Please join us for our next Virtual PTA General Assembly meeting on Wednesday, April 21st at 6:00 p.m.
Our program for the evening is Meet the Principal: Pamela Clark, Principal at Clark HS.
We are excited to have Ms. Clark joining us! We will also be voting on some budget changes and updating everyone on our end-of-year events. Please sign up by Tuesday, April 20 @ 6:00pm for our meeting; the meeting Agenda and link will be sent out the evening before the meeting.
How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success?
Confident Parents, Confident Kids lays out an approach for helping parents—and the kids they love—hone their emotional intelligence so that they can make wise choices, connect and communicate well with others (even when patience wears thin), and become socially competent and confident human beings.
Read-Along Schedule: 4 Hours of Meetup time.
Please save the dates.
Meeting 1: April 7, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Meeting 2: April 14, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Meeting 3: April 21, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Meeting 4: April 28, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Click here to register in advance for this meeting/Book club meet.
If your Panther student(s) is going to school Face-to-Face and needs more masks to wear at school, we still have Schimelpfenig face masks available for purchase!
Face masks are $8.00 each. Buy in bulk, any combination, for discount: 2 for $7.50 each; 5 for $6.60 each; $10 for $6.00 each. Discount will be calculated at checkout.
* It will be delivered on a weekly basis.
Our wonderful Schimelpfenig MS librarian, Carol Campbell, continues to support all Schimelpfenig students despite the challenges of Covid-19. If you see her this week, please give her a big smile and thank you for all that she does!
PISD is honoring all assistant principals, including our wonderful Schimelpfenig Assistant Principals, Ari Weinberg and Latasha Goodwin. #PlanoISDCelebratesAPs
Plano ISD will use Monday, April 26, as the designated inclement weather day for the weather-related closure on Thursday, February 11. Originally slated as a student holiday and staff development/work day, school will now be in session on April 26. TEA has approved waivers for the additional weather closures during Winter Storm Uri, so no additional make-up days are required.
Students are still giving 100% during COVID-19, so should the state! Texas PTA has joined with 22 other organizations asking Gov. Abbott to assure 100% ADA funding for the remainder of this school year.
Lend your voice! Follow this link to ask your legislators to appeal to Gov. Abbott on behalf of all public school students in Texas. #FundTheFuture
Did you know? Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.
People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person. (from the History website).
Thursday, April 1 -- PTA is providing Sonic drink treats for the Schimelpfenig staff -- any drink switches are purely accidental (no April Fool's here!) 
Friday, April 2 -- Student/Teacher Holiday
Monday, April 5 -- Student/Teacher Holiday
Tuesday, April 6 -- Writing STAAR for 7th grade F2F students.
Don’t forget: your student needs to bring his/her fully-charged Chromebook, charger, a snack, and water bottle. Lunch from home is encouraged. Also consider having your student bring a book or drawing materials for something to do if he/she finishes the test early.
SEL, or Social Emotional Learning, addresses the emotional and social wellbeing of children and adults. Anxiety, stress, depression, behavior issues like bullying, verbal or emotional abuse, substance abuse, etc. all are attributed to managing one’s emotions and social skills.
If you need more information about PISD SEL program, please click here.
March is National Youth Art Month. Locally, PISD celebrates with a state YAM competition, Big Art Day, and an annual exhibition. Although PISD is unable to hold the traditional gallery event and reception, they have created a video exhibition celebrating the amazing young artists in PISD! To view the exhibition go to Plano ISD K12 Youth Art Month Exhibit.
