RRISD 2014-2015 Kick Off Celebration!

Over 6,000 teachers celebrated yesterday at the Dell Diamond with RRISD Superintendent Dr. Steve Flores to kick off the best year ever! We got so motivated for our upcoming year- it was great! We enjoyed performances by the McNeil Choir, the Elementary P.E. teachers, and a tricycle race. The RRISD Partners in Education Foundation announced their grant winners for the year, and Forest North was lucky enough to have two winners- Ms. Matuschak won a grant for Math Kits for 1st graders to take home and share with their families, and I won a grant for $1000 worth of new animal books for our students to check out. I'm really excited to buy some new titles for all of us to share! This event was really special and got us so excited to see you all. Enjoy your last days of summer, Eagles, because we can't wait to see you next week!

Library Lock In

We had the 1st ever SUMMER READING LIBRARY LOCK IN this past week here at Forest North.  27 students attended our marathon reading session and it was a blast! 

Kids read their hearts outs both online (earning us MyON minutes in the district's contest!) as well as reading paper books around the library.  Many older students even got a jump start on their Texas Bluebonnet Award reading for the 2014-2015 school year!  

Many thanks to all the wonderful FNE staff who came out to help run this event - Mrs. Talley, Ms. Moore, Mrs. Koester, Mrs. Rhea, Ms. Lynch, Ms. Lorestani, Mrs. Shetty, Mrs. San Miguel, Mrs. Hermansen, Ms. Bell, Mrs. Chadney, Mrs. Stewart, Ms. Rideaux, Ms. Decker, Ms. Johson, Ms. Sayaovong, Ms. Velasquz, Ms. Matuschack, Mrs. Skala.  What a dedicated staff we have.  

A special shout out to our fearless leader, Ms. Jacobs, for spending the entire day in the library and staying committed to our kids even between school years!  

We had a special treat at the end of the day- Rita's Frozen Custard donated enough slush to feed our entire crew of readers.  We really appreciate them supporting our school and our students.  It was delicious, Rita's - we will all definitely be back!

Summer Reading Pep Rally

In May, we had a Summer Reading Kick off Pep Rally in the cafeteria, complete with a flash mob dance! We hope to see all of you at the Library Lock In on 8/8. It's going to be awesome, Eagles!

Camp Bluebonnet 2014 Official Video!

Check out this video I made to share our 2014 Camp Bluebonnet session! Thank you again to all of our FABULOUS campers for participating in our 4th Annual Camp Bluebonnet! I’m looking forward to another incredible camp session in 2015!

Camp Bluebonnet 2014

This week, 30 campers from across RRISD came together for a really fun session of Camp Bluebonnet! This was our 4th year having this great camp over at Great Oaks Elementary, and as always, we had a blast. We read 5 of this year’s Texas Bluebonnet Award nominated books together, and had SO much fun in the process! The kids who attended camp are already qualified to vote for their favorite nominee in January, before school even starts.  Amazing, huh?

I teach this camp with Mrs. Kupersztoch over at Elsa England Elementary.  She is a photo editing genius and made all these great photos from camp for our blogs.  Her blog is amazing! Thanks for doing that, Mrs. K!

Thanks, campers, for being so awesome and loving Camp Bluebonnet!

Summer is for Reading!

FNE Summer Reading Lock In 8/8 12-7