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Principals Message

Keeping Skills Sharp Over the Summer

The lazy days of summer are just around the corner. As you are finalizing summer
plans for your children, I encourage you to, indeed, make time for some lazy days.
While incredible enrichment programs and camps abound, children also benefit from
having some down time, when they can develop their creativity through exploring
their own interests.

There are many summer reading programs in the community that can afford your
children the opportunity to visit faraway places and investigate any subject
imaginable, without ever leaving the comfort of their own backyard! I encourage you
to look into participating in the Pima County Public Librarys Fizz Boom Read!
Program (opens May 22) and/or programs through local bookstores.

In addition, below is an article summary by Kim Marshall (in the Marshall Memo 528,
March 17, 2014) about a study related to maintaining students math skills over the
summer:

Attacking Summer Slide in Math

In this School Library Journal article, New York youth services coordinator Lisa Kropp
cites a Duke University study showing that students summer learning losses are
greater for math than for reading all students, wealthy and poor, lose about 2.6
months in their grade-level equivalency in computational ability over the summer
months.

One way of countering this is Bedtime Math www.bedtimemath.org, a program that
emails parents a daily math problem with three levels of questions: wee ones, little
ones, and big ones. The questions all refer to the same story and get progressively
more challenging.

Last summer, Bedtime Math teamed up with the Collaborative Summer Library
Program to offer a math tie-in called Summer of Numbers http://www.cslpreads.org.

Families can use math reading logs to track when children answer a math riddle, and
these can be turned in for an incentive prize at participating libraries.

Math? Yes, Math. In Summer by Lisa Kropp in School Library Journal, March 2014
(Vol. 60, #3, p. 22), no e-link available

THANK YOU!

A huge THANK YOU to our Family Faculty Organization for their ongoing efforts to
support and enhance the educational experience for students at our school. This
year, in addition to providing teachers with classroom funds, funds for field trips,
various classroom/grade level grants, and other things, the FFO supported the
following two projects around our campus.

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Our Inclusion Team worked with students to beautify the garden area outside of classroom 108:



Our Student Council created a Buddy Bench on the upper field of the playground. As described
on the website, www.buddybench.org, this, is a simple idea to eliminate loneliness and foster
friendship on the playground.





Family Survey
As parents/guardians at Ventana Vista, we very much value what you are thinking about our
school, and your childs experiences here. Every spring, our Site Council administers a Family
Survey. Both the staff and Site Council analyze the results in an effort to continually improve
our program.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at the following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YX2XSJW

Thank you, in advance, for your feedback.























Catalina Foothills
School District

Dr. Mary Kamerzell,
Superintendent
209-7500
mkam@cfsd16.org

Governing Board Members

Carole Siegler, President
529-1379
csiegler@cfsd16.org

Sherri Silverberg, Vice-President
615-9224
ssilverberg@cfsd16.org

John Bergan, Member
878-6180
jbergan@cfsd16.org

Eileen Jackson, Member
299-3828
ejackson@cfsd16.org

Mary Lou Richerson, Member
299-4746
mlricherson@cfsd16.org


State of Arizona Legislative
Representatives for CFSD
(please check www.azleg.gov for
contact information)

Legislative District 9
Senator Steve Farley
Rep. Ethan Orr
Rep. Victoria Steele
DATES OF INTEREST

Friday, May 9
th

Spring Book Fair Family Night
5-7PM

Monday, May 12
th
- Thursday,
May 15
th

Spring Book Fair (see flyer
for days/times)

Monday, May 12
th
Friday,
May 16
th

Staff Appreciation Week

Tuesday, May 13
th

EARLY RELEASE (last one!)
Gr. 1-5 8:00-1:30
AM Kinder 8:00-10:15
PM Kinder 11:15-1:30

Saturday, May 17
th

End of Year Carnival 3-5 pm

Tuesday, May 20
th

NO EARLY RELEASE
All-School Assembly @ 1:45,
(including the Minute to
Win It challenge!)

Wednesday, May 21
st

Fifth Grade Farewell @ 1:00 PM
Last Day of School for Students!
























Mission Statement

The mission of Catalina
Foothills School District and
Ventana Vista Elementary
School is to guarantee that
each student achieves
academic and personal
excellence, becomes a
lifelong learner and is a
responsible citizen of the
world, by engaging all
students in meaningful
programs which meet the
highest educational and
ethical standards within a
caring, collaborative learning
community.

Office Hours for 2013-2014 are:

7:30 AM 3:30 PM

7:30 AM 2:00 PM
(Early Release Tuesdays)

Main Office 209-8000
Health Office 209-8004
Attendance Line 209-8090
FAX 209-8070
Durham (Bus) 615-7635



Spring Musical
Performances

First/Second 5/14 @ 1:30

Third 5/15 @ 11:00

Fourth/Fifth 5/19 @ 9:30


School Tool Box
Supplies for 2014!

See the attached flyer
regarding information about
ordering your school supplies
for next year online! You can
start ordering as early as
4/28, and supplies will be
delivered to your home this
summer.

Want to shop for your own
school supplies instead?
Lists will be posted on
Ventana Vista website in
early June.



Summer Office Hours

Mon. - Thurs. 7:30-3:30
Fridays Closed

Summer Shutdown
June 30
th
July 11
th

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Dont Forget!
Register for Camp
Foothills Today!
Register now for weekly or
Online: https://
cs.cfsd16.org/webreg2
In Person: 2101 E River Road
Endless Summer Fun!
Leadership Circle M
em
bers ($1000+)
Kenneth Adler
Klaus and Cheryl Axen
Jeff and Julie Baron
Denise Beattie
Kenneth and Sandy Belkoff
Khush and Am
y Bhola
Adriana Boiangui
Jeff and Kathryn Burgess
Zachary and Pam
Butcher
Jim
and Victoria Capin
Rick and Tess Chua
Conrad Clem
ens
Leslie and M
ike Cohen
Lori and Russell Cohen
Paula Collins
Stephen Curtin
Sam
ir Dahdal
Peter Deluca
John and Julie Farbarik
Bradley and Anita Feder
David and Diana Freshwater
Scott and Angie Goorm
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Jam
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Ralph and Jan Gutbub
Tim
and Angela Hodges
Lyssa and Stuart Holm
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David and Lori Iaconis
M
ary Kam
erzell
M
arisol and Dennis Kenm
an
Bob and Nancy Kersey
Ario and Neda Kiarash
Thom
as and Lisa Kram
kowski
M
ark and M
aria Kross
Julie and Brian Larson
M
anzanita FFO
Dan and Trish M
cCabe
Paul and Kathie M
elde
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ayra M
elendez
Om
ar and Am
y M
ireles
Beatrice M
uller and Tod Lauer
Laura Nagy
Sue and Bill Pekarske
Sam
ata and Rajesh Prasad
Peter Pritz
Robert and Robin Randall
Raytheon Financial Gift M
atching Program
Russell and M
ary Lou Richerson
John Rosegrant
Jennifer and Steve Roth
Jam
es and Kate Schwartz
Paul Schwyhart and Judith Gordon
Dev and Olivia Sethi
Heather Sipos
Texas Instrum
ents M
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Jim
and Ae Todsen
Kristofer and Janet Tvedt
Kent Vincent
Edward W
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Susan W
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Jesse and Kelly W
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Perry Abbott
Bedri Abubeker
Srikar Adhikari
M
ireille Algazi
Jose Alicea
Christine Aronoff
Jill and M
ark Bell
John and Kerrie
Bergan
Lindsay and Scott
Biaggi
Gary and Ione Bohay
M
artin and Jessica
Brandt
Peter and Jenny
Burrows
Trina Callie
Jack Cam
pbell
Carla and Todd Case
CFHS FFO
Eugenia Chen
Robert and Nancy
Clark
Stephen Coughran
Jason Crane
Kay Dean
Cheryl and M
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DeConcini
Paula Dunn
Ty Endean
Am
ita Fadia
Charlie and Kristin
Finley
Katherine Ferguson
Paolo Goes
M
ichael and Lori
Gross
Anne and Lukas
Gruber
Pankaj Gupta
Brenda Harrington
Cliff Harris
Jeffrey Hellbusch
M
ark Hertenstein
Albert Hoack
Daniel and Shari
Hofstadter
Chris Holbert
Brian Kahn
Douglas Kelly
Theresa and Edward
Keefe
Susan Kowalcek
Am
y Krauss
Ashleigh and M
ichael
Kruk
Cheryl Lam
dan
Todd and Jenny Lessie
Jam
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Zhenqiang Lu
Sandra Lueders
Ronald Lynch and
Heddwen Brooks
Jill and Kevin M
adden
Sheldon and Page
M
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Nancy and Scott
M
artin
David and Stacy
M
cHorney
Juliet M
cKenna
Jeff and Debbie
M
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Patrick and Shannon
M
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Paul M
yrdal
Rincon Pain
M
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Jim
and Nancy
Rodolph
Jed and Alissa Sadalla
Alif Sarah
Vance and Louise
Saunders
Stefanie J Schluender
Gregg and Kim
berly
Sciabica
Bake and Patricia
Shaffer
David Sheinbein
John and Carole
Siegler
Sherri Silverberg
Steven Siwik
Bill and Nancy
Sjostrom
Keith and Jennifer
Soderberg
Leslie and Kevin
Stockton
Jam
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Susan Stofft
Rachel Stover
Elizabeth Strange
M
artin Stupka
David Trabert
Laura and Ray
W
allace
Colin and Shelley
W
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M
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ood
Cynthia W
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Peter Xu
Joanna Yip
Friends of the Foundation ($500+)
Dollar a Day Supporters ($365+)

Julia and Neal Arm
strong
Richard Ashley
Lori and Javier Badillo
Joseph Ballantyne
M
ark and Jill Bell
Eric Bergstrom
Charles Bertsch
Dan and Vicki Beskind
Art Cake
Jaclyn Callahan
Sara Carlo
Francisco and M
ara Castro
Stephen Cohen
Daniel and M
olly Copley
Lynn Cosgrove
Stephen Crawford
Holly Crawford
Kate and Chris Darling
Tam
i Dittm
ar
Kim
berlyn and Andy Drew
Terry Fortunato
Andrew Grall
Lalita Hadley
Gary and Yvonne Huckleberry
Sham
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Ism
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Todd and Eileen Jackson
David Jacobs
Glen and Patty Jaquette
Am
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M
argaret Kivel
Rebekah Kolonelos
Diane Koss
M
ark and M
aria Kross
M
ark Lin
Elizabeth Longenecker
Dam
ing Liu
Keiko and Ryan M
atika
Beth M
ercaldo
Linda Nelson
Bradley and Jacki Nichols
Robert and M
ary Norwood
Brian Ocain
Kristine Palm
Pzer Foundation M
atching Gifts Program
Heather Reed
Hani Rizk
Patrick Robinson
Julia and W
ayne Rudnick
Thom
as Ryan
Harold Segel
Sherri Silverberg
Theodore Spencer
Bob and Lisa Swift
Ajay Tuli
Jeff Vollin
Colin & Shelley W
atson
Karl and Zarina Young
Thank You to the Families and Businesses Who Have Supported the
Foundation and District 16 this Year
2013 2014
Dollar a Day Supporters ($365+), Friends of the Foundation ($500+), and
Leadership Circle Members ($1,000+) as of May 1, 2014
Khush Bhola, M.D.
Thank you to our CFSD Foundation sponsors: