Sw Wire Dec 2007.pdf - Southwest ISD
Sw Wire Dec 2007.pdf - Southwest ISD
Sw Wire Dec 2007.pdf - Southwest ISD
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SouthweSt wire Fall 2007<br />
Sky Harbour Involves Community<br />
Grandparents’ Day Activities<br />
Reading Together at Sky Harbour...<br />
Sky Harbour celebrated Grandparent’s Day by inviting all<br />
grandparents to come to the school and enjoy the morning<br />
with their grandchildren! They hosted a “Read In” and<br />
grandparents were welcomed to read to the students. The<br />
Toyota Family Literacy played a vital role in the event through<br />
their “Toyota Grandparents Inspire Literacy” program.<br />
Parent Child Incorporated (PCI) held a parent information<br />
meeting where the children sang songs and teachers discussed<br />
what the children could be expected to learn through the<br />
program.<br />
A successful “Meet The Teacher” night where parents<br />
Sharing lunch at Elm Creek...<br />
explored their child’s classroom and met their child’s teacher<br />
at the beginning of school attracted many parents from the<br />
community..<br />
PTA and community parents decorated the lighthouse for<br />
Halloween, complete with cobwebs, a mummy in a coffin, bats,<br />
and a witches’ caldron with fog. Library students who<br />
completed their storybook reading could then tour the<br />
“haunted lighthouse” with a PTA member.<br />
Special Education attended a field trip to the Witte Museum.<br />
Safety First! (left and bottom) Students and teachers<br />
throughout the District are receiving bus evacuation training<br />
presented by the Transportation Department.<br />
The Texas association of School Boards (TASB) elected<br />
its 2007-08 officers during the Association’s recent annual<br />
Delegate Assembly and Convention in Dallas. New TASB<br />
President Renard Thomas of Angleton <strong>ISD</strong> succeeds Immediate<br />
Past President Jim Ash of Arlington <strong>ISD</strong>. Robert Seward<br />
of Mesquite <strong>ISD</strong> will serve as president-elect; Sarah Winkler,<br />
Alief <strong>ISD</strong>, and Sylvester Vasquez, Jr., <strong>Southwest</strong> <strong>ISD</strong>, will<br />
serve as vice-presidents; and Gary Inmon of Schertz-Cibolo-<br />
Universal City <strong>ISD</strong> will serve as TASB’s secretary-treasurer.<br />
Sylvester Vasquez, Jr., has served as a member of the <strong>Southwest</strong><br />
<strong>ISD</strong> board since 2000 and is currently the board’s vicepresident.<br />
Elected to the TASB Board in 2003, he has participated<br />
in Delegate Assembly and School Board Advocacy<br />
Network.<br />
On Thursday, November 15 th, the Elm Creek PTA officially<br />
presented the new playground playscape to the school during<br />
the PTA meeting. The playscape was purchased this summer<br />
by the PTA with funds raised over a two-year period.