The BlueJay Beat

August 8 - First Day of School

Sept 2 - Holiday! No school

Sept 12 - Coffee with the Counselor

We have had a great start to the new school year! Thank you for all your help, cooperation and patience as we all transition into new schedules.

All students must wear their ID daily. If your child forgets their ID, bring it to school by 9:00am. If it is lost or you are unable to bring it, visit the link below to purchase a new one.

*Make sure students are wearing their ID when they arrive at school and it is not in their backpack.

District policy is that all students carry a clear or mesh backpack. Please make sure this is the only type of backpack your child carries to school daily.

Make sure your child is ready to exit the vehicle wearing their ID and backpack when you enter the drop off zone.

Be in the drop off line by 7:45. At this time, if you are not in line, you will have to park, enter the front office and your child will be tardy.

It is important that you cut your car tag out and hang it from your rearview mirror when you enter the parking lot and leave it up until you exit. Your tag is viewed 3 times at pick up.

1.) Your tag needs to be visible in the drive so that your number can be entered.

2.) The second place is at the microphone where your child's name is read and announced over the sound system in the cafeteria.

3.)The third place is when your child is placed in the car.

When tags are laying on the dashboard, they are difficult to see and read at certain angles, especially under the hot, bright sun and the reflection from the windshield. Every second counts in dismissal and if all car riders leave their tag up throughout pick up, this will help us tremendously.

We are so excited that each of our students are part of the Blue Jay family! This year will be packed full of learning, new experiences and fun! It is very important that your child attends school everyday.

Every classroom has a popsicle sign outside of their class. Each day the class has 100% of their students in attendance, a letter is colored in for that day. When the class colors in the word popsicle and picture, the entire class gets a popsicle party! This process repeats throughout the year so each class can have multiple popsicle parties just for being here!

We need your BlueJay here each and every day, on time, ready to have a great day! Attendance makes a difference in a student's academics. Here at BLECC, we love celebrating our students with good attendance each month by having a BlueJay Bash, Brag Tags, and drawings!

We have already begun recognizing students on their birthday! In the morning announcements, we have recognized all July and August birthdays. Mrs. Laird visited with each student and brought them a birthday pencil. We will continue recognizing birthday daily and will catch all our June Blue Jays in May.

We love to recognize our Blue Jays!

1.) Each month, our teachers will nominate a student from their class that does a great job displaying the traits of our Blue Jay pledge. These students will also attend the Blue Jay Bash!

2.) From the nominated students, one student will be choosen as our Student of the Month to be recognized by the district with a special luncheon and at the school board meeting!

Our Employees and Student of the Month will be spotlighted on our website, displayed in the front office, as well as in the following month's Blue Jay Beat.

ALL students are provided FREE breakfast and lunch. Many students that bring a lunch still like to go through the line and will eat from both their lunch box and tray. They are welcome to do so as we like to expose our students to a variety of choices. Any student that only has snacks in their lunchbox will be sent through the line.

Did you know the menu is posted on our district website!

Menu

Parents: We are encouraging independence in eating and opening containers. Please work with your child to open items at home such as pudding cups, plastic ware, milk cartons, and containers. We will always be there to help, but we also want to work on these fine motor skills.

For the next several weeks we will be doing many fun activities to help learn our colors. One of the activities is for the students to wear certain colors on designated days. This is a list of the days your child should wear each color.

Each school year our campus and district has different committees that we need BLECC parents to serve on. If you are interested, please complete the Google Form:

Parent Committee Member Google Form

Regular, punctual, daily attendance is required of all our students.

We do understand that sometimes our students are sick and need to stay home.

If a student has diarrhea , is vomiting, or running a fever, they need to stay home. Student's must be fever free without medication for 24 hours before returning to school.

When your child is out, email our Attendance Clerk, Mrs. Alma, at alma.carrizales@cvisd.org

Anytime your student is out for a doctor's appointment or therapy, a note from the doctor or therapist is required. Otherwise, a parent note is needed the day the student returns.

Make sure the note includes your child´s name, teacher´s name, date of absence and reason for absence.

*A student will not be counted absent if he or she leaves school or is late to school and a note from a doctor or therapist is provided for that day.

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Here is the link to the presentation that was sent out prior to the first day of school incase you were not fully enrolled and did not receive it.

Parent Welcome Presentation

Dismissal is from 2:50 - 3:15