The Falcon Flyer

This week's campus attendance rate was: 92.69%. Our campus goal for Average Daily Attendance is 96%. Our current attendance rate for the year is 96.43%.

Our year to date attendance percentages by grade are:

4th - 96.97%

3rd - 96.96%

5th - 96.67%

1st - 96.82%

K - 95.98%

2nd - 95.92%

Pre-K - 95.89%

Howdy Fabra Families!

If you don't have plans tonight, make your way over to the BHS Girls Basketball game vs Alamo Heights! Not only will you get to see a great game, but you can enjoy the Fabra Choir performing the National Anthem prior to tip-off as well as seeing the first performance of the year by the Fabra Dance Team at halftime! Tickets can be purchased using the QR code in the graphic below in the newsletter.

We had a great time recognizing students this week during our SOAR Assemblies for the second nine weeks. Students were recognized for their academics, perfect attendance, and character traits. Next week we will be having our perfect attendance celebrations on Thursday and Friday mornings during the first part of the school day.

This week we had our lowest attendance rate of the year at 92.69% due to the winter storm and viruses going around. Our campus is working to sanitize classrooms and commons areas to try and help our Falcons stay as healthy as possible. This time is extra important to help remind our kiddos of the importance of sanitizing and washing hands throughout the day, especially prior to eating. We look forward to getting back on track!

Please read through this week's newsletter for important dates, information, and exciting things happening around campus! As always, if we can help in any way, then please don't hesitate to reach out to our front office. Have a wonderful and restful three-day weekend!

Troy Latiolais

Principal - Fabra Elementary

• January 24th - Dance Team and Choir Perform at BHS Girls Basketball
• January 27th - Early Act Meeting @ 3:00pm
• January 30th - Perfect Attendance Party - K-2 @7:50am
• January 30th - Approved BOA Volunteer meeting AT Van Raub - 5:00pm
• January 30th - Mother and Son Glow Night - 5:30pm
• January 31st - Perfect Attendance Party - 3rd-5th @7:50am
• January 31st - Kens5 Meteorologist visits 2nd Grade!
• February 3rd - The 100th Day of School! (Adjusted Due to Snow Day)
• February 5th - Dance Team and Choir Perform at UTSA Men's Basketball
• February 6th - Family STREAM Night (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math)
• February 10th - Tooth Fairy Visit for Pre-k, Kindergarten & 1st Grade
• February 14th - All Pro Dads Meeting at 6:45am
• February 14th - Career Day!
• February 17th - Student Holiday - No School!

January 24th will be Fabra Night at the Boerne High School girls basketball game! Our Fabra Choir will be getting the night started by singing the National Anthem and our Fabra Dance Team will be providing the halftime entertainment with their first performance of the year! Tickets can be purchased using the QR code in the image below. We hope to see you there!

RSVP & PIZZA

We hope you are planning to join us for Mother/Son Glow Night, next Thursday! If you haven't already, please RSVP using this link to help us get a head count: https://fabrapto.membershiptoolkit.com/MotherSonGlowNight

The event is free, but there is an option to pre-order pizza for $2/slice so you don't have to worry about dinner!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We are also looking for volunteers to help the committee the day of the event. Ideal candidates are dads, #girlmoms and older teenagers in need of volunteer hours (so the moms with sons can take off their volunteer hat for the night!). Sign-up to volunteer here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080F49ABA62AA4F85-54604812-mother#/

ATTENTION APPROVED PARENT BOA VOLUNTEERS:

On January 30th, all approved BOA volunteers need to attend a mandatory meeting at 5:00pm host AT Van Raub Elementary. There will be parents from each school attending BOA this spring and Van Raub will be acting as the host campus. Please make plans to attend if you have been approved to volunteer!

We are in the middle of this new round! 3rd graders, keep reading and logging those minutes.

MRS. OWENS' CLASS IS IN THE LEAD WITH 43,171 MINUTES!!!! KEEP READING!

Parents: Make sure your child brings in their completed reading log with your initials EVERY MONDAY!

CAUGHT READING

We've caught quite a few Falcons reading during choice time. When students are caught reading, they get a ticket with their name on it. Every Wednesday, I pick one ticket from the jar on the announcements, and that student gets to choose from some fun library swag.

Congratulations to this week's winner, Romeo Lares, 4th grade.

LIBRARY LESSONS

3rd, 4th, and 5th grades will do a lesson on text features in nonfiction books.

2nd grade will learn about biographies and the text features that help them find information in biographies for their Living History Museum Project.

Kinder and 1st grade will be practicing summarizing stories.

LOST OR DAMAGED BOOKS:

If your child damages a book, please have them bring it to me. I can fix a lot of things. Make sure they bring the damaged book into the library and show it to me, and we can figure out what to do about it. I emphasize to the students that I will never be mad at them over a book.

· If a book is lost, you have some options

· You can pay the replacement cost. I will send home an overdue notice with the amount on it.

§ We take cash- try to have the exact amount as I don't often have change.

§ We take checks made out to Fabra Elementary.

§ You can also pay using a credit card on RevTrak which you can find on our website.

· You can purchase a replacement that is used as long as it is a HARD COVER and in good or better shape.

BOOK CHECKOUT- WE WILL CONTINUE OUR REGULAR SCHEDULE FOR BOOK CHECKOUT NEXT WEEK!

Spend the day at Fabra!

Falcon fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and other father-figures....Would you like to volunteer for at least one day each year? During the day, Falcon Fathers may read to a classroom, play at recess, help out in P.E, eat lunch with students and any other assigned activities where they actively engage with not only their own students, but other students as well. On the day of their participation, Falcon Fathers are given a brief review of their involvement and get to wear an official Falcon Father t-shirt.

Please limit your initial sign-up to only ONE date, and additionally sign-up for the "Waitlist" slot if you would like to be notified of last minute openings that would allow you to participate again.

Click this link to see available dates and sign up:

Fabra PTO: 2024-25 Falcon Fathers (signupgenius.com)

All Falcon Fathers will need to complete a full background check with the district prior to volunteering. Here is the link below:

https://apps.raptortech.com/Apply/MzQ1Nzplbi1VUw==

Please be sure to call or stop by the front office with any questions you may have. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook for news and events as well as exciting things that take place throughout the year.

Website: https://www.boerneisd.net/FES
Location: 723 Johns Road, Boerne, TX, USA
Phone: 830-357-4200
Facebook: facebook.com/FabraElementary
Twitter: @FabraElem