⭐ November 22 - December 3, 2021 ⭐

Upcoming Events:

November 22-26 - Student & Staff Holiday
November 29 - Students Return to School
December 9 - Fall Picture Retakes
December 10 - Last day for Brown Santa donations
December 15 - Jingle Bell Run (During specials. More info to come!)
December 20-31 - Student & Staff Holiday
January 3 - Student Holiday / Staff Development Day
January 4 - First day of the 2nd semester

Reminders

🍽️PARENTS MAY JOIN THEIR CHILD FOR LUNCH

Starting November 2nd, parents may come and eat lunch with their child in the cafeteria. If you wish to join your child for lunch, you and your child will sit at the V.I.P tables located on the staging map below. All parents will be required to check in at the front office to receive a visitor badge. You must have a valid photo I.D. to be scanned in to receive your visitor pass. This is a district requirement to enter the school building. Please be advised that if you do not have a valid photo I.D., you will not be able to enter the building.

Parent Guidelines:
Parents/Guardians will only have access to the cafeteria
Students will arrive and exit the cafeteria with their teacher
Parents/Guardians may not walk students back to class or to other parts of the building
Parents/Guardians may ONLY sit with their personal child. Other children can not come join you
Parents/Guardians may only bring and or purchase food for their personal child

Thank you for your cooperation and support! We look forward to seeing families on campus.

🌟A note from Coach Pena:

Santa Rita PE is working with the county sheriff's Brown Santa program. If you would like to donate, you may send your student with a new small stuffed animal (like the ones sold Kohl's) or a book. Students may give the unwrapped donation to any PE coach. The last day to send donations is Friday, December 10th.

To view the Brown Santa 2021 flyer, click HERE.

GT Referrals

Other Useful Reminders:

🧁Elementary Birthday Policy

We love to celebrate student birthdays here at Santa Rita! However, we do have birthday policies in place to protect students who may have food allergies and policies regarding party invitations. Additionally, this year, we are asking that all birthday treats be store-bought and individually wrapped. You may also provide non-edible birthday treats in lieu of food items. Below is LHISD's Elementary Handbook policy regarding birthdays.

"Birthdays: Please coordinate with your child’s teacher one week prior. Parents are welcome to bring commercially prepared baked goods or non-edible ‘goodies.’ Treats will be shared at a prearranged day and time agreed upon by the teacher based on the policy of each individual elementary school. Please do not send balloons or flowers to your child’s classroom as it causes a distraction to the instruction day. As a district, we value the inclusion of all. For this reason, IF you send birthday party invitations to school to be distributed, you MUST invite all students in the classroom."

For information on other policies, please visit the Elementary Handbook.

Peanut-Free Zone

We have several 4th grade students with peanut allergies. In order to keep everyone safe, please save the peanut snacks and lunch items for home. Thank you for helping us keep the classroom safe for all of our friends!

Transportation Changes

All transportation changes need to be submitted to the office no later than 1:00pm. Please visit the LHISD Transportation Change Request site before sending the notice to the SRE transportation change email. We are asking that parents remind their students to always go to their normal dismissal location unless they have a note from the office. Thank you!

Car Rider Tags

All students should have a car rider tag on their backpack, even if they do not typically go home as a car rider. If your student is a car rider one day in the future, this will help us make sure they get home safely. If you did not receive a car rider tag for your vehicle, please let us know.

🧥 Labeling Jackets and Water Bottles

Jacket weather is *almost* here! Please make sure your student's jackets and water bottles are labeled with their first and last name. This will help us reunite lost jackets and water bottles with their owners. 🙂

Please don't forget to send a water bottle to school with your child each day. The bottle filling stations are operational, but all water fountains have been switched off out of an abundance of caution.

Chromebooks & Headphones

Our Chromebooks have been delivered! The computers will stay at school this year, but we will use them frequently in class to expand and enhance the learning experience. Please make sure your student has headphones or earbuds in their backpack each day.

Weekly Spirit Days

Mondays are College and Career Days! Wear your favorite college or career readiness shirt! Fridays are Panther Spirit Days. We can't wait to see your purple and gold! 🥳

Reading:

We are digging deeper into nonfiction informational text. We will explore the author's purpose for writing the text. We'll look at the structure of the text including compare and contrast and cause and effect.

Writing:

We will continue writing expository informational compositions, working on using transition words and expanding our main ideas with details.

Social Studies:

We are finishing our Native Texan tribes projects and presentations. After that we will be moving on to Spanish explorers and discovery of Texas by European nations.

Math:

We will be wrapping up our multiplication unit the first week of December. We will then begin division. Keep up the great work and keep practicing those multiplication facts!

Science:

We will continue learning about slow changes to the Earth. (Weathering, erosion, and deposition.)

SRE November Trait of the Month: Gratitude

Gratitude is being thankful, showing appreciation, and looking at situations in a positive way instead of a negative way.

How families can practice gratitude:

Ask questions that help your child discover the potential silver lining in a tough situation.
Ask, "What's something good that could come from something hard like this?"

Make it a habit to regularly express gratitude in your family. Here are some ways to incorporate gratitude into daily schedules:

Everyone takes turns during dinner sharing one thing they’re grateful for from their day.
At bedtime, you ask each child to say three things they feel grateful for.
During the car ride to school, everyone thanks someone else in the car for something.
Each Sunday night at dinner, everyone discusses how they’ll express gratitude and who they’ll express it to over the course of the week.
Every Saturday morning, everyone writes a note of appreciation to someone for a specific reason.

Gratitude allows us to celebrate the present, it dispels negative emotions, builds more resilience, and cultivates a higher sense of self-worth.

Specials Rotations:

Monday, 11/22	Tuesday, 11/23	Wednesday, 11/24	Thursday, 11/25	Friday, 11/26
Student Holiday	Student Holiday	Student Holiday	Student Holiday	Student Holiday
Monday, 11/29	Tuesday, 11/30	Wednesday, 12/1	Thursday, 12/2	Friday, 12/3
Yellow	Green	Blue	Purple	Red

Chapman	Cravens	Garner	LeCaptain	Malone	Schultze	Styskal
*Art/Music/Spanish	Music	Art	PE	PE	PE	Spanish
PE	PE	PE	Music	Spanish	Art	PE
*Art/Music/Spanish	Spanish	Music	PE	PE	PE	Art
PE	PE	PE	Spanish	Art	Music	PE
*Art/Music/Spanish	Art	Spanish	PE	PE	PE	Music
PE	PE	PE	Art	Music	Spanish	PE