White Rock Elementary
Principal Update 10/17/16
WRE Annual Fall Book Fair
October 17th and 18th are Book Fair Preview Days!!
Wednesday, October 19th - 7:30-4:30
- VIP Lunch Invasion (during your child's lunch time)
- Chick-fil-A Spirit Day
Thursday, October 20th - 7:30-4:30 & 5:30-7:30
- VIP Lunch Invasion (during your child's lunch time)
- Late Shopping 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 21st - 7:30-12:00
Please refer to the WRE Book Fair flyer for more information.
BrightBytes Survey
BrightBytes surgery results provide us with insight on the impact of technology use in both our homes and schools.
BrightBytes is a web-based and research-driven tool that helps us evaluate the current technology resources available to our teachers and students.
Target Response: 100% parent participation
Click on the link below to take the survey.
https://questionnaire.bbyt.es/campaigns/55e93585361c3aa763371468
Red Ribbon Week
RISD will celebrate Red Ribbon Week, October 24-28, 2016. This year the National Theme is “YOLO. Be Drug Free.”
Red Ribbon Week 2016
(Oct. 24-Oct. 28)
Monday: “RED-Y to Live a Drug Free Life!”
Help us kick off RRW by wearing all RED
*LHHS Peer Mediators will put on a Kids Safety Puppet Show for K-2 students
Tuesday: “Be a Hero…Just Say NO
Wear camouflage or patriotic colors
Wednesday: “Our School has SWAG” (Students Who Achieve Goals)
Dress like your future career
Thursday: “We Dream of a Drug-Free World”
Roll out of bed and come to school in your pajamas!
Friday: “I Love my Drug Free Selfie”
Tune into the announcements for a drug free selfie slide show. Wear WRE spirit wear.
WRE Art Show Open House
STAAR Update
For more information, please visit:
Book Character Day - Celebrate Literacy 10/31/16
Reading skills are important to our students' success in school. In addition,
reading can be a fun and imaginative activity for children that opens doors
to all kinds of new worlds. Reading and writing are important ways
we use language to communicate. So to honor literacy, we are going to have a
Book Character Day on Monday, October 31st.
More information to come! :)
RISD Spirit Run
Join the WRE team in the 2016 RISD Spirit Run!
Race Day: Saturday, November 5, 2016
Use the link below to register. Make sure you enter WRE as your school. We look forward to walking alongside all of our Seahawks.
https://sites.google.com/g.risd.org/spiritrunHealthy Zone School Calendar ~ October
Each month students will have a fitness calendar and will be encouraged to fill out at home and turn into the PE teachers for a chance to win a prize. Copies can be printed at home and are also available through PE class. Contact Coach Crawford or Coach Perez for more information.
Celebrating one of our Outstanding Teachers
Sign up for and use Focus Parent Portal
http://www.risd.org/Group/Parents/Focus/focusforparents.html
Dates to Remember
- 10/24 ~ Red Ribbon Week/ Beginning of second grading period
- 10/25 ~ 6th grade goes to Enterprise City
- 10/27 ~ Back to School Picnic
- 10/31 ~ Book Character Day
- November 21-23 ~ Student Holiday; non-duty staff development
- November 24-25 ~ Thanksgiving Holiday
- December 16 ~ End of second grading period; end of semester
- December 19-30 ~ Winter Break
How to get connected
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Websites:
Campus Edline page: http://www.edline.net/pages/White_Rock_Elementary
PTA website: http://www.wrepta.org
Facebook: Search for - Sammy Seahawk (https://www.facebook.com/sammy.seahawk.35)
Twitter: You can follow us - @WreHappenings
White Rock Elementary
“If you have a child’s heart, you have his head.” - Flip Flippen
Email: lee.walker@risd.org
Website: http://www.edline.net/pages/White_Rock_Elementary
Location: 9229 Chiswell Road, Dallas, TX, United States
Phone: 4695932700
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sammy.seahawk.35
Twitter: @WreHappenings