Rice Elementary, Conroe ISD

🦝❤️ **OUR RACCOON FAMILY WAS DOUBLE BLESSED ON SATURDAY!** ❤️🦝

Some days remind you exactly why you love what you do—and Saturday was one of those days.

✨ **First blessing: ARK Church Serve Day!**

We had **20 incredible volunteers** arrive at 9:00 a.m. ready to serve our campus. They helped with bulletin boards, cutting, organizing, inventorying, moving furniture, clearing our garden, and so much more.

As I watched them serve, I honestly became emotional. ❤️ They weren't just completing tasks—they were **lifting burdens from our teachers' shoulders.** Every job they checked off meant one less thing hovering over a teacher's head as we begin this school year.

✨ **Then came our second blessing: Be Blessed!**

I headed to Grand Oaks High School to meet **Bailey, a CISD student that with her family started Be Blessed**, a nonprofit committed to helping students start the school year prepared. Our Raccoons received backpacks filled with school supplies and hygiene products. 🎒❤️

Saturday was a beautiful reminder that **our children belong to a community that cares deeply about them.**

There are so many people behind the scenes helping us create an amazing year for our Raccoons—and I don't take that for granted.

**ARK Church, Be Blessed, and every single person who gave their time, energy, and resources to our campus—thank you.** You reminded me that we truly are better when we serve together.

My heart is full. ❤️🖤

**Raccoons are better together!** 🦝🐾

We look forward to seeing you tonight at Meet the Teacher! Please park at ARK Church, walk over to the school, and enter through the back of the building. We can’t wait to welcome you!

Can't wait to see all of our Pre-K and Kindergarten families tonight!

It was a wonderful evening getting to know the students and families that stopped by for Popcorn with the Principal! A huge shout out to our fantastic PTO board for making the event happen.

Can't wait to see you this afternoon from 4:30 - 5:30 in the Rice Elementary Cafeteria!

Don't forget we have Popcorn with the Principal on Monday, July 27 from 4:30 - 5:30! Can't wait to meet you all.