A special thank you to the following business partners for making our staff’s holiday celebration extra special!
*Ashley & John Starnes - The Osage House is an exceptional place for events and celebrations. This beautiful venue is nestled perfectly on a hilltop creating a wonderful experience for all.
*Bob the Caller
*Sushi House
*Guess Who
*Honey Bee Aesthetics
*Cracker Barrel
*La Vida Massage
*Westwood Garden
*Top Golf
*Hull Dermatology
*Welly
*Dry Bar
*Barnes & Noble
*Impressions Boutique
*Stretch lab
*JoyHouse Coffee
*The EverGreene Heart
*Murray Hill Market
*Squeeze Massage
We appreciate your generosity and giving hearts. Happy Holidays!
Congratulations, ESE Owls! Our kids are soaring to GREATNESS. A huge THANK YOU to our students, staff, and families for making this happen.
We are THANKFUL for all of our ESE Owls!
ESE and BHS Ignite are partnering to collect hygiene items for hospitals in our community. Drop off items at our ESE Choose Love booth today, Thursday, November 9th.
Join us in recognizing and showing our appreciation of Kelly Dollar, ESE's Special Education LEAD.
October 30th-November 3rd is Strong Choices Week at ESE. Join us in showing your spirit each day.
Would you be willing to donate a store bought or homemade pie? We’d love sweet pies, savory pies, tart pies- the more variety the better! And we’d love to have four or five pies from each classroom. Sign up at the link below if you can contribute!
https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/9040E4BAAAE2CA0F85-45574525-piedonations
We are beyond excited to share with you ESE received an A rating for the 2022-2023 school year! We are proud of our students and amazing staff for their work in earning the highest rating given by the Arkansas Department of Education. ESE is the place to be!
Join us in celebrating Stacy Leonard, ESE P/T, for National Physical Therapy month. We appreciate Stacy and her dedication to our owlets. Show Ms. Leonard some love in the comments. 💙🦉
Today, Saturday, Oct. 14th, we will experience a partial solar eclipse! This is an excellent out-of-school opportunity to build excitement and curiosity about these celestial events for your child. In Bentonville, we will experience the maximum obscurity of the sun at 11:53 a.m. with the entire event lasting from 10:25 a.m.-1:26 p.m.
Arkansas has distributed solar eclipse glasses to every library in the state. Call our local libraries to check availability.
Check here for more information!
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/october-14-2023
And here:
https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety
#eseowlsalwayslearning
Mark your calendars! Fall Picture Day is this Thursday. Let's see those smiles.
Way to go ESE Owls!
#esesoaringbeyondgreatness
#whereexcellencelives
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It's our annual Start With Hello Week - Monday, Sept. 18th-Friday, Sept. 22nd.
We hope you can join us next Thursday, Sept. 21st, for our annual Walk In My Shoes Night.
Check out the Walk In My Shoes meal pre-order: https://evening-star-elementary-school-pto.square.site/walk-in-my-shoes
What a great way to start a Thursday morning! We loved having students from FBJHS greet our students during arrival this morning. Join us in wishing our Timberwolves luck tonight as the 7th graders take on Hellstern Middle School and 8th graders play Central Jr High! 💙💚
Today is the day!! We are so excited to have our owls back in their home away from home.
Here are some quick reminders to prepare you for the first day of school!
*Car riders, please be patient with us. Not only will it take a couple of weeks to establish our dismissal routine, but we are anticipating a large number of car riders, especially during the first few days of school. The car line will be long and can take up to an hour or longer to get through while we teach our students the dismissal routine.
*To request new bus service or to see your bus route for this fall, download the BusQuest app and submit a request. Bus times may fluctuate, so be sure to check your child’s route information prior to the start of school. One important note for your family; once you sign up for transportation service with BusQuest, you’ll still use the BusCompass app to see real-time updates and to know when the bus is within three bus stops of your child’s stop. Instructions for both apps are included below. Email our Transportation Department with any questions you may have at BusRequest@bentonvillek12.org.
*Bus Quest
*Bus Compass
*Send a water bottle and snack with your child.
*Doors open at 7 A.M., and the tardy bell will ring at 7:30 A.M.
Share your 1st Day of School Pictures in the comments below. Let's GOOO OWLS!
Can you believe we only have ONE more day until we kick off our 1st day of the 2023-2024 school year together?! We are ready to have our little owls back in their nest here at ESE. As we continue to count down the days to the first day of school, we want to remind you of a few things regarding arrival and dismissal during the first two weeks of school. If your child is a car rider, we ask you to remain in your vehicle when picking your child up from school. ALL car riders must have the temporary 23-24 ESE Car Rider Pass (handed out at Open House) displayed in their front windshield. Permanent car rider tags will be provided a few weeks into the start of the school year to all regular car riders. If you do not have your 23-24 ESE Car Rider Pass, you will need to park your car and wait for a staff member to assist you. You will need to have a photo ID available for our staff to scan before your child is released from school. Since our school buses and other childcare transportation buses (Club Infiniti, Mobius, and Primrose) have additional students to pick up from surrounding schools, we will hold all cars until the buses have left the ESE premises. Car riders, please be patient with us. It will take a couple of weeks to establish our dismissal routine. For the first few weeks, the car line will be long and can take up to an hour or longer to get through while we teach our students the dismissal routine.
Traffic will be heavy for the first few days of school. Please leave early, give yourself plenty of extra time, and be patient.
1.) Expect heavy traffic this week. You'll also encounter many children walking to school, so be on the lookout for them.
2.) Expect school buses to be delayed. The first week of school is always a period of adjustment for our bus drivers and students alike. Students will be late getting to school and home, but we'll work through delays quickly.
3.) Remember, children will be boarding and exiting school buses. Watch for them and never go around or pass a stopped school bus.
4.) Put away your cell phone in school zones and parking lots. Car rider staff need your full attention to keep all students safe.
Please refer to your transportation handout provided at Open House for additional details. We ask that all of our ESE families watch our parent car rider video for additional information regarding our car line procedures: https://vimeo.com/739091661
Tomorrow we are all together again. What are some words of encouragement for your fellow Owls?
Meet our Exceptional Education Team! They are collectively excited about planning and collaborating with our current and new team members to continue implementing inclusive practices at Evening Star! ⭐️🦉⭐️
What are some of your favorite accessible, inclusive activities in Northwest Arkansas?
Meet our incredible auxiliary team! This team is composed of our activity teachers, certified instructional support teachers, and our instructional assistants. They want to share with you why our parents and families love Evening Star. Why Evening Star? Here are a few quotes our ESE parents shared in their End of Year Parent survey: “ESE is the Best of the Best.”; “I’m so proud my children go to Evening Star.”; “Evening Star is filled with smiling faces.”; “This hardworking staff knows my child. They know their name, their interest, and what it takes to help my child succeed.”; “My child’s teacher has high expectations for them and they give them challenging work to keep them engaged.”; “Her level of patience and kindness is unmatched. We feel so incredibly blessed our son has been influenced by her care and knowledge!”; “All of the staff at Evening Star are AMAZING!”; “Each teacher knows my child by name and clearly has an incredible interest in her success and happiness.”; “The teachers have all gone above and beyond to keep pushing and challenging my son academically. We are so grateful.”; “ESE works so well together as a school community that you cannot pick one. Thank you for all the energy, thoughtfulness and care you put into our kids.”; “Our daughter is a good human being and it’s because of her school.”
Let’s hear why you love Evening Star Elementary! Share in the comments below.
We can’t wait to see all of our owls on the first day of school, Wednesday, August 16th. Our doors will open at 7:00 a.m., and the tardy bell will ring at 7:30 a.m. The dismissal bell will ring at 2:30 p.m.
Meet our 3rd and 4th-grade teams! They want to share an extraordinary fact about Evening Star with you. Did you know the Department of Education designated Evening Star as an Arkansas RISE School at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year? This recognition acknowledges superior literacy instruction across all educational settings. Evening Star now serves as a RISE model school for schools across the state. Speaking of literacy and reading, our teachers were busy catching up on some of their favorite authors. What did you read this summer? Share the titles of some of your favorite books in the comments.
