Cardinal Courier: October 15th

Hello Cardinals,

These next few months are probably some of the busiest months that we have at school with several events going on! As we approach each event you will be able to find details and information about the event in our Cardinal Courier. Please reach out to your child's teacher, our front office or our administrators if something is unclear or you have questions!

Our wonderful PTO will be partnering with us to provide breakfast to First Responders for First Responders Day on Oct. 28th! We would love to invite any parents or community members that are First Responders to join us. We would love for you to dress in uniform and say hello to our students during arrival from 7:30-8:00. Then we will treat you to breakfast! If you know someone in our neighborhood that is a First Responder, please let them know about our event and invite them to come. We look forward to thanking them for their service!

On October 31st we are inviting parents to join us for our Storybook Character Parade. We have included details and a map below. We can't wait to see all our students shine as they show off their very best costumes!

We will be sending out an email with safety reminders for all of our arrival locations! It is important that all of our students and parents know how to stay safe at each of our arrival locations, so be on the look out and have conversations with your students so they also know what to expect. Thank you for partnering with us to keep our cardinals safe!

October

19th- Fall Pictures

20th- Marcos Spirit Night (All Day Event)

21st- Spirit Sticks on sale from 7:30-8:00

22nd- Blossom Garden Club Volunteer Event (see flyer below)

24th-28th Red Ribbon Week (see flyer below)

28th- First Responders Day Breakfast

31st- Storybook Character Dress Up (see details and map below)

November

1st- Parent/Teacher Conference Day (No School for students)

5th- Cardinal County Fair

8th- Student Holiday (No School for students)

10th- Thanksgiving Feast for 1st, 3rd and 5th grade

11th- Veteran's Day Parade at 8:45am

11th- Thanksgiving Feast for Pre-K, Kinder, 2nd and 5th

18th- Turkey Trot

We will try to get our Storybook Character Parade started as close to 8:30 as possible. Students will be parading through the school to show off their costumes before coming outside for the parent portion of the parade. Parents in order to ensure that you don't miss it, we would like for you to park in the main parking lot (see picture) and be in the viewing area at 8:30. We will have you line up around the inside and outside of the bus drop off area (see picture). Students will exit one of the cafeteria doors, walk around the circle and then go back in the other cafeteria door. We just ask that you please not stop your student to take pictures since it is important that they stay with their class.

As part of our district and campus safety practices, we will be practicing our Lockdown Drill on October 18th. Prior to the drill our teachers will have age appropriate conversations about what students will be asked to do during the drill. This is our common practice on campus for all drills we conduct. We will come on the announcements and talk students/teachers through the drill to ensure everyone stays calm and knows that it is a drill. After the drill, you will receive a communication from us that a lockdown drill was conducted on campus. As always if you have any questions regarding our drills or safety practices on campus Mrs. Tannisha Oyeniyi or I would be happy to speak with you!

As we are talking about safety, it is important that our kiddos know 2 ways out in the event of a house fire. The Harris County Fire Marshall Office is getting the word out and conducting a coloring contest. Please consider participating in the "Fire Won't Wait. Plan Your Escapes" contest and take this opportunity to talk to your children about escape routes and meeting location in the event of a fire.

Stay up to date with what is happening when your child goes to specials (Art, Music, PE and Computers)! Click on the picture and it will take you to the newsletter!

A huge thank you to Coach Rodee and Mr. Davenport (our SLP) for volunteering their time to sponsor this club! If your 4th or 5th grader is interested, please see details below!

Our Lost and Found is starting to fill up! Please take a moment when you are on campus to stop by and look to see if any of your child's lost items are there! We do our best to look for names on items and deliver those back to students. If the item doesn't have a name on it, it goes into the lost and found. We will probably clean out the lost and found when everyone leaves for Thanksgiving Break. This will give students and families and opportunity on Conference Day (Nov. 1st) and Thanksgiving Feast Days to look for lost items. Items that have not been claimed by then will be donated. Parents feel free to check in a the front office any morning and go check the lost and found it needed!

We hope you will consider partnering with the Fall Creek PTO for our 12th Annual Cardinal County Fair Fall Fundraiser! CCF is a great opportunity to promote your business and let the community know what you have to offer. If your family or local business are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can submit payment directly through Membership Toolkit (link below). The event is enjoyed by the entire Fall Creek community, and all net proceeds directly support FCE. For more information on sponsorship levels, please see Sponsor Form. Link to sponsor: https://fcpto.membershiptoolkit.com/form/m/209219.

Check out our new spirit shop on fcpto.com under Online Forms!

Please do not reply directly to this email with questions as this email account is only monitored a few times a week. To get your questions answered in a timely manner, please email Jamie.tallent@humbleisd.net or toyeniy@humbleisd.net directly.