Early Excellence Express
November 12, 2020
Planting Seeds of Kindness
Take a look below at our EEA leaderboard!
Virtual Book Fair has begun!
Link to Book Fair
LANGUAGE LAB SPOTLIGHT SKILL
Students continue to build a positive climate as they work on skills such as problem solving, teamwork, communication, critical thinking, creativity, and leadership.
Hear from Ms. Michelle on this week's skill set focus and how you can assist our children in transferring skills from the classroom to home and the community.
In Language Lab, we are continuing our lessons on Kindness; what it is and what it looks like. Today we talked about what Kindness means. We learned that kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate. Please see the following link to this amazing video on Kindness https://youtu.be/u-TLCbfeAJc .
I am in awe of all the Acts of Kindness our students engage in at home and school. Thank you for messaging us when you see kindness happen at home! This Friday is World Kindness Day, please wear shirts that show off your kindness power.
Kind Regards,
Ms. Michelle
WEEK IN REVIEW
Clothing Swap
All summer apparel/ extra clothing will be sent home in nap bags on Friday, November 20.
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP FEAST
There are a few essentials for every Thanksgiving celebration: family, friends, festive tunes, a tasty menu, pie and more pie. Over the years, your family has probably developed some beloved traditions associated with Turkey Day, from the food you serve for Thanksgiving dinner to what you do pre- and post-feast (watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in bed, break out a good book or challenging jigsaw puzzle, or maybe even play a mid-afternoon game of football).
This year's festivities, though, are bound to look a little different in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and social distancing. Yes, you might have to skip a few of your oldest traditions, but that also makes it the perfect time to add a few activities that you haven't done.
We are asking each EEA family to submit a short video (20-30 seconds in length) highlighting your favorite Thanksgiving Tradition or Treat to be shared at our annual Friendship Feast.
Please submit videos to MichelleVazquez@tomballisd.net by Wednesday, November 18. Videos will be presented Thursday and Friday, November 19 and 20.
UPCOMING EVENTS: YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS OUT
November 6-19
- Scholastic Virtual Book Fair
November 13
- World Kindness Day
November 16
- Seasonal Clothing Swap
November 18
- Education Support Professionals Day
November 20
- Friendship Feast
- A Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving
- Summer clothing sent home in nap bag
November 23-27
- Thanksgiving Break
December 8-9
- Christmas World Tour
December 11
- Polar Express Day (wear your pajamas to school)
December 16
- Grinch Day (wear green)
December 17
- Reindeer Games
December 18
- Winter Wonderland (wear Christmas colors)
January 15
- Progress Reports sent home
UPDATE FROM TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMISSION
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has extended the emergency rules (PDF) related to health and safety standards for child day care operations that became effective on June 25, 2020. This extension makes the emergency rules effective through December 21, 2020.
There are no changes to the content of the emergency rules, and these emergency rules continue to include many of guidelines from the Open Texas Child Care Checklist (PDF).
Drop Off and Pick Up Procedures
**REMINDERS**
*Please pull up to the first available orange cone. If no cone is available, please wait inside your vehicle until a spot is open.
*Placing carseats in the middle or passenger side of your vehicle is safest when loading and unloading children.
Staggered Drop off and Pick up times can be found HERE.
Please note that the drop off and pick up windows include 15 minutes from the time published.
Please note that a child can be picked up earlier or dropped off later than the posted times.
STUDENT ILLNESS PARENT HANDBOOK REMINDERS
Our first priority at the Early Excellence Academy is providing a healthy, safe learning
environment for all children. Each day, upon arrival, your child is given a visual health
check to ensure that he/she is healthy and prepared for fun and learning. If your child gets sick at school, we will notify you as soon as possible. If we are unable to reach you, we will notify the emergency contacts on your list in the order listed.
Children/staff will be sent home as soon as possible if any of the following is experienced:
1. The illness prevents the child from participating comfortably in activities (as determined
by the staff).
2. The illness results in a greater need for care than the staff can reasonably provide
without compromising the health or safety of other children in the classroom
3. A child is experiencing any of the following conditions:
a. A temperature of 100 or greater that is accompanied by behavior changes and
or other symptoms of illness including but not limited too: lethargy, uncontrolled
coughing, inexplicable irritability or persistent crying, difficulty breathing, and/or
wheezing
b. Uncontrollable Diarrhea
i. Actively potty training: Not contained in the pull-up, and/or exceeds two
or more stools above the normal for that child
ii. A toilet-trained child: Has two or more abnormally loose stools and/or
the diarrhea is causing soiled pants and clothing
c. Head lice or eggs
d. Vomiting (2 or more times)
e. Sore throat with swollen tonsils or glands, white spots in throat, or throat that
hurts when swallowing
f. Colored discharge from the nose
g. Constant, deep, or hacking cough
h. Signs of conjunctivitis (pink eye), such as redness or discharge from one or
both eyes
i. Undetermined rash
j. Any reportable condition that the local health department or primary care
physician has determined to be contagious.
Tomball ISD has released the updated Return to Work handbook for employees. This handbook has listed the following conditions associated with COVID:
- Measured temperature equal or greater than 100.4*
- Chills
- Close contact with a person who is lab-confirmed to have COVID-19
- Congestion or runny nose*
- Diarrhea
- Fatigue
- Feverish Feeling*
- Headache
- Muscle Pain
- Nausea or vomitting
- Headache
- Muscle Pain
- New loss of taste or smell
- New uncontrolled cough*
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing*
- Sore throat*
*Children with new or worsening signs or symptoms will not be allowed entry into EEA until 72 hours (3 days) have passed since resolution of fever without the use of fever reducing medication.*
Parents should be vigilantly monitoring the health of their child and not send them to the program if they are displaying any symptom of COVID.
MENU
SACK LUNCH DAYS
Students will need to pack a sack lunch on the following days:
Spring Semester
- January 4
- January 5
- January 18
- February 15
- May 28
Lunches should be packaged using disposable materials only.
Please note that no food deliveries will be allowed to EEA.
EEA TEACHER WEBSITES
Please visit teacher websites for additional classroom information !
YOUTH SERVICES SPECIALIST
Referrals can come from any school staff, parents, a friend, other agencies, or the community. If in doubt, feel free to contact Samantha at
SamanthaPromise@tomballisd.net
281-357-3280 (EXT. 3310)
Contact Us
When dialing into EEA from an out of district line, please dial the main number to our district, 281-357-3100, then dial our EEA extension, 2620. If you are phoning from an in district line, please dial the extension only, 2620.
Email: meganparker@tomballisd.net
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Location: 30330 Quinn Road, Tomball, TX, USA
Phone: 281-357-3100 2620
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