CARROLL MIDDLE SCHOOL
October 19, 2020
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In this Issue:
  • Class fees due
  • Attendance Sign In/Out Procedures
  • Dress Code
  • Order your Yearbook
  • Yearbook 8th Grade Recognition Ads
  • Yearbook Photos Needed
  • Spelling Bee
  • Animal Science Animals need Veggies
  • Prudential Spirit of Community Award Application
  • Student Activities
  • DVA Library Book Check Out
  • Extended Day
  • COVID19 Criteria
  • PTSO - meeting info, membership, Spirit Shop - Sale, & More
  • Sports Results
  • CISD Events
Calendar

Events for the Week
Monday, Oct. 19
No Scheduled Activities

Tuesday, Oct. 20
PTSO General Meeting (Zoom- see PTSO for additional information) 10:00 a.m.
FB vs. Keller - 7(A)/8(H)

Wednesday, Oct. 21
Faculty Meeting - No Tutorials
Cross Country Zone Meet @ Coppell East (@ Coppell West)

Thursday, Oct. 22
VB vs. Keller - 7(A)/8(H)

Friday, Oct. 23
No Scheduled Activities

Save the Date
PTSO General Virtual Meetings
Oct. 20 (See PTSO below for additional info)

Thursday, Oct. 29
Make-Up School Portraits, cheer team & choir pictures

Friday, Oct. 30
Last day to submit 8th grade recognition ad (see Yearbook Information below)

Tuesday, Nov. 10
Prudential Spirit of Community application due (see Counselors Corner)

Tuesday, Nov. 17
Spelling Bee (see below for more information)
Office News
Class Fees
Parents, if you have not had the opportunity to pay the fees for the courses that have fees, please go to Skyward to the Fee link. They are all conveniently located in one place and you can pay all of them at once. Payments are not accepted at school. Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

CMS Attendance Sign In/Out Procedures
 1-Parent/Guardian will push the intercom button and let the CMS Employee know your reason for visiting the school. Please have your Driver’s License ready to show to the camera for verification. Upon verification, our receptionist will buzz you into our lobby.

2-On the table to the left inside the lobby you will see a QR Scan code and an iPad. You may use either method to sign your student in or out. 

3-Fill out the Google Document and submit.

For Sign Outs:
1-The Attendance clerk will receive the notification and retrieve your student for sign out. The student will meet you in the lobby entrance.

For Sign In:
1-If your student has a doctor note, they can sign in on the QR Scan code or iPad then proceed to the Attendance window to drop off the note and receive an admit slip back to class.

2-If your student does not have a doctor note, the parent needs to sign them back in on the QR Scan code and the student will proceed to the Attendance Window to receive an admit slip back to class.
Dress Code
Please remember that there is length requirement for shirts being worn over leggings. Shirts must be long enough to reach past the first knuckle on one’s hand when one’s arm is resting at one’s side. Shorts, dresses and skirts must also meet this length requirement.
 
The shorter shirts are in style now but dress code states that no skin may be exposed at the midriff. In other words, shirts must be long enough.
Yearbook Information
Individual Photos
Parents should have received an email about two weeks ago with proofs and information about how to order individual portrait pictures. If you did not get one, please check your Spam or call Glamourcraft at 817-923-9901. Picture retakes are on Oct. 29.

CMS Yearbooks on Sale
$45
only until Sept. 19-Nov. 13

Click here to order online.
or call Jostens 1-877-767-5217

8th Grade Parents - Recognition Ad
Parents of 8th graders can buy a recognition ad for their child. Click 8th Grade Recognition Ad for the website. Deadline is Oct. 30.

Pictures Needed
Any sporting event
Giving back during the pandemic
Off-campus PE participants
Summer vacations/Staycations
Submit your pictures to ReplayIt. Please include information about the picture: identify the student(s), the activity, when it took place, where it was, who took the picture.
Spelling Bee
Attention CMS Students and Parents:
 
The CMS Spelling Bee will be taking place Tuesday, Nov. 17 in the CMS Library. 

Face-to-face students will participate in a class bee the week of Oct. 19.

If your DVA student would like to participate, they need to register for the in-person bee on Oct. 21 at 4:30 by clicking this link. https://rb.gy/ajd09l

More information can be found on the Library Canvas Page.

Please email Ms. Kosev if you have additional questions. Brittney.kosev@southlakecarroll.edu
Animal Science News

We are super excited to get the year started with all of our animals. Thanks again for everyone's help during our long "break".  

We are looking for any donations of vegetables (lettuce, collard greens, peppers, carrots, cucumbers) that might be expiring soon and you know that you won't be using them. We used to get our supply from the cafeteria but they do not have as much any more so our supply runs low quickly. If you are able to bring up any that you know you won't be using, instead of throwing it away, it would be much appreciated if you could donate it for our animals in class.  

You can reach me at lori.cashon@southlakecarroll.edu for more information or drop off arrangements.

APPRECIATE YOU!!

Lori Cashon
Nurse Bonczyk Notes
Dear Parents,
This year will certainly look and feel different. I wanted to let you know about a few health clinic changes.

We will have a Well clinic and a Sick clinic, which is called the waiting room. The waiting room is where kids who have any of the symptoms listed below will wait for their parent or emergency contact to pick them up. These two rooms are completely separate to limit cross contamination.  Per the TEA and Tarrant County Public Health Guidelines, your child must be sent home for additional monitoring and observation. It is strongly recommended that you 1. Isolate your child at home, 2. Avoid unnecessary contact with others and 3. Contact your child’s physician for further guidance.

Covid-19 like Symptoms include:
Fever
Sore Throat
New uncontrolled cough that causes difficulty breathing or in a diagnosed asthmatic or chronic allergic student, a change in baseline
Diarrhea
Vomiting
Abdominal pain
Abnormal taste or smell
New onset of severe headache

Additional relevant symptoms include:
Fatigue
Chills
Congestion or runny nose
Significant muscle pain or ache
Nausea

Please have a plan in place every morning for how you will pick up your child should you get a call. If neighbors or friends are your emergency contact, please make sure they will be available if you are not. We are expecting your student to be picked up ASAP and within 30 mins.
We are asking parents to be extra vigilant this year and not send your child to school with any of the above symptoms. Remember to screen (including temperature) every morning and fill out your Sunday evening screening survey.

We are discouraging the use of as needed meds as it could mask symptoms. It will depend on the circumstances surrounding the clinic visit. Please call to discuss this further if you have concerns.
If your child has seasonal allergies, please start medicating with a daily allergy medication now and consider a daily nasal spray. Developing a good routine now will help cut down on their symptoms later and will avoid me from having to send your child home unnecessarily. 

Per CDC, AAP and TEA, nebulizer treatments for Asthmatics are not recommended. We are only accepting inhalers this year.

Please try to anticipate your child’s needs and send water bottles, lip balm, snacks and hygiene products. We are trying to keep the amount of students who visit the clinic to sick and urgent matters.

It is important to have a clean mask every day. Consider having multiple masks to be worn during the week to be laundered over the weekend. Paper masks can air dry in a brown paper bag over 2-3 days.
Please make sure your primary number is the one you want us to call first, should your child need to come home. Consider saving CMS number 817-949-5400 in your phone as a recognizable contact.
Parents if you still need to drop off emergency meds to the clinic like Epi pens and inhalers, there is a medication bin in the mantrap.


Thank you for your understanding and for your cooperation during these unprecedented times.

Nurse Bonczyk is going paperless this year with immunizations, so please email her a copy of your students updated immunization records at your earliest convenience. 
  
Susan Bonczyk, RN, BSN
Extended Day
Need to make up a test or quiz? Want a quiet place to study? Need help on homework? Join us in Extended Day! We are open:
 
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays
3:55-4:50 p.m. 
CMS Library
 
General guidelines:
Students who join for studying or homework must arrive in the library by 3:55 with all materials needed for their time in Extended Day, such as laptops. These students stay until 4:50 to provide a concentrated and distraction-free study hour. 
 
Students who need to make up tests or quizzes will come to Extended Day, where a teacher will have left a paper test or instructions to log on to computers to take the assessment. Students who come to take tests or quizzes may leave as soon as they're finished or they may choose to stay and study until 4:50.
 
Extended Day staff is made up of CMS teachers who can help your students with homework or concepts if they ask for it.
Attention DVA Students and Parents
You can reserve a library book and pick it up curbside. Please see the information on the CMS Library Canvas page or contact Ms. Kosev at brittney.kosev@southlakecarroll.edu. 

Brittney Kosev
CMS Librarian
PTSO
PTSO ZOOM MEETING
OCT. 20
10:00 a.m.
Email t.dickenson@hotmail.com for Zoom info

For more information about PTSO, visit our website.

PTSO Membership
🌟 Moving from DVA to Face to Face? Do you want access to our new online Directory Spot PTSO directory? There is still time to join CMS PTSO. Please fill out the form below: 


School Directory
CISD has taken all school directories online only using a secure app named Directory Spot. The CMS directory is now live but only available to parents that joined the PTSO. Email invitations were automatically sent to eligible email addresses earlier this week and we wanted to make sure members knew this was available.

As directory chair, I was given the following information from Jill Webb from the district:

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Carroll Middle School is excited to announce that the CMS DirectorySpot App is now available! If you joined the PTO, you have been set up as a user for DirectorySpot and can now download it for free from the App Store (iPhone users) or Google Play (Android users). You can also access the data from the web with the same login and password - https://www.directoryspot.net/general/login.php. Thank you to Tolleson Orthodontics for their support of the PTO and this directory!
 

 
For Smartphone Users:
1. Download the DirectorySpot app by going to your app store and searching "DirectorySpot" or by clicking on the appropriate link here: iPhone - http://goo.gl/5U2Tzq or Android - http://go’o.gl/iBK9lY
2. Launch DirectorySpot, enter your email address as your Username, and click on "Reset Password."
3. Click on the link in your email to set your password, relaunch the DirectorySpot app, and login with your username and password.
 
For Tablet, Mac, or PC Users: 1. Go to www.directoryspot.net and click on "Login" in the upper right- hand corner.
2. Enter your email address as your Username and click on "Reset Password." An email will be sent to you with a link to set your password.
3. Click on the link in your email to set your password and login.
 
Note – if downloading to an iPad, just search for “iPhone apps” and you will find DirectorySpot

 
Make sure to check out all the features, such as the auto dial when you click on a phone number, or the auto launching of maps when you click on an address. If you hold down the cell phone number, you will get an option to send a text or call the number (iPhone only). DirectorySpot will even create an email if you click on someone's email address.

 
If you have any questions or need to edit any of your information, please contact Dani Schug (CMS Directory Chair) at CarrollMidDirectory@gmail.com.
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Spirit Shop
New Inventory ALERT!
Pre-order ONLY, check out the link below! 

We will not have any extras, so get your orders in for these new items! Please choose “pick up at coveys” during checkout. Your order will be delivered to CMS for in person students or porch pick up for DVA students. 

Visit our Facebook page to see other inventory. 

The sales of these items benefit CMS! 💚
October Luncheon
Faculty was treated to delicious food from So-Cal Food Truck lunch on Thursday. The truck served a choice of two tacos, chips and salsa, PTSO also provided churros for dessert and drinks. Thank you for the hospitality: Amanda Orr and Kristen Nelson.
Please register your Kroger's Shopper Card to help support Carroll Middle School. 
** Needs to be re-registered every year **
  1. Link your shopper's card, click "Get Started"
  2. Sign in to your online account, or create an account
  3. Find and select Carroll Middle School PTSO (QQ003) 
Within 7 to 10 business days, you should see CMS PTSO listed at the bottom of your Kroger receipt.
Social Media
Please sign up for the Carroll Middle School Spirit Shop Facebook page and follow CMS on Twitter to receive information regarding the Spirit Shop. We will have previews & pre-sales of upcoming merchandise.
Athletics
Booster Club
Be sure you select CMS when joining!
You can also join through our app, just search Southlake Carroll Dragons.

Tickets for Football and Volleyball Games can be found by visiting this website. All tickets are to be purchased online this year due to Covid Restrictions.
 
 
Please see the spectator guidelines for fans for ALL CISD athletic facilities:
  • Spectators must self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms as outlined by TEA and UIL. Spectators must also be symptom-free before arriving at the athletic facility.
  • Masks or face coverings are required as you enter, exit and move around the athletic facility as outlined by the Governor’s order and/or CISD Safety Plan.
  • Spectators will practice social distancing and sit at least six (6) feet away from other groups.
  • Spectators will not sit on any seat marked with tape.
  • No passes are accepted at the gate.
  • No one is allowed on the field or court of play.
Cross Country
Carroll Results - Top 5

Girls
7th - 1st
Luna Guiterrez - 1st
Emma Bizba - 2nd
Sydney Klopfenstein - 3rd
Sophia Garland - 5th
Caroline Smith - 6th

8th - 2nd
Elizabeth Smits - 3rd
Audrey Hendrickson - 6th
Gabriella Tesoriero - 7th
Riley Higginbotham - 11th
Mia Lay - 12th

Boys
7th - 4th
Noah Abiodun - 3rd
Jonathan Charlton - 9th
Christopher Song - 18th
Kaden Linss - 22nd
James Hadwin - 23rd

8th - 2nd
Blake Bullard - 1st
Griffin Cords - 9th
Nick Coscia - 10th
Caleb Lo - 19th
Vivek Athipatia - 22nd
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Football
Trinity Springs Scores
7th
A: 38-6
B: 16-6
C: No game

8th
A: No game
B: 8-19
C: 6-18
Volleyball
Trinity Springs Scores
7th 
A: No games
B: No games
C: No games
 
8th 
A: 25-15, 25-12
B: 25-12, 25-15
C: 25-16-25-16
Wrestling
Interested in middle school wrestling?

Contact Coach Ian Semelroth
District Information
Applications Now Open for 2020-2021 District Committees
The Carroll School Board invites interested parents and taxpayers to volunteer their time and expertise on several Carroll ISD Standing Advisory Committees, including the School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), the District Advisory Committee, School Safety and Security Committee, and more. Click here to read more.

Campus Entry Protocol for 2020-2021 School Year
When visiting campus this year, parents need to be prepared to show their photo ID at the front entrance video intercom system. Once their identity is verified, there are a few different scenarios for entering the building safely. Watch this video to learn more about how campus visitors will be handled this school year.

Special Programs Fall Parent Virtual Training Schedule
The CISD Special Programs Department is happy to support our Dragon community by providing educational opportunities for our families. Carroll ISD Special Programs Department is excited to host a Fall 2020 Parent Virtual Training Series.  Please click here for more information. 
Registration is not required. Hyperlinks will connect you to Zoom, our virtual learning platform. Emails to parents of students served in our department were sent through Skyward on August 14, 2020. 

Join CISD Booster for Special Programs Today!
The CISD Booster for Special Programs is a district wide organization that supports Special programs at all 11 campuses. We are a federal funded recognized non profit 501(c) 3 and your donations are appreciated! Programs we support: Special Education, Dyslexia, Speech, Occupational, Physical therapy,Section 504, ADHD/ADD,English as a Second Language, Blended Preschool, Resource Programs. Click here to join today!

Join Dragon AP Boosters Today!
The AP Booster Club Membership Drive is on now! The AP Booster club supports advanced learning for students and teachers grades 5-12. We provide grants for teachers to help supplement their classroom and virtual learning. Last year we funded grants for CMS 7th and 8th grade PAP Science departments. AP Booster club also funds seniors with college scholarships and delivers informative programs for both students and parents. Seniors must be a member by Dec. 15, to be eligible for scholarships. Only Members may attend our informative programs so Join Now!