Three of our students’ GT knowledge fest projects were chosen to be part of the District GT Expo which will be held virtually the week of April 25, 2022. A huge congratulations to the following students:

Thijs Wagenaar

Martin Guerrero

Rachelle Gampel

We are so proud of these three students and are happy to have their very creative projects representing Bush Elementary at the District GT Expo this year.

Thank you Bush Families! We had an amazing turnout at our family picnic. Houston's weather cooperated and a great time was had by all.

Hello Bush Families,

Please take the time to visit our Bush Counselor’s Corner monthly. I add social emotional learning items, as well as current topics of interest for our families and students. For example, this month we have resources that will support our students who struggle with test anxiety. As a reminder, hover over items on the page to find links to great resources! Thank you for your consistent support at home.

We appreciate all that you do.

Ms. Quinonez

Please follow the registration directions shown below and not the online version shown by HISD on the website.

Kindergarten Siblings of Currently Enrolled Students

Registration Dates: April 20 – 26

7:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

In-person at Bush Elementary

Parents of currently enrolled students who have an incoming kindergarten student for 22-23, to register your kindergartener, please bring: parent's government issued photo identification, proof of residency, birth certificate, and immunizations to the office to complete the registration packet for their incoming kindergarten student.

ONLY FOR INCOMING K SIBLINGS OF CURRENTLY ENROLLED BUSH STUDENTS

New Zoned Kindergarten Students (No Sibling at Bush)

Registration Dates: May 3, 4, 5, or 6 (Only 30 applicants per day can be processed)

In-person at Bush Elementary

Please bring the items on the attached check list.

8:30 – 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

No need to arrive early as we have 4 days to register during the registration times shown.

2022-2023 Registration Checklist

New Zoned Kindergarten Students - Additional Dates

May 24, 25, or 26 (Only 30 applicants per day can be processed)

In-person at Bush Elementary

Please bring the items on the attached check list.

8:30 – 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

No need to arrive early as we have 3 days to register during the registration times shown.

New Zoned Gr. 1 – 5 Students

Registration Dates: June 8, 9, or 10 (Only 30 applicants per day can be processed)

In-person at Bush Elementary

Please bring the items on the attached check list.

Must have report card showing successful completion of the 2021 – 2022 school year.

8:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 – 3:00 p.m.

No need to arrive early as we have 3 days to register during the registration times shown.

More dates will be published at a later time.

Bush Elementary will have COVID testing available every Thursday for students, faculty, and staff. Parents must pre-register their child by 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday in order to be tested on campus. This testing is completely voluntary and free, it does require the student's parent/guardian to first provide a one-time digital consent at https://bit.ly/HISDC19Test .

Once a parent has registered their child, then the child will be tested each time Fulgent comes to campus to provide COVID testing. If you no longer want your child to be tested, you may opt out by emailing your child's teacher to let them know.

COVID-19 vaccines are now available for children ages 5-11. If you choose to vaccinate your child, please email a copy of the vaccination record card to dguider@houstonisd.org or send documentation to Nurse Guider so she can update your child's immunization record. This also includes students who are double vaccinated. Please send a copy to the nurse or email her with the updated documents.

If your child does test positive for COVID, then he/she must quarantine for at least 5 days regardless of vaccination status. If your child is COVID positive and showing symptoms, then he/she must stay home at least 5 days and until symptom free.

Throughout the school year, this section of the newsletter will highlight key points from the Bush Parent Handbook. With the weather warming up, please make sure your child is bringing the correct jacket colors. Jackets that are worn inside the building must be solid navy, red, or white.

Here are some quick reminders about our Bush Elementary dress code. Shirts must be solid colored red, white, or navy. The only t-shirts allowed are Bush Elementary t-shirts. Dress code pants are navy, khaki, or blue jeans. The pants must not have any holes, rips, tears, or designs on them, just simple plain blue jeans, navy pants, or khaki pants. Exercise pants, sweatpants, and yoga pants are NOT part of the Bush dress code. Leggings can not be worn as pants, only under skirts or jumpers. Please click on the link below for the complete dress code guidelines.

2021-2022 Dress Code Guidelines

Morning supervision of students starts at 7:20 a.m. At that time students are brought into the building and are seated in grade level lines. Morning bus lane drop off is reserved for our 5th Grade Safety Patrols, our daycare vans, and our students in our self-contained special education classes. These families have a special printed pass to enter the bus lane for morning drop off. All other students arriving by car must be dropped off in the carpool lane. The first bell rings at 7:30 a.m. and the students are tardy at 7:40 a.m. when the morning announcements begin.

Please plan to pick up your carpool and walker students before 3:15. Our students are dismissed at 3:00 and our walker area has been finishing before 3:10 on most days. If you arrive after 3:10, please come to the front office to sign your child out as a late pick up.

Please abide by the No Parking signs on the streets around our school and our neighboring schools. Several parents have received parking tickets from HPD in the past because they were parking in a No Parking zone. When cars park in No Parking zones, it is difficult for our busses and vans to turn into our bus lane.

We're asking for the parents of walkers that park their cars on the other side of Westerloch across from the school to NOT u-turn by the carpool lane entrance once they've picked up their child(ren) and are heading home.

We have seen many students and some parents walking across the street not using the crosswalks. This is extremely dangerous and we ask that all walkers and bike riders use the crosswalks. Westerloch Dr. and Parkway Plaza Dr. are very busy streets during morning arrival and dismissal. If you cross between parked cars, ongoing traffic cannot see you.

We are so happy to see so many of our students riding their bikes to school. Please remember that all students are required to wear a bicycle helmet when riding their bikes to and from school. We want to keep all of our Bobcats safe. Also, please send your bike riders with a bike lock to secure their bikes to the bike rack.

If your child is absent from school, please make sure you send in a note explaining the absence date(s) and reason for the absence upon return to school. We will need this note even if you're at home quarantining or a Positive COVID-19 case. Please email your absence excuse note to the homeroom teacher and our registrar, Ms. Rosales at arosale3@houstonisd.org

If a note is not received within 3 days, then the absence is recorded as unexcused.

Safety continues to be our top priority, and while we love our furry visitors, we ask that you keep them at home during arrival and dismissal. We have several students, faculty and staff members who are allergic to dogs and cats and students who are very afraid of dogs. Please keep them at home.

Please do not plan to pick up your child after 2:30 p.m. from the office. To ensure a safe dismissal, students will not be called to the office to be picked up after 2:30 p.m. Thank you for helping to make dismissal safe for all our students.

Help your child celebrate their birthday and support the library and other programs that enhance the educational experience of Bush students by joining the Birthday Book Club.

Your child will be given a personal "Happy Birthday" greeting during the morning announcements and Paw Prints shout out from Ms. Rose! The donation will be recognized with a nameplate in a new book from the library. A group photo of all the other BBC members with the same birth month will also be displayed in the library display case.

It only costs $20 for a Birthday Book Club Membership (Add Electronic Marquee display for $10 more). Please visit www.BBEPTO.com for more details or to make your purchase.

Enrollment Schedule:

February – July Birthdays: Enroll through January

We will be celebrating our annual Teacher Appreciation Week beginning Monday, May 2nd through Friday, May 6th. This year we want to recognize how our teachers LIFT UP their students. Please help the BBE PTO to BRIGHTEN UP our teachers’ week by signing up and donating a beverage or snack so they can DRINK UP and EAT UP or some much needed supplies for their classrooms so our students can LEVEL UP! Please remember that this is entirely voluntary. Donations will be accepted each day at pick-up and drop-off beginning this coming Monday, April 25th through Friday, April 29th. We hope that you will join us in making this Teacher Appreciation Week a HIGH FLYING success!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4CACAA2EA0FB6-teacher

Look for more information on all the ways to celebrate your child's teacher during Teacher Appreciation Week in the PTO Eblasts, future Paw Prints, in your child's communication folder, and from your child's room parent.

With gratitude,

The BBE PTO

Thursday, APRIL 21, 2022

9 am

Multipurpose room

We invite you to join us for our Spring PTO meeting. This meeting is open to all BBE Families! We will be discussing the international festival and our plans for the remainder of this year. We will also be looking ahead to next year. The PTO is also revising the BBE PTO Constitution and general PTO members will be able to vote on these new changes. Take a look at the proposed constitution HERE.

Light refreshments will be served. Please enter the Multipurpose room via the entrance near the bus lane.

Celebrate BBE’s Anniversary with a Spirit Week! Spirit Week will be the week before International Festival from Monday, May 2 through Friday, May 6. Please check your child’s folder, the PTO eblast and your room parent emails for more details about Spirit Week.

Monday 5/2: Spirit Shirt

Tuesday 5/3: Texas Day

Wednesday 5/4: Travel Day

Thursday 5/5: PARADE DAY- FAMILIES INVITED!

Students will parade outside on the track beginning at 1:30. Families may walk up or park in carpool line and leave their car to view the parade from inside the track area.

After the parade, families will return to their cars or their designated pick up area. If you are not picking your child up via carpool, do NOT park on the north side of Westerloch where the carpool line is. There will be NO early pick up this day. There will be a lot of people going back to their cars to pick up their child. Please pack your patience.

Friday 5/6: Color Day

Saturday 5/7: International Festival 11- 2pm- Festival Day

Saturday May 7, 2022

11 am- 2 pm

Wristbands required for entry

Volunteer for a shift at the Festival:

We can’t have an event without the help of volunteers! If you’d like to help at the International fest please sign up for a 1.5 hour shift. Any parent or guardian is welcome to volunteer at the festival. You will receive a concessions voucher as a “thank you” for volunteering! VOLUNTEER HERE

All persons ages 3 and up will need a wristband for entry. Find more information on our website. Order your wristbands and tickets online to receive a discount! Presale discounts are only available online through May 4th, 2022. Find wristbands and tickets for purchase here.

Help us celebrate 30 excellent years at Barbara Bush Elementary with our $30 for 30 years fundraiser! As in previous years, we wish to save our Bush families the time and energy it takes to participate in traditional fundraising activities (such as school bake sales, gift wrapping sales etc.) by focusing our fundraising efforts on events that benefit the school directly. Our $30 for 30 years fundraiser this spring will benefit many projects the PTO organizes for the school. Each $30 donation will receive a school spirit prize! We are hopeful that we can encourage EVERY family at Bush to donate $30 for 30 years!

Let’s help our Bobcats “Work Hard. Be Kind. Dream Big!”

Donate on the website at www.BBEpto.com

School Store On the Go will be open this week. Keep an eye out here or on facebook for updates on the School Store on the Go schedule. Our online school store is also open and items will be delivered to the classrooms on Fridays. Visit the store at www.BBEpto.com.

Updated policies on field trips, COVID-19 Quarantine and more updated for 2022.

https://www.houstonisd.org/readysetgo