ELL Family Night 2013

Food, games, friends, and fun! Enjoy the pictures from our ELL Family Night!

Christmas Vacation

There is a full day of school on Friday December 20th for all grades kindergarten through fifth. Christmas Break will be December 23rd to January 1st. School resumes on January 2nd. Have a great holiday break with your friends and family!

2nd Grade Christmas Program

Perrine 2nd Grade students performed 'The Littlest Christmas Tree' Tuesday night! Enjoy the collage of pictures from the fantastic evening of singing and performing.

Parent/Guardian Technology Survey

Attached is a letter explaining the technology survey. Your responses will help the school make decisions about your child's classroom, and the entire school. We appreciate you taking the time to fill out the survey; which should only take about 5 minutes. We are striving to have 21st century classrooms, assist your child in reaching their fullest potential, and prepare your child for future educational and career decisions. Your input is valuable and important. Below is the direct link to the survey that you can click on:

Technology Survey Letter

Perrine Parent/Guardian Technology Survey Link

Food Drive

Perrine is getting reading for the holidays! Here are students decorating the Christmas Tree at Perrine. The annual Canned Food Drive begins this week, and goes until December 18^th. 

The overall class with the most cans brought in will win a free pizza party!
Noodle packets do not count!

Thanksgiving Lunch

From our kitchen to yours, have a great Thanksgiving with your friends and family! Here are pictures from the Thanksgiving lunch on Friday November 22nd. Gobble Gobble!

Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving break is next week! There is no school for kindergarten students on Wednesday November 27th. Students in grades first through fifth do have school on Wednesday November 27th, but they will have an early dismissal at 1:00 pm. All students have no school on Thursday November 28th and Friday November 29th. Have a great Thanksgiving with your friends and family!

Grandparent Breakfast and Book Fair

The last day of the book fair is Thursday November 7th, from 3-4:30. We had a great grandparent breakfast on Wednesday, combined with visiting the book fair. Enjoy the collage of pictures! You can click on it to make it larger.

Book Fair November 4-7, 2013

Hello Perrine Parents,

It is time again for our fall book fair.  Books are a great gift to give your kids.  With Christmas just around the corner, you can purchase great presents for your kids and at the same time help out our school.  Also available will be books that teachers would like purchased for their classroom libraries. Many of the new books teachers are purchasing are non-fiction books that align with the new Idaho Core Standards.

If you cannot make it into our book fair, you can order on line and the proceeded from your sales will be credited to the Perrine PTA.  The website is 

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/Ibperrineelementary

If you have time, please stop in after your parent conference in the multi-purpose room.  Our bookstore dates and hours are November 4-6 from 3:00 to 7:00 and November 7 from 3:00 to 4:30.  We accept cash and credit/debit cards.  No checks please.  

We are having a special event on Wednesday, November 6 from 7:30 am to 8:30 am.  Grandparents are asked to join their grandchild for breakfast in our cafeteria.  Afterwards, grandparents can visit our book store for gift ideas.  If your child is going to bring their grandparents to the event, please RSVP on the form sent home to you this past Monday, October 27 or call the school at 733-4288 to reserve your breakfast.

Video for Title 1 Family Math Night

It was a great turn out for the Title 1 family math night! We are growing mathematicians! 

Thank you to everybody that attended and supported the activity. Please enjoy the following video! By the volume are two little arrows that you can click to make it full screen.

Title 1 Family Math Night

Family Math Night

Come join the fun on Tuesday, October 22nd, at our ninth annual Perrine Title 1 Family Math Night!  You will be shown how to have fun teaching your child to do hands-on math activities using basic household items.  

Dinner of hot dogs, chips, yogurt, and water will be given to the first 250 people in attendance!

Activities begin at 6:00 and ends at 8:00.  Prizes will be awarded at the end of the night for students who complete activities.  Prizes include balls, jump ropes, and a television. 

Family Math Night is sponsored by the Perrine Title I department, Chobani, Falls Brand Meats, and HUB Insurance.  Please support these local businesses who give back to our community. Can't wait to see you there!

Walk to School Day

Once again, IB Perrine will be participating with Federal Express and Magic Valley Safe Kids to walk to school on October 9th.  We will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the corner of Sparks and Ridgeway to start walking to Perrine.  Joining us on our walk will be Presley the Panther and Screetch the Canyon Ridge High School Riverhawk.  Come join our walk to school!

Bully Free Awareness Day

October 9 is Bully Free Awareness Day. We are asking all students to wear orange on that day.  We are sending a message to people around our town and school that we strive to be bully free.  Please send your child to school in orange and talk to them about how they can help Perrine be a Bully Free Zone.  Talk to your child about what they need to do if they are being bullied at school.  We teach kids to tell students they are not appreciative of how they are being treated, then to go tell an adult about the problem so an adult can help get the problem resolved.  Let's strive to make our school Bully Free.

Read Like an Eagle

We had CSI athletes visit on Tuesday to kick off the Read Like an Eagle reading program! Students will be completing reading goals, and then attend a CSI basketball game on February 1st. Thank you to CSI for encouraging and supporting the importance of reading!

Prepositions

Fifth grade students in Mrs. Dahlquist’s classroom had Presley the Panther visit to help learn about prepositions. Enjoy the students singing with Presley!

Prepositions with Presley the Panther

Zero the Hero!

Tuesday was the 10th day of school at Perrine, and Zero the Hero came to visit the first graders!

He's not a circle, not a donut, not a letter o, or even a floaty. Zero has a very important job in mathematics. He's not a fruit loop or a bagel. He's Zero the Hero!

 Zero the Hero Video

                                                           

Come and eat lunch with your child

We invite you to come to Perrine any day and eat lunch with your child.  Lunch prices are  $3.95 for an adult.  If you are having a grandparent come and eat lunch with your child, pleased make sure you call to confirm that the parent is on the list of approved visitors.  Lunch runs from 11:00 to 12:15.  Call for more specific times by grade level. We'd love to have you come!

                                             

Parking

I would like to remind parents that the driveway circles in front of the school and on Sparks Avenue are for drop off only.  Please do not park your cars if you are going to walk your children into the building.  You will need to park in designated spots or in legal parking areas around the school.  Do not forget that the school has a bike path on Sparks Avenue and Caswell Avenue.  YOU CANNOT PARK IN THE BIKE PATH or you may get cited by the TFPD.  I suggest parking behind the building on Robbins Street or a few blocks away from the building. Thank you for your assistance.

                                                 

Fair Art

We are really proud of the artistic talents that our Perrine students have. Enjoy the following picture of art pieces that students submitted for the recent county fair. You can click on the picture to make it bigger.

The First Day of School

Welcome back to IB Perrine Elementary!  We are off to a wonderful start and we are excited to teach your children.  We have new students and returning students. We also have a great staff excited to welcome you! Please watch the following video to enjoy a great first start to a new school year:

The first day of school on September 3rd, 2013

                    

Tips for Getting your kids to Bed Early as the School Year Approaches.

As the new school year is about to start, it's time to start thinking about bedtime. So long sleeping in summer days, and hello early morning school days!

 

Getting Your Kids to Bed Early as School Year Approaches 

                                 

East End Landscaping Project

Thank you Parker Ficklin and his Boy Scout troop for the new landscaping project on the east side of the school.  If you know Parker, he is a hard working, dedicated RSMS student who went above and beyond with his project. It is amazing.  The trees and rose bushes are beautiful.  I am confident the future is in good hands with kids like Parker.

Again, thank you Parker.

Excitement is in the Air

Welcome back to another wonderful year at IB Perrine Elementary School.  The staff is starting to return to the building, getting bulletin boards put up, unpacking new text books, and preparing their rooms for eager students to return.  I can tell already that it is going to be an excellent year.  

We have three new staff members arriving to Perrine.  Teresa King and Kelly Vriesman join our staff in first grade.  Kelly is a first year teacher, completing her degree in Southern California.  She returns to her hometown to begin her teaching career.  Teresa King transferred to Perrine from Oregon Trail Elementary.  Teresa has taught kindergarten and third grade.  Third grade is excited to have Jacqueline Jensen join their team.  Jacqueline is another Twin Falls High School graduate.  She comes to us from Idaho State University.  Some of you may recognize her as she did her student teaching last semester here at Perrine with Mrs. Hart.

If you recently moved into the Perrine zone, the office is now open daily from 8:30 to 3:30.  Please stop in and register your child.  You will need to bring a birth certificate, proof of residency, and immunization records.  Forms that need to be filled out can be located on our website.  

If you did not receive a welcome back letter in the mail, you can access one at our website.  Open house is set for August 29 starting at 5:00.  This is a time for you to see your child's classroom, put supplies in their desks, and introduce yourself to your child's teacher.  School begins on September 3.

We hope to see you on August 29th!

Summer is half gone!

Where has the time gone?  It seems as if we just finished the school year and we were holding our end of the year celebration.  Now all I see on TV are adds for back to school.  Yes, I have been out shopping for my daughter, looking at new pencil boxes, smelling new crayons, and deciding what kind of backpack is needed for the new year.  I felt pretty good as I picked up the majority of the school supplies for under $10.  It was so cheap as we decided to recycle last years backpack and some supplies!  Get the supplies while they are cheap!  Recycle supplies from last year.  Scissors don't go bad after one years use.

If you have forgotten what your child needs, please go to our website (pe.tfsd.org) or our school app (ischoolbox in your app store)and you can find a list of what is requested.  These supplies can be brought to our open house on August 29th.  Please mark your calendars.  Times to be announced later.

I hope you have been spending time at the Twin Falls Public Library.  Some great books I have read this summer include "The Adventures of Nanny Piggins,"  "Girls Who Rock the World," and "The Artsy Smartsy Club."  I would also suggest any of the Ivy and Bean series as well as books by author Daniel Pinkwater.  I found these books at the public library and at the TF Library Bookmobile.  The bookmobile is at Perrine every Thursday from 4:30 to 5:15.  The bookmobile will continue to be at Perrine during the school year.  Check it out!

Enjoy the rest of your summer.  The first day of school is September 3rd at 8:05 a.m.

Summer has arrived

Summer has arrived in Twin Falls.  Hopefully your days are slowing down and you are enjoying the long hot summer.  Again, I thank everyone for a wonderful 2012-13 school year.  Report cards were mailed on Friday, June 7.  If you did not receive a report card,  please contact the office.

The office will close for the summer on June 20, 2013.  If you have an emergency, please contact the Twin Falls School District office at 208.733.6900.  The office will open for the 2013-14 school year on August 19, 2013.  Hours will be 8:00 to 4:00.

If you need to register a student at Perrine you will need to bring in the following:  1) Certified birth certificate,  2) updated immunization records,  3) proof of residency-- a utility bill, rental agreement or purchasing agreement.  The paperwork required to be filled out is on line at the Perrine website.

Open house is tentatively scheduled for August 29th.  This is a time for you to bring your child to the school, meet the teacher, and drop off school supplies.  A list of supplies can be found on our website.

Enjoy the summer.

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End of The Year

We would encourage everyone to come out to our annual Family Fun Night on June 4th from 6:00 to 8:00.  We will have bounce houses, climbing walls, and train rides...all for free!  Food will be available for purchase from the RSMS athletic department, Papa Kelsey's, as well as other vendors.

School dismissal for the summer begins at 1:00 on Wednesday June 5th for students in grades first through fifth. The last day of school for kindergarten students is Tuesday June 4th.  Please look in the mail for your child's report card.  You should receive them by June 12th at the latest.  If you do not receive one, you can contact the school for a duplicate.

The final day the office will be open is June 19th.

Have a safe summer with your friends and family, and we'll see you in the Fall!