20 Years of Excellence
Freedom Elementary Celebrates
Student Success at Freedom
Freedom Elementary was able to open its door to host our 2022-2023 First Semester Awards for students. Freedom families and friends were able to come out and help us recognize our students’ achievements for the 1st semester. Awards for honor roll, attendance, character and so much more were given out. It was so great to see our families for this event and we look forward to more Freedom events coming up soon. The support of our students’ families plays a major role in the success of our students. We can not do this without you all. We thank you for all your support!
Freedom Elementary Teacher of the Year
This year Freedom Elementary selected 5th grade teacher, Ms. Crystal Dowell as our 2022-2023 Teacher of the Year. Ms. Dowell came to Freedom 5 years ago and started teaching 2nd grade. Last year, after the school year had already begun, we needed to move a teacher to 5th grade. Knowing it would be a challenge, Ms. Dowell volunteered to move up and take on this challenge. She has worked very hard and is now the lead teacher in 5th grade. Her peers share that Ms. Dowell is helpful, kind, knowledgeable, and overall a great team lead. Ms. Dowell has proven herself to be a caring, dedicated, and effective teacher. She builds strong relationships with her students, and has big goals for her kiddos. We are very proud to call her one of our amazing educators. Congratulations Ms. Dowell on being our 2022-2023 Freedom Elementary Teacher of the Year.
Message From the Principal-December Edition
Freedom Elementary is making wonderful gains as we move forward in the school year. We would like to highlight a few of the wonderful things we are doing here at Freedom.
We have some amazing athletes on our Intramural teams. Our students continue on a winning streak for soccer and now basketball. Our coaches have done a fantastic job! Students must maintain passing grades, good attendance, and no behavior referrals to participate. Keep it up!
Freedom has a sound dual language program and 5 of our students participated in the Spanish Spelling bee. Two of our 5th grade students won 1st and 3rd place. We are so proud of everyone for studying and practicing for the last few months. Way to represent Freedom and 5th grade!
If you haven’t heard Freedom’s amazing choir you must! We have about 80 students in grades 3-5 that participate in choir. That is the largest choir I think Freedom has ever had. Our music teacher, Mr. V. does an amazing job. They perform next at the San Antonio International Airport on Dec. 7th.
Our student leaders have been quite busy too. For Thanksgiving they collected food donations and were able to make 8 boxes of food available for any Freedom families in need. For the month of December they are collecting unwrapped toys that will go to our Freedom students.
Freedom’s daily attendance is slowly improving as we are getting healthier. Please be mindful our start time every day is 7:30 and tardies start at 7:35. Instruction begins immediately so please have your child here on time. We understand illness and emergencies arise, so please send in those excuses and you may always communicate with the office or classroom teacher.
Finally, everyone in the Freedom Family would like to wish you a happy and healthy holiday season! Our winter break starts Dec.19 until Jan.2. Students return Jan. 4th. Please take time to rest and enjoy yourself. Freedom Elementary will be BACK IN ACTION and hit the ground running in January as we continue to strive for our A rating.
Sincerely,
Selina Puente
Freedom Elementary Principal
December Testing Schedule-2nd 9 Weeks
The week of December 12-14 will be 2nd 9 weeks testing. All students will be in test mode as they complete their end of semester assessments. Dec. 12th is Reading, Dec. 13th is Math, Dec. 14th is Science (5th only.) Attendance is extremely important this week. We look forward to seeing some amazing growth and opportunity to earn a FIELD DAY!! The goal is to see a 10% increase from the 1st 9 weeks assessment in comparison to the 2nd 9 weeks. We know our students can do it! Come prepared, rested, and ready to show what you know!