Dear Timberwolf Family,

Can you believe it is December and we are about half way through the school year? I hope your Thanksgiving was memorable and restful. I love the holiday season and the buzz that takes place over the next few weeks as everyone pre-pares to celebrate this time of year.

Our Thanksgiving Banquet for our students on November 13, 2018 was amaz-ing! I am so proud of our students, staff, and volunteers. I saw many boys and girls dress for the celebration, sit proudly at the table, and enjoy eating and hav-ing a conversation with friends.

Thank you to the many parents who volunteered to help prepare and serve our students. We could not have pulled it off without the support of our parents and community. Thank you to our PTO and especially Lindsey Adamson for the many hours she put in to ensure the students experience was unforgettable. It was amazing how she transformed our cafeteria into a banquet hall. Thank you to our PTO President Tina Bowers who planted the seed that led to this special day for our students. It was a great celebration!

We have concerts, parties, dress-up days for students, and much more over the next couple of weeks. Please check our website and calendar for all the events happening in December.

Happy Holidays!

Deborah Spoon

Principal

Principals Corner

Important Dates

December 4—6th Math Benchmark & 5th Grade Band Concert 6pm

December 5—Rubiks Cube Club, 8:00 Rm116

December 6—6th Grade Band Concert, 6pm

December 10—6th grade Field Trip Scavengers

December 11—6th Grade Field Trip Hunters AND Choir Concert, 6pm

December 12—6th Grade Field Trip Alphas

December 13—Orchestra Concert, 6pm

December 18—Class Holiday Parties, 2:30

December 19– Half Day, Dismissal at 1pm

December 20-January 7—Winter Break

January 8—Students return to school

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Volume 11, Issue 4

December 2018

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Library News

We have moved our book cases and made room for our "Maker-space" area. Beginning Janu-ary 8th, from 8- 8:40, students will be able to spend some mindful time in the library partici-pating in the following actives: puzzles, mindful coloring, games, electronic, de-construction & construction activities, etc. As time advances, will continue to work on adding variety to our collection of activities. If you have any Legos, puzzles, games or broken items that could be taken apart, we would love to have them. Also, we continue to collect gently used books to be distributed to our classroom teachers. If you have any of these items you would like to share with us, they can be dropped off at the office or brought to the library. Thank you.

Rubiks Cube Club Reboot

The Rubiks Cube club has been meeting month-ly to learn to solve the cube. In January we will add to our endeavors by creating mosaics with 100 cubes! Thanks to a grant from the PTO, we now have a set of 100 cubes and we are ready to start creating. If you are interested, come to our first meeting and check it out, January 9th in the library at 8:00 am. All you need to do is show up. We will try to meet every Wednesday morn-ing.

Mrs. Roland’s math classes partici-pated in the Texans Stats Challenge. This is where the students solve math problems based on the previous week’s Texans game stats for eight weeks and finish with an essay about what they learned. Jireh Bermoy’s essay was one of ten selected by the Texans to attend one of their home games. Congratulations Jireh!

Houston Texans Challenge

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It's hard to believe it's already December and the end of the first semester is fast approach-ing. As a way of helping families in need, Tom Cox has joined with the CISD police department to collect toys for Santa's Dreams, all donations stay within CISD. If you are shopping and are able to pick up an extra toy for a child between infant and 14 years old we would greatly appreciate your help. All donations can be dropped off in the red bin at the front office. Last but not least, our Student Council Community Service committee is working hard on making fleece blankets for those in need. To help make this successful they are in need of do-nations of 2 yards each of coordinating fleece (there are prepackage kits available). We wish you all a restful and healthy holiday season.

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Counselor Corner

Food Drive Update

Thank you to all who donated to the food drive. As a school we collected approximately 32 boxes of food benefiting students and their

families in CISD. Thank you all for helping make the food drive such a success!!

Safety of Students

Dear Parents, As we continue to help our students grow into responsible citizens, I encourage you to talk to your child about the importance of spoken or written words. We understand that students in intermediate school often do not understand the power of their words, but because we do not know when a student is joking, venting, or making an actual threat, every incident must be investigated and could result in serious disciplinary consequences. Please know that the safe-ty of the students and staff at our campus and across the District is our top priority. Individu-als may make anonymous reports to CISD's KidChat hotline at 1-888-KidChat (543-2428) 24-hours a day or through our new Anonymous Alerts app. To learn more, please visit our Safe-ty Information webpage.

Gifted and Talented Nominations

We are now taking nominations for Gifted and Talented. For more information please con-tact Mrs. Dodd by phone or email for more information. ddodd@conroeisd.net. Nomination forms can be found on the CISD website at http://www.conroeisd.net/department/ci/gifted-talented/

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Parent Teacher Organization

Events for December: Dec. 3rd-7th: Holiday Shop sales week Dec. 10th: Spirit Event: Gringos 11am-10pm Dec. 18th: Holiday Class Parties: 2:30pm-3:45pm ____________________________________ Thank you to everyone who applied for one of our Cox Intermediate PTO grant awards this year! We are excited to announce the 2018-2019 recipients: Name: Perkins/Martin/McKee Proposal: PE Sports Equipment Grant Award: $1100 Name: D. Little Proposal: Classroom Audio System Grant Award: $120

Name: Roland/Wollard/Valentine/Weninger/Pinones/Hernandez Proposal: Teachers Pay Teachers Activities Grant Award: $150 Name: C. Eaves Proposal: Rubik’s Cube Mosaics Grant Award: $675 Name: S. Hernandez Proposal: Classroom Flexible Seating Grant Award: $350 Happy Holidays from the Tom Cox PTO!

Tom Cox Holiday Spirit Days

Dec 10th – Ugly Holiday Sweater Day

Dec 11th - Wear Crazy Festive Socks

Dec 12th - Winter Scarf Day

Dec 13th – Holiday Shirt day (or wear Christmas colors)

Dec 14th – Holiday Songs Lunch Karaoke

Dec 17th- Holiday Headgear

Dec 18th-Pajama pants day

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Dear Parents and Students,

In order to provide a safe environment, prevent injury, and show courtesy to each other we appreciate your cooperation in the following arrival/dismissal procedures.

Morning Arrival

Parents are to drop students off in the front of the school. Students are allowed into the building at 8:00 and will sit in the cafeteria until released at 8:40 to class.

There is no supervision for students who arrive earlier than 8:00. If a student is dropped off before 8:00 they must remain seated under the covered area in the front of the building. If a student becomes disruptive while they are waiting for the building to open the parent will be contacted to discuss the concern.

If the parent chooses to wait in the car in the morning with their child, they will need to park in the front parking lot and not in the “car rider” lane. It is important to keep the flow of traffic running smoothly.

Thank you for your continued support of our school.

Dismissal

All walkers, biker, car riders and day care riders will be released at 4:00, and will be scanned on their way out of the school. Walkers and bikers need to leave the campus as soon as possible.

Car riders and day care riders are to quickly find a seat and remain seated until their car comes through the line to pick them up.

Car riders:

1. Remain seated until their car comes through the line to pick them up.

2. Face forward looking for their car, their name may not always be called.

3. Cell phones are to be kept in their backpack until they are in their cars. If a student needs to contact a parent they may use the phones in the front office.

4. Snacks are no to be eaten because it brings in the ants and bugs.

Walkers:

All students who are walking home need to remain on the sidewalks at all time and cross the street at the crosswalk. Parents please speak to your walker about remaining on the sidewalk until they reach their destination. Please do not cross any area that is not a designated crosswalk.

Parents of car riders:

1. Parents need to drive through the car rider line and pick up their student who is sitting and waiting for them. Please form two lines as you come around the corner and then they will merge into one. The two left lanes as you leave are exit only.

2. Please pull as far forward as possible in order to help us speed up the process. Students will not be allowed to be picked up at the curb of the street or cross the street to a waiting car.

3. If parents are picking up a child at York and Cox, they may designate their child to go to either school so both can be picked up at one school. Students from York will be allowed to wait at Cox with their sibling as long as they follow the car-rider policies of the school.

4. If a child is picked up prior to 3:30, the parent will need to park in the front parking lot, and come inside to check the student out of school. The back parking lot by York is for staff only.

5. If you are coming into the front office for any reason, please cross at the crosswalk and not cut through traffic.

Reminders!

Students are released at 4:00 and are expected to be picked up shortly after school. If there is an emergency please call the front office so we know when to expect you. If a student is frequently picked up after 4:15 we may ask the parent to consider another form of transportation.

Rainy/Cold Day Dismissal

If your student is a walker/biker they will be expected to walk or ride their bike on rainy days, unless you and your child have an alternate plan in place. If you choose for your child to be a car-rider on rainy days it is not necessary to complete a transportation change form.

In the case of severe weather (thunderstorms, lightening, blizzard) we may hold walkers/bikers until we feel it is safe for them to walk or ride home. If that does occur we will contact the parent to inform them of the delay. Bus transportation will run as scheduled.

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Dismissal Procedures