The Creek's Corner:

• November 14...HCE Thanksgiving Lunch
  

• November 15...PROGRESS REPORTS GO HOME
• November 16...Fine Arts Night (5:00-7:00)
• November 17...SNACK DAY!
• November 20-24...THANKSGIVING BREAK

The CKH Leadworthy Character Word for November is TEAMWORK.

What is Teamwork?

Teamwork is the ability to work in unity with others towards a common goal. For us to learn how to become team players, it is important that we learn to listen, encourage our peers, and allow and invite others to contribute their talents and skills.

Why focus on Teamwork?

Teamwork improves communication: Teamwork helps us improves our verbal and non-verbal communication skills, conveying that we care and a relevant message.

Teamwork builds interpersonal awareness: Growing a great team requires us to first build strong relationships through better understanding ourselves and others.

Teamwork celebrates diversity: Teamwork thrives from diverse ideas that come from a mixture of different genders, cultures, expertise, experience, and problem-solving approaches.

Our students, who consistently exemplify teamwork throughout November, 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!

Attached is HCE's lunch schedule for Tuesday, November 14th (Annual Thanksgiving Feast).

Please adhere to the following:

• When you arrive, you will sign in (sign-in sheets will be available) and receive a visitor's sticker for lunch. If you are eating with more than one student in different grade levels, you must wait in your car between lunches.
• Bring your license/ID for verification purposes. You will need it to check in for lunch on Tuesday.
• In order to eat a lunch from the cafeteria, you must have a ticket for every person eating.
• If you don't have a ticket, you may bring in food to eat with your child only.
• Visitors are not permitted in any other part of the building during their visit (only in the cafeteria).
• Visitors will use the cafeteria restrooms only.

I appreciate your assistance in advance with these guidelines and requests. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you!

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!

Veterans Day Tribute

I hope everyone was able to view the beautiful HCE Veterans Day Tribute on social media. If you have not, I am attaching it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjLM7SzbX-Y

We were honored to pay tribute to the special family members of our Patriot Family, who are currently serving or have served our country! Thank you, Veterans, from all of us at HCE!! ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

BSD Elementary Basketball Tournament

We are #PatriotProud of our HCE basketball team, and their outstanding coach, Officer Martindale! The co-ed team participated in the BSD ELEMENTARY TOURNAMENT on Saturday, competing against six other elementary schools in our district. They hustled HARD, winning both games in the pool play, but were defeated (24-23) in the first round of the tournament bracket. Our young Patriots played their hearts out and had a great time! We could not be more proud of them!❤️🤍💙

Please continue to support students with the following:

• ATTENDANCE
• BEHAVIOR
• ACADEMICS

It takes a VILLAGE, and research consistently shows that when students' support systems are strong and consistent, students benefit greatly in every way! Let's show up for OUR babies! They deserve it!!!

Attendance Works: A Community Imperative

Please click on the link above to view a short, important, informational video regarding absenteeism.

ATTENDANCE INCENTIVES:

• Monthly Mystery Incentive: Beginning this month, HCE will have one day each month, unannounced, where all students who are in attendance, will receive a school-wide incentive! We are in hopes that this will encourage students to be present and on time, as they will not be eligible for the Mystery Incentive unless these things are in place.
• Class Attendance Incentive: Each class receives a star when all students are present, on time, and do not check out early. Once a class receives 20 stars, they will receive the Monthly Class Attendance Incentive (The incentive changes each month).
• Nine-Week Attendance Incentive: Each student who is on time and present for the entire day, for the entire nine-week period, will receive a special Sonic treat and a Perfect Attendance Award!

Financial Stress: Understanding the Impact on Mental Health and Helping Your Child Cope with Financial Challenges

• November 2023 Financial Stress Newsletter

Reminders:

• Please make sure students are wearing clothing that aligns with the weather/temperature (coats, sweaters, pants, etc), as this can assist with decreasing the chances of students getting sick.
• Remind students to wash their hands well to reduce the spread of germs.
• Students must be fever free for 24 hours (without medication) before returning to school.

PTO Meetings will be held the 2nd Monday of each month @HCE in the Cafe (6:00pm).

However, the PTO meeting for November 13th has been cancelled.

• District Calendar

• BPS Elementary Curriculum

• Free and Reduced Lunch Online Application

• Hurricane Creek Elementary Facebook Page

• Hurricane Creek Elementary School | Home

• Hurricane Creek Elementary PTO | Benton AR

• HCES Lunch Visitor Schedule and Expectations

• HCE Snack Days 2023-2024

• 2023-24 Elementary Handbook (ENGLISH)
  

• 2023-24 Elementary Handbook (SPANISH)
  

"Children are not distractions from more important work. They are the MOST important work."

~John Trainer