Principal’s Message for December 2019/January 2020

“Life is not about accumulation; it is about contribution” – Stephen Covey

Dear Carnelian Family,

First and foremost, we would like to wish you and your family a happy and memorable holiday season!  Enjoy the break, and we will look forward to seeing our wonderful students back to Carnelian on January 6th.  

This continues to be a busy and festive season at Carnelian.  Our PTA has worked tirelessly to provide special events and memories for our students.  It is great to have events, such as our Santa Shoppe, the winter book fair, our Winter Wonderland Family Night, and much more.  We were happy to have a wonderful turnout for our Family Literacy Night. It is so important to instill within our students a love of reading.  We are very grateful for our amazing PTA and parent support. Over winter break, I suggest you encourage your child to spend time reading and disconnecting from the digital world for a bit.  Read with your child, and help ignite that passion of what it is like to not want to put a book down. 

As we celebrate the New Year, consider the tradition of New Year’s Resolutions with your children.  Our children are developing habits that will last a lifetime. We always want to encourage them to establish good habits and break bad habits.  Goal setting, or resolutions, are part of that process. Some suggestions for resolutions are reading goals, AR points, attendance goals, report card grades, homework completion, or other areas that your child wants to strive for improvement.  

As principal of Carnelian, I want to continue to emphasize how much I appreciate hearing from our parents and school community.  Your input and feedback helps us to better serve our students. It can help us to focus our efforts, allocate resources, and take steps necessary to continue to strive to improve in all that we do as a school.  Please remember that I have an open door policy, and I value the conversations that I have with parents and other stakeholders of our school.  

 I want to remind you all that we have an ambitious word count goal at Carnelian.  As of today we are at 53,400,595 words as a school. That is 40% of our annual goal of 135,000,000 words.  I am very proud of our first five millionaires: Lyla Pinedo, Emily Ellis, Amanda Men, Cooper Hays and Brody Blanchard.  Let’s keep up the great work!

Again, I hope that you all take time to create happy memories together as a family over the break.  May your household be filled with peace, joy and love throughout this holiday season and always! Thanks so much for partnering with us and supporting us as we do all that we can to enhance the lives of our students.

Mr. Deegan