February 17th - No School

February 17th - PTA Spirit Day/NIght at Shake Shack @ 11

February 21st- Donuts with Grown-ups - 2nd Grade

February 24th: PTA All Membership Meeting 6:00 PM

RSVP for the Jungle Movement Academy portion

February 27th: Staff Appreciation breakfast: sign up or donate

February 27th: Literacy Family Night 5:30PM

March 13th: Bite of BCE Multicultural Night 5:30PM

March 14th: Kinder & 1st Texas Hoedown Performance

March 17-21st - Spring Break

Please help us in congratulating Ms. Hanzlik and Ms. Aponte as our teacher and paraprofessional of the year! We are truly blessed with the best staff in all of Round Rock ISD and are so proud of these two amazing women! They continuously pour into our students and staff each and every day creating lasting and positive relationships!

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school the week of February 24th to the 28th. The book fair is a time to shop for exciting new books while also supporting our library for future author visits and other exciting programming! Visit our Book fair website to set up an eWallet for your student to shop during the day, browse the online flyers and share information about shopping online with out of town family, as we get a portion of the profits from any online shopping within the book fair window! You can also find the link to our Scholastic book fair website with online flyers. https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/brushycreekelemschool2 See our attached flyer for information about shopping times. Questions? Contact the librarian, Hannah Marks, at hannah_marks@roundrockisd.org

The Schlitterbahn Waves of Pages program has been in full swing the last few weeks. By reading for fun a total of 600 minutes (10 hours), you can earn a FREE TICKET to the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in New Braunfels, Texas. Read aloud to your student, have your student read to you or your student can read alone, it all counts towards the requirement. Completed student logs are due to classroom teachers before or no later than Friday, February 28th. Questions or need a reading log? Contact the librarian, Hannah Marks, at hannah_marks@roundrockisd.org

Come hear about everything the PTA is doing and learn how you can be involved - the meeting will be held in the BCE cafeteria on Feb. 24 at 6pm. Everyone is welcome, though you must be a PTA member in order to vote. Jungle Movement Academy will be hosting a FREE workshop for students during the meeting - RSVP here to reserve your child's spot. Stay afterwards for our PTA Reflections Ceremony, where we honor our BCE students who participated in the Reflections arts program this year.

The PTA is hosting a free Family Literacy Night in the cafeteria on Feb. 27 from 5:30-7. Come participate in literacy themed stations and shop at the book fair while you're at it!

The PTA is hosting our first-ever Bite of BCE Multicultural Night on March 13. We need your help and participation! Check out our interest form to learn more about the event and how you can share about YOUR culture/country.

Calling all fathers and father figures! Watch Dogs is a national program designed to get dads and other male family members volunteering in the school, and we've brought it back to Brushy Creek! Fill out our Interest Form to learn more and to sign up. Check out our PTA Volunteer page for the latest volunteer happenings!

Parents are always asking how they can help our school. Below is a wish list for our teacher workroom. If you would like to donate any items we would greatly appreciate it.

There are lots of ways parents and family members can get involved at our school! Visit the PTA Volunteering page here and check out what works for you: recess monitoring, cafeteria monitoring, library volunteering, helping your child's teacher as a homeroom representative, making copies in the teacher workroom, and more! If you want to volunteer in a particular area, please make sure to sign up via our Sign-Up Geniuses. This helps the front desk know who to expect on what day. Thank you!

Register to volunteer by completing the volunteer application form. Applicants must use their legal name as it appears on their driver’s license or passport. You MUST have a Social Security Number to complete the online form.

To improve student safety, any person wishing to volunteer in Round Rock ISD is required to complete a Volunteer Application.

• Application must be renewed each school year
• Application should be completed as early as possible
• Application takes approximately five minutes to complete
• You must hit SUBMIT (not just ‘save’) for the application to be processed
• Applications take 72 hours to process
• Once completed, present your photo ID at the campus to be scanned into Raptor
• Check the status of your application by contacting the front office at your child’s campus

Click on the link below to get started!

https://partners.roundrockisd.org/volunteer/

Click on the flier to learn more about this year's Brushy Creek Elementary Yearbook.

You can also go directly to the yearbook website here! Families are also encouraged to upload photos to help out our yearbook volunteer!

Purchasing - https://web.treering.com/create-account/1017192484712175?PassCode=1017192484712175
Uploading photos - https://web.treering.com/school/254191/2024/school-content/school-photos

Please help us alleviate the amount of items we have in Lost and Found by labeling your child's items such as jackets, sweatshirts, lunchboxes, and water bottles. This will help us immensely!! The Lost and Found has now been moved to the Blue Jay Cafe. Thank you for your help in this matter!

This letter is what we send home at the beginning of the year. It reviews our safety procedures as well as our mandatory safety drill protocols. We wanted to include it in the blast so if your child comes home and says they had a drill this week, you could pull this letter up to refer to.

To familiarize yourself with all things BCE, please refer to our parent handbook (see link below). Of course if you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to call the front office at 512-464-3000. We are looking forward to a great year!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Le1kmJxIddOp-yFnw25e-PJFbFp4K8GdoudppO7nlk/edit?usp=sharing

The PTA does so much for our school, students, and teachers! When you join the PTA, consider having more than one parent join as this helps benefit our school by showing a greater presence in our community and gives us an advantage in obtaining sponsorships and school discounts. Grandparents, relatives, friends, even your kids can be PTA members. Click here to join: https://bcebluejays.memberhub.com/

Brushy Creek Elementary T-shirts, Spirit Items, Yearbooks (pre-orders), Feather Our Nest Donations, And PTA Memberships Are Available Through Our Online Store. Click here to order now! https://bcebluejays.memberhub.com/

You can also follow the PTA on Twitter to stay up to date on what is happening on our campus and with PTA.

https://twitter.com/BCEPTABluejays

If you are every in need of resources, please click on this link that will take you directly to our District community resources page. It is full of information and links that can help support your needs.

Have you ever wondered what all the educational acronyms you may hear mean? Well, good news there is a resource for you. If you click on this link it will take you directly to the district resource page that lists the acronyms and what they mean!

Website: brushycreek.roundrockisd.org
Location: 3800 Stonebridge Drive, Round Rock, TX, USA
Phone: 512-428-3000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rrisd.brushycreek
Twitter: @BCE_BlueJays