It just goes to show that our amazing staff will do anything to motivate our kids to read and is always willing to take challenges and make it fun and engaging. Children who read and are read to help build great public schools and every school day we work on trying to find ways to instill in our children the love of reading.

The Pizza Hut Book It challenge was our attempt to win 100 copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Long Haul. So we climbed the roof and Mrs. De Los Santos read excerpts from the book. While we didn’t win that prize we won even more! Our students read 103,119 AR books this school year!

April is Autism Awareness month, and to raise awareness and money, Rodolfo Centeno held it’s first ART for AUTISM AUCTION. Our students, staff and parents really came together to make it a successful event. We shared stories about staff members whose children have autism, we shared information about autism and library books about autism and students painted puzzle pieces which were later exhibited in our “gallery” and auctioned off to the highest bidders. In all we raised $546.66 to be distributed to three local Autism awareness groups – My Sunny Gardens, UBC Autism Group and the Laredo Autistic Center. It was such a success we hope to hold it annually and garner more support. The students learned a lot and became very sympathetic to this cause. It is our hope that events such as these will help develop character and build an environment of tolerance and acceptance. Thank you Centeno staff, our families and students, and the community awareness groups who helped us in our endeavor. Special thanks to Mr. Juarez, Ms. Ada Perales, Mrs. Rosas, Coach Hernandez, Ms. Molina and Ms. Yancy.