The Weekly Update #4

✨ Keeley Talent Show Auditions! ✨

Parents, sign your child up for talent show auditions happening next Thursday, April 3, at 3:45 p.m. in the cafeteria! 🎭🎶🎤

🔗 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/KeeleyTalent

⭐ Important:
✅ Parents must complete the Google Form in order for students to stay for auditions.
✅ No need for a perfect performance—auditions are just to ensure acts are school-appropriate.
✅ We can’t wait to see our Keeley stars shine!

Don't miss out—sign up today! 🌟👏

April 2: Autism Awareness Day; Paraprofessional Appreciation Day

April 3: First Grade Field Trip; Customize Your Yearbook Pages for FREE – Deadline: Thursday, April 3

April 4: Library Appreciation Day

April 5: GISD Pre-K and Kindergarten Explore Event 10:00-2:00 - Tell all your friends who have students going into Pre-K and Kindergarten to visit Keeley's table at this event! This is a Choice of School Community event at Naaman Forest High School.

Week of April 7-11:

National Library Week and National Assistant Principals Week

April 7: Wear or blue or purple for National Library Week and Assistant Principal Week (The favorite colors of Mrs. Barber and Mrs. Riland)

April 8: 5th Grade RLA STAAR - Closed campus to visitors

April 9: 4th Grade RLA STAAR - No parent lunches; Closed campus to visitors

April 10: 3rd Grade RLA STAAR - Closed campus to visitors

April 11: End of Progress Report 1 for Cycle 4

• Our district values your feedback! We are asking you to take a brief survey to tell us about your experience with Keeley Elementary School. To ensure we continue to provide high quality, rigorous learning experiences that meet the needs of our learners and prepare them for college and career, we need your feedback. We want to know what you think. Please complete the survey by April 16th.

• https://surveys.panoramaed.com/garlandisd/FamilySpring2025/surveys

Customize Your Yearbook Pages for FREE – Deadline: Thursday, April 3

Order Your Yearbook for School Delivery – Deadline: Friday, April 11

Don't miss out on making this year's memories extra special! Customize your pages and place your order before it's too late!

The Keeley PTA Nominating Committee is now accepting Board nominations for the '25-'26 school year! We have positions to fit almost every schedule. The only requirements for nominees are to be a Keeley PTA Member, want to help Keeley's students and staff, and support our mission of making every child's potential a reality.

Full details, including a full list of our Board positions, can be found here: https://bit.ly/3FLB90B

For questions, please contact our PTA Secretary, Brandi Cooper, at bmadere@yahoo.com.

- The deadline to order yearbooks is April 11. You can customize your yearbook by designing two pages filled with your student's photos for free. Visit Treering.com/validate and use code 1013195777253116 to order your student's copy today.

- Calling all singers, comedians, cheerleaders, jugglers, balloon artists and everyone who has a talent - it's time for Keeley's annual talent show. Auditions are this Thursday, April 3, at 3:45 p.m. in the cafeteria. Get the full details and sign up to audition here. Then mark your calendar for the talent show and our annual PTA Board elections on Thursday, April 17, starting at 5:30 p.m.

- If you're interested in supporting Keeley's students, teachers and staff, we need you! We're accepting nominations for the PTA Board through Wednesday, April 2. All positions are open, and we have spots to fit almost every schedule and availability. Apply here. Questions? Please contact our PTA Secretary, Brandi Cooper, at bmadere@yahoo.com.

- Want to stay in the loop about volunteer opportunities? Join our MOD Squad (Moms On Duty) and WatchDOGS. Our Vice President of Volunteers, Heidi Hendrix, is the school's go-to person when they need volunteers to make copies, help in the cafeteria, cut out laminating, and so much more. If you're interested, email Heidi at hjblaylock@gmail.com.

A huge thank you to Crossroads Church for their hard work during their Serve Day at Keeley Elementary on Sunday! 🙌💙 We appreciate their time and effort in cleaning, repairing, and refreshing our campus.

We also want to give a big shoutout to our amazing PTA for last year’s generous donation of the landscaping. Thanks to Crossroads, we were finally able to install the landscaping today!

It takes a village, and we are so grateful for the love and support from our community! 💙

We hope to have a Keeley Family Serve Day one day soon. :)

Congratulations to our Staff Member of the Month, Mrs. Dieterich! We appreciate how much she does for our entire campus!

Please check the schedule carefully, as some dates or grade levels may be missing due to campus testing or field trips.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0F4BADAF2CA0FA7-55050711-keeley#/

Parent Lunch Reminders

1. Sign-Ups: If you’re signed up for lunch but can no longer make it, please either remove your name from the sign-up list or contact the office so we can adjust it for you. Additionally, if you’ve reserved spots on both Wednesday and Friday, please choose one day to attend and remove the other from the list, or let the office know so we can take care of it. This helps us manage schedules more efficiently and gives families a fair opportunity to enjoy lunch with their child. We added Wednesdays to give more families the opportunities to attend. Thank you for your cooperation.

2. Food & Seating: For the safety of all students, parents may only bring food for their own child, and other students are not able to join you and your child. We appreciate your understanding in helping us follow this policy.

Please see the attached file regarding yearbook information.

Help us March into April by filling the Keeley Cart! Our Cowboys LOVE prizes, and our princiPAL loves to give them! Check out our Amazon wish list OR pick up some prizes (Party City is going out of business) and drop them at the front office!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2WHRJG09A6FRL?ref_=wl_share

Pre-K: 96.4%

Kinder: 95.7%

1st: 98% - Hit our goal! Wow!

2nd: 96.8%

3rd: 96.6%

4th: 96.4%

5th: 95.8%

Let's reach 98% this week!

April 7: Assistant Principal's Week

April 8: 5th Grade RLA STAAR - Closed campus to visitors

April 9: 4th Grade RLA STAAR - No parent lunches; Closed campus to visitors

April 10: 3rd Grade RLA STAAR - Closed campus to visitors

April 11: End of Progress Report 1 for Cycle 4

April 15: 5th Grade Science STAAR - Closed campus to visitors

April 17: PreK/Kn Field Trip; Talent Show/PTA Board Meeting

April 18: Staff/Student Holiday

April 21-MAP Window Opens (K-2)

April 22: 2nd Grade to Planetarium (2 classes); 5th Grade Math STAAR - Closed campus to visitors

April 23: 4th Grade Math STAAR; 2nd grade to the Planetarium (2 classes); No Parent Lunches; Closed campus to visitors; National Administrative Professionals Day (Nancy, Lily, Alissa)

April 24: 3rd Grade Math STAAR; Closed campus to visitors; Fine Arts Night

April 25: Volunteer Breakfast

April 29: Martial Arts on campus after school

To ensure a smooth and safe drop-off process, please remember that there is no parking on campus for morning drop-off. All parents must remain in the designated car line and allow plenty of time to ensure their child is inside the building by 8:10 AM. We encourage all students to arrive inside the building by 8:00 AM to allow for a prepared start to their day.

If you prefer to avoid the drop-off line and park instead, please allow extra time to park off campus and ensure your child safely uses the crosswalks to enter the building.

Staff members assisting with drop-off have instructional responsibilities that begin promptly at 8:10 AM, and they are not available to monitor the car line after this time. Arriving early, preferably before 8:00 AM, and staying in the designated drop-off line helps us maintain a safe and efficient process for everyone.

Important Reminder: If your child is not inside the front door by 8:10 AM, you will need to park and walk them to the front entrance with your phone to complete the sign-in process using the QR code.

Thank you for your cooperation in creating a safe and organized start to the school day!

• GISD Family and Community Connection February 2025 newsletter

• Weather Procedures

  Garland Independent School District posted in Garland Independent School District

For the safety and security of all students and staff, Garland ISD uses the "I Love U Guys" Standard Response Protocol and Standard Reunification Method as the foundation of all responses to weather events, fires, accidents, intruders and other threats to personal safety.

GISD wants all students, parents and staff to understand these responses, expectations and actions.

For more information, visit the "I Love U Guys" website at https://iloveuguys.org/

• Download SRP-SRM_English_Parent-Handout.pdf

• SRP-SRM_Spanish_Parent-Handout.pdf

• Download SRP-SRM_Vietnamese_Parent-Handout.pdf

• Please do not block the parking spaces outside the front office from 2:00-3:00 as parents may need to come into the office or clinic during this time.
• We've noticed that some parents are still parking in the staff parking lot, which is where our buses come in and out. We've had a close call between a parent and a daycare vehicle. For everyone’s safety, if you need to park at arrival and dismissal, please make sure to park off campus.

To ensure the safety and well-being of all our students, we kindly remind you that outside food deliveries, including fast food, are not permitted during school hours. If your child forgets their lunch and cannot eat in the cafeteria, you are welcome to bring a sack lunch for them before 10:00 a.m. in order for it to be received in time. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Parents may bring food of their choice to school to celebrate their child’s birthday. GISD has determined that this food must be prepackaged, individually portioned, store-bought items with the ingredients clearly labeled. These birthday treats must be distributed after all lunch periods have ended and at the end of the day prior to dismissal. Parents will not be able to attend but can drop off the items in the front office.

Please feel free to reach out to us at A144@garlandisd.net if you need anything.

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