We are getting ready for the AIMS test, please work with your children at home.  We BELIEVE we will ACHIEVE! 

Mrs. LeAnne Mcall has joined Gadsden Elementary as the Assistant Principal, we welcome her to our school.  She will be an asset to our success.

The winner of Gadsden Elementary Spelling Bee is a Fifth Grader from Mr. Chavez’s Class, Celso Solis, he will compete in the Yuma County Spelling Bee on February 10.  We are excited for him and wish him the best of luck, Go Panthers!!

After school tutoring is off and running, the attendance is great with one hundred and forty students.  We have organized a boy’s soccer team. The soccer team will be playing every Thursday in February at 5:00pm at Gadsden’s field, come out and watch us play. The students are very excited and ready for the games.

Congratulations to February’s Go-Getters Isabela Felix a First Grade student from Mrs. Nichols’ class and Aljandra Uriarte a First Grade student from Mrs. Perez’s class.   The Rotary Student of the Month is a student from Mrs. O’Rourke’ First Grade class, Vereniz Lopez.   She will attend the luncheon with the Rotary this month.

Please remind your child of Gadsden’s three rules; Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe.

Sincerely,
Carmelann Barry (Principal)

We are very proud to announce the recognition of one of our students by the Office of English Language Acquisition Services (OELAS).  Kimberly Tinoco was chosen by OELAS as an ELL Student Success Story.  We submitted three students from our school for this recognition. I would like to share with you the teachers’ success story about Kimberly. Kimberly Tinoco came to Gadsden Elementary School in the 2007-2008 school year from Mexico.  She was placed in Mrs. Germain’s combo pre-emergent classroom.  We implemented the four hour language development program and this is where Kimberly was placed due to her deficiency in the English Language.  This year, in sixth grade, Kimberly’s determination has ambitiously placed her in a proficient classroom.  Kimberly’s rigor in academics is due to the high expectations she sets for herself.  She is a student who has had the capacity to overcome her language barrier obstacles as a means to achieve her academic goals.  We are astounded by Kimberly’s hasty development, both in language and academics.  She has fluently dominated the English Language and is performing at grade level which has taken her English Language educated peers years to accomplish. Kimberly’s story shows us that with support and self determination, ELL Students will thrive.  With this said, it is my honor to nominate Kimberly Tinoco as an ELL student who is noteworthy of recognition.

Kimberly will be recognized at the conference on December 11th at the Wigwam Resort.  It will be a proud moment for all of us and her parents were grateful for attending the event.