Anton Elementary School

Antón won 1st place again!! Thank you parents, staff and students for supporting School Cents! Special thanks to our parent Maricela who leads the School Cents effort for our school! 🥇🐊🤩

Congratulations to our two parent volunteers and our parent liaison who were honored tonight at the district’s family engagement recognition ceremony! Parent Ms. Zavala had our highest amount of parent volunteer hours and Ms Herrera had the second highest amount of volunteer hours. Ms. Joanna Martinez is our parent liaison and she is available Tuesday-Thursday mornings to assist parents with any needs

Today we had an Academic Gator Gala where students who met and exceeded standards last year on the state test received a special recognition and had dinner together. This week and next week students are finishing math testing so we are looking forward to all the scholars who will be at our gala next year because we know our scholars are trying their best on the state test this year in third through sixth grades. Congratulations to all our brilliant scholars!

Today our parents and staff celebrated Children’s Day. A day to recognize children and focus on the importance of loving, accepting and appreciating them! Thank you to all the parent volunteers and staff who made our campus look more beautiful today with all of the decorations! All students had pineapple ice treats (pinaneadas) at dismissal too!

Our office superheroes make the school go 'round and we could not operate without them! We celebrated them all week for administrative professional's day this week! If you haven't met them, these superheroes are here to serve you and meet your needs:
-Ms. Teresa, bilingual clerk who is currently working out of class as secretary
-Ms. Elizabeth, attendance clerk
-Ms. Ilse, health aide
-Ms. Joanna, parent liaison
-Ms. Leslie, intern

Ms. Dulce Bec, our school psychologist, briefly flew in between her psychoeducational evaluations to join the group photo!

Thank you to all our superheroes! Our school could not operate without your hard work, commitment and dedication!

Happy administrative professionals day to our fabulous office staff who helps the school run each and every day. Thank you for everything you do to Ms Teresa, Ms Elizabeth, Ms Ilse, Ms Leslie and Ms Alex who has been subbing for us! Please feel free to stop by and show them you appreciate them if you would like!

The summer school registration deadline is quickly approaching! Registration closes tomorrow. If you need any help with registering please contact the office and Ms. Teresa will also be outside by the front gate today and tomorrow after school to help with registration. Anyone registering after the deadline will be placed on a waiting list.

As a reminder, state testing starts tomorrow for fifth and sixth grades!

We had a great turnout for our Family Fitness night! Thank you to our fabulous PE teacher Mr. Alvarado!!

Tomorrow starts the first day of state testing for grades 3-4 in the area of language arts. Students will be testing Tuesday-Thursday and Dual Immersion classes will also test on Friday.

Thank you to San Bernardino Police Department for joining us at career day!

We have been doing so much hard work with reducing our chronic absenteeism and we are excited to announce that we have reduced it by -15% this year thanks to the very hard efforts of our parents and staff! Our school is #2 in the district for elementary schools with a decrease in chronic absenteeism. Our Pacific cluster neighbor Fairfax was #1 and knocked it out of the park with a -22.8% decrease so congrats to them as well! The district average was a decrease of -6.6% of chronic absenteeism so thank you to all parents for helping us exceed the district average! Chronic absenteeism means that students have been absent for 10% or more of the days that school has been in session. Being chronically absent impacts students' learning, achievement, sense of belonging at school, motivation and much more. All it takes is one day to miss important content that was taught and students can have difficulty in catching up if they keep missing too many days. Attendance matters! Thank you to all the parents and staff who have put so much effort into ensuring that our scholars are at school and engaged in learning. Woot woot!

Gator Nation had a fabulous Career Day today! Thank you to all of the amazing guest speakers we had in attendance today! You peaked the interest of our scholars to dream big and work hard to achieve their goals! 🐊👏🥰

Summer school registration is open now! Please watch this video if you need any help with how to register! Any parents who need assistance with Aeries parent portal may also contact our parent liaison Ms. Joanna Martinez. The video in Spanish has been placed in the comments section below.

SBCUSD Summer School Registration English

Today our third grade students had the opportunity to go on a field trip to University of Southern California, USC. They went on a tour of the campus and learned about university life. Thank you to Mr. Michael Santos, our third grade teacher Mrs. Santos' husband, who is Director of Upward Bound at USC-he provided our students with some USC student volunteers to share their experiences with students. Check out the welcome sign they made us!

The actor Tony Plana will be in the area tomorrow and is visiting Anton at 4:30 to talk to any interested parents who would like to know more about his Broadway Now program that will be available to students at Anton. Tony Plana is a renowned actor who has been in many movies and television series such as Ugly Betty, Mayans MC and many others. He will be meeting with any interested parents in the cafeteria at 4:30 this Thursday, January 18th. ​

The Broadway Now program is available to any student in grades 2-6 and will take place after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning on January 29th. Students will work with actors to learn how to act and perform the play "Coco".

A special thank you to Immanuel Baptist Church for donating 30 Thanksgiving dinners to our families. We are also very appreciative of one of our parents Ms Kandice Zavala who came to the school to help pass out dinners, remind parents etc. Thank you to Immanuel and Ms Zavala for your service of our community ❤️❤️

Miss school, miss out! 🐊✏️

Proud moment for our wonderful school psychologist Dulce Bec! Her passion and work ethic for students and families is wonderful!

Dulcemaria Bec
Anton Elementary School

Where did you go to college?
I started my education in Guadalajara, Mexico where I achieved the Master in Clinical Psychology. I came to the USA at 25 years old and continued my education at La Sierra University, Azusa Pacific University, and Cal State San Bernardino where I achieved the Master in Science in Counseling and Guidance, Master in Special Education, and the Psychologist Credential.

How long have you been a school psychologist with SBCUSD?
I have been in the SBCUSD since 2000 as school counselor and 2007 I was hired as a bilingual school psychologist.

What is your favorite part of being a school psychologist?
It is my passion working in collaboration with students, parents, and school staff.

What three things bring you happiness?
Seeing my students safe and happy; collaborating with the team to determine the appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment; going home thinking that I did a good job at the end of the day.

What book are you currently reading?
Skillstreaming in the Elementary School by Ellen McGinnis

Congrats to our undefeated soccer team! Thank you to Coach Lopez, Coach Vero and to all our soccer parents for supporting our extraordinary players! Anton gators rock!

Our rec aides Ms Claudia, Ms Tere, and Ms Vero on crazy glasses day

Yesterday one of our Anton parents and current School Site Council chair, Mr. Gutierrez, was awarded a coin of excellence from our Superintendent Arellano. Mr. Gutierrez demonstrated an extraordinary act of compassion for a random student at our school. Thank you for serving our school and making a difference in the lives of our Anton scholars! ❤️

Check out this video on community schools. The community schools survey is DUE TODAY(click on "see more" in this post for links to survey in English and Spanish). The district is writing a grant for community schools and we would love to be one so we need your feedback about your dreams for our school. It takes about ten min to complete. We will be also having a parent meeting to share results and get additional feedback for the next steps in the planning stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dTXujuJRc0
English survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M2RL9G2
Spanish survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M2RL9G2?lang=es

What is a Community School?

There is an important district survey that is due tomorrow so if you have about ten minutes please fill out this survey to determine the needs for our school, and your hopes and dreams for our school. The district is applying for a community schools grant that can bring many resources to schools and communities and we are in need of your feedback. It takes about ten minutes to complete. Links will be below. We are hoping we can apply for cohort 1 to bring many resources for students, family and staff. Dream big! The survey will be open through Sunday 10/22/2023.
English survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M2RL9G2
Spanish survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M2RL9G2?lang=es

SBCUSD Community Schools Survey

Yesterday we caught Ms Berganza’s kinder scholars in the act of being scientific scholars and learning about pumpkins!