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February 21, 2025

Wear Yellow on Monday

Our dear former crossing guard, Mr. Brian, would have celebrated his birthday this Sunday. We decided we wanted to honor him by wearing his favorite color, yellow, on Monday. Please feel free to join us on Monday by wearing yellow in honor of Mr. Brian!

Stem Event at UT

This free STEM event for girls is happening this Saturday on UT Campus! Attendees must register so check out this link: https://girlday.utexas.edu/

Field Day

25 Years of Murchison Field Day

March 14, 2025

We would like to invite you to join your child as they travel through 25 years of Murchison field day. The stations are significant events that have happened between the years 2000-2025. The students will participate in 18 different stations ranging from Quidditch, landing a plane on the Hudson, Icemageddon, and the Friends Finale, to name a few. This field day has been so much fun to plan and teach the kids about the different events. While we welcome you and your family to come watch, we ask that you not participate in our activities. The playground and basketball court will be closed for field day activities only that day. Due to liability, we can only have our students participate in field day.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Please check in at the front foyer and have the visitor tag visible on your upper body.
If you would like to check your student out after their field day time, their teacher will have a sign-out form. No check outs in the office from 11:00am-11:20 am or after 2:00pm.
If you have siblings in the school, we kindly ask that they stay in their classes when it is not their allotted time.

We want to thank Lone Star Circle of Care, K&A Grooming, State Farm with Will Deaton, West Pecan Coffee, BBQ Fiends, Healthy Kids Running, New York Life with Rick Gonnzales, Sacrifice Training with Traci Young, DJ Mondo, Dash of Glitter, and our PTO for sponsoring our field day. With their generous donations we are able to provide shirts for all students and staff and have bouncy houses.

A couple reminders:

Please put sunscreen on your child before they leave the house. We cannot put sunscreen on our students and due to health concerns we can’t have aerosol sunscreen in the building.
Students should have tennis shoes on, clothes they can move in, and should be school appropriate. T-Shirts will be handed out in the morning once they come to school.

Staff Inflatable Race 8:00-8:20

PPCD, Pre-K 4, Kinder, 1st, 2nd, Comm 8:30-11:00

3rd - 5th grade 12:00-2:30

Pre-K 3 AM 8:20-10:00

Pre-K 3 PM 12:00-1:40

WE NEED Volunteers if you would like to possibly help please send an email to Claire.harvey@pfisd.net and I will reach out to you.

Volunteer Form: Please make sure you fill out the volunteer application with the district. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5ZLflvFRqsYArsyqA4ypaQ0eBO_3bvPwBXf_N1zwdhpsKag/viewform?usp=sf_link

Upcoming Webinar

Did you know that February is North America’s Inclusion Celebration Month? Join us as we celebrate! All families (not just families who have students receiving special education services) are invited to a webinar on Inclusivity. We will learn about special education and the benefits of inclusion. Hosted by Special Education.

What: Inclusiveness: Ensuring ALL Students are Successful A virtual learning opportunity for everyone.

Date: February 25, 2025

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Zoom (Please register here to receive the Zoom link.)

Inclusiveness: Ensuring ALL Students are Successful - English

Inclusiveness: Ensuring ALL Students are Successful - Spanish

Have questions: Please contact Julie Schwarz, Julie.Schwarz@pfisd.net or 512-594-0162

Girls Run Club

The Girls Running Club is a program designed for girls in 3rd-5th grade. This club was created, not only to encourage girls to live a healthy lifestyle, but to build their confidence and empower our girls to know they are strong and capable of anything! Our club will incorporate character building lessons into our workouts, which will lead up their big 5K run! If you have any questions please contact jerissa.krasnonosenkikh@pfisd.net

Practices: Tuesday: 3:00-4:00pm

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/J8edYrcm6rBqzocV6

Attendance/Absence Reminders

Now that we are in the 2nd Semester, here are a few reminders for attendance and absences:

An absence can only be excused with a Doctor's note.
A "parent note" is an unexcused absence. However, please continue to send a parent note when your child is sick so we know why they are out.
We cannot accept an absence note after 4 days of the student's absence.
If the Nurse sends your student home and tells you they cannot return the next day, that absence is excused. Any absences after that will need to be excused by a Doctor's note.
If your child arrives at school after 9:30, they are marked absent for the day.

Please send all absence notes and documentation to our campus Registrar, Mrs. Vaughn. You can reach her at Kinzie.Vaughn@pfisd.net

Pfamily Pfitness Pfest

Destination Life

The Destination…Life Transition Conference helps Central Texas families prepare and support their student(s) with disabilities for life beyond high school. Families can expect to gather information and gain access to experts on how to help their student(s) with disabilities ranging from early childhood through high school to successfully transition to adulthood. The conference will take place on Saturday, March 1, 2025 from 9:00-1:30 at McNeil High School (5720 McNeil Dr, Austin, TX 78729). Please visit the Destination Life Website for more information. Or, reach out to the Special Education Family Engagement Specialist, Julie Schwarz at Julie.Schwarz@pfisd.net.

Destination Life Transition Conference, Save the Date Flyer English

Destination Life Transition Conference, Save the Date Flyer, Spanish

5th Grade Parent Night

Fifth grade parents, please see the flyer below with information about 5th grade parent night at Kelly Lane Middle School on February 25 from 6:00pm-7:30pm.

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