What a wonderful week full of thanks and fun! We are so thankful for all of our families and to be your principals. Have a wonderful week off, filled with love and laughter. Remember, we start our special dress days on our first day back from Thanksgiving break!

Please see ALL our special dress days (below) when we return!

Love,

Jennifer Hammond and Becca Resop

We hope you all had an amazing time with our APEX fundraiser, we know our students did! Look at our campus stats below, we're so proud of what we accomplished!

The Student Council is partnering with Hill Country Daily Bread for a canned goods drive. Please donate any canned goods between December 2 and 13. Student Council members will go to classrooms every couple of days to collect the cans. The top two grades that donate the most cans will win a popsicle party. Thank you!

Over the last month, the Calendar Committee developed and narrowed down options for the official BISD 2025-2026 academic calendar. We encourage all parents/guardians, employees, and secondary students to take a moment and review the two calendar options presented. Emails with unique feedback links from K12 Insight went out November 19.

The calendar with the most votes will be presented to the BISD Board of Trustees for approval on Monday, December 16.

Herff Student Council is happy to partner again this year with "Good for the Sole"! This is a charitable organization dedicated to collecting, cleaning, boxing, and giving away gently used pairs of sneakers to children in need. This organization was founded by one of our very own Boerne ISD students, Noah Patton a 2024 high school graduate! On November 1st there will be a donation bin on our campus where you can drop off gently used shoes! Thank you in advance for your support of this extraordinary project!

-Herff Student Council

Every Wednesday our students have an opportunity to purchase ice cream for $1.00 during lunch. As a reminder, money for ice cream purchases can be put on your child's lunch account; in other words, you don't have to send cash 🙃

Our students and Herff cafeteria staff need your help in order for this process to run smoothly. We need one volunteer from 10:10-11:20 to assist with Pre-K through 1st grade and one volunteer form 11:20-1:00 to assist with 2nd through 5th grade.

Lunch Times are:

PreK 10:50-11:20

Kinder 10:20-10:50

1st Grade 10:50-11:20

2nd Grade 11:20-11:50

3rd Grade 12:30-1:00

4th Grade 12:00-12:30

5th Grade 11:50-12:20

If you are cleaning out your toy boxes in the coming weeks, our PK classrooms would appreciate the donation of:

Cars or toys with wheels

Action figures or people

Different types of balls

Pool noodles

Legos

Wrapping paper

As you all know, we have some students here at Herff who are not as fortunate as most and need a little extra love and support from us as a Hawk family. To better serve our students and help every student feel the best about themselves, we would like to establish a Giving Closet to provide a resource to students in need to have access to new and gently used clothes and shoes. If a child receives an item, the teacher will use their discretion as to whether or not to notify the parent that their child will be coming home with a new item of clothing that does not need to be returned. Students may visit the closet at whatever time the teacher deems appropriate so as to not interfere with the instructional day or single out the child for needing support.

If you have any clothes your kids have outgrown that you would like to donate to help us get our closet started (and keep it going in the future), we would greatly appreciate it. Any items can be dropped off to the behavior classroom before and after school.

The Giving Closet will be maintained by Behavior Unit and Life Skills staff.

November:

• November 24th-30th: THANKSGIVING BREAK!

December:

• December 2nd-6th: Scholastic Book Fair
• December 2nd: Return from Thanksgiving Break
• December 4th: 2nd Grade Field Trip: JW Marriott
• December 5th: Polar Express Family Night
• December 6th: Community Music Tour
• December 11th: Tamalada
• December 12th:
• 3rd Grade Boerne Showcase
• 5th Grade Physics Motor Lab
• December 18th: Business Fair
• December 19th: Polar Express Day for Students Only
• December 20th:
• Winter Parties
• Student Early Release
• December 20th- January 13th: Christmas/Winter Break
• January 13th: First Day Back from Christmas/Winter Break

November 1st - Stephanie Duke

November 3rd - Amanda Clark

November 11th - Christine Reding

November 12th - Christina Samsa

November 13th - Nicole Carter

November 18th - Allyson Romney

November 19th - Donna Rogers

November 28th - Amy O'Neill

November 29th - Traci Arnell

December 3rd- Jillian Hoog

December 3rd- Mandy Rice

December 7th- Joshua Palmer

December 10th- Alex Kabuss

December 12th- Jessica Crumrine

December 14th- Lillian Cunningham

December 17th- Susan Mertz

December 19th- Sandra Craft

December 25th- Christina Botello

December 26th- James Valderas

December 28th- Travis Clark

December 29th- Beth Elseroad

December 30th- Betsy Medford

Website: www.boerneisd.net/heff
Phone: 830-357-4300
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Ferdinand-L-Herff-Elementary-School-2128714617439488/
Twitter: @HerffES

Herff Family Playbook: https://secure.smore.com/n/qbzsm