Rattler Community,

We are half way through our 3rd marking period and we continue to do great things each week. This past week we had our 5th grade Lady Rattlers and Mighty Rattlers play their first game, bringing home the win. We also had our first Accelerated Instruction Camp this past Saturday. We had over 100 students join us and we want to thank all of the parents and guardians that continue to make certain their child is not falling behind. A special thank you to all of our educators that took part in this Saturday Camp. We have three additional Saturdays this semester and we continue to encourage our Rattlers to join us for a morning filled with fun and targeted support at all levels. In our newsletter you will find the following:

• Week at a Glance
• Attendance updates
• Lexia recognitions
• Shout-outs for the week.

Respectfully,

Cristina Sanchez-Chavira

Proud Principal of Dr. Sue A. Shook Elementary

School Office Number: 915-937-7102

Email: cchavi@sisd.net

TWITTER: DSShook_ES

#RelentlessRattlers

“We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process, we will achieve greatness.” — Vince Lombardi

Parents there are a few traffic concerns that have started to come up and we would like your support in making sure you do your part to keep our Rattlers and community safe.

• Cell Phone Use: The use of cell phones within school zones is prohibited (unless used with a hands-free device) under Section 545.425 of the Texas Transportation Code. This could result in a $200 fine or more concerning, contribute to an accident. We have noticed more and more parents in line looking at their cell phone and not paying attention to the traffic flow or pedestrians. Accidents can happen in a second. Please put all phones away
• Speeding in a school zone. In the morning we have noticed vehicles speeding to try to beat the gates closing in the morning. Please note that to avoid speeding we do close the gate at 7:43 unless there is a long traffic line.
• Dropping off students in unsafe areas (street).
• Parking in the parking lot and having students run through the parking lot with other moving vehicles.

Shook’s Special Education Department will be selling Valentine Candy Grams for $3.00 each to help support our students who will be competing at the James Butler Spring Games. Grams will be sold beginning Monday, January 22 until all 500 grams are sold. Candy grams will consist of either a chocolate heart on a stick or valentine themed marshmallows on a stick (gram chosen at random). While Valentine's Day is an allowable treat day on our campus, we do not allow any type of deliveries from parents or outside companies for students. Instead, send them a Valentine candy gram to be delivered to their classroom during their Valentine's Day party while supporting a great cause!

Parents can stop by the front office during regular school hours to purchase with cash or visit the web store in their MySchoolBucks account. Students may purchase candy grams during lunch with the order form sent home. If purchasing grams with cash, please make sure to have exact change as the campus does not have change available.

Join us in the Library to learn strategies to help your child be successful in their educational journey. Whether they are a student who struggles or one who learns new concepts easily, involved parents can greatly increase your child’s success throughout their educational journey. Our curriculum coaches and parent liaison will focus on resources available to parents that can be accessed at home as well as ways to support what they are currently learning in the classroom. A variety of door prizes will be raffled and all students whose parents attend will earn a free dress pass.

This meeting is ONLY for 5th grade parents to discuss the plans for Spanish Credit. This meeting is hosted by the SISD Bilingual Department. *There will be no make-up meeting available.

Have you logged into the Texas Assessment STAAR Parent Portal?

Use link below for STAAR resources for your child, such as online practice and STAAR released tests. You can also view your child's STAAR history and additional resources based on their progress.

www.Texasassessment.gov

Be Up to Date With Your Child's Grades Through Skyward

Progress Reports will be going out but you do not have to wait until your child's report card to see their progress. As a reminder you can also view your child's grades by accessing the parent portal using the Skyward App.

Skyward Family Access | Socorro Independent School District (sisd.net)

Monday, January 22nd

• Free Dress for those with Perfect Attendance week of January 16

• VSP Track Informational and Registration Meeting 6 pm in Cafeteria

• Bluebonnet Club (Jones)

• UIL 4/5 Number Sense (Romero)

• UIL Ready Writing (Chavez)

• UIL 3-5 Music Memory (Pichardo)

• UIL Creative Writing (Loo)

• UIL Oral Reading (Franco)

• Folklorico 3-5 Lucio (Foyer)

• 5th grade Basketball Practice 3:30-5:30 (Quinn)

• Destination Imagination( Lara)

• Snapology

• Rattler Round-up 3:30-4:30
• Girls Basketball game @Rojas 6pm
• Afterschool activities (3:30-4:30)
• NEHS (Galvez)
• UIL Chess Puzzle (Rivera)

Wednesday, January 24th

• Parent Session: Supporting your Child's Success in the Library 9am and 5pm

• Afterschool Activities (3:30-4:30)
• Robotics (Romero)
• UIL 5th grade Dictionary Skills (Alicia. Sanchez)
• UIL 5th grade Listening Skills (Gil)
• UIL 5th grade Social Studies (Johanne Hernandez)
• UIL 5th grade Ready Writing (Macias)
• UIL 3rd/4th Music Memory (Breceda)
• UIL 5th Map Skills (Gomez)
• Rattler Competition Squad Practice (Burnette/Franco)
• Destination Imagination with Lara/Ceballos (3:30-5:00)

Thursday, January 25th

• Attire: College shirt with Uniform bottoms
• 5th grade Dual Language Credit Parent Meeting 5:30pm Library
• Rattler Round-up 3:30-4:30
• Afterschool Activities 3:30-4:30
  
• Young Rembrandts
• UIL Chess Puzzle (Rivera)
• 5th grade Boys game 7pm @Shook Cafeteria

• Attire: Current spirit shirt with jeans
• Afterschool Activities (3:30-4:30)
• UIL 5th grade Dictionary Skills (Sanchez)
• UIL 3rd-5th Spelling (Ramos)
• UIL Art Smart (Canales)
• UIL Storytelling (Cortez)
• Folklorico 1st-3rd (Lucio)
• Young Rembrandts

Saturday, January 27th

• Saturday Camp 8:30 to 11:30
• Robotics FirstLego Competition @UTEP

Sunday, January 28th

Battle of the Bow Cheer Competition Eastlake High School

MAKE EVERY DAY Count and ensure students that are healthy are attending school daily. Below you will find attendance by grade.

Our goal is to keep the state-mandated average of 97% attendance.

Last week's attendance was 96.27% from 94.43% the previous week. THANK YOU Rattler Community, for making everyday count!

Attendance percentage for week 4 Jan 15th through the 19th

Thank you for helping us keep healthy kids at school.

• PK: Improved from 93.66% to 95.83%
• Kinder: Improved from 91.14% to 96.85%
• First: Improved from 94.96% to 96.95%
• Second: Improved from 94.07% to 96.65%
• Third: Declined from 96.36% to 95.39%
• Fourth: Improved from 93.54% to 97.58%
• Fifth: Improved from 94.53% to 96.35%

The state of Texas holds administrators and parents accountable for monitoring student attendance. Please help support our teachers by bringing in your children ready to learn. We thank you for making attendance a priority. When your child is out, you can email a personal note and/or doctors release to: attendancesueshook@sisd.net

REMINDERS

Early pick-ups

• Early pick-ups are not processed 30 min before dismissal.
• PK/Kinder: No later than 2:15
• 1st-5th : No later than 2:45

INCENTIVES

To thank our students that Make Every Day Count, we will have the following incentives.

• Students with perfect attendance for the week will have a free dress pass for the following Monday.
• Every 9 weeks the class with the highest grade level attendance will receive a Pizza Party.

Make Every Day Count Rattlers!

Rattler Community,

As a reminder, please make sure you are supporting our dismissal procedures. These procedures ensure that we are able to clear our traffic in 15 min or less. We ask for our continued support as well as thank you for your courtesy. Continue to be respectful to each other and avoid the following

• speeding
• cutting in line
• honking
• trying to circumvent the procedures.

We are proud of our community and how our actions reflect our commitment to student safety.

Student Safety and Community Safety is our priority. It takes a second for an accident to occur and for this reason, we need to make sure that we have a clear mind and are not rushed when we approach our campus.

General

• Remember to be courteous to all drivers.
• Please refrain from honking or cutting drivers off. We need to always be courteous to each other. We are part of the same community.
• We understand that we do not have enough parking for all parents. All schools struggle with parking. Please be aware of where you are driving and who is around you.
• Always use crosswalks or approach administration or support personnel to cross you. We are our children's roll models. Would you like your child to think it is safe to cross anywhere down a street?

Car Drop-Off Etiquette

Car drop-off must be used by students that are independent enough to exit their vehicles with their backpacks on. Support your parent community by doing the following.

• Always remain in your vehicle. *If you need to exit your vehicle to help your child, then your option should be to park and walk your child.
• Always park at the top of the lane, first sign. Please do not stop at the door walkway. This limits the number of kids that can exit the vehicle.
• Make sure students are ready to exit the vehicle. If your child requires much assistance from you, please park as you are encouraged to not exit your vehicle.

Car-pick-up Etiquette

• Always display on your DASHBOARD your YELLOW car sign. If you do not have a car sign, please park to pick up your child.
• Do not exit your vehicle. Always remain in your vehicle. We will bring your child to you.
• Never park in our pick-up area
• Do not utilize the exterior or 2nd lane to have kids run to you OR pass the vehicles before you.

In the event you feel a driver or parent is impacting student, please do not engage. Notify administration. We will do the following.

• The administration will contact the parent and advise them of proper procedures
• Second or severe offense: Vehicle information will be given to police services.

Thank you, Rattler Community, for your support. Let us make sure we keep our Rattlers safe.

Effective on Sept.1st, 2023 it is now in law that a student may be either removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education program, or expelled from a school for the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near a public school property or at certain school events. You will notice posters posted around our campus. Please make sure you talk to children and make sure you secure any personal vaping items so that students do have access to them.

Please take the time to talk to your children regarding the consequences that can come from making threats to an individual or campus or through social media. Socorro ISD and Dr. Sue A. Shook Elementary, take all campus or student threats very seriously. Incidents that involve students making threats to other students, adults, and/or the school will be handled using the SISD Student Code of Conduct and if necessary may lead to an investigation by our campus SRO.

Please talk to your child about the consequences that come with making threats to others. We appreciate your support.

As a reminder, students are not able to bring in cupcakes or snacks to celebrate a birthday. We have a high number of students with the following medical conditions

• Food Allergies to gluten, peanuts, eggs, wheat etc.
• Lactose intolerant
• Type I Diabetes.

In order to minimize their risk to exposing them to food items that may cause them physical harm, our campus does not accept any type of treat that will be consumed on campus. Please help us keep all of our students safe. Classroom teachers will make sure your child feels special that day by singing to them and may provide them with an item to distinguish that it is their birthday. You are welcome to send them to school with a birthday sash or button.

How is this different from allowable treat days and treat parties earned for incentives?

Allowable treat days and incentive days are planned days that allow parents to work alongside educators and the campus to ensure their child is taken care of by offering alternatives and ensure they are not feel excluded. Thank you for your support.

It is that time of year when we need to prepare for extreme weather. Below you will find:

• Weather Guidelines that are followed
• Reminders of Procedures
• When reminders are sent out.

Morning Two Hour Delays

Morning delays are decided and announced by Socorro ISD. An effort is made to make a decision by 6am the day of inclement weather. The district will consider, temperatures and road conditions to ensure the safety of all students. We ask that you keep in mind that a decision is made based on the needs of all students, especially bus students that may have to wait for a bus as early as 6:30am or school students that may have to wait outside of the building.

Message is issued out by:

• SISD Through Social Media, Phone, Text and email
• Dr. Sue A. Shook Elementary Parent Liaison Brittany Burnette will repost on ClassDojo.

Morning 2-Hour Delay Information:

• Campus cafeteria doors will open at 9:00am
• Breakfast served in cafeteria from 9:00am to 9:30am
• First bell: 9:30am (students on campus will be sent to classrooms)
• Tardy Bell 9:45 am
• PE schedule will be adjusted (30 min PE times)
• Regular Lunch schedule will be followed.

Afterschool Inclement Weather Dismissal

In the event of inclement weather, we will share this information with our community through TEXT, EMAIL, and CLASSDOJO.

Decisions for inclement weather are made no later than 2:15 pm for ALL grade levels.

This means that we may call for inclement weather and the weather will immediately clear OR we may not call for inclement weather on time. Note that we use forecasts, radar maps, and national/local advisories to make decisions. Inclement weather can be called in the event of precipitation, low temperatures, or high winds.

2:45 Dismissal

PK and Kinder

• Students will be picked up in their classrooms. Side doors for arrival will be opened. All parents will have to park and enter the building to pick up their child from their classroom.

3:15 Dismissal: All siblings will report to their younger siblings' classroom

1st -3rd

• All main building doors will open and parents will come in to pick up their child from the classroom.

• Students will be in the modular building. Please use your car tags so that we can call students out and they will exit from the modular to car pick up. This process will take a little longer.

Please be patient during this process. Student safety is the priority.

Systems are working and this week we will begin to work on arriving on time. Students' tardiness will go into effect soon. Note the following

• Doors and Gates will open at 7:00 am
• First Bell will ring at 7:30 am
• MUSIC will play over the intercom at 7:40 for the last 5 minutes before the tardy bell.
• Tardy Bell will ring at 7:45
• Breakfast in the classroom will be served from 7:30-7:45 am
• Instruction will start promptly at 7:45

Thank you, parents, for not blocking our walkways and stopping at the endpoints. This helps us have a visual of the students coming in and support any students that need guidance.

Email: cchavi@sisd.net
Website: https://www.sisd.net/site/default.aspx?domainid=4099
Location: 13777 Paseo Del Este, El Paso, TX, USA
Phone: 9159377100
Twitter: @DSShook_ES

Mrs. Chavira: Principal

Email: cchavi@sisd.net

Assistant Principals

Mr. Estrada: restra18@sisd.net

Mrs. Hurtado: nhurta@sisd.net

Counselors

Mrs. Duarte: cduart@sisd.net

Ms. Galvez: mgalve01@sisd.net

Librarian

Ms. Jones: bjones01@sisd.net

Parent Liason

Mrs. Brittany Burnette: bburne01@sisd.net

Community in Schools

Ms. Sonia Esparza: sonia.esparza@sisd.net