PAW PRINTS

Husky families,

How is it already February? I am amazed by how fast this school year has seemed to fly by! It is also hard to believe that we will celebrate the 100th day of school this Thursday.

Next week, we get to celebrate our amazing counselors in recognition of School Counselors' Week. If you see Ms. Bradshaw or Ms. Walcher out and about on our campus, be sure to thank them for all they do for our school!

Be sure you are continuing to monitor district communication through their website, and you can find the most up-to-date district's COVID-19 Protocols here. As a reminder, families are expected to screen their students for COVID-19 symptoms each day prior to sending their student to school.

I will be sending out newsletters often throughout the year to keep you informed and up-to-date about campus happenings. The structure of the newsletter will remain consistent. If I have new information to share, it will go in the "New Information" section near the top of the newsletter, followed by repeated information.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate in reaching out.

Ernie Bainbridge - Principal

• Feb. 3rd - 100th day of school - Students may dress up as a 100 year old or wear a 100th day shirt.

• Feb. 11th - Early Release 11:30 - Please be sure to communicate any transportation changes to your child's teacher or the front office before the 11th.

• Feb. 17th - Progress reports go home in Thursday folders.

• Cold Dress Reminders: Sweatshirts and hoodies worn in the building and portables must be solid navy, light blue, red, white, black, gray or a Hubenak hoodie. Solid denim jackets are allowed. Any logo must be quarter-sized or smaller.

  
  

  We encourage you to write your child’s first and last name on the inside of their sweatshirt or hoodie.

  
  

  Please see the section below on Dress Code for additional information and reminders!

With the upcoming cold front headed our way, I wanted to see if any parent volunteers would want to bundle up and help our staff during car rider arrival Friday morning. With enough volunteers, we could send our student safety patrol members inside and out of the cold.

Cold weather means more car riders and longer lines. We unload cars from 6:45 - 7:30 a.m.

If you are able to help, please email me at ernest.bainbridge@lcisd.org.

I know as parents, we sometimes have trouble getting more than two words from our kids about their school day. If you are having trouble getting your child to talk about their day at school, check out the article below from Positive Parenting Connections for 25 questions to ask your child about their school day.

https://www.positiveparentingconnection.net/positive_parenting_25questions_school/

When you have a staff as hardworking and wonderful as ours, identifying our Teacher and Paraprofessional of the Year can be extremely difficult! However, we can't think of two more deserving staff members than these two!

Congratulations to our Teacher and Paraprofessional of the year, Ms. Naylor and Ms. Villalonga! So well deserved!

A huge shout out to our students who performed in the District Honor Choir concert this past weekend! These students sang many different selections of music for the concert and performed with other students from all across the district.

Hadeed A.

Nicole R.

Isabel N.

Matthew C.

We appreciate the community support you have provided as we continue to focus on high-quality instruction through the course of this pandemic. Thank you to our families for continuing to comply with our isolation protocols for students that are confirmed or suspected of COVID-19. The health and safety of our students, faculty, and surrounding community is our number one priority.

Starting Monday, February 7th, LCISD will be suspending remote conferencing for students that are in isolation/quarantine. These teachers will now be mobilized on campuses to assist with in-person teaching and learning. A student with a lab-confirmed COVID-19 positive test or suspected of having COVID-19 will continue to be excluded from attendance at school and may return under the following criteria:

• If symptomatic, at least 10 days have passed since symptom onset and fever free*, and other symptoms have improved.
• For those with no symptoms, at least 10 days after the day they test positive.

*Fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-suppressing medications. Fever is a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Compulsory attendance still applies for students. Any student placed in quarantine by an outside entity (physician, County, parent, etc.) will need to provide documentation to the campus for the absences to be excused. Please continue to reach out to Nurse Band if your child is confirmed positive for COVID-19. As stated above, during the exclusion period, starting Monday, February 7th, students will no longer access Remote Conferencing. If well enough, we encourage students to access Classlink and Canvas to access educational resources. As always, we encourage our Huskies to read, read, read! Parents, please feel free to reach out to your child’s teacher during quarantine with any curriculum questions you may have. Please rest assured that we will work together to ensure your child gets caught up on class work and graded assignments when they return. The most important thing is that our Huskies are healthy and well-rested when they return!

As always, if you have any additional questions or concerns, please reach out. We are all in this together!

Lamar CISD is proud to be the 5th fastest growing district in the state of Texas. In fact, demographers project that our community will add more than 43,000 new single-family homes within the next decade. In 2020, Lamar CISD had the greatest number of new housing starts of any school district in the State of Texas.

To keep up with our growth, we are frequently building and opening new schools—while regularly reviewing and monitoring enrollment.

Due to the growing student population that resulted from new growth and development in the area, the district is enacting a cap on enrollment for Hubenak Elementary located at 11344 Rancho Bella Pkwy effective January 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023. This decision allows class sizes to remain at acceptable levels while not overloading instructional programs at the campus.

This enrollment cap is a temporary solution while the district continues to work towards building new schools in the area.

For the remainder of this school year:

All new students in all grades will be sent to Huggins Elementary for enrollment.

For the 2022-2023 school year:

Kindergarten/Pre-K:

All kindergarten students zoned to Hubenak may enroll for next year as normal. Pre-K enrollment will also be open as normal.

1st-5th grades:

If you are needing to enroll a new 1st-5th grade student, they will attend Huggins Elementary until the freeze ends. There will be no exceptions to this.

Special situations for 2022-2023: if you are needing to enroll a 1st-5th grade student, as well as an incoming kindergarten student, the kindergarten student may enroll at Hubenak, but the older students may not. Assuming you want to keep all siblings at the same school, you have the option to enroll the kindergarten student at Huggins as well.

If you have any questions about enrolling a new student at Hubenak Elementary, please contact Yvonne Thompson: 832.223.2900, marie.thompson@lcisd.org

Hubenak's Pre-k team is hosting a Juice Drive for Lunches of Love from February 7-11. We will be accepting any individual-size juice boxes or pouches in any brand and any flavor. Please see the flyer attached as well as the video link below to learn more about Lunches of Love and their mission to fight hunger in the LCISD community.

Lunches of Love Video

Calling all incoming 6th grade students - Please see the flyer below with information on upcoming parent nights. Please note: the meeting will be held virtually through Zoom.

2022 FULSHEAR CHARGER BASEBALL Buddy Program Information

Do you want to be a Charger Colt and “buddy up” with a Varsity player this season?

Please click on the Square link and Google Doc form below to register. Both items MUST be completed in order to register to be a part of the Charger Colt Program.

*Participants must be in the 2nd-6th grades
*Reserved for the first 50 to register
*Deadline to register is Friday, Feb 4th

https://fulshear-baseball.square.site/

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewiJMEbpNM03dYk67ywaZnn_lnvk4qNjwiTlEfHefGYr6R3A/viewform

If you have any questions, please contact fulshearbaseballbooster@gmail.com

As a reminder, we begin unloading car riders at 6:45 a.m. We spend the next 45 minutes unloading as many cars as quickly as possible, but we need your help!

Here are some helpful reminders that will speed up our car rider line:

• Once in the front drive of the school, pull up to the next numbered “Paw” or person located on the sidewalk. Please pull up as far up as you can and close the gaps between cars.

• Students should be ready to exit the car. They should have their backpacks, lunches, etc., and exit quickly out of the passenger side of the vehicle.

• As soon as your child is safely out of the car, pull forward. If the car in front of you is not finished unloading, please exit the line on the left side and pull forward.

*The tardy bell rings at 7:30 a.m. Please help us by getting your student to school on time.

In order to ensure a safe and smooth dismissal for our walkers we ask that kindergarten and first grade parents stand behind the designated cones for Kinder and 1st grade parents during dismissal.

Additionally, we ask that all other parents stand in the grass directly behind the daycare and not on the grassy side near Mirandola street. This will allow for a clear walking path for our students and clear visibility for our staff members.

What is a Val-o-gram? A Val-o-gram is a SINGING Valentine performed by our very own Hubenak choir members.

Please see the attachments below for more information!

As a staff, we have made a goal to create as many "raving fans" out of our students as possible! It is important to us that every student who enters our classroom, whether in-person or virtually, is excited to be here! It is also important to us to create raving fans out of our students’ families and community members. If you feel one of our staff members has gone above and beyond the call of duty, I would like to hear about it so I can recognize them!

Please email me at Ernest.Bainbridge@lcisd.org to let me know of any staff member(s) that have made a "Raving Fan" out of you throughout this school year!

Hubenak Elementary is sharing the below information about the district and your child’s campus with you as part of its obligations under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA).

Federal Report Cards for the state, the district, and each of the district’s campuses are now available on the district’s website at this link:

https://www.lcisd.org/departments/academics/raa/performance-reports-and-legal-postings or are also available on the Texas Education Agency’s website at: https://tea.texas.gov/finance-and-grants/grants/essa-program/federal-report-card.

If you have difficulty accessing the information from the website, hard copies of the reports can be requested from the district or campus office. If you have questions about the information, please contact 832-223-2900 or the Lamar CISD Research, Assessment, & Accountability Office at 832-223-0138.

Below is a detailed description of these reports and a pdf copy of Hubenak's Report Card.

The character trait for the next two months is fairness. Fairness is playing by the rules, sharing and treating others fairly.

Even though the district amended the visitor policy before winter break, our lunch reservations will stay in place for the remainder of the year due to our high enrollment and limited space in the cafeteria.

Until further notice, we are only able to accommodate five visitors per lunch period. We have set up a Sign-Up Genius below so parents can reserve a spot for lunch. Parents will be limited to reserving a table once a month to allow for as many children as possible to have lunch visitors. The reservations are on a first come, first serve basis, and once each time slot has been reserved, we will not be able to accept any additional visitors due to lack of space. Each child may have up to 2 visitors (this includes younger siblings).

On the day you are scheduled to eat lunch, please remember to bring your driver’s license with you. You will want to arrive about five minutes early so your reservations can be checked, you can receive your visitor's pass, and you can complete your COVID screener prior to walking down to the cafeteria. Finally, please remember you will only be allowed to eat with your personal child. Parents will not be allowed to sit at the tables with the class or approach the other students eating in the cafeteria. We have repurposed our lounge area in the cafeteria as our designated visitor lunch area. Once lunch is finished, your child will join their class in line to walk back to class, and you will walk to the front office to check out. If you have any questions, you may call the front office.

Sign Up Link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D4DA9AE2FA2FA7-parent

Greetings from the Emergent Bilingual Program at Hubenak!

We have some WONDERFUL learning opportunities for the families of our Emergent Bilinguals. They are all FREE and available to you beginning this Spring. Please see the attached flyers for the following parent engagement classes provided to you by Project L.E.A.R.N.

• Virtual Storytime for early childhood families (geared towards children ages 0-3 years old)
• Early Childhood Classes (geared towards children ages 2 months-3 ½ years old)

For more information and details about the classes, please see the attached flyers, or you can contact Project L.E.A.R.N. at 832-223-0421.

Thanks,

Hubenak Emergent Bilingual Team

Mandy Moreno- Instructional Coach

Vi Tran- Vietnamese Teacher

Marta Villalonga- Spanish paraprofessional

SMART Tag is a system designed to improve the safety and security of students who utilize school bus transportation. It provides live monitoring of where and when students load onto and unload off their school bus to keep transportation, school administrators and parents informed.

How does SMART tag benefit parents?

The SMART Parent Web Portal is designed to enhance communication between the transportation department and the parents of student riders. SMART tag provides parents with improved security and leading-edge technology designed to keep students safe.

SMART Tags are also used in the lunch line and library.

Please take a few minutes to review the attachment below for information on our clinic guidelines for the school year. If you have any COVID-19 related questions, please do not hesitate in reaching out to Nurse Band.

Alici.band@lcisd.org

832-223-2900

Make sure you don’t miss any important information and get safety alerts sent straight to your phone by signing up to receive texts from Lamar CISD!

To sign up, click here: bit.ly/2KGcv2o

Please note, we are required to conduct two practice safety drills each month of the school year. We will always send parents a text announcing the drill just before it occurs.

Transportation changes must be received by 2:00 p.m. We are not able to process changes made after 2:00 p.m. Any change in transportation arrangements for any student requires a note to the teacher or a phone call to the office. Make sure you write your child’s first and last name, teacher’s name, and indicate the date(s) for the change and how the child is going to get home. We ask that you not email the change since there may be times that a teacher is not in attendance or does not have a chance to read their email during the school day. Transportation changes emailed to the front office clerks are also not allowed.

Your child’s birthday is very special to us! The children are invited to come to the main office where they receive a birthday ribbon or button and choose a special birthday pencil.

In accordance with district policy, parents may bring a treat for a child’s birthday. Treats may be dropped off in the front office. Because of the time constraints, the treat is limited to one item per classmate, and it must be a store-purchased single-serve item (i.e. cupcake, cookie, etc.) so that it can be served, eaten, and cleaned up within a reasonable time. School parties are scheduled twice a year. No other parties including birthday parties are observed at school. Gifts, balloons, flowers, or other deliveries to students are not allowed. Invitations to individual parties may not be distributed at school.

Please be sure to review the Hubenak Uniform Dress Code and Grooming Policy.

Click on the button below to access the 2021-2022 Instructional Calendar. Please note these important dates:

• Spring Break: March 14 - 18
• Easter Break: April 18
• Memorial Day: May 30

• Last Day for Students: May 26

Be sure to connect with us online through our social media and school website to stay up to date with our school news. If you haven’t already, please “like” our school Facebook page by clicking the button below. We are very proud of the things happening at Hubenak!

Hubenak PTA is a group of parents working in partnership with school staff to help keep families informed and involved. Each family is encouraged to join! More information on membership coming soon.

The PTA supports activities that are beneficial to all students, such as field trips and instructional supplies. PTA also provides special programs, events and much more to benefit your children and teachers.

To keep up with PTA happenings, please follow our Facebook page!