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Jarrell Elementary Newsletter - November 27, 2023
Greetings JES Community!
We are so grateful to all of our families who joined us for Thanksgiving lunch and those who were able to deliver a pie for our teachers as well as 7 frozen turkeys our teachers had the chance of winning. We were able to send every staff member home with a Thanksgiving pie. What a special surprise! We hope you all had a wonderful and restful holiday week as well.
We are excited to return to school and finish the semester strong! We have our very important Math Interim Assessments for our 3rd - 5th graders this week. Please make sure that your student is well-rested and on time, so they can do their very best. This assessment gives us important information about grade level readiness in reading and math.
As always, we are to help in any way we can. Please do not hesitate to reach out!
With gratitude,
Lara Hutchinson
Proud Jarrell Elementary Principal
THIS WEEK
Monday, November 27th
3rd - 5th grade Barn Hill Preserve Visits
Tuesday, November 28th
4th and 5th grade Math Interim Assessment
Wednesday, November 29th
3rd grade Math Interim Assessment
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, December 12th
8:00 5th grade Choir Concert
8:30 Kindergarten Choir Concert
Wednesday, December 20th
9 weeks ends
Thursday, December 21st - Monday, January 8th
Student Holiday
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9th
3rd 9 Weeks Begins - Students back to school
Past Due Lunch Accounts
Beginning Monday, November 27th, the Child Nutrition Department will begin serving brown bag lunches to students who have a past due account of more than $10. Letters, emails, and calls have been made for several weeks notifying families. If there is any way that we can help, please do not hesitate to reach out to your grade level AP or the counselor, Marilyn Alvarez.
Jaclynne Bizzell, PreK - 2nd grade
Lupita Viveros, 3rd - 5th grade
Marilyn Alvarez, Counselor
FREE Little Library NEWS!
Little Free Library
November 2023 Newsletter
Fun Fact: Little Free Libraries are often built to remember or honor a loved one.
Gratitude and thanksgiving fill the pages of the books in our Little Free Library throughout the month of November. Whether traveling to America with the characters in a Dear America historical fiction or spending a day with the children of a president in an informational book, you will find stories written in English and Spanish that celebrate the full and varied lives of people living in the United States
We hope you will stop by the Little Free Library and take a book,
leave a book, or trade a book.
Spanish
Pequeña biblioteca gratuita
Boletín noviembre 2023
Dato curioso: Las pequeñas bibliotecas gratuitas a menudo se crean para
recordar o honrar a un ser querido.
La gratitud y la acción de gracias llenan las páginas de los libros de nuestra Pequeña Biblioteca Gratuita durante todo el mes de noviembre. Ya sea que viaje a Estados Unidos con los personajes de una ficción histórica de Dear America o pase un día con los hijos de un presidente en un libro informativo, encontrará historias escritas en inglés y español que celebran la vida plena y variada de las personas que viven en los Estados Unidos. Estados
Esperamos que pase por Little Free Library y se lleve un libro,
dejar un libro o intercambiar un libro.
SMART TAGS REQUIRED
Beginning Monday, November 13th bus referrals will be issued for students that don't use their smart-tag for 3 consecutive days. If your child needs a new bus tag, we can issue them in the front office of JES. Please stop by the front office and let us know.
Thank you and if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact transportation.
SchoolCafe Lunch Account and Snacks
Please note that all students can purchase snacks using their lunch accounts. Parents can monitor and modify this privilege by logging in to your School Cafe account by checking PURCHASE HISTORY and PURCHASE RESTRICTIONS.
Please let us know if you have any questions!
Texas Bluebonnet Challenge
3rd - 5th graders have the opportunity to participate in the Texas Bluebonnet Challenge.
Students are encouraged to pick at least 5 of the 20 Bluebonnet nominees for the 2023-2024 school year.
Once a student reads 5 of the Bluebonnet books, they will qualify to participate in the statewide vote for their favorite book at the end of January.
Students who read 5 Bluebonnet books by the end of January, will also be invited to a bluebonnet breakfast hosted at the JES library.
Students can find the bluebonnet books online on the Sora app. Here are the directions to log in:
1. Go to soraapp.com
2. Select your school: Jarrell Elementary
3. Use the beginning of your Jarrell ISD school issued gmail minus the @jarrellisd.net part
4. Your password is the same password as your gmail: a six digit number, your capitalized first initial, your lowercase last initial
5. Scroll down until you see the section labeled "New Audiobook additions"
Attendance Matters! Our goal is 97%!
Let's finish this semester with our best attendance this year! As always, if your child is running a fever or having diarrhea or vomiting, he/ she must stay home for 24 hours.
Important Daily Deadlines!
7:30 a.m. The back doors automatically lock, and you will need to drive around and walk your child in to the building. PLEASE DO NOT DROP-OFF STUDENTS AFTER 7:30. They must be signed in by a parent or guardian.
1:30 p.m. ALL transportation changes must be made by 1:30 by emailing or calling Stephanie Garcia at (512)-746-2170 or stephanie.garcia@jarrellisd.org.
2:30 p.m. Any student checking out early for an appointment, must be picked up prior to 2:30.
PRE-K
This week in pre-k we will begin learning that living things breathe, eat, grow, move on their own, and reproduce. Nonliving things do not. In math, we will begin comparing shapes by their size, number of sides, and angles. In Literacy, we will continue listening to the ending sounds in words to recognize rhyming words, each letter of the alphabet has a name and represents a sound, a name begins with an uppercase letter, and recognizing environmental print to understand words carry meaning.
KINDER
1st GRADE
2nd GRADE
3rd GRADE
We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break! This week in Reading we will be continuing to work on key ideas and details while learning about Ancient Roman Civilization. Students will be writing an opinion paragraph about their favorite Roman god or goddess that they have learned about! In Math we will be continuing to work on our multiplication facts, specifically on 0s, 1s, and 10s.
4th GRADE
For math we will continue working the long division algorithm for three- and four-digit dividends and division word problems. For science we will be moving on to Unit 5, Natural Resources, where we will be exploring renewable and non renewable resources. For language arts, we continue writing summaries and comparing characters as we read Treasure Island. In social studies we are continuing to study the first European Americans in Texas.
5th GRADE
In math, we will be starting our Orders of Operations unit with a pre-test and introduction of GEMDAS. Students will be taking a math practice STAAR test on Tuesday. Please be sure to get plenty of rest and have a filling breakfast in the morning. Students may bring one healthy snack to have during the test.
This week in ELA, we will start a brand-new unit called "Don Quixote: A Hopeful Knight's Tale." Students will work on fact and opinion, the suffix -ness, and Identifying the parts of a Persuasive Essay. In grammar, we will be working on the Pronoun-Verb Agreement. It will be a fun and exciting week!
Get ready for an energizing week of discovery in science! Our students will be delving into the world of alternative energy sources, uncovering how they're acquired and transformed to power our daily lives.
Library
PK-Kinder:
I can explore how a well works and make a connection to the Nursery Rhyme "Jack and Jill".
1st-2nd:
We will be starting an author study on Mo Willems.
I can explain the writing style of Mo Willems and try it out for myself.
3rd-5th:
I can explain the purpose of a caption by analyzing the text feature so that I can better understand a nonfiction text.
Art
Art: All students will continue to use the elements of line, shape, color, form and texture along with the principles of pattern and variety.
5th Grade: Cups of Hot Chocolate
4th Grade: Patterned Winter Trees
3rd Grade: Abstract Trees
2nd Grade: Picasso inspired Snowmen
1st Grade: Rudolph
Kindergarten: Polar Bears
Pre-K: Snowy Day Collage
Just a friendly reminder that as the JES counselor, I am always available should you have any questions or concerns related to your child.
Please contact me if you would like me to check in with them or offer extra support. I can be reached at 512-746-2103 or via email: Marilyn.alvarez-brya@jarrellisd.org
Jarrell Elementary School
Lara Hutchinson, Principal
Jaclynne Bizzell, Assistant Principal (Pre-K - 2nd)
Lupita Viveros, Assistant Principal (3rd - 5th)
Marilyn Alvarez, Counselor
Terry Kurtz, Registrar
Stephanie Garcia, Administrative Assistant
Kendra Field, Receptionist
Amanda Yanez, Attendance Clerk
Audrey Zuniga, Nurse
Website: jes.jarrellisd.org
Location: Jarrell Elementary School, County Road 313, Jarrell, TX, USA
Phone: 512-746-2170
Facebook: facebook.com/JarrellElementarySchool
Twitter: @MrsHutch_JES