Red Ribbon Week in full swing! Our incredible students are proudly wearing red or hearts to raise awareness about drug prevention and to show their commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle. Let’s continue to support by "Teaming Up Against Drugs" and wearing your Sports Jersey tomorrow. 🙌 🔴🎗️
UPCOMING EVENT:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31ST
Character Dress Up Day
"You're my Favorite Character."
Dress up as your Favorite Storybook or Toy Story character. Everyone who dresses up will join our Character Day Parade.
R. Garza Elementary will be having a Fall Scholastic Book Fair beginning Monday, October 30th through Friday, November 3rd. Your child will be visiting our Scholastic Book Fair during his/her scheduled library time, and students will have the opportunity to purchase books at that time. The library will be open every day from 7:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
We highly encourage you to choose to "Go Cash Free” and set up a student eWallet. To get started scan the QR code or visit our website and log onto:
https://www.scholastic.com/bf/garzaelementaryschool5
Mark your calendar — our Family Night Event is Monday, October 30th, from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. Your family can shop together and enjoy our selection of books!
Join us in celebrating Red Ribbon Week! It's a great opportunity to involve your kids in spreading the message of a drug-free life! Let's get them excited about dressing up for school. ❤️🎀🤠⚾️
What a day for LEARNING!
📚✨ Empowering Educators for Bilingual Excellence! ✨📚
Exciting times in the world of education! 🍎 Our Bilingual teachers are diving into bilingual training, eager to enhance their skills and better support their students. 🌟 #TABE2023
👩🏫📚 Cultivating Professional Learning Communities 📚👨🏫
Teachers are lifelong learners, and participate in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to grow and thrive together. 🌱💡
📚🚧we are Under Construction: Building Our Future Careers 🚧📚
Our Unicorns are currently under construction for their future careers! 🌟 It's a process that involves hard work, dedication, and a whole lot of learning. Each day is a brick in the foundation of their dreams. 💪🏗️
We recently had the fantastic opportunity to engage in peer-to-peer observations with our friends from Thigpen Zavala. 🏫✨ Thank you for your hospitality and willingness to share your knowledge ❤️
Our 5th grade scientists embarked on an enlightening (literally!) journey into the world of light energy through a hands-on lab! 🌈🔦 With beaming smiles, they explored prisms, mirrors, and lenses, unraveling the hidden properties of light energy.🌈✨
Join us! R. Garza Elementary will celebrate Red Ribbon Week, October 23rd -27th. Red Ribbon brings awareness and inspires our students to be healthy and DRUG FREE! This year's theme is "Be Kind to your Mind. Live Drug Free." Learn more at https://www.redribbon.org/.
Not only did we wear our local college colors but also pink for cancer awareness month. 💚💜🩶🧡🩷
"Your future is bright!" Tomorrow, wear your sunglasses and neon colors because your future is so bright. 😎🌟
Today was a great day of learning for students and teachers! 📚🙇🏻♂️📖🤓🦄💙
Unicorns proudly wearing their Texas Tuesday college colors. 🦄💙🩶🦄
Tomorrow is Local Love. Show some love to our local colleges/universities by wearing their school colors and/or shirt. 💛🤍🤠💚💜🐆
EI Component
Self-Awareness
What is self-awareness?
The ability to know your character, thoughts, actions, and emotions.
At R. Garza Elementary, we are a community of learners who are accepted, loved, and safe. There is only one YOU! Do your best to make our school and the world a better place.
Book Companion
Only One You
Read Aloud
https://youtu.be/vu9capmEY5I
CLASSROOM and HOME
Discussion and Writing Prompts
There is only one YOU!
How will you make it a better world?
I will make it a better world by choosing ____________.
Today we kicked off College Week! Our little Unicorns showed their commitment to college by wearing a college shirt 🦄🏫💙🩶💙🩶
Tomorrow is Texas Tuesday. Wear you favorite Texas College shirt or colors.
Congratulations to our Top AR Readers in grades 1st to 5th. Goooo Unicorns!!!
For tomorrow 💙🦄💜
Our Garza Unicorns are college ready! Join us and participate daily. 💙🦄💜
Our sweet cheerleaders were able to perform at today's Rowe game. Thank you to our amazing coaches for all you do! 💙🦄💜
Our teachers never stop learning!! Teachers learned how to help students achieve new levels of growth and performance.
Our Unicorns celebrated National Lunch Week with some great food and prizes!!
