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Phone: 480-484-2600
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Office Hours: 8:00am - 3:30pm
School Hours: 8:45am - 3:15pm
Navajo Elementary School
4525 N. Granite Reef Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85251     
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Shaun Holmes, Principal
Steve Richie, Assistant Principal
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Navajo’s Annual Space and Science Night next Thursday, February the 16th from 6-8pm. 
Upcoming Events
Today
Repeating Event - Fun Run Club
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Tomorrow
Repeating Event - Student Council Meeting
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
- Forensics Club
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
- Chess Club
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
 
District Announcements
To view a complete list of Scottsdale Unified School District announcements, please visit www.susd.org.

Important Information: Dr. Peterson's January letter

For All Other District Announcements & Events, Please Click Here
Thank You, School Counselors!

National School Counselor Week, February 6-11, is set aside to recognize the critical work counselors perform that positively impacts Arizona students. Counselors help students examine their personal strengths, abilities, interests and talents. Students who understand how to plan for their future make better course choices related to their educational and career goals, are more motivated to achieve better grades and take greater responsibility for directing their own educational achievement. Counselors are the connecting link between students, parents, teachers and the school system.
Annual Parent Survey

Scottsdale Unified School District parents are encouraged to provide input about our schools in the online Annual Parent Survey. The electronic survey will be available beginning Friday, January 20 through February 10. Parents are invited to complete the survey once for each student enrolled. Parents who do not have Internet access may use the school’s computer lab. Access the survey from the District Web site or your child’s school Web site beginning January 20. Your responses will help us make SUSD even better!
NAVAJO: A STEM Focus School. Home of the Buffalos!
 

CenturyLink is hosting a basic computer education and technology workshop for parents and community members from 6-8 p.m. on February 8 in Room C104 at Coronado High School, 7501 E. Virginia Ave., Scottsdale 85257.

Get free hands on Internet training on topics such as
  • What is the Internet?
  • Basic computer elements
  • Basics of Internet browsing
  • E-mail basics
Learn about TekLink, a District initiative program. Learn about CenturyLink's discounted High-Speed Internet service starting at $9.95 a month, plus applicable taxes and fees. See CenturyLink

On February 16 Navajo will host the annual SPACE AND SCIENCE NIGHT.  Join us for:
 
*Observe snails, crayfish, worms, insects & isopods
*Make a tornado in a bottle
*Learn about food you eat
*Bubble experiments
*Make a water rocket -Bring an empty soda bottle
*Make a parachute
*Calorie burning /Line Dancing 
*Robotics Demonstrations
*Forensic Investigations
*Experiment with magnets and electrical circuits
*Make a lever and pulley
*Student Inventions
*Science Olympiad Projects
*Nano and Biotechnology Demonstrations
 
The event is from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Special guests include:
Liberty Wildlife, ASU Scientists, SNAP-Ed Nutrition, Embry Riddle, & ASU Rocket Club

 
 
 
Navajo is proud to be a STEM focus school

The following are things we have done to advance that focus:

·          We staff a full-time Science Specialist who coordinates our Science Curriculum and collaborates to coordinate engineering activities.

·          We staff a full-time Technology Specialist who coordinates all things related to technology. She ensures that all students PreK-6 have access to contemporary software as well as engineering activities. 

·          Engineering activities coordinated by our Technology Specialist include Lego Robotics and the physics of roller coasters.

·          We are a pilot school for many cutting edge educational software programs including Moo-O, NewsMaker TV, Sokikom, Timez Attack Plus, and Viewpoint, all from ASU SkySong.

·          Our students have 21st Century digital pen pals in Singapore using NewsMaker TV and Viewpoint.

·          Engineering activities coordinated by our Science Specialist include the Engineering is Elementary curriculum in addition to the engineering activities tied to our FOSS kits.

·          The ASU School of Sustainability has provided us with a meteorological station, giving us access to real time weather data that connects to our science curriculum. They also work with Navajo students in a variety of sustainability related labs.

·          We work with Project Astro to provide Navajo students with access to an astronomer and his equipment so that they have greater exposure to concepts involving seasons, solar systems, constellations, gravity, and phases of the moon.

·          Navajo’s robotics program continues to affiliate with the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering as relates to the First Lego League.

·          We continue to work with the Dǽdalus Club to bring the engineering behind rockets to our students (yes…they build them and fire them off).

·         We are a GK-12 partner school.  The GK-12 Program through ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, partners engineering students, called fellows, with classroom science teachers.  This unique collaboration encourages teachers to work outside of the teaching norm and allows the fellows, not only to share their scientific expertise, but use this experience to gather data and research for their Ph. D.  The fellows and teachers collaborate throughout an entire school year teaching science and learn from each other.  The focus of the program is on five of the 14 Grand Challenges proposed by the National Academy of Engineers.  Specifically, they are to make solar energy economical, provide energy from fusion, provide access to clean water, and manage the nitrogen cycle. 

~Espanol

Navajo Spelling Bee Results

Congratulations to 4th grader Sierra Beauchamp for winning the Navajo Spelling Bee in December. On January 26th she will be competing at Arcadia High School in the District Spelling Bee against 4th through 8th graders from all over Scottsdale. Good Luck! We are soooo proud of you.


Kindergarten Round-Up

Please join us for our annual Kindergarten Round-Up on February 16, 2012. All prospective 2012-2013 kindergarten parents are invited to join us for this fun and informative evening presented by Mr. Holmes and our kindergarten teachers. The presentation will begin in the art room at 5:30 and end at 7:30.



Congratulations Cristi Youngkin!

Mrs. Youngkin, Kindergarten teacher, recently passed the National Board Certification exam. This is the highest level of certification that a teacher can obtain. It is an extremely rigorous process with fewer than 5% of teachers nationwide achieving this distinction!


Speak Up National Research Project Survey
 
Scottsdale Unified School District encourages our parents and community members to participate in the Speak Up National Research Project survey at http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2011.

The Speak Up National Research Project, collects and reports the views of K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents on the use of technology for learning. Since 2003, over 2.2 million students, educators and parents have shared their views through the Speak Up surveys, and these important stakeholder ideas influence local, state and federal policies and programs every year. When schools and districts participate in Speak Up, they gain insight into:

How students are using technology for learning in and out of school. The issues you deem important regarding your child(ren)’s education and use of technology to learn. How teachers use technology for teaching as well as for their own professional activities.
The password needed to take the survey is susd48

Navajo Hosts DNA & Forensics Camp



For the first time, Saguaro Math and Science Academy teacher Mrs. Susan Lindberg collaborated with Navajo STEM teacher Dr. Christine Loots to offer a summer science camp with a focus on Forensics and DNA.  Students attended 8 days of workshops on topics including identifying blood types, understanding DNA and how it is used, fingerprinting and dactyloscopy, determining foot-to-height ratios, and using teeth impressions, all to identify possible "suspects" at a crime scene . The camp culminated in solving a crime simulation using the skills students acquired.


Easy, convenient way to raise $$$ for Navajo

eScrip is proven to be a fantastic resource for fundraising where participating business partners contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards, credit card, and debit/ATM card purchases to the school, group or organization of your choice. Visit www.escrip.com for more information. Our id is 6541532. Click here to register. Start shopping at the escrip on-line mall.
Navajo has its very own Weather Station!

Navajo has its very own weather station above B wing and it’s hooked up, tracking data, and ready to give you the current temperature.  You may now check out many of the outside weather conditions right here at our very own school! Be sure to check out the big display box on the demonstration table in the science lab. Besides being helpful for you at home, it is very useful for the numerous weather units many of our teachers are teaching. Click on the red "Weather Station" and type in 85251 in the upper right side. Then, click GO! Weather Station!  
Diana Campbell- Navajo Science Coordinator



 

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