SGE Family Newsletter

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Sept 15 - Oct 15 - Hispanic Heritage Month

October - Dyslexia Awareness Month

Oct 3 - School Custodian Appreciation Day

Oct 3 - National Night Out with Burnet Police Dept., SGE parking lot, 6-8pm

Oct 4-Oct 20 - Big Kahuna Fundraiser

Oct 5 - World Teachers' Day

Oct 6 - Smart Smiles Treatment Day

Oct 6 - Coaches & Instructional Coaches Day

Oct 9 - BCISD Dyslexia Parent Information Night (see flyer below)

Oct 9 - No School / Parent Teacher Conferences

Oct 10-13 - Fire Prevention Week

Oct 11 - Kinder Trip (Backus, Marvin, Neely, Hebert)

Oct 12 - Kinder Trip (Lastly, Kelly, Poerner, Courtney)

Oct 12 - Burnet CISD Community Forum (see flyer below)

Oct 16-20 - School Bus Safety Week

Oct 23-27 - Red Ribbon Week

Oct 27 - 1st Grade Marley Halloween

Nov 1 - Picture Retakes

Nov 3 - End of the 2nd Six Weeks

Nov 3 - No School / Professional Development Day for Teachers

Nov 7 - 1st Grade Trip (Medrano, White, Lusinger, McGinty)

Nov 11 - Veterans Day

Nov 11 - Turkey Trot & Fall Carnival

Nov 15 - 1st Grade Trip (Ray, Vaughn, Sanchez, Fowler)

Nov 29 - 2nd Grade UIL Meet in Lampasas

An important piece in the family-school partnership is staying aware of student performance. It is requested that parents view and electronically sign progress reports and report cards. See the directions below, and be sure to get those signatures in! In addition, parents are encouraged to regularly view grades in Skyward.

We'll kick-off the fundraiser this Wednesday with grade level assemblies! The fundraiser will go through October 20th. Be watching for information coming home!

The money raised in Shady Grove's one fundraiser of the year goes toward campus activities (such as special grade level projects and supplies for family nights), educational materials, student enrichment, student incentives, and staff appreciation!

Click here to access the Bulldog Store for field trip t-shirts!

Our 2nd graders have an upcoming opportunity to participate in the 2023-2024 UIL Meet that will take place in Lampasas on November 29, 2023.

What is UIL?

UIL created “academic” contests for students in grades 2 - 8 to compete in. The competitions are FREE for students to participate in and are designed to not only help prepare students for the larger competitions in high school, but to also give them an opportunity to showcase their talents now!

From the A+ Academics UIL website:

“A+ Academics includes 20 different events for grades 2-8. These events span the curriculum - they are designed to complement and expand upon what students learn in the classroom, both through learning specific subject knowledge, and through learning skills that are valuable in many disciplines. Approximately 3,000 Texas schools participate in A+ Academics, competing in more than 300 district meets each year.”

This year we will compete with other schools in our UIL district on Wednesday, November 29th at Hanna Springs Elementary in Lampasas.

Tryouts/Contestants:

We will be sending home “sign-up” information soon. Note: All tryouts and practices will take place after school. Students will first try out for their chosen event(s). If a student is chosen as a team member (Contestant), he/she will participate in practices after school and may be given additional study material for home.

Below are the events in which 2nd graders have the opportunity to participate:

Music Memory The focus of the music memory contest is an in depth study of fine pieces of music literature taken from a wide spectrum of music genres to expose students to great composers, their lives, and their music. Students will hear short clips of music from a provided list and identify the selection, major work (if applicable), and composer for each song.

Creative Writing The contest is designed to promote creativity in an academic format and to encourage writing skills at an early grade level. Through preparation for the contest, students in second grade will be able to evaluate their own writing and the writing of others. Contestants will be given a prompt with several captioned pictures. From these pictures, the students will create an original story based on their selections in 30 minutes. The stories must contain at least one of the pictured items, but it is not required that all items on the page be included.Students in this event do not travel to the competition. The event will be held prior to the meet.

Storytelling To tell a story, the participant must develop skills in listening, thinking and speaking. This contest also allows for the development of creative expression, something being given more attention in the professional world. For practice, teachers can use stories from any good children's books or magazines. Contestants in the second and third grades shall listen to a storyteller read a brief story (between 600 and 1100 words long) only once, and then retell that story in their own words before a judge or judges. There are no time restrictions on the length of the story the student creates.

Chess Puzzles Chess puzzle competition is very different from tournament chess play. Contestants in a chess puzzle contest receive a paper-and-pencil test that includes a series of chess boards with pieces in particular positions. Questions are based on analysis of material or possible moves in each given diagram.

Creative Art (various categories) Students will work with their coach to create a piece to place in the competition. Students in these events do not travel to the competition. Their art pieces are taken to the contest site and judged without students present.

October 9th has been designated as the district's Parent Outreach Day! SGE teachers will be contacting parents in the next few weeks to schedule a parent-teacher conference. Save the date!

SGE's ADA for this past week was 95.1%.

ADA stands for Average Daily Attendance and is defined as the total days of student attendance divided by the total days of instruction. "98 IS Great!", so 98% is our goal!

Battle time! On Sept. 26 through October 13, Burnet will be taking on Marble Falls in a "Battle of the Cans" food drive! Both school districts will collect canned goods for two weeks. The winner will be announced during halftime at the October 13th football game! Gooooooooooo, Green! Bring your cans, SGE!

Submit an email on the same day as the transportation change request by 1:30 p.m. to sge-transportation@burnetcisd.net

Include the following details in the email:

• Student’s full name
• Student’s grade level
• Student’s homeroom teacher
• The transportation change you want made for today (bus rider to car rider or car rider to bus rider)

Requests made after 1:30pm will not be processed. Notes, phone calls, text messages and emails sent to any other email will not be processed.

Click here for helpful links shared by the Shady Grove PTO!

7:15am Office Opens

7:15am Student Drop Off/Breakfast

7:40am School Begins

7:45am Tardy Bell

9:00am Students not in attendance are marked absent

1:30pm Transportation changes due, please email: sge-transportation@burnetcisd.net

3:20pm Student Dismissal

4:00pm Office/School Closes

Email: sge-transportation@burnetcisd.net
Website: sge.burnetcisd.net/
Location: 111 Shady Grove Road, Burnet, TX, USA
Phone: (512) 756-2126
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShadyGroveBurnet