Tiger Tribune

Hello Theiss families,

We are in the home stretch of the 23-24 school year and excited to see all the growth our students are making with our end of year assessments. Please continue to encourage your child to put forth their best effort for learning at school, as these next few weeks are just as important as the last 32. Students will be taking their "end of year" or EOY MAP Assessments over the next couple of weeks in all grades. They have made goals for their MAP scores since the beginning of the school year, and now we get to celebrate their growth with them!

We have many special events in the month of May, one being Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week! Please take a moment to show thanks and appreciation to your child's teacher and support staff. Campus leadership has a fun "Friends" themed week planned with support from the Theiss PTO, but we would love for our whole community to participate. Check your child's folder for a flyer (attached in this newsletter as well) for ways to participate. Other special events are listed in this newsletter and more details will be shared with you as we get closer.

As always, please let us know if you have questions or concerns. We hope that you will be able to join us for our upcoming events!

Respectfully,

Mrs. Jessica Taylor

This month:

5/1 Online School Supply Sale begins!

5/6-5/10 Teacher Appreciation

5/10 Kinder Program, 2 PM

5/14 McDonald's Appreciation Night, visit from 5-7 for discounted meals and free ice cream for Theiss students!

5/17 Level Up Day

5/21 Music Bee, grades 3-5, 9 AM

5/21 KHS Senior Clap Out, 1:30 PM

5/23 5th Grade Field Trip - Minute Maid Park

5/23 Learning Celebrations, 9 Weeks Treats

5/24 5BA/Last Day

5/28 -5/29 Staff Development/Student Holiday

5/30 -5/31 Staff Development

Looking Ahead:

8/12 Meet the Teacher, 4-6 PM

8/14 First Day of School 24-25

We are excited to invite our families to join us in celebrating the year's accomplishments with our students during our last learning celebrations ceremonies.

Learning Celebration Ceremonies:

• May 23rd for PK - 4th, see schedule below
• Classroom ceremonies for PK - 4th
• Grade level ceremony for 5th
• May 24th for 5th @ 9 AM
• RSVP Link coming soon
• Due to the number of visitors, we will not be able to accommodate any parent lunch visitors on this day.

Schedule:

8:30 - 9:00 - 1st

9:15 - 9:45 - 2nd

10 - 10:30 - PK/Kinder

10:45 - 11:15 - 3rd

11:30 - 12:00 - 4th

We are excited to celebrate our Kindergarten students with a musical program!

• May 10th @ 2PM
• Theiss Cafeteria
• RSVP & Early Dismissal for KG students only
• Parents will recieve a ticket when they sign out on the early dismissal form
• Once signed out, parents and students will exit through the outside cafeteria doors
• All sibling early dismissals will follow regular campus procedures and need to be checked out in the front office

Each year, our campus develops a Campus Improvement Plan to guide our decisions and goals for the year. One of our goals relates to our rate of attendance. Having a high attendance rate not only helps support our school and school district financially (we are paid per pupil, per day), but it also helps support our overall rating from TEA.

Tardies and Early Dismissals not only affect student attendance, but they decrease the number of minutes of instruction students receive each day. You can see from the graphic that just a few minutes each day, adds up to a LARGE number each school year.

How can you help?

*Take note: School hours this year are: 8:10 - 3:25

*Our doors open at 7:40, earlier than in years past. Set an alarm on your phone to leave 5 minutes earlier than needed to arrive at school on time.

*Schedule routine Dr. visits during our numerous student holidays throughout the year.

*Bring in Dr. excuses if you are arriving late from a Dr. appointment so it's not counted as a tardy.

Goals:

Our goal this Spring is to decrease the number of tardies and early dismissals to less than 15 of each daily. During the Fall, we calculate the following tardy an early dismissal averages:

Tardy Daily Averages

31 - Oct. Average

29 - Nov. Average

38 - Dec. Average

28 - Jan Average

Early Dismissal Daily Averages

16 - October

24 - November

38 - December

20 - January

Our front office calculates these percentages and more daily. Check out our daily stats on this poster when you enter the front office!

Ever wonder what your child learns in school? Our Klein Family curriculum Guides for Quarter 4 are now available! Check it out so you can ask your child more detailed questions and avoid the typical "fine" response to "How was your day?"

Click here to access the Family Curriculum Guides webpage:

• Select your child's grade level
• Select 4th Quarter in English or Spanish
• Read and get ideas on how to support learning at home!

Previous "Procedure Updates" can be found by clicking on the previous newsletters, linked at the bottom of this newsletter.

We have seen an increase in adults entering our building with attire that does not follow our KISD dress code. Our staff and students follow our dress code, linked here in our Student Handbook, to ensure a positive supportive school environment where students can focus on learning. Please help us ensure our students are not distracted by you attire by adhering to the following requests.

Reminders:

*All people entering our building are expected to be fully clothed. Crop tops are not allowed, as they do not comply with being fully clothed.

*Clothing should sufficiently cover all private areas and must not be see through. Unfortunately, our staff and students have reported seeing some undergarments and body parts as visitors in our building have bent over. Please make sure what you are wearing doesn't put you at risk of exposing others.

*All people entering our building must be wearing shoes.

*No attire with offensive or suggestive graphics or words will be allowed.

We reserve the right to refuse entry to any adult who is not wearing attire that meets the KISD dress code minimums.

Thank you for taking time to review your attire before coming to visit school! We appreciate you making sure we provide a positive school culture and environment for all our students and your children to learn and grow.

UPDATED: We want to be sure all parents understand our expectations for lunch visitors. We want our parents to enjoy coming to have a special lunch with their child, but we have some guidelines that need to be followed. For more information about when your child's grade level assigned day is, please visit last month's Tiger Tribune.

Here are a few reminders, as we've had some problems with these lately:

• Parent visitors eat with their child(ren) only. No additional friends are invited to join.
• Our cafeteria is a photo free zone to protect everyone's privacy.
• Parents are not allowed back into the instructional zones before or after lunch.
• Parents are not allowed to sit at the class tables, only the designated parent tables.

Thank you for understanding!

We are dedicated first and foremost provide a safe and secure school setting for your children. Please know that these expectations must be followed for every visitors every time they visit.

1. Ring the doorbell.
2. Identify yourself, your child and your purpose for the visit.
3. Show a valid photo ID to the camera near the doorbell and signage.

On the sign, you can see in fine print that you should not let other parties in behind you. I know it may feel awkward to ask people the let the door close instead of following in behind you, but it does help us ensure we are following the KISD protocol for every visitor every time they visit our campus.

*The only exceptions to this protocol will occur when we have large campus events. We have a campus specific protocol for special events due to the number of visitors that arrive at one time.

Now that the school year is off to a great start, we want all parents and guardians to be aware that tardies count toward student's attendance. Getting the school day off to the right start is very important for our students to be successful, and our instruction begins as soon as the tardy bell rings. Please help us by dropping your child off before 8:10 so they can make it to class and be in their seats as we begin announcements for the day and start normal routines. Children thrive off of routines in and out of school, so making a consistent morning routine at home helps students create consistent morning routines at school as well.

This year, perfect attendance awards will be recognized in each quarter's learning celebrations. In order to receive the perfect attendance award, students may not have more than 3 tardies for the quarter in addition to zero absences. Each quarter the tardies and absences will be reset for the award purpose, however cumulative totals will be used to identify families in need of intervention for attendance throughout the year.

Increasing our attendance rate, as well as decreasing tardies and early dismissals is part of our campus improvement plan each year, as it plays a part in our accountability system. Our attendance rate overall for last year grew 1% from the year before, which is great progress. We continue to strive for a 97% rate or higher by the end of the school year. Thank you for doing your part in helping our attendance rate!

If you have legal paperwork regarding your child's custody arrangement or regarding people who need to have restricted access to your child, please bring the original document with the judges signature to the office so we can make a copy to retain in your child's cumulative record. We follow all the legal requirements of court ordered documents, and are able to fully comply best when we have the records on file.

Check out these links for more information about PTO and how you can get involved with events and volunteer opportunities at Theiss this year! Follow PTO on their Facebook page!

Interested in Volunteering?

1. Click here to complete an interest form.
2. All volunteers MUST complete a background check through Raptor. It only takes a few minutes! Click here to complete.
3. Want to learn more about KISD Volunteers? Click here to access the KISD site for volunteers.

We love to celebrate birthdays with your child and will work hard to make it a special day for them at school!

However, sending invitations to school to pass out will not be allowed. Instructional time cannot be used to support or promote private social events such as birthday parties.

At this time, we will not be accepting birthday treat bags. If you would like to arrange for an edible treat to be shared for your child's birthday during the lunch period, please follow the KISD protocols and begin the process 2 weeks in advance. No food brought up to the office will be allowed without going through this process. Thank you for your cooperation.

We'll post links to all the previous newsletter from this school year here!

August

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

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Website: theiss.kleinisd.net
Location: 17510 Theiss Mail Route Road, Spring, TX, USA
Phone: 832-484-5900
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