Dan Powell's Weekly Newsletter

Hello, Dan Powell Families!

Thank you so much for your participation in our Pumpkin Characters Family Project, National Teddy Bear Day, our "El Futuro" dress up day as we concluded an impactful Hispanic Heritage Month! We loved learning about the career aspirations of our scholars and the dream careers of our staff members and meeting everyone's teddy bear! The pumpkin projects look AMAZING and are very creative! We are so appreciative for your partnership in fostering academic success for our students and strengthening their social and emotional learning skills. We appreciate your continued support in all of our endeavors and look forward to seeing you at the Homecoming Parade on Wednesday, October 21st at 5 pm! Let's go, Powell Bulldogs! 💜 #BulldogPride #GameonBulldogs #EvermanISD #EvermanBulldogs

In order to minimize disruptions to learning, we ask that early dismissals be completed prior to 2 pm.

To heighten the safety and well being of our students and staff, please remain in your vehicles during arrival dropoff and dismissal pickup. There are no walk ups during our arrival and dismissal processes.

🍎Doors open at 6:50 am
🍎 Breakfast is served from 6:50 am - 7:20 am

🍎 First Bell rings at 7:25 am

🍎 Tardy Bell rings at 7:29 am

🍎 Instruction starts at 7:30 am

🍎 Early Dismissals end at 2 pm

🍎 Dismissal is at 3:00 pm

Get ready for a week packed with Bulldog pride, from Camo Day and Duo/Twin Day to Wild West Wednesday, Throwback Thursday, and Everman Forever Friday!

Be a Hero. Stay Drug Free. Join us for five themed days that encourage students to make positive, drug-free choices while having fun—from Everyday Heroes and Team Up Against Drugs to Bright Futures and Decades of Making a Difference.

Great news! We are back on an uphill trend with an Average Daily Attendance rate of 93.06%. Let's keep this same energy the remainder of the school year! It is imperative that our scholars are at school daily and on time so that they reap the academic benefits they are working so hard to obtain. We need your support so that we can attain our goal of 97%. Please contribute to us reaching our attendance goal by making sure your scholar is at school daily by 7:30 am. Consistent school attendance contributes to the academic success of your student. Let's work together to give your student the academic experience they are so deserving of!

Weekly Family Connection: Building Skills for Life

Weekly Focus: Making Helpful Choices

Children are learning that feelings are okay—and they still have choices about what they do with those feelings.

Try This at Home: “I Have a Choice!”

When something doesn't go your child's way, try asking:

“What are you feeling?”
“What is your body telling you?”
“What choices could you make?”
“Which choice will help you and others?”

Give your child opportunities to practice simple choices throughout the day:

“Would you like the blue shirt or the red shirt?”
“Would you like to clean up the blocks or the cars first?”
“Would you like your apple before or after your snack?”

Conscious Discipline Phrase:
“You have choices. I will help you make a safe and helpful choice.”

Family Challenge: Catch your child making a positive choice and say, “You made a helpful choice! You did it!”

Every small choice is practice for BIG life skills!

Word/Letter Hunt: Write letters, CVC words or tricky words on note cards or paper leaves and hide them around your home. Have kids find and sort them into categories: uppercase, lowercase, or beginning sound.

Pumpkin Seed Guesstimation: Carve or open a small pumpkin, pull out the seeds, and practice estimation before counting them. Group them by ones, fives, or tens to practice place value, addition, or subtraction.

Conscious Discipline uses four core active calming breathing techniques, S.T.A.R., Balloon, Pretzel, and Drain, to shut off the body's fight-or-flight response and promote emotional regulation. This week we will focus on Drain breathing. Join your student with engaging in Drain breathing and remind them to pause and take three deep breaths when they are feeling upset, angry, anxious, scared, or frustrated.

How to Do Drain Breathing

The Drain is depicted as a faucet draining the stress out of the body.

1. Stretch your arms out in front of you.
2. Squinch up your face, shrug your shoulders up toward your ears and squeeze your fists tightly.
3. Take a deep breath in through your nose.
4. Now exhale through your mouth, relaxing your muscles, and letting all the stress and tightness drain out of your body along with the air.

Thank you so much for donating bottled water to our staff! We are greatly appreciative for the love and support shown in contribution to our hydration, well-being, and safety! We will be accepting donations throughout the school year, which can be received at the front office.

It is extremely important that you make provisions for an adult to meet your student every day at the bus stop. Please be aware of the steps that will be taken in the event this policy is not followed:

• 1st Incident – Warning from Campus Administrator

• 2nd Incident – Loss of Bus Privileges for one week

• 3rd Incident – Loss of Bus Privileges for six weeks

• 4th Incident - Loss of Bus Privileges for the remainder of the school year

Persistent noncompliance with this policy will result in loss of bus privileges for the remainder of the year. Please inform the school if you know you will not be able to greet your student at the bus stop so that student can remain on campus for you to pick him/her up. Doing so will foster safety for your student and allow the bus route to remain on schedule for routes to other campuses.

🍎 Pre-K will arrive and dismiss on the south side of the school. Please reference the map.

🍎 Kindergarten and siblings in various grades will arrive and dismiss on the west side of the school. Please reference the map.

🍎 Dismissal is at 3 pm. Please use the Pikmykid dismissal cards to foster a smooth transition.
🍎 Walking up during arrival and dismissal is not allowed as it impedes on the safety and well being of our students and staff and the flow of traffic.

We appreciate your cooperation and partnership with ensuring our students and staff are safe during our arrival and dismissal procedures.

Our student dress code will be enforced including the clear backpack policy.

🚨Leggings, yoga pants, and biking shorts must be worn under skirts or dresses.

🚨Crocs, open-toed shoes, and flip flops can not be worn at school.

Please click on the links below for more details regarding student dress code.

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💜💜💜Homecoming Week💛💛💛

Monday, October 19th

• Instruction begins at 7:30 am

• Camo Day - Show your camo spirit

• Or Wear Game On Shirt

Tuesday, October 20th

• Instruction begins at 7:30 am
• Duo Twin Day - Grab a friend and dress alike!

Wednesday, October 21st

• Instruction begins at 7:30 am

• Wild West Wednesday - wear western attire.

• Homecoming Parade at 5 pm

Thursday, October 22nd

• Instruction begins at 7:30 am
• Throwback Thursday - dress in your favorite decade attire

• Instruction begins at 7:30 am

• Everman Forever Friday - wear Everman shirt.

• Or Pink Out - Wear Pink

Upcoming Events

Week of October 26th - October 30th

Scholastic Book Fair

Red Ribbon Week

Monday, October 26th

50th Day of School - dress in 1950s attire.

Everyday Heroes - Honor your favorite hero with a costume or superhero shirt.

Tuesday, October 27th

Team Up Against Drugs - Show your team spirit in a favorite sports jersey or school spirit shirt.

Wednesday, October 28th

Bright Futures - Brighten the hallways in your favorite neon shirts, accessories, and cool sunglasses.

Thursday, October 29th

Decades of Making a Difference - Dress in attire from your decade of choice.

Literacy Night - 5pm - 7pm

Friday, October 30th

Pink Out - Wear Pink

Character Counts! Be the hero of your story! - Bring a storybook character to life with an iconic top or costume.