The Creek's Corner:
Home and School Connection (Week 20)
📆Mark Your Calendar📆
- January 22-26...2024 Great Kindness Challenge
- January 24-25...3rd-5th Grade NWEA Winter Assessment
- February 3...Daddy & Daughter Ball
- February 12...PROGRESS REPORTS COME HOME
- February 14...Valentine's Day Parties
- February 15...Early Dismissal (@1:40)
- February 20...CLASS Picture Day
❤️Capturing Kids' Hearts❤️
The CKH Leadworthy Character Word for January is RESPECT.
What is RESPECT?
Respect is the willingness and ability to act professionally and thoughtfully with ourselves and others. Leaders can deal respectfully with opposition and provide space for both dignity and differences to coexist.
Why focus on RESPECT?
RESPECT contributes to a positive culture. People feel safe, supported, and engaged in the context of thoughtful social, emotional, civic, and intellectual interactions.
RESPECT decreases conflict. Respect helps us, and others, to be able to express ourselves without fear of being judged, humiliated, or discriminated against.
RESPECT encourages empathy. Respect helps us to understand each other and put ourselves in someone else shoes.
Our students, who consistently exemplify respect throughout JANUARY, are likely to be chosen as the Leadworthy Spotlight Winner for their class. Winners get to have a special lunch with the principals!
Please encourage your child to lead with great character each day!
❤️SUPPORT for PARENTS❤️
Primary Care Triple P: Positive Parenting Program
(This is a one-on-one intervention)
Targeted Population:
Parents of Pre-K through 5th grade students
Parents seeking information about how to address a specific parenting or child behavior issue
The family situation is reasonably stable (i.e. not in the middle of separation/divorce, parent has psychological issues themselves, or the child has major psychological issues that have not yet been addressed)
Families will participate in a few assessments. Based on the outcome of those assessments, the Triple P Team may determine whether this level of intervention will be beneficial for a family. If it is not going to be beneficial, and they recommend a higher level of care, such as family counseling that would involve more intense involvement, the team will make an outside counseling recommendation to the family and let the referring principal know.
Program Objectives:
Increase parents’ confidence in managing common behavior problems and developmental issues
Reducing parents’ use of coercive and punitive methods of disciplining children (focusing on pre-teaching desired behaviors, rather than just reacting to a bad behavior)
Improving parents’ communication and reducing parental stress
IF you are interested, please reach out to Mrs. Williams (Principal) or Ms. Dockery (Counselor), and they will get your information submitted to the team. Thank you!
❤️🤍💙HCE Happenings!💙🤍❤️
Archery Tournament
January 11-13, Hurricane Creek Elementary and Collegeville Elementary co-hosted the annual Bow Bash Archery Tournament, held at Hill Farm Elementary. We had over 500 archers registered for the tournament. HUGE Congratulations to all the archers on a successful tournament! We want to send a special shout-out to our Hurricane Creek archers and parents who helped run the tournament, as well as Everett Buick GMC for sponsoring our event!
2nd Quarter Behavior Bash
On Friday, January 12, we celebrated with our Patriots who earned the 2nd Quarter Behavior Bash. Students enjoyed snacks and a movie on the big screen! We are so proud of our students for their continual demonstration of excellence at The Creek. We appreciate our entire staff for pitching in and serving students during this event AND Bryant Technology Team for providing and setting up the technology equipment needed. We truly appreciate our community partner, Jake Arey Mortgage, for sponsoring this event and providing snacks & drinks for students. Our kiddos had the BEST time, and they deserved it all!
Class Attendance Incentive
When all students in a classroom are present and on time, with no early checkouts, the class receives a star for the day. Upon the 20th star, the class becomes eligible for the Class Attendance Incentive. There is a different incentive each month, so whatever the incentive is during the month a class reaches 20 stars, that's what they'll receive.
- October: Mrs. Stringer's class reached 20 stars and received a GLOW STICK PARTY!
- November: The following classes reached 20 stars and received a DANCE PARTY:
- Mrs. Penfield; Mrs. Finley; Mrs. DeVito; Mrs. Watts
- December: The following classes reached 20 stars and received MUSIC and FUN ACTIVITIES in the gym:
- Mrs. Garner; Mrs. Martindale; Mrs. Johnson; Mrs. D. Jones
- January: The following classes have reached 20 stars so far and will receive their incentive at the end of the month:
- Mrs. A. Jones; Mrs. Devine; Ms. Brasuell; Mrs. Broach
We are so proud of our students for showing up to school each day--ready to learn at high levels!
📣ANNOUNCEMENTS/UPDATES/REQUESTS📣
~WINTER NWEA Assessments
If you have a student testing this week, please make sure they are well rested, have eaten breakfast (or are on time to eat breakfast at school), and are encouraged to do their best! It is imperative that we assist and support our kiddos daily. We appreciate your support!
~G/T Parent Referral Announcement
Please read and adhere to the following announcement from our District Gifted and Talented Coordinator, Mrs. Charlotte Calhoun:
😄2024 Great Kindness Challenge😄
🎀Daddy & Daughter Ball🎀
❤️Valentine's Day Parties❤️
📅ATTENDANCE Matters!📅
Counselor Connection
Our school’s mission is to create a safe, respectful environment with high levels of learning for all. In an effort to fulfill our mission to promote student safety, Hurricane Creek Elementary is collaborating with Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center to provide additional resources for students and families (MBF Child Safety Matters.) Please be sure to read and access the following:
JANUARY Parent Guidance Newsletter
- "Clear Lungs, Bright Futures: Understanding Vaping and Smoking"
Nurse's News
- Make sure students come to school with coats and are appropriately dressed for the weather.
- Please remember that if your child is sick, do not send them to school.
- If they are running a fever of 100.0 or greater, they have to be fever free for 24 hours (without medication) prior to returning to school.
- Also, if your child is vomiting, keep them home for 24 hours until vomiting has stopped, also without medication.
- Please send extra clothes in your child's backpack to bring to school in case of an accident.
- Encourage your child to not share combs, hats, scarfs, headbands, or coats with other students for hygiene reasons.
PTO News/Information...
Therefore, our next meeting will be held on February 12th.
**Our PTO is in need of parent volunteers. Please join and support. Thank you!❤️🤍💙**
Important LINKS
Weekly Encouragement
Hurricane Creek Elementary
Bryant Public Schools
501-653-1012 (Office)
501-778-5456 (Fax)
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller