Chili Supper and Auction

February 12—Middle School Valentine Luncheon

February 17—School Holiday

February 19—Intermediate Spring Pictures

February 20—School Board Meeting—7:00

February 21—End of 4th Six Weeks

February 21—2nd Grade Trip to World Aquarium

February 27—Intermediate Perfect Attendance Awards

February 27—Report Cards

February 28—Intermediate Right Choice/Drawings/Money-Aire

EISD Update

February 2020

Inside this issue:

Enrollment Update 2

Middle School News 2

Primary News 3

High School News 3

Intermediate News 4

Federal Report Cards 5

News Briefs

Texas School Report Cards Parents of Eustace ISD received a copy of the State School Report Card for their respective campus, with their student’s January aca-demic report card. The report pro-vides information concerning stu-dent performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), as well as in-formation on student enrollment, class size averages, and financial expenditures of the district. This is a report required by the Texas Leg-

islature and prepared by the Texas Education Agency. It is provided to the parent or guardian of every child enrolled in a Texas public school. The Report Card contains the state accountability rating of the campus. For 2018-19 state account-ability, campuses were rated on an A-F scale. Eustace ISD earned an overall B rating with a score of 88 from the Texas Education Agency. In addition, a heading for Distinc-

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Eustace Young Farmers Chili Cook Off and Auction

Saturday, February 15—Primary School Cafeteria

Do you have a special chili recipe? Then you need to enter the Chili Cook-Off!!

Chili Judging—5:30

Do you just enjoy a good bowl of chili? Then you need to

come eat some free chili!!

Chili Supper—6:00

Desserts will be available. Donations will be accepted for the desserts.

Do you enjoy a good auction? Then you need to plan to

stay for the auction. There will be lots and lots of items on the auction block!!

Auction—6:30

Middle School News Aside from our monthly updates, there are a variety of ways you can keep up with EMS! Check our website@ ms.eustaceisd.net Like us @ facebook.com/EustaceMiddleSchool Follow us @ twitter.com/EustaceMS Vaccines As we enter the second semester of the school, we want to take this opportunity to give notice to our current 6th grade students that they will need several immunizations before entering their 7th grade year. The State of Texas requires students to have their 2nd dose of the varicella vaccine (chicken pox), a menin-gococcal vaccine and a Tdap vaccine (or adult teta-nus) before they are able to attend school. It is best to go ahead and take care of this early and send the rec-ords to the office, so we can update their file and have them ready to go next school year! Important Dates February 4th MathCounts Competition at UT Tyler February 6th Girls Basketball District Tournament February 8th Girls Basketball District Tournament February 10th Boys Basketball @ Malakoff February 11th Student of the Month lunch February 13th Boys Basketball Tournament (home) February 15th Boys Basketball Tournament (home) February 17th No School February 21st End of 4th 6 weeks February 27th Report Cards February 28th NJHS Meeting January- Students of the Month 6th – Zephie Burch, Elias Wilbern 7th – Katelyn Landwermeyer, Brayden Shields 8th – Abregailla Hardy, Lucien Fonteno January Employee of the Month – Brenda Gilbreath 7th Grade Writing Students participated in the VFW Patriots Pen Writ-ing Contest at the local VFW. Gabrielle Baez took first place, Lillian Hagood took second place and Mia

Primary Campus Intermediate Campus PK 104 3 123 K 113 4 111 1 109 5 114 2 124 Total 450 Total 348

EISD Update Page 2

Middle School High School 6 134 9 116 7 122 10 107 8 124 11 122 12 105 Total 380 Total 450 Total District Enrollment 1,628 Total District Enrollment Year Ago 1,548

Enrollment Update (2-4-2020)

Morrison received third place. Cassie Munden won Teacher of the Year! Spelling Bee Eighth Grader, Jordan Grant, is the winner of the Eustace Middle School Dallas Morning News Spelling Bee. Lawson Thompson is the first runner up. There were at least 150 students participating in the spelling bee, which included sixth, seventh and eighth graders. Both will compete in the Hender-son County Spelling Bee on February 7, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. in the Middle School Library. Good luck to both of them on the next part of the competition. Bulldog Bingo Bulldog Bingo takes place at the end of each six weeks and is a chance for 3 lucky students to win $50 cash! In order to participate in each bingo ses-sion, students need to have perfect attendance with no tardies, 80 or above in all classes, no referrals and no zeros. The next round will take place in March, after the completion of the 4th six weeks. Robotics Club EMS had 3 teams compete in the Region 7 TCEA Robotics Competition in Lufkin on Friday, January 17th. They did an amazing job representing Eustace in our very first competition. We had two teams finish in the top 5, against a total of 26 teams from 12 districts. Looking forward to a bright future in our robotics program! Art Art students helped make decorations this year for the School Board Appreciation Banquet January 12th. Close to 100 thank you sentiments were writ-ten to the school board members on student deco-rated paper hands and stapled to Caution Tape, do-nated by Jacob Da. Rebekah Rigby, Lydia Recer, Emilee Cranford, Mattie Patek, Ethan Kobelia and Logan Hallman made cardboard “schools” for cen-terpieces on the tables. Orange cones and toy dump trucks and tractors completed the construction theme on the tables. The decorations included post-ers from the EISD poster machine that showed plans for the new High School, the school board

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Yearbook: Congratulations to the yearbook staff on completing the second publishing dead-line. Spring sports photos have been resched-uled for March. Band: The band is off to great start on the Spring activities. We have several students par-ticipating in UIL Solo and Ensemble which was held Feb 1st. The rest of the band will continue working on pieces for the UIL Concert Contest on March 3rd. We had four members of our band (Nate Hol-land, Elexis Porte, Phillip Starnes and Dylan worth) perform in the Region 3 Assoc. of Texas Small School Bands All Region Band on Satur-day Jan. 19th. The concert was terrific, and the students enjoyed the rehearsals too. Great things continue to happen for our Eustace band We also had one MS student perform in the Re-gion Band (Cannon Kilcrease). Our region band is mostly 4A members. Out of the 320 perform-ers only 60 come from 3A or smaller schools. Baseball: Baseball practices started on January 31st. This year we have a great turnout for baseball, and everyone is excited. The young men are working hard getting ready for the sea-son to start. The first scrimmage will be Mon-day Feb. 10 in Eustace vs La Poyner for the JV purple. The Varsity and JV Gold will scrim-mage in Mabank on Tuesday Feb.11. The var-sity will start at 5:00 with the JV following the varsity. The rest of the scrimmage schedule is Feb. 14 JV/V at Rains, Feb. 15 JV Gold vs Mabank at 12:00 in Eustace. The final scrim-mage will be Feb. 21 JV/V in Canton. The reg-ular season will start the following week with the JV purple playing 2 games in Canton on Feb 25 starting at 5:00. The varsity will travel to play in the Westwood Tournament on Feb 27 – 29. Basketball: Girls - The Lady Bulldogs finished their first round of district with a 4-game win-ning streak. They are currently sitting in the 4th place spot. They have faced several tough op-ponents and have fought hard in every game. Come catch a few of our 2nd round games as we look to secure a playoff spot! Boys - Boys Basketball will be making a run for the playoffs in February! The boys are cur-rently tied for third place in district and will

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High School News Early Childhood Update: Early Childhood would like to say thank you to Mrs. Martin for inviting us to the library. She is so wonderful with our little ones. We are thankful for her invitation this year. Early Childhood four-year-old classes each received Kindle tab-lets. Our students have enjoyed using the new technology! We are gearing up for CLI testing. I know our students will rock these assessments! We enjoyed seeing the newly wrapped EISD bus! It is a good time to be a Eustace Bull-dog! Kindergarten Update: Kindergarten has had some excitement this month! The children had fun walking out to our bus loop to see our new wrapped bus. Thank you for letting us all have a chance to see it up close! It was quite an experience for all of us! Kindergarten has also introduced a new incentive program where we choose a star student from each class every week. This student receives a certificate and a standing ovation from all of kindergarten on Friday afternoon. This is an awesome achievement for our kindergarteners. We have also begun a new reward system campus wide called the Pawsitive award. This is where any teacher can refer a stu-dent for a positive reason they have observed. These stu-dents get a Sonic drink, a certificate and have their picture taken. 1st Grade Update: First grade students are learning about the long “e” pattern in the form of “ee, ea,” and when “e” stands by itself, but still says its name. They also studied words with CK for their spelling pattern. The students worked hard to learn 120 sight words so far this year. We also learned about pen-guins and the importance of keeping their germs to them-selves. First grade is a busy place we are learning so many things like songs to help us learn about verbs, math facts, and we are starting to take AR test on our books. 2nd Grade Update: It is a great time to be in second grade! We have been learn-ing about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the impact he made on the world. Looking into other cultures is always fun, such as researching Chinese Lunar New Year. Second graders are also looking forward to a visit from TVEC and will learn electrical safety tips and ways to conserve energy. Our second graders are reading diligently to earn the AR field trip in May. Students must have an AR average of 85, have 75 AR points and have a “Super Reader 2” classifica-tion to earn this trip.

Primary News

January was our time to celebrate the ending of the First Semester together! Students who earned All A’s, Right Choice, or Perfect Attendance for the se-mester went skating on January 15th. Our Semester Awards were held on January 16th. Students who earned All A’s, Right Choice, and Perfect Attendance had a special reward day filled with fun activities and McDonald’s for lunch. Mrs. Frost’s and Mrs. Purselley’s 4th grade Classes tied for Perfect Attend-ance for the 3rd six weeks, and each class celebrated with a pizza party!

This month we celebrated our Big Kahuna Fundraiser with a ride on a Party Bus and pizza at Ci-Ci’s. Ninety students sold at least 15 items and earned this exciting trip! Also, students who sold at least 5 items participated in our Big Kahuna Glow-in-the-Dark Party!

Our annual cup stacking challenge took place this month. Students practiced during gym time each week and were prepared to compete! Groups of stu-dents competed in several rounds as the top winners from each group moved on to the semi-finals and fi-nals. Here are the 2019-2020 Cup Stacking Champi-ons; 3rd Grade: 1st Place-Aiden Blankenship, 2nd Place-Isaac Swasso, and 3rd Place-Makenzie Kennedy. 4th Grade: 1st Place- Rylan Renberg, 2nd Place-Jenny Morin-Guerrero, and 3rd Place-Dean Calhoun. 5th Grade: 1st Place- Gena Hamilton, 2nd Place-Collin Russell, and 3rd Place-Kimberly Milan. Campus Win-ners: 1st Place-Rylan Renberg, 2nd Place -Gena Ham-ilton, and 3rd Place- Collin Russel.

Congratulations to Kylee Rushing and Payton Ashton! These two have advanced and will compete in the Henderson County Spelling Bee at the Eustace Middle School on February 7th.

Congratulations to our January Student of the Month winners: Reese Bennett, Braxton Ward, Presley Bonner, Maci Weems, Haydon Tooley, Kenadie Tan-ner, Baylee Tanner, Makayla Truitt, Skylar Long, Alazeyah Salazar, Mason Russell, and Collin Russell. This month students are taking their Reading (3rd, 4th, 5th), Writing (4th), Math (3rd, 4th, 5th), and Science (5th) benchmark tests in order to prepare for the upcoming state testing. These results help deter-mine which students will participate in our tutorial ses-sions. Upcoming events: Feb. 3-7 National School Counselor Week Feb. 11 UIL Awards Feb. 19 Spring Pictures Feb. 27 Report Cards / Perfect Attendance Drink Feb. 28 4th 6-Weeks Drawings / Money-Aire / Right Choice Snow Cones

Intermediate News play multiple games at home in the month of Febru-ary! Come out and support your Bulldogs! Feb. 4th - @ Blooming Grove Feb. 7th - @ Kemp Feb. 10th - vs Palmer (Home) Feb. 14th - @ Mildred Feb 18th - vs Scurry-Rosser (Home) Golf: The Eustace Golf Teams has started practice working toward bettering their scores. The Ladies are trying to repeat as district champs. “They are really focused and working towards their goals” said Coach Tardiff. The Boys team failed 1 place short from advancing to regionals last year and are determined to get to the next level. “They are working hard to reach their goal”. First tournament for the Boys will be January 27th at Wood Hollow CC and the Ladies will have their first tournament February 3rd at Wood Hollow as well. Bulldog Proud!

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District Realignment 2020-2022

The UIL has released the district realignments for 2020-2022. In football, the Bulldogs will be playing in District 8-3A. That district includes Eustace, Fairfield, Groesbeck, Kemp, Malakoff, and Teague. In volleyball and basketball, the Bulldogs and La-dy Bulldogs remain in District 18-3A along with Blooming Grove, Kemp, Malakoff, Mildred, Palmer, Rice, and Scur-ry-Rosser. There were no changes in the make-up of the volleyball district or basketball district. The baseball, softball, cross country, and track dis-tricts will be released at a later date. The enrollment numbers for Conference 3A for the 2020-2022 realignment were 230—514. If you would like to explore all the information about realignment, please visit the UIL website by follow-ing this link: https://www.uiltexas.org/alignments .

members at the groundbreaking, and the wrapped activity bus. Mrs. Shaddock gathered plates and tablecloths, pop corn from Jalopy Joes, and personalized Construction Hats given to each member as tokens for all the work they have done to constantly and consistently improve our schools. We are so thankful for a wonderful group of School Board members directing all the improvements at EISD. Mark your calendar for the Art Expo, featuring Band, Drama and Art. The show will be April 23rd from 4-6 pm. Remember to visit Artsonia.com to see some examples of the student art that will be shown at the art show. Band January 17th and 18th, Cannon Kilcrease, an 8th grade stu-dent at Eustace Middle School, had the privilege of partic-ipating in the UIL Region 3 All Region Band Concert and Clinic. This band is comprised of 21 schools from the 3A and 4A classifications. Through the audition process the students play blindly for 5 judges and are ranked accord-ing to their performance abilities on two etudes, two scales, and their chromatic scale. Cannon Kilcrease scored the 13th chair of the concert band. Congratulations to Cannon for his accomplishment on his trumpet! Middle School Theater Arts Update Eustace Middle School Theater Art students will be per-forming during lunches on February 14th. This year for Valentine’s Day they are preparing to deliver Lunch Love Songs. If you want to send a message to a friend just to say Happy Valentine’s Day, the Theater Arts students will be selling Lunch Love Notes along with a song dedication to be delivered to that special friend at lunch on Valen-tine’s Day. There will be a selection of 5 songs for stu-dents to choose from. The dedication and note can be purchased during lunches from a Theater student selling them during lunches for $1.00 on February 3rd – 10th. NJHS We are gearing up for next year! GPA letters have been sent out; applications are due at the end of Janu-ary. 2020/2021 Induction Ceremony to be held April 1st, 2020. Athletics Dept. Girls Basketball District Tournament 7A & 8A is Febru-ary 6 and 8, and the Boys District Tournament will take place on February 13 and 15 at the Kirk Gym and Middle School gyms. That will be the end of the basketball sea-son and we are so very proud of how hard all our athletes have worked and grown this season.

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Federal Report Cards

Federal Report Cards for the state of Texas, Eu-stace ISD, and each of the district’s campuses are now available on the Eustace ISD website at this link: https://www.eustaceisd.net/412014_3 or are also available on the Texas Education Agency’s website at: https://tea.texas.gov/Finance_and_Grants/Grants/Federal_Report_Card/. Printed copies are availa-ble upon request at the Eustace Administration Office.

tions is noted. Distinction designations recognize outstanding academic achievement in reading/English language arts and mathematics. Campuses that receive a rating of A-D are eligible for up to seven distinction designations. Eustace High School earned two Distinction Designations in: Academic Achievement in English Language Arts (ELA)/Reading and Academic Achievement in Social Studies. The Middle School earned three Distinction Designation: Academic Achievement in English Language Arts (ELA)/Reading, Com-parative Closing the Gaps and Postsecondary Readiness. The Intermediate campus earned one Distinction Designations: Academic Achievement in English Language Arts (ELA)/Reading. The Primary Campus is not eligible for Distinction Designations since it does not have STAAR tested grades. If you have any questions about the infor-mation on the State School Report Card, please contact the campus principal. A full report of all Texas districts can be found on the Texas Educa-tion Agency website: https://rptsvr1.tea.texas.gov/perfreport/src/2019/campus.srch.html

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Perfect Attendance Pizza Party—Mrs. Purselley’s Class

Presidents’ Day Holiday

Monday, February 17

Classes resume at regular times on

Tuesday, February 18.

Early Childhood Checking Out the New Bus Wrap

Kindergarten “Pawsitive” Reward 2nd Grade Readers

Perfect Attendance Pizza Party Winners—

Mrs. Frost’s Class

Intermediate—Big Kahuna Party Bus

Intermediate Spelling Bee Winners