Hello 4th Grade Town Center Families! Please see below for updates and reminders:
Face to Face Learners: With the charged iPad, we would like your learner to bring their charging cord to and from school each day just in case it is needed, their mask, water bottle, snack, lunch (if not buying) and supplies (if not already with us on campus). Your learner is more than welcome to bring their personal hand sanitizer from home if they would prefer.
Virtual Learners:
TCE Curbside will be on Wednesday's from 11:00-12:30pm in the Front Loop.
Spirit Night at JC's Burger Bar
This Friday, November 20th, JC's Burger Bar in Coppell is donating 20% of their full-day sales from Town Center families and friends to our school. Whether you dine in or pick up (including curbside pick-up), as long as you mention that you are there supporting Town Center, your purchase will qualify. So, whether it is lunch, dinner, or a snack in between, we hope you can join us in supporting Town Center and great food!
A Note From Ms. Matlock.....
Every year the Lion's Club of Coppell provides food and toy support to those in need. If you could benefit from this assistance during the winter holidays, please complete the attached form and fill out the information as accurately as possible. If you are unable to print out the form, you may email the information directly to our counselor, Ms. Matlock at kmatlock@coppellisd.com and she can help complete the form. Or, please email to request a paper copy of the form be sent home with your child(ren). If your child(ren) are virtual learners and you would like to pick up a paper copy of the form, please call the front office to arrange for a curbside pick-up. The form is due Friday, December 4th.
Free Meals Through December
Canned Food and Toy Drive
Kindergarten and First Grade will be working with the Coppell Lions Club to coordinate a food and toy drive at Town Center. This will help to provide food and toys for more than 100 Coppell families during the holidays.
We'd love for our learners in grades K-5 to bring canned food items and/or a new, unwrapped toy to donate starting December 1st through December 15th. If you are a face-to-face learner, you may drop your items by the TCE Giving Tree in the front of the school, and canned foods can be put in the boxes at the end of each hallway. Virtual learners may call the front office at 214-496-7800 to make arrangements to drop off your donation in the front loop during school hours. THANK YOU for your support!
Our 13th Annual Creative Writing Competition is now open for entries!
The competition is open to all writers in the 4th-12th grades (Non-Coppell ISD students must be a CGA member to enter). The deadline for entries is December 4, 2020, at midnight, and entries must be in either our Story or Poetry categories. For all details, rules, and link for entries, please visit:
https://coppellgifted.org/2020-2021-creative-writing-competition/Our judges are looking forward to reading all of the entries! If you have any questions about the competition, please e-mail competition@coppellgifted.org.
District Return to School Site
periodically for updates as well.
***IMPORTANT***
REMINDER FROM DR. APPLEGATE REGARDING
ZOOM LOGINS
Please ask all learners to sign into Zoom with their @g.coppellisd.com account through the SSO button.
We are needing to pull guest access to our Zoom meetings (due to safety) and learners will not be able to access your Zoom meetings. We have recently learned that logging into Zoom using the Google Button doesn’t actually transfer their account into the district enterprise account. They HAVE to go through the SSO option in order to be counted in the CISD domain. We believe this may be the reason we still have approximately 6,000 learners that have not transitioned their account.
If you see a learner with (Guest) next to their name in your Zoom participant’s list, this means that they are NOT signed into their @g.coppellisd.com account in our Coppell Zoom domain and need to add their account to our domain by signing in with SSO. When you see learners with (Guest) please share the following help documentation with each of them.
3rd Nine Weeks Commitment Form Information
Our third nine weeks commitment form process will begin on Monday, November 30. Parents and guardians will receive an email from the district on November 30. You only fill out the form if you are changing your current (second nine-week grading period) learning mode. The deadline for this form is December 9 at 11:59 p.m. The third grading period begins on January 6, 2021. Please note CISD continues to remain committed to providing our families with the choice of in-person and remote learning for their children.
December 11th is Now an Early Release Day
CISD has designated Friday, December 11, as an early dismissal day to allow our educators and staff to have additional planning time to meet the needs of our students. Elementary schools will release at 12:30 p.m. Please make pick-up arrangements for your child.
November 20th: Spirit Night/Day at JC's Burger Bar in Coppell
November 23rd-27th: Thanksgiving Break
December 11th: Early Release- Learners will be dismissed at 12:30 PM
