Parents,
We are having an attendance challenge through November 11. Currently 5th grade is WINNING the DANCE PARTY that will take place on November 18. All you have to do is get your student here on time, and they will contribute to their grade level attendance percentage. If your student misses 19 or more days, they will have to attend a grade placement committee meeting at the end of the school year!
Parent University
Earn one credit in our upcoming Literacy Night Event on November 17th! Learn all about different ways you can support your child at home with reading, and enjoy the fun filled event! Remember you only need 5 credits to meet the requirement for Parent University Graduation hosted in May!
Multicultural Committee
Counselor's Corner
Optimal learning occurs when students feel safe, calm, and connected to their teacher and the environment that they’re in. When our brain does not feel safe and perceives a threat, we react from the lower center of our brain, called the Survival State. In this state we either fight, flight, or freeze leading to physical behaviors such as biting, hitting, eloping, kicking, spitting, and slapping, among others. In order to self-regulate and access the higher centers of our brain we can take a deep breath, which provides oxygen to our brain and allows our brilliance to guide us to problem solving strategies. Our previous Counselor, Mrs. Blakey, applied and won a grant that provides every teacher at Benfer Elementary with a C.O.O.L. stool. The C.O.O.L. Stool is a storage stool filled with fidgets and visuals of breathing techniques, which provides a physical Safe Place to help students self-regulate. Ask your child about how he/she is using the C.O.O.L. Stool in the classroom, and what are some of the techniques and fidgets that they are willing to use at home.
You can visit my website to find resources that can help your child at home such as breathing techniques and more: https://sites.google.com/kleinisd.net/counselorbenfer/home
Please feel free to reach out to me at psalcedo1@kleinisd.net or by phone (832)484-5933.
Transportation Changes
Please read the listed information below regarding change of transportation procedures:
1. Changes in transportation request should be submitted before 2:45 p.m. Request made after 2:45p.m. cannot be approved.
2. A handwritten and signed note is required to change regular transportation. It can be sent with your student to campus to turn in. A transportation change WILL NOT be accepted over the phone.
Lea la información que se incluye a continuación con respecto al cambio de los procedimientos de transporte:
1. Los cambios en la solicitud de transporte deben enviarse antes de las 2:45 p. m. Solicitud realizada después de las 2:45 p. m. no se puede aprobar.
2. Se requiere una nota escrita a mano y firmada para cambiar el transporte regular. Se puede enviar con su estudiante al campus para entregarlo. No se aceptará un cambio de transporte por teléfono.
Teacher and Staff Shout Out!
SMART Tags
Lunch Time!
- For Lunch menus click HERE
- To apply for free or reduced meals click HERE. A friendly reminder, breakfast and lunch are NO longer free.
- To Add funds to meal accounts click HERE
Due to limited space, parents/guardians may eat lunch with their child on assigned days starting Tuesday, September 6th! Parents/Guardians can only bring lunch for their child due to allergies and eat with their child at the parent table area on assigned days.
Mondays: PreK & 1st Grade
Tuesdays: 4th Grade
Wednesdays: 3rd Grade
Thursdays: 2nd Grade
Fridays: Kindergarten & 5th Grade
For Our Students - Bus Safety & Expectations
Be Responsible
- Save all food and drinks for home or school
- Keep the bus clean
- Be ready to scan your SmartTag when you get on and off the bus
- Be a Problem Solver
Use Respect
- Use only kind and appropriate words
- Keep hands and feet to yourself
- Listen to the bus driver
Stay Safe
- Stay in your seat until you reach your destination
- Use inside/quiet voice
- Stay out of the aisle while bus is moving
For Our Parents - Transportation Expectations
Be Responsible
- Keep from parking in Bus zones
- Park only in visitor parking
- Be on time to pick up your child from the bus stop
- Communicate with the school if you are running late
- Put your cell phone away
Use Respect
- Early dismissal is before 2:45
- Regular dismissal time starts at 3:25
- No students can be picked up from the office during dismissal process
- Put your cell phone away
Stay Safe
- Stop when you see a bus parked with the stop sign out
- Wait patiently for your children to come out of the bus and cross street safely
- When dropping off your children and need to park, walk with them to cross the street safely
- Put your cell phone away
Student's cell phones
