⭐ November 8 - November 19, 2021 ⭐

Upcoming Events:

Nov. 8-12 - School Psychologist Week
Nov. 9 - PTO Meeting 6-7PM
Nov. 10 - Boosterthon Main Event!!
Nov. 11 - 3rd Grade Veteran's Day Performance 8:00-8:45AM
Nov. 15 - LHISD Board Meeting 6-10PM
Nov. 15 - Interim Assessments Grades 3-5
Nov. 16 - Interim Assessments Grades 3-5
Nov. 17 - Thanksgiving Lunches Family Event 10:10AM-2:00PM
Nov. 18 - Substitute Educators Day
Nov. 22-26 - Student & Staff Holiday
Nov. 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!)

Reminders

🦃Thanksgiving Lunch 🌽

We invite you all to our annual Thanksgiving luncheon on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Please come and join in the festivities during lunch with your child.

Thanksgiving lunch for SRE students will be free. All other family members may purchase a meal for $4.00 at the event. Cash only.

Please make sure you have a valid photo I.D. with you and you may enter the building through the front main doors and through the bus entrance located on the side of the school building. Team members will be there to check your valid photo I.D. and will give you your visitor badge. Parents will only be able to access the gym and cafeteria. All students will come down to lunch with their classroom teacher and return to their classrooms after the lunch is over. If you are wanting to check your child out, you will go to the office and follow the student check out process. Our receptionist will then call for your child to come down from their classroom to meet you.

If you plan on attending the event please fill out this form as it will give us an idea of a head count and how many students will be leaving early. We look forward to seeing you all!

SRE Thanksgiving RSVP Form (THIS FORM NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED BY: Friday, November 12, 2021.)

🌟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.

🧁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! 🥳

ELAR:

We will begin learning about informational text by looking at the main idea and supporting details. In writing, we will be drafting an expository composition.

Social Studies:

We are beginning to research the Native American tribes of Texas.

Math:

We are continuing our multiplication unit and will be focusing on multiplying 4 digit by 1 digit numbers, as well as 2 digit by 2 digit numbers. Please have your student practice their multiplication facts each night.

Science:

We will be wrapping up our Forms of Energy unit before beginning our unit on 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, 11/8	Tuesday, 11/9	Wednesday, 11/10	Thursday, 11/11	Friday, 11/12
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Monday, 11/15	Tuesday, 11/16	Wednesday, 11/17	Thursday, 11/18	Friday, 11/19
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Chapman	Cravens	Garner	LeCaptain	Malone	Schultze	Styskal
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*Art/Music/Spanish	Spanish	Music	PE	PE	PE	Art
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