• School hours are 8:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
• Students may enter the building at 7:35 A.M.
• Tardies will be issued to students who arrive after 8:00 A.M. A parent or guardian must bring students inside the front office to sign tardy slips.
• Gates open at 7:00 a.m. for morning car rider drop-offs.
• Gates open at 3:00 p.m. for afternoon car rider pick-ups.

Each week, join us on the following days to celebrate school spirit and district/campus initiatives:

• Every Monday- Wear green or your "Start With Hello" shirt to celebrate kindness and inclusivity!
• Every Thursday- Wear your House colors!
  
• Every Friday- Wear Travis colors or your Travis spirit shirts/attire!

We are thrilled to announce that we've partnered with Country Gone Crazy to create exclusive t-shirts (in both youth and adult sizing) for each house in our new school-wide house system! If you are interested in ordering a shirt for yourself or your student(s), please go to the following link: https://countrygonecrazy.com/collections/tigers Orders can either be shipped to your home or picked up from the Country Gone Crazy storefront.

• Social Studies CUA (4th & 5th Grade)
• Dress Up for Dia de los Muertos OR Wear a Jersey for Red Ribbon Week

Monday, Nov. 4:

• Reading Language Arts Interim Exam (3rd-5th Grade)
• Campus Closed to Visitors
• Hey Day! Wear Green for Start With Hello

Tuesday, Nov. 5:

• PLC Day (Student Holiday)

Wednesday, Nov. 6:

• Food Drive Begins
• Big Kahuna Party Bus Incentive
• Tiger Stripe Store (During Lunches)
• Candy Drive Winners' Pizza Party

Thursday, Nov. 7:

• Character Celebration (2:00-2:30 in the Library)
• Wear Your House Colors or House Spirit Gear
• Science CUA (5th Grade)
• Social Studies CUA (3rd Grade)
• PTO Thankful Grams AND Tiger Spirit Gear Sales (During Lunches)

Friday, Nov. 8:

• Wear Your School Spirit Gear
• Grades Due for Progress Report #3
• PTO Pickle and Popcorn Sales During Lunches ($1.50)
• Veterans Day Posters Due
• Paw Pack Meeting

Monday, Nov. 11:

• Wear Red, White, and Blue for Veterans Day
• Veterans Day Choir Program (9-9:30 a.m.)
  
• PTO Thankful Grams AND Tiger Spirit Gear Sales (During Lunches)

Tuesday, Nov. 12:

• Fire Drill
• Evacuation Drill

Wednesday, Nov. 13:

• Wear a Kindness Shirt for World Kindness Day
  
• Family Thanksgiving Lunch Feast

Thursday, Nov. 14:

• Wear Your House Colors or House Spirit Gear
• Progress Report #3 (Official in Parent Portal)
• Texas Wildlife Association Visit/Lesson at Travis for KG

Friday, Nov. 15:

• Wear Your School Spirit Gear
• PTO Pickle and Popcorn Sales During Lunches ($1.50)

Monday, Nov. 18:

• PTO Thankful Grams AND Tiger Spirit Gear Sales (During Lunches)
• Hey Day! Wear Green for Start With Hello
• Hearing and Vision Screening: 1st, 3rd, and 5th Graders

Tuesday, Nov. 19:

• Paw Pack Meeting
• Hearing and Vision Screening: KG
• Parent Training: Math Fact Fluency and Strategies (9:15-9:45 a.m.)

Wednesday, Nov. 20:

• Last Day of the Food Drive
• Tiger Stripe Store During Lunches
• Professional Support Staff Day

Thursday, Nov. 21:

• Wear Your House Colors or House Spirit Gear
• Science CUA (4th & 5th Grade)

Friday, Nov. 22:

• 4th Grade's Balloons Over Broadway Parade
• KG's Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1:30 p.m.)
• Substitute Educators Day
• PTO Pickle and Popcorn Sales During Lunches ($1.50)

Week of Nov. 25-29:

• Thanksgiving Break
• No School

Come and join your student(s) during their lunch time on Wednesday, Nov. 13, to celebrate Travis Elementary's Thanksgiving Feast. Please complete the registration below for each student. Only 2 visitors will be allowed per student.

Please make sure you have added any visitors as a CONTACT on your child's account. All visitors must bring a current ID on the day of your child's Thanksgiving Feast. Pre-registration does not guarantee that we will have your badge available to print, but it will help the process go faster. If you or your visitor have never had your ID scanned, you may come to the school at any time to have it scanned before the event.

For $7, adults may purchase: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce, a roll, and water/tea. Pie is an additional $3. CASH ONLY.

RSVPs will close on November 11th at noon. Visitors may still attend the lunch celebration; however, they will have to go through the process of signing in in the front office before the event. We suggest arriving early just in case!

Thanksgiving Feast RSVP:

https://forms.gle/DgowuxCwLggEV7xP7

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it is our hope that our students will participate in giving back to our community by thinking of others. Through daily character lessons and teachable moments in our classrooms, our students have been exposed to the gestures of helping others without the expectation of getting anything back. We are reaching out to our families to ask for your assistance in providing Thanksgiving meals for our community and/or gently-used children's clothing for our nurse's office. Each grade level is being asked to bring a specific canned or boxed good for the Food Drive. Please look at your child’s grade level to see what we are asking them to bring. In addition, if you’d like to send any of the other items listed below, or if you'd be able to donate a small turkey, we welcome the gesture!

• Kinder: Corn
• 1st grade: Green Beans
• 2nd grade: Boxed Mashed Potatoes
• 3rd grade: Canned Cranberry Sauce
• 4th grade: Boxed Stuffing
• 5th grade: Boxed Macaroni & Cheese

This food drive will end Wednesday, November 20th. When sending your items, please be mindful of expiration dates. We appreciate you setting an example for your children and assisting our campus in giving back!

Please complete the following pre-registration form if you are planning to attend the Veterans Day Program on Monday, November 11th, at 9:00 A.M.

Parents: Please make sure you have pre-registered all visitors and verify they are a CONTACT on your student's list. All attendees must have identification to present in order to attend and no school-age students are permitted. Pre-registration will close on 11/8/24 at 10 A.M. Thank you!

Veterans Day Program RSVP:

Travis Elementary School Paw Pack is asking for all Travis students to participate in a school-wide project to honor our veterans. All posters need to be turned in by Friday, November 8, 2024. See more information in the attachment below!

Please consider donating new, unopened packages of boys’ and girls’ underwear to our nurse’s office. We are in need of all sizes, from 5T-Large (8/10). You can send donated items with your student to bring to Nurse Ellis, or you can drop them off to our front office. Please make sure your students, especially KG-2nd graders, have a change of clothing in their backpacks in the event of a spill, slip, or accident.

Thank you so much for your support!

We invite our neighbors to enjoy a fresh selection of fruits and vegetables for their households while supplies last. Time may vary. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

3rd-5th grade Tiger Parents, we invite you to join us for a brief training on how to support your students at home with "New Math" skills and strategies. We will walk you through a few multiplication strategies, as well as teach you ways to engage your students with fact fluency practice in order to be more successful with these important foundational skills. You will even leave the session with your own set of pre-made flashcards to help your student utilize at home!

This parent training will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 9:15-9:45 a.m. If you plan on attending, please RSVP on the link provided below. This will help us determine how many sets of flashcards to make for the session! If you are unable to attend the session but are interested in the content of the training, please reach out to Mrs. Guilbeau (megan.guilbeau@gccisd.net).

Link to RSVP to our Parent Training:

https://forms.gle/fVNjrK4nZ9W17Tpw7

National Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in November to recognize the culture, traditions, and achievements of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives.

The month provides an opportunity to:

• Celebrate and pay tribute to the culture, traditions, and achievements of Native Americans
• Acknowledge the contributions of Native Americans to the establishment and growth of the United States
• Reflect on the treatment of Indigenous people throughout American history
• Express concerns and solutions for building bridges of understanding and friendship

Native American Heritage Day takes place on Friday, November 29.

• Tuesday, Dec. 3: 5th Grade D.A.R.E. Graduation
• Thursday, Dec. 5: 5th Grade Wetlands Field Trip (Holland/Olivo's Homerooms)
• Tuesday, Dec. 10: Science Benchmark (5th Grade ONLY); Campus Closed to Visitors
• Thursday, Dec. 12: 5th Grade Wetlands Field Trip (Mixon/Cruz's Homerooms)
• Tuesday, Dec. 17: 5th Grade Wetlands Field Trip (Villere's Homerooms)
• Friday, Dec. 20: Early Release (12:00 p.m.)
• Week of Dec. 23-Jan. 7: Winter Break (No School)

Call Hearts and Hands of Baytown for an appointment at 832-597-8908 to help you apply for state benefits! The Community Assistance Program provides application assistance for SNAP, TANF, CHIP, CHIP Perinatal, Medicaid, the Medicare Health Savings Program, and the Healthy Texas Women Program. Check out the flyer below for more information!

-Car Rider Drop-Offs & Pick-Ups: Students being dropped off in the morning as car riders must enter through the Caldwell Street entrance (by the tennis courts). Please see the picture below for more details. The front school entrance from Robin Rd. is for busses and special education (SILC/Life Skills/BIP) drop-offs ONLY. This also applies to afternoon dismissal; students who are car riders must be picked up from the entrance closest to the cafeteria by entering the line from Caldwell St. Gates for afternoon dismissal will open at 3:00 p.m. for parents to begin forming a pick-up line. Please remember to have your child's car tag displayed and visible on your windshield for a more efficient dismissal process. If you forgot your car tag at home or do not yet have a car tag, you must park and go to the front office with your I.D. to pick up your student. Be sure to ask for a car tag if one is needed.

-Bus Rider Information: Stopfinder is an all-in-one parent app that allows our school district to share your student's transportation schedule, announcements, and more. Stopfinder is secure and only for registered users. GCCISD Transportation will send an invitation by email providing access to log in to the Stopfinder app. Please make sure your student's primary contact information, including email, is updated at your student's campus. If you do not receive an invitation email, please contact our Stopfinder Call Center/GCCISD Transportation Department at 281-420-4665. By accepting the invitation and downloading the Stopfinder app (on the App Store or Google Play), you will be able to view your student's schedule from your mobile device, share student schedules with caregivers and family members, and view announcements and notifications in the Stopfinder Message Center (including late bus alerts).

The Dads of Great Students (WATCH D.O.G.S.) program is one of the nation’s largest and most respected school-based, family, and community engagement organizations in the country. WATCH D.O.G.S. is a family and community engagement educational initiative designed and developed by educators, experts, and parent volunteers over more than two decades. Our program helps provide positive male role models for the students, demonstrating by their presence that education is important. Meanwhile, we provide extra sets of eyes and ears to enhance school security, reduce bullying, and provide a greater sense of campus safety--allowing students and teachers to focus on learning.

Fathers, grandfathers, step-fathers, uncles, and other father-figures serving at least one day on campus each year under the leadership of a program coordinator (Mrs. Guilbeau) and under the guidance of a school principal or designated administrator.

Absences, Tardies, and Early Dismissals:

• All excuses must be in writing (verbal not accepted).
• Illness and extenuating circumstances are the only excusable absences.
• 10 parent written excuses are allowed in one year.
• You have 3 days from the date of the absence to turn in a parent written excuse.
• Excuses issued by a doctor are accepted at anytime after absence.
• 6 tardies equal 1 unexcused absence.
• You are allowed only 15 early dismissals in a year.
• 6 unexcused absences warrants a referral to Harris County Court.

When you accumulate 3 unexcused absences you will:

• Receive a court warming to notify you that you are being monitored.
• Receive a phone call from the school.
• Be asked to make an appointment for a school visit or home visit to sign an attendance contract and discuss ways to prevent a court referral.

Any questions regarding attendance can be made to the Attendance Clerk (Ms. Rosas), the Office Clerk (Ms. Jimenez), or the Campus Student Success Specialist (Ms. Guilbeau) at 281-420-4660.

We love celebrating the accomplishments of our students. We will post pictures on our social media accounts, website (campus and district), newsletters, yearbook, and etc.

• To have your student's picture in the above forms of publications, you need to allow us to take and publish the pictures.
• Permission is granted by you during online student registration.

• During online student registration, it is common for mistakes to be made that prevent us from taking photos of students.
• You should NOT have the box selected that objects to directory information. The highlighted section below is the section that should not be selected.

Goose Creek CISD uses ParentSquare for school communication, primarily with email, text and app notifications. ParentSquare automatically generates an account for each parent, using their preferred email address and phone number. We encourage parents to access their accounts so they can download the mobile app and update their preferences on when and how they are notified.

Here’s what you can do with ParentSquare:

• Receive messages from the school via email, text or app notification
• Choose to receive information as it comes or all at once with a daily digest at 6pm
• Communicate in your preferred language
• Comment on school postings to engage with your school community
• Direct message teachers, staff and other parents
• Participate in group messages
• Sign up for parent-teacher conferences
• Sign forms & permission slips, receive report cards, sign up to volunteer and more all from your desktop or mobile device

Email: megan.guilbeau@gccisd.net
Website: www.gccisd.net/travis
Location: 100 Robin Road, Baytown, TX, USA
Phone: 281-420-4660
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/traviselementarybaytown