Looking Ahead

Daylight Sav-

ings—Time

Change

Sunday, March 8—Change

your clocks 1 hour ahead!

Monday, March 9 Early Release Day

Grades 1-3 dismissed at 1:45

Grades 4 & 5 dismissed at 1:50

K early birds 8:30—11:40

K Late Birds 10:20—1:50

Tuesday, March 10

9:00 PTC Meeting-Visitor: Michael Garrison, District Director for Assemblywom-

an Melissa Melendez

2:45 pm Juice It Up Sales by Front Office $3.00

Wednesday, March 11

7:50AM Choir Club

3-4pm Fine Arts MPR

Thursday, March 12

7:50-8:20 Choir Club

3-4PM SSC library

3-3:40 Cartooning Club Rm 18

6-7pm ELAC Meeting Rm6

Friday, March 13

2:45 Popsicle sales $1

AT MURRIETA ELEMENTARY

Murrieta Elementary

March 6, 2015

Estelle Jaurequi, Principal

Rob Lurkins, Assistant Principal

START OF SCHOOL DAY REMINDER

Please remember to get to school on time each day! School starts at 8:30. Get up

each morning with enough time to make it to school before the Tardy bell rings!

Character Counts!

Hello, Murrieta Jaguars. We have followed the Six Pillars of Character at our

school for a long time: Fairness, Caring, Respect, Trustworthiness, Citizenship,

and Responsibility. Each pillar guides our thoughts and actions. Student learning

is so much more than the curriculum and academics. Teaching students the social

and emotional skills to be successful is just as important as the reading, writing,

and math skills that are taught daily in our classes.

This month we will be focusing on the Character Count Pillar of Respect.

Respect is a positive feeling of esteem or deference for a person, family, city, na-

tion, culture, or religion. Specific actions and conduct are representative of that

esteem.

Respect can be a specific feeling of regard for the actual qualities of the one respect-

ed (e.g., "I have great respect for her judgment.”) It can also be an individual’s con-

duct that shows respect. (e.g., being courteous, seeing the value in others, treating

people the way we want to be treated.)

Rude conduct is usually considered to indicate a lack of respect, which is called dis-

respect, where as actions that honor somebody or something indicate respect.

Respect can be both given and/or received. Depending on an individual's cultural

reference frame, respect can be something that is earned. Respect is often thought

of as earned or built over me. Often, continued caring interactions are required to

maintain or increase feelings of respect among individuals. Chivalry, by some defi-

nitions, contains the outward display of respect.

What are some ways we can teach respect?

• Talk with our children about the importance of treating other people with re-

spect. Make sure he/she knows that it is important to you, and that it will lead to

stronger friendships.

• Watch a television program together, and talk about the various ways in which

the characters acted respectfully or disrespectfully towards one another. Watch for

put-downs, insults, and subtle forms of bullying.

• Help our children become sensitive to his or her own behaviors or language that

may be of a disrespectful nature, as he or she deals with siblings or friends.

• Remember that we are powerful role models for our children. If we treat people

respectfully, that is what our children will learn from us.

“Respect yourself and others will respect you” Confucious

This is Mr. Lurkins reminding you that your character always counts.

Estelle Jaurequi, Principal Page 2

Check out the Lost &

Found area….OVER 100

articles of clothing are piling

up once again! All unclaimed

items will be donated to a

local charity during the

spring break. Come see if

there’s something that be-

longs to your

child.

Dear Parents of students in Grades 3 through 5,

This spring your child will take new computer-based tests which are part of the new California Assessment of Stu-

dent Performance and Progress (CAASPP).

These computer-based tests will be taken online unlike the old paper-based multiple choice STAR tests students

have taken for years. The new tests are based on the new state standards and they include different types of test

questions. Just as the things we expect students to know and be able to do have changed, tests have also changed.

Like class assignments and report cards, these tests give teachers a way to evaluate individual student achieve-

ment.

The test results will be returned to schools, teachers and parents before the end of the year. Based on trial runs of

the tests in California and other states, a decline in scores is anticipated for most, if not all students. This decline

in scores won’t mean students are sliding backwards or learning less. These new tests are more difficult and they

are too different from the old tests to make any accurate comparisons with scores students received on previous

STAR tests.

The test results won’t be used to determine whether a student moves on to the next grade level. This year’s test

results will give me important feedback about your child’s strengths and areas where they may need additional

support.

Standardized tests are just one way we measure how your child is doing at school. They are not the only measure

of what your child has learned or what they can do.

Please make sure your child is not overly concerned or anxious about the tests or test results. The most important

thing you can do is to make sure that your child is in school during the testing session.

To see the types of questions your child will be asked, you can view practice tests online at the California Depart-

ment of Education web page at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/practicetest.asp.

If you have any questions, please talk to your child’s teacher, me or Mr. Lurkins.

The next

ELAC meet-

ing will be

Thursday,

March 12th

at 6pm in

room 6.

MES’s Jump Rope

for Heart UPdate

You’re the cure and

together, we CAN

save lives!!

This year our school raised over

$3,000.00

Awesome Job Jaguars!!! Thank

you for your support

ELAC

KINDERGARTEN: Parment-er: Maxton Metzger, Marley Solorio, Jacob Underhill; O’Dowd: Abiel Cabral, Em-ma Catarino, Hana El Feky, Jet Jerome, Jocelyn Rojas; Reddick: Uriel Bautista, Pamela Bugarin, Brianna Noa, Grace Siepker, Logan Thompson; Shafer: Drew Clift, Ashley Mendoza-Guerrero, and Reagan vonRanzow.

FIRST GRADE: Bissonette: Hailey Asmus, Landen Kolk, Natalia Leandro, Lindsey Viveros; Ciauri: Bailey Auer, Braden Carso, Makayla Gomez, Brody Johnson, Trystan Pineda, Aubrey Sweetnam; Macaluso: Faith Almer, Jazmin Gaeta, Sophie Lopez, Julian Magana, Alivia Zipprich; Pickrahn: Issac Boesenberg, Kemar Cham-bers, Elijah Gonzales, Char-lotte Lunt, Addison Palmer, Yakelin Torres; Weatherbie: Isabella Hereford, Perla Men-dez and John-Anthony.

SECOND GRADE: Arellano: Sydney Awde, Jakob Formosa, Perseis Pineda, Leilani Sanchez, Dylan Stanonis, Dari-us Trimble; Baird: Samuel Fravel, Weston Lee, Kevin Meumann, Chelsea Moesser, Khushbu Nakrani; Rosales: Jo-hannes Alatorre, Elfego Covar-rubias, Taelyn Holley, Olivia Mitchell and Seth Munson.

THIRD GRADE: Ferrell: Hailee Cagle, Diana Cornejo Gomez, Alilah Mora De Jesus, Eric Mu-rillo; Heidorn: Anne Flesher, Jack Lysiak, Alyssa Martin del Campo, Bianca Munoz; Knue-ven: Emily Barajas, Joshua Falls, Oliviah Marron, Teryn Shaw, Triston Vialpando; Sco-linos: Madison Cosio, Bella Martinez, Angelica Mendez, Ry-der Sands-Tabata and Jacob Mendez.

FOURTH GRADE: Fox: Trevor Farrar, Daniel Garnica, Taylor Johnson, Madisyn Negro, Roberto Saad, Mariah Shackelford; Redick: Kian Gomez, Susana Kalestian, Jordan Pizarro, Erika Salcedo; Zir-pel: Wendy Espinoza Osuna, Gavin Fawver, Cielo Martinez, Bri-annah McGee, Brianna Ramirez Medina, Jacob Webb; Tyler: Sa-mantha Salazar and Jeremy Straub.

FIFTH GRADE: Daniels: Alejandro Aleman, Ivana Guillen Negrete, Josiah Mendez, Ricardo Sanchez, Tiffany Shalvay, Kaylee Young; Hall: Sebastian Franco, Anne Hanks, Ezra Johansson, Caylum Mastacouris, Natalie Palm-er; Hill: Angela Custodio, Ana Mad-rigal Verduzco, Abigail Varas, Sa-vannah Virgil; Winters: Alyssa Ap-pleby, Jess Bumgarner, Diego Franco, Anthony Marron, Moises Rosales; Zavodnik: Haley Altenho-fel, Angela Colores Acevedo, Ha-ven Coram, Taleen Dababneh, Sa-mantha Garnica, and Nathan Scar-lett.

LUNCH WITH THE

PRINCIPAL and ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

February 2015

KINDERGARTEN: Avery Hazelaar, Alizel Lao, Charlotte Thayer and Henry White.

FIRST: Victor Alvarez, Isaac Boesenberg, Dean Larkin, Natalia Leandro and Alivia Zipprich.

SECOND: Marianna Dominguez, Jacob Franklin, Olivia Mitchell and Matthew Pusateri.

THIRD: Jimmy Alfaro, Ava Cervantes, Alexis Rodriguez and Cameron Stanonis.

FOURTH: Madison Gould, Cristian Meza, Daniela Ochoa, Alyssa Olvera, Hunter Onley and Grace Sutherland.

FIFTH: Randon Lane, Evelyn Miller, Khushi Nakrani, Chad Scotti and Said Quiroz.

To our Stalking Success Award Winners for the month of February

Red Ticket Winners

Evelyn Miller served as Principal for the Day and Brittany McCracken served as

Assistant Principal for the day on Friday, February 26th! They did an excellent

job! Mr. Lurkins and I were worried we’d be out of a job, they did such a good

job! This was made possible by one of the prizes at our annual BINGO Night!

Share your candid photos of your vari-ous events at MES

with the yearbook. Submit candid school photos to

murrietaptc@yahoo.com. Last day to turn in photos March 13th. Thank you!

PTC NEWS