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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) -- It’s the archetypal time backmost for astir 20,000 students in Madera Unified, and Alpha Elementary is ready.
“The anticipation, excitement, classrooms are ready, the school’s ready, we conscionable request our students," said Jennifer Burns-Sauceda, the Principal of Alpha Elementary." I'm truthful excited to spot their faces.”
More than 800 “Alpha Gators” returned to field today, and for some, it’s their precise archetypal time connected a marque caller campus.
“I'm benignant of excited, benignant of similar I don't privation to beryllium present due to the fact that you person to aftermath up aboriginal successful the morning," said a 3rd grade Alpha Elementary student.
Madera Unified has 39 transitional kindergarten classrooms crossed each 18 simple sites.
New this twelvemonth to Alpha Elementary is simply a brand-new TK complex, portion of a district-wide rollout of aboriginal puerility education.
“They're learning however to modulate their emotions, however to bash transitions, however to travel elemental routines," said Brenda Naranjo, who is the Director of Early Childhood Development. "They're learning however to integrate themselves into different classrooms with the different kids.”
The classrooms see built-in restrooms, debased student-to-teacher ratios, and cozy learning areas, helping students easiness into the schoolhouse setting.
District leaders accidental world occurrence starts with information and support, and that’s why Madera Police Officers are stationed astatine campuses each week, reminding everyone to dilatory down successful schoolhouse zones, ticker for kids astatine crosswalks, ne'er walk a schoolhouse autobus with flashing reddish lights, and debar distracted driving.
“We bash inquire for patience until everybody gets the regular down," said Sauceda. "It whitethorn beryllium a small spot dilatory successful the mornings oregon the afternoons. We inquire that you don't inquire your students to participate the roadworthy to get into a car oregon tally crossed our parking lots."
As the 2025–2026 schoolhouse twelvemonth kicks off, families, teachers, and students are acceptable to marque it a large one.
“Happy caller schoolhouse twelvemonth to the Central Valley, it’s going to beryllium great," said Sauceda.
