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November 18 - 22 - Curriculum Based Assessment Testing Window

NO LUNCH VISITS THIS WEEK! - CAMPUS/DISTRICT TESTING

November 21 - National Parent Involvement Day - Sign Up to be a VIP!

November 22 - Family Feast Day

November 25 - 29 - Thanksgiving Break

NO LUNCHES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER - PREPARING FOR MAP TESTING!

December 2 - PJ DAY - Roll out of bed and come on in!

December 9 - 20 - Middle of the Year District Benchmarks

December 13 - Winter Wonderland - Planet Ford Stadium

December 20 - Early Release Elementary/Middle School

December 20 - January 6 - Winter Break

January 9 - District Benchmark testing window opens

Booker Bengals,

We are down to our last week before Thanksgiving and testing is upon us! Due to the amount of testing and preparation that is needed to ensure our scores reflect our efforts, we will close lunch visits for the remainder of the semester. This will allow us the opportunity to prepare our scholars and our testing environment, accordingly. Lunch visits will resume next semester after benchmark testing. So, stay tuned!

Family Feast day is this Friday, November 22nd! We can't wait to see all of our families join us for our special day! Make sure you pack your patience and purchase your tickets in advance so we can send your visitor passes home with your child. Parents who register and pay early will receive their lunch tickets and their preprinted tags. Upon entry, they'll just need to sign in and proceed to the cafeteria for their child's designated lunch time! So, take advantage of the Early Bird Offer and fly by the front office crowd!

Our Scholastic Book Fair will also be open during Family Feast! We ask that you help support our school and help promote the importance of reading! Swing by and share the wonderful experience of picking out GREAT BOOKS for your child to read over the holiday breaks!

Guess who's coming to town! Naughty or nice, this special guest will be checking his list twice! So, stay tuned for more information about PICS WITH SANTA coming in December.

We wish you all an amazing week! Thanks for your continued support!

Sincerely,

Keisha Womack

Principal

As you know our Campus Based Assessments (CBAs) are this week for 3rd - 5th graders. We look forward to reviewing the data to determine the level of mastery of the curriculum so we can make the necessary adjustments in planning and instruction. This will allow us to continue to monitor and enhance our campus' academic achievement! Understanding our campus needs through these current data sets, will allow us to grow from our current grade of a "D" to a letter "B" or higher! Our PreK - 2nd will continue working through their curriculum and prepare for the MOY testing in December! We will be sending out our MAPS GROWTH CHART and AWARD PLAN next week! Make sure your scholar is at school every day!

Booker Admin

Every child got a Presale ticket order form last week to take home. Please fill out the bottom of the form and return with your cash payment. We will send back your lunch tickets, as well as your visitor's tag(s), prior to the event! If you do not want to make a trip to the school and wait in line for tickets and visitor tags, please send your preorder form back by this Wednesday, November 20th to ensure we have ample time to print visitor tags and deliver both tickets/visitor tags to the scholars to take home! Anyone needing tickets on Thursday, November 21st or Friday, November 22nd, must visit the front office with a valid ID, cash, as well as patience! Be mindful that our front office staff must also serve our students and staff and ensure safety and security. So, we ask for your understanding and cooperation!

According to research done by the Cross River Therapy Institute, these are the Top 10 Reading Statitstics:

1. There are 43 million adults in America that have low reading abilities.
2. The average amount of books read by an American in a single year is 12.
3. Americans between the ages of 15 and 44 only spend 10 minutes or less of their day reading books.
4. In 2018, 27% of American adults didn't read a book at all.
5. Just 6 extra minutes every day has the potential to increase the reading performance of children.
6. Kids that read at least 20 minutes every day will have exposure to approximately 2 million words annually.
7. 1 out of 5 kids in the United Kingdom can't read at their school level by the time they reach 11 years of age.
8. Tthe average amount of audiobooks published each year has increased for the past 10 years, up to 74,000 titles in 2021.
9. Reading fictional books are shown to increase better decision-making in people by 50% to 100%.
10. Reading can boost emotional development and career prospects by 50% to 100%.

Please help us raise money by purchasing a Chick-Fil-A meal for your child online! Follow the link and order your child's favorite entree from the options and they'll get their Chick-Fil-A meal during their lunch period.

Bengals, we need your help! Attendance impacts student achievement! We must ensure our scholars are at school each day, ready to learn! It is our job to prepare scholars for college! Regardless of their post secondary choices, be it trade school, college or certification programs, they must be ready to be productive citizens! Attendance matters! Help us get back on track!

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You can also call for assistance 281-891-8750.

It is important for us to communicate with you. If you would like to meet with any administrators or teachers, please be sure to contact us in advance to schedule a meeting so that we can best serve you. Often times we are in classrooms meeting with our students and providing strategic instruction, meeting with our staff, or attending off-campus meetings.

We appreciate you scheduling an appointment, in advance with the campus secretary in order to avoid a long wait or a return to trip our campus.

Thank you for understanding, it is greatly appreciated.

Parents...

We are looking for volunteers and parents who are interested in supporting our scholars and staff this year. There are many ways to get involved. You can get involved behind the scenes, holding a PTO Board Office, volunteering at campus events, or so many other ways. Please complete both forms below:

BOOKER VOLUNTEER FORM 24-25 Spring ISD Volunteer Form.

It is important to do both forms. One is tailored just for us and specifies what you'd like to do as a volunteer and the other application is a district mandate for all Volunteers in Schools.

Booker Volunteer Interest Form

Spring ISD Volunteer Website

Spring ISD VIP Volunteer application:

We must get you approved by the district before serving on campus as a volunteer. Booker's volunteer interest form is just a way that we can try to track our interested parents and community members on the district's spreadsheet and get them in faster! However, it is not the actual volunteer request form! So, please visit the VIP Website and complete the application! Please call the front office and let the front office know that you have been approve as a VIP for our district! This system will allow us to track your status and get you registered for next year. We would like to start developing our Parent Engagement Team interest to hopefully roll out BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS FOR BOOKER!

Your child will be issued a chromebook for school use only. They will be assigned a chromebook and students must take care of that chromebook. Talk to your child about not allowing others to use their chromebooks or borrow their charges. All chromebooks will remain at school, due to the number of damaged chromebooks and lost cords and the cost. Thank you for your patience and cooperation!

FOR ASSISTANCE: CALL (281)891-8750

PRESS 1 - REGISTRAR - Ms. Velasquez - dvelas1@springisd.org

PRESS 2 - ATTENDANCE CLERK - Ms. Yulissa Camacho ycamacho@springisd.org

PRESS 0 - RECEPTIONISTS - Ms. Enciso/Ms. Martinez

PRESS 3 - Counselor - Mrs. Ashleigh Foley - afoley@springisd.org - 281-891-8755

PRESS 4 - School Nurse - Ms. Shereka Kossie - skossie@springisd.org - 281-891-8757

FAX NUMBER: DIAL 281-891-8751

Website: https://booker.springisd.org/

Location: 22352 Imperial Valley Drive, Houston, TX, USA
Phone: 281-891-8750
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Twitter: @BookerBengals

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To get started, log on to my.springisd.org, and sign in by using your parent Spring ISD network login username and password.

If you forgot your log-in/username, please call our front office at 281-891-8750 for assistance.