Archive for month: October, 2022

Hope Food Pantry Austin is a partner agency with Central Texas Food Bank. They collaborate with community partners to help alleviate hunger in the Austin community.  HSS-Austin would like to help in this initiative by hosting a Thankful Tigers Food Drive – November 1st – 18th.

We want to encourage our students to be helpful and to serve others that are in need. Our students will take part in their classrooms by sorting and counting their homeroom contributions and having meaningful conversations about the importance of our service to the community.  We appreciate your support in this endeavor by speaking to your student at home and work together as a family to participate.

Items requested:  shelf stable items like breakfast cereal, pancake or muffin mixes, cartons of shelf stable milk, cans of fruits or vegetables:  corn, green beans, peas etc., diced or whole tomatoes, fruit, soup, chili, ravioli, peanut butter (smaller than 18 oz), canned meats (tuna, chicken or salmon), pasta, bags of rice and beans, granola/protein bars, condiments (ketchup, mayo, mustard, salt/pepper).

Please use the following guidelines before sending your food items to school:

• NO opened, dusty, old/dented containers
• NO glass products
• NO EXPIRED ITEMS or PACKAGES OVER 2 POUNDS
• Please donate stable boxes or plastic totes to hold large food items during our food drive

 

To learn more about Hope Food Pantry and their mission, visit their website: http://hopefoodpantryaustin.org/

October is in the United States. Let’s deepen our understanding of this language-based challenge and try to raise awareness in our community.

 Eight-year-old Evan is one of the brightest children in his third-grade class. He has a wonderful vocabulary and knows everything there is to know about baseball—he can even tell you who played in each of the last ten World Series games and who won. But when it comes to reading about baseball—or anything else—Evan has a lot of trouble. It takes him a long time to read each word, and even longer to read whole sentences. He often has to guess at how you say a word—and sometimes his guess is wrong. Reading out loud is especially stressful and embarrassing. His teacher recently told Evan’s parents that she thinks he might have dyslexia.

 Most people assume that part of being smart is being able to read well. About 100 years ago, though, doctors figured out that some people, even some very smart people who do really well at many other things, have trouble learning to read. This difficulty with reading is called dyslexia.

 Excerpt from: http://dyslexia.yale.edu/resources/dyslexic-kids-adults/on-being-dyslexic/

Useful Links:

What is Dyslexia? – Kelli Sandman-Hurley

https://improvingliteracy.org/brief/defining-dyslexia

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/videos-about-dyslexia

https://dyslexiaida.org/

https://dyslexiaida.org/fact-sheets/

http://www.dyslexia.yale.edu/resources/parents/

https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/texas-dyslexia-handbook-2021.pdf

Recommended Movie:

Taare Zameen Par- Every Child is Special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z14uE7U0HY

Ishaan, a student who has dyslexia, cannot seem to get anything right at his boarding school. Soon, a new unconventional art teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, helps him discover his hidden potential.

There will be a Student Holiday and Parent-Teacher Conference Day on Wednesday, October, 19th. Some Parent Teacher Conferences will also take place within the week. Your student’s teacher will send an email message soon with more information for availability.