The Sonora Staff, Students, and Parents are committed to creating a school

that accepts no limits to the academic success of ALL students.

Preparing for college begins in elementary school!

Sonora Students are College Bound!

Sonora Elementary School Is 50

 Sonora’s 50^th Year Student Alumni Reunion!

Are you an alumni of Sonora Elementary School?

Join us on Friday night, June 7th from 6:00pm to 9:00 pm for our 50^th Year Student Alumni Reunion at Sonora School!

• Buy a Sonora t-shirt!
• Make a commemorative tile for our 50^th yr. tile wall!
• Pass the word to all Sonora Student Alumni!

 RSVP to Christine Anderson at cpanderson@nmusd.us

 or Amy Lewis at alewis@nmusd.us

A huge thank you goes out to the Costa Mesa Foundation and Bill Turpit, Grants Committee Chair, for their generous donation of $2,000 to help cover the cost of our popular and successful "Ticket to Read" program here at Sonora! Our students LOVE this program, which fosters increased reading fluency and comprehension at all levels.

Rock Harbor Church and the Crossing Church for their ongoing support of our school! They have made significant improvements to our campus during annual Make-over Days, breakfast and lunch for our staff a couple times during the school year, teacher supplies and backpack stuffed with wonderful school supplies! Holy Trinity Church is joining our community partnerships this year providing classroom instructional supplies and volunteers to tutor individual students needing a little extra support. We LOVE our Costa Mesa Church Partnerships!!

Newport Balboa Rotary Club for donating a beautiful tree planted in the front of our school on March 7, 2013 in preparation for Arbor Day. Thank you, Newport Rotary!

Segerstrom Center for the Arts for your continuing support of our visual and performing arts programs! For the amazing performances we attend at the Center to the Master Teaching Artists who work with our staff and students! We so appreciate your support!

A ride in the limo - 350.00, lunch at Joe's Crab Shack - 250.00,

a perfect score on the CST last May? Priceless!

Congrats to the 2012 600 Club Members! You are truly ROCK STARS!

Sahari Chi

Megan Farrington

Kai Kamikihara

Rachael Kricorian

Ryan MacDonald

Kaelee Mills

Kayla Nguyen

Andrew Pham

Jackson Richardson

To find out more about "No Excuses" visit      http://turnaroundschools.com/neu-network/

Ticket to Read - Click here then use your student's personal user name + password.

Renaissance Learning (Accelerated Reader, Accelerated Math, Math Facts in a Flash and English in a Flash) - click here then use 6 digit student ID and birthday for password. You can check your student's AR progress at this site too.

Lexia - download this website on your desktop the first time only that you use Lexia at home : click here Then go to: click here  Put in this customer code the first time you use Lexia at home:5652-0884-1464-5064 . Students access Lexia just like they do at school - same username and password.

Parent Reading Guide in English and Spanish . . . http://sections.latimes.com/parentreadingguide2012#2012/09/19/?page=1

Our new Parent Handbook is now online in English and in Spanish! Hard copies will be available on Back to School Night on Sept. 20th.

Sonora Students are College Bound!

"I pledge to be a person of character and trust,

I will be respectful and responsible doing what I must!

I will act with fairness and show that I care,

Be a good citizen and do my share!

Character counts at Sonora School!

WE ARE COLLEGE BOUND!"

Have a suggestion for PTA?

Want to get involved but don't know exactly how?

If you have anything specifically for our wonderful PTA, please send an email to

ptasonora@gmail.com

We love to hear from you!

You can contact your grade level PTA representative by using the following email addresses:

Preschool  - sonorapreschool@gmail.com

Kindergarten - sonorakinder@gmail.com

First Grade - sonora1st@gmail.com

Second Grade - sonora2nd@gmail.com

Third Grade - sonora3rd@gmail.com

Fourth Grade - sonora4th@gmail.com

Fifth Grade - sonora5th@gmail.com

Sixth Grade - sonora6th@gmail.com

When you go to the Segerstrom Center this summer, look for the 3 page spread on Sonora School

and our collaboration with the Center in their June  Program!

We are honored and proud to be a partner with the Segerstrom Center.

Our Ceramic Residency was amazing last year and we look forward to some fun collaboration next school year!

Register at igive.com  and have $$ donated to our school each time you shop at participating stores!

http://www.igive.com