CE eNews
December 1, 2022
Dear Cheetah Families,
Thank you so much for attending our Seasons of Sharing event this evening! We hope you enjoyed spending time with your children and learning more about how cultures around the world celebrate the holidays.
In your child's folder on Friday you will find a pass for family admittance to the Houston Children's Museum. Please be sure to use this and visit the museum to explore together as a family!
Your partner in education,
Lindsey Chase
Principal
Upcoming Events
December 1-8: Book Fair in the Library (See flyer below)
December 3: PTA Breakfast with Santa (9:30-11:30 a.m. See flyer below)
December 5: Cheetah Coalition in the LGI (1:00 - 2:00 pm)
December 12: Choir Concert at 6:30 p.m. (PTA Meeting at 6:00 p.m.)
December 16: Early Dismissal at 12:05 (cars for car riders in line no later than 11:45 am)
December 19-January 3: Winter Break (No School)
January 4: Classes Resume
Character Trait for the Month
Empathy is the Character Trait for the month of December. Counselor Miles will be teaching lessons about Empathy. Your child's class newsletter will include activities that could be done at home to reinforce this trait.
News for Fifth Grade Parents
Student ID Replacement
Every student ID badge includes a unique student ID number that is used to check out library books and textbooks, to purchase food items in the cafeteria, to permit passage to certain club meetings, and to provide easy identification of students in common areas of the school. If a student loses the ID, a replacement must be purchased promptly. Replacement ID Badges and House Lanyards can be purchased using the link below through Pay 'n Go.
Birthday Marquee
Cheetahs SPOTTED Being Amazing!
We have a fantastic staff at Cimarron Elementary!
If you would like to celebrate a staff member for doing a fabulous job ... click on the button below!
News from the Library
Fall Scholastic Book Fair
December 1 - 8
The Scholastic book fair will be cashless this year! Please check out the website for more information on the Scholastic eWallet. We will accept credit cards from only the cardholders and eWallet. No cash or checks will be accepted. https://tinyurl.com/yc6etudd
We also have a Pay-in-Go for items (i.e. pencils/erasers, etc.) we are selling for House Council.
Book Fair Volunteers Needed
We need volunteers during the day to assist monitoring students during the Preview, during our special events, and during the week. Please check out the Sign-up Genius link below.
Does your student need a device to work on classroom assignments at home? For 3rd- 5th we have Chromebooks that can be checked out to students to take home. Please contact Mr. LeFoll in the library for more information or you can sign up at https://publicbiapps.katyisd.org/DeviceCheckout/
News from the Big Cat Pipeline
PTA News
We will have more information about how to sign up to help with wrapping soon!
Volunteers Needed
Click on the link below if you are interested in volunteering for Breakfast with Santa!
Congratulations to our October Volunteer of the Month, Emily Caron!
Ms. Emily Caron is our October volunteer of the month. Emily volunteers in SO many ways at Cimarron.
Last month she also helped with a trick or treat station all evening at the fall bash with her mom, Ms. Caron. Emily says her favorite place to volunteer is as a classroom reader & the library.
She loves to see the kids smile when she visits & loves to help the teachers & staff!
Thank you, Emily, for all you do!
We Love our Volunteers!
Katy ISD is excited to announce the implementation of the District’s Raptor Volunteer Initiative for the upcoming school year. Beginning October 1, the district will require all volunteers serving on campus during the instructional day to register with the district through its Raptor security system.
Raptor ensures quick and easy volunteer registration allowing individual volunteers to create and manage a personal volunteer profile. In addition, the Raptor Volunteer Initiative will:
- Provide an additional layer of protection for Katy ISD students, staff, volunteers, and campus visitors
- Unite all district volunteers into one Katy ISD volunteer community
- Measure and communicate the positive impact of Katy ISD volunteer organizations
Get more information here:
Yearbook Pictures Needed
It is truly Our Time to Shine at Cimarron Elementary, and we are so excited to celebrate our students as they are shining throughout the school year! Please help us by submitting your student’s First Day of School pictures to be included in the 2022-23 Cimarron Yearbook. Pictures will be included according to the following criteria:
- Students must be dressed in accordance with the district dress code guidelines
- Students must have a “yes” privacy code
- Pictures must only include the student(s) for which the parent/guardian is submitting (please do not submit pictures of students other than your own)
To make your submission, complete the following steps:
- Click on the link: https://studio.balfour.com/imageshare/
- Type the Project Code: 323729 (leave the upload code blank)
- Complete the required information
- Upload your picture(s) 😊
Pictures from our House Rally Spirit Days are also welcomed, along with other pictures that you capture throughout this school year. Thanks in advance for helping to make this yearbook the best one yet!
Cimarron Lunch Visitors
CE is pleased to welcome parents to enjoy lunch with your child. All lunch visitors must check in at the front office and receive a visitor pass to wear while on campus. Please be sure that you have a valid government-issued photo ID in order to visit. Due to space and safety concerns, lunch visitors are limited to parents/step-parents/guardians, non-school-aged siblings and grandparents (accompanied by a parent or with written permission from a parent), or campus mentors. You may note your written permission for a grandparent to visit unaccompanied by filling out the Parent Permission for Elementary Lunch Visitors Form and turning it in to the CE Front Office.
Visits are limited to the 30-minute lunch period. Due to space limitations at the elementary level, no exceptions to the list of approved visitors can be made. Lunch visitors do not include aunts, uncles, friends or neighbors. In addition, lunch visitors are limited to two (2) guests per student per day, including younger siblings. Unusual circumstances may be approved in advance by the principal or assistant principal.
In order to get you checked in as quickly as possible, we ask that you let us know you plan to visit for lunch by completing the CE Lunch Visitor Pre-Raptor Form by 2 pm the day before you plan to visit. Completion of this form is not required, however it will allow you to get checked in at the office and off to visit your student's lunch more quickly.
All lunch visitors are asked to follow our lunch visitor expectations:
- Lunch visits are limited to the 30-minute lunch period.
- Please proceed directly to the cafeteria after you have checked in. Your child will greet you at the visitor table.
- Lunch visitors should stay at the visitor table. Please do not walk around the lunch room.
- Other students are not permitted to join your family at the visitor table.
- If you plan to bring in lunch for your child, please know that you are not permitted to bring lunch for other students.
- Photos should be taken of your child only. Please do not take photos of other students.
- Please say goodbye to your child at the cafeteria door and return to the front office to exit the campus at the end of the 30-minute lunch period.
- You can return to the cafeteria through the front office after checking in if you are visiting your other child at a different lunch time.
Friendly Reminders for Car Rider Arrival and Dismissal
- Please do not drop your student off at school in the morning prior to 7:30 am. Our doors open at 7:30 am, and there is no supervision provided prior to that time frame.
- Remember that our school is a school zone. Please do not use your cell phone for any reason.
- Please do not exit your vehicle for any reason. We will load/unload your student into your vehicle, but we will not unbuckle or buckle their seatbelt. If your child needs assistance in buckling after they have been loaded, please pull forward into a parking space in order to assist your child.
- Your child should enter and exit the vehicle from the passenger side only. We do not allow students to exit or enter the vehicle from the driver side.
- Please follow the directions given to you from CE employees. We are here to help and we want to load and unload your student in the safest and quickest manner possible. Thank you for your patience and kindness with our amazing Cimarron staff!
- Please enter the car rider dismissal line by driving down Peek, turning onto Katy Passage Road, then following through the neighborhood by turning right onto Legend Spring then another right onto Cascade Creek. Please do not try to go down Cascade Creek and make a u-turn into the line in an open spot.
- Occasionally some of our parents find a gap in the line next to them while navigating the car rider line and decide to line jump in an effort to get ahead. We want to take the time to explain this does the exact opposite for you AND for all the parents who happen to be around you when you make the jump.
- One of our staff members walks the line and writes down all numbers. Then, all kids are assigned a specific set and number to stand on.
- Line jumpers think they are getting ahead but your number hasn't been written down, and your child will not be brought to you in a timely manner like the vehicles around you.
- This results in you having to pull up past spot #1 to wait for us to get your child to you. Skipping the line and jumping in sets you and everyone else back.
- Please do not block driveways in the neighborhood while waiting in the car rider line. Everyone is doing a great job of this and being respectful to our neighbors. We appreciate it!
- Please do not pull around other vehicles in the line unless specifically directed to do so by a CE staff member.
Cimarron Elementary
Website: www.katyisd.org/campus/ce
Location: 1100 South Peek Road, Katy, TX, USA
Phone: 281.237.6900
Facebook: facebook.com/cimarroncheetahs
Instagram: http://instagram.com/cimarronelem
Twitter: @CimarronElem