Welcome to PALS!
Hello Families! Welcome to a new year of PALS! I’m going to be contacting each family individually with this letter and to check in about your schedule, Once my new website is up, this letter will posted there as well.
I'm very glad to announce that Allison Seymour is going to be with us as a TA! She has a ton of experience & is excited to be joining us. On Mondays and Wednesdays we will be joined by Charlsa Edge, who is a graduate speech pathology student from UT. She's also psyched to have the chance to work with us.
If you just recently got an evaluation- We still need to review the assessment & have an initial ARD before your child can start, and your child will need to be enrolled as a student at Eanes Elementary. I will get in touch with each family individually about reviewing the assessment & setting up those ARD meetings, but you can be working on enrollment at https://www.eanesisd.net/parents/enrollment
Calendar- PALS will start on Monday, 8/26/2019 & we’ll follow the school calendar. We will not meet on parent conference days and on early release days. That means no PALS on
NEW Pick-up /drop off time and place : Our hours this year will be 11:45-1:45. This aligns our dismissal time with PPCD classrooms, so it makes it a little easier to manage staffing and transportation. Car drop off & pick-up will be at our middle gate. We'll arrive at 11:40 & we’ll wait until 11:50 if people who may be running late. If you If you happen to be running later than that, you can bring your child through the front office and meet us in the classroom.
Our webpage for PALS is right here. I use our website in every session, and each book we read has a webpage with corresponding games, activities, printables (including the craft we produce), target words and grammatical forms. You are invited to use those resources in whatever way works for your family. If you have ideas for things I could add to those posts, please let me know
Please send me digital or hard-copy pictures of your child and family! This is really an “all year” request. When something fun and/or interesting happens in your child’s life, send me some relevant pictures & we’ll practice talking about that in class.
Family contact list: With your permission, I can make available basic contact information to facilitate playdates, etc. I’ll check with each family in the individual e-mails.
Backpack items: When coming to PALS, your child should bring:
Classroom supplies that I’m asking everyone to bring are :
Donations requested, only if you happen to have some of these gently used items or things leftover from other events -:
Open House- Please let me know if you want to come by and visit the classroom before your child actually starts in PALS.
Until later,
Denise Szymczak MA, CCC/SLP
I'm very glad to announce that Allison Seymour is going to be with us as a TA! She has a ton of experience & is excited to be joining us. On Mondays and Wednesdays we will be joined by Charlsa Edge, who is a graduate speech pathology student from UT. She's also psyched to have the chance to work with us.
If you just recently got an evaluation- We still need to review the assessment & have an initial ARD before your child can start, and your child will need to be enrolled as a student at Eanes Elementary. I will get in touch with each family individually about reviewing the assessment & setting up those ARD meetings, but you can be working on enrollment at https://www.eanesisd.net/parents/enrollment
Calendar- PALS will start on Monday, 8/26/2019 & we’ll follow the school calendar. We will not meet on parent conference days and on early release days. That means no PALS on
- Monday, September 2, 2019
- Tuesday, September 24,2019
- Monday, October 14, 2019
- Wednesday & Thursday October 23 & 24, 2019
- Tuesday November 5, 2019
- November 25-29, 2019
- December 23, 2019- January 6, 2020
- Monday January 20, 2020
- Monday, February 17, 2020
- Tuesday February 25, 2020
- March 16-19, 2020
- Tuesday April 28, 2020
NEW Pick-up /drop off time and place : Our hours this year will be 11:45-1:45. This aligns our dismissal time with PPCD classrooms, so it makes it a little easier to manage staffing and transportation. Car drop off & pick-up will be at our middle gate. We'll arrive at 11:40 & we’ll wait until 11:50 if people who may be running late. If you If you happen to be running later than that, you can bring your child through the front office and meet us in the classroom.
Our webpage for PALS is right here. I use our website in every session, and each book we read has a webpage with corresponding games, activities, printables (including the craft we produce), target words and grammatical forms. You are invited to use those resources in whatever way works for your family. If you have ideas for things I could add to those posts, please let me know
Please send me digital or hard-copy pictures of your child and family! This is really an “all year” request. When something fun and/or interesting happens in your child’s life, send me some relevant pictures & we’ll practice talking about that in class.
Family contact list: With your permission, I can make available basic contact information to facilitate playdates, etc. I’ll check with each family in the individual e-mails.
Backpack items: When coming to PALS, your child should bring:
- backpack
- snack or lunch
- securely closed water bottle
- change of clothes
- child-sized collapsible umbrella that can fit in the backpack
Classroom supplies that I’m asking everyone to bring are :
- 3 small or 1 large package of anti-bacterial picnic or diaper wipes (the kind you can use on face & hands)
- 1 box of washable markers
- 1 set children's scissors that can be used for right or left hand
- 3 large glue sticks
- 1 box of sandwich or snack size plastic bags, like zip-lock ( These are so we can send leftover snacks home without too much mess.)
- 1 box of rice chex, corn chex or some other kind of nut-free, gluten free cereal ( This is our backup snack in case someone forgets their snack or something gets spilled.)
Donations requested, only if you happen to have some of these gently used items or things leftover from other events -:
- small items for treasure box
- picnic supplies such as small plates, napkins, spoons, cups ( We don't use tons of any of these but someone needs something from this list about once a week.)
Open House- Please let me know if you want to come by and visit the classroom before your child actually starts in PALS.
Until later,
Denise Szymczak MA, CCC/SLP