Field day is always the perfect opportunity for Coach Hoffman to showcase the PE program and allow students to showcase their skills. RES 2nd & 3rd grade students enjoyed a cooperative day that focused on student participation and teamwork.
Friday was the famed Field Day, a day where the students and teachers of RES gather on the playground for a rowdy and festive school-wide competition. Everyone had a blast! Mrs. Blackmon’s & Mrs. Sunday’s classes were pumped to claim the trophy as the classes earning the most points. 🎉
A HUGE 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔 goes out to Brandie Garner of Texas Farm Bureau. This local business generously donated the 2023 Field Day t-shirts for each student and staff member at Rusk Elementary School. Students wore their colorful shirts with great pride at Field Day and will wear them again in May for Water Day.
2nd graders went beyond the ordinary last week while visiting The Center for Earth and Space Science Education. The TJC planetarium allowed an immersive learning environment: a full-dome video experience, interactive displays, exhibits, and classroom play spaces for visiting students. The teachers also enjoy the opportunity to really connect with their students outside their classrooms
This quarter's Campus Leadership Book aims to discover all the simple yet fantastical things one can make out of a box.
If you give a child a box, who can tell what will happen next? 📦 It may become a library or a sailboat, a palace or a race car. It could just as easily set the scene for a fairy tale or a wild expedition. The most wonderful thing is its seemingly endless capacity for magical adventure, a feature imaginatively captured in textured, cardboard-esque art by Chris Sheban and rhythmically celebrated in Jane Yolen’s poetic tribute to the humble box.
We look forward to seeing how each classroom interprets this text and how they bring the words to life and demonstrate their creativity.
Please remember to bring water bottles to school each day!
Please mark your calendars for upcoming RES Spring Photos!
Spring Break is almost here!
Kona Ice will be on campus on Friday, March 10th!
Every year, spring break is highly anticipated by students and teachers. Please mark your calendar for an entire week of no school from March 13th-17th. Visit our news page or online calendar to keep up with the latest goings on or follow us on social media.
Rusk ISD parents/guardians please check your email. A survey has been sent out to provide feedback for our 2023-2024 school year calendar.
During our February School Board Meeting I requested the District investigate the possibility of adopting a 4 day school week instructional calendar for the 2023-2024 academic year. We are examining a number of different districts currently using the 4 day calendar and trying to gather as much relevant information as possible regarding the decision. We understand it is difficult to provide an absolute answer without addressing some of the challenges associated with this calendar and be assured the District is not using the survey results to determine if we move forward. This initial survey is to determine what interest our stakeholders have in the possibility of a 4 day week. Once we have more strategies in place we will provide other opportunities to share your thoughts. When you have the chance please respond to the survey. We sent this same survey to our staff and will be allowing secondary students to participate in the very near future.
Thank You,
Grey Burton, Superintendent
On Mondays we sport our college colors to encourage students to begin thinking about their future, whether it be going to college, attending a trade school, joining the armed forces, or going directly into the workforce. There is not just one path to success!
🪙 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 🪙
The East Texas Sheltering Arms Coalition visited with students at the latest Fellowship of Christian Students meeting. The guest speakers shared that the mission of the organization was to form a coalition to bring an end to homelessness of East Texas veterans. Their vision is to partner with other organizations, and coalition of like-minded individuals, that will serve our community by striving to end homelessness in East Texas. ➜ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞! 💰
Our RHS TAFFE students make a huge difference! Our students love interacting and learning from them daily.
❗️Pre-K and Kinder Early Enrollment ❗️ Join the Primary campus on March 28 8:30-2:30 and March 29 8:30-2:30 & 3:45-6:00 pm for in person enrollment. Please bring ALL documentation in order to start the enrollment process. For questions, please call 903-683-6106.
The Texas-Sized Baby Shower 2023 has come to an end! We are so thankful for all the community support we received to make this initiative a success!
Cock-a-doodle-doo 🐣
Mrs. Boudreaux’s and Mrs. Padgett’s students have had an exciting day!!
The teachers brought a hatching experience to the classroom. The experience allowed the observation of fertilized chicken eggs, so that the students could see them being hatched. This students diligently worked on an incubation time line to record their observations.
Wear your college shirt today!
RES Families
Once again we apologize for any inconvenience but the transportation department is short bus drivers. Bus 19 will start dropping off students about 45 minutes later than usual this afternoon Feb 9th. All other bus routes will run as scheduled. Also, as of now, all buses should run at their regular times tomorrow morning. If you have any questions or concerns, you can call the transportation department at 903-683-5566. Thank you for your cooperation and again we apologize for any inconvenience.
The Rusk Band Boosters are hosting a Father-Daughter Dance and Mother-Son Dance on February 11, 2023.
The dances are a big fundraiser for the Band Boosters. These funds will be used to help pay for the buses to Disney this March.
