08/15/2024
Acacia Families! SAVE THE DATE!
Our annual "Open House with Food Trucks" is happening on Wednesday, September 18th, 4:30-6:30!
From 4:30-5:30, you can choose from a variety of Food Truck menus and visit with friends and family. From 5:30-6:30, the building will be open for families to visit classrooms and take home something their child worked on in class.🤩🤩🤩We love having parents be able to come in and visit the many classrooms your child visits each week!
Often, grandparents join us for the fun, and we love meeting them, also!
We can't wait to see you all for an evening of fun!
08/14/2024
We have the most amazing business and faith partners and now have a staff parent partner! Mr. and Mrs. McLendon (yes, Ms. McLendon's parents), had a large pallet of school supplies donated from Staples!
Just so thoughtful and appreciated!
THANK YOU Mr. and Mrs. McLendon for the generous donation! ❤️
08/08/2024
Yesterday, we honored this awesome group of staff members with their "Years of Service" certificates from WESD. In this photo are 30, 20, 10 and 5 year employees! We thank them for their dedication to WESD. (not pictured: Mr. Ciliberti)🤩👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
08/05/2024
What a wonderful first day we are having at Acacia! 🤩🌼🎉
Check out these happy faces! We love having our students back with us!🩷❤️🩷❤️
08/04/2024
We are so fortunate to have such an amazing Acacia Owls PTA ! Each year they attend this conference to learn new ways to support Acacia! Thank you for nominating our own Principal, Ms. Hollingsworth, and long-time volunteer, Mr. John. We are thrilled to hear they won!
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🌟 Exciting News 🌟
We're thrilled to announce that Ms. Hollingsworth and Mr. John, two incredible members of our local PTA unit, were honored with well-deserved awards at the PTA convention this past June. It was such a privilege to present them with these recognitions at Meet The Teacher night this past Thursday.
Acacia is incredibly fortunate to have such dedicated and passionate staff and volunteers like them, who go above and beyond every day. Thank you, Ms. Hollingsworth and Mr. John, for all the big and small things you do for our school community! 🍎💫
Looking forward to an amazing school year ahead!
08/04/2024
This past week we were surprised and spoiled by our faith and business partners. We are so thankful to each and every one for thoughtful donations of food for staff on their first week back, as well as supply donations for our students. Just so amazing!
Pictured is Jude from Palmcroft Church Phoenix who delivered breakfast on Monday and Friday and many supplies❤. The Telephone Pioneers stopped in with their awesome annual school supply donation ❤. The West Valley Nurses Club is a new partner and brought in a wonderful array of school supplies ❤, and Target donated breakfast and goody bags on Thursday for all staff ❤.
We certainly feel the love from our community! Thank you all, for all you do for Acacia!❤❤❤
08/03/2024
Acacia was one packed building last night, as students and families met their teachers!
It is always such a happy event, as we know the Acacia Community will soon be together once again. We just love our families. ❤
We are ready for another A++++ year!
07/30/2024
Here's a sneak peek at your Acacia A++++ teachers for next year! 🥰 There are some new faces among the crowd, and this week has proven they are a perfect fit for us! We are having an exciting first week getting ready.🎉🎉🥳
We can't wait for you to meet all of your teachers on Thursday evening from 4-6 pm!
07/29/2024
Look whoooooooo's back!!! Our Acacia⭐A++++ ⭐staff is back for another fantastic year! We have some new faces and can't wait for you to meet them!🥰
Remember, our Meet The Teacher Event is This Thursday, August 1st, from 4-6 pm. We are excited to greet our amazing students and families!❤️
07/22/2024
Acacia Community!
Do you know anyone looking for part-time hours? We have both a crossing guard and playground/cafeteria monitor open! There is an option to get a few more hours by taking on both positions if desired.🦺🛝⚽⛹🏼♂️🛑
Please call our office @ 602-896-5000 so we can direct you to the website to apply!
07/15/2024
Acacia Families! This is the night you have been waiting for! 😉We could not be more excited!
** Class assignments will be posted on the front fences by 10 a.m. on this day**
See you soon!🤩🤩🤩
07/11/2024
Each week during the school year we love to celebrate or Acacia Way PBIS Program. We have SO many students earning tickets each week for exemplary behavior that we had to have "2nd Chance" drawings at the end of the year to celebrate even more students!
Mr. Ciliberti spent the last two weeks of school, during all lunch periods, pulling 2nd chance names and giving out lots of incentives. Here are a few of our winners!
We love celebrating being responsible and caring!
07/09/2024
Our band/strings students led by Mr. Coleman, and choir led by Ms. W**d, finished off our school year with their beautiful songs and music.
Such a great night celebrating all of their talent!
06/20/2024
Congratulations to the April and May Acacia Way-To-Go winners! Each of these students were chosen by a staff member for being wonderful role models. 👍🎉
06/04/2024
We wanted to share with our Acacia community the beautiful plaque that arrived this week from the Arizona Department of Education.
Earlier this year, Acacia was honored as a finalist for the National Title I Distinguished School Award. This is the 2nd time Acacia has been a finalist. In 2012, we won the title for Arizona.
We are thrilled that our achievement over all the years still qualifies us for this honor. We are so proud of our staff, students and parents!
⭐We ARE ACACIA, and TOGETHER, we can do ANYTHING!⭐
06/01/2024
Our STEAM initiative is school-wide, which means our special area classes are also a part of bringing the Engineering Design Process into their classrooms to enhance their standards with problem solving, critical thinking and teamwork.
Recently, Coach Marin had his PE classes participating in their STEAM project. His story was:
Mr. Ciliberti and Coach Marin want to practice their golf game, specifically putting, but have no golf hole or green surface to do so. It’s up to Acacia’s student to use their knowledge and skills to build a small putting green with a golf hole so that they can improve their skills!
Constraints:
Must be able to putt the ball from at least 5 feet
A barrier must be created to keep the ball from rolling away
The golf ball needs to be able to roll smoothly into, and stay in the hole
Given materials will include cardboard, two cups (one plastic, one Styrofoam), scissors, glue, tape, and 4 pool noodle cutouts
The results were fantastic! Way to STEAM on, OWLS!
05/31/2024
Our school-wide STEAM program gives all students a chance to experience the Engineering and Design Process. With technology, art, engineering and math incorporated into every project, each student can excel at their favorite area. Students also learn how to collaborate as they share ideas and discuss designs.
Ms. Yousif's 4th graders worked diligently with set parameters and materials, to design, build, evaluate and test a raft to carry Olaf over to Anna's island. Looking at the designs and finished products, we know there were successes!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
STEAM on Owls!
05/30/2024
We had so many exciting activities and projects going on in May, that it might take us weeks to post them all!
The student council sponsored 5th/6th grade end of year dance, is always a favorite with our students.
Just check out all these smiles as memories are being made.
05/28/2024
Our "Moving On Ceremony" for kindergarten was adorable!
We had a great time celebrating them all! From the looks on their faces, they also had a great time!
05/24/2024
Last week, we held our 6th grade promotion ceremony. Several students were awarded Gold and Silver Presidential Awards as well as Special Area Awards from those teachers.
We are so proud of them all, and wish them the best for their future endeavors. They will be missed. ❤️To the parents leaving us this year, thank you for being an active part of your child's education. We will miss you, too!❤️
05/23/2024
Acacia's Accelerated Reader program has been going strong for 19 years! We love this program because it is research-based and has proven, time after time, to increase our students comprehension skills! It is also based on a student's personal independent reading level so all students, regardless of their reading strength, can make gains in the same ways.
Last week we had our annual end of the year celebration and were able to celebrate many students for their overall success! SO much achievement!🎉🎉🎉
Our longest standing business partners, the Thunderbird Pioneer Club (Laura Warren and Harvey Lehrfeld), were here once again to watch us award the 7 bikes they donated this year! (They do this every year). THANK YOU❤️ A big thank you to Wal-Mart as they are the ones that help us purchase all of the incentives for the students throughout the year.❤️
This is a great example of how the community is supporting our schools directly. Just so wonderful! We could not do it without them.
05/20/2024
Join us on Facebook Live today @ 9:00 a.m. for our 6th grade "clap-out" and kindergarten "clap-in".👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎉🎉🎉
We are celebrating our 6th graders promoting to middle school as well as our kindergarteners moving on to 1st grade!
If you are unable to join us live, we will post the video later for all to view!🥰
05/19/2024
It always makes our day when past students pop in to visit us! So wonderful to see you! He was also excited to have Acacia in his patrol area. And yes, Ms.Hollingsworth was his principal!
05/17/2024
WOW! We are excited! This week we celebrated our English Language Learners who scored "proficient" on their state AZELLA assessment. We are thrilled with their progress and are SO proud of them!🥰🎉
We also want to acknowledge their teachers, who did a wonderful job getting them to this level! Way to go Ms. Cheatham, Ms. Marcum, Ms. Nesimi, Ms. Haus, Ms. Sedgwick, Ms. Harris, Ms. Bauer, Ms. Cordova and Ms. LaDonna🤩
05/17/2024
Our faith partners, Palmcroft Church Phoenix, are always thinking of us and we just appreciate them so much! During Teacher Appreciation week, they delivered the most delicious breakfast burritos🌯 , donuts🍩 AND bagels🥯! Just so awesome! Your thoughtfulness means everything to us.
Thank you Palmcroft! We ❤️you!
05/16/2024
Our annual 6th grade musical/play, "Hercules", was nothing short of wonderful! The costumes, speaking parts, and all around characters and dancing were just so great! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Thank you, Ms. W**d for yet, another unforgettable show. Thank you, also, to Ms. Scott for the background artwork, and our facility manager, Ben, for making the incredible monster, Hydro.
We hope this performance gave our students a class memory they will remember forever.🥰
05/15/2024
Tonight! 🤩🎉
****************Just a reminder that you can have 2 adults per child. Siblings are welcome!
Kindergarten Promotion is right around the corner! Please tag any Acacia Kindergarten parents you know to help us spread the word.
Space is limited with 5 classes, so only *** 2 adults*** will be able to attend. Acacia siblings (grades 1-6) will also not be able to attend due to space issues. Thank you for your understanding. 👍
We can't wait to celebrate them all! 🤩🤩🤩