Stay Informed

Rustic Oak offers a variety of ways for parents to stay informed of upcoming events. Please visit http://www.pearlandisd.org/RusticOak.cfm

On our website, you will find a calendar of events and a monthly newsletter. Weekly classroom Peeks of the Week will also be uploaded to the teachers’ web pages. Student grades and attendance information is available through Skyward.

We also use Connect Ed and Skyward messaging to make phone calls home and send email messages. Please keep your phone numbers and email addresses up to date to receive these important messages. For more information about staying connected with PISD, visit the Communications Department website at www.pearladnisd.org.

Handbooks: Please be sure to read the student handbooks for

PISD and for Rustic Oak Elementary. To access the handbooks on line use

the following links:

PISD: http://www.pearlandisd.org/documents.cfm?id=23.24

Rustic:

http://www.pearlandisd.org/files/filesystem/student%20parent%20handbook

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Upcoming Events

9/1 PTA General Meeting: 6:30 pm

9/3 Meet the Teacher Night:

PK-2nd Grades: 6:30-7:15

3rd & 4th Grades: 7:15-8:00

9/7 No School: Labor Day

9/8 Parents may begin eating lunch with

students in room 404

9/14 Grandparents’ Lunch: Last Names A-L

9/15 Grandparents’ Lunch: Last Names M-Z

9/16 Progress Report

9/22 School Picture Day

Fundraiser Kick Off

A Word From Mrs. West

I am honored to serve the families

at Rustic Oak Elementary this year. This

school year I will begin my 14th year in

the Pearland Independent School District

and my 9th year as an assistant principal.

I look forward to meeting each of you

and getting to know your children. Please

feel free to contact me if you have any

concerns.

Welcome back to the 2015-16 school year at Rustic Oak

Elementary where the focus is on each individual child! I am excit-

ed to begin my 12th year as the principal of Rustic Oak Elemen-

tary. We have had a great beginning for this school year. I would

like welcome our new staff members: Assistant Principal – Brooke

Newell, Counselor – Brittanee Goodeaux, First Grade – Sara Mar-

tin, Second Grade – Krista Myer, Third Grade – Maegan Morris,

Fourth Grade – Jackie Avants and PE aide Micaiah Provenzano.

We welcome them to our Rustic Oak Family. It is going to be an-

other great year! I sincerely appreciate the help and support that

our families continue to show the teachers and staff. It is essential

the school staff and the parents work together as a team to ensure

our students continue to excel.

Sincerely,

Beth West

HOW TO ACCESS STUDENTS’ LUNCH ACCOUNT:

Go to www.pearlandisd.org

Go to Departments and click on Food Service

Click on Manage your student’s meal accounts with Parentonline

First time users:

Must register (establish a user name and pass-word)

Add students (must have a student id number: available from the school)

Can add multiple students

Returning users:

Can view account activity (students’ purchases)

Can make payments (add money to their account): may take upt to 24

hours to process a payment.

Set up automatic payment

For more information, contact the Food Services office @ 281-412-1244 or Parent On-line @1-866-6030.

Food Service Charging Policy: We realize that parents have a busy schedule and may forget to send money or students may forget to bring a

lunch. Students are allowed to charge up to $5.00—after that a minimal meal will be provided (peanut butter or cheese sandwich). Students are not al-

lowed to charge the ala carte times, i.e. ice cream, chips.

We need your help…

Please send a note to school with

your child if you need to change the way

he/she will go home. Try to limit changes

in transportation for your child during

the school day. In the event a change

needs to be made, please call the school

no later than 2:00 PM so that we can

make sure your child gets the infor-

mation about the change before dismissal

procedures begin. Please do not e-mail

teachers: teachers do not check e-mail

during instructional times and may not be

on campus to receive your message.

Thanks in advance for you help in this

matter! It helps us make sure each child

safely arrives home.

RX Notes

Welcome back to Rustic Oak!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

MEDICATIONS must be accompanied by a note from the parent and brought to the clinic. A physician’s note is required for any medica-tion taken over 10 days. See the PISD main website for medica-tion guidelines and forms.

PRACTICE GOOD HANDWASHING

Proper hand washing is the easiest way to prevent the spread of illness. We will do our best to encourage proper hand washing at Rustic Oak. Good habits begin at home, so please encourage your family to wash hands frequently.

ILLNESSES: If your child becomes sick at school, I will con-tact you to pick them up. Please keep phones numbers current. If your child has been sick the night before or during the night with fever or vomiting please do not send them to school. Children MUST be fever free for 24 hours without use of a fever reduc-er such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen. It is very difficult to keep our students healthy with sick children coming to school for even part of the day. If you have any questions about your child’s illness and whether they can return to school, please feel free to call me.

HEALTH ISSUES: Please keep me up to date on any medical concerns your child may have as the year progresses. I am here to support your child in anyway that I can.

Shelia Scott, R.N., B.S.N.

How Full is

Your Bucket?

This year we are continuing our character development program with Bucket Filler Bucks. Bucket filling is an easy-to-understand concept: everyone carries an invisible bucket that holds good thoughts and feelings. When our buckets are full, we feel happy; and. when our buckets are empty, we feel sad. Children quickly understand that they can fill buckets when they do and say things that are kind, considerate, caring, and respectful. They also learn that when they are mean, inconsiderate, uncaring, or disrespectful, they dip into buckets and remove those good feel-ings. Even the youngest child under-stands that actions and words can either fill a bucket or dip into it. During this school year we are encouraging, re-minding, and recognizing everyone’s efforts to be bucket fillers at home, at school and everywhere they go. We are excited about this program and look for-ward to your support. If you would like to learn more about bucket filling, visit the Bucket Fillers website, www.bucketfillers101.com.

Meet your teacher night will be on September 3, 6:30-8:00p.m. If your child is in Pre-K through 2nd grade, join us from 6:30-7:15. Our 3rd and 4th grade times will be from 7:15-8:00. At Rustic Oak, we value the importance of community involvement. We want to collaborate with you in order to support your child’s learning process. Please do not hesitate to call if you have any questions or concerns.

Grandparents Lunch

We will celebrate Grandparents’ Day this year on Monday, September 14 for student last names A-L. and Tuesday, September 15 for student last names M-Z. Please feel free to come have lunch with your grand-child. Feel free to bring in lunch for you and your grandchild or lunch may be purchased in the cafeteria for $3.25. Check the lunch schedule below for your grandchild’s lunch time.

10:50- 11:20 Yeatts/ VanMetre

10:55- 11:25 Merritt/ Bartlett

11:00- 11:30 Jarrell/ Morris

11:05- 11:35 Guthrie/ Wehman

11:10- 11:40 Sadler/ DuBrock

11:20- 11:50 Avants/ Petri

11:25- 11:55 LeBlanc/ Adams

11:30- 12:00 Aldape/ Pettepher

11:35- 12:05 Clements/ Cochran

11:40- 12:10 Myer/ Morrison

11:50- 12:20 Viscariello/ Martin

11:55- 12:25 Baumann/ Booth

12:00- 12:30 Laudermilk/ Valore

Library News

Welcome back to

the 2015-2016 school year. I

am so excited about seeing

your child in the library. My

goal for your child is that he

or she will become a lifetime learner and read-

er. Reading opens the door to imagination and ad-

venture.

Please visit the Rustic Oak library website to see

policies on returning books as well as upcoming

activities in the library.

There are many opportunities to volunteer in the

library. Please contact me at

christopherc@pearlandisd.org if you would like to

help.

Christi Christopher

Librarian

Mrs. Goodeaux’s Counseling Notes:

Hello Rustic Oak Family!

I am SUPER excited to have the opportunity to work at such an amazing

school as the counselor. From morning announcements to guidance

lessons to small groups, we will be discussing and exploring ways to im-

prove our character! We are pleased that our school district has adopt-

ed the Character Education Program entitled

Rock Solid Character. Each month the students

will receive a lesson focusing on one of these

handholds which include: respect, responsibility,

caring/cooperation, honesty, trustworthiness, kind-

ness, and courage. For the students that at-

tend small group counseling, we will be focus-

ing on achieving positive goals. Our sessions will model the solution-

focused approach to help our children identify their strengths and abili-

ties to solve their concerns. We will meet for seven sessions, in which,

the students will learn important skills to help them be successful. In

group, these skills will be tailored to address individual student needs

and concerns. This is going to be a great school year. Thank you all for

being so welcoming and friendly! If you need to contact me, please feel

free to email or call me.

Brittanee Goodeaux

goodeauxb@pearlandisd.org

Save Those Box Tops

Box tops are an easy, quick way to get money for

our school. All you need to do is clip and send

them to the school —- each one is worth 10¢.

Encourage your friends and family members to do

the same!

Thanks for that support!

From the Coaches Corner

Welcome back! We are so excited to get the new school year started in P.E. that we are going bananas! We hope you all had a healthy and great summer. We look forward to a fun and exciting year in P.E. Parents please read the parent information page on the P.E. webpage. It contains information about our goals, expectations, and requirements for P.E. We hope your child will have a very positive and fun school year.

Coach Grigar and Coach Provenzano

Musical Memos

Welcome Bach! I am so excited to

see all of our musical buffaloes roam-

ing the halls once more. This year I

am excited to announce that we will have a music

shirt available for purchase. These are not re-

quired for performances, but will certainly be ac-

ceptable to wear on stage this year.

This year’s program dates are listed on my

webpage. Please visit: http://www.pearlandisd.org/

webpages/sjohnson/news.cfm for more infor-

mation concerning your child’s perfor-

mance date as well as many fun music

links. Any letters or announcements

sent home in the future will also be

posted here as well. Last, but certainly

not least, don’t forget to save those

drink pouches. It is such an easy way to

earn a little extra money for our music

room. The recycling box is located in

the cafeteria.

Texas Public School Nutrition Policy for Elementary

Schools

The policy states that an elementary school campus may not serve or provide access for students to FMNV (Foods of Minimal Nutri-tion Value) at anytime, anywhere on school premises during the school day. Items classified as FMNV fall into four categories: soda water (including all carbonated drinks), water ices (including popsicles), chewing gum and certain candies (including hard candy, jellies, marsh-mallow candies, licorice, cotton candy, and candy coated popcorn). Parents may bring cupcakes, cookies, or small treats such as pencils, erasers, etc. to school for all children in the class to honor students’ birthdays. The classroom teacher will hand out edible birthday treats during recess or the last five minutes of the student’s school day.

Welcome back Rustic Oak students, teachers, faculty and staff! We hope

your summer was restful and relaxing because the new school year is off and

running!

If you haven’t already joined the Rustic Oak PTA, please do so as quickly as

possible. Our first general PTA meeting of the year is Tuesday, September

1st. The meeting will be held in the school cafeteria and begins promptly at

6:30 p.m. You must be a member to attend. Please plan on attending as we

will be discussing our plans for new playground equipment as well as fun ac-

tivities for the whole family for the 2015-2016 school year. We welcome

new ideas, new faces and new leaders so please save the date!

We hope to see you all at Meet the Teacher night on September 3, 2015.

The PTA will have a membership table set up near the library so if you have-

n’t already joined, you can do so at that time. Also, for those of you interest-

ed in volunteering at the school, please complete the volunteer application at

www.pearlandisd.org. Our “VIP” (Very Important Parent) room will be open

for business starting the third week of school. We will need help on a week-

ly, if not daily, basis doing small tasks for teachers. If you are interested in

helping, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Tiffany Sanders, at tiffa-

nyROEPTA@gmail.com. Thank you to all parents, teachers and faculty for

making the back-to-school transition an easy one. I look forward to seeing

you all around the school and at our PTA meetings!

Heather Gordon, President

Attendance

Welcome back! As a reminder with

missed days, please send a note to cover

EVERY day missed. If you go to the doc-

tor, that note ONLY covers that specific

date. If for some reason your child is

absent longer than the doctor’s excuse

note, please add dates to the bottom of

the note or send a separate note on a full

sized piece of paper. On those notes I

ask that you please clearly include your

child’s full name and teacher. Thank you

and I hope you have a GREAT school year!

Edna Darby

Registrar/Attendance Clerk

Process for Gifted and Talented Nominations for a Pearland ISD Student

Parents/Guardians, other family members, and/or community members may nominate students.

Students may nominate themselves.

Members of Pearland ISD professional staff, including principals, teachers, counselors, special program teachers or others who have knowledge of the student may nominate students.

Nominations are accepted at any time during the school year and may be submitted one of two ways:

OR

Assessment and identification are completed according to the published district timeline:

Kindergarten students who are nominated by 4:00pm Wednesday, September 30, 2015 will be administered qualita-tive assessments at their home campus and the quantitative assessments at the Pearland ISD Education Support Center. Assessments at the PISD ESC will be after school or Saturday. Parents will have multiple dates/times for scheduling GT assessments.

For students in 1st grade through 4th grade, assessments will be conducted at the campus during the school day if completed forms are received before 4:00pm Wednesday, September 30, 2015.

For students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade if completed forms are received after 4:00pm September 30, 2015, student assessments will be conducted in the first round of assessment the next school year.

For students in 4th grade, if completed forms are received after 4:00pm September 30, 2015 through 4:00pm March 11, 2016, assessments will be conducted at the Education Support Center after school or on a Saturday in the spring. If forms are received after 4:00pm March 11, 2016, assessments will be conducted in the first round of assessment the next school year.

Forms and the Identification Timeline are available at www.pearlandisd.org → Departments→ Advanced Aca-demics or the campus reception area.

To learn more about the GT identification process, parents are invited to attend one of two presentations pre-sented by Advanced Academics

OR

Please contact Melanie Grote, Advanced Academics Specialist K-4, with questions.

1928 N. Main, Pearland, TX 77581

(281)485-3203

Parents complete the Nomination and Permission to Test Form through the Advanced Academics Portal

and submit online:

https://adv.pearlandisd.org/advacadportal/

Complete the paper version of

Nomination Form Permission to Test Form

(must have a parent signature)

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 @ 6:30-7:30 pm

Challenger Elementary School Cafeteria

9434 Hughes Ranch Road

Pearland, TX 77584

Thursday, September 17, 2015 @ 6:30-7:30 pm

Shadycrest Elementary School Cafeteria

2405 Shadybend

Pearland, TX 77581