4th Grade Blog: Week of November 9th-13th

Hello 4th Grade Town Center Families! Please see below for updates and reminders:

Please read the Town Center Parent Newsletter from Ms. Martin.

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.

How to Place a Book On Hold Video

TCE Curbside FAQ

Free Meals Through December

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.

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 15^th.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!

Disguise a Turkey Activity (Ends November 21st)

District Return to School Site

Coppell ISD continues to update their Return to School site. We recommend checking this 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.