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Monday, September 30, 2019

Pre-Conference 2019

This blog is going to be short and focused on just a couple of upcoming events, so let's get to it...


Walk to School Day:  Walk to School Day is this Wednesday, October 2nd.  If your chid is rides the bus they will need the permission slip that went home today signed. They will keep this slip in their agendas and give it to their bus driver on Wednesday morning. Kids with signed permission slips will be dropped off at the Flagstaff Armory/National Guard Center on Thorpe to walk to school with one of our many adult volunteers. If your child is normally a parent drop off you may also drop your child off at the Armory, no sooner than 8 am, to walk to Marshall. If you wish, you may also walk to school with your child. Children who normally walk to school from nearby neighborhoods may just follow their normal routines. Any and all walkers will be recognized and counted, and will receive a prize for walking to school! We hope to see everyone out walking to school this Wednesday!


Parent/Teacher Conferences: Our first draft of the conference schedule went home today. This is the list of everyone who had returned their sign up saying they would like a conference next week. If you would like a conference, but do not see your child's name on the list please pick 1 or 2 remaining spots and return to me ASAP. I will let you know your conference spot by the end of the week. Again, remaining spots will be given on a first come first serve basis. I am hoping to meet with everyone for this first round of conferences! Conferences are next week, Monday-Wednesday, with early release all 3 days. Monday and Tuesday are 12:25 release, and Wednesday is 11:10 am.


Fall Break: Following conferences we will have a four day fall break. School will be closed Thursday, October 10th and Friday, October 11th. 🍂🍁🍃


Thank you for forgiving to short and to the point blog. Anyone else feeling extra busy? Next week we should be back to normal. -Ms. Shaw

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Mustang Gallop 20219

Happy Autumnal Equinox room 9 families.  I am so happy that the cooler weather is here. Please make sure that your child dresses appropriately for our fun Flagstaff fall weather. This might mean longer pants and a small jacket for the morning time. Layers might be a good idea, as well as closed toe shoes. It is a difficult time to try and dress for our daily fluctuating temperatures for sure. I myself would rather be in pj's and barefoot! Anyway, here is what we have happening this week...



Math:  This week is all about understanding the equal sign and the commutative property of addition (which, in first grade,  we call the flip flop property as well). This simply means that we understand that it does not matter which order our addends are in as long as they are they same (ex: 3+2 = 2+3). 


ELA: We are beginning Unit 2 of our NatGeo curriculum, so the next four weeks our stories will be about plants and what is living vs. non living. In grammar we will be incorporating plants with a strategy called four picture story frame. Every day the students will have a new picture about the plant lifecycle and they will use their parts of speech to create a sentence about the picture. By the end of the week they will have a paragraph about the lifecycle of a plant. In spelling we are working on qu, y, and short u. 


Science:  Tying in with our ELA, we will begin our plant unit. We will ask "What happens to seeds in moist soil?" and then record our hypothesis. After that we finally get to plant and observe. We will also start to look at how seeds travel.



Marshall Gallop:  Friday is our big gallop day! That's right, we run on Friday! The theme this year is Lunar Launch. We are going to be the Shaw's Shooting Stars. We run from 9:30-9:50, and all are welcome to come join. Please make sure your child has a water bottle for the day! After your child runs their laps we will send home the amount of laps they ran so that you may collect from those who have pledged money per lap. It is perfectly fine to still be collecting flat rates at this point as well. Pledge packets are not due back until October 4th, I believe. The Gallop is not the day we collect these, it is only our day to run and determine laps for those who have chosen to pay per lap. Please remember that this is our only fundraiser of the year and that all money goes directly back to Marshall PTO. Just like this year, their plans for next year is to use the money from this fundraiser to pay for EVERY students back to school supplies at the beginning of next year! I know this saves our families and staff so much money out of pocket at the beginning of the year, and this is so unheard of in a public school! Let's help our PTO continue to be able to make this a possibility for our families and go collect those pledges!



Illness Guidelines:  Cold and flu season is upon us, and room 9 seems to have taken a hit. We have a large number of sick kiddos. Just wanted to put out a friendly reminder of when to keep your child home so that we do not continue to spread this around. In order to be at school your child must be 24 hours fever free off of medicine. They must be 24 hours from their last bout of vomit and/or diarrhea. If they are not, please keep them home. Please help our littles learn to cough into their elbows and not into the air. Please help our first graders learn to blow their noses and promptly throw away the Kleenex, not leave it on tables or floors. They are still getting the hang of these things, but we need to work together on reminding them so that we may all stay healthy. Thank you!


Parent/Teacher Conferences: Parent/Teacher Conferences are Monday, October 7th-Wednesday, October 9th. I will be sending home a paper Conference sign up sheet by Wednesday at the latest. Please choose 2-3 spots that would work best for you and return ASAP. Please indicate 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice. I will comprise a final conference list from this. I have found that this is the best way to accommodate everyone's schedules and most will end up with their first or second choices. It will be first com first serve, so returning it in the agenda as fast as possible is a good idea. These will also be early release days, however those times have not been given to me yet. Historically Monday and Tuesday have been 12:25 release and Wednesday has been an 11:10 release. I feel like this will be a safe bet that these will be the same this year, but I will keep you up to date when I know for sure. I look forward to conferencing with everyone!


Ancient Mesopotamia Taste Testing: Thank you for everyone who signed up for food for our taste testing on Friday. This was such a fun activity. After we wrote the name of our food we tasted it. Then we circled thumbs up or down depending on if we liked the taste of it or not. Then in the middle we wrote an adjective for the way our food tasted. It was so much fun watching them try things like goat cheese and dates and figs. It was also surprising who liked what. I was also impressed with how everyone tried everything, I did not have a single protester this year! Here are some pictures from Friday.




Sorry for the Tuesday post, I too have been under the weather! Sunday was rough and Monday I came home and went to bed. I hope we all get well and stay well! -Ms. Shaw

Monday, September 16, 2019

Picture Day 2019

Happy September families. We survived a full week back after our weird two day cyber week, and we survived Friday the 13th with a full moon!  We have one more new routine to add this week, RTI. Please read on to learn more about that below, as well as what is happening in our class this week.



Math:  This week we will finish working on our strategies for counting on. After this we will move onto understanding the equal sign and constructing true number sentences (ex: 2+3 = 4+1). More challenging, students will identify false number sentences and learn how to fix them by changing an addend. 


ELA:  We are moving into unit 2 from our NatGeo series, which means that the theme of our NatGeo series will be plants for the next 4 weeks. We will be tying these stories into our science the next several weeks as well. In grammar we will be looking at present progressive verb tense (ing with am, is, and are).


Social Studies:  We will be wrapping up Ancient Mesopotamia this week. We will have an Ancient Mesopotamia taste testing to try some of the foods from the region. We will need the following food donations to make this happen. If you can bring in any of the following supplies by this Friday (September 20th) we would greatly appreciate your contributions:

  • Apples (sliced)
  • Honeydew (sliced)
  • Cantaloupe (sliced)
  • Pita Bread
  • Figs
  • Dates
  • Goat Cheese
  • Grapes

Science:  Now that we have learned all about what it means to be a scientist we will begin our science units. As mentioned above, our first unit will be plants to coincide with our ELA unit. We will begin by planting alfalfa and ryegrass seeds and focus on the question, "What happens to seeds in moist soil."  This also begins our learning of the scientific process, which we will follow and record in our notebooks every time we conduct an experiment.



Picture Day:  Picture Day is this Wednesday. If you are ordering pictures please make sure you have your packets returned to me by Wednesday morning at the latest. You may also order pictures online at mylifetouch.com using your ID SR259110Q0. If you order pictures online, make sure you let me know via a note in the agenda. We are scheduled to take our pictures at 10:15 Wednesday morning, so please be on time.



RTI:  RTI begins this week. RTI is our whole school reading intervention. First grade goes to RTI after lunch. We break into small groups based on individual reading needs of our students.  Then during these 25 minutes we work on meeting those needs/skills in smaller and more intensive group settings. 



Mustang Gallop:  The Marshall Gallop is our annual jog-a-thon fundraiser where 100% of the proceeds comes back to Marshall school in the way of school supplies for students and other classroom items needed by teachers at the beginning of the year.  Your child should have gone home with a packet on Friday. This is so that they may begin collecting pledges from family and friends. Pledges can be made per lap or as a flat rate. We will run our Jog-a-thon on Friday, September 27th. First grade running time is at 9:30. This day is to determine how many laps your child has run so they can go back and collect from those who choose to donate per lap. Money envelopes are due back on October 4th. Check are accepted, made payable to Marshall PTO. We would love to have 100% of the students participate in this event! This is our 12th annual Gallop and our theme is Lunar Launch. I think the class has agreed that we will be Shaw's Shooting Stars. If you would like to come join us for the Gallop, we would love to see you here!



Snacks Needed:  We are out of snacks! If you could provide us with one or two healthy snacks to carry us through for a while we would greatly appreciate it. Our first graders get very hungry between breakfast and lunch and a snack is needed to help fuel their brains and bodies until they can make it to lunch. 



The students are noticeably becoming more familiar with routines and expectations, and I see it in their behaviors and attentiveness during class and instructional time. We are growing, and I am proud of the gains we are making! - Ms. Shaw

Sunday, September 8, 2019

Updates September 9th-13th

Happy September, and welcome back! Thank you for being patient while FUSD worked diligently on restoring all systems back to where they needed to be to ensure the safety of all students and staff, and preforming the proper maintenance needed on all computer systems to get us back to running on business as usual. The FUSD Tech team, and everyone else who spent countless hours to make sure we could be open on Monday did an amazing job, and I for one am extremely grateful for the work they put in and the response of the district! The 2 cyber snow days put us slightly behind, so next week will be spent doing some catch up, then we will be back on track. Here's how next week will look academically...


Math:  We will wrap up our unit on addition word problems, which will conclude with a unit test about mid week. After this we will  begin counting on to solve addition problems.  


ELA:  Due to our 2 day week last week we will continue with our short o spelling words. This means I will send home the same list of words so that the children may continue practicing their short o list, and the test will be given on Friday. We had a few weeks of cushion built into our yearly schedule for spelling, so this will be just fine. Also, we did not have an opportunity to read "The Dot" so we will do that this week. We did have the opportunity to start our grammar lessons with Ms. Perkins however. We have started learning about nouns and verbs. I will continue to reinforce these two concepts with additional lessons this week. Ms. Perkins will also be teaching about pronouns, adjectives, and prepositions. Then we will be learning how to put all our parts of speech together to form sentences.  We are also continuing our handwriting lessons, currently focusing on correctly writing numbers 0-20.


Social Studies:  We will be hitting all our Ancient Mesopotamia concepts we did not get to last week. Ziggurats, cuneiform writing, and inventions/contributions of the Ancient Mesopotamians. Next week we will be concluding our unit of study with a taste test of foods from Ancient Mesopotamian times. Please be on the look out in next weeks blog for food we will need donated for this special lesson. 


Science:  Before we begin our science units I like to introduce the students to science by reading the book, "What Is a Scientist?"  This gives them an ideas of what a scientist does, and what they will be doing as scientists in our classroom. Then we will cut and paste scientists into our notebooks and write adjectives to describe a scientist. This activity also gives us an opportunity to become familiar with our science notebooks and start hearing terms such as predict and hypothesis and data.  



Marshall Gallop:  This Friday our students will be attending the Pep Rally for our Marshall Mustang Gallop. The Gallop is our amazing annual PTO fundraiser. Your students should be bringing home pledge packets on Friday, I believe. These are to collect pledges from friends and family members who would like to donate to our school fundraiser. Pledges may take form in an amount per lap (for instance, someone may want to pledge $1 per every lap your child runs on Gallop day) or they may be a flat donation in any amount. The actual Gallop (the day the kiddos run their laps) will be on Friday, September 27th. We will be sending home volunteer forms for this day as well. This is just the basic information I have thus far, more information will be coming. Please remember, this is the only fundraiser for Marshall for the entire year. We highly encourage as much participation as we can get, seeing as 100% of these funds always go directly back to our students. Last year the money raised went into buying all the back to school supplies for every students and teacher here at Marshall. This is very unprecedented in our field of work, and I know I for one was extremely grateful not to have to buy supplies out of my pocket for the beginning of the year. This was the first year I did not have to do this, and it would not have been possible if not for this fundraiser and the generosity of our amazing PTO! I know they plan to continue this contribution to our families, so let's all do our share in making this happen and go out there and collect those donations! Thank you for your participation!



Picture Day:  Marshall picture day is next Wednesday, September 18th.  Picture packets should be going home soon!



I really look forward to seeing the kids Monday morning, and having a full week of school to do some learning! Let's do this! -Ms. Shaw 

Monday, September 2, 2019

Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! Hope everyone is relaxing and preparing for our short week ahead. Four days, still packing it all in. Here's what we have happening for our week ahead:



Math:  We will be finishing up addition word problems. The students will be learning how to solve problems with missing addends (ex: 5 + ____ =  8). We will continue to work on writing all answers in number bonds and number sentences. We are also learning how to solve problems with math drawings (simple shapes to represent our objects in our stories) and to make sure our drawings show the parts we know in our stories clearly. 


ELA:  We will be working on the short o sound this week, which will give us the chance to read the fiction story, "The Dot." We will incorporate a fun Dot art project with this story as well. We will also learn to how to do Work on Writing during Daily 5 (which we did not get to do last week). This week we will also begin our daily grammar lessons with Mrs. Perkins. She will be coming into our classroom everyday Monday-Thursday and be doing a 30 minute grammar lesson with the whole class. These lessons are designed to help us improve reading, reading comprehension, and writing skills. 


Social Studies:  We are still studying Ancient Mesopotamia. The students enjoyed our mapping activity where they colored the two rivers that surround Ancient Mesopotamia (The Tigris and The Euphrates) and colored in the land that was Ancient Mesopotamia (which means "land between two rivers"). This week we will learn more about the clothing of the Mesopotamians, and their Ziggurats. If time allows we will also learn about their writing and try our hand at writing our name in Cuneiform.




Volunteering at School:  The first PTO meeting of the year is this Wednesday in the library at 4:30. The PTO is a fun and easy way to get involved in your child's schooling here at Marshall. The meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month from 4:30-5:30 and free child care is always available. I know this is a great way for you to hear first hand what is happening here at school and that you can help in what you can, no pressure to do more than that! If you would like to see what our amazing PTO is all about make plans to stop in Wednesday for their first meeting, they would love to see you there! 

If you are more interested in volunteering in the classroom that would be great as well. I am in search of someone to help grade rocket math (20 minutes daily). If you would like to come in and help in some other capacity, reach out and we can make it happen! Thank you!



Suzuki Violin:  Suzuki Violin starts back up this week. This is our amazing partnership with NAU where all Marshall students, K-2 receive free Suzuki violin lessons twice a week here at school. This is such an amazing, one of a kind program and we are so excited to be offering it to our students once again!


I hope everyone is rested and ready for our week ahead!       -Ms. Shaw

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Open House 2019 Updates

Hello families. This blog is full of important information regarding open house, so please stay tuned for all of that and more. First, a look at what we will be learning for the week.


Math: We will begin a kind of long unit on addition word problems, focusing both on total unknown problems and addend unknown problems. This unit will go into next week as well.


ELA: This week we will learn and practice the final piece of Daily 5, Work on Writing. This is often the trickiest for first graders, as we learn how to come up with topics to write about, and what to do when we write a word and we are not sure it is spelled correctly. We are still working on making working on all parts as a whole and building stamina. We will introduce our leveled readers from NatGeo and begin our small group work as well as begin working on sight words with individuals. 


Social Studies: We are wrapping up our unit on families, although our NatGeo stories will focus on families for the next 3 weeks. Therefore we will move onto our unit on Ancient Mesopotamia. We will spend the next few weeks learning about where Ancient Mesopotamia is located, their people and contributions from that time, and how they farmed, as well as so much more. 


Open House: Open House is this Wednesday from 5:30-7:00. However, the first grade session is only running until 6:30. This is how the evening will go. If you have a child in K-2 you will attend the Title 1 information fair in the gym from 5:30-6:00 with Principal Reasor. From there you will join me in our room (9) for our presentation on first grade expectations and how we will get there together. If you have a child in grades 3-5 you will go to their designated class from 6:30-7:00. If you do not have an older child you are free to leave after our session together! This is not our typical see the classroom Open House, w e did that before school during the BBQ. This is more informational for you on what first grade is all about and how we can work together to ensure your child has a successful school year. I hope to see everyone there!


Pink Emergency Form: This years Student Emergency Form is pink and will be going home tomorrow with your child. Please fill it out and return it by the end of the week in the blue agenda folder. Attached is a check list of forms that were to be filled out for registration to be complete for this year as well. If you would, please check off those you have completed online in person on paper and return that to me at the same time as well. Thank You!


Grading Marks:  You may have noticed marks on papers that go home.  If it is a test it will have a number from 1-4, which aligns with a standards report. 1 means your student is struggling with understanding the concept/standard taught . 2 means they understand with a bit of support, and are progressing. 3 means they are proficient in their understanding. A 3 is where we want every first grader to be in all areas. A 4 is exemplary, they have a high level of understanding of the concept taught. I have made a symbol system for papers that are not tests (such as morning work and math practice packets) that match this so that you can see at a glance how your child is doing with in class work. This look like...

                    1 =  a minus sign

                    2 =  a check mark

                    3 = a smiley face

                    4 = a star

It is important to note that I have never and will never discuss what these marks are with the students, they think they are random and are just happy to get a mark on their paper. They think it is their for me to keep track of completion, which is half true. I do this so not to cause any frustration for those who are receiving a 1 or 2. When they have a 1 or 2 I work with them to achieve a level of understanding, these marks are simply to let you know where there level of understanding was overall. If you have any questions about the scoring feel free to contact me.


Homework:  Please start developing good homework habits with your children now. Develop a routine of when they do homework and where they do homework. I know it is a new concept for our firsties, but it is important that they learn this new part of school life. I know it is not always easy, but I would like to make sure that ALL students complete their entire homework packet by the end of the week. If the Friday deadline is too hard for your family, please come talk to me and we can work something out. At the same time, this is only first grade. Homework should not take over your lives! I do not want children (and parents) frustrated on any given night. If your child is not feeling it and it is turning into a struggle on a night, write me a note and explain it wasn't happening on that particular evening. I want happy homes and snuggles and no tears. Homework does not need to equal frustration! We can work together to help our little ones find that balance of this new expectation, but hopefully not make it a source of frustration. If you ever need to communicate homework concerns or questions, pop in, email, or write a note in the agenda. Thank you.


Birthday Treats and Snacks: I want to remind parents that we want to be mindful of what we send in for snacks and for birthday treats. Per FUSD policy, these need to be healthy. FUSD has really made strides in making sure our students are eating healthier and have put in place guidelines that limit their intake of sugar. We are asking your help in this endeavor. If you choose to bring in a snack or a birthday treat, please make it healthy. Please read the attached note, I believe from Principal Reasor in regards to this matter.

Healthy Classroom Parties
Dear Families,
When you contribute snacks for a classroom celebration, please provide healthful, nutritious choices for the students to enjoy. Flagstaff Unified School District strives to teach healthful eating habits, both in theory and in practice. This includes during all classroom parties and events. Our goal at FUSD is to make healthy choices easily accessible to all. Thank you for helping to create a healthy school environment!

Healthy Options

Fresh, whole fruit (apples, pears, oranges, bananas, grapes)
Fruit or applesauce cups (no sugar added)
100% Fruit Juice
Bagged baby carrots or other vegetables served with hummus
Whole grain crackers or pretzels
Dried fruit mix
Brown rice cakes
Bagged, low-fat popcorn
Cheese sticks or slices
Yogurt cups
Fresh Fruit Salads
Healthy Classroom Celebrations - Teachers Resource
Flagstaff Unified School District teaches healthful eating, both in theory and practice. This healthy philosophy includes during classroom parties and events, as well as after school activities. The goal of FUSD is to make healthier choices easily accessible to all and promote healthy behaviors for life.
Many schools have chosen to celebrate birthdays once per month and without food. If food is served, healthy options are required.


This is a shift that comes easier with practice, and first grade is the time. I myself quit giving out candy in birthday bags and for rewards about 5 years ago because so many families do not want that as an option for their children. For those of your who read the beginning of year letter I sent out, one option is to donate a birthday book to the class. I will add your child's picture to the book, and have them sign it. Then we will read it to the class and add it to our library. Those who have chosen this route have loved sharing their favorite story with the class. If you would like other nonfood options, feel free to reach out. Please remember, bringing in anything is a choice, and we have many families who skip this altogether every year. This is perfectly acceptable. Every child still receives a birthday cup and we still sing to them regardless. I love celebrating them on their special day!


Stanford Harmony: Stanford Harmony is a district adopted social emotional learning program designed to foster communication, connection, and community both in and outside the classroom. We have been using the SH cards to have conversation, do buddy up activities, and learn about each other and build team work. Last week one of the activities was to make a sticker collage with a partner. The children were so happy working on the project, and below is pictures of the teams and their creations. The coolest part is how easily almost every team decided who would take their collage home. Great teamwork!













Save the Dates:

  • Wednesday, August 28th - Open House 5:30-7:00 (First grade session only runs from 5:3-=6:30)
  • Monday, September 2nd - School Closed - Labor Day
  • Wednesday, September 4th - First PTO meeting of the Year in Library - 4:30-5:30 - Childcare Available
  • Wednesday, September 18th - Picture Day
  • Friday, September 27th - Mustang Gallop (More Into to Come)

Looking forward to our week ahead! -Ms. Shaw

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Updates August 19th-23rd

Hello Mustang Room 9 Families. We are entering our second full week of school. Last week was an adjustment to those full, long days - and the heat did not help. This week should be a little easier, although it appears as though it will be hotter still. We will also begin homework this week. Please read on to learn more about this.


Math:  The students spent time last week discovering all the ways there are to make 6 and 7 (ex: 6 is 4+2, 3+3, 6+0, etc...). and learning that the inverse answer is the same as the original answer (if 4+2 are parts of 6 so are 2+4). This week we will work on the same for making 8 and 9.  Students will continue to write number bonds for these problems.  Students will also be making their own rekenek bracelet's to help us start working in groups of 10, and we will generate all expressions that equal 10.  At the end of all this we should be taking our first math test of the year, probably on Thursday.


ELA:  This week we will begin using our NatGeo Curriculum and this means students will start reading from our readers, and we will begin our spelling program.  Last week during Daily 5 we practice Reading to Self (building stamina so we we learn how to read for longer periods of time everyday)-which we will practice more of this week. We will also learn how to pick good fit (or just right) books. Last week we learned how to use Word Work (where the students have 6 options to choose from to help learn their weekly spelling words) and this week we will add Read to Someone (which has very specific roles for each child, and very specific language for them to use) and Listen to Reading, which will have them scan a QR code to hear a story and then draw a picture and write a few sentences that correlate with the story. 


Each student will need their own pair of earbuds of headphones for Listen to Reading. Please purchase, label, and bring these in ASAP. Thank you!


Social Studies:  Social Studies and Science will often alternate. We will begin the year with a quick social studies unit on Families. This coincides with our ELA NatGeo story. You will notice that our social studies and science units often align with our ELA curriculum. 



Homework:  We will begin homework this week.  In order for your child to begin establishing healthy study habits now it is best to start developing some sort of homework routine.  Maybe it is a snack and then homework, or first thing after dinner.  Up to you, but a regular spot to work is a good idea.  Our homework will consist of writing our spelling words daily, a page of breaking up our spelling words into their sounds, and a page or so of math. The math comes straight from our math program, and will always be a review of a concept we already learned in class.  Sometimes the concepts can be confusing to us grown-ups, or we may not be quite clear on what is being asked of our students.  If you visit my staff page via the Marshall website there is a link titled Eureka math homework help.  I have also attached the link here https://www.fusd1.org/Page/10110.  The videos have a lady who explains the lesson both visually and orally, and I would suggest watching these if you need any homework assistance. If you look at the top of your homework page it will tell you the Module (1-1 means first grade module 1) and the lesson that you need to click on. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.


Open House:  Wednesday, August 28th is our Open House from 5:30-7:00. I do not have much information at this time other than it will not be our ordinary meet the teacher, we did this during the back to school BBQ. This will be full of much more important information regarding what is pertinent to your child's educational success in the first grade. What is our focus for them this year and how can we partner with you at home to maximize your students educational success. As far as where you will be and at what times, stay tuned for those details. Please mark your calendars, I believe this will be an important night for all to attend.



Parent VUE Codes:  Some of you may have received a letter in your child's backpack in regards to a Parent VUE activation code. If you did it is because you have not activated your online Parent VUE account yet. You need Parent VUE to log on and finish the beginning of the year registration process. All parents that are in our system have access to Parent VUE; however, only one parent needs to complete the process. Please keep in mind, if we do not have this documentation on file, your students will not be completely registered for the school year. This will affect computer and iPad use as well as other important academic needs.  Please make sure your Parent VUE is active and your registration is complete by the end of this week. The registration can be done through this link https://www.fusd1.org/Page/15517. Thank you.



Dates to Remember:

  • Wednesday, August 28th - Open House - 5:30-7:00 pm

  • Monday, September 2nd - School Closed - Labor Day
  • Wednesday, September 4th - First PTO meeting of the Year in Library - 4:30-5:30 - Childcare is Available
  • Wednesday, September 18th - Picture Day
  • Friday, September 27th - Mustang Gallop (More Info to Come)

Hope everyone had a restful weekend. -Ms. Shaw

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