Community Calendar:

• September 7 - Pet Parade. Details Below
• September 10 - Girls Basketball try-outs for 4th-6th grade girls have been rescheduled for Tuesday, at 3:30pm in the CGE gym.

School starts at 8am, with a tardy bell at 8:05am. School ends at 3:15pm M-Th, and 1:05pm on Friday. We have before school supervision starting at 7:30am in the cafeteria.

From the Front Office

Good day to you, Carlos Gilbert Elementary School Families,

This is your school counselor, Mr. Rick Fierro, back at it again with information about Carlos Gilbert’s attendance program. We love having our students at school. Your children make our jobs special. Through data, research and observation, we also know that children succeed at school when they are at school. They grow academically, socially, behaviorally and emotionally everyday they are at school. Student stress and other emotional challenges can be associated with chronic absenteeism and our goal is to support that with our attendance team.

I want to share some information on New Mexico’s Attendance for Success Act. This Act provides schools in our state with guidance for prevention and intervention for chronic absenteeism. Chronic absenteeism is the case where students are missing up-to 20% of the school year or more. Both excused and unexcused absences are counted into the total of absences from school. Absences are expected to be communicated to the school secretary, Bernadette Cortez at bcortez@sfps.k12.nm.us or at 505-467-4703. If there are medical excuses, please provide her the information, so she can document your child’s absence. If you have communicated to your classroom teacher, that is excellent; however, SFPS asks you to always have the school secretary notified. Excused absences include: medical absence; death in family; religious instruction; tribal obligation; and an allowable excuse per Santa Fe Public Schools District Policy such as a school sponsored activity.

Attention to Attendance letters are automatically generated at 4 days, 7 days and 12 days absent for both excused and unexcused absences. If you received a letter and have communicated the absences, it is a good idea to reach out to me, the school counselor at rfierro@sfps.k12.nm.us, so that I can document any barriers affecting your child’s attendance. Communication can support us in understanding your family’s situation. When in doubt, call or email the school, or myself and we can work through it. At the end of the day, we love having our students at school. Your children make our jobs special.

CGE School Counselor,

Rick Fierro

If you would ever like to read over our emergency procedures take a look at our letter below.

Emergency Procedure Letter

From Your PTK

The Carlos Gilbert PTK is a dedicated group of Parents, Teachers, and Kids working to raise money, support the classrooms, and encourage our kids. We help keep our Blackhawk spirits soaring high!

Join us at the next meeting! 9/18/2024, 10/16/2024, 11/20/2024, 12/18/2024, 1/15/2025, 2/19/2025, 3/19/2025, 4/16/2025, 5/24/2025

At 8:15 am in the teacher's lounge. Can't attend in person? Join via Zoom.

A Note From the PTK President:

Hello Blackhawks!

I hope you are all back in the swing of things and your kiddos are enjoying school. As many of you know we will start getting busy with our annual Halloween Carnival planning. There will be more information to come but I wanted to let those that are not familiar with our PTK and Halloween event the importance of this fundraiser.

Carlos Gilbert PTK strives to be one of the leading public schools PTK organizations in supporting our amazing principal, wonderful teachers and staff and most importantly our KIDS! The money we raise comes solely from our annual Halloween Carnival which is why it is so important. The money we raise as a community helps: provide teacher reimbursements of up to $700 to each teacher grade level enrichment programming for each grade special funding requests from teachers provide reimbursements of $300 for each of our school clubs and teams before-school care that is not covered by the district school events such as our valentine's dance our holiday giving tree

our teacher and staff appreciation luncheon and hospitality carts. If you want to know more about what we are raising money for, please reach out to me or come to a PTK meeting to hear about all the wonderful things our school PTK is doing.

Now that you know where the money is going, here is a quick list of what is to come in the months of September and October!

-Carnival planning - we have weekly meetings Wednesday's at 8:15 am. Come and get involved.

-Cash Raffle - Sell through our online system to family and friends near and far! It's all online and an easy system to use!

-Gift Basket Raffle - Each grade level will be assigned a themed basket. Room reps will notify the classrooms of the class theme and items to fill the baskets. These gift baskets get raffled off from our online basket raffle sales. The baskets are AMAZING and HUGE and a crowd favorite!

-Scary Story Contest - students are encouraged to write a scary story and submit to the scary story lead. Winners will be recognized and receive a special prize! No fee to enter.

-Prepare for Carnival - Purchase tickets or wristbands for your child in advance.

-Set-up Carnival - we will be setting up carnival starting Thursday 10/24, thru 10/26 (morning) sign-ups will be sent out to the entire school!

-Come to Carnival - Enjoy all the hard work you put in and experience a FUN community event.

-Clean-up Carnival - The night of and day after Carnival (10/27) we will clean up and get the school ready for our students return on Monday 10/28/24.

With gratitude,

Caitlin Brodsky

PTK President

505-699-8023

president@carlosgilbertptk.com

Pet Parade

When

Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 8:30 am (goes until about 10:45 am)

Where

227 East Alameda Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Meet in the parking lot, look for the Blackhawks.

Theme

Catch the Reading Bug! - We will dress as black and gold bumblebees and other bugs and hand out used children's books and candy to children along the parade route. Wear your Blackhawks shirts, bumblebee stripes, butterfly wings, and antennae. We will have extra antennae and bumblebee striped jerseys to wear.

Who

All Blackhawks and their families and pets!

Bring

A wagon (highly recommended and needed), used children's books, candy, stickers to pass out to children along the parade route.

Info

carlosgilbertptk.com/pets

santafefiesta.org/santa-fe-fiesta-events/desfile-de-los-ninos/

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