The Fine Arts Dept. would like to invite you to the Annual Youth Art Month Art Show and reception hosted by Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Carrollton.
Art from around the district, represented by students Kindergarten through 12th grade will be on display, with a reception in the hospital lobby.
Please see the invitation above regarding location and time. Mark your calendars now for a great show and again, thank you for supporting the Fine Arts in our school district.
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!
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.
La Villita’s 5th grade student council (CLAW) collected food for Irving Cares throughout December. Irving Cares, in partnership with the Irving community is dedicated to effectively serving and assisting Irving residents in need. La Villita received 2, 726 canned good items in donations for Irving Cares. This donation provided Irving Cares with additional money, approximately $8400, to help more families. Great job La Villita!
This past Saturday, December 3, the CFBISD Elementary District Honor Choir, a high level auditioned choir made up of 80 incredible singers from elementary schools throughout the district, performed a winter concert for parents, friends, and shoppers at the Shops at Willow Bend in Plano.
Their themed performance of songs featuring messages of peace, unity, and hope drew a large crowd and was met with a standing ovation!
Click here to see more winter performances happening in CFBISD!
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,
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.
La Villita Elementary students met a 3rd grade class from Oklahoma via Skype so they could compete against them to see which 3rd grade class could read the most minutes leading up to the big OU/Texas game. The competition started Sep. 14 and and ended Friday before the big game on October 9. La Villita 3rd graders challenged classes in Covington-Douglas, Enid and Stillwater Oklahoma schools. La Villita won all three challenges.