Dr. Americo Paredes Elementary

Ms. Soto’s class learning about healthy foods. 2-25-20

Students in Ms. Garcia’s class implementing science in math by graphing healthy food. 2-24-20

Mrs. C. Hinojosa’s Pre-K class is practicing the counting of syllables. 2-21-20

Students in Mrs. Rosas’ class work as a team to discover the flat surfaces of 3D figures. 2-20-20

Ms. Rios’ class celebrating 100 days of school counting by 10s. 2-19-20

Students in Mrs.Sepulveda's class are learning all about shapes. Students are creating a shape using toothpicks and marshmallows and describing the sides and vertices of the shape. 2-18-20

Ms. Sotelo’s class reading to enhance their mind and build self confidence! 2-13-20

February staff recognition! 🎉

Bilingual partners using ChirpQR to present their final product in Ms. Cavazos’ class. 2-12-20

Students in Mr. Juárez’ class working on an English speaking activity with their bilingual partner using technology. 2-11-20

Mrs. Aviña’s class working cooperatively on subtraction with regrouping. 2-10-20

Ms. Almanza’s students working cooperatively while learning about division! 2-7-20

Mrs. I. Treviño’s class using the wall tiles to find two combined areas with their bilingual group. 2-6-20

Mrs. Amador's class working in their bilingual groups. 2-5-20

Adan Padilla, from Mrs. D. Trevino-Montelongo’s 5th grade class, giving the final touches to his science fair project to make it district level ready! Adan was also the first student in his class to become a Paredes Star Reader with over a million word

Paredes Elementary is part of the Hero Squad in the fight against cancer!

Paredes Elementary is part of the Hero Squad in the fight against cancer!

Mrs. Santillan’s students watching their classmate conduct his science experiment. 1-28-20

Ms. Galvan’s students putting the last touch-up on their science project before sending it to compete at the district level! 1-24-20

January staff recognition! 1-22-20

Celebrating staff birthdays! 1-22-20

5th graders focusing on inferencing with a writing and drawing activity creating artwork. 1-21-20

Coach de Hoyos promoting jersey day! 1-20-20

Students enjoying a book during after school Literacy Night! 1-16-19

Ms. Mata’s class decorating the classroom door by using math concepts learned and making connections to their daily life. 1-15-20

Ms. Soto’s class learning about science tools. 1-14-20

Mrs. C. Hinojosa’s Pre-K class creating monsters for the letter M. 1-10-20

Ms. L. Garcia’s class working on a sorting activity. 1-9-19

Students in Mrs. Rosas’ class sort and classify healthy foods. 1-8-20

Ms. Rios’ class counting money. 12-19-19

Students in Mrs.Sepulveda's class are independent readers and participate in Reading Renaissance. 12-18-19

Mrs. Cantu’s class learning and creating 3 dimensional shapes.12-17-19

Ms. Sotelo’s students love engaging in real life activities. 12-16-19

Students learning about coding and having fun during our Hour of Code event! 12-13-19

Ms. Almanza’s class learning about multiplication. 12-12-19

Mrs. Aviña’s class working on a group activity with 4 digit place value. 12-11-19

Kinder students enjoy being read to by their reading buddies. 12-10-19

Ms. Mata’s class working in bilingual partners to find the perimeter using their geoboards. 12-9-19

Mrs. D. Treviño awards a Kindle Fire 7 to Paredes Star readers who have read more than 3 million words each! 12-6-19

Mrs. I. Treviño’s students reading to meet their weekly reading goal. 12-6-19

Mrs. Romero’s class working in partners talking about the characteristics of natural resources. 12-4-19

Ms. Roque’s class practicing using technology. 12-2-19

Mrs. Santillan’s class taking turns being teachers and explaining the steps followed in long division problems. 11-20-19

Mrs. Galvan’s students exploring the properties of soil. 11-19-19

Mrs. Leal’s class enjoying a little game of Multiplication Connect Four. 11-18-19

Snowball throw... Ms. Vela closing the lesson with students reflecting on what they learned and sharing with each other. 11-14-19

Paredes Elementary received a surprise by earning the district attendance incentive award!🎉🎉 11-13-19

Ms. Flores’ students excited to have lunch with their families. 11-13-19

Paredes Choir presented in our LJISD Veterans Day Program. Excellent job to all our students!

Our 2nd graders practicing fluency and writing with Ms. Villarreal. 11-12-19

Our students exercising and having fun during P.E. 11-11-19

Preparing Veteran’s Day songs with Mr. Rangel. 11-8-19

Paredes Elementary hosted author Claudia Villarreal who presented to students her anti bullying book: The Bully Who Learned to Love. 11-7-19

Students enjoying makerspace stations at the library. 11-6-19

🎉November staff recognition.🎉

We want to thank the Mission Fire Department for helping us prepare our students with a real life scenario.

Students with Mrs. Mata using dry erase boards during a lead4ward activity. 11-5-19

Ms. Soto’s class learning about recycling and taking care of the environment. 11-4-19

Mrs. Garcia’s Pre-K are studying position and motion of objects. This weeks stem challenge includes students creating a ramp. 11-1-19

Mrs. C. Hinojosa’s class had fun practicing number recognition through the use of Number Stews. 10-31-19

Mrs. Rosas’ class create a road to show the way their vehicle moves. 10-30-19

Ms. Rios’ students are finding magnetic and non-magnetic objects. 10-29-19

Ms. Sepulveda’s students are engaged learning about how objects move. 10-28-19

Mrs. Cantú’s class creating their student generated alphabet on show me app. 10-25-19

Ms. Sotelo’s class respects and honors our heroes. 10-24-19

Mrs. Cavazos’ class learning about fire safety with Sparky. 10-23-19

Ms. Almanza’s class very engaged working in collaborative groups during guided reading. 10-22-19

We want to thank Officer Schrock, Officer Garza, and Officer Garcia from the Mission Police Department for helping us kick off Red Ribbon Week! 10-21-19

Mrs. Aviña’s scientists conducting an experiment on Heat Energy with yummy M&M’s. 10-21-19

Mr. Juárez’ class learning about magnets with hands-on activities. 10-18-19

Students working collaboratively with fractions by creating their own pizza. 10-17-19

Ms. I. Treviño’s class working collaboratively on subtraction using manipulatives. 10-16-19

Ms. Zuñiga’s class studying lines of symmetry. 10-15-19

Team up against bullying! 10-11-19

Team up against bullying! 10-11-19

Ms. Gutierrez’ class exercising elements of drama. 10-10-19

Ms. Roque’s class working on a multiplication math activity. 10-9-19

Ms. Zuñiga’s class reviewing decimal place value. 10-8-19

🎉Congratulations to Ms. Almanza for being named Teacher of the Month!🎉 10-8-19

The Alton Fire Department and Sparky visited Paredes Elementary to teach students fire safety. 10-7-19

October staff recognition. 10-4-19

Mrs. Santillan’s class analyzing the uses of energy for different objects and gadgets. 10-3-19

Paredes Elementary staff reaching out to the community by making home visits! 10-2-19

In Mrs. Leal’s class students are excitedly working with their buddies discovering the different factor pairs to their given product using tiles. 10-1-19

Paredes Elementary students participating in the Good Life Celebration! 9-30-19

Ms. Vela’s class having fun with figurative language. Students are role playing breaking a leg and shake a leg.

Mrs. I. Flores’ class SYNERGIZE to put the numbers in order because working together is better.

Students are practicing beat and rhythm in music class.