

The Creek's Corner:
Home and School Connection (Week 10)
📆Mark Your Calendar📆
October 15-21…National Safe Schools Week
October 18…NATIONAL DAY OF UNITY
- October 19...Early Dismissal (1:40pm); P/T Conferences (2:00-7:30pm)
October 20-24...FALL BREAK (School resumes Wednesday, October 25th)
October 23-31…Red Ribbon Week
October 26…HCE Family Folk Dance Night (5:30-6:30)
October 27…Book Character Day/Parade
October 29…HCE Report to the Public (3:45pm)/Annual Family Fall Fest (4pm-6pm)
October 31...SNACK DAY!
❤️Capturing Kids' Hearts❤️
The CKH Leadworthy Character Word for October is SELF-DIRECT.
What does it mean to SELF-DIRECT?
"Self-Direction is the ability and learned skill to cast a vision of future goals and then take intentional steps toward who, where, and what we want to be. Instead of focusing on things to control or avoid, we emphasize our responsibility to make positive choices related to our emotions, attitudes, and actions."
Our students who consistently self-direct throughout October, with no redirection from adults, are likely to be chosen as the Leadworthy Spotlight Winner for their class. Winners get to have a special lunch with the principals!
Please encourage your child to lead with great character each day!
❤️RED RIBBON Week❤️
🕺Family Folk Dance Night💃
📘📗📕📙Book Character Parade📙📕📗📘
Here are a few REMINDERS...
- Costumes MUST be a book character.
- No scary book character costumes.
- Students will “be” their book character all day, so carefully choose something “wearable” all day.
- Costumes should be homemade. If possible, use items from around the house. You do not have to buy or make an elaborate costume.
- Students MUST have a book to carry during the parade that includes their character.
- Check out a book from our HCE Library, classroom libraries, or Saline County Library prior to the parade. Please don’t wait until the day before to check out your book.
- You may also bring a book from home.
🎃🍂HCE FAMILY FEST🍂🎃
❤️SUPPORT for PARENTS❤️
Primary Care Triple P: Positive Parenting Program
(This is a one-on-one intervention)
Targeted Population:
Parents of Pre-K through 5th grade students
Parents seeking information about how to address a specific parenting or child behavior issue
The family situation is reasonably stable (i.e. not in the middle of separation/divorce, parent has psychological issues themselves, or the child has major psychological issues that have not yet been addressed)
Families will participate in a few assessments. Based on the outcome of those assessments, the Triple P Team may determine whether this level of intervention will be beneficial for a family. If it is not going to be beneficial, and they recommend a higher level of care, such as family counseling that would involve more intense involvement, the team will make an outside counseling recommendation to the family and let the referring principal know.
Program Objectives:
Increase parents’ confidence in managing common behavior problems and developmental issues
Reducing parents’ use of coercive and punitive methods of disciplining children (focusing on pre-teaching desired behaviors, rather than just reacting to a bad behavior)
Improving parents’ communication and reducing parental stress
IF you are interested, please reach out to Mrs. Williams (Principal) or Ms. Dockery (Counselor), and they will get your information submitted to the team. Thank you!
📣UPDATES📣
- Ist Place...SECOND GRADE! Congratulations!!!
- $1317.19 was raised during this fundraiser! We appreciate your support!
📣WE NEED YOUR HELP!📣
MAKING CONTACT:
Please share information that is pertinent to the classroom with the classroom teacher. Many are calling the front office to share information with our secretaries, as opposed to reaching out to the classroom teacher, which becomes extremely cumbersome, as the secretaries often have no knowledge of the content of the calls/requests. If it is regarding school-wide things, the office is willing and able to assist you. However, if you have questions that should be directly answered by the classroom teacher, please message the teacher on ROOMS or send an email. Thank you!
PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES:
Parents, if you've not signed up for a conference time to discuss your child's progress with his/her teacher, please be sure to get that done as soon as possible. If you have questions, reach out to your child's teacher for information. On conference day, we ask that you be considerate of every parent's conference time by staying within your allotted time. We want to make sure that every parent is able to meet with their child's teacher during the time they've chosen. We certainly appreciate your support with this!
Parents, it is vital that you get connected to ROOMS if you are not already. This is our district communication platform and the way your child's teacher communicates important information to you. If you are not set up, please reach out to your child's teacher, or our office, and we will assist you. Thank you so much for your support!
PARENTS, our instructional day begins at 7:45am, and our tardy bell rings at 7:50am. Please have your students dropped off by 7:50. Students are missing valuable instructional time when they are tardy or absent.
Upon your child’s 8th unexcused tardy, you will be required to meet with me, or our Assistant Principal, Mrs. Henley, and sign the Truancy Agreement.
Upon the 10th unexcused tardy, a truancy referral will be submitted to the Truancy Officer.
Missing more than 5 absences, per semester, is considered excessive. Five absences equate to 2,025 minutes/33.75 hours of lost instructional time. That is an incredible amount of time, so just imagine how much students can learn in just 5 days of school.
Upon your child’s 5th unexcused absence, you will be required to meet with me, or our Assistant Principal, Mrs. Henley, and sign the Truancy Agreement.
Upon the 7th unexcused absence, a truancy referral will be submitted to the Truancy Officer.
Counselor Connection
Friendship Skills: Teaching Your Child How to Make and Maintain Healthy Friendships
Nurse's News
Thursday's Flu Clinic was a SUCCESS! We appreciate everyone's assistance and support!
Congratulations to Nurse Crosby on a job WELL DONE!😍
PTO News/Information...
PTO Meetings will be held the 2nd Monday of each month @HCE in the Cafe (6:00pm).
**Our PTO is in need of parent volunteers. The few active members we have do sooo much for our students/school, and they need YOUR help! Please join and support. Thank you!❤️🤍💙**
Important LINKS
Weekly Encouragement
~Lady Bird Johnson
Hurricane Creek Elementary
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501-653-1012 (Office)
501-778-5456 (Fax)
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