B.B RICE ELEMENTARY
September 2018
904 Gladstell Street
Conroe, TX 77304
936-709-2700
Fax 936-709-2799
School Mission
More than competency in the basic skills of reading, writing, and math, it is this school’s mission to nurture in each child:
The habit of creative independent thinking, a positive self-image, an attitude of social cooperation and moral responsibility, pride in self, community, state, and country, and
the ability to be a producer, not just a consumer, of Knowledge.
“In this school, we reach for the stars.”
School Information
- The building opens at 7:30 for students to eat breakfast and go to class.
- Please do not drop off students before 7:30 as there is no adult
- supervision.
- Breakfast is served from 7:30-7:55. 1st through 4th grade eat inside their classrooms. PK and Kinder eat in the cafeteria.
- Morning PK students go directly to the cafeteria and meet their teachers.
- The lunch menu is located on the Rice website: Rice.conroeisd.net
- Afternoon PK begins at 12:10. If they are going to eat lunch, then they need to arrive at 11:45.
- Students may not be checked out or change transportation mode after 2:30. This is for the safety of the students.
- Dismissal begins at 3:10.
- Please make sure you have your car rider sign in your car for car rider. You will be asked to park and come inside if you do not have your tag.
- Thank you for all your help to make this the very best year!!!
From the Principal's Desk
Message From Your Assistant Principal
Message From School Counselor...
Pre-K
Pre-K is off to an awesome start! Here are a few reminders for the school year. First, school begins at 8:00 for morning students, and school begins at 12:10 for afternoon students. Please make sure your child is at school and on time. It is very important for their development! Second, write your child’s name inside his/her coat and backpack. Third, leave a complete change of clothing, including socks, in a gallon Ziploc bag in their backpack. Remember reading to your child nightly is the greatest gift you can give them! We are looking forward to a successful year with lots of fun and learning! Please contact your child’s teacher if you have any questions. Thank you for all your support!
Kinder
We are excited to have your child in Kindergarten at BB Rice. The first month of school we will be focusing on a few important concepts such as:
identifying and writing our name
identifying and writing uppercase and lowercase letters
corresponding the correct sound to each letter
identifying and writing numbers 0-10
following 1-2 step directions
tying Shoes
Please work with your child at home on these concepts!
Helpful Reminders:
Please put your child’s first and last name on jackets, backpacks, lunch boxes, etc in case they are misplaced.
Please make sure to send an extra set of clothes (socks and underwear included) in a gallon sized bag to keep in your child’s backpack.
If you need to send money to school, please place it in a sealed envelope with your child’s first and last name, the amount of money included, and the destination of the money (Ex: John Smith, $20, lunch money)
First Grade
Welcome to 1st grade! This month, your child will be learning many new concepts. In Math, they will be learning how sort data using a graph, and addition and subtraction within 5. Please count from 0 to 120 with your child daily. This will help them be successful in our upcoming math units!
In Language Arts, we will be reviewing Kindergarten sight words, introducing Writer's Workshop, and establishing routines for Reader’s Workshop. We will also begin practicing writing small moments.
Social Studies will be integrated into language arts with a focus on citizenship, pledges, and freedom. In Science, we must learn the foundations of being a scientist and science safety.
Please begin an evening reading routine with your child if you do not already have one. This could be you reading to them or them reading to you. Reading helps them grow in so many ways! We are excited to have your child in our classroom. We will be encouraging your child to try everything when it comes to exploring new school concepts. We cannot wait to watch them grow this year!
Second Grade
Your children are off to a great start in second grade! We have started off the year learning about raccoons, science safety, handwriting, reading, word work, patterns and numbers and citizenship. We have a busy year ahead of us, and no time to waste. We will be testing all second graders on their fluency and phonemic awareness at the beginning of school. We would like to have a conference with all parents to discuss our classroom procedures, let you know how your children are doing, and to also fill you in on everything you need to know about second grade. Please schedule a conference with your child’s teacher at your earliest convenience. We would also like to emphasize the importance of practicing sight words, vocabulary words, and math facts (addition and subtraction through 18) each night. We appreciate all your support and are looking forward to working together to make your child’s second grade year spectacular!
Third Grade
Welcome to 3rd grade! We are going to be learning so much this year and look forward to a wonderful school year.
In Math, we will are studying place value up to 100,000. Please work with your child on the value of each digit. Science have been discussing science safety and will begin working on properties and states of matter. In Social Studies, we are discussing our roles in the classroom and community of the school. The choice we make affect ourselves and others.
Your readers will be learning how to build a powerful reading life! We will choose just right books and dive into the genre of fiction. We will learn about character traits, story elements and retelling of stories. Your writers will begin to gather topics and compose a personal narrative.
Fourth Grade
Here are our 4th grade teachers; Ms. Simon, Mrs. Haugen, Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Gasper and Ms. Hargitay. We are settling into our routine and have established our classroom and homework expectations. Please make sure that your child is completing his/her homework and returning it daily. Your 4th grader has a Student Planner/Calendar that shows the week’s assignments, so be sure to ask your student about it.
We are excited about all the reading and writing opportunities this year. The focus will continue to be on comprehension and increased stamina for reading longer periods of time. We will be teaching our objectives through different reading genres, such as poetry, informational, drama, and fiction. Fourth grade is also a time of writing compositions in preparation for the Writing STAAR test. We are developing skills necessary to write both narrative and expository compositions. Writing complete sentences with elaboration and punctuation has been our major focus so far.
In math, students have been working on place value. Our students will be doing lots of computation practice in addition and subtraction, as well as multiplication. Memorization of facts is so important to be successful in solving multiple step problems and higher-level questions.
Our 4th grade scientists have been learning lab safety and thinking like a scientist and will begin studying matter.
In social studies, the students have been learning the symbols of Texas and will be reviewing their map skills in preparation for the study of the regions of our great state. Ask your student what he/she has learned about the U.S. Constitution!
Thanks for all you do to help your child be successful. If you have not scheduled a conference with your child’s teacher, please do so soon. It takes all of us working together for a great 4th grade year.
From The Library ...Ms. Parks
Nurses Notes...Mrs. McLaren
Welcome back Rice Racoons! Just a friendly reminder that all medication must be brought to the clinic by a parent. Prescription medication should be in the original container with the child’s name and current instructions for administration. Over the counter medication should be in the original container with the child’s name. Please check the expiration date for all medication.
If you have a child in Kindergarten, please pack a complete change of clothes to leave in your child's backpack “just in case”.
Hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2018-2019 school year,
Michelle McLaren, RN