It has been an amazing week partnering with families! Thank you so much for those of you who were able to meet with our teachers. Your participation and collaboration with our school team makes a difference in our students' lives!

Oct 12 - School Flu Clinic @ 9:00

Oct 13 - SCC @ 3:30

Oct 14 - School Spirit Day; 2:30 Release

Oct 15 & 16 - No School: Fall Break

Oct 19 - Dia de los Muertos in the Garden @ 5:00

Oct 23 - School Spirit Day; Food Pantry Open 1:00-2:00; Early Release @ 1:30; End of First Quarter

Your student's safety is our biggest priority and a big piece of that is supervision. We have supervision outside starting at 7:45am. Especially with it getting darker in the mornings, we ask that students not be dropped off too early, because we can't help keep them safe.

Our Escalante PTA is hosting a Trunk or Treat event on October 30 at 2:00 in the Escalante parking lot! Students and families can attend to receive treats and enjoy time with our school community. We will have activities for students to participate in outside from 1:30-2:00 while they wait for the Trunk or Treat to begin.

If you are interested in decorating a car and passing out treats at the event, the sign up is in the front office.

Our survey results are back and families told us that Tuesdays between 3:00-5:00 is the best time to meet. 

Our next SCC meeting will be on October 13 from 3:30-4:30. We will discuss:

We will have Spanish translation for the meeting.

Escalante would like to say a huge thank you to those who were able to contribute to the PTA dinner potluck for teachers during SEP conferences on Tuesday, October 6!

The PTA does so many amazing things, including:

You can join the PTA here or pick up an envelop at the school to pay in cash.

When your student has missed multiple days of school, we call home to try to figure out how we might be able to help get them here in the future. One barrier we have heard from some families is that if the adults in the family are sick or unable to walk their child to school, the student stays home. 

We want to help out! We are looking into developing a Walking School Bus. A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. If that sounds simple, it is, and that’s part of the beauty of the walking school bus. It can be as informal as two families taking turns walking their children to school to as structured as a route with meeting points, a timetable and a regularly rotated schedule of trained volunteers.

Flyers went home today with your student. If you are interested for your student or in helping out as a volunteer, please fill out the form and send it back with your student to give to their teacher.

As a part of our Champion Schools program, students can log their reading minutes to earn prizes for themselves, their class, and our school! Students can log minutes through their Clever app. You can help students record their minutes be using this website.

We also sent home a reading log with every student today. Record any minutes the student read, whether it was on their own or with an adult, and have them turn the log back into their teacher to get credit.