The Weekly Update #4

Safety is our number one priority for our students and staff! We need your help keeping our Bear Family safe. Here's how you can do your part:

Arrival and Dismissal

• Wait patiently at the "line starts here" signs in the front and back parking lots at arrival and dismissal until waived forward (7:30 am and 3:17 pm)
• Drop students off at 7:30 or later when supervision is provided
• Please display your family number in the car rider lines

Attendance

• Our official attendance time is 9:15 a.m. Students are counted absent if they arrive after 9:15. Please make sure your Bear is at school before this time. If your child has a doctor's appointment, please provide the doctor's note. This allows your Bear to be counted as present! Attendance is crucial to academic success!

Starting as early as preschool and kindergarten, regular attendance is essential for students gaining the academic and social skills they need to thrive. Research shows that when students are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of the school year or 18 days over an entire school year), they are less likely to read proficiently by third grade, achieve in middle school and graduate from high school.

In addition to the well-publicized learning losses, students also lost opportunities to develop socially and gain skills in problem-solving and self-regulation, all which are needed to grow and learn.

Since the pandemic, national data shows chronic absence almost doubled from 8 million in 2018-19 to 14.7 million students nationwide in 2021-22. That’s one out of three students. Absenteeism has surged among all student groups, at every economic level. Black, Latino, and Native American students, students living in poverty, students with disabilities and English language learners have been especially affected. Available state data from 2022-23 shows only a slight decrease.

Without efforts to reduce chronic absence, education investments designed to improve students’ academic and social losses will miss their mark.

We can nurture a culture of engagement and attendance at school. This starts by helping everyone in the community – families, elected officials, businesses, nonprofits, religious leaders and more – recognize they have a stake and a role, because schools certainly can’t do it alone. We all prosper when children and youth, regardless of their race, ethnicity, neighborhood, family income or disability status, have the opportunity to gain skills and abilities that prepare them for success in school, work and life.

• Sept. 6: Wear gold/yellow for Gold, Fight, Win!
• Sept. 6: Coffee in the Bearista Cafe at 9:30: Topic: Gifted and Talented Programming and the Referral System and Credit By Exam Information
• Sept. 12: Suicide Awareness Walk (see flyer below)
• Sept. 13: Gold, Fight, Win Day: wear gold or yellow!
• Sept. 16: Elementary Student Holiday/Staff Professional Development Day
• Sept. 19: BBE PTA hosts Bike Rodeo (see flyer below)
• Sept. 20: Wear gold/yellow for Gold, Fight, Win!
• Sept. 23-27: Everybody Counts!
• Sept. 23: General PTA Meeting and 4th Grade Program, Dancin' the Night Away, 6:30 pm
• Sept. 27: Wear gold/yellow for Gold, Fight, Win!
• Sept. 27-Oct. 3: Book Fair
• Oct. 5: Boo at the Barn!
• Oct. 7-11: Fall Break
• Oct. 25: Fall Fest (see flyer below)

Please pay your child's $25 activity fee. This fee covers the Winter and Friendship Parties, field trips, and consumables needed throughout the year. Thank you to those who have already taken care of this!

Dear BBE Family,

We need your help to keep our Bears safe! Please adhere to the following:

• Students should not be dropped off before 7:30 am. Supervision begins at 7:30 when doors open.
• Please use the crosswalks when crossing the street.
• Students should be released from cars on the passenger side so they are closest to the sidewalk and out of harms way as other cars proceed.
• Please have your family car rider tag displayed in the front window of your vehicle.
• Thank you for letting the front office and teacher know when there is a change in dismissal. Please let daycare know too!

• Interested in volunteering? We want you!!!! Watch DOGS, Copy Room, Bike Rodeo would love to have your help! Check out opportunities at www.bbepta.com

• Supervision begins and doors open at 7:30. Please do not drop off students before 7:30 for their safety.

• Work continues on the Tree Lane Bridge Rehabilitation Project. Please be cautious as you are driving through this area.

• Please sign up for Rooms through the Humble ISD app!

In case you missed it, we had an incredible information night for Watch DOGS! It was a standing room only event! Thank you BBE PTA for sponsoring the event and Jaime Reyna for organizing and blazing the trail at BBE! We are super excited about the interest and ALL of the positive male role models! We would love to see you as a Watch DOG on campus! Please see the information below to help get you started:

• complete Humble ISD volunteer application/background check
• order your Watch DOG uniform
• sign up to support BBE on a Wednesday (morning, afternoon, or all day)

More information can be found by visiting the BBE PTA website!

Would you like to be Sponsor for the upcoming Fall Festival? Here are the different levels of sponsorship available.

Mrs. Julie Wimberly

Please remember to send in an excuse if your child is absent from school. This excuse can be emailed, handwritten or submitted electronically using the absence form. Thank you for your help with this!

Regular attendance is critical to learning in the classroom. When your elementary or middle school child is absent from school, please note the following important reminders:

Inform the school within 48 hours to mark the absence as excused using one of these options:

• Fill out the online absence form at humbleisd.net/attendancecontacts -or-

• Email the campus attendance office -or-

• Send in a paper note, or take a photo with your phone and send it to the attendance office -or-

• Call the school’s attendance office

For medical or dental appointments:

• Get a note at the appointment and upload it into the online absence form at humbleisd.net/attendancecontacts -or-

• Turn it in to the attendance office within 48 hours.

Did You Know?

Dated health care appointment notes allow the school to mark your child present if they attended any part of the school day, such as before or after their appointment.

When students stay in school until 10 a.m. (Elementary) or 10:40 a.m. (Middle School), it ensures the school receives full funding for the day. Your support in ensuring your child’s attendance not only helps them academically, but also boosts the school’s success.

Thank you for partnering with us to provide the best educational experience for our students. For more information, please visit Important Attendance Information for Parents or view the Attendance Reminders for Elementary & Middle School flyer.

Hey Bears! Here are a few clinic reminders!

Illness Info:

• We need your help in maintaining a healthy environment for your children as well as the other children in our school. In an effort to avoid students in the clinic feeling ill first thing in the morning, please use the following guidelines when determining whether or not to send your child to school. Your child is missing valuable class time by being in the clinic if he or she is ill. If you have any questions about whether or not to send your child to school, please call the clinic.
  
  If your student exhibits any of the following conditions, it is recommended they stay home:
  

• Temperature of 100 ºFahrenheit or higher – measured without fever suppressing medication within the past 24 hours.

• Vomiting in the past 24 hours

• Diarrhea in past 24 hours (can return diarrhea free without diarrhea-suppressing medications for at least 24 hours)

• Persistent, hacking cough

• Continually runny nose with white, green, or yellow mucus

• Eyes that appear swollen, red, and weeping

• Strep throat - may return 24-48 hours after the antibiotic is started and fever has subsided per provider instructions.

• Rash of unknown cause anywhere on the body

• Scabies – exclude until treatment has begun

Please call 281-641-1619, email Mr.Kuchta, or complete the BBE Absence google doc as soon as possible to report your child's absence. When your child returns to school, please send a note to excuse your child. If your child has an appointment with a health care provider, always get a school note from them.

Nutrition and Hydration:

** It is vital for your child to get plenty of rest and eat a nutritious breakfast in order to function at their best every day. They should also bring healthy snacks in class and a water bottle to refill throughout the school day to stay hydrated to prevent headache and stomach aches.**

• Items must be clearly labeled with the student’s name in legible handwriting.

• No sharing between students is allowed.

• Aerosols or pumps are not allowed to be applied indoors due to the potential adverse effect on others in the vicinity during application.

• Elementary students should have parent/guardian permission for these items confirmed by their teacher.

• All students should be able to self apply.

• Bathroom, cafeteria, and playground accidents happen occasionally. Please keep a change of clothes in their backpacks, especially our K-2 Bears.

• The clinic is always in need of donations, especially BOYS size 5/6 and 7/8 elastic shorts and new underwear!

Thank you for keeping our Bears healthy!

Nurse James

Annual Update for School Year 2024-2025 is required for all returning students. It is not required for newly enrolled students.

A returning student is any student who was actively enrolled on the last day of the 2023-2024 school year at any Humble ISD campus.

You are a current student even if you have moved within the Humble ISD boundaries and are attending a new campus in 2024-2025, or you are attending a new school due to promotion (i.e. moving from 5th grade elementary to attend 6th grade Middle School, or moving from 8th grade Middle School to attend 9th grade High School).

NOTE:
A PARENT/GUARDIAN (NOT student) HAC account is required to access Annual Update and update student registration information.

**Only 'Living With' guardians can access and submit the Annual Update. Please contact your campus registrar if you are unable to access the Annual Update.

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The YMCA After School Program makes the most of your child's after school time by offering active learning opportunities designed to engage and expand young minds. After school care is offered Monday through Friday from school dismissal through 6:30 p.m. at all Humble ISD elementary schools.

Lake Houston Family YMCA is now registering for the 2024-2025 school year for YMCA After School Care. Learn more about YMCA After School Care and get registered

Bear Wear Wednesdays

Students and staff wear your BBE spirit shirts!

Future Fridays

Wear any spirit gear that represents your future!

Middle School, High School, College, Military, Career