Adventure Family Newsletter
Dear Adventure Families,
As we prepare for another exciting year of learning, we are proud to continue our schoolwide theme, Creciendo Juntos—Growing Together. Included in this June Newsletter, you will find important dates and details to prepare for the first day of the new school year. If you're not ready to think about August yet, save this email for a couple months from now.
At Adventure, we believe that students achieve their greatest success when schools and families work together in partnership. In the upcoming year, our focus will be on deepening our understanding of how students develop language, literacy, and academic knowledge, and strengthening the role that each of us—students, families, and staff—plays in supporting that growth. By embracing our individual and collective responsibility for student growth, strengthening instructional excellence, partnering with families, and fostering socio-cultural competence, we will ensure every student develops the knowledge, skills, confidence, courage, and voice to communicate effectively, express themselves authentically, and thrive in both languages and across all learning experiences.
Together, we will continue building a community where students develop the skills to think deeply, communicate their learning with confidence, and grow academically, socially, and culturally. For many students, this includes developing strong skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in both English and Spanish. For all students, it means strengthening their ability to use language to learn, share ideas, solve problems, and engage meaningfully with the world around them.
Throughout the year, we will provide opportunities for families to learn more about student development, academic growth, and language learning, while also sharing practical ways to support learning at home. Our goal is to refine our collective understanding of how students grow and learn, and to strengthen our shared responsibility for supporting that growth.
Through high-quality instruction, meaningful family partnerships, and shared ownership of student success, we will continue creating learning experiences that help every child grow, achieve, and thrive.
Thank you for being an essential part of our Adventure community. We look forward to growing together with you this year.
Saludos,
Sarah and Marisa
Back to School Night
- Aug 6: Back to School Night, 4-6pm
School Day Times
- AM PK: 8:00-11:00
- PM PK: 12:10-3:10
- Full day PK: 8:00-3:10
- K-6: 8:00-3:10
- Aug 11: first day of school, grades 1-6
- Aug 12: first day of school, Kinder (English dominant students only)
- Aug 13: first day of school, Kinder (Spanish dominant students only)
- Aug 14: first day of school for ALL kindergarteners together!
- Aug 18: first day of school, PK students
Arrival:
o Breakfast begins at 7:50. Breakfast is free for all students and is served in the cafeteria for K-6. PK students eat all meals in the classroom.
o K-6 students will enter the building through the cafeteria between 7:50 and 8:00. At 8:00, the school day begins and students who arrive after 8:05 are considered tardy and will need to enter through the main entrance with a parent/guardian and get a tardy pass.
o PK arrival is at the classroom doors at the session start time.
Dismissal:
o All K-6 students will be dismissed outside at 3:10. Walkers, or students whose parents plan to meet their student, will exit to the back (north) side of the building. Bus riders also dismiss to the back of the building to meet the busses. Any student being picked up by a car in the Kiss and Go lane will be dismissed to the front of the school.
o PK dismissal is from the classroom doors at the end of the session time.
This summer, Adventure students are invited to participate in a schoolwide reading tradition to keep our learning and bilingual identity growing all year long! During the last days of school, each student chose a book to take home and enjoy over the summer. Along with their book, students will receive a “book spine” template to complete after reading. New to Adventure students (or anyone who lost their paper) are invited to read a book of their choosing and use any strip of paper to decorate as a book spine.
Students can decorate their spine and include the title, author, their name, and a key theme word written in both English and Spanish (for example: friendship/amistad or courage/valentía). Students should bring the completed book spine back to school for Back-to-School Night on August 6, where we will build a beautiful community mural: Our Bilingual Bookshelf / Nuestra Biblioteca Bilingüe. There will be prizes for all students who participate!
We can’t wait to celebrate our students as readers and showcase how our Adventure community grows in both languages—one book at a time!
As summer begins, we encourage families to continue nurturing curiosity, creativity, and learning at home.
- Be sure to explore the Academic Resources section of our school website for bilingual children's podcasts and more coming soon to help students stay engaged in both languages throughout the summer months.
- We also encourage families to take advantage of community programs such as the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program where any child that meets their parent-set reading goals can earn a free Pizza Hut single topping Personal Pan pizza. Download the Book it! app to get started!
- Access Mapleton student learning websites, including the Little Sponges Language Learning Website for continued Spanish and English practice, via Clever (K-3 students). (QR codes were sent home with students)
- Summer reading and enrichment opportunities through Anythink Libraries; registration for their Read-Think-Do-Grow summer program is open now. Once you’ve registered, starting May 26 you can visit your local Anythink library to pick up a mySummer folder, a packet of seeds, fillable bookmarks to track your favorite summer activities and adventure tickets to local attractions (while supplies last).
