Dear Carter Coyote Families,

I hope you enjoyed the first official day of fall this past Sunday the 22nd! This month we had progress reports distributed through Skyward Family Access, picture day, and Constitution Week. We look ahead to Bully Prevention Month, Fort Bend County Fair Day, and Custodians week!

TRAFFIC and Construction on A. Meyers: the upside to our community's continuous construction and building is that we are in demand by homeowners and have a beautiful school and neighborhood! The downside is traffic congestion during roadway construction.

We have been informed by Fort Bend County contractors that there will be lane closures and traffic rerouting in front of our school. Please know that WE at the campus have no control over the construction on the roadways near our school. I wanted to let you know these plans could possibly start as early as this Thursday, so be aware that lane closures and detours will be in effect. They will be through on 10/8, weather permitting.

REMINDER: Thursday, September 26 is early release at 11:15 & No school on Friday, September 27 for our Fort Bend County Fair Day.

Parents, to view more information about Canvas, such as creating an observer account, logging in, and navigating the dashboard, please click: https://www.lcisd.org/students-parents/canvas/canvas-information.

You are also welcome to add the link to a webpage or anywhere you feel would be beneficial to our parents and community.

Here is a direct link to the Teams Meeting landing page: https://lcisd.instructure.com/courses/72356/modules/items/13982680. The resources are available in both English and Spanish.

We need substitutes, help us spread the word! Lamar CISD will host a ​Substitute Round Up Informational Meeting ​on Wednesday, October 2, ​from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm ​at the Lamar CISD Administration building, 3911 Avenue I, Rosenberg, TX 77471.​ Link to the registration form can be found HERE

Students will start attending library classes next week. Mrs. Garrette needs this form returned if your student is allowed to check out a book, all grade levels. The form was sent home last Tuesday. Below is an additional copy if needed. Thank you

If you would like your child to be screened for possible GT services, please see the following forms from Mrs. Matthys, our GT Facilitator.

24-25 School Supply List

Have you joined the PTO yet? Join here! The two classes in the school with the most PTO members by this Friday will get to Slime the Specials teachers.

Spiritwear Store in now open all year!

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To celebrate our new students joining their houses, new House Shirts designs have just been added to the Carter Spiritwear Store! House shirts are an approved dress code shirt and can be worn any day of the week.

Link to Spirit Store. https://stores.sugarlandink.com/carter_elementary_school/shop/products/all?page=1

In celebration of Fort Bend County Fair Day, we are excited to announce a special lunch menu for Wednesday!

Menu:

• Non-Vegetarians: Chicken Tenders with Whole Grain Funnel Cakes

• Vegetarians: Veggie Nuggets with Whole Grain Funnel Cakes

Lena Gracia

Child Nutrition Manager

Carter Elementary

Lamar Consolidated I.S.D.

Office phone- 832-223-5508

Please click the link below to apply for Free and Reduced-Cost Meals, Breakfast/Lunch Menus, and all things about Child Nutrition. Students will be charged for all meals unless you apply and qualify for free and reduced-cost meals.

https://www.lcisd.org/departments/support-services/food-service

Below, please find the uniform colors and uniform clothing items that can be worn for the 2023-2024 school year:

Bottoms: Solid color navy blue, black, khaki or blue denim pants, capris, shorts, skirts, skorts or jumpers. Leggings/tights worn alone as well as embellished and distressed jeans with rips and tears are not allowed.

Tops: Solid color, collared (polo style, no logo) shirts in red, white, navy blue (dark blue,) black or hunter green (dark green.)

Maroon, gray, olive, kelly green, royal blue and light blue are not Carter approved uniform shirt colors.

School and PTO approved Carter ES spirit shirts are allowed daily, such as the once a year Carter themed shirt.

Leggings/tights worn alone as well as embellished and distressed jeans with rips and tears are not allowed. Additionally, basketball shorts, roller shoes, shoes that light up and backpacks on wheels are not allowed.

If a student is not wearing the proper uniform, they will be sent to the Nurse to either call home or receive a change of clothes, as our inventory allows.

• AM Car line--ARRIVE as Early as 6:45: There is absolutely NO pedestrian drop-off traffic crossing our busy car line in the morning. This is for the safety of everyone.

• ⛔After 7:15 AM, your student is considered tardy. If you pull into the car line at 7:10 or later, you WILL most likely be tardy. After 7:15, parents must park and bring their child(ren) into the office to check-in and receive a tardy slip. ⛔
• PM Car line: PM car line is becoming very efficient. If you come to pick up your child in Car line after 3:00 PM, you may have to park and come in to the office to check out your child.
• AM and PM Car line: Refrain from using your cell phone on school property. Per elementary handbook, cell phone use in the car line is prohibited.
• Crosswalk: Please DO NOT park on Glass Peak Drive OR along Stonecreek Estates Drive on either side of the bridge and walk your student to the crosswalk--this road is not a parking lot. Lately an over congestion of cars parking near the intersections is causing an obstruction of a clear view for our walkers, bikers and crossing guard, particularly on the other side of the bridge where there is no longer staff assisting students and no crossing guard. Additionally, cars trying to come in and out of the neighborhood at Glass Peak Drive are blocked by cars parked to pick up or deliver walker students. The crosswalk is for students who are in the walk zone to Carter and do not have bus service due to their close proximity to the school.
• Pre-K and Kinder students: Students in this age category must have someone waiting to pick them up at the bus stop or cross walk otherwise they will be returned to school, causing inconveniences for you and your child.

If you still have not registered for bus service and need to. Please CLICK HERE to access the LCISD transportation webpage. There are 3 big blue buttons on the bottom of the page. You will click on the first button for instructions on how to register through your student's Skyward Family Access account. Once registered, click on the last blue bottom on the website above (or follow the instructions below) for instructions on how to download the My Stop App where you can see your child's bus route info, real-time student bus travel, and any messages about your bus.

Among some of the most important changes are:

1. Being in possession of a Vape or E-cigarrette will result in automatic removal from the home campus to the Alternative Learning Center for a period of time TBD.

2. Being in possession of a Knife of any length will result in automatic removal from the home campus to the Alternative Learning Center for a period of time TBD.

3. Cellphones: Cellphones and personal electronic devices including smartwatches, must be turned off and stored in backpacks unless given specific permission given by a teacher to use for an instructional purpose. The district has outline specific, required consequence for violation of personal technology policy: See page 100 in elementary student handbook.

Link to Elementary Handbook and Student Code of Conduct: HERE

• 9/26 - Early Dismissal @ 11:15. Wear your Western Duds in honor of Fair Day!

• 9/27 - Fort Bend County Fair Day/Student and Staff Holiday

• 10/2 - College Day! Wear your Fave College attire

• 10/2 - 10/6 - Custodian's Appreciation Week

• 10/6 - 10/12 - Fire Prevention Week

• 10/11 - 10/14 - Fall Break--Student/Staff Holiday

• 10/14 - 10/18 - School Lunch Week

• 10/18 - Nine Weeks 1 Report Card Distributed in Skyward Family Access

• 10/18 - House Spirit Day--Go All Out in House Colors, PK-5

• 10/20 - 10/26 - Safe School's Week & Character Counts Week

• 10/23 - 10/31 - Red Ribbon Week

• 10/24 - 50th Day of School!

• 10/25 - Early Release @ 11:15

• 10/28 -11/1 - Book Fair

• 10/29 - Picture Retakes

• 10/30 - Grandparent's Night at the Book fair
  

• 10/31 - Wear Your Halloween Costume for $1 (Proceeds to Student Activity Fund)

Leann Imrie, Principal

Aerika Dial, Assistant Principal

Website: www.lcisd.org
Location: 8500 A Meyers Road, Richmond, TX, USA
Phone: (832)223-5500
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DonCarterES/
Twitter: @cartercoyotes