Liz Costella, Principal January 2020

Students of the Month for december

The ARTS

Ashley Espinoza Jayson Chaparro

Aiden Valdez Elliot White

Ana Laura Molina Damian Moreno Sophie Andrews Emiliano Flores

Leo Crow Anagloria Valdovinos Esparza

Gabriel Rosales Ella Summons Olivia Resendiz

Ella James Brooks Angelo

Sarahi Merida Flores Ruby Cruz Eva White

Daniel Hernandez Enric Devora

Tommy Packard Lincoln Morrow

Michael Lucero

cooperation

Daniel Gegorchuk Edmond Aleksanyan

Milo Chicoine Nikolas Anassian Greyson Adams Jaiden Aldama

Natalie Aleksanyan Erica Vargas

Martha Moulton Anthony AJ Rosales

Ella Jones Scarlett Engel

Brayden Fuentez Eli Trujillo

Alexa Ludwick Natalie Ortiz

Roman Kawaye-Vos Isabella Hernandez

Ellen Rehanian Natalia Rubio

Abigail Rosales Jostin Arenas Carranco

Sophia Simon

Perfect Attendance Winners The classrooms listed below were honored in December for having the

highest percentage of attendance for the previous four weeks. Grade level named panthers will sit proudly in the

winning classrooms until the next Student of the Month Assembly.

Grade Room Teacher Percentage Panther

K 15 Ms. Palermo 97.32% Sparkle

1st 18 Sr. Gutierrez 96.67% Thunder

2nd 34 Mrs. Timoney 97.73% Cubbie

3rd 45 Mrs. Toscano 96.23% Lucky

4th 25 Mrs. Mulloy 97.45% Shadow

5th 20 Ms. Webb 96.67% Midnight

Panther Press McKinley Elementary School 349 West Valencia Avenue, Burbank, California 91506 (818) 729-2000

In December the following students were

recognized for either achievement in the Arts or the

character trait of Cooperation

Congratulations to all of the recipients and their families!!

Remember . . . attendance counts!

Be at school

everyday

and on time!

Cooperation

The arts

From the Principal’s Desk:

Dear McKinley Family and Friends, I hope everyone had a wonderful break and were able to enjoy time with your families. Thank you for all you do each day to make McKinley great. The new year is always a great time to reflect and to work on creating good habits. One of the best habits you can build in your child is good attendance. Attendance is important not just because students should be here for academic lessons, but it also builds responsibility and commitment. School is a child’s job and we want him or her to build a strong work ethic in school, as we hope to see one day in his or her career. Attendance is also important for parents and families. This year make a resolution to attend more school events, volunteer for PTA and stay connected through our flyers, phone calls, app and website. Staying informed and involved will help your child succeed in school.

Happy New Year, Mrs. Costella

Accelerated Reader Recognition Congratulations to the following students for earning

25 Accelerated Reader points this past month

Amelia Walsh Analiese Wood Anthony Larios

Catalina Miranda Christopher Bautista Daniela Garcia Rojas

Dominic Reyes Eliza Merlo Finley Jolton Ford Foster

Hamlet Asatryan Harrison Gourian

Isaac Quirarte Jack Gagnon Jaden Padron Jasmin Arnold

Jonathan Strother

Matthew Murphy Matthew Watson

Molly Brown Nairi Mamrevian

Noah Lin Olivia Schultz Phoenix Shows Scarlett Engel

Sebastian Anassian Sofia Sandoval Solomon Moore Sophia Trinidad Stephanie Foley

Vedanten Naidoo Lydia Linares-Fuentes

Martin Radillo Kevin Radillo Paz

Lucio Quijada

Thank You

A very special thank you to PTA, and Hablemos for all of our De-

cember activities

including Posadas and holiday baskets. Your hard work

is appreciated!!

Thank you to Student Council

and teacher mentors for collection Family Promise of

Verdugos.

Thank you Mr. Agosti for for running the sound during our

winter programs.

Registration for 2020-2021

Registration for next school year for incoming kindergarteners and new stu-dents will begin on January 27th. We will

hold an informational meeting on February 7th at 10:00 am in our auditorium.

PBIS Update At McKinley we developed school-wide expectations for every location in the school from the playground, lunch shelter, hallway/stairs, auditorium, bathroom, cafeteria line, pro-grams/clubs, and dismissal gate. The purpose of PBIS School-wide expectations is to estab-lish a climate in which appropriate behavior is the norm as well as to change the focus of negative behaviors to positive expectations and interactions. These expectations were put on posters, placed around the school, and introduced to the students at the beginning of this school year. Since we are the “Panthers” we used the word PAWS to represent the overview of our behavioral expectations. The “A” in PAWS stands for “Accepting Responsibility.” Students Accept Responsibility by being Responsible in all locations of the school. This looks like: • Go straight to your destination when transitioning • Stay with your class when walking in the hallway/stairs • Quickly line up when your class whistle is blown • Keep your place in line and use quiet voices • Follow game rules • Follow directions of all adults when entering and leaving all locations • Use quiet voice when transitioning • Eat before you play • Put away equipment • Pick up trash

Safety Update

Show respect for our neighbors. DO NOT block driveways or double park when dropping off or picking up your children. Students running across the street or

cars trying to maneuver around double parked cars creates added safety hazards for our students.

Make student safety a priority!

Student Council Information

During December's meeting, Student Council members discussed what is going well with Friday recycling as well as the teachers who will be monitoring this month. We

also discussed our charity, The Families of the Verdugo. We planned a second flyer to send home to families by the end of the week. Student Council also made signs and

hung them up around the school for our next spirit day on Friday, December 20, Pajama and Stuffed Animal Day! Lastly, we created a "kindness" new years challenge for

students to complete when they come back from winter break.

From the Interventionist’s Desk

Greetings McKinley Families: Happy New Year! This month I will introduce Emotion Management. During the next several weeks students will be learning to describe what triggers their own strong emotions and what happens in their brains and bodies when they experience strong emotions. Students who can recognize strong emotions and calm down cope better and are less prone to aggressive behaviors. The Second Step program teaches students proactive strategies that help prevent strong emotions from escalating into negative behaviors. Being able to manage these emotions allow students the ability to interrupt escalating emotions by de-termining a personal signal to identify and name strong feelings as they occur. Staying in control of your emotions and actions can help students get along better with others and be successful at school. Teaching students to recognize strong emotions and use strategies to calm down can be effective in in-creasing their ability to cope and decreasing the likelihood of aggressive or other problem behaviors. Kind Regards,

Sylvia Acevedo

Tips

Calming Down Stop!-Use your signal

Resources

www.secondstep.org www.cfchildren.org www.ldonline.org

Quote of the Month ~When you can’t control what’s happening,

challenge yourself to control the way you respond

to what’s happening~

Happy New Year McKinley Families! PTA wants to welcome you to 2020! We hope that you

all had a great holiday season filled with friends, family, and lots of new memories. There are a lot of fun events com-ing up that we’re looking forward to in the next few months. Please go to our website or Facebook page and sign up to be a PTA member and request to receive our weekly email blasts, so you can stay up-to-date on all things PTA!

Now that 2020 is here, our community is being faced with an important decision. It is PTA’s mission to not only enrich our student’s lives, but also advocate for them as well. It is important that everyone takes the time to get properly informed on the parcel tax measure and exercise your right to vote. If you have any questions regarding this measure please reach out and we will be more than happy to help.

Sincerely, Pam Di Andrea, McKinley PTA President Pdiandrea520@gmail.com

PTA Meeting- January 9, 2020 @ 6:30pm- McKinley Library