Career Day in May

Career Day is rapidly approaching and we need YOURexperiences! Whether you are a nurse, mechanic, astronaut, custodian or business owner- we need you!

We are looking for a variety of people interested in spending a day talking to our students about their career. Many of our students are unaware of the career opportunities available to them and this is a fantastic way to provide them with first-hand knowledge of potential career paths. This is also a great way for you to get involved with Christie Elementary and make an impact on the students’ future. If you are not interested but know someone who is, please give them (or us) the necessary contact information. The 2017 Christie Elementary Career Day is May 19th from 8:30 – 2:30. Arrangements can be made for half-day participation.

Thank you in advance for your involvement!

Testing is here

Remember our third, fourth, and fifth grade friends will be STAAR testing the next 2 weeks. Please get lots of rest and a yummy breakfast each morning.

Big Week Ahead!

We have one more week before spring break and, it is going to be a very busy week.

Monday: Graduation pictures for kindergarten and fifth grade
Tuesday: Grandparents Day, all grandparents are welcome to join your kids at lunch
Wednesday: Our class day to go to the book fair
Thursday: Open House with the world premier of our class movie Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Friday: Troll assembly (K-2 8:00-9:00, 3-5 9:00-10:00)

We will film our movie on Monday and Tuesday.  Please do not wear green.  It is a strange request but we will film with a green screen.  All this hard work ends with a great prize.  SPRING BREAK!

Get some rest this weekend, we are going to be very busy!

Lost and Found

Good Morning Christie Families!
After only 9 days back from the break, our Lost and Found is full of unclaimed items. We are making some changes to the system:
All items will be kept in the hallway along the office, so you and your student will have an easier time when looking for items that were misplaced.
All items will be donated MONTHLY (at the end of each month) to keep the collection manageable.
The Lost and Found is now stored on the rolling hanging cart for ease of viewing items and will be on display during family nights, such as this Thursday, January 12th, for Fine Arts Night.
Please tell your students to visit the Lost & Found to claim their jackets, hats, etc. as soon as possible.

College Week Next Week!

Next week is college week!  We will celebrate all week long with decorations, sharing college experiences and dressing up!

Christie Elementary

College Week

January 9-13, 2017

My path to college leads me through…

Monday January 9- Christie Cubs Day

                                Wear Christie Cubs spirit wear or colors

Tuesday January 10- Carpenter Cowboys Day

                                   Wear a blue shirt or cowboy boots

Wednesday January 11- Clark Cougars Day

                                    Wear red, white or black and sunglasses

Thursday January 12- Plano Senior High Wildcats Day

                                    Wear maroon and white

Friday January 13- DREAM BIG!!

                               Dress up as your chosen career

We look forward to celebrating all week long!

Hour of Code

Friday, December 9th is our annual Hour of Code Even from 1:30-2:30.

This is where we invite parents to come code with their students for one hour at the end of the day.  We are asking parents to BYOD (bring their own devices), but we will also have unplugged activities for kids to rotate through during the event.

If a student has a parent, then they can either choose to come to the Learning Commons or go to their classroom and code. If a parent has student in multiple grades, they can all go to the LC together.

This is always a fun activity for everyone and we can’t wait to see how many people come to code this year!

Don’t forget that we will have the Perot Tech Truck here hosting events out of our Learning Commons.  Any student that has a parent attend is welcome to go with their parent to the LC to participate!

Here are just a few activities we will do :)

https://code.org/learn

https://code.org/curriculum/unplugged

Code in Artist here

Code in Frozen here

Code in Infinity here

Code in Minecraft here

Code in Play Lab here

Code in Star Wars here

Can Food Drive and November Info

Our Christie Student Council is collecting cans throughout November to help out the Plano Santas Holiday Food Drive.  Please encourage your children to bring cans throughout the whole month,

Last year we collected 743 cans, and we want to surpass that and collect at least 850 cans this year.  The 743 cans we collected last year were enough to feed 1 person for 135 days or a family of 4 for 5 weeks! We can make a difference!

Come on Christie Cubs...let's show how compassionate and giving we can be!

EVERY CAN COUNTS!
We are asking for cans or non-perishable food items
-cans (veggies, fruit, soup)
-boxes (spaghetti, mac and cheese, cereal)
-plastic bottles (peanut butter)
*no glass please
-bags (rice, noodle, cereal)