Rita Drabek Elementary

Pamela Brown
Principal

Drabek Dragon Newsletter

November 11-15, 2013
Everyone matters in our Drabek Family!
11325 Lake Woodbridge Drive Sugar Land, Texas 77498 (281) 634-6570

Carla Patton
Assistant Principal

Drabek Vision We envision Drabek Elementary to be a school where children and adults work productively towards the success for all students. We aspire to create in each child a life-long desire to learn. Drabek Mission The mission of Rita Drabek Elementary is to empower students to reach academic and personal goals in a positive, nurturing environment. Fort Bend ISD Vision Fort Bend ISDthe school system of choice to prepare our community for a global tomorrow. Fort Bend ISD Mission Fort Bend ISD provides an environment for each student to acquire knowledge, develop skills, and build character to lead a

What are our Drabek Dragons learning this week?

The week of November 11-15, 2013
ELA: Making book to self connections PA: Identifying syllables, identifying rhyming words, identifying beginning & ending letter concept, blending, recognizing & identifying letters and sounds in names, identifying consonant digraphs, identifying words in a sentence Shared Reading: Big book, Eric Carle (author) Identify Concepts about Print (CAP skills) Sight Words: will, but, for, has, into, by, was, had, him, just Math: Numbers 16-20, graphing Science: Plants Social Studies- Thanksgiving, Character Trait: Honor Writing: Personal Narrative

Drabek Dragon Family Upcoming Events:

Week of November 11, 2013: Character Trait: Patriotism 11/11: Veterans Day Program 9:00 am 11/11: CBLT Meeting 3:30 Library 11/12 11/14: 1st-5th Grade Writing Benchmark 11/12-11/13: 3rd-5th Math District Assessment Week of November 18, 2013: Character Trait: Loyalty 11/19: Progress Reports Go Home 11/20: Multicultural Day 8:30 a.m. 11/21: 1st Grade Feast 11/22: Kindergarten Feast Week of November 25, 2013: Thanksgiving Break!!! Week of December 2-6, 2013: Caring ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Character Trait for the Week: Patriotism

Definition: PATRIOTISM means to feel and show deep respect

and loyalty to ones country. People who are patriotic are committed to defending the principles and values upon which a country was founded. Help develop a common vocabulary by communicating the meaning of PATRIOTISM through your daily actions. Leaders Message: Patriotism in America runs deep and goes beyond loyalty to a particular religion or ethnicity. America is a melting pot of cultures with each American being unique with his or her own set of beliefs, skin color and abilities. Americans are a group of diverse people who, while different, all adhere to a belief in freedom, democracy and equality. This makes America a country that other nations strive to copy. Action Prompt: Express your pride in your nation! In school, students recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily to show their patriotism. Americans have the freedom to show their love of their nation in a variety of different ways. Show your patriotism by hanging an American flag outside your home or visiting a Veterans Hospital. In America, we are able to do these things freely. Be proud of your American rights!

Drabek celebrates

Birthdays!
Gabriella Taiwo- November 12th Hugo Jimenez- November 13th

Drabek Dragon Important Information

Yearbooks are now on sale. Get your 2013-2014 yearbook ordered soon. You have until December 16th to return the order form and payment AND receive a FREE yearbook dedication. If you order between December 17 and April 1st you will pay the regular price and you will not receive the FREE dedication. The Annual Turkey Dinner is on November 14th. The menu for this day will include turkey and the traditional sides. We will also offer chicken nuggets or a toasted cheese sandwich as an alternative choice for vegetarians or students that dont want the Turkey Dinner.

Yearbooks

Dragons will be earning ... $50.00 CHAMPs dollars for being Perfectly Punctual for the entire week of November 4-8, 2013.
Pre-Kindergarten Ditman AM Ditman PM First Grade Champagne Davis Rutherford/Steffek Third Grade George Jarisch Kennedy Moosa Sylvas Yackus Fifth Grade Ahles Grimes McGowan Stinson Kindergarten Chernikova Cordova Foster Second Grade Ahmed Lovelace Snell Fourth Grade Brady Charanza Ibanez Nagrani

Lunch Menu Change

to all the Dads and students that joined us for Donuts for Dads!! We hope you had a great time with your child(ren)!

HUGE thank you

Special Education Igbokwe Onwuemelie

We will be having RDEs Multicultural Day this year in the fall rather than the spring. The upcoming Multicultural Day will be held on

~Multicultural Day~

Wednesday, November 20th.

The day will begin with the parade starting at 8:30 am. The show for the day will begin at 9:00 am. Dont miss this AWESOME event!!!

We celebrated the 50th day of school with a 50s theme!! The students participated in a parade around the school, to show off their beautiful collages illustrating groups of 50s that they created.