Pleasanton Primary School

Mission Statement

Pleasanton Primary provides a safe, supportive, and encouraging learning environment. We partner with community, families, and students to promote individual growth and address the needs of the whole person. Our array of engaging learning opportunities inspires creativity, leadership, and preparation for the future.

Vision Statement

The vision of Pleasanton Primary is to have ALL students achieve high levels of academic and social-emotional growth that results in them becoming self-confident, resilient problem solvers who love and value learning.

September Monthly Goals

ECSE (Early Childhood/Special Education)

SPECIAL EDUCATION

ECSE-3 Language Arts: Students will be able to follow a visual schedule, classroom procedures and learn characteristics of the Fall season. Students will be able to recognize that letters make sounds, words and names. Students will begin working on expressing emotions, and identifying attributes such as color, texture, taste, smell and sounds.

Pre-K 4: Students will work on letter sound recognition.

LIFT: Students will work on letter/sound recognition and blend sounds orally to make words.

Pre-K

Language Arts: Students will be able to identify 0-2 uppercase and lowercase letters and produce 0-2 sounds.

Math: Students will be able to identify 1 number, count a set of 1 item and be able to count to 1 by rote.

Kindergarten

Our students are working hard and making great progress across the Bluebonnet Curriculum this month!

Math:
Students are learning to count, recognize, write, and represent numbers. They are also practicing comparing groups and developing an understanding of more, less, and equal.

Reading Language Arts:
Students are listening to and discussing stories about the Five Senses, as well as informational texts. They are practicing answering questions, learning new vocabulary, and beginning to share their ideas through drawing and writing.

Foundational Skills:
Students are learning to recognize and produce taught sounds, connect sounds to their spellings, and correctly form the letters they have learned. They are also practicing blending and segmenting sounds as they begin reading and spelling simple words. Students are learning to recognize and read taught Tricky Words as well.

First Grade

ELA Skills

Students will be introduced to five new vowel sounds and the most common spelling for each sound:

/ee/ spelled ‘ee’ as in seed
/ae/ spelled ‘a_e’ as in cake
/ie/ spelled ‘i_e’ as in line
/oe/ spelled ‘o_e’ as in hope
/ue/ spelled ‘u_e’ as in cube

Students will be able to read Tricky Words:

A, I, No, Of , So, Is, To,

All, Some, From, Word,

Where, Were, Have, One,

Once, Do, Two, The, Who,

Said, Says, Was, When,

Why, What, Which, Here,

ELA Reading/Comprehension:

The Human Body: Students will be introduced to a network of body systems, comprised of organs that together perform vital jobs. Students will learn the fundamental parts and functions of five body systems: skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory, and nervous.

Math:

Students build on their understanding of addition and subtraction as they solve real-world problems that involve joining, separating, and comparing within 10. They represent problems using concrete and pictorial models and number sentences. Students explain the strategies used to solve problems using spoken words, objects, pictorial models, and number sentences.

Second Grade

Reading Language Arts:

Students will be learning a series of tricky words, segmenting sounds in words and matching them correctly to written letters, reading stories from The Cat Bandit to build accuracy, expression and fluency. Students will also start to recognize parts of speech such as nouns, capitalization rules, and begin with writing lowercase cursive letters.

Math:

Students will be learning to estimate and measure length using standard units (centimeter and meters) and solve addition and subtraction word problems involving length.

Attendance

Attendance Matters

Every day that your child attends school is another opportunity to learn something new! Our Primary attendance goal is to have 98 percent of our students attend school every day. Thank you for all that you do to support your child’s learning here at the Pleasanton Primary!

Primary Soaring Eagles

Eagle Prize Cart

Our first Eagle Prize Cart was on Monday, August 26th, and the kiddos absolutely loved it! 🎉

The Eagle Prize Cart rolls around once a month, so please encourage your child to be at school so they don’t miss the opportunity to shop!

Students earn Eagle Bucks by displaying positive behaviors throughout the campus. They can then use their Eagle Bucks to purchase fun prizes from the Prize Cart.

When students S.O.A.R., they are:

S – Safe
O – On-Task
A – Always Kind
R – Responsible

In addition to the Prize Cart, teachers will select one student every other month to receive a Soaring Eagle Award. Students are recognized for demonstrating excellent behavior in all school settings.

Soaring Eagle recipients will:
🦅 Be recognized for their outstanding behavior
📜 Receive a certificate
🪙 Receive a golden token to use for the PBIS book machine
📸 Have their photo posted on social media

We are so proud of our Little Eagles and all the hard work they are doing to S.O.A.R. every day! 🦅💙