Port Barre Elementary School

Join us for the 2nd Student Arts Expo in St. Landry Parish – a free and family-friendly festival of student artwork, live performances, and fun arts activities. The festival is March 23, 2024, from 10 AM to 3 PM in the Opelousas courthouse square. This festival is a celebration of student-artists in all artistic disciplines from every corner of St. Landry Parish. 🎨🎼🎷🎤

The SLP Early Learning Network is now accepting applications for children aged birth to 5. Interested parties can apply at the site for which your child is zoned to attend or online at https://earlylearningnetworkslp.org.

Mrs Brittani's first graders are all eager to improve their reading fluency and also to climb our AR tower!! This morning, we dubbed 5 more students into our AR Royalty for attaining over 12 AR points in the 3rd nine weeks! 🥳🥳

Mrs Brittani added 6 more readers to the AR Kingdom! These kids have surpassed 12 AR points in the 3rd nine weeks so far! 💘

Kindergartners enjoy using chalk in PE on this beautiful day outside.

First Graders enjoyed a heart lesson from Eat Move Grow. They were able to listen to their own heartbeats.

Mrs. Brittani's crew spreading kindness with their snowball fight and cards to the kids at St Jude! Such a special day 💖

Introducing the AR Queen of Mrs Brittani's first grade readers -- Miss Jozee Thibodeaux with 13.8 points so far in the third 9 weeks! 🥳🥳🥳

An audience makes reading aloud more fun Kids enjoy reading to their families, and listening to your child read is a great way to instill a love of reading. When you're not available, give your child the next best thing: a captive audience. Gather a few stuffed animals or action figures around your student. They can listen while your child reads. Later, ask your child about audience reactions. "What was Monkey's favorite part?" "Did Batman understand the main point?" https://tpitip.com/?14bG17376

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Play a guessing game with sound-alike words Homophones are words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings (heal, heel; bear, bare; weigh, way). To sharpen your child's sense of language, think of a pair of homophones and give clues to guess it. For example, "I'm thinking of a word that is a letter and a drink" (T, tea). Get started with some of these pairs: ant, aunt; board, bored; hole, whole; meet, meat; rows, rose. https://tpitip.com/?14bE17376

Mrs. Brittani's morning crew got to work on other skills this morning as a reward for mastering their Reading skills this week -- uno, puzzles, games & bracelet making! ❤️

Happening this week!

Mrs. Krystal and Ms. Gabby's first graders are 100 days brighter! They celebrated the day by making necklaces with 100 fruit loops, 100th day glasses, and glow sticks!

100th day of School Celebration-tomorrow, Jan. 31. Students in grades Prek and K may dress like 100 year old's and students in grades 1-4 may wear blue jeans (no rips, tears, or holes) with 100th day shirts or uniform shirt. No blue jean shorts or skirts are allowed.

Tomorrow, Jan 31 is an early dismissal day for SLP. PBES is dismissing at 12:00 noon. Buses will depart first; followed by car riders. Please have your child picked up by 12:30 as this is a professional development day for staff. Thank you.

Mrs. Brittani's first graders who are already soaring through the AR Club for the 3rd nine weeks!! So many are on the horizon! 📚❤️

Mrs. Krystal and Ms. Gabby's students worked really hard in Social Studies this week to create a bayou to house their alligator! We are so proud of their hard work and creativity!

A MESSAGE FROM SLPSB: Due to possible unsafe weather conditions from the forecasted arctic blast, all St. Landry Parish School District schools and offices will be closed on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, and Wednesday, January 17, 2024. With icy roads and freezing temperatures expected throughout the days ahead, we have made the decision to cancel classes, sporting activities, and practices to ensure the safety of our students, families, and staff. Stay warm and safe at home. For continued updates on closures, follow our social media and check local news outlets. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this wintery weather event. Let's hope for sunshine and warm weather ahead!

Weekly Newsletter for Jan. 15-19