Plantation Park Elementary School

📅 January at PPE! 📅 A new month, a fresh start, and lots to look forward to! 🎉 Check out our January calendar for important dates and events. Remember—every day at school counts, and great attendance helps our Ponies shine! ✨ Let’s make January a great one! 💙 #PPEProud #EveryDayCounts #JanuaryAtPPE 🐴✨

✨🎉 Happy New Year, PPE Family! 🎉✨ As we welcome 2026, we are so thankful for our incredible students, families, and staff who make Plantation Park Elementary such a special place. Your support, dedication, and partnership mean everything to us. A new year brings fresh starts, big goals, and new opportunities to learn, grow, and shine. Let’s continue to show the Power of Presence. Every day at school matters, and every Pony matters! 🐴💙 Here’s to strong attendance, joyful learning, and finishing the school year stronger than ever. We can’t wait to see all the amazing things our Ponies accomplish in 2026!💙❤️

🇺🇸✨ American Heritage Poetry Contest at PPE! ✨🇺🇸 Plantation Park Elementary students are invited to participate in our American Heritage Poetry Contest, a fun opportunity for students to shine through poetry, patriotism, and confidence! 📝 Important Dates • Permission slips due Friday, January 9 • Classroom contest: Friday, January 16 • Grade level contest: Friday, January 23 | 9:30–10:30 AM (Gym) 🏆 What’s Next? All grade-level winners will represent PPE at the district competition on 📍 Thursday, February 12 at Airline High School ⏰ 6:00 PM 📖 Contest Details • Students will recite a patriotic poem • Poems must follow grade-level line requirements • Students are judged on memorization, pronunciation, expression, and confidence • Costumes are encouraged (just for fun!) • No props allowed 📱 Scan the QR code on the flyer, or click the link below for the rubric and approved poems. We can’t wait to see our Ponies stand tall, speak proudly, and show their love for our country! 🇺🇸🐎 Rubric/approved poems: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1zj2wVBZpuwRWh80eucF2BKJDbUNuXvYb1L3rU8j0AVU/mobilebasic

🎉 Happy Birthday, Mrs. Powers! 🎉 Our amazing Instructional Coach and Data Queen 👑📊! Help us wish her happy birthday! Hope you have a great day! 💙🎂

PPE PROUD! 🎉🐎We’ve been celebrating our Popping Ponies and the Power of Presence! 👏 191 PreK–5th grade students earned perfect attendance for the month of November and got to celebrate with a GLOW DANCE PARTY! Way to go, students and parents!!! Your commitment shows! Let’s keep the momentum going and aim for 250 students with perfect attendance in January! 💪📚 #PPEProud #PoppingPonies #PowerOfPresence #AttendanceMatters

Pink Bus 220 will be running this a.m. but she will be about 10 minutes late. 💗

PPE PBIS FUNDRAISER!!! 🎬🍿 PBIS Movie Day Fundraiser! Friday, January 16th🍿🎬
Join us for a cozy and fun PBIS Movie Day!
For $5, students will get to:
✨ Watch a movie
🍿 Enjoy popcorn
👕 Wear comfy clothes (Students may also bring a blanket, stuffed animal, or pillow.)

📌 Important Information:
• Students with any major referrals for the month of January will not be able to attend.
• Students with 3 or more unexcused absences and/or tardies for the month of January will not be able to attend.
• No refunds will be given.

Thank you for supporting our PBIS program! SCan the QR code on the flier, or click this link to pay. https://bossierparish.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/19385/338/False/True

PPE reminders: -Tuesday 12/16 students may wear a holiday shirt with uniform bottoms. (Classroom Christmas parties) -Wednesday 12/17 students may wear school appropriate pajamas with tennis shoes. Polar express day fun!! -Winter break begins on Thursday, 12/18. Students return on Wednesday 1/7.

PPE snack sales on the way to class tomorrow!!!

Tomorrow at 1pm is our PPE parade!! Some things to know ahead of time: -parade rolls at 1pm. Please do not park and block Eurlene street. The parade rolls out of the back parking lot of PPE. -it is going to be very cold! Please make sure your child wears a coat to school. They may wear Christmas hats/headbands. They can also wear gloves/warm accessories outside during the parade. -no backpacks, you may send a paper or plastic bag for throws with your child tomorrow. -if you plan to attend, please be there by 12:45 -if you are checking your child out after the parade, you will look for the grade level sign posted on the doors facing plantation drive. Each grade level will be sending you the room #. You must have your ID and must be on their OnCourse checkout list(Please know these are not excused)

PPE's 3rd-5th Grade Christmas lunch!! 12/15/25 (Monday) Please read the flier below for more information. We can't wait to see you!

Click here to pay for a meal, or scan the QR code: https://bossierparish.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/19205/338/False/True

PPE candy sale tomorrow on the way to class in the am!!!!

💚❤️ The Grinch has been acting naughty at PPE… and rumor has it Officer Crook may have released him! Our students are working hard to show him what KINDNESS really looks like to help his heart grow. ✨Will he be back tomorrow?! Keep showing up to school and sharing kindness to others and we will see!! 💚❤️

📣 PPE Christmas Parade Date Change! 🎄✨Our Christmas parade has been MOVED from this Friday (12/12) to Monday, 12/15 at 1:00pm! 🎁 Please continue sending in parade throw donations! 🎒 Students do NOT need to bring backpacks on 12/15. 🚪 Parade Checkout Information: If you would like to check your child out after the parade, please go to the main building doors facing Plantation Drive. Each door will have a grade-level sign. Simply line up at your child’s grade-level door and sign them out. 💚❤️ We can’t wait to celebrate the season with our PPE family! 🎅🎄✨

🎄💚 We have a FUN week + 3 days ahead at PPE! Make sure your child is present as we close out 2025! 🙌 TOMORROW: Mrs. Stroud, Mrs. Modisette, and Mrs. Stephens get PIED in the face!! 🏆 The grade level who had the highest attendance rate for November, we will all them to the gym and draw some students from their grade level who had perfect attendance to pie us! 🎅 Friday 12/12: Santa hat or holiday headband with uniforms, parade at 1pm (we are still needing parade candy, etc to throw) 🍽️ 12/15: 3rd–5th Grade Christmas Lunch 🎄 12/16: Christmas shirts with uniform bottoms, classroom Christmas parties 🎉 12/17: Polar Express Day — Wear pajamas! Thank you for everyone who has donated to sponsor a teacher!!! We are sprinkling fun and prizes for them through out December. It's not too late!! Click this link to pay!! https://bossierparish.schoolcashonline.co

🍭🎄PPE CANDY SALE TOMORROW!!🎄🍭

We are spreading holiday cheer in this jam packed episode of On the Record with Bossier Schools! Watch it here! https://bit.ly/OTRS4E9
Featuring -
The Airline Baseball team shines bright.
Announcing our Students of the Year, Teachers of the Year and New Teachers of the Year.
We celebrate our latest Gold Star.

We are spreading holiday cheer in this jam packed episode of On the Record with Bossier Schools! Watch it here! https://bit.ly/OTRS4E9
Featuring -
The Airline Baseball team shines bright.
Announcing our Students of the Year, Teachers of the Year and New Teachers of the Year.
We celebrate our latest Gold Star.

PPE dance 12/5-those who paid for the dance may wear free dress. Anyone who did not pay for the dance may wear a Christmas shirt with uniform bottoms.