Dec 15, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to update everyone on the break-in that we experienced in the early morning hours of Sunday the 2nd of December. AISD Police informed us today that an arrest has been...
Dec 14, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week
Well, the Great Gingerbread Hunt was our focus this week. After reading many different versions on The Gingerbread boy we made our own gingerbread boys. After decorating...
Dec 8, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Happy Bettie Mann Day! Yesterday we had a wonderful visit from Ms. Mann who was the first African American teacher at our school and namesake of our kindergarten wing. She read...
Dec 7, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week
We added the words said and you to our Word Wall this week. Our sight words so far are not, get, look, my, mom, dad, up, it, I, A, go, at, to, am, me, see,...
Dec 2, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
It was an action packed week at Russell Lee Elementary School and I want to take a moment to thank some of the key players. Thanks to Clayton Maxwell who organized another...
Nov 16, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to start by reminding everyone that there will be no school next week for Thanksgiving break. Our students will not have classes until we return on Monday, November 26th....
Nov 16, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week
We added the words and and play to our Word Wall this week. Our sight words so far are look, my, mom, dad, up, it, I, A, go, at, to, am, me, see, can, is, like, the,...
Nov 9, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Our annual Geography Day was a big hit and it was great to see our Roadrunners have so much fun while learning about different cultures. This year’s Geography Day featured...
Nov 2, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
We are just a week away from one of our favorite days of the year here at Russell Lee Elementary, the world famous Geography Day! Efforts are already underway to transform our...
Nov 2, 2018
It’s Been a Busy Week
This week we had lots of fun in language arts with Halloween stories. We sequenced the story, The Old Woman Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything and made a Monster's...
Oct 27, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Last night was an amazing Fall Carnival and such a fun night for our Roadrunners of all ages. I want to thank everyone who attended and all of the volunteers who made it happen....
Oct 26, 2018
It’s Been a Busy Week
We added the words mom and dad to our Word Wall this week. Our sight words so far are Up, it, I, A, go, at, to, am, me, see, can, is, like, the, red,...
Oct 19, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
We are one week away from the Fall Carnival and with the recent cold front, it officially feels like autumn. This year’s Carnival will feature all the familiar favorites like...
Oct 19, 2018
It’s Been a Busy Week
Our sight words so far are Up, it, I, A, go, at, to, am, me, see, can, is, like, the, red, blue, yellow, green, and orange, brown. This week was a...
Oct 13, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
As the weather begins to cool, we will be testing out the new heating capabilities of our new climate control system that was installed over the summer. Because there are likely...
Oct 11, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week
In language arts our vocabulary words were compete, hobby, and partner. Our sight words so far are Up, it, I, A, go, at, to, am, me, see, can, is, like, the, red, blue,...
Oct 6, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to remind everyone that we will not have school on Monday. Our teachers will be hosting conferences throughout the day. Then on Tuesday evening, we will be hosting our...
Oct 4, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week
Our sight words for the week were on and he. Our sight words so far are I, A, go, at, to, am, me, see, can, is, like, the, red, blue, yellow, green, and orange. Please help...
Sep 29, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
This week, I was fortunate enough to accompany our 6th Grade Leaders to the Outdoor School at Camp Champions. This annual overnight trip kicks off a year of leadership and group...
Sep 28, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week!
Our sight words for the week were like and the. Our sight words so far are I, A, go, at, to, am, me, see, can, is, red, blue, yellow, green, and orange. Please help your...
Sep 21, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Hispanic Heritage Month is underway and we have a wide variety of learning opportunities in store for our Correcaminos. Our 6th grade leaders have started each day with...
Sep 20, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week!
In Language Arts we are working on expanding the childrens' vocabulary. Every week we introduce three new words and then encourage the children to use them throughout the...
Sep 14, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to start by congratulating Coach Huff and all of our Roadrunners on winning the Healthiest Schools Award for elementary schools from the Mayor’s Health and Fitness...
Sep 14, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week!
We added two new sight words this week - me and see. We also added the "Yellow" song to our list of color songs. The tune for yellow is "If You're Happy and You Know...
Sep 7, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to start by sharing news of the joyful arrival of William Lucas Gilbert, who was born last Friday, August 31st. Leah, William and the entire Gilbert family are doing...
Sep 7, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week!
We are working hard on correct pencil grip and good writing posture. For many children this is very frustrating as they have never been shown correct grip and have...
Watch out for the new carpet!
Aug 31, 2018
40 students, 1st - 6th, turned in reading logs to become our newest Super Summer Readers!
We celebrated with certificates, free books and, of course, Popsicles for all!
Thanks to Ms. Sileo for...
Aug 31, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
As you probably saw last week, Coach Huff will be retiring at the end of the semester. In his time at Lee, Dave has had a tremendous impact on our students and their long term...
Aug 31, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week
We are continuing to establish routines this week. In Writing Workshop we are working on stamina or writing the whole time. Our mantra is - When your done, you've just...
Aug 24, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
The excitement level this week has been through the roof at Russell Lee Elementary! We love that our school is a place where children are so excited to come to school every day....
August 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018
Kindernews
August 24, 2018
It’s Been A Busy Week!
It has been a great first week in kindergarten! We are so happy to have your special children with us each day!...
I Mustache You to READ, This Summer
Jun 9, 2018
Summer Reading Challenge (yellow copy packet) starts this week - June 4! Read 20 minutes a day (at least 1400 minutes over the whole summer). Keep track and turn in a reading log when school resumes....
May 28, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
We are in our final hours of the 2017/2018 school year! It has been a really great year for our Roadrunners and I want to thank all of you for your support and strong...
May 18, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Muchas gracias to everyone who came out for Noche Latina on Friday and supported
Spanish language instruction at our school. Along with our Family Fitness Night we had a great...
May 11, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to start by sharing the news of the joyous arrival of Marcos Javier Abrego. Baby Abrego was born on Thursday at 8:48 am and weighed in at 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Ms. Abrego...
May 10, 2018
Walking Field Trip
Tuesday, May 15th, we will take a walking field trip to Eastwoods Park. We will leave school at 8:00 am and walk to the park. We need some parents to help us manage 60+...
May 10, 2018
Thank you!
Thank you so much for all of your sweet notes, gifts, and the beautiful flowers we received throughout the week. We are so fortunate to share your specal children! Thank you for...
May 4, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to start by congratulating our 2nd graders and their teachers on a magnificent Mexico Program. It was a great celebration of the rich history and culture of Mexico and...
Apr 28, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
It has been another adventurous week and none of these events would have been possible without our collaborative school community. I want to start by thanking Andy Sharp, who...
Apr 27, 2018
It's Been a Busy Few Weeks!
This week we learned about oviparous and viviparous animals. We read the book, Chickens aren't the Only Ones, by Ruth Heller and discovered a world of egg- laying...
Poetry Month and Math Month
Apr 23, 2018
Happy April!
We have been having a fun time with Poetry Month. 6th grade did Book Spine Poetry, 5th wrote poems to share with the Library department's partners: Nurses, PE, Science Resource...
Apr 20, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
This Saturday is our Roadie Work Day from 9:00-12:00. We will be collaborating on a creative mural on our Art Portable, working on our student gardens and green spaces and...
Apr 19, 2018
Come enjoy the beautiful weather and art at Creative Action!
Each month we celebrate community through free arts workshops, performances, live-music and active learning experiences for all ages at...
Apr 13, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
The City of Austin’s Safe Routes to School Program is leading a planning effort to identify and prioritize walking and biking infrastructure improvements for elementary and...
Apr 12, 2018
The play follows the story of three triplets who are left in the forest by their heartbroken father. One resolves to travel backwards, another forwards, and the third stays right where she is. After...
Apr 6, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
On Tuesday our dream team of kindergarten teachers helped welcome next year’s incoming Roadrunners as part of our annual Kinder Round Up. I want to congratulate the three of...
Apr 6, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week!
What a wonderful dinosaur program! We are so proud of your hard working children!
Staar Testing
Next week...
Apr 1, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
On Tuesday of this week, we will be welcoming next year’s incoming Roadrunners as part of our annual Kinder Round Up. The Round Up will begin at 9:00am and then culminate with...
Mar 23, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break! Students have settled back into what has been an engaging week of learning. Thank you to our participants and presenters for our...
Mar 23, 2018
Dinosaur Program
Each kindergarten student will participate in the Kindergarten Dinosaur Program on Monday, April 2nd at 9:00 am, and on Tuesday, April 3rd at 10:00 am for Kindergarten Round...
Mar 9, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Happy Spring Break! As a reminder next week is spring break and their will be no school until students return on Monday, March 19th. I want to start this newsletter by thanking...
Calling All Makers
Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week!
This week we learned about Rosa Parks and how she stood up to injustice and helped change the world.
In math we are working on forming sets of ten and more to make the...
Mar 2, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
We are just hours away from the raddest Lee Live ever! Break out your leg warmers and parachute pants because it is going to be a night to remember at Saengerrunde Hall! Our...
Feb 23, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
We are just a week away from this year’s Lee Live! As the items are pouring in, we are shaping up for an amazing silent and live auction and an awesome night of dancing to...
Feb 15, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
This week’s Principal’s Newsletter is being sent out early to remind everyone that there is no school on Friday, February 16th or Monday, February 19th. Teachers will be...
Feb 9, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Thanks to everyone who came out for our Whole Child Family Night (WCFN) on Tuesday. As a principal and parent, it was great to see so many of the social emotional learning...
Feb 9, 2018
It's Been a Busy Week
We continue to work on learning sight words.
In math we are learning about number bonds.
Spanish-Stanfield
We have such fun in Spanish class singing songs, dancing,...
Feb 2, 2018
100 Days!
We celebrated the 100th Day of school on Friday. We participated in many, fun “100” activities such as making “100” trail mix counting 100 steps and more. We collected cans...
Feb 1, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
We are sending out this week’s newsletter early so that all families are aware of the Celebration of Life Service for Lee parent, Robert Young that is taking place this...
Jan 26, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
I want to start by sharing the selection of our Teacher of the Year, Kellie Leifeste! Ms. Leifeste, previously Ms. Eiler, has been our Reading Specialist for the past four years...
Jan 19, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Thank you for your patience during what has been a wild week of student holidays, snow days and late starts. We have rescheduled the PTA Meeting for next Tuesday the 23rd at...
Jan 19, 2018
The Great Kindness Challenge
Information about The Great Kindness Challenge is going home with your child today, Friday, Jan. 19th. Here is just a quick rundown of the daily activities;
Monday...
Jan 12, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
It has been a busy full week back at school for our Roadrunners and next week is shaping up to be a busy one as well. There will be no school on Monday in honor of Dr. Martin...
Jan 5, 2018
Roadrunner Families,
Feliz año nuevo to all of you! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and were able to spend some quality time with your Roadrunners. There were definitely some elated looking...
Dec 19, 2017
What a wonderful semester we have had. The children have learned so much and continue to surprise us daily with newly gained knowledge. Your children are so respectful and kind to each other. ...
Dec 16, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
This will be my last newsletter for 2017. I wish you all a wonderful winter holiday and hope you get to spend some quality time with family and friends. Your children did such a...
Dec 15, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week
Well, the Great Gingerbread Hunt was our focus this week. We read many different versions on The Gingerbread Man. On Thursday we made the dough and then Wednesday we rolled...
Dec 8, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
I hope all of our Roadrunners enjoyed the unexpected snow day. We anticipated the possibility of a two hour delay once it started snowing, but the full day cancellation was a...
Science Fair Sunday
Dec 1, 2017
We've had a few Science Fair workdays in the library in the past years.
Last year, Mr. Bircher organized a few Scientists/Lee Parents to volunteer some time to help the kids with their projects....
Nov 30, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week
Science - Gonzales
We learned the difference between tattling and reporting. We report when people or animals are in danger, or when you have tried to solve the problem...
Nov 18, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
Our 2nd annual Roadrunner Fun Run was blast! The students did a fantastic job, especially our 6th graders who led the entire day of fun and fitness. Thanks to the Fun Run dream...
Nov 17, 2017
Thanksgiving Holidays
There will be no school next week, November 20-24. Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!
We are thankful for you!
December Book Order
We are sending the...
Nov 11, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
On Friday we celebrated Geography Day, our annual event where students have the opportunity to spend the day “visiting” and learning more about one of seven countries. It is...
Nov 11, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
On Friday we celebrated Geography Day, our annual event where students have the opportunity to spend the day “visiting” and learning more about one of seven countries. It is...
Nov 11, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
On Friday we celebrated Geography Day, our annual event where students have the opportunity to spend the day “visiting” and learning more about one of seven countries. It is...
Nov 11, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
On Friday we celebrated Geography Day, our annual event where students have the opportunity to spend the day “visiting” and learning more about one of seven countries. It is...
Little Free Libraries
Nov 6, 2017
Flyer
Just wanted to share this with you. I'm thinking I'll ask for one for our school library.
Nov 3, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
We recently held a Counselor’s Coffee on the topic of online student safety and I wanted to take this opportunity to share some of the resources that came from that...
Nov 3, 2017
It’s Been a Busy Week
This week we had lots of fun in language arts with Halloween stories. We sequence The Old Woman Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything We used nouns and adjectives to describe...
Oct 28, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
The Carnival on Friday was chilly, but tons of fun for Roadrunners of all ages! Thanks to our amazing group of volunteers who pulled it off with such a team spirit. They were...
Oct 27, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week!
The sight words we have covered so far are am, can, I, like, see, little, be, go, and the, as well as the color words.
We read the book Bats Love the Night by Nicola...
Book Fair
Oct 26, 2017
for making our Wild West Book Fair a smashing success! We had a great time and got some fun books.
Oct 20, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
On Thursday I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Champions for Children Program for Helping Hand Home. http://helpinghandhome.org/champions-for-children/ I shared some of...
Oct 20, 2017
It’s Been a Busy Week
Our vocabulary words for the week were grateful, thoughtful, and display.
In language arts, we read and compared two stories – Pumpkin Jack, and Too Many Pumpkins. We...
Oct 20, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week
In language arts our vocabulary words were compete, hobby, and partner. Our sight words so far are be, like, am, can, I, a, see, and the along with the color words red,...
Oct 14, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
On Thursday night we celebrated our school’s namesake, Russell Lee. We now have more than thirty images in our permanent collection and the celebration featured screenings of...
So Far this Year
Oct 13, 2017
It has been a crazy busy library time so far:
We have celebrated our Super Summer Readers, done the library inventory, checked out iPads to K, 1, 2, 3 and Ms. Paula, and Ms. Leifeste, all students...
Oct 9, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week
Our sight word this week was to. So far we have learned the words like, am, can, I, a, see, go, to and the along with the color words red, blue, green, yellow, and orange....
Oct 6, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
October is Bullying Awareness Month, so I want to take this opportunity to share some resources that we use to address bullying here at Russell Lee Elementary School. If we have...
Oct 5, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week
Our sight word this week was go. So far we have learned the words like, am, can, I, a, see, and the along with the color words red, blue, green, yellow, and orange. For...
Sep 29, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
Congratulations to our third graders on a fantastic Hawaii Program! They did an outstanding job and I would like to thank their grade level teachers for all of their hard work...
Sep 22, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
Next week we will have our first grade-level program of the year, The 3rd Grade Hawaii Program. Our Roadrunners are hard at work on rehearsals and there have been some updates...
Sep 15, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
I have been asked to share some additional information about the upcoming bond that will be voted on in November. We received the following from the district about a series of...
Sep 15, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week!
We added two new sight words this week - the and like. We also added the "Yellow" song to our list of color songs. Watch for these small color booklets to come home at...
Sep 8, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week!
We are working hard on correct pencil grip and good writing posture. For many children this is very frustrating as they have never been shown correct grip and have...
Sep 8, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
Thanks to everyone who came out for our first PTA Meeting of the year. We had a great turnout and were able to cover a number of important topics, including committee openings,...
Sep 1, 2017
It's Been a Busy Week
We are continuing to establish routines this week. In Writing Workshop we are working on stamina or writing the whole time. Our mantra is - When your done, you've just...
Sep 1, 2017
Roadrunner Families,
It has been another active week here at Russell Lee Elementary! We started the week with a two hour delay as a result of the remnants from Hurricane Harvey. We are currently...
Aug 28, 2017
It's Been A Busy Week!
It has been a great first week in kindergarten! We are so happy to have your special children with us each day!
We started out the week with one of our favorite books,...