🍂🍁 October 🍂🍁

• National Principal's Month
• Bullying Prevention Month
• Person with Disabilities Awareness Month
• Dyslexia Awareness Month

Below you will find a letter from our Executive Director of Elementary Services regarding Mrs. Erb's and Mrs. Womack's absence. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Comanche Springs Families:

We would like to make you aware of a temporary change to the campus administrative support. As you may know, Comanche Spring’s principal Amy Erb has been out due to a family illness, and Elizabeth Lopez Hatley has been substituting for her. Mrs. Hatley is a retired principal and former EMS ISD School Board member. We are so grateful to have her at Comanche Springs until Mrs. Erb’s return.

Mrs. Hatley has been working closely with your Assistant Principal, Mrs. Destiny Womack. Mrs. Womack will also need to be out from October 9 through December 2 for a previously scheduled, mandatory surgery. Mrs. Womack’s substitute administrator will be Dr. Linda Parker, retired EMS ISD Deputy Superintendent (and principal).

We are so thankful to these highly experienced educators for their commitment to Comanche Springs. They would love for you to introduce yourself if you have the opportunity. Additionally, as Executive Director of Elementary Services, I will be visiting the campus weekly to provide additional support. I have included the contact information for you below, and you can also continue to contact your campus office for assistance.

We know with Mrs. Hatley and Dr. Parker, Comanche Springs will continue to thrive under experienced leadership until Mrs. Erb and Mrs. Womack are able to return. We look forward to working beside the Comanche Springs community to ensure an excellent educational experience for our students.

Respectfully,

Beth Sanders

Executive Director of Elementary Services

Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD

1600 Mustang Rock Road

Fort Worth, TX 76179

817-232-0880 Ext 2604

Liz Lopez Hatley

Comanche Springs Elementary

Substitute Administrator

Lhatley@ems-isd.net

Dr. Linda Parker

Comanche Springs Elementary

Substitute Administrator

Lparker@ems-isd.net

8100 Comanche Springs Drive

Fort Worth, TX 76131

817-847-8700 Ext 4055

We encourage every child and staff member to dress in their house colors every friday.

Children can practice their house chants at home! Please refer to these videos:

• Amistad House Chant
• Empatia House Chant
• Heshima House Chant
• Incrementum House Chant

Want to Volunteer? Click Here.

Here at Comanche Springs, we love to honor our military service men and women by hosting a car parade. Please click on the flyer below to register to be a part of this year’s Veterans Day Car Parade. More details are in the link!

Week of October 6th - October 12th

Sunday, October 6: National Academic and Athletic Coaches Day

Monday, October 7: World Day of Bullying Prevention, Wear Blue

Tuesday. October 8: PTA Spirit Night at Jeremiah's Italian Ice, 12:00pm - close

Wednesday, October 9: National Stop Bullying Day

Friday, October 11: End of First 9 Weeks

• PTA Fast Pass Raffle Drawing! (see more details below)

Week of October 13th - October 19th

Monday, October 14: No School - Student & Staff Holiday: Columbus Day/Indigenous People's Day

Tuesday, October 15: No School - Staff Professional Development Day

Wednesday, October 16: Unity Day, Wear Orange

• Storybook Pumpkin Due to Ms. Whitt (optional)

Thursday, October 17: 🎂 Happy Birthday to our paraprofessional Mrs. Juarez!

• Pink Out for Cancer Awareness

Friday, October 18: Book Fair Opens

Week of October 20th - October 26th

10/18 - 10/25: Book Fair

Sunday, October 20: 🎂 Happy Birthday Mr. Trammell!

Tuesday, October 22: PTA Meeting, 5:00pm (all are welcome)

• Literacy Night, 5:30 - 7:00

Wednesday, October 23: 🎂 Happy Birthday Mrs. Dias!

Saturday, October 26: Trunk or Treat, 11:00am - 1:00pm

• 🎂 Happy Birthday Mr. Bassow!
  

Week of October 27th - November 2nd

10/28 - 11/1: Red Ribbon Week

Monday, October 28: LOVE yourself day! Wear red to support a drug-free life.

Tuesday, October 29: EDUCATION is the key to success. Wear your favorite college shirt, colors, or military branch.

Wednesday, October 30: BAND together and tune out drugs. Dress like a ROCKSTAR or wear your favorite BAND t-shirt.

• Go Big BMX Air Show will perform for us and talk about making healthy choices and being drug free.

Thursday, October 31: Don’t let drugs ruin your CHARACTER. Dress like your favorite storybook character.

Friday, November 1: Early Release at 11:50

• Spurs ROCK the HOUSE. Wear your HOUSE COLORS from head to toe.
  
• House Rally

Saturday, November 2: 🎂 Happy Birthday Mrs. Blakley!

To sign up for a trunk click on the picture above.

Please call the office before 2pm for last minute changes to your child's dismissal.

Coach Gadberry is asking that students please wear tennis shoes on their scheduled PE day. Please see the teacher’s PE dates below:

Our librarian, Ms. Whitt is collecting story book pumpkins. Please refer to the flyer for the guidelines.

Pumpkins will be collected starting on 9/23 with a final due date of 10/16.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Whitt at cwhitt@ems-isd.net

Welcome to the School Counselor's Corner!

The counseling department will be extremely busy this month. October is bullying prevention month. I will be visiting classrooms to teach about bullying. The students will learn about the three components of bullying: it must be on purpose (with the intent to harm), happen over and over (not a one-time incident), and there must be an imbalance of power. Most of the time, it is just a mean moment or conflict. Students will also learn about the four types of bullying (verbal, social, physical, and cyber).

Red Ribbon Week is around the corner. We will have a kick-off RRW on Monday, October 28, we have some fun activities and a presentation scheduled for our students (sponsored by our fabulous PTA). Spurs will be collecting canned goods from October 28-November 1 as part of our community outreach for Community Link. The grade level with the most cans (must reach 100) will win a popcorn party! Be on the lookout for our Red Ribbon Week Flyer.

We recently elected our Spur Ambassador & Kindness Club officers. We are kicking off the year with a pop-tab collection for the Ronald McDonald House. We will collect pop tabs all year long, please send them in with your student. Small tabs make a big difference in our community.

If I can ever be of any assistance, please email me at ktaylor02@ems-isd.net or call me at 817-847-8700 Ext. 4010.

Comanche Springs Elementary

Asst. Principal: Destiny Womack

Main Office: Anel Cruz

Attendance: Alysha Salazar

Website: https://www.emsisd.com/comanchespringselem
Location: 8100 Comanche Springs Drive
Phone: (817) 847-8700
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/comanchespringselem