October

10/25-29 - Red Ribbon Week (Dress up days below in Counselor's Corner)

10/27 - Parent University 6:00 PM in the Library (Topic: GT Program and Referral Process)
10/29 - Boosterthon Fun Run

November

11/1 -11/12 - Online Fall Book Fair
11/02 - Election Day | Bush is a Voting Location

11/05 - Storybook Character Parade

11/05 - PTO Outdoor Game Night
11/05 - PTO Crust Spirit Night 4 PM-7 PM (To Go Orders Only)

11/10 - Class Pictures and Picture Retakes
11/10 - Parent University 6:00 PM
11/11 - Veterans Day

11/15-19 - Generation Texas Week
11/19 - Kinder Feast & Open House
11/22-26 - Thanksgiving Break - No School

11/29 - Students Return

December:
12/03 - Kindergarten Polar Express

12/08 - Parent University 6:00 PM (more information to come)
12/09 - "PAW-some" Award (Wear GREEN for Integrity)
12/17 - Early Release Day 12:10 PM
12/20 - 01/04 - Winter Break - No School

Good afternoon,

I have just a brief message today. It's been a beautiful week. I have particularly enjoyed spending time throughout the week with our lunch visitors. The process of signing up and spending time at lunch seems to be going very well.

We are halfway into our Boosterthon fundraiser, and I appreciate the PTO's efforts at managing the daily tasks associated with that. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes.

Thank you for your continued support. Have a wonderful weekend. We can't wait to see your kids again Monday.

Dr. Jarod Lambert

Principal

We are excited to once again allow lunch visitors at Bush Elementary. It has been a while, and many of our families have never had an opportunity to each lunch with children at school. We know that having visitors for lunch at school is a special event for our Bobcats.

This is an exciting chance to begin welcoming families back into the building, and we hope to provide a special lunch experience for our students and their lunch visitors. When family members come to eat lunch with a student at school, they will enjoy a picnic environment on the blacktop behind our second grade hallway. This area is covered by a large outdoor canopy and is just outside the cafeteria. Please remember too that family members may only eat lunch with their child.

We remain committed to the health and safety of all of our students. As we reopen to lunch visitors, you will use this SignUp Genius to make a reservation to eat lunch with your child. There are ten slots per lunch period per day for reservations. We can only allow parents who have made a reservation to enter the building, so please do not show up for lunch if you have not made a reservation.

Please be mindful when booking your reservation that we have limited spaces. We would like to give all parents the opportunity to have lunch with their child. Please only make one lunch reservation each three weeks. We will post the first week registration forms, implement our procedures, and review the week to make any needed adjustments. After that, we will post reservation sign-up forms for three weeks at a time.

Visitors will have 25 minutes with their children for lunches. Five minutes prior to the scheduled end of the lunch period, students will return to the cafeteria for the next transition with their classes. Visitors will exit the building—checking out at the front office—at this time to allow for the next lunch period's visitors to arrive.

As you plan your lunch visit, please arrive at school with plenty of time to sign in at the front office. You will need your driver's license to check in. Without identification, we cannot allow you into the building to have lunch with your child. You will receive a visitor badge. This will notify our staff that you have permission to enter the building.

As we have learned throughout this year, things may change with little notice. We appreciate your understanding if we need to change the schedule. If a change is made, we will communicate that through The Banner and directly to those parents who have a current reservation in SignUp Genius.

Please select the appropriate button below to make a reservation for next week.

10:45 Lunch Period

Classes: Armstrong, Baum, Costenbader, Hull, Johnson, Miller, Murdock, Saunders, Sellers, and Sunseri

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45A5A82FA2F94-lunch4

11:15 Lunch Period

Classes: D. Anderson, Bruno, Dalessandro, Edgar, Foley, Garza, Harrell, Hunsdale, Landry, Perry, Powell, and Reyna

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45A5A82FA2F94-lunch5

11:45 Lunch Period

Classes: Abbas, N. Anderson, Barnett, Brock, Bruce, Castillo, Cleaveland, Clifford, DePedro, Everett, Lamberti, Milo, Nettuno, Riggs, and Ross

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45A5A82FA2F94-lunch6

12:15 Lunch Period

Classes: Brown, Davies, Eschenburg, Kamal, Lenfant, Saldana, Samford, and Shaw

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45A5A82FA2F94-lunch7

For information about CISD COVID-19 Safety Alert Levels and updated information on the District's mitigation and response strategies, please see the Roadmap to Remaining open. Please check back frequently as the site is updated as information changes.

Mrs. Beardsley, the art teacher, is needing parents to help cut supplies for students to create 3D art. This could be paper strips, plaster strips, cardboard or model magic. Depending on the need, will depend on the cutting job. This will be done in the art room during her conference time from 12:00-1:00. Please see the sign up link below. This is a picture of some of the art works that are a works in progress that students benefit from volunteers cutting supplies ahead of time.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0844AFAC2DA4F85-cutting1

Cutting Help

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. www.signupgenius.com

Mrs. Beardsley continues to collect empty cereal boxes, snack container boxes, empty clean egg crates, clean bottle caps of all shapes and sizes, empty paper towel rolls and empty toilet paper rolls. These are some of the joys students have with cardboard engineering skills and techniques.

Thank you! 🙂

Don't get the P.E. blues, wear your tennis shoes! All students have P.E. every other day alternating with library, art, or music. Please be sure your child has gym shoes in their backpack if they are not wearing them to school.

Referral requests will be collected from October 1 - December 17, 2021 for Conroe Independent School District Gifted and Talented program. Although the testing will not take place until late January, referral requests are accepted starting Oct 1st. Referral requests can be made by the parents and/or teachers. It is recommended that parents of 2nd grade students wait until CogAT scores have arrived before nominating their child because CogAT scores are part of the GT assessment. If you are interested in referring your child, you may want to discuss this with your child’s teacher at conferences. Referrals will be accepted through December 17th. You may request a referral form from the front office or the Assistant Principal. You can also find the referral form and other GT information on the CISD GT homepage.

Transportation changes must be made in writing before 2:00 PM. We cannot accept transportation changes by phone. To submit a transportation change, you may send a written note to your child's teacher or provide a not to the front office with the following information:

• the date
• your child's full name
• homeroom teacher
• bus number (if applicable)
• your signature

If an emergency arises, you may send an email to bush@conroeisd.net. The e-mail must include all of the above information, including a parent signature, and must be received before 2:00 PM. If you submit a transportation change by email, it must go to the email address referenced above. Teachers do not check their email regularly throughout the day, so transportation changes should not be emailed directly to the teacher.

Please send a new note for each day the change occurs; we cannot accept notes for multiple days or with multiple changes. District policy states that a student may only ride the bus they are registered to ride; students may not have a transportation change to ride a different bus.

Free COVID-19 testing is available to all Conroe ISD employees and students
Monday through Friday 8-6 and Saturday 8-4 at the
Conroe ISD Police Department

2900 N. Loop 336 E.

Conroe, TX 77301

Employees and students must schedule a test through the CONROE ISD SSO in the COVID Central APP Prior to arrival. Please use your student’s ID number to register students for testing

As a reminder - Please review the Roadmap to Opening on the Conroe ISD home page for current COVID policies and procedure.

After school playground reminders... Due to safety reasons a parent or guardian is required to monitor their children while playing after dismissal on the playground. Students are not allowed to return to the building after dismissal to use the clinic restroom.

If your child receives a positive COVID-19 test, please go to the link below and follow the prompts to enter your child’s positive results. This will be entered into the Conroe ISD COVID Absence APP for excused absence until the date cleared to return. https://www.conroeisd.net/roadmap-to-reopening/covid-19-positive-self-report/

Stay Healthy,

Nurse Cheryl Kirchner, RN

clkirchner@conroeisd.net

Evelin Padilla, Clinic Assistant

epadillaguerrer@conroeisd.net

Please see below for our daily themes for Red Ribbon Week. Follow the link for activities families can participate in during the week.

https://www.redribbon.org/activities/parents/

Angie McGhee - School Counselor

amcghee@conroeisd.net

936-709-1600

The Combined Armed Services Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps of the Conroe Independent School District Honoring All Who Served. This event will be livestreamed.

All SMS messages received from the Conroe ISD District Office and your child's campus will begin with "Conroe ISD:" and come from the subscribe code 67587. If you have not yet opted-in to receive SMS messages, you can do so at any time throughout the school year by texting "Y" to 67587.

Wow! Your support has been amazing. We are well on our way to exceeding our fundraising goal this year! So far, we have gotten donations from 36 states and 7 different countries! It's not too late to donate. Register at http://www.mybooster.com and your student gets a free prize!

The Weekend Challenge--

Any student who gets $2 per lap over the weekend gets a BONUS prize!

This year we are needing to run our Boosterthon water station a little differently than in the past. We are not going to be able to offer cups of water as in previous years. Instead, we will hand each child a small plastic water bottle that they can keep and run with. While many students have reusable water bottles, they might be cumbersome to run with and with 150 kids on each track there may not be a great place to leave them while running. Below, please find a signup genius to help us supply these water bottles to our students.

If you are able to donate, please deliver to the front office by Wednesday 10/27. Thank you so much for all your continued support!

Click Here to Sign Up to Donate

We are looking for some great volunteers to help with our spring fundraiser, the Bobcat Bonanza! Please contact Caitlin Reeves at president@bushpto.com if you are interested in helping!

Co-Chair - Will work with the VP of Fundraising to oversee the event. Ensure various committee members are on task, keep a detailed spreadsheet of everything. Will assist in reaching out to local businesses to help sponsor the event.

Silent Auction Coordinator - This person will oversee the entire silent auction, though will want additional support. The coordinator will work with other members to seek out donations from local businesses (passing out fliers, email, phone calls) for the auction. They will organize receipt of the items, create bid forms and run the auction on the night of the event.

Silent Auction Team Members - Work with coordinator to solicit donations and oversee the auction on the night of the event.

Food Coordinator - Reach out to local BBQ and pizza restaurants for the best pricing of meals for the event. Also work with our HEB Community Rep for donations/discounts on chips, water, drinks, etc.

Volunteer Coordinator - Work with committee members to find out volunteer needs for the event. Create signup geniuses and coordinate with room moms and social media coordinator to reach out to adult volunteers. Reach out to local youth volunteer groups to staff event with youth volunteers as well.

Children’s Raffle Coordinator - This person will oversee the collection of items for the children's raffle. In the past, this has been a mixture of donated items, and items purchased on sale. S/he will also coordinate with the person over ticket sales regarding raffle ticket sales.

Wristband/Raffle Ticket Sales - This person will work with our graphic designer/social media coordinator to promote sales. They will coordinate online sales, deliver tickets to school once a day as they are purchased, as well as in person sales the night of the event.

Use the Box Tops app to scan your store receipt, find participating products and instantly add cash to your school's earnings online. From playground equipment to technology, our school can use this money to help teachers and students get the supplies they need.

BoxTops4Education.com

The Conroe Independent School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following persons have been designated to handle inquiries regarding these non-discrimination policies: Title IX Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936)-709-7700 and the Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936) 709-7670.