Huskies in the Know
Week of December 16-18
Important Dates to Know
- 12 Days of December Dress Up Days - Tuesday, December 3 - Wednesday, December 18
Taco-Bout It Tuesday with the Counselors - Tuesday, December 17; 6:30 PM in the Library
School-wide Read in Our Pajamas Day - Wednesday, December 18; 9-10 AM (the front office will shut down for this hour)
Last Day of School Before the Winter Break - Wednesday, December 18
End of the 3rd Grading Period - Wednesday, December 18
Winter Holiday Break (NO SCHOOL) - December 19-January 7
2nd Semester Begins/School Resumes - Wednesday, January 8
TOGO Party (during the school day) - Monday, January 13
Icenhower Spelling Bee - Friday, December 10; 9:00 AM in the Library
Dog Dollar Store - Friday, December 10; 11:00-1:30
School-wide "Read in Our Pajamas Day" on Wednesday, December 18th
On Wednesday, December 18, our entire school will shut down for one hour. All students and staff will come to school in their pajamas, curl up with a book and read from about 9:00-10:00.
Our front office will shut down during this designated time so that all staff can read.
We WILL NOT be answering the phones and/or opening the front doors for this hour of reading. Only in emergency situations will we answer the door!
November Staff of the Month Winner!
Each month, we pick a word from our Staff Social Contract, and the staff member that exhibits that word the most becomes our person we honor for that month!
The November word was Encouraging!
Holiday BINGO for the Staff - We need your help!
If you would still like to donate a gift card for our faculty BINGO, you can bring donated Gift Cards/Items to the front office by Monday, December 16, and tell them that it is for Staff BINGO. If the business needs a letter for tax purposes, we have those to give to them.
Thank you in advance for anything you can donate to make it a GREAT Day for our staff!
AA; BB Days for Electives This Week!
- Friday, December 13 - A Day
- Monday, December 16 - A Day
- Tuesday, December 17 - B Day
- Wednesday, December 18 - B Day
12 Days of December Dress Up Themes
Our 2nd TOGO Party is Coming!
Our second school-wide TOGO Party is scheduled for Monday, December 13. The party will be during the school day, and we will be running on an alternate schedule, so lunch times will be altered!
Students who do not get their TOGO Card taken up between December 3-January 13, are eligible to attend the party. Students who get their TOGO card taken for any reason during this time frame CANNOT attend the party (even if the student earns it back and has his/her card on the day of the party)!
Again, if their card is taken anytime from Tuesday, December 3 - Monday, January 13, they CANNOT go to the party!!!
Attention Parents - Lunch Deliveries!
Parents are more than welcome to drop off their child’s lunch for them to come and get in the office, however, we WILL NOT be interrupting any CORE class for him/her to come get the lunch.
From this point forward, students will be called down during their WIN Time to come get their lunch that has been dropped off in the front office (this is 3rd period for 6th grade; 4rd period for 5th grade).
Important Reminders about Attendance!
Excused absences notices must be in the following format to be accepted:
- Must be a Parent Note, Dr. Note, Email, etc.
- Must have FULL LEGAL Student Name & Grade Level
- Must be Excused within the current 6 week grading period
We WILL NOT go back and Excuse them after that grading period has ended!
Friendly reminder about students arriving before 8:00 AM
Icenhower staff begins their duty day at 8:00 AM. Students who are dropped off before 8:00 AM will not be supervised.
The school day ends at 4:00 PM. Please make sure your student is picked up in a timely manner.
School-Wide Reading Initiative Continues!
This will be Icenhower's 2nd year implementing our School-Wide Reading Initiative where all student will be required to read a certain amount of books from several genres for the school year (more information to come from your child's Language Arts teachers)! All staff members also join in on this challenge (including our administrative team)!
Our teachers will continue to build their classroom libraries to give students and staff a wide variety of books to choose from, and any books you no longer use would be greatly appreciated!
You can drop off your donated books in either the front office or give them to your child's Language Arts teacher!
No Messages will be delivered after 3:00 PM
We understand that emergency situations can come up, and those will be handled accordingly.
Arrival and Dismissal Procedures
Please follow the arrival and dismissal procedures as explained below. Parent drop off and pick WILL BE in the front, and these procedures MUST be followed to ensure the safety of our students and staff. Everything will go much smoother if everyone follows the correct procedures!
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Students arriving prior to 8:00am are outside and unsupervised until 8:00am. At 8:00am, students enter the building and report to the gym or to the cafeteria for breakfast. The tardy bell rings at 8:30. Students not in class at this time will report to the office and sign-in as “tardy to school.”
MISD Volunteer Application for the 19-20 School Year!!
Anyone wishing to volunteer and/or attend events at Icenhower must complete the Volunteer Application for the 2019-2020 school year. This includes field trips, class parties, PTA Socials and Field Day.
Parents that have more than one student at multiple campuses, only need to complete one application.
Please use the link below to fill out the application! It takes just a few minutes, and you MUST be on the approved list if you would like to attend any events listed above.
https://www.mansfieldisd.org/parents-students/campus-volunteers
How to Stay In the Know!
- Icenhower' Campus Remind; Text the message @e4c9f2 to 81010 (see link below)
- Follow Icenhower Intermediate on Twitter @huskyproud
- Like Icenhower Intermediate on Facebook @huskyproud
- Like Icenhower PTA on Facebook @incehowerpta
- Visit our website at https://www.mansfieldisd.org/page.cfm?p=3182
- Weekly Newsletter
- Skyward Email Blasts
- Communication with the teachers
- Google Classroom for each subject