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Main Number ……. 281-641-3400

Absence Line ……..281-641-3419

Nurse ………………. 281-641-3405

Cafeteria …………… 281-641-3408

Fall Creek website - www.humbleisd.net/fce

Humble ISD website - www.humble.k12.tx.us

Oct. 12th - Cardinal County Fair, 11am - 3pm

Oct. 14th - Student Holiday

Oct. 16th - Chick-fil-A Spirit Night, 3pm - 8pm

Oct. 17th - Wear Pink

Oct. 18th - Exploring Brazil Program

Oct. 21st - 25th - Enter the Pumpkin contest

Oct. 24th - College Shirt Day

Oct. 28th-Nov. 1st - Book Fair & Red Ribbon Week

Oct. 30th-31st - Early Release at 12:00pm, parent

conferences

October 8, 2013

Fall Creek Elementary is a No Place for Hate Campus!

We all at Fall Creek Elementary are committed to eradicate harassment and bullying from our

school, and ensure FCE is a Safe School Zone for all of our students. With the help of our great

student body and their supportive parents we believe that we can make Fall Creek Elementary

your child’s Home away from Home!

The Texas Education Code defines bullying as engaging in written or verbal expression, expression through

electronic means, or physical conduct that occurs on school property, at a school-sponsored or school-

related activity, or in a vehicle operated by the district and that:

Has the effect or will have the effect of physically harming a student, damaging a student's property, or placing a student in reason-

able fear of harm to the student's person or of damage to the student's property; or

Is sufficiently severe, persistent and pervasive enough that the action or threat creates an intimidating, threatening or abusive

educational environment for a student.

[Act of June 17, 2011, 82th Leg., R.S., H.B. 1942, § 7 (to be codified at Texas Education Code § 37.0832)]

Conduct is considered bullying if it…

exploits an imbalance of power between the student perpetrator and the student victim through written or verbal expression or

physical conduct; and

interferes with a student's education or substantially disrupts the operation of a school.

[Act of June 17, 2011, 82th Leg., R.S., H.B. 1942, § 7 (to be codified at Texas Education Code § 37.0832)]

If you feel like your student is a victim of bullying please help us to identify and stop the actions. We all need to work to-

gether to make this goal happen!

Additional resources, as well as our Student-Complaint-Form to report bullying are available from a link on the main page

of our web site.

Early Release Day October 30th and October 31st are Early Release Days. Students will be dismissed at 12:00pm. Kindergarten

car riders will be dismissed from the front driveway. Lunch will be served on both days.

One in 8 women will be diagnosed with

breast cancer. Many of our teachers,

parents and students have seen the

disease in their family or friends. So

this year, Fall Creek Elementary is par-

ticipating in Passionately Pink for the Cure which is a pro-

gram of the Susan G. Komen Foundation that raises money

to fight breast cancer.

We will be joining the fight on October 17th

by wearing

pink. We encourage you to join with us by allowing your

child to wear pink on this day. Get creative and

have fun by helping raise awareness.

Donations of any amount can be given to the

classroom teachers.

Fall Creek PTO Cultural ARTS presents

“Exploring Brazil through Capoeira”

Brazilian Arts Foundation

Friday, October 18th

8:30 and 9:30 am

Transport your imagination and spirit to Brazil – to the

Afro-Brazilian lifestyle, culture and history of a diverse and

amazing region located in South America. Through dance,

music, and acrobatics performers from the Brazilian Arts

Foundation expose students to Capoeira and its deep

roots and heritage that has contributed to the rich culture

of modern day Brazil.

Here are a few ideas you can discuss at home prior to the

performance. Find a few interesting facts and photos

about Brazil on your search engine. Look up "Capoiera”

and how to say "Hello" in Portuguese. Talk about Brazil

and where it is located on the map. Discuss rain forests

and why this ecosystem is critical to our world's well-

being.

Book character

Pumpkin Painting

Contest

Calling all students! Let’s have some fun!

Beginning October 21st – October 25th, bring any size

pumpkin decorated (not carved) as your favorite book

character to the library. All pumpkins will be displayed

during the Book Fair October 28th

– November 1st. Judg-

ing will take place October 31st and winners announced

November 1st.

VISION AND HEARING

SCREENING

All newly enrolled FCE students as well as all 1st

, 3rd

, and 5th

graders must be screened or have a professional examina-

tion for possible vision and hearing problems based on the

Texas Department of Health Services requirements. The

screening this year will take place on Thursday October

17th. If your child wears glasses, please make sure that

they bring them on those days – thank you!

I want to remind all parents about the Fall Creek and Hum-

ble ISD PE dress code (Pages DM 11-12 in the parent stu-

dent handbook). I know when the weather changes our

attire changes. This is a reminder that all students must

have tennis shoes to participate in PE. Boots, slip on shoes,

Crocs, sandals, flip flops, and dress shoes are not allowed

because of safety reasons. We do not want any of our stu-

dents to be unsafe in our PE activities.

If a student comes to PE without tennis shoes they will sit

out of the daily activities, sign the penalty book, and a re-

minder note will go home. Their PE grade will be affected

by improper footwear. Because their grade is based on

effort it is important that they participate.

We will also track the whole class and they will get a free

day when they have earned enough yards by not having

anyone sign the penalty book.

Don’t forget about dresses and skirts, too. They must have

shorts or leggings underneath their skirt or dress to partici-

pate. You can check on my webpage for more info. If you

have any further questions, please email me at

Joshua.arnett@humble.k12.tx.us.

Josh Arnett

PE Dress Code

CARDINAL COUNTY FAIR

VOLUNTEERS - We still need a lot of volunteers to join our teachers on Saturday in working a

quick, fun 2 hour shift at the fair!

Please go to fcpto.com and click on the link to sign up TODAY!!!! FCE needs YOU to make this fair

a success!

RAFFLE-The Teacher's Raffle started yesterday and will run all week in the mornings from

7:30am to 8am and then again during all lunches from 10:30am to 1:30pm.

Kids can bring their money/quarters to buy raffle tickets to win some fun time with their favorite

teachers or win a fun prize basket.

Raffle will also run on Saturday from 11am to 2pm and winners will be posted at 2:30pm. You

DO NOT need to be present to win.

TICKETS- Presale Ticket Order forms were due today. If you did not turn in your order form by

today, you can still buy tickets IN PERSON at the presale price (25 tickets for $10) at the location/

times listed below.

PTO will be at the Fall Creek neighborhood info center on Thursday morning from 7:30am to 9am

and on Friday morning from 9:30am to 11am.

Tickets will be 50 cents each at the door on Saturday.

SLITHER CONTEST- Only 3 more days to bring in your money and VOTE for who will get

SSSLITHERED at the fair!

Will it be Ms. Stroud, Coach Arnett or Mrs. Edson?

Fill up those JUGS in the lobby and VOTE!

Make sure you are here at 2:30 pm on Saturday to see who the SLITHERY winner will be!

DONATIONS - Only 3 more days to send in your soda, snack cake, water and stuffed animal

donations. Drop boxes in the lobby!

KInder, 2nd & 4th - Canned sodas. NO 2 liters, please.

1st & 3rd - individually wrapped snack cakes. (i.e. ding dongs, twinkies, etc)

5th grade - bottled water

ALL GRADES - New & gently used stuffed animals.

Please check FCE PTO website at fcpto.com for all other details!

IT IS FINALLY HERE AND WE WILL SEE YOU SATURDAY AT THE FAIR!

Come ready to play, ride, climb, eat and have fun at the 4th Annual Cardinal County Fair!

This week’s social skill:

“Ignoring”

1. Look away.

2. Close your ears.

3. Be quiet.

We are in need of pictures for the

yearbook from first day of school,

Pep Rally, Clutch from the Houston

Rockets, Grandparents Day, Kinder-

garten Picnic. These are just some

of the events that have happened since school started.

Please submit your picture to fce.yearbook@gmail.com.

Thanks for your help!

Mark your calendars for Spirit Night at Chick-Fil-A on Wil-

son Rd - Wednesday, October 16th from 3:00 pm - 8:00

pm. Fall Creek Elementary will receive 20% of all sales.

Remember you can dine-in or drive thru.

Congratulations to Ms. Taylor's 3rd grade class - they are

the September Box Tops winning class! Remember to

clip your Box Tops and Labels for Education and send

them in so that your class can be our monthly winner.

The winning class gets to keep the trophy for a month

and also gets treated to an ice cream treat in the cafete-

ria. The next collection date will be Friday, October 25th.

Parent 2 Parent Returns

Want to stay connected?

Have ideas to make FCE even better?

Interested in building community spirit within our

school?

Please join Karen Hackfeld, a parent… a volunteer…

and our PTO President at Fall Creek Elementary as she

hosts a focus group called PARENT 2 PARENT. The

meetings will be held on the 3rd

Wednesday of every

month. The mission of this focus group will be to share

ideas, provide feedback, meet other parents and help

Fall Creek Elementary continue to be a GREAT place

for our children to learn. The first meeting will

be October 16th at 8:30 am in the school cafeteria.

Reminder: Please keep sending in your

Deerbrook Mall receipts!

FCE is participating in Deerbrook Mall’s My School’s Cool

Program to try to win $10,000. Each dollar spent at Deer-

brook Mall earns our school valuable points! For more in-

formation check out the Fall Creek website.

As required by the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act 2010,

Humble ISD will be increasing lunch prices starting Novem-

ber 1, 2013. The new prices will be:

Elementary School Lunches $2.10

Secondary School Lunches $2.35

(Prices on the Sub Lines at the secondary schools will re-

main the same)

Adult Lunches $3.25

Veteran’s Day Wall

In preparation for the FCE annual Veteran’s Day program, the PTO will be gathering pictures of your family members who

fearlessly served our country to display on the Wall of Honor. Pictures should be turned in at the front office and will NOT

be returned, so please send in copies or duplicates. The below information should be included with each picture.

Name of Student: ____________________________________________

Relationship to student: ____________________________________

Name of Veteran: ____________________________________________

Branch of Service: ___________________________________________

Years served: ________________________________________________

2013 Season of Sharing

Humble Area Assistance Ministries

To benefit local families during the

Holiday Season

It might feel a little early to be thinking about the holidays,

but the community needs our help. Last year 8, 586 indi-

viduals received Holiday Food Bags at HAAM. Your 2013

donations can help us make that possible again. Fall Creek

Elementary will be collecting food donations for HAAM

(Humble Area Assistance Ministry) October 8th

through

October 31st.

. Please consider sharing your blessings by

making a food donation today. Students will drop off the

donations in their classroom.

FOOD DONATION

Stuffing Mix

Canned Sweet Corn

Canned Green Beans

Instant Potatoes

Jiffy Cornbread - box

Turkey Gravy - can or mix

Canned Fruit

Dry Beans - Pinto & Red Beans - 1 pound bag

Brownie Mix

Got some extra socks without a match? Send them to FCE!

The art teacher is collecting clean socks to recycle into art

projects.

Science Supply Drive Success!

Thank you for all your donations to the science supply

drive. Our science closet is overflowing with resources

for our teachers! Thanks for showing your support for

our science program.

Mrs. Young

Sam’s Soldiers Fight to End Duchenne Fun Run

Benefiting: Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) in Honor of Samuel Stander

The Standers are residents of Fall Creek. Their 5 year old son Samuel was recently diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular

Dystrophy (DMD). DMD is a 100% fatal, genetic muscular disorder characterized by progressive muscular degeneration

and weakness. PPMD is the largest organization focused on finding a cure for DMD. www.parentprojectmd.org

Where: The Ballfields at Fall Creek

When: Saturday, November 9, 2013

Time: 9:00 AM for 1-mile run

9:30 AM for 1-mile walk

10:00 AM Raffle Basket Drawing

Attire: Super Hero Costumes

Cost: $15/Adult & $10/Child

Virtual Super Hero Donation Available

Register online at http://www.parentprojectmd.org/samssoldiers by 10/23 for a t-shirt.

You won't want to miss our sponsor donated raffle baskets with retail values from $100-$500! Raffle tickets sell for $1

each or 6 tickets for $5. Please email samssoldiers05@gmail.com for questions on how to register, donate, or sponsor

the event.