• Make Your Mark at Hisle with a DIRECT donation to help fund field trips and student enrichment! You can donate directly at https://make-your-mark-fundraiser.cheddarup.com/. If each child donated $30, we would hit our goal of $15,000!
• Complete permission form for EACH child for Child Protection Unit
  
• Email your homeroom teacher if you do NOT want us to share contact email with the homeroom parent for your class.

Hoping each family's long weekend was filled with fun and laughter and lots of rest! As you know our wonderful Hisle PTO has kicked off "Make Your Mark" Direct Give. Our PTO is starting from ground zero and needs our help. The PTO looked into fundraising, but it's always challenging to sell wallpaper or cookie dough with only a 40-50% return...this fundraiser provides 100% directly back to your children. The campus, families, and our community work in partnership to help make Hisle great! The campus works in partnership to determine what is important to fund. This year, we wish to ensure that EACH child has the opportunity to go on a field trip including our preK children. Field trips cost between $12-20 per child including transportation on a bus. In addition, our goal is to bring an enricment assembly to your children each semester which could include a science event or an author visit. Eventually, we would like to offer this each nine weeks! All of these (field trips, assemblies) are extra and are not accounted for in the school budget since it funds the day to day operations inside the classroom. Please consider participating! We appreciate your partnership!

Speaking of partnerships, Hisle PTO met with Room Reps for each class last week. Each homeroom parent would like to communicate with you regarding holiday celebrations, teacher birthday, and campus events! If you do NOT wish for us to share your contact information of email, please reach out to your homeroom teacher by October 4th. On October 7th, we will share email for each homeroom with the homeroom representative. Our goal is to make it easy on families!

Remember, Hisle Hounds howl loud and proud!

Niki

The Friday Backpack Food Program provides free bags of food every Friday to take home for those students experiencing food insecurities. This is a free service provided to any student in need. It is one bag per student donated by the Student Charities and LISD18+ Program. If you are in need of this service please complete the enrollment form HERE. If you have any additional concerns or questions please email me at Renata.Isaac@leanderisd.org, or call 512-570-8400. Thank you for your support!

As you know, teachers in Leander ISD utilize the Second Step curriculum to teach children important skills for getting along with others and doing well in school. It also helps our school be a safe and supportive place where everyone can learn.

To meet the required State of Texas Health TEKS for the instruction to prevent child abuse, Leander ISD counselors will utilize lessons from the Second Step Child Protection Curriculum. These lessons will teach students three types of skills: Personal Safety, Touching Safety, and Assertiveness. In order for students to participate in these lessons, parents must complete the grade-level Opt-In/Opt-out form for each student here at Hisle. You can find this form below for each grade level:

• Kinder Parent Permission Form and Link

• 1st Grade Parent Permission Form and Link

• 2nd Grade Parent Permission Form and Link

• 3rd Grade Parent Permission Form and Link

• 4th Grade Parent Permission Form and Link

• 5th Grade Parent Permission Form and Link

The Leander ISD PTA supports our community by maintaining a LISD clothes closet. Families within the LISD community may shop PreK through the SELF (18+ Program) for gentle new and used clothes. If you are able to support the clothes closet they do have an Amazon Wish List for Donations Needs.

PTA Closet- North Location: 324 S. West Dr., Leander, TX

Tucked between LMS and LEO, across the street from the Technology Building

If you have a child in prek4, kindergarten, first grade, third, or fifth grade, we will be screening your child's hearing and vision on Wednesday, September 25th. Our big ask is if your child wears glasses or hearing aids to please ensure he or she has the glasses or hearing aids.

This Friday (9/13), we will kick off our Make Your Mark Campaign! This is a direct contribution fundraiser, which means 100% of the funds raised will go to the Hisle PTO to support student enrichment, field trips, community events, staff appreciation, and more! Be on the lookout for more information this FRIDAY!