Desert Willow Elementary School

In observance of Veterans Day, on Thursday November 7th, Desert Willow would like to invite all of our amazing Veterans and their families to our campus as we host events and activities that recognize and honor those who have served our country. 🥳 This event will be held at our school starting at 8am. Check the attached flyer for more details!

We can’t wait for our Trunk or Treat event! 🍬 🎃 Join us on Wednesday, October 30th at Desert Willow from 5:30 - 8:00pm for a spooky-fun time! Don’t forget to wear your costumes! 😄👻

Mark your calendars! Desert Willow’s picture retake day will be on Wednesday, October 23rd. 📸 😁😁😁

Below are our themed student dress-up days for October Awareness!

KUSD Familes, Staff and Students, Don't forget this Wednesday, October 16th, KUSD will be participating in the 18th Annual Walk Away From Drugs event! Please ask your school administration where your school's starting point will be. We can't wait to see everyone there!

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own Mrs. Nguyen! We’re so lucky to have you at Desert Willow and we appreciate all you do for our students! 🎉 🥳 🏆

Reminder: Desert Willow's Picture Day will be this Wednesday, September 18th! 📸 😃

Last Thursday, your child brought home a Parent Information Envelope letting you know about a safe and easy way for our school to raise funds for essential tools our students and teachers need to succeed. The Reading for Education fundraiser is 100% online so there is NO face-to-face selling, handling money, or delivering products. Your participation will take less than 12 minutes, and there are exciting prizes to make it fun for the students. Here is all you need to do to participate: 1. Go to https://www.rfe.net/sid.t?0000139068 to sign up. 2. Send form emails inviting family, friends and co-workers to support your child. 3. Return the Envelope with the Student Prize Code to school for your child to get their fun participation prize. Be sure to ask your child for the Parent Envelope that came home on Thursday. Your participation will make a difference for our school and teachers!

Attached is Desert Willow's calendar for the month of September. Information about next week’s Reading For Education fundraiser will be posted later this week 📖 🏫 📆

Hey, Diamondbacks! We are now accepting candy donations for our October Trunk or Treat event here at Desert Willow. Any donations can be dropped off in our front office. THANK YOU in advance! 🍬 👻 😃 🎃

This Wednesday and Thursday (the 28th and 29th), Desert Willow will be on Half Day Schedule for Parent Teacher Conferences. Students will be dismissed at 11:35am both days.

Next Wednesday and Thursday (the 28th and 29th), Desert Willow will be on Half Day Schedule for Parent Teacher Conferences. Students will be dismissed at 11:35am both days.

Hey, Diamondbacks! Next week is our first School Spirit Week of the year! Look over the flyer below to see how to dress up for each day! 🎉 🥳

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming back to Desert Willow!! From August 26th-29th, come explore our school library to see all of what Scholastic has to offer! 📚 🤓 ✏️ Scan the QR code on the flyer to preview this year’s book selections.

Attn: KUSD Families and Community, Kingman Unified School District is experiencing a district-wide outage that affects incoming and outgoing phone calls. Frontier is currently working to fix this issue as soon as possible. If you need to contact your student's school please use the following emails below and someone from the school will email you back as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience. Little Explorers - le@kusd.org Mt. Tipton - mttp@kusd.org Manzanita - manz@kusd.org Hualapai - hual@kusd.org Cerbat - cbte@kusd.org Desert Willow - dwes@kusd.org Black Mountain - bms@kusd.org White Cliffs - wcms@kusd.org Kingman Middle - kms@kusd.org KOLA - kola612@kusd.org Lee Williams - lwhs@kusd.org Kingman High - khs@kusd.org

Desert Willow is implementing the ‘Meet the Masters’ art program this year for the very first time! We are looking for Desert Willow parent-volunteers who would be interested in teaching art lessons inside classrooms for our Kindergarten through 5th grade students. If you are a parent/volunteer and are interested in volunteering your time to teach this program, please email our instructional coach team (minunez@kusd.org or bgutierrez@kusd.org) and we will be able to provide you with more info!

Hey, Diamondbacks! Here is Desert Willow's calendar for the upcoming month of August. Included on this calendar are the dates for: • i-Ready Diagnostic 1 Testing (July 30th - August 1st) • Our first School Spirit Week (August 26th - 29th) • Our Scholastic Book Fair (August 26th - August 29th) • Parent Teacher Conferences (August 28th & 29th)

Desert Willow's iReady Diagnostic Testing for students will begin tomorrow (July 30th) and run through the end of the week! This diagnostic test is a great opportunity for students to showcase their strengths going into the new school year. We believe in our students!

Update: Route 10 was able to get through traffic and will only be a few mins late. Attn Parents: 7/25/24 @ 4:10pm: Bus Route 10 is running 30-45 mins late due to being stuck in traffic. This will affect the last two stops at Fort Beale and Betty and Kingman Station Apartments. If you have any questions about this please call our Transportation Dept. at 928-753-5928

School is starting soon! The 2024-2025 School Year will start on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. 🍎🎒 We are so excited to welcome our staff, students and families back!