We are so excited that our McCord PTO Valentine Soda Gram Order Forms were sent home today with our McCord Students! Please make sure to put both first and last names of the students in the "To" and "From" sections of the order forms. This will help us make sure the soda gram gets to the right person! McCord PTO thanks you for your support!!!
Today marks the 101st day of the school year which means it was Dalmation Day for our pre-kindergarten students!! The students made their dalmation t-shirts and ears, and wore them while they watched the movie "101 Dalmations."
Here are more pictures of McCord students celebrating the 100th day of the school year. Along with students dressing up as a 100-year-old person; wearing shirts with 100 items on them; and making necklaces made with 100 cheerios; students also put together puzzles with 100 pieces and made 100 pancakes.
McCord students celebrated the 100th day of the school year by dressing up as a 100-year-old person; wearing shirts with 100 items on them; and making necklaces made with 100 cheerios.
Kindergarten & 1st Grade parents, below is a link to this week's Eureka Math Family Letter. This letter includes valuable suggestions on how you can support your child’s learning at home, as well as helpful models and vocabulary to reinforce the concepts they are learning in class. If you would like a paper copy of this, please let your child's teacher know.
Kindergarten link: bit.ly/410AY9y
1s Grade link: bit.ly/3EjLLmx
Can you believe this is the first school day in February?!!! Where did January go?
Here is the VISD cafeteria menu for January. Remember all VISD students are eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch from the school cafeteria every school day.
Monday VISD is celebrating the 100th day of the school year, but our 1st grade students here at McCord got a little head start this afternoon. They gathered in the cafeteria and went around to classmates asking them to sign their autograph books as they worked to get 100 autographs to commemorate the 100th day of the 2024-25 school year.
Yesterday one of our VISD teachers suffered a devastating house fire. To help with expenses we will be doing a "Hat For A Cause Day" fundraiser every day next week. For $1 donation, students, teachers and staff will be allowed to wear a hat or cap in the classroom that day. The hat or cap must be school appropriate. Let's have some fun with this next week and also help a member of our VISD family.
Today was the letter 'x' day for our pre-kindergarten students. One activity to help them recognize the letter 'x' involved going on a treasure hunt because, as we all know, 'x' marks the spot of the buried treasure. They dressed up as pirates and with "arrrrgh" echoing in the hallways they searched for their 'x'. The students located 'x' and the buried treasure in the school office.
Attention McCord PTO and anyone who wants to be a part of McCord PTO!
We are having a meeting on Thursday, January 30th, 2025, at 5:30pm! We will meet at McCord Elementary's Conference Room. We look forward to see you there!
Vernon ISD is helping the Vernon Boys & Girls Club help get the word out by sharing this flyer! Registration is currently underway for the B&G Softball League for students in kindergarten thru 8th grade. Sign up today!! Should be a great season!!
Last week the LIonette Drill Team held a mini dance clinic for girls from pre-K to 5th grade. The girls learned a dance and will be performing during halftime of tonight's Lions basketball game at D.O. Fulton Gym.
APP UPDATE!
Our Vernon ISD App has just had a big update! Please take a moment to go to your App Store or Play Store and make sure your app updates. Even if you have your app set to update automatically, we are noticing that some people are still needing to update manually.
With this new update, Rooms information is integrated more seamlessly with the rest of the app! Check out these videos to learn more about the app update!
English: https://youtu.be/zW9d0VzqDFI
Spanish: https://youtu.be/W8Cnu-tgK9M
If you have any questions about Rooms or the Vernon ISD app, please email Chantilly Sweet at chantilly.sweet@visdtx.org.
We were proud to be a part of the 113th Annual Vernon Chamber of Commerce Banquet held last night. Being part of this community means so much to us, and we know how important it is to build strong relationships between our schools and local businesses. Our schools are successful when our community thrives, and our community is successful when our schools thrive. Together, we’re creating a positive environment for our students to succeed. Looking forward to even more opportunities to work together and support our future leaders!
Vernon ISD will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. However, many of our students will be busy showing animals at the Wilbarger County 4-H Livestock Show being held at the Wilbarger County Exhibit Building. Good luck to all of our 4-H and FFA students.
Jarrod David, who won a Special Election runoff for Place 3 on the VISD School Board, was sworn in during Monday's board meeting. January is also School Board Appreciation Month and trustees received several gifts from the district and campuses. We appreciate all of our trustees' dedication to help make the district the best it can be, and their commitment to helping the district ensure each student receives a quality education.
Current VISD School Board Trustees are Chris Lehman, Emory Byars, Patrick Parmer, Carrie Hawkins, Amanda Lehman, Jarrod David and Bryson Henry.
Has your child lost a jacket at school?
Our lost jackets will be put on the fence by the cafeteria this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon hoping to be found by their owners.
As we start the first full week of our 2025 Spring Semester, here are a few reminders from our VISD District Nurse Jennifer Walker, RN, on our health protocols.
Monday starts the 2nd week of our Vernon ISD Attendance Incentive for the 4th Six Weeks. Each week a student has perfect attendance they receive a ticket to put in a drawing for a MEGA QUEST 3 virtual reality headset. There will be a drawing for EACH GRADE!!
If a student has perfect attendance for the entire grading period, they will have 7 tickets for the drawing. If a student misses a day one week, they're not eliminated from the competition, they just won't earn a ticket for that week. They will start with a clean slate the next week.
Our 40th anniversary celebration honoring the 1985 Class 3A State Champion Lady Lions will begin with at 5 p.m., this evening with a public reception in the VHS Bandhall. At the conclusion of the Lady Lions' game, at approximately 7:15 p.m., a ceremony honoring team members will be held at D.O. Fulton Gym. Please make plans to attend and help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Vernon High School's first team state champion.
