Eastvalley

PTA Tonight!

PTA meeting

Thursday, February 2

6:30 p.m.

Chorus will perform

Partnership for Performance

PARTNERSHIP FOR PERFORMANCE: Teachers collaborating with parents for school success! Join us on Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 5:00 to 6:00pm.

Is your child’s math confusing? Are you curious about what your child is currently learning in reading and/or math? Would you like to hear more about the third quarter curriculum? Do you want to learn some tricks to help your child at home?

Eastvalley Elementary has exciting news! Eastvalley is offering a “Partnership for Performance” seminar to discuss these topics. Some of our kindergarten through fifth grade teachers will be reviewing current GA Performance Standards, previewing upcoming content, and providing parents with ways to help their students at home. Don’t miss this important hour!

Only Eastvalley K-5 students are invited to attend with their parents. Please keep younger siblings at home. Please stay at Eastvalley and enjoy the PTA Meeting and Chorus performance at 6:30pm in the cafeteria.

We are pleased to have this opportunity to assist our parents and students. Please R.S.V.P. by returning the bottom portion of the invitation that was sent home on January 24, 2012 to your child’s teacher by Monday, January 30, 2012.

Attention 5th Grade Parents

Attention 5th grade parents!

East Cobb Middle is having a rising 6th grade dinner on February 6. 

5:30-6:30 Dinner and entertainment by the East Cobb Jazz Band, Orchestra and Chorus

6:45-7:15  Introduction of Administrators/Curriculum in the Theater

7:15-7:45  Tour of classrooms

Please fill out the Reservation Form and return to Eastvalley's office by Monday, January 30 to reserve your dinner!

Welcome New Office Staff!

Nurse Dawn Mahoney (R.N.) joins us from Birney Elementary School.  Nurse Jean moved to California over the holidays and we were lucky to find Nurse Dawn.  Nurse Dawn has a son in 3rd grade here at Eastvalley.  Please welcome her to the clinic!!!

 

 

Mrs. Dianne Fonseca is Eastvalley's new registrar and records clerk.  Mrs. Amy Snyder went on educational leave to complete her student teaching and her degree in Early Childhood Education.  We are fortunate that Mrs. Dianne was available. She has 2 children in Cobb County schools, Tritt and Hightower Trail.  Please welcome Mrs. Dianne to Eastvalley.

Spelling Bee Winner!

Congratulations to Eastvalley's Spelling Bee winner, Brian Yapkowitz, a fifth grader.  The runner up is Adeboye Adeoye, a fourth grader.  The competition was a great one extending into several rounds with words like "astrophysicist," "slantindicular," "expressionism" and "impenetrable."  Brian and Adeboye are shown with Eastvalley's principal, Ms. Wacker, with their Spelling Bee trophies after the competition.  Congratualations to the winners!

Second Quarter Perfect Attendance Bicycle Award

Eastvalley Elementary School is excited to announce the winner of the second quarter perfect attendance bicycle award! Eastvalley’s Partner in Education Horace Mann Insurance generously donated the bicycle as a perfect attendance incentive. Students with perfect attendance during the second quarter were eligible to win the bicycle. Perfect attendance is bell-to-bell attendance without being tardy or leaving early from school. All of the eligible students’ names were in a hat and the random drawing selected Trey Williams from Ms. Greenfield’s fourth grade class as the grand prize winner. Congratulations Trey! Horace Mann Insurance will donate two more bicycles for a third quarter drawing and a fourth quarter drawing.  Good luck to all Eastvalley Eagles!

Fire Lane -- No Parking

Attention Parents!

Please notice the new signs on the front curb of the school, "NO PARKING, FIRE LANE" which were added today.  Please do not park on the front curb of the school for any reason.  The police will issue tickets to those parked on the curb if they drive through.  We don't want anyone getting a ticket, so please do not park on the curb.  If no parking spaces are available in the Eastvalley lot, please park next door at East Side Baptist.   Thank you!!

Attention Parents!

If your child is absent from school, the policy is that you send a note to school stating the reason your child missed school.  Please be specific about the reason.  In the note, please include your child's name, the teacher's name, the date or dates of the absence and the reason.  It is very important to the school to have the documentation on file to excuse a child from school when they are absent, so please send a note each time.  We will also accept notes from the doctor or dentist about an absence from school.  If we do not receive a note, we must mark the absence as unexcused.  After 7 unexcused absences, the matter will be referred to the school social worker.  Thank you for helping us. 

Attendance Winner!

EASTVALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

1^st QUARTER PERFECT ATTENDANCE BICYCLE AWARD

Eastvalley Elementary School is excited to announce the winner of the first quarter perfect attendance bicycle award! Eastvalley’s Partner in Education, M.A. McDonald from Horace Mann Insurance, generously donated the bicycle as a perfect attendance incentive. Students with perfect attendance during the first quarter were eligible to win the bicycle. Perfect attendance is bell-to-bell attendance without being tardy or leaving early from school. All of the eligible students’ names were in a hat and the random drawing selected Timothy Brewer from Ms. Baker’s fourth grade class as the grand prize winner. Congratulations Timothy! Horace Mann Insurance will donate three more bicycles for a second, third, and fourth quarter drawing.  Good luck to all Eastvalley Eagles!

Free Zaxby's Kids Meal with Your Report Card!

Attention Parents and Students!

 

Our wonderful Partner in Education, Zaxby's, wants to celebrate YOUR achievement!

 

Students will all A's, B's, 2's, or 3's on their report card can bring it in to Zaxby's and receive a FREE kid's meal!

Congratulations Mrs. Hestad!

 

Congratulations to Mrs. Stephanie Hestad!

She was named a Symetra Financial/Atlanta Falcons

 Hero in the Classroom

She was surprised at an assembly where she was presented a check

from Sun Trust and the Falcons! 

Boosterthon Fun Run Video

Check out our school's Boosterthon video.  The kids had a great time at the fun run!  See you next year Boosterthon Boys!

2011-2012 School Supply List

2011-12 School Supply List

 

To see the supply list for each grade level for next year, please CLICK HERE.

 

Yogolycious-Our New Partner in Education!

Eastvalley Elementary School is proud to introduce a new Partner in Education! Yogolycious joined the Eastvalley Eagle family on Thursday, February 3, 2011 at the official Partner in Education signing ceremony during the PTA Meeting. Yogolycious is located at 2100 Roswell Road in the Kroger Shopping Center. Thank you to Yogolycious for being a special Eastvalley Partner in Education!
Eastvalley’s Principal Karen Wacker and Yogolycious Owner Tony Amini

Inclement Weather

In case of inclement weather, please do the following:

1.  Log on to www.cobbk12.org for the most up to date information on school closings

2.  Watch the news and listen for updates for Cobb County Schools

Please do not call the school.  Our phones are overwhelmed on mornings where you think school may be closed.  The other options are better sources of information and you will get a quicker answer.

Dedicate a Book

 Are you looking for a way to honor your child and his/her years at Eastvalley?   Why not dedicate a book to the Media Center!  For a $10 donation, get a new book dedicated in your child's name to the Media Center.  Please fill out the Dedicate a Book Form and send it in with payment.  The Eastvalley students will treasure the book for years to come!

Important Guidelines

Dear Eastvalley Families,

 

It is our ultimate responsibility to keep your child(ren) safe here at Eastvalley and we take that job very seriously.  We also need to protect instructional time from interruptions as much as possible.  In order to make that happen, we will be making some changes to procedures beginning January 6, 2009. Please read the procedures below so that you can be clear on the new guidelines.

 

1. Any time you come into Eastvalley you must go to the office to sign in and get a visitor’s pass to wear.  This includes if you are walking your child to the classroom in the morning before the tardy bell.  We must have an accurate account for everyone who is in our building at all times.
2. If you bring your child tardy to school, you must come in to the building to sign them in.  Do not drop them off and let them walk in by themselves.  You may not walk them to class after the tardy bell rings as instruction will have begun.
3. The sign in sheet will now be in front of the secretary’s desk.  Sign in on the sheet and the secretary will give you a visitor’s pass.  This is to ensure that everyone in our building has signed in appropriately.
4. Dismissal plans need to be made with your child(ren) before they come to school.  If you must change them during the day, please call 770-578-7214 or fax a change to 770-578-7216 prior to 1:00 p.m.  We will no longer take dismissal changes after 1:00.
5. We will not dismiss students from the office from 1:45-2:30 each day.  You may pick up children prior to 1:45 by going to the office and signing them out.  Remember that instruction continues until 2:15 so they will be missing class if you check them out early.  Please try to make appointments later in the afternoon so that they do not miss instruction.

 

Please do not ask the office staff to make an exception for your child(ren) as they are doing their best to keep each and every child safe.  Please contact me if you have any questions regarding these new procedures.

 

Thank you for understanding the need to minimize instructional interruptions and keep all students safe while in our care.  We appreciate those of you who volunteer in our building and in our classrooms.  The new procedures help us to know who is present in our building at all times.  Have a wonderful new year!

 

 

Karen Wacker

Principal, Eastvalley Elementary

Eastvalley Pledge

On our wings,
We pledge to do our best,
In our country and in our school.
We fly beyond the common,
Being respectful to all people,
In all we do at Eastvalley.