Happy New Year to everyone in our Pomona school family! Thank you for the many ways you helped to make Pomona such a special place for children over this past year. It is so hard to believe that the first two quarters of school are already a thing of the past! As we begin our new calendar year we are looking forward to the second half of the school year with a great deal of excitement. Our learners are making lots of progress towards meeting grade level expectations and we thank you for your assistance in supporting your children at home. Please continue to help us by providing a quiet place for them to do their work, signing homework planners, and keeping those lines of communication open between home and school.

At this midpoint in the year I would like to share some important principles that guide our work each day:

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             Tardies

Research has shown that the first fifteen minutes of the day are crucial for children's learning in school, and that it is educationally detrimental to students who are absent at the start of each day and miss hearing instructions and participating in the beginning of lessons.

In addition to losing valuable educational preparation time, it is also distracting to the rest of the class when a student enters the room after the class has started and the teacher has to stop instruction to bring the late arriving student up to speed with the rest of the class.

We at Pomona would like to ask that you as parents make it a priority to get your children to school on time, so their day starts on a positive note and they come to school ready to be Star Students.