Richardson Terrace Elementary
October 3, 2022
Terrace Kickball! Game
We are getting ready for our annual kickball game happening on October 6th. We want to hype up Mean Green vs. Orange Crush, so we'll be selling kickball cards at lunch every day until we sell out. GO GREEN! GO ORANGE! YAY KICKBALL!
Multicultural Night is November 2nd 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Our Multicultural Night is back and will be better than ever! All Terrace families are invited to bring a dish to share to get in free or pay $5 per person/$20 per family of 4+. We will enjoy sharing a meal together and will have dancing, singing, an art show, and more! Students will have the opportunity to enter their names into chance drawings for teacher experience and parents can bid on silent auction items. We will also offer henna tattoos. All chance drawing tickets, silent auction items, henna tattoos, and entrance fees must be paid for in cash. We do not have the ability to take credit cards.
As a new addition to our Multicultural Night festivities, the Santonicola Family has offered to provide samples of pizza from their award-winning restaurant Partenope!
There is no school on Friday, October 7th. This is a work day for teachers
Fair Day is Monday, October 10th. There is no school for students & staff.
Terrace Elementary Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
2nd Grade sings and moves to Baile de los Colores
2nd grade learned dynamics with the chant Bate Bate Chocolate and sang and moved with scarves to the song Baile de los Colores
Domingo Flamingo
1st grade loved getting to sing and move to the song Domingo Flamingo sung by Jose-Luis Orozco.
Pajarito tan Bonito
1st grade learns high and low sounds for the song Pajarito tan Bonito.
For Hispanic Heritage in the library, K-2 read books in English and Spanish then we learned the Spanish version of Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes.
To help staff and students locate books for Hispanic Heritage we have a display (pictured) as well as a book list on our online catalog.
CultureGrams, Pebble Go, and PebbleGo Next are wonderful online library resources for learning more about countries and culture for Hispanic Heritage as well as our upcoming Multicultural Night Celebration. Families can access these through Classlink on the school website.
5th grade is researching and designing travel brochures to Latin countries that will highlight the traditions of the countries. They will have a digital bake off where students will research a favorite Latin dish and its ingredients and students will vote for their favorite dish at the end of the presentation.
3rd grade is learning about Frida Kahlo and creating a craftivity to write what they learned. They will discuss Hispanic heritage during SEL lessons next week and do another craftivity/writing project. They had a Culture Fashion Show where students wore traditional clothing and shared about the country.
1st Grade sings in the library with Mrs. Rhoads for Hispanic Heritage Month
Do you think your child may be academically gifted?
The referral window for gifted services testing will open September 30th. It will close on October 14 (no exceptions). For more information about Gifted and Talented characteristics, services offered, and the referral process and timeline, please visit: https://s.risd.org/gtreferralprocess. The direct link to the online referral form is on this information page.
To complete the form, you will need your child's student ID number. This is a 6-digit number and it is not their lunch number. If you do not know your child's student ID, you may look at your child's g.risd.org email or Focus account, as both contain the ID number. If needed, you may visit the school to get the ID number. We absolutely cannot give student ID numbers out on the phone. For additional questions, please email the campus GT teacher at dawn.ardila@risd.org.
Richardson ISD Student Cellphone Guidelines
To promote the best possible learning and social environment in Richardson ISD, students will not use their cellphones during the school day, unless provided permission from an authorized district employee during the instructional day. The intent of the cellphone policy is to establish a cellphone-free environment and avoid cellphones distracting from learning as well as causing a loss of instructional time.
Statement of Expectations
Campus administrators will state expectations clearly and reinforce the importance of maintaining a cellphone-free environment at the beginning of the year. Administrators will monitor cellphone violations to inform the need for reinforcement and support. Also, any headphone usage will occur based on the approval and expectations set by individual classroom teachers. RISD’s continued focus will be on the mitigation of educational distractions precipitated by the use of cellphones during instructional time.
Consequences
If a student uses their phone during the school instructional day without the explicit permission of an authorized district employee, it will result in the confiscation of the cellphone and adherence to the following graduated offenses stated below. Authorized district employees who will be responsible for cellphone confiscation will include: administrators and teachers.
1st Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Student or parent can retrieve cellphone at the end of the day.
Offense noted on Focus with cellphone violation action code chosen.
2nd Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Student or parent can retrieve cellphone at the end of the day.
Offense noted on Focus with cell phone violation action code chosen.
3rd Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Warning to student and parent about additional consequences that will happen for non-compliance of cellphone-free environment.
Offense noted on Focus with cell phone violation action code chosen.
Student assigned school detention.
4th Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day.
In-person meeting scheduled with parent.
Offense noted on Focus with cellphone violation action code chosen.
Student assigned lunch detention.
5th Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Offense noted on Focus with cellphone violation action code chosen.
3 days of ISS assigned.
6th Offense and beyond
Violations of the cellphone policy beyond the fifth offense may result in the assignment of out-of-school suspension
AT TERRACE ELEMENTARY, If cell phones become a pervasive problem in a grade level, the teachers will collect cell phones from students at the beginning of the day and keep them in locked storage until the end of the school day when they will be returned to the student.
2022-2023 Terrace Family Handbook Now Available
Please click on the link below to access the 2022-2023 Terrace Family Handbook.
RISD Guidelines for Elementary Student Dress
Clothes must be worn in a way that private areas are all fully covered. Undergarments, except straps and waistbands, should not be visible. All items listed in the “must wear” and “may wear” categories below must meet this basic principle.
Student must wear (while following the basic principle above):
An opaque top with a sleeve or strap and must cover the stomach, back, and chest area
An opaque bottom, such as pants, jeans or the equivalent of a skirt, sweatpants, joggers, leggings, dress, or shorts
Closed-toe shoes
Students may wear, as long as these items do not violate basic principle above:
Fitted pants, including leggings, yoga pants, and skinny jeans
Ripped jeans as long as underwear and private body parts are not exposed
Athletic shorts and athletic skirts
Religious headwear
Students cannot wear:
Images, language or symbols that depict tobacco products, drugs, drug paraphernalia, alcohol, violence, hate speech, profanity, pornography, gang symbols, or other illegal activities
Images or language that creates a hostile or intimidating environment based on a
protected class or group.
Accessories that could be considered dangerous or could be used as a weapon
VOLUNTEERING AT TERRACE
If you would like to volunteer at Terrace Elementary, you must complete a volunteer background check EVERY new school year. Volunteering could include helping with behavior bashes, attending field trips with your children, working in the library, helping at Field Day, Turkey Trot, or many other activities. We will not allow anyone who has not completed and passed the volunteer background check to volunteer. Please click on the link below to complete the background check. You MUST also watch the very short powerpoint at the end to complete the entire background check. Failure to watch the powerpoint will make your application incomplete and you will not be able to volunteer.
Lunch Visitors will begin the week of October 17th
We will not allow visitors during lunch until after the first 9 weeks of school. This allows our students time to practice our lunchroom expectations, make friends, and practice important social skills.
When lunch visitors begin on October 17, 2022 please adhere to the following procedures to ensure parents enjoy lunch visits with students:
- Arrive 5-10 minutes prior to your child’s lunchtime. It will take some time to get through sign-in at the office, and we want to ensure students are not late getting back to class after lunch.
- To accommodate for limited spacing and to avoid overcrowding, it is expected that the following schedule be adhered to:
- Student with last names A-L: Monday and Wednesday
- Student with last names M-Z: Tuesday and Thursday
- Friday: No Lunch Visitors
- Lunch visitors may only eat lunch with their own students. No friends will be permitted to eat with lunch visitors.
- Parents are responsible for watching their children and any younger siblings. Please be mindful of the people working in the office and keep voice levels down while on the porch.
- For capacity reasons, we ask that each student has lunch visitors no more than one time per week.
- The school requests that each visitor comply with a no cell phone policy while eating lunch with your student to ensure student privacy as well as quality time with your child. Taking pictures and/or video of students other than the lunch visitor’s own child is not permitted.
- Please help your child to follow our Tiger Pride and our cafeteria expectations that we reinforce throughout the building by ensuring that all trash is thrown away and tables are left clean for the next group.
- After lunch, children will go back to class with their teacher. Lunch visitors must sign out in the office and the students will return to class.
- Students will only be allowed to go to lunch during their lunch time. We will not take students out of class to attend lunch with siblings or at a time other than their own lunch period.
Please Label Student Belongings
Please be sure to label all belongings that your children bring to school including coats, sweaters, water bottles, backpacks, lunchboxes, sweatshirts, etc. We have several items in our lost and found that have do not have names on them so they cannot be returned.
All families are asked to join the Terrace PTA. The cost is $10 per person. The Terrace PTA helps to provide programs and events for our students and teachers such as our annual Terrace Kickball Game, field trip buses, Donuts with Grown Ups, teacher appreciation events, behavior bashes, STAAR snacks, field day, Turkey Trot, choir and musical performances, and so much more. Our goal is to reach over 500 PTA members this year. Please help us reach our goal by joining today!
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