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CFB Council PTA Reflections Award Ceremony

Congratulations to the students who participated this year in Reflections, the National PTA Art Program. The theme for 2016-17 was 'What is your story?' Students from Kinder through 12 grade may participate in 6 different categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography and Visual Arts. Students compete in their school and the top 20% advance to the CFB Council PTA judging. In the picture above are the Overall Award of Excellence recipients with an entry that advanced to State level of judging. Good luck to you! The following link has the gallery of entries in Visual Arts and Photography that advanced to state judging.

Congratulations to the students who participated this year in Reflections, the National PTA Art Program. The theme for 2016-17 was ‘What is your story?’ Students from Kinder through 12 grade may participate in 6 different categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography and Visual Arts.

Students compete in their school and the top 20% advance to the CFB Council PTA judging.  In the picture above are the Overall Award of Excellence recipients with an entry that advanced to State level of judging. Good luck to you!

The following link has the gallery of entries in Visual Arts and Photography that advanced to state judging.
https://goo.gl/MJKUVg

Click here to see a full list of students that received an award!

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Important Tips for Helping Your Child with Guided Reading

mother on couch with two young girls reading a book

KINDERGARTEN PARENTS OFTEN ASK…

“WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD IN READING?”

First, READ, READ, READ to your kindergarten child and HAVE CONVERSATIONS with your child often!

Read everything.

Read signs as you walk or drive home. Read labels in the grocery store. Read books, even if it’s the same book over and over again. Talk about things that you read and about things you see in the world. Ask your child questions and let them ask you questions. Reading is one of the most important skills to master in early childhood education.

Throughout their year in kindergarten, children often bring home-guided reading books or leveled texts to practice at home. In this article, you’ll discover strategies how parents can work on when using early reading texts or guided reading books with their kindergarten child.

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Good Elementary Receives a Visit from Cassidy the Therapy Dog

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Bernie Ponzio and her golden retriever therapy dog, Hopalong Cassidy, live in Grand Prairie and travel around to different locations to provide support and comfort to people of all ages.  Cassidy was born without a heartbeat, but was able to be brought back to life with CPR from vets at Texas A&M.  The breeder wanted to put Cassidy down because he was born without a front right paw.  Without hesitation, Bernie adopted Cassidy and trained him to be a therapy dog.  Good Elementary was lucky enough to get to meet Bernie & Cassidy.

Cassidy has now learned to walk with a prosthetic leg.  Bernie uses Cassidy as a platform to reach out to students with disabilities, special needs, or those that feel they don’t quite fit in.  Bernie says that Cassidy will go to schools and help students who have trouble reading and will sit and listen to them read.  Cassidy is the sweetest dog and our students and staff could not get enough of him!

Thank you for visiting Good Elementary, Bernie & Cassidy!

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Good Elementary Celebrates 60 Awesome Years

Good Elementary students dress in 1950s era attire to celebrate 60 years of Good Elementary

The doors of R. E. Good Elementary opened for the first time in 1956. Many life-long memories have been made and cherished within its walls over the past 6 decades, and the staff and students celebrated their campus’ 60th birthday in style. Students and staff dressed in 1950s-era attire, danced to 1950s music and learned to limbo and hula-hoop. Click here to see more photos from this event.

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Weekend Back Packs and Metrocrest Social Services Provides Snacks for Students in Need

CFBISD is thankful to have a partners like Weekend Back Packs and Metrocrest Social Services which provides take home weekend snacks for our students in need.  At the end of every week,

Kids with their kid friendly backpacks from metrocrest services. Text says "Thank you Metrocrest Services!"children from several of our campuses are given a backpack full of kid-friendly, shelf-stable foods and a backpack to take them home in.  The backpacks are provided by the Weekend Back Packs organization and the food is provided by Metrocrest Social Services.  This program is completely free to schools and is provided by the Metrocrest Services at no cost to the students.

Students at Good Elementary, Blanton Elementary, Riverchase Elementary, LaVillita Elelmentary, McCoy Elementary, McWhorter Elementary and Furneaux Elementary are enrolled in the WBP program through a referral. Any faculty or staff member can refer a student whom they think is chronically hungry or food insecure. Once on the program, each student receives a backpack full of food every Friday of the school year. They are also able to receive extra sacks of food for younger siblings at home.

The sack of food that each child receives weekly contains shelf-stable, kid-friendly items. All of these items can be opened easily by a child, and they do not require refrigeration or heating. The WBP program strives to provide a high amount of nutrition in each backpack, and it is currently meeting approximately 60% of the weekend nutritional needs for each child in the program. Food 4 Kids supplies participating schools with nutritious, kid-friendly, self-serve food designed to fill a backpack and feed a child over the weekend during the school year.

The WBP program, which kicked off its first school year as a North Texas Food Bank program ( Food 4 Kids) in the spring of 2004, has expanded to over 350 schools in 11 counties throughout North Texas. Last year, the program served up to 11,000 children a week, with plans to continue expanding the program during the upcoming school years.

Backpacks from Metrocrest Services filled with kid friendly foods Backpacks from Metrocrest Services filled with kid friendly foods

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CFB Students Participate in Spanish Spelling Bee

On Jan. 13, CFB held its second annual Spanish Spelling Bee.

Individual results are as follows:

1st Elementary
Cecilia Gonzalez, Good Elementary
5th grade

2nd Elementary
Christian Aguilar, Central Elementary
3rd grade

3rd Elementary
Javier Castaño, Stark Elementary
5th grade

1st Middle School
Sara Espinosa, Field Middle School
6th grade

2nd Middle School
Casandra Lopez, Field Middle School
7th grade

3rd Middle School
Miranda Sustayta, Field Middle School
7th grade

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Happy State Bank Partners with Good Elementary

We are excited to announce that Happy State Bank will be partnering with Good Elementary this school year.  The purpose of this partnership is to help educate children in banking, teaching them how to make a deposit and keep track of how much money they have in a bank account.  Students will be able to open a bank account and deposit money in that account once a month.  Older students will act as employees of the bank, supervised by adult Happy State Bank employees.  They will go through an application and interview process to be hired at the Kids Bank here at Good Elementary.  For more information about his great opportunity for our students, please visit https://www.happybank.com/kids-bank.php.

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