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What a great week it’s been to be a Firebird here at Camelback!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were able to celebrate with family and friends. We have nearly made it to the end of the first semester and the month of December will be a busy one here at AMS Camelback. This is the final week before the Interim Benchmark Assessments. We are really pushing hard to be sure our students are ready and prepared to show what they know on these assessments in Reading, Writing and Mathematics. As we look ahead we'll also be preparing for our first annual Polar Express Night, our annual winter spirit week, and the end of the semester. We are three days into our iReady Reading Challenge and our students are well on their way to the 10,000 successfully completed and passed lesson goal! We have completed just over 1,000 lessons as a school, so there is still a ways to go, but we're on the way. Please continue to encourage your child to work on their iReady lessons at home and we'll see if I will have to get dressed up like an elf at Polar Express Night on December 8th.
We know this time of year can be stressful for the whole family, please remember we're partners and we want to work with you. If there there is anything we can support with, please do not hesitate to reach out to the school.
We've been working on a few specific behaviors and safety reminders and we continue to need your assistance families. At AMS Camelback we're focused on the Firebird Code which clearly defines our school-wide expectations as Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe and Be a Learner. We want everyone practicing these all of the time. In order to continue to focus on learning; we're reminding all families to tell your child to keep their cell phones put away. We will provide all of the digital tools they will need during the day, they don't need their phones out and they should be left at home or stored in the backpacks. Please remember; no 3rd - 8th graders will be dismissed until 3:15pm, please do not come early and line up for them, we will not be dismissing them early.
If you're not already connected with your child's teacher(s) please reach out and get connected with Class Dojo or email and please be sure we have the most up-to-date phone number as well. We need to be working together and the best way to do so is to be connected.
We have so many great things happening every day here at Camelback, the most current information is always on our website, Facebook, Instagram, Class Dojo or in these autodialer messages. #WeAreCamelback
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