Elm Grove Eagles! This year we are going to support our community by assisting the Society of St. Stephen with a Thanksgiving Canned Food Drive! Last year we were able to support 500 families in our community!

How can you help support our Community? Bring non perishable items to your classroom from November 8th - November 17th. Each item brought to school counts as 1 item in the count. Food items must not be expired, so check your expiration dates! Also, we will not collect any food items that need to be stored in a refrigerator! Only cans and dry goods, please!

Be a Charity Champ! Each grade level class who brings the most food donation items will be recognized as the Charity Champ during the Turkey Trot and receive the Charity Champ Trophy to display in their classroom for the year!

Unfortunately, due to food shortages across the state and nation, we will not be able to have visitors for the Thanksgiving Feast this year. Students and staff will still have the traditional Thanksgiving sides, but a non-traditional meat will be served. We are, however, excited to have you participate in the Turkey Trot (see more information below) on Friday, November 19th! Here is some further information from Child Nutrition regarding Thanksgiving meals:

• Thanksgiving Meals - Unfortunately, there will be no turkey available this year for the Thanksgiving Meals. Even though we provided forecasts and ordered two months out, our supplier could not obtain them. We did try to look into other options such as ham, roast, and tamales, but ran into the exact same issues with our supplier unable to procure those foods for us either. We will still be offering all of the Thanksgiving Day side items (Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, etc.), but the center of the plate protein item will be subbed out.

During this cold season, student have many symptoms that make a student uncomfortable during the school day. One of those is sore throat. Although it is tempting to send cough drops to school with your student, Humble ISD does not allow students to carry cough drops or allow school staff to administer cough drops to students. Why? All throat drops are considered a dietary supplement and are not FDA approved. Dietary ingredients are defined as vitamin, mineral, herb or other botanical; amino acids or enzymes. Non-FDA approved products can add/remove ingredients and change the amount of ingredient without notification to any entity. Menthol, ascorbic acid eucalyptus oil, glucose, sucrose, caramel, various dyes, pectin, corn syrup, honey, soybean oil, isomalt, capsicum, licorice, zinc to name only a very few ingredients. An examination of 5 of the most common cough drops products revealed 27 different ingredients with one listed as herb mixture containing 10 herbs and 3 other ingredients. A copy of the Humble ISD throat drop product policy is available from your school nurse.

How can I help my child who has cold symptoms? Read Kid's Health- Colds for suggestions. Article includes ways to prevent, how to help your child at home, and when to go to the doctor.

Additional medication, sunscreen, insect repellent, and dietary/herbal suppliement information in your Parent Student Handbook on page 106.

Attendance is very important to a child's education. If your child(ren) have to be absent for any reason please report the absence.

When reporting an absence it is important to include the child's first and last name, the teacher's name, date(s) they were absent, and the reason for the absence. Listed below are some options on how you can report an absence.

• Online Absence Excuse Form

• Email the attendance office

• Send Parent Note with Student
• Call 281-641-1719
• Fax Parent Note 281-641-1717

For the safety of all of our tutoring students and teachers, please pull past the 2nd set of doors in the back of the school. There should be one line only during pick-up.

Want to help earn cash for our school's Eagle Buck Cart? Scan for Box Tops! There are now two ways to earn box tops for our school! You can cut your box tops and turn them in or you can simply send your store receipt to school for us to scan to our account! It's that easy!

Please drop your box tops or store receipts in our Box Top tub in the front office and we will do the rest! Want to scan your own receipts? Click Here to learn how!