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On Friday, November 2nd students and staff at Paseo Pointe celebrated Dia de los Muertos. On this day, many Hispanic cultures celebrate by building altars and gathering to remember their loved ones who have passed away.

At Paseo Pointe, students learned about this beautiful tradition and participated in festivities. As a school, they constructed an altar with all the traditional elements such as flowers and mementos. Also, students brought in pictures of their family members to place on the shared altar. Moreover, many staff members and students dressed up in Hispanic attire and painted their faces like sugar skulls. Classrooms also ate Pan de Muerto on this day which is a traditional bread that is shared by families.

Paseo Pointe School’s Dual Language Immersion classrooms held their 2nd annual Hispanic Heritage Parade on Sept. 21.

Each class selected a Spanish speaking country to study. They then decorated their bulletin boards with facts about that country. During the parade, they held their designed flags and banners to represent the country their class selected. Many students and staff dressed in traditional attire for the parade.

The school supply lists by grade level for the 2018-19 school year are now available. View them under the “General Information” tab.

Paseo Pointe kicked off their second annual AzMerit Boot Camp in February.  Each week, students complete “missions” that correlate with the third grade standards preparing them for success on AzMerit. To date they have earned rankings for fractions, author’s point of view, and theme.

Paseo Pointe families celebrated “Posadas at the Pointe” on December 20.

The roots of Las Posadas stretch deeply into Latin culture. It originated in Spain, but it has been a yearly celebration throughout Mexico for over 400 years. The tradition commemorates the biblical story of Mary and Joseph’s difficult journey in search of a warm place to stay the night. (Posadas is Spanish for “lodgings” or “accommodations.”) Posadas begin on December 16 and end nine days later, on December 24. Each night, one family agrees to house the festivities.

Paseo Pointe honored this tradition by providing nine activities for our families to enjoy. Activities included gingerbread house building, pinata and poinsettia crafts, luminarias, caroling, photos with Santa, food, and more!

View photos of the event on the district’s flickr page.

Representative Reginald Bolding stopped by Lindsay Delgado’s 4th Grade class to visit with students. The legislator answered questions about state government, the legislative process, and how he got to where he is today. Students were engaged in the discussion and asked many follow-up questions.

Paseo Pointe teacher Ren Fahey received a $715 grant to provide personal libraries for his classroom.

The DonorsChoose.org grant provided 30 copies of the following books: The Outsiders, The Giver, Hatchet, and Among the Hidden, as well as a DVD of The Giver and A Cry in the Wild.

Fahey’s literary project is designed with an eye toward creating multiple student and parent engagement outcomes. Students will participate each quarter in a literary and genre study. Each student will receive one book per quarter. Since the books are theirs to keep, they will be able to highlight passages, add comments, and bring the books home to share with their parents.

They will then create projects to reflect how well they understood the novel study. Students will present their projects to classmates either digitally or with poster boards at the end of each quarter and, as a class, will watch the movie that accompanies the book.