Principal’s Message

Pleasant Grove Elementary Gazette

October 2016 Happy October!

Our school year is in full swing! September was a busy month for our PG Tigers as our students and teachers settled into daily routines of great learning. The PTA Luau was an amazing success! Special thanks to all of the PTA members who worked hard for our first family and community event. Thank you to everyone who attended.

This month brings many great events. Apex Fun Run is coming soon! It’s going to be so much fun again, and I can’t wait! We will be kicking off the Kids Can Food Drive, celebrating Red Ribbon Week, and having fun at the Harvest Festival at the end of the month.

A few reminders for drop-off and pick-up…

Please pull all the way forward as far as possible. This means all the way up to the crosswalk or even fur ther close to the road. Please keep moving up as the line moves.

If your child is young or needs help getting in or out of the vehicle, please find a parking space. It’s safer and will also keep our line of cars moving.

Please don’t get out of your car in the drop-off/pick-up line area. Please find a parking space. It’s safer and will also keep our line of cars moving.

Kids should only get in and out of the vehicle on the curb side. If your child has to get in the car on the street side, find another place to safely drop-off/pick-up your child.

Thank you for helping to keep our students safe!

10 TIPS TO HELP RAISE A READER 1. Add a little playacting. Improvise what happens next. 2. Discuss the story and characters. 3. Talk about books. 4. Introduce books in new scenarios. 5. Consider joining a book club for children. 6. Explore reading resources for children. 7. Encourage reading outside of books. 8. Introduce your own childhood favorites. 9. Volunteer your reading services. 10. Take field trips to the library.

Sincerely, Deidra Wood Principal

Our Newsletter is published each month and will contain information to assist in keeping you informed of activities and events in which your student may be involved. We will continue to provide information that you may find useful

in providing support to your student on their educational journey. Your insight and input is strongly encouraged.

October October 1st - October 21st Classroom Box Top Competition

October 5th Principal Coffee Chat - 8:15am

October 6th Kinder - Student of the Month - 11:00am

October 7th 1st - 6th Student of the Month - 1:45pm

October 10th - 14th 6th Grade in Sly Park

October 11th ELAC Meeting - 6:00-7:30pm

October 13th Fall Picture Make Up Day

October 13th PTA General Meeting - 5:00pm

October 13th 3rd Grade Performance - 5:45pm

October 18th APEX Pep Rally!!

October 19th 5th Grade FT to Crocker Art Museum

October 24th - 28th Red Ribbon Week

October 26th Kinder - FT to Fog Willow (All Kinders come early)

October 27th APEX FUN RUN

October 28th APEX Team Award Day

October 28th PTA Fall Carnival - 4:00-7:00pm

October 31st Fire, K-9 & DEA Assembly

Calendar of Events

Save the Date! PTA Fall Carnival

Friday, October 28th BOX TOP CLASSROOM COMPETITION

The classroom competition begins October 1st and will go through October 21st. There will be one classroom winner in Kinder - 3rd grade and one

winner in 4th through 6th grade. Winning classes will have the option of a pizza, popsicle or donut party!!

Adopt-A-Tiger A HUGE thank you goes out to all of our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles that Adopted a Tiger! “ADOPT OUR TIGERS” empowers parents and community members to help enhance the quality of our students’ education through giving. We would like to recognize the following fami-lies/individuals that donated.

Donors also received a certificate of appreciation, and their names are posted in the multi-purpose room on our paw print bulletin board. These donations are also tax de-ductible! If you are interested in Adopting A Tiger, please stop by the front office for

more information.

Kyu Phomsopha Gurkaran Gill Murphy Shiu Family Jasnoor Boparai Hazel Reese Harris Family An Nguyen The Guardino Family Customcare Home Health Services

Paul & Kelli Thompson The Nickerson Family Ken & Teresa McEntire The Evans Family The DeCou Family Avni K. Bhullar Kayden Stevenson Ralph Herrera

Cam-Truc Hua Di Jeannie Zhang Chris & Leslie Ellis Betty Murillo Madalyn Crane Kiersten Elmore/Margie Gernal The Ho Family Ella Rockwood Ava Morgado

Kaelyn & Braeden Douglas

Information will be coming home soon for the KCRA 3

Kids Can Food Drive.

The drive will be from

October 8th - November 11th.

You can help by donating canned and non-perishable food items. Last year,

EGUSD contributed over 91,000 cans of food that fed the needy in the Elk Grove community for approximately 4 months!

Classes that bring in the most items will also be rewarded with their choice of a

class party!

Sun Grove’s Annual SHOE DRIVE

Share-A-Sole Shoe Drive has provided new shoes for students in need in EGUSD for many years. This year EGUSD has partnered with Share-A-Sole with a goal of collecting 3,000 pairs of shoes. We have a donation box in our

office. Please donate brand new shoes. Sizes requested are kids size 11 through Adult size 8. You can also do-nate online at sungrove.org/share-a-sole

English Language Advisory Committee Meeting (ELAC)

October 11, 2016 - 6:00 - 7:30pm **Dinner will be served with meeting to follow**

AGENDA

CELDT Testing & Scores CAASPP Test Scores Homework Club Attendance Parent/Teacher Communication

APEX - FUN RUN We are SO excited to announce that we will be having our APEX Fun Run again this year!! Last year our families raised over $21,000! This funding helped with purchas-ing/updating technology in our classrooms, got our Mobile App up and running and supported intervention.

The theme for the 2016-2017 school year is: L.E.G.E.N.D. Legendary leaders:

Learn Engage

Give Empower

Never Quit Do

The APEX Team will be on campus beginning Tuesday, October 18th to kick off the event with a Prep Rally and will be here each day until our Fun Run on

Thursday, October 27th

CHARACTER TRAIT

TEAMWORK Baylee Ahrens Adalynn Alley Everardo Anzaldo-Alcala Geovanny Anzaldo- Alcala Sarah Bauer George Dahdouh Peyton DeCou Ty DeLaRosa Kylie Delight Diego Edralin Rocco Edralin Taylor Edwards Aja Garcia Cristina Garcia Cam-Truc Hua Di Olive Jordan Johnny Lorraine Ciara McMahon Marely Nava Yusef Othman Mara Patton Weston Pereira Kameron Ruffell Adam Saelee Addison Shaw Shawnie Smith Kali Tarrant Lucca Taylor Calli Vang Chloe Vang

EFFORT

Zach Barbieri Max Carroll Dax Carter

Zoey Espinoza Kyle Huynh

Thomas Jacobson Clinton King Alexa Lewis

Jaylen Medina Julian Sevilla Carson Shaw Aiden Sievers

Conor Sievers Spencer Snyder

Kayden Stevenson Beckett Tseu

Nolan Underwood

Timmy Alley

Kate Bakey

William Bakey

Karis Bangle

Gavan Barrozo

Hailey Borges

Zachary Borges

Sienna Brown

Stella Davenport Jayden Dhaliwal Ethan Do

Arabella Doranian

Ava Evans

Angelo Ghio

Luci Guardino

Michael Gutierrez

Dain Kelly

Amelia Le

Derek Mark

Sydney McGee

An Nguyen

Paisley Pack

Presley Pack

Maeven Phong

Emma Popham

Madison Satow

Ryan Thompson

Kalia Trammell Joey Tran

Catharine Winemiller Eleanor Winemiller Ally Zehnder Emily Zeller

Benjamin Anzaldo-Alcala Mariana Blanche Jacob Brockmann Joshua Brockmann Renee Calderon Emily Carrillo Ben Castor Cassandra Corona Natalie Do Maya Espinoza Ixchel Garnica Gemma Gingery Jacob Jones Lane Kazhe Dylan Mahoney Miley Mask Riley Mask Samantha Mitchell Jessica Naveja Ortiz Ricky Naveja Ortiz Anna Pohl Aleks Rodriguez Natalie Underwood Yinpe Vang

Congratulations to our students earing the following AR Awards during the month of September.

Cate Bakey

Will Bakey

Alex Dahdouh

Daniel Dahdouh

Ethan Do

Cam-Truc Hua Di

Haylie Kovalesky

Madelyn Lee

Nate Pascuzzi

Noah Shonde

Ryan Tran

Gold Jonathan Morris

Madison Satow

Noah Shonde

Silver Ryder Amick

Gavan Barrozo

Liam Ellis

Aja Garcia

Misbah Haider

Mateo Pascuzzi

Carter Tseu

Jaden Tran

Daphne Waters

Eleanor Winemiller

Jeannie Zhang

Platinum

Luke Alley

Justin Alvizo

Landon Amick

Avni Bhullar

Karina Borlak

Lauren Burns

Dax Carter

Avery Chapman

Roman Cornes

Jayden Dhaliwal

Stella Davenport

Sean Deeton

Jayden DeLaRosa

Tyler Eidson

Mariano Edralin

Madelynn Garcia

Bro

nze

Braden Ritter

Hailey Ritter

Annet Romo

Ethan Seavers

Jane Seavers

Jaime Shapton

Brayden Shaw

Aiden Sievers

Reilly Smock

Spencer Snyder

Carson Tarrant

Amber Thiara

Joey Tran

Catharine Winemiller

Adam Giang

Emily Giang

Avery Goehring

Michael Gutierrez

Jason Hernandez

Jacob Jones

Lanae Jones

Olive Jordan

Christopher Lacy

Brendan Lee

Kiara Llarenas

Kyle Looper

Cody McEntire

Weston Pereira

Nathan Pham

Julia Quirarte