January 2006

Dear Parents,

Welcome back and Happy New Year to you and your family!

Please join me in welcoming Ingrid Delk to our family! Madam Delk is the new French 5th Para teacher. She is from Guadeloupe, French West Indies and is fluent in French and in Spanish. She is currently certified to teach in Spanish, Social Studies and is working on her French certification. Please stop by and welcome her to EIS!

“Schools of Choice” applications for upcoming Kinders and for our current 5th graders will be available for pick up on Jan. 17th. The applications are due to the ESC no later than 4:00 on Feb. 17th. The EIS Tours will begin this month for anyone interested in applying for Kinder.

“School Talk Time” with the principal is scheduled for Tuesday, January 17th at 2:00. If you have any ideas, suggestions, questions, or concerns please feel free to stop by and visit with me during this time or anytime you need to! Remember, my door is always open to you and your family!

Second Quarter Report Cards will be sent home on Tuesday, Jan. 24th. We will honor all those students who had “Perfect Attendance” in the Rise and Shine Assembly on Monday, January 30th.

Last but not least, we are kicking the “new year” off with a visionary project for Eisenhower! Some of you may remember “Ideas for Ike” which was a vision our members came up with several years ago. Since that list is depleted and we have some many new members to our family, the EIS Site Council has decided to try our hand at “Strategic Planning”. Strategic Planning is a process of getting input from all the members of our community, compiling it and then presenting it back to the community. We are hoping to come up with a long term vision of where we would like our students and our school to be in five years, ten years, etc. Our hope is that this process will enable our members to have a common vision with common goals. It may even help us to determine what we think is important to fund, etc. Please plan on attending the EIS PTA meeting on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 7:00 to hear more about this project. If you are unable to attend the meeting, however you are interested in giving us your input, please contact the EIS Site Council Parent Reps, Elaine Ard or Karen Bruns.

Again, Happy New Year to you and your family. Best wishes in 2006!

Stacy Strow, Principal