Rocket Fuel
Hoosier Road Elementary School's Newsletter for 5-11-18
Upcoming Events
iPad Rental & Library book returns: Week of May 14th
HRE Blood Drive: Wed, May 16th 3:00-6:30pm
Cultural & Creativity Night: Thurs, May 17th 5:30-6:30pm
HRE Talent Show: Thurs, May 17th 7:00-8:00pm
Kona Ice Day: Fri, May 18th
Last Day for Lunch Visitors: Friday, May 19th
Field Day: KG-2nd May 22nd; 3rd-4th May 23rd; Rain date for KG-4th May 24th
Field Day Popsicle Opt-out: See below
4th Grade Celebration: Friday, May 25th (see below)
What's Cooking?
The Launching Pad Café
Lunch Menu for the week of May 14th (Green Week)
Monday: Chicken Tenders
Tuesday: Cheese Omelet
Wednesday: Breaded Chicken Sandwich
Thursday: Ravioli with Meat Sauce
Friday: Potato Crunch Fish Bites
For complete breakfast and lunch menus, please click here.
*No pork is served; we use turkey-based products.
Rockets of the Month for April
Each month, our students focus on one of our many character traits. "PERSEVERANCE" was the focal point during the month of April. Each classroom teacher selected one student who best exemplified that trait and that student is named the "Rocket of the Month" for his or her class. Click Here to view the Rockets of the Month listing.
Weekly G.R.I.P. Winners
Kindergarten: Charles Haider from Mrs. Fleenor's class was caught showing Respect.
1st Grade: Maggie Boling from Mrs. Dankert's class was caught showing Respect.
2nd Grade: Kellen Northcutt from Mrs. Margolis' class was caught showing Respect.
3rd Grade: Cater Jensen from Mrs. Peterson's class was caught showing Respect.
4th Grade: Cassie Ford from Mrs. Lattal's class was caught showing Purpose.
Important End of Year Information
Rented iPad Collection
- Only the iPad device & case will be returned. You will keep the cord and charging brick/block.
- Just a few steps are needed to help prepare your school owned iPad for return.
- Please keep in mind that these instructions are written for an iPad Air on iOS 11. Steps for other models may vary.
Please be certain you have completed the following:
- Remove Passcode
- Remove Restrictions Code
- Remove iCloud (please note that if your student's iPad has not been signed out of iCloud, you will be contacted by the school for your iCloud password)
- Clean iPad
For instructions on how to complete the above, please click on the following link.
Library Books
Field Day
Popsicle Permission
Ingredients: Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fruit Juice (Contains One or More of the Following: Apple, Grape or Pear Juice from Concentrate), Contains Less than 2% of the Following: Citric and/or Fumaric Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate (Preservatives), Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5 , Yellow No. 6 and Blue No. 1.
Volunteers needed!
An HRE student favorite event is coming soon! Field Day 2018 will be Tuesday May 22nd AND Wednesday May 23rd. On Tuesday May 22, Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade will participate. On Wednesday May 23, 3rd grade and 4th grade will have their turn. We need MANY volunteers to help run the games during Field Day. Don't miss out on this fun, active way to end the school year!
Please see the sign up for time information and to sign up to help: http://signup.com/go/ojPdEDj
If you have questions, please email Jen Dack at jenniferdack@gmail.com
Last Call for Lost & Found
Please have your child check for lost items soon!
Our lost and found, located in the office workroom, is overloaded with a variety of items. Please have your child search for any lost articles by the last day of school. Anything left in the lost and found by the end of the day on Friday, May 25th will be donated to a local charity.
If you don't trust your son or daughter to look thoroughly, please feel free to stop by during our normal office hours to give it the once over!
4th Grade End of Year Celebration
4th Grade Parents...This year we are making some exciting changes to our end of year ceremony for our outgoing fourth graders. The changes will allow us to shift from a ceremony to a celebration! We will still begin our celebration in the gym, but then we will be breaking off into classrooms for the remainder of our awards/celebration. Students will have the opportunity to take part in a class party following their awards and then are welcome to leave with parents when the celebration ends. A future Skylert will share more details and as always if you have questions please be sure to let us know.
Did you forget to order your child's yearbook?
If you did not order a yearbook, but would like to purchase one, you're in luck! We purposely ordered a few extra yearbooks to sell on a cash only, first come, first served basis.
Beginning Monday, May 14th, parents may come to the HRE office to reserve a soft cover yearbook for $20 or a hard cover yearbook for $25 -- while supplies last! Cash only and the exact amount please - we are not able to provide change. Yearbooks purchased will be kept at school and given to students when their classmates receive their yearbooks on the 22nd. Yearbooks purchased after the 22nd and beyond will be given to the purchasing parent. Once yearbooks are gone -- they're gone!
Please note: In order to maintain some semblance of order and integrity while selling the extra copies, we will NOT accept orders or cash sent in with students and will NOT take orders over the phone. Thank you for understanding and helping us to make the process fair and orderly.
Hoosier Road Elementary School Community and Family Blood Drive
Be a hero and your student gets recognized!
Our students have learned how donating blood saves lives!
PLEASE volunteer to donate blood at our school blood drive by clicking here.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
3:00pm-6:30pm
Bloodmobile at Hoosier Road Elementary School
Donate, and your student will be recognized for inspiring others! All of our students that recruit 1 donor will receive an emoji plush backpack clip!
Please bring photo ID, don’t skip meals and hydrate prior to donating. Questions about eligibility to donate? Call 317-916-5150.
Dine to Donate from May - July 31st
Join us for a Dine to Donate at
Primanti Brothers Restaurant and Bar
13871 Cabela Parkway
May 1 – July 31, 2018
Present the Home Town Edge card that your child should have brought home and 10% of your purchase will support the HRE PTO. If you receive more than one card, feel free to share the extras with friends and family. Good for dine in, carry out, and all food and beverage purchases. We appreciate your support!
Jackson L. Palmer Summer Sports Camp Scholarship Recipients
The Palmer family, together with Hoosier Road Elementary, are proud to announce the recipients of the annual Jackson L. Palmer Summer Sports Camp Scholarship. Congratulations to Cooper Haltom and Josephine Kelley as the 2018 summer sports scholarship recipients. Among the many qualified applicants, the selection committee felt that these students best exemplified the strong moral character, abiding passion for sports, and excellent leadership skills that Jackson possessed.
Box Tops Winning Classes
We want to congratulate these three classes for bringing in the most Box Tops!
1st place Mrs. Howard
2nd place Mrs. Edwards
3rd place Mr. Striegel
A big thanks to the generosity of the following donors: Jet’s Pizza, Sky Zone, Culver’s, Chick-Fil-A, Goldfish Swim School, and Hot Box Pizza who donated prizes to the winning classes. Classes voted on which prize pack their classes wanted. Please continue to save your Box Tops over the summer and there will be another contest in the Fall.
Formula One Passion Project
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
HRE Teachers and Staff would like to thank Shelley Harder and all of the PTO volunteers for making this week amazing. Your time, donations, and hard work to make this week special has not gone unnoticed. We truly appreciate all you did for us this week (and throughout the year)!
The HRE PTO Staff Appreciation Committee would like to send a shout out to all the families who have donated and served throughout the year to make our teachers and staff feel appreciated. We could not have done all the we do without you. We would also like to recognize the businesses and families who generously donated to our daily teacher drawings and to our big end of the week teacher and staff gifts.
Beauty Bar @ Geist
Chick-fil-A on Bergen Blvd
Crave Ice Cream Social
Dottie Couture Fishers
El Camino Real Fishers
Escape Room Fishers
Fresh 2 Order
Greek's Pizzeria Fishers
Cynthia's Hallmark on Brookschool Road
Handel's
Heather Brown Studio
Sola Salons
Nothing Bundt Cakes
State of Grace
Fishers Target
Wild Ginger
96th Street Chiropractic
Indiana Pacers
Jaggers
Flamme Burger
Courtney Creech at Ciao Bella Salon
Blue Peppermint
Fishers YMCA
Stacked Pickle
Jimmy Johns on Market Square Dr.
Shannon's Pure Skin
Aqua Tots Swim School
Sahm's
Home Depot Noblesville
Olive Garden on Tegler Dr.
Prime Carwash
Semper Fi Car Detailing
B Present Studio
China Wok
Sunrise Cafe Fishers
The Harder Family
The Badgett Family
The Strawhacker Family
The Balbo Family
The Marietta Family
Jacob Grogan
The Frank Family
The Kirkendall Family
The Inzerello Family
The Nagle Family
The Jasper Family
The Yagelski Family
The Geuder Family
The Proll Family
The Stewart Family
The Sutton Family
The Bradway Family
The Mitchell Family
The Brodahl Family
The Flynn Family
The Griffin Family
The Link Family
The Vetter Family
Summer Meal Program
The Fishers Youth Assistance Program is offering a free summer meal program for students who qualify for the free/reduced lunch program in the Hamilton Southeastern School District. This program will run for the 9 weeks of summer: June 4th through July 23rd, with the exception of the week of July 2nd. Families will be provided with unprepared bags of groceries with a weekly menu and ingredients for each child. The goal of this program is to provide the breakfast and lunch meals your child would have received during the school year. The program is open to children ages 2 up to those entering 12th grade in fall 2018.
To be part of this free program, you must sign your family up NO LATER THAN MAY 25, 2018. This program will be LIMITED TO the first 400 children who are registered so you are encouraged to register early. You will receive an email confirming your accepted registration.
To complete the registration and obtain more information about this program please go to: https://bit.ly/2HG5ESz
Volunteers & Lunch Visitors Reminder
Per HSE Policy, visitors must have their SafeVisitor Badge scanned to check-in to the building. Please download the SafeVisitor App (it is available in Google Play or via the app store on the iPhone) or have your badge available when you come into the school. Looking up names can lead to the wrong person being signed in.
Upon leaving, please give your printed badge to the office staff for quick check-out.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Vicki Foutty at 317-594-4100.
upcoming community events
Food Allergy Seminar
Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) is offering a free seminar and panel discussion for parents on the management a child's food allergies in school on May 17th 6:30-8:00pm at HSE High School. Refer to the event flyer located on the HSE Community Bulletin Board for more information (the link for the community bulletin board is at the bottom of this newsletter).
Space is limited and registration is required. Register at https://farek12.eventbrite.com
Hoosier Road Elementary School
Email: name@hse.k12.in.us
Website: www.hse.k12.in.us/hre
Location: 11300 E 121st St, Fishers, IN 46037
Phone: (317) 915-4240
Twitter: @HRErockets