HES Family Newsletter
March 31, 2025
It's Testing Season!
Our 3rd Graders have worked extremely hard this year and it's almost time for them to show off all they've learned. At the end of this month we will administer the state required STAAR test in both Reading and Math. We are thankful to have such dedicated teachers who have put countless hours into planning lessons, small groups and tutorials to make sure we can show our best on the test!
Other grade levels will also begin completing End of Year screeners including iReady, CLI and mClass. These screeners help us recognize student growth as well as planning for next year. Data is used to build summer learning for staff and place students in services where their needs can best be met.
Please pay close attention to testing dates and follow our campus reminders for these dates!
Pre-Kindergarten by Felipe Barragan
Kindergarten by Blake Villarreal
Within the month of April, we will be reading the books Last Stop on Market Street, I Know the River Loves Me, Me…Jane, and will be discussing inferences, plots and characters, recapping the stories, and identifying setting. We will be working on blending and segmenting words with five-sounds, reviewing our irregular words, and introducing new ones: your, want, go, no, so, goes, says, she, we, they, their, and were. We will be introducing prepositions, and reviewing capitalization of names and beginning of sentences.
We will be monitoring our quail egg growth in their incubators, writing about it and recording information.
In math, we will be working on counting up to one-hundred. In science, we will keep discussing the growth of plants, their changes, monitoring and recording those changes
1st Grade by Debora Abrego
2nd Grade by Holly Hand
Our second grade students seem to have had a restful Spring Break and came back ready to continue learning. In math, they will continue with problem solving questions with length, money, and data then move into time, shapes, and fractions as equal parts of shapes. In science, they start units on animal growth, behavior, and survival. In reading and language arts, we will spend the first two weeks of April studying poetry. Next, we revisit recognizing text features of informational text and text organization. Using commas in a list and reviewing parts of speech will be our focus in grammar and we will soon begin our last personal narrative in writing.
Reminders:
Our field trip is scheduled for April 23rd. Permission slips have been sent home along with the cost of the student’s ticket, which is $12. Please send cash only for the student’s ticket to your child’s teacher. Parents must use the QR code on the permission slip to purchase their own ticket. There is a limit of two adults per child and younger siblings are not allowed to attend. Please have the slip and money for your child’s ticket turned in no later than April 17th.
Please check your child’s folder nightly for homework pages, extra practice sheets to be completed, and notes from the school office!
Thank you for your continued support of your child’s education.
3rd Grade by Amber Lopez
Important dates:
April 16 - Reading STAAR Test
April 30 - Math STAAR Test
Important Reminders:
*Please ensure that your child gets adequate sleep the night before the STAAR Test. It is also important that they arrive on time so that they may begin their test in a timely manner.
*Field Trip notes will be sent out towards the end of the month. Students will be taking a field trip to Pirate's Cove Water Park on May 15th. Please be on the lookout for more information on this closer to the date
Nurse News by Kate Versluis
Environmental allergies are a common problem in children, especially in those that have asthma or eczema. Symptoms include a stuffy or runny nose with clear drainage; sneezing; itchy, watery eyes; sore throat; throat clearing; wheezing; and a cough. They may be caused by exposure to outdoor allergens such as pollens, grasses, and weeds; or to indoor allergens such as dust mites, pet dander, second-hand smoke, and molds. Having uncontrolled allergies can put your child at risk for sinus infections, ear infections, worsening asthma, and having poor concentration at school.
The best treatment is to avoid what is causing them. Your child’s doctor may recommend or prescribe medication to help control allergy symptoms. Saline nose drops or spray to help the sinuses drain may also help.
Let’s all do our part to keep our kids healthy and comfortable this spring!
