ISSUE #11 FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Principals Message
A Kind, Caring Community of Kids! , 2012

As you know, BE KIND is one of three parts of our Bobcat Code (Be Kind. Be Safe. Be Your Best.). We teach students about kindness at Ventana Vista explicitly throughout the year, and on a day-to-day basis when teachable moments present themselves. MARCH 23, 2012

NEWSLETTER OF VENTANA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Recently, a school-wide assembly reinforced the message of kindness at our school. Students watched a video about the power of random acts of kindness; they enjoyed a skit put on by staff members with a lesson about giving of oneself; and they heard about our Student Councils work with the Bens Bells project (see www.bensbells.org for more information). , 2010 Every staff member was given some kindness coin necklaces to pass on to students who demonstrate kind acts. Students are then to be on the lookout for others to pass their necklaces onto. Some specific acts of kindness toward our greater Tucson community to note: XZXC0000 Just before the holidays, our third grade team held a Read-a-Thon. They raised a total of $1,839.40! The project related to their study of social studies, as well, and the 09 students chose to split their proceeds to benefit two local organizations. They donated $886.60 to the Community Food Bank and $952.80 to Make Way for Books. Way to go 3rd grade! APRIL Students in Srta. Acuas kindergarten classes have also recently participated in 24, 2009 projects to benefit our greater community. They collected over 300 toys, books, and DVDs for Casa de los Nios and the Diamond Children's Hospital at UMC in December. In January they collected 250 pounds of food for the Community Food Bank. The food collection project related to their study of mathematics. As items were brought in, they put the cans in groups of 10, counting their way to 100 (and , 2008 beyond!).

Coming up later this monthVentana Vista students will show their kindness toward our school. On the afternoon of Tuesday, February, 19 (NOT an early release day), the entire school will participate in one or more service projects around the school: cleaning classrooms, picking up trash, shelving books, making signs, etc. We love our school, and all share the responsibility for taking care of it! Thank you for all that you do at home to encourage your children to demonstrate kindness at school, and throughout their lives! Tucson Festival of Books We LOVE reading (and will have fun with it during a week-long celebration in March)! The Tucson Festival of Books on the University of Arizona campus is coming up, as well (March 910). Enclosed in this newsletter is the Childrens Schedule of Events during the festival for your reference. If you plan to go, pick up a free I LOVE CFSD button from our office to wear (available end of February), and stop by to visit us in the main area at booth #473! Kim Boling Principal kboling@cfsd16.org

DATES OF INTEREST Saturday, February 2nd Groundhog Day! Monday, February 4th Science Fair Projects Due Tuesday, February 5th EARLY RELEASE AM Kinder 8:00-10:15 PM Kinder 11:15-1:30 Grades 1-5 8:00-1:30 Tuesday, February 12th EARLY RELEASE AM Kinder 8:00-10:15 PM Kinder 11:15-1:30 Grades 1-5 8:00-1:30 Ventana Vista Night at El Charro Thursday, February 14th Happy Valentines Day! Tuesday, February 19th NO EARLY RELEASE Thursday & Friday, February 21st & 22nd Rodeo Break NO SCHOOL

Heads Up for Mathathon! Be on the lookout for Mathathon information coming home later in February! Volunteers needed for Mathathon lunch promo during 2/25-3/1, 11:50 am12:40 pm. Please contact Hui-chen Huang alicehc@yahoo.com.

Catalina Foothills School District Dr. Mary Kamerzell, Superintendent 209-7500 mkam@cfsd16.org Governing Board Members Mary Lou Richerson, President 299-4746 mlricherson@cfsd16.org Carole Siegler, Vice President 529-1379 csiegler@cfsd16.org John Bergan, Member 878-6180 jbergan@cfsd16.org Eileen Jackson, Member 299-3828 ejackson@cfsd16.org Sherri Silverberg, Member 615-9224 ssilverberg@cfsd16.org State of Arizona Legislative Representatives for CFSD (please check www.azleg.gov for contact information) Legislative District 9 Senator Steve Farley Rep. Ethan Orr Rep. Victoria Steele

SilverGraphics is Back! The Art Department and FFO are pleased to be bringing SilverGraphics back to Ventana Vista this year! Be on the lookout for more information later in February!

Mission Statement The mission of Catalina Foothills School District and Ventana Vista Elementary School is to guarantee that each student achieves academic and personal excellence, becomes a lifelong learner and is a responsible citizen of the world, by engaging all students in meaningful programs which meet the highest educational and ethical standards within a caring, collaborative learning community.

Office Hours for 2012-2013 are: 7:30 AM 3:30 PM 7:30 AM 2:00 PM (Early Release Tuesdays) Main Office Health Office Attendance Line FAX Durham (Bus) 209-8000 209-8004 209-8090 209-8070 615-7635

Parents For the safety of all students (and their younger siblings!) please help keep your children OFF of the rocks and landscaping in front of the school. Stay on the walkways at all times. Thank you!
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The following students were invited to have lunch with Principal Boling on Friday, February 1st. Each child was recognized for individual classroom achievements. Daniella Dispenza Noah Heard Hannah Lui Diego Baca Quinn Cohen Mercy Yen Calen Givens Langston Campbell Lukas Gunther Riley Murphy Alex Sachrison Vincent Trujillo Roman Schmit Ryan Gerovitz Jose Peralta Rodolfo Robinson-Bours Hibah Iftikhar Ava Hrubiak Mason Lee Bryn Koepke Helena Musial Jacob Song Gabriel Mojica Daren Riddle Mimi Nielsen Delaney Endean Cruz Nuez Paige Pagel Jenna Derman Kiersten Blekoff Ashley Ruiz

Dear 4th and 5th Grade Families, Happy New Year! We know that families have a lot of choices when it comes to educating their children. CFSD offers an exemplary pre K-12 educational experience. We are proud of the wellrounded, comprehensive program that we offer, as well as the outstanding products----our graduates---of our system. I am happy to invite you to attend an open house at our feeder school, Esperero Canyon Middle School on Thursday, February 7 at 6:30 PM. See the attached flyer for more information. Come find out why we are confident that there is no better place for your children than in CFSD. Kim Boling Principal

Tucson Festival of Books: Children's Schedule Saturday, March 9, 2013 College of Education Educational Strand Kiva 200 353 117 351 48 349 46 Pop-in: A Pop-up Workshop for Kids (Ages 8 and up) 333 40 Not Yet: Behaviors of Aspiring Writers that Lead to Publication Tom Leveen Erin Lange 308 48
The Fascinating World of Nonfiction Books for Children and Adolescents Holly Johnson Lauren Freedman

College of Education Mall 310 48 Storyteller 10:00 Writing Awards 10:0 0 to 11:3 0 Lisa McMann & A.S. King Story Blanket Teen and Author Meeting Place

Among the Books: Freeze Frame: Film, Missing and Hidden Animation, and in Time Picturebooks 10:0 0 to 11:3 0 Molly Idle Peter Brown Chris Gall

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Simon Arizpe

10:30

Jennifer Holm

11:00 Marshmallows and Point of View: A Writing Workshop for Kids

Nerds, Aliens, and Other Stuff 11:3 0 to 1:00

The Choice to Make a Difference

Mystery and Intrigue: Searching for Answers

Imagine That: Your Family Has a Story

Joy and Wonder: Bullying Hurts: Turning Science into Healing with Kindness 11:3 Poetry through Books 0

Got Tails?

11:30

Jennifer Ward

Heather Brewer & Jennifer Nielson

Bruce Coville Jennifer Holm Alan Sitomer

Jacqueline Woodson Jerry Pinkney Vaunda M. Nelson

Elise Broach Sneed Collard III Robin Brande

Linda Urban

Pat Wilson

Joyce Sidman

Lester Laminack

to 12:3 0

Sandy Oglesby

12:00

Simon Arizpe

Fantasy Portals: Entres to Unique Worlds 1:00 to 2:30

No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Picture(book) Peter Brown Adam Rex Lester Laminack

Overwhelmed! Teens Facing Difficult Issues Tom Leveen A. S. King Erin Lange

Flip Out with Flora: Creating Suspense in A Flip Book Children's Fiction Workshop (Workshop for adults) (Ages 6-12)

The Challenge of Engaging Teens as Readers

Literacy Begins at Birth: Books for Babies and Toddlers Prisca Martens Kathleen CrawfordMcKinney Yoo Kyung Sung

A Mango in the Hand and Other 12:3 Stories from the 0 Spanish Speaking to World 1:30 Antonio Sacre

12:30

Jos-Luis Orozco

Margaret Peterson Haddix

1:00

Nancy Krulik

Heather Brewer Lisa McMann Joanne Levy Jennifer Nielsen

Molly Idle

Elise Broach

Alan Sitomer

1:30 to 2:30

Funny Bone Stories

1:30

Maxwell Eaton III

Bruce Coville

Phoenix Storytelling Group Meth, Death, & Trust: Difficult Times, Difficult Choices 2:30 to 4:00 Jacqueline Woodson A. S. King Guadalupe Garcia McCall Wonderfully Wacky: Once Upon a Time: Babymouse Meets Science with a Twist A Storytelling Katie Kazoo & The Workshop Beaver Brothers Joyce Sidman Stephen Swinburne Alan Armstrong
Studio Lesson: A Demonstration of Watercolor Techniques Dazzling New Picture Stories and Treasures: Books Hands-On Storytelling

2:00

Jennifer Holm Maxwell Eaton III Nancy Krulik

Jive and Jiggle, 2:30 Stories that Wiggle to 3:30 Anne Lee

2:30

Lester Laminack

Alan Sitomer & Janette Rallison

Antonio Sacre

Jerry Pinkney

Marilyn Carpenter

Hawkeye Richardson

3:00

Artists, Athletes, Scholars? Sorting Out What Matters 4:00 to 5:30 Margaret Peterson Haddix Lisa McMann Alan Sitomer

Worlds of Fantasy: Dragons, Monsters, and False Princes Bruce Coville Jennifer Nielsen C. J. Hill

More than Just the Facts: Pharoahs, Pirates, and Harry Potter Jessie Hartland Bradley Carroll Jennifer Ward

An Ounce of Humor in a Pound of Dilemma

Linda Urban Joanne Levy Elise Broach

Graphic Novels Are Great for Kids

Music, Stories and 3:30 Fun for Everyone to Best Children's Books 4:30
from Around the World Seemi Aziz Amy Edwards Susan Corapi

3:30

Peter Brown

R. L. Stine

Igor Glenn

4:00

Molly Idle

Janine Schall Janelle Mathis

4:30 4:30 to 5:30 5:00

Tucson Festival of Books: Children's Schedule Sunday, March 10, 2013 College of Education Educational Strand Kiva 200 353 117 351 48
Creating Fascinating Stories About Real People Vaunda M. Nelson Matt Phelan Jessie Hartland

College of Education Mall 333 40

Studio Lesson: A Demonstration of Taking Away in Illustrations

349 46
Destiny & Identity: Girls in Native American Literature S. D. Nelson Joy Harjo Seth Muller

308 48

310 48 Storyteller
10:00 Heroes, Adventures and Family Fun 10:30

Story Blanket

Teen and Author Meeting Place

Kid's Voices: The Fragile on the OutsideJourneys of Children -Steel on the Inside: and Parents to SelfGutsy Girls Publishing 10:0 Levi Fallavollita 0 Maggie Stiefvater Grace Anne Remey to Gayle Forman with Chantel 11:3 Elizabeth Eulberg Fallavollita and Lisa 0 Femney

Making Informational The Journey from Books Fun for Storytelling to Story Readers Writing 10:30 to 11:30

Floyd Cooper

Conrad Storad

Antonio Sacre

R. L. Stine

Mark Goldman Engaging the Wary: Writing for Talking with Children Adolescent Readers about Death (Adult Workshop)

11:00

Midji Stephenson

The Art in the Art of Researching Our Past, Studio Lesson: A Storytelling in Understanding Demonstration of Picturebooks Ourselves iPhone Photography

Ties That Bind: Caring Animal Relationships Jean Ekman Adams Stephanie Pearmain DeAnn Melton Ellen Cook

The Art of Reading Aloud to Kids

11:3 0 to 1:00

Jerry Pinkney Floyd Cooper Matt Phelan

Monika Schrder Vaunda M. Nelson James Deem

Jan Sonnenmair

Cinda Williams Chima

Sheri Synkin

Lester Laminack

Wild Rides: Tales of 11:30 Enchantment, Tales 11:30 of Adventures to 12:30 12:00 Jordan Hill

Lynne Avril

Gayle Forman

Fear, Intrigue, & Humor: Engaging Kids as Readers

Racing the Moon: A Science and Fiction Collaboration Alan Armstrong Peter Smith

Cowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo

Paper Engineering: Creating Pop-up Books

The Barking Mouse 12:30 and Other Family 12:30 Stories to Keep 'em Reading: Bringing the Arts, 1:30 Writing & Illustrating Challenging Bullying Literacy and 1:00 Series Books (Adult through Literature Technology Together Antonio Sacre workshop) for Kids Nancy Krulik Lynne Avril Mary Casanova Rome Hammer Karen Falkenstrom from Odaiko Sonora The Three Javelinas 1:30 & Josehphina 1:30 Javelina to 2:30 Northern Arizona 2:00 University Players & Susan Lowell Lillian the Librarian Meets the 2:30 Big Bad Boys of 2:30 Books to 3:30 Puppeteer Connie 3:00 Galeener

Maggie Stiefvater

Charline Prorfiri

1:00 to 2:30

Stephan Pastis Adam Rex R. L. Stine

Nancy Bo Flood Jan Sonnemair

Simon Arizpe

Sheri Bauman

Floyd Cooper

Elizabeth Eulberg

Loves Me or NOT? With Complications

Delight in the Desert: New Books for Kids

Studio Lesson: A Demonstration of Designing a Graphic Novel

Mapping Imaginary Places: A Workshop for Kids (Ages 6 and up)

Confronting Reality: Writing to Explore Difficult Issues Monika Schrder Nancy Bo Flood Vaunda M. Nelson Juan Felipe Herrera

Great Books for Young Adults

Jean Ekman Adams

Cinda Williams Chima

2:30 to 4:00

Elizabeth Eulberg Tamara Ireland Stone Amy Fellner Dominy

Guy Porfirio Midji Stephenson Charline Profiri

Matt Phelan

B. G. Hennessy

Maureen Kearney Mira Domsky

Adam Rex

Capturing Dimensions of Time in YA Literature

Studio Lesson: A Demonstration of Photoshop Techniques

So, You Need an Agent? (Adult) Michelle Parker Rock Jennifer Ward Floyd Cooper

Core Classic Stories 3:30 for Kids Who Love 3:30 Books to 4:30 Tucson Tellers of 4:00 Mary Casanova Tales

4:00 to 5:30

Gayle Forman Tamara Ireland Stone Cinda Williams Chima

Chris Gall

4:30 4:30 to 5:30 5:00

Catalina Foothills Unified School District #16

2101 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 209-7500 (520) 209-7570 FAX

www.cfsd16.org

A 2 1 s t C e n t u r y L e a r n in g C o m m u n it y

November 1, 2012

To: From: Subject:

Parents of Catalina Foothills Students Mary Kamerzell, Superintendent of Schools

Open Enrollment for School Year 2013-2014

Pursuant to A.R.S. 15-816 Catalina Foothills School District will begin its open enrollment procedures for the 2013-2014 school year effective December 1, 2012. The law requires every Arizona school district to follow a prescribed procedure and timetable for admitting out-ofdistrict transfer students and resident transfer students (those who live in the District but are attending a school outside the attendance area of their residence). All students who currently attend CFSD schools and reside in other districts, and all CFSD resident students who are attending a different school than they would based on their residence, are impacted by this law. We require that all open enrollment students apply for admission each year. Therefore, if your child is a resident transfer (open enrollment) student and you want him/her to continue in that capacity, or if your child resides outside of the district and you want him/her to continue to attend a CFSD school next year, please complete an application form between

December 1, 2012, and February 28, 2013. applications and information regarding the application process are on the district web site, www.cfsd16.org (as of December 1, 2012), or
Open Enrollment at the district office Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The district office is located at: Catalina Foothills School District J. W. Murphey Administration Center 2101 E. River Road Tucson, AZ 85718 (520) 209-7537 Applications will be available as of December 1, 2012, and may be completed on line (www.cfsd16.org), or submitted in person at the district office. Electronic applications must be submitted no later than February 28, 2013, and hard copies by 4:00 p.m. February 28, 2013. Decisions about admission, based on capacity, will be made by April l, 2013. At that time, all applicants will be notified whether their applications have been accepted, wait listed, or declined.

Kindergarten Show and Tell

in Catalina Foothills School District
Families with kindergarten-age children* are invited to visit their neighborhood school to discover the passion and commitment for early childhood learning embraced by Catalina Foothills educators.
You will learn about the schools half-day (Kindergarten) and fee-based full-day (Kindergarten Plus) program options and how we can work together to help ensure your child has a smooth transition to school. Children will participate in classroom activities with one of the schools kindergarten teachers. At this time, in-district residents may register for the optional, fee-based full-day Kindergarten Plus program. Show and Tell sessions are one hour long, followed by a thirty-minute tour of the school.
Please sign up for a Show and Tell session by contacting your neighborhood school. Canyon View Elementary 209-7700 January 28 OR February 11, 2:00 p.m. Manzanita Elementary 209-7800 January 30 OR February 27, 2:15 p.m. Sunrise Drive Elementary 209-7900 February 14, 2:15 p.m. OR February 26, 3:30 p.m. Ventana Vista Elementary 209-8000 January 29 OR February 12, 2:00 p.m.

Note: Open Enrollment applicant families are welcome to attend. * If your child will be five years old prior to September 1, 2013, he or she is
eligible to attend kindergarten at one of our four elementary schools.

Language Immersion in CFSD

In CFSD, we believe in developing all students cultural competence. World Language instruction is part of our core curriculum. At the elementary level, students either participate in our K-5 Spanish program (taught by a specialist for 120 min./wk.) OR in one of our Language Immersion programs.

Spanish Immersion
at Ventana Vista
started in 2009 Gr. K-4 for 2013-14 Open to K-4 students
(students entering gr. 2-4 must meet language criteria)

Mandarin Immersion
at Sunrise Drive
starting in 2013 Gr. K-1 for 2013-14 Open to K-1 students

The overall goals of our Language Immersion programs are for students to: meet or exceed academic achievement levels in all areas of the district curriculum; acquire a high level of communicative and academic prociency in English and the target language (Spanish or Mandarin); gain an appreciation of other cultures and a deeper understanding of their own culture; and increase capacity for creative thinking and problem-solving skills.

For more information click on the Spanish Immersion or Mandarin Immersion link in the Express Lane on the CFSD website: www.cfsd16.org. Call for dates of any informational evenings for parents (Ventana Vista - 209-8000; Sunrise Drive - 209-7900), or nd them on the schedule at the Open House/Tour Opportunities link in the Express Lane on the CFSD website.