May Newsletter

LIFE AT ALPS

May 26, 2009

Visit the website below to learn about ASU’s Spring and Summer program for talented youth.: www.asu.edu/talentedyouth

A Look Ahead to 2009-2010 In just a few short days, we will be wrapping up the school year. We made some good strides this year in the ALPS program. • Increase in program enrollment. • We saw the students make academic and social gains as they work in group settings. • ALPS student placed 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in District Spelling Bee • Student participated in a simulated MICROSOCIETY Here is a preview of what is to come next year: ‐ Evening Events-Family Fun ‐ Community Serve Projects

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www.pesdalps.blogspot.com www.phxelem.k12.az.us/school_sites/index.html

Have a safe and fun summer vacation!

LIFE AT ALPS Games that promote critical and creative thinking • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Airplane Game Apples to Apples Battleship Blokus Checkers Chess Chinese Crackers Connect Four Cranium Cribbage Goblet Labyrinth Mastermind Othello Rummikub Set Scrabble Skip-bo Smartmouth Taboo Tangrams Tic-Tac-Toe Towers of Hanoi Tribond Twenty Questions Uno Wizkids

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Congratulations 8th Grade Students

We wish you continued success! Rene Rebollar Chris Dendy Gabriel Chavez Ramiro Guevara Luis Avila Xavier Pacheco Benjamin Alvarado Guillermo Ramos Hector Gonzalez Marquez Alphonso Robinson Dylan Magub Lasset Hernandez Celemne Parra Miriam Garcia Tony Jasso Albert Aguilar Marcos Medrano Irwing Valentin Jesus Beltran Raymond Estrella Talvin Rohr-DePass Trenton Osborn Daniel Sloniger Melisssa Del Real

Matthew Hidalgo Esteban Guayante Luz RebekaFlores Seriana Castillo Naitzy Ramirez Andre Aleman Vann Corroo Anthony Dominguez Garrett Pauli Elijah Chambers Adam Perez Chris Beals Dominique Parker Hugo Bencomo Raymond Seto Eric Medina Jesus Beltran Jazmin Garcia Alyssa Avilla Nicole Oliva Veronica Acosta Clara Flores Jasmine L. Mesa Frances Track

ALPS Staff Pamelia Harris-Olivia Iñiguez-Joan Howell-Sharon Kwan-Helen Rentz-David Roman Monterey Park Learning Center 2301 N 3rd Street-Phoenix,AZ 85004-(602) 257-6342