptaspiritwear@gmail.com) for a chance to be featured or win a prize! Let's turn the halls into a STAMPEDE of Red and Gold!
1st General Meeting
1st General Meeting
Please join us for our first General Membership PTA meeting of the school year on 9/25 at 5:15 pm. Our meeting will precede Carolyn Brown's parent presentation, "Hey Dude, Nice Shoes" that begins at 6 pm. RSVP below!
https://calendar.app.google/o749U5MaQLooGooR6
STEAM NIGHT
STEAM NIGHT
Sommer PTA is excited to host SPOOKY STEAM NIGHT on October 3rd (Friday, 5pm-7pm). Bring your FAMILY, wear your COSTUME & join us for a fun night of SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ART, AND MATH ACTIVITIES! To help out planning this fun night please email to sommerptasteamnight@gmail.com
Invite to Sign Up.pdfWeek of September 2nd
Week of September 2nd
Hello Families!
I hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend.
Reading/Writing:
We will be combining our reading and writing skills this week to learn how to write reading responses. This is an important way to practice our metacognition. We connect our reading response to the depth and complexity icons through different prompts. To start practicing this skill we will review different response examples and rate them on the rubric. Then we will write a response as a class over a read-aloud book. At the end of our learning for the week, students will be asked to write their own response about a depth and complexity prompt using evidence from the text. This will help support one of the new STAAR components on Evidence-Based Writing. We will continue to do responses throughout the year over our book club books.
Grammar/Word Study: This week, we will be learning about the root -man/manu. This means hand or handily. Students will be given 10 words using this root to learn the meaning of. Students will have a word study quiz on Friday, September 8th over this week's words and last week's.
We will focus on capitalizing proper nouns. This is a review skill from previous grades, but one that is very important as we continue into 5th grade.
Social Studies:
This week, students will learn about the regions of the United States. Students will work in groups to research their region's landforms, history, people, resources, and challenges. We will be presenting to the class later in the week. Then, we are starting our colonization unit in Social Studies. We will start the unit by learning key language of the discipline students will need to know for this unit.
On top of all of the amazing learning we are doing, some important dates are also coming up. They are:
Thursday, September 4, 2025 @ 4pm- 5th Grade Parent Night
Monday, September 8, 2025 @ 4pm- TAG Parent Night for current TAG students
Friday, September 12, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 1
Friday, September 19, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 2
Monday, September 22, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 23, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @ 5:15- PTA Meeting
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @6:00 - Hey Dude, Nice Shoes- Parent Presentation
Friday, September 26, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 3
Friday, October 3 from 5-7pm- Spooky Steam Night
We also have an important announcement:
From Mrs. Elarms
Based on NEW Legislation, parents are now required to give consent for their child to be given health care needs by the school nurse and teachers (for minor things such as cleaning a scrape and providing a band-aid.) We also have to give consent for our counselor to provide any services beyond a short check in with a student. Sometime on Friday, or close to it, you should have received an email from POWERSCHOOL. (This is the same place that you complete registration forms.) There are NEW FORMS there which allow you to give consent to these two specific area. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fill these out. The new legislation goes into effect on September 1st. We really need to have this form for every student by then. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!
Important Reminders:
If Nurse Stephanie does not have consent, she legally cannot assess or treat the student until she has parent permission. This includes something as simple as taking a student's temperature.
If you haven’t received the form, please email Nurse Stephanie so we can get it straightened out quickly.
From Cafeteria:
Grandparent's Day is coming up soon - Sunday, September 7th. We would like to welcome our grandparents to lunch on Friday, September 12th. We will extend this invitation to the remaining Fridays in September if you are unable to make it on the 12th. Grandparents are welcome to sit with their grandchildren during lunch, bring a special lunch for their grandchildren, or join them in eating from the cafeteria. There will not be a special lunch, it will be a Friday Pizza lunch. IF your child's grandparents will be ordering pizza, we need you to email your child's teacher with the number of people ordering so that there is enough food. Thanks for your help with this! They will also need to bring the exact amount of $4.50 per adult lunch.
From PTA
PTA Membership
Join our PTA!!! No Volunteering Required! Don't forget to add a student membership! Join Here!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Show off your school pride by rocking your Stallion gear every Wednesday!
Snap a pic in your spirit wear and tag us on Facebook or email (sommerptaspiritwear@gmail.com) for a chance to be featured or win a prize! Let's turn the halls into a STAMPEDE of Red and Gold!
1st General Meeting
1st General Meeting
Please join us for our first General Membership PTA meeting of the school year on 9/25 at 5:15 pm. Our meeting will precede Carolyn Brown's parent presentation, "Hey Dude, Nice Shoes" that begins at 6 pm. RSVP below!
https://calendar.app.google/o749U5MaQLooGooR6
STEAM NIGHT
STEAM NIGHT
Sommer PTA is excited to host SPOOKY STEAM NIGHT on October 3rd (Friday, 5pm-7pm). Bring your FAMILY, wear your COSTUME & join us for a fun night of SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ART, AND MATH ACTIVITIES! To help out planning this fun night please email to sommerptasteamnight@gmail.com
From the 5th Grade Teachers:
With the weather continuing to be sweltering, we ask your help in keeping kids safe. Please send your child to school each day with a water bottle. Also please talk to your child about taking their jacket off when we go to recess. We had some 5th graders wearing their jackets as they played soccer last week. We appreciate your help in this manner.
Double Entry Notes
Week of August 25th
Week of August 25th
Hello Families!
We are excitedly finishing up August and are looking forward to some enjoyable learning. As a reminder, it is VERY important that your child's computer is fully charged and ready each day.
Reading: This week we continue to focus on purposefully talking, thinking, and writing about or reading. This is an important way to share and deepen our thinking. We will practice purposeful talk in small groups about our reading. Once we know how to talk about our reading, we will then start jotting about our reading. We will do this on sticky notes, including our thoughts and one of the depth and complexity icons we learned about at the beginning of the week. Then we will record our thinking using double-entry notes. This is when we record a quote from the text on the left side of the paper and our elaborated thoughts with icons on the right side.
Writing: In Writing this week, students will focus on our first published writing of the year. Students will be writing poems about their favorite parts. This writing will be inspired by the mentor text "The Best Part of Me" by Wendy Ewald. By the end of the week, students will have this writing published in the hallway along with a picture of their favorite part.
Word Study: This week, we will be learning about the root -ped. This means foot or feet. Students will be given 10 words using this root to learn the meaning of. Students will have a word study quiz on Friday, September 6th, over this week's words and next week's.
Social Studies: This week, students will learn about the regions of the United States. Then we will practice interpretting maps of these regions. We will finish this unit by discussing Deforestation and how humans and the environment interact. We will be testing over our first unit on Friday, August 29th. Students reviews are due Thursday, August 28th.
On top of all of the amazing learning we are doing, some important dates are also coming up. They are:
Tuesday, August 26, 2025- Vision and Hearing Screening for Gagliardi and Wood
Tuesday, August 26, 2025- Spinal Screening (Girls-Only)
Friday, August 29, 2025- Social Studies Assessment
Monday, September 1, 2025- Labor Day- NO SCHOOL
Thursday, September 4, 2025 @ 4pm- 5th Grade Parent Night
Monday, September 8, 2025 @ 4pm- TAG Parent Night for current TAG students
Friday, September 12, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 1
Friday, September 19, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 2
Monday, September 22, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 23, 2025- NO SCHOOL
Thursday, September 25, 2025- Hey Dude, Nice Shoes- Parent Presentation
Friday, September 26, 2025- Grandparents' Lunch option 3
We also have an important announcement:
From Mrs. Elarms
Based on NEW Legislation, parents are now required to give consent for their child to be given health care needs by the school nurse and teachers (for minor things such as cleaning a scrape and providing a band-aid.) We also have to give consent for our counselor to provide any services beyond a short check in with a student. Sometime on Friday, or close to it, you should have received an email from POWERSCHOOL. (This is the same place that you complete registration forms.) There are NEW FORMS there which allow you to give consent to these two specific area. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fill these out. The new legislation goes into effect on September 1st. We really need to have this form for every student by then. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!
From Ms. Gagliardi and Ms. Wood:
I want our classroom to represent the students and the families that occupy it all day long. I would be honored if you could send ONE 4x6 photograph of your student with their family to display in our classroom. Please know that though we will send home the photos at the end of the school year, they may have staples or push-pin holes in them. I will tell your students about this as well, so hopefully, they will bring it up with you.
A Note From Nurse Stephanie:
Please see the attached letter regarding our mandatory yearly spinal screenings. Spinal screenings will be conducted on ONLY 5th-grade girls on Monday, August 25th, and Tuesday, August 26th. If you choose to exempt your student from the screening, please provide current documentation of the physician's spinal screening results or a notarized affidavit stating that this screening conflicts with religious tenets. Do not hesitate to reach out to me directly if you have any questions!
From Cafeteria:
Grandparent's Day is coming up soon - Sunday, September 7th. We would like to welcome our grandparents to lunch on Friday, September 12th. We will extend this invitation to the remaining Fridays in September if you are unable to make it on the 12th. Grandparents are welcome to sit with their grandchildren during lunch, bring a special lunch for their grandchildren, or join them in eating from the cafeteria. There will not be a special lunch, it will be a Friday Pizza lunch. IF your child's grandparents will be ordering pizza, we need you to email your child's teacher with the number of people ordering so that there is enough food. Thanks for your help with this! They will also need to bring the exact amount of $4.50 per adult lunch.
From PTA
PTA Membership
Join our PTA!!! No Volunteering Required! Don't forget to add a student membership! Join Here!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Show off your school pride by rocking your Stallion gear every Wednesday!
Snap a pic in your spirit wear and tag us on Facebook or email (sommerptaspiritwear@gmail.com) for a chance to be featured or win a prize! Let's turn the halls into a STAMPEDE of Red and Gold!
From the 5th Grade Teachers:
With the weather continuing to be sweltering, we ask your help in keeping kids safe. Please send your child to school each day with a water bottle. Also please talk to your child about taking their jacket off when we go to recess. We had some 5th graders wearing their jackets as they played soccer last week. We appreciate your help in this manner.
Week of August 18th
Week of August 18th
Hello Families!
We've had a great 1st week of school. We ended the week all together creating our class treatment agreement. This is our agreement on how we will treat each other throughout the year. You will be getting paper copies this week. I encourage you to talk about this agreement with your child.
Reading: This week we are focusing on purposeful talking, thinking, and writing about or reading. To start we will be learning about the depth and complexity icons that can help guide our thinking. Purposeful talk can be done both in-person and through online discussions. This is a great way to share and deepen our thinking. We will practice purposeful talk in small groups about our reading.
Writing: In writing, we will be working on brainstorming in our Writer's Notebooks. Students will brainstorm about their writer's heart.. Students will have a chance to write long on these ideas. These ideas are important because a writer's notebook is a place writers can return to when they are stuck or don't know what to write about. We will also start our first published writing of the year. Students will be writing about their favorite part. This writing will be inspired by the mentor text "The Best Part of Me" by Wendy Ewald.
Social Studies: In Social Studies, we will start the week by discussing different Rural, Urban, and Suburban communities. Then, we will work on interpreting maps. This will help us learn about important geographical features in the United States and the climate of different regions. We will also look at some of the major US cities. This will also lead to discussions about why people settle in certain areas over others.
On top of all of the amazing learning we are doing, some important dates are also coming up. They are:
Tuesday, August 26, 2025- Vision and Hearing Screening for Gagliardi and Wood
Tuesday, August 26, 2025- Spinal Screening (Girls-Only)
Friday, August 29, 2025- Social Studies Assessment
Monday, September 1, 2025- Labor Day- NO SCHOOL
We also have an important announcement:
From Ms. Gagliardi and Ms. Wood:
I want our classroom to represent the students and the families that occupy it all day long. I would be honored if you could send ONE 4x6 photograph of your student with their family to display in our classroom. Please know that though we will send home the photos at the end of the school year, they may have staples or push-pin holes in them. You may send a digital photo for me to print on your behalf if you need or do not want to send an original photo. I will send what photos I receive to the printer by Friday, August 22nd, at 3:30 pm. I will tell your students about this as well, so hopefully they will bring it up with you.
A Note From Nurse Stephanie:
Please see the attached letter regarding our mandatory yearly spinal screenings. Spinal screenings will be conducted on ONLY 5th-grade girls on Monday, August 25th, and Tuesday, August 26th. If you choose to exempt your student from the screening, please provide current documentation of the physician's spinal screening results or a notarized affidavit stating that this screening conflicts with religious tenets. Do not hesitate to reach out to me directly if you have any questions!
From Cafeteria:
I wanted to make sure that everyone is aware if your child's account balance falls into the negative, they will receive a sun butter and jelly sandwich. This can make for some very sad kiddos, so please be sure to keep their lunch accounts up to date. You can do this through www.myschoolbucks.com
Also, if you were set to receive free and/or reduced lunch last year, remember that you have to reapply each year. The grace period is about to end, so please be sure to reapply by CLICKING HERE.
From PTA
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Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Spirit Wear Wednesdays!
Show off your school pride by rocking your Stallion gear every Wednesday!
Snap a pic in your spirit wear and tag us on Facebook or email (sommerptaspiritwear@gmail.com) for a chance to be featured or win a prize! Let's turn the halls into a STAMPEDE of Red and Gold!
From the 5th Grade Teachers:
With the weather continuing to be sweltering, we ask your help in keeping kids safe. Please send your child to school each day with a water bottle. Also, please talk to your child about taking their jacket off when we go to recess. We had some 5th graders wearing their jackets as they played soccer last week. We appreciate your help in this manner.
Click the picture for the 2025-2026 School Supply List
Week of August 4th
Week of August 4th
Hello Everyone!
Teachers are excitedly preparing rooms for the year. Sommer's supply drop-off will be on Thursday, August 7th. Please come at the time based on your last name. Families with last names beginning:
A-M: 4:00 - 4:45 PM
N-Z: 5:00- 5:45 PM
The First Day of School is Tuesday, August 12th. I cannot wait for the year ahead full of fun and learning.
Summer Break
Summer Break
Hello Everyone!
We are officially out for Summer Break. If you need anything, please contact the school.
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