Newsletter January 2020

Hendricks Elementary

School FROM THE DESK OF THE PRINCIPAL: Hawk Families:

Happy New Year! As we look forward into 2020 this is a great time to work with your children on setting goals

for academic success. Consider encouraging them to read a new book, work on memorizing math facts, practice

their writing skills and have consistent great attendance.

Report Cards: Watch for your child's repor t card to come home on Wednesday, January 8th. Be sure to go

over the grades, take the time to celebrate successes and identify areas for continued growth and refinement. It is

important that students feel part of their education by setting goals with family.

Awards Assembly: The second quar ter awards assemblies will be on Friday, January 10th at 8:30 am for

grades 1-3 and 9:30 am for grades 4-6. Please remember to not park in the dirt along Orange Grove Road. Find a

space directly in front of the school or along the side street on the NE side of Orange Grove in the designated park-

ing area. We look forward to seeing you as we honor our students’ achievements and successes!

PTO: A huge thank you to our PTO and volunteers for a wonderful Hendr icks Holiday in December . The

turnout was wonderful and everyone had so much fun. A special shout-out to the Hawks choir and Caballero dance

teams who all got us in the holiday spirit with their wonderful performances!

Tax Credit: It is a new year but not too late to consider suppor ting our school with a tax credit donation.

Tax credit dollars are used for field trips, extra-curricular activities, and school-wide assemblies. Arizona law al-

lows taxpayers to receive a tax credit of up to $400 per family for donations made to public schools. Tax credit

donations may still be made for 2019 and are accepted through April 15, 2020. If you are able to donate, it would

make all the difference to our school. Please see the included tax credit form for more details.

Shows: First graders put on the fabulous show “Toys” right before break. Great teamwork by Mrs. McCarthy,

Mrs. Merriman, Mrs. Young, Ms. Sabin, Ms. Teylar and Mr. Fred to make

this show a success – it was adorable! We are looking forward to our 2nd

grade performance on Monday, February 17th.

Thank You Sixth Graders: Our 6th graders celebrated their hard work

at Fiesta Lanes on December 12th, bowling with their friends and teachers.

The entire school thanks them for their service in the cafeteria each day

during the 1st semester. The top bowler and winner of $15 was Troy Nelson!

I wish you all a prosperous and wonderful start to the New Year.

Tabetha Finchum Principal Hendricks Elementary School 520-696-8405

Important Contact Numbers:

Student Absence Line 696-4807

Phyllis Agraan, Registrar

696-8400

Desiree Fitterer, Health Assistant

696-8402

Darlene Jones, Administrative Assistant

696-8401

Carmen Aguilar, Cafeteria Manager

696-8408

Hawks with Honor Students Kindergarten Kayos Coulter—Jet Mendoza—Jameson Underwood First Grade Abraham Perkins—Lily Abrams—Ace Elliott Second Grade Kingston Hunt—Dillyn Woods—Natalia Lee Third Grade Adrian Soto—Isabella Maynard—Sophia Mitchell Fourth Grade Eleana Parsons—Andrew Wagner—Brenae Lyman Fifth Grade Aiden Ortiz—Cal Anglin—Danitza Soto Sixth Grade Dillon Weidner—Maximo Lopez—Marcus Devoy First Base Sergio Garcia Second Base Alexis Lopez Third Base Devin Call

JANUARY BUILDING BLOCK OF CHARACTER – Eleana Parsons

OPTIMIST STUDENTS OF THE MONTH—Braiden Hall and Felicity Cota-Chavez

January Important Dates

January 7 Flag Football A Team Richardson @ Hendricks

January 9 Flag Football B Team Hendricks @ Richardson

January 10 Awards Assemblies

January 14 Flag Football A Team Hendricks @ Laguna

January 16 Flag Football B Team Laguna @ Hendricks

January 17 District Spelling Bee

January 19 Civil Rights Day—No School

January 21 2nd Grade Sabino Canyon Field Trip

January 22 2nd Grade Sabino Canyon Field Trip

January 23 PTO Meeting

January 30 CATS Field Trip to Kartchner Caverns

A Big thank you to all our parent volunteers who helped make Grandparents Week a great success! Melissa Mozingo, Georgina Chandler, Veronica Chandler, Denise Hernandez, Nicole Scott, Brandi Nixon, Shawn Cowen and our Sentinel Peak cadets, we ap-preciate you!

Happy 2020! We hope your family enjoyed a

peaceful and fun holiday season. As the new

year begins, we are gearing up for lots of learn-

ing ahead. We will also begin our plans for the

100th day of school. We have many fun activi-

ties – check your child’s folder! Remember to write names on all new

winter coats. Our Arizona weather has us losing jackets during lunch.

Happy New Year to All! Thanks so much to all our

families for all of their “behind the scenes” efforts

and donations in preparation of our holiday musical!

We could not have done the show without your extra

love and support to costumes, props, and line mem-

orization. You made all of First Grade shine!

New math packets for third quarter will be sent home with your child’s re-

port card. Please begin studying subtraction and addition facts to 10!

Also, Sight Word List part 3 will be sent home for your child to practice and

instantly recognize without sounding out any of the words.

Thank you for all of your support!

Thank you for all of the craft and party donations before

break. We had a great celebration. We hope you had a

wonderful break with your child, and they had a chance to

rest, regroup, and are ready to come back and work hard

before AzM2 testing. Regular homework will resume this

week. Please make sure you are checking your student’s

homework folder and agenda nightly. After you see your

child has completed homework, please sign their agenda.

Agendas will be checked daily for signatures. AzM2 test-

ing is right around the corner, so please make sure your child is here and on time

every day. We ask that you try not to schedule vacations during school time because

missing one day can influence students greatly. Thank you for all of the support you

give to ensure your child’s success

Happy 2020 to all our families! We hope you had a wonderful winter break with friends and families!! We hope that is was full of love, happiness and time spent together. 2020 is going to be very busy in 2nd grade!! First we would like to welcome Ms. Jessica to Miss Dennis' and Ms.

Logsdon to Mrs. Hitchings' class full time, they are both completing their student teaching through the UofA and we both excited to be working at Hendricks, make sure to welcome them both. When we get back to school in January we will start our study of the desert; because we will be going to Sabino Canyon on our field trips!! Mrs. Hitchings' TUESDAY Jan. 21st. Miss Dennis' and Mrs. LaRue's classes will be going WEDNESDAY Jan 22nd . Permission slips and more information will be com-ing home. This is a great time of year to set new goals with your child to maintain new home-

work habits or new active experiences as a family (take advantage of the great

weather this time of year to be outdoors). We are looking forward to the rest of this

school year with your child and seeing you on the field trip and at the Award Assem-

bly Friday, January 10th. Also mark your calendars for our 2nd grade Family Forum

on January 27th; we will be focusing on setting goals based on your child's academic

progress made already this year!

Happy New Year! In fifth grade, we are full steam ahead working on our science fair projects.

It is exciting to see our students analyze real data to notice patterns that drive excellent

questions. We are beginning a new module in reading that focuses on different forms of art!

Encourage your child to identify different types of art in the community or at home. Share

with them your positive experiences with art as well. In math, we are going strong as we

learn how to graph, make tables, and find the area of shapes. We appreciate your support at

home!

As we jump into the new quarter, we are excited to see our students' growth. Having your

child read at home and practice their math facts truly makes a difference. We are also look-

ing forward to students showing more and more responsibility as we begin to prepare them

for sixth grade. Encourage them to do more on their own and be responsible for bigger and

better things. As always, thank you to all of you that continue to support not only your stu-

dent, but us as well.

Thank you to all our fourth grade families for their support to us and their children during the first semester. We appreciate your willingness to work with your child on weekly spelling tests as well as memorizing those math facts. Thank you parents for checking your child’s planner on a daily basis. This is a great way to see what assignments your child needs to do each day, as well as a communication tool between home and school.

In math, we are finishing unit 5, which focuses on adding and subtracting large numbers. Students have been learning different strategies and working on really understanding the US standard algorithm. In reading, we are start-ing Module 6, which focuses on Earth's Natural Wonders. Students will work on iden-tifying and understanding different types of figurative language as well as continuing to develop good comprehension strategies. We look forward to a great second se-mester with your student.

Our annual Hendricks Holiday was a success!! Thank you for coming and enjoying ouractivities and food!! We had so many members of the Flowing Wells community and Hendrickscome out and participate!! PTO would like to give a special thank you to the Honor Society, theFlowing Wells High School Dance Team, the Hendricks staff and all the volunteers that helpedmake Hendricks Holiday a success!! Thank you!!Our next PTO meeting will be on Thursday January 23rd at 230pm on the library. Please comeand join us!! We would love to have you!Our next big event will be the Spring Fundraiser. More information will be coming home in thenext couple of months.Soon we will be having a Parent's Night Out. Be on the lookout for more infor-

mation!Thank you so much for your support of Hendricks PTO. All of our hard work is for all thestudents of Hendricks and we can't do what we do without the support of Hen-dricks parents andstaff.Please contact us by email (hendricks.pto@gmail.com), Facebook (Hendricks Elemen-tary PTO), and through the Remind app. Text @henhawk to 81010. We would love to hear from you!!

It’s hard to believe we are halfway done with our year already! Hope all our families

had a restful break and are ready to continue working hard during the 3rd

quarter.

Don’t forget our engineering projects are due January 31st, and the Science Fair is

February 6th. **The students were told that they are able to hand write the papers to

put on their science boards. They do not need the use of a computer.

We will begin reading The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle for third quarter lit stud-

ies. In addition to the literature we will be reading in class this quarter, the students will

be working on another book of their choice at home. They will use this for their Read-

ing Log, and will have a book project due at the end of 5 weeks.

Welcome back!