Dear Carter Coyote Families,

I hope you are enjoying this fall weather! It's that time of year when the temperatures go down, but our Lost and Found pile goes up. Please remember to put your child's name on the labels of their outerwear.

We look forward to the Bookfair and Grandparent's Night at the Bookfair, Red Ribbon Week, the 50th day of school, and the Boo Bash!

HALLOWEEN COSTUME ETIQUETTE:

Students are able to wear their costumes on Friday as part of Red Ribbon Week, and therefore, they do not need to bring a $1. Please adhere to our costume expectations: No masks allowed to be worn with the costume and no toy or look-alike weapons of any kind can be brought to school with the costume-no exceptions. Additionally, please be advised that costumes should not be frightening in nature. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

REMINDER: This Friday, October 25, is early dismissal at 11:15 AM.

If you would like your child to be screened for possible GT services and information about an upcoming meeting (November 7) regarding the GT program, please see the following flyer from Mrs. Matthys, our GT Facilitator.

Tickets are now open for our first Boo Bash -- A Halloween Party for the whole family!

Join us for a DJ, dancing, games, photo booth, and more!

Tickets are limited by gym capacity so buy now!

Please also prepurchase your pizza meals and concession tickets! We'll have extra concessions but will only be able to order the amount of pizza preordered.

Buy Tickets

The Carter Bookfair is October 28 - November 1. We need volunteers to help during the day for the different grade levels, as well as during set-up and at Grandparent's Night.

All Bookfair Volunteers will get a 20% Bookfair discount.

If you would like to help with the Bookfair, please sign up here!

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

If you need information on free and/or reduced-cost meals, please click the link below to view the application and sign up. 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

• 10/24 - 50th Day of School!

• 10/25 - Early Release @ 11:15

• 10/25 - Boo Bash sponsored by PTO, 5:00-7:30 PM

• 10/28 - 11/1 - Red Ribbon Week & Book Fair

• 10/29 - Picture Retakes

• 10/30 - Grandparent's Night at the Book fair, 4:30-6:00
  

• 10/31 - Wear Your Halloween Costume

• 11/6 - College Day! Wear your college attire

• 11/7 - 5th Grade Veteran's Day Program, 6:00 PM show

• 11/11 - 11/19 - 3rd-5th Grade Benchmark Testing

• 11/14 - Progress Report 2 Distributed in Skyward Family Access

• 11/22 - Student Holiday, Teacher Planning Day

• 11/25 - 11/29 - Student and Staff Thanksgiving Week Break

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