September is National Library Card Sign Up Month and best school supply you can get is a library card! This year the UISD south elemetary campuses partnered with the MOS Public Library Branch and librarian Priscilla Garcia for library card sign-up. Together the Arndt, Centeno, Kennedy-Zapata, Juarez-Lincoln, Roosevelt, Perez, and Prada campuses signed up over 800 students with 200 attending the actual event that took place on September 17, 2016.
It wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without festivities and CAKE!!! This year we had our very first #cakewars and WOW we had some amazing cakes turned in. I’m glad I wasn’t a judge because I had so many favorites. 
This year we kicked off our Meet in the Middle event with everyone taking the pledge to not use the “R” word and instead replacing it with Respect.
“Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but it remains marginalized throughout K-12 education.
Only 29 states allow students to count computer science courses toward high school graduation.
There are currently 607,708 open computing jobs nationwide.
Last year, only 42,969 computer science students graduated into the workforce.”
http://code.org/promote
This year marks the first year Centeno took part along with 2,121,577 others, in the Hour of Code.
…Yes, and the start of AR happened to fall on my birthday! Awesomely convenient. The students and staff had a great time and we are very fortunate to have had such a great event to celebrate reading (and my birthday)!!!
Class of 2015 thank you for making my years in the library so enjoyable. Nobody says it better than Dr. Seuss!
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.
Rex’s parents are adopting a baby, now Rex has to figure out how she can keep herself from becoming the Invisible Girl in the family, but she’s not the only one feeling invisible.
If you enjoy this Ready to Read beginning chapter book, checkout the library for more in the series of Pinky and Rex by James Howe.
2015 marked another great year to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday with the Laredo Public Library, Pete the Cat and Junie B. Jones. With dress up days, and our annual “Many Important Hats Contest” there was never a dull moment.
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