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News & AnnouncementsPTA Taco Talk - Join us for Tacos at the next PTA genaral meeting on February 9th at 8am in the Clayton Cafe. We will be discussing the Fun Run, PTA Survey results, discuss how to spend funding, electing the next nominating committee and more. Nominating Committee Needed! - We need three people for the Nominating Committee. Your role will be to help find candidates for next year's open PTA Board positions. This is not a PTA position, so there are no meeting requirements. We need 3 candidates by our general meeting next week, Feb. 9th. Note: candidates do not have to be present at the election. If you are interested in joining the Nominating Committee, please contact Stefanie Clegg at volunteers@claytoncardinals.org. ACPTA Rep. Needed - The duties of this role include attending Clayton PTA meetings, Austin Council PTA meetings, and Bowie vertical team meetings. Provide updates and information at Calyton PTA board meetings. If you are interested in this position, plaese email Stefanie Clegg at volunteers@claytoncadinals.org. Fun Run& Carnival Kickoff - The Fun Run Planning Team is looking for volunteers to lead aspects of the Fun Run. It takes lots of volunteers to plan and run this fantastic event. Please consider volunteering for one of the positions on the Fun Run Team. Please click here to see the list of opportunities. Please join us for the PTA Taco Talk, Feb. 9th at 8 am to learn more about the Fun Run and volunteering for this awesome event! AISD Testing - TAKS and STAAR testing is coming up this spring. Please use the following link to see AISD testing calendar: http://archive.austinisd.org/academics/testing/ Support our Local HEB - Help our HEB (located at Slaughter and Escarpement) in supporting the Capital Area Food Bank. The event is called the "Souper Bowl of Caring" and it runs through February 6th. To show our community support, please purchase one of the brown paper grocery bags located near the front of the check-out stands. You may also make a donation at the registers by using the "tear pad" campaign and contributing either $1, $3, or $5. HEB has been very supportive of our local schools and our kids, so lets show them how much they are appreciated! Thank You!
| It has been an exciting couple of weeks here at Clayton. Your Cardinals have been very busy with their learning. Can you believe we just celebrated the 100th Day of School?! Our primary learners were so excited to be completing writing, counting, and reading tasks and activities related to this. You should walk the hallways to see their work or check out the writing some students have done about what they would do with $100 or what they expect to look like when they are 100 years old! I wonder if Mr. (Dr.) Robinett would be upset to learn that having a full head of gray hair is something that you should expect when you have reached 100 years of life --(or in his case, since he was just over 30 :))?! Although the students' stories, thoughts, and ideas are precious, it's the actual growth in learning that they have been demonstrating over these past one hundred days that is cause for celebration. Speaking of great learning opportunities, this week, 4th graders were involved in a "Digital Learning Day" where Cardinals completed rotations to learn about and apply various aspects of technology. The students took photos and uploaded them into presentations, learned about cybersafety, independently connected computer monitors, "mice", and printers, learned about and constructed animoto presentations, and explored and experimented with other designated online sites and materials in small group rotations. This week, First through Third Grade students were visited by author, illustrator, and musician, Mike Artell. Artell is quite the humorist, and he had students and teachers chuckling at his stories. He shared with students a number of the nonfiction and fiction titles that he has written, and he retold the story of Petite Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) in a Cajun accent. You wouldn't have needed to know your gumbo from your boudin to appreciate Mike's presentation as much as the students did. Their laughter and smiles were infectious. Finally, I failed to send out a huge thank you last week to Michelle Rober, other helpful PTA volunteers, and Brownie Troop 1728 who assisted with this year's Clayton Book Exchange. Over 3000 books were on hand for this event and over 160 students participated. It was so great seeing kids leaving with their arms full of books and smiles on their faces. Keep on Reading, Cardinals! Have a great rest of the week! Your Partner in Learning, Dru Robinett | |||||
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