Coppell Middle School North PTO: What's New

3rd Annual Cougar Cup is Here!!! Come join the fun on Thursday, May 17, at 5:00 pm for DINNER and 5:30 pm for SOCCER.
Olive Garden will provide the dinner for the low, low price of $5.00 per plate. The Olive Garden dinner reservation link is included below for your convenience. Reserve your plates now via the link below and pay for them when you pick up your dinner before Cougar Cup. There will be two soccer games – the first for 6th grade only and the second a match between our awesome 7th and 8th graders.
Concessions will be available during the game and the best news of all? An iPad2 will be raffled off to a lucky winner. Raffle tickets will be sold during the school day by classroom teachers – 1 ticket for $5.00 or 3 tickets for $10.00 – up until the time of the drawing. The lucky winner’s name will be drawn at halftime during Cougar Cup – and you don’t have to be present to win! This event and raffle are fundraisers for much needed technology for CMS North. Please plan to come early to participate in the dinner and stay to support our soccer athletes.

Cougar Cup

Cougar Families,
It’s hard to believe we are at the end of another fabulous school year. There are a lot of exciting things taking place throughout the month of May, and in preparation for the start of the 2012-2013 school year. I can hardly believe it is time to say, “Good bye” to our eighth graders and “Hello,” to our new sixth grade class.
Here are a few of the exciting events going on in May:
May 11th is Campus Social
Finals begin May 21st – 25th with Electives; May 29th – 30th are LA & Math Finals; and May 31st are Science & Social Studies Finals.
Awards Ceremonies are on May 22nd for 7th Graders in CMSN Cafeteria at 2:00 PM; May 29th are 6th Graders in CMSN Cafeteria at 2:00 PM, and June 1st are 8th Graders in CMSN Main Gym at 11:45 AM.
Last Day of School is June 1st, Make-up Finals & Early Release 1:45 PM

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The 8th graders will be attending an academic field trip to Six Flags on May 21. We will leave during the school day and return after the school day is over (usually around 6:15 p.m.). Tickets for students will be $28.00. Students may also purchase a meal voucher for $10.00. More information and the permission slip will be coming home soon. We still need parent volunteers. If you would like to accompany the 8th graders on the field trip, please contact Julie Bottom at jbottom@coppellisd.com

Hurry to order…your 2012-2013 School Supply Packs are Now On-Sale!
Don’t miss the deadline for ordering your school supply packs for the next school year. The super new Cougar Pass bundle option includes your School Supply Pack along with everything else your student will need to be ready for the new year. Some discounted items only are available through the Cougar Pass. For the BEST DEAL on all your Back to School needs purchase your Cougar Pass today. The Cougar Pass bundle includes:
Pre-packaged School Supply kit for ALL grades,
Student Directory/PTO Membership,
Required School Agenda, and each family’s
Per student suggested Write A Check Contribution.
The $40 cost of your Cougar Pass is Tax-Deductible!
Additional Customized Add-Ons include:
Required Reading for Language Arts classes,
Science Goggles,
Daily Announcements Email (Hear what your student hears on the morning announcements.),
Discounted Socials tickets for 2012-2013 school year,
Option for Additional Write A Check Contribution, and
Additional Agendas if needed.
A quick link to purchase PE/Athletic Wear will keep you out of that long line in August!
The Deadline to order School Supplies is June 14th. After June 14th School Supply Packs will no longer be available for purchase through the PTO. School Supply packs will NOT be sold at Schedule Pick up in August.
Just go to the PTO webstore (cmsnpto.revtrak.net) to purchase your student’s Cougar Pass or Individual items.

Remember for an easy bundle and for the BEST DEAL purchase your Cougar Pass today!

The annual Cougar Cup and Dinner Fundraiser is Thursday, May 17th., 5 pm. Cost is $5 per plate. Food will be served by the Art Rooms. All proceeds help with technology fundraising. Volunteers are needed from 4:30 to 6:30 to help serve dinner. The 6th grade game will be at 5:30, the 7th/8th grade game will be after dinner. Be on the look out for more information next week. If you are able to volunteer please contact Debbie Crumpler at 972-393-4331 or roycrumpler@verizon.net

CMSNorth Honor Winds and Symphonic Bands both were awarded straight first division, Superior Ratings at the UIL Concert & Sight Reading Competition. Each band played a concert of three pieces of music for three judges, afterwards each participated in the Sight Reading competition where the bands played a completely new piece of music that they had never seen before after a short explanation period. Both bands earned “straight 1’s” or Superior Ratings, from all judges. Comments from judges included: “This is the best middle school band I have ever heard”, “WOW, what a tremendous source of pride for your school, parents and community”, “Coppell is known for the highest level of music education in our state and it starts here with your middle school performers! What a band, great enjoyment to hear such young people perform years beyond their age.” This is the 12th year that all of the North Bands have received Superior Ratings in both Concert and Sight Reading, which results in a “Sweepstakes” award. Photo Christopher Stubblefield, CMSN Band President, Mr. Joel Ashbrook CMSN Head Director, and Amy Reed, CMSN Band Historian show off the band’s UIL trophies.

Spring Book Fair this week – just in time for summer reading! Remember all middle school students are expected to read a novel by Neal Shusterman, our fall visiting author, as well as lots of other self-selected fun reading.
Come by, choose a book, and make this summer creepy, funny, touching, sad, sporty, informational – Summer is all about reading for fun! Book Fair Dates are May 7-11, from 7:30 am – 3:30 pm.

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CISD is hosting a Cyberbullying Program on Thursday, May 10th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Coppell Middle School West Auditorium. Both students and parents are invited to attend. The content is probably most appropriate for 5th -12th graders, but all parents and staff members should hear this important information.

Live-Event

Don’t forget about Digic@mp! This summer CMS North is hosting two different camps: Digic@mp on the Web (July 9-12) and Digic@mp at the Movies (July 16-19). Incoming 6th-9th graders are welcome at both camps. Week 2 is now open to incoming 4th & 5th graders too! Get more information and sign-up at DigicampCoppell.com

Beginning Monday, May 14, please make sure your child has money in his/her school cafeteria account. Unfortunately, we are not able to allow any negative balances on a child’s account for the remainder of the school year. If you use the on-line payment system, please allow 24 hours to process your payment. Your child’s account can be accessed at www.nutrikids.com
Thank you,
Jean Mosley

Parents can show their appreciation to the staff members at North by nominating them for an Extra Mile Award. Each six weeks, new Extra Mile Winners are announced. Extra Mile Winners for May 2012 are: Coach Wesley Jennings, Laurie Kirk, Sandy Stubblefield and Shannon Weaver.

The summer school information has been posted to the CISD and CMSN website. Summer school starts June 18th and ends July 24th. It will be located at CHS. For more information on what courses are offered and how to register please go to the CISD or CMSN website.

Pawprints now publishes links to a handful of community and student activites that directly impact our families at North. It’s one way for us to thank all the community programs that make Coppell great. Hope you enjoy!

@Your Public Library
Does your child need help finding a good book to read? In addition to asking your own school librarian, the Coppell Public Library has some online services that are available 24 hours a day. NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 Plus are two great services that allow you to search for titles of series, favorite authors and books in a specific Lexile range. Just go to www.coppelltx.gov, click on library, click on catalog and click on the NovelList Plus or NoveList K-8 Plus link. You will need a library card number to log in to the database. If you need assistance, please call the Coppell Public Library at 972.304.3658.

Don’t make your child wait in line….

The final North social of the year will be held on Friday, May 11 from 6:30-9:00. Tickets are on sale now. Click here to purchase your child’s tickets in advance so they don’t have to wait in line.

Wear your favorite neon to the social. We will have a DJ with live video feed and black lights, a green screen photo booth (take home pictures for free that night), glow in the dark bracelets (included in the ticket price), dodge ball, basketball, funnel cakes, churros and much more! Tickets are $10. Don’t forget to have your child wear socks and bring money for the concessions.

This social is open to North students ONLY.

We need YOUR help in order to have a safe and fun social this Friday. Please volunteer 2.5 hours of your time so that the children can have a great time. This is the final social of the year. Volunteering at these events is always a fun way to spend the evening. You have an honest, good excuse to SPY!

Please click here to sign up!

Thank you.

The end of the school year is fast approaching, which means time to turn in textbooks. We need parent volunteers to help with this process. You will be responsible for making sure the students have all the textbooks given to them at the start of the school year, and checking the current condition of the textbooks compared to the condition form the student filled out last August. More detailed instructions will be given to you before your shift.

If you can help out, just click on the block for the shift/s you can cover. If you can cover more than one shift that would be fabulous. For those of you who need to pick up a child from elementary school during your shift, please e-mail us and let us know ahead of time. Thank you.

Michelle Bauer and Diane Scalley
CMSN Volunteer Coordinators

Make plans to attend the final Wyldlife and final North Social. 2 for the PRICE OF ONE! Wyldlife will be on May 11th at 5:30 at the Coppell YMCA in the north field. There will be rodeo relay games and a hot dog cookout. The North kids will then head to the NORTH NEON SOCIAL!!!!! Can you imagine a better night for your student.

If you cannot arrange to pick up your child from Wyldlife and transport them to the social and would like assistance, please click here

is this Saturday, May 5th and registration is going on NOW!!! Come out and run/walk beginning at CHS Stadium on the Track, 1mile fun run/walk begins at 8:30am. Don’t miss the fun, t-shirts, vendor booths, pancakes, coffee, bounce houses, freebies and lots more. To register log onto: www.coppellisdef.com!

School Supplies ordering is just around the corner. New to North is the Cougar Pass. Please select the attachment to see all that it includes. One fun benefit is a parent email of daily announcements. You can recieve an email telling you what your student hears during daily announcements.
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The North Spring Book Fair is May 7th-11th. The library needs volunteers to help during the school day when students come through to look and shop. If you are able to help with a shift or two please visit the sign up link below. Thanks for your help!
http://www.mysignup.com/northbookfair

The 6th grade Field Day is Thursday, May 3rd. This is a fun day for the 6th graders, but it can only happen with your help. We need parent volunteers to time the running events, measure the throwing and jumping events, keep the athletes hydrated and cooled, post their amazing results and many other things. You can click on an activity/time slot(s) and follow the instructions. We also need help with some event items & drinks. The website has a place to sign up for us to borrow a pop up tent, cooler or a 50 foot hose, plus sending in a case of water or sports drinks. If you have any questions please contact margaretaf@verizon.net. Please go to the link below and volunteer to help. You may need to cut and paste the link.
http://www.mysignup.com/cmsn_6th_grade_field_day

Students from Coppell Middle School North competed in the UIL Academic Meet competition held on March 31st at Cross Timbers Middle School in Grapevine. Students competing and awarded medals were: Asad Lakhani 3rd place in Art, Monica Su 1st place in Chess, Alya Zouaoui 4th place in Chess, Ananya Rajesh 6th place in Editorial Writing and 2nd place in Modern Oratory, Jenny Lee 2nd place in Maps, Graphs and Charts, John Scalley 4th place in Maps, Graphs and Charts, Sanaya Nasta 1st place in Music Memory (perfect score), Krish Chalasani 5th place in Number Sense, Meghana Vankina 3rd place in Ready Writing, Seoyon Lee 2nd place in Science, Vincent Lee 1st place in Social Studies, and Pooja Marella 3rd place in Spelling.
Coppell Middle School North teachers who served as coaches were: Shannon Weaver, Peggi Smothermon, Krisit Cortez, Tess Haranda, Kim Politz, Julie Bottom, Colleen Charnock, Wyler Bartschi, Lisa Walsh, Laurie Kirk, Angela Geiger, and Gary Hayden.
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On Friday, March 23rd, members of the North Select, Boys’ Choir, and Treble Choir competed in the Region 20 Concert and Sight-reading Contest at Greiner Middle School. The students were very successful. The Treble Choir earned an Excellent Rating on their Concert, and a Superior Rating in the sight-reading room. The Boys’ Choir earned a Superior rating on both their Concert and in the sight-reading room. The North Select also earned a Superior on their Concert and in the sight-reading room. This is the 2nd year in a row that the Treble choir has earned a Superior rating in the sight-reading room, something that hasn’t happened at North in the past seven years! It is the 3rd year in a row that the Boys’ and Select Choirs have earned a Sweepstakes (both Superior ratings on Concert and sight-reading).
After the Boys’ choir sight-read, the judges (out loud) asked the boys if they wouldn’t mind asking their parents to move down to their school because of how well they sang! When Select walked in, they told the girls that the boys from North are really good, and if they were going to live up to their success. When they were finished, one of the judges yelled out, “GIRL POWER!!!! Tell those boys they ain’t got nothing on you!”

The computer currently used at North to produce the electronic signs in front of the school is fried. If you have a computer at home that needs a home, think of us. It doesn’t have to be new or anything, it just needs to have Windows XP (not Windows 7) and the only other requirement is that it has a serial port for us to connect the sign equipment. We don’t need a monitor or keyboard or mouse or anything. If you have a computer to donate please contact Carol Freese at 214-496-7100.

Math/Science Investigation 7/8 Classes have been exploring alternative sources of energy. In the culminating activity for the unit, students designed and built wind turbines. The supplies for the turbines were purchased with the funds from the IBM grant for middle school STEM activities. Thank you IBM!

There’s nothing worse than hearing the words “You have cancer”. One out of every two (2) males and one out of every three (3) females in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer in his/her lifetime. To help fight this terrible disease, our CISD schools have stepped up to the plate and truly are making a difference!
Recently, Coppell ISD schools received an award for “Best Youth Engagement” for their involvement in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life event. Specifically, the actions from both our High Schools (Coppell High School and New Tech) and our middle schools were highlighted in this awards ceremony held at the Irving Convention Center in January.
The upcoming 2012 Relay for Life Coppell is scheduled for April 28-29th from 5:00 PM until 7:00 AM at Wagon Wheel Park (Freeport Parkway and Ruby Road). If you haven’t formed a team, signed up to participate, made a donation, or just want to learn more about this event, please go to www.relayforlifecoppell.com. There will be live music, games (Poker, Bingo, and many more), food, and special guest appearance from KSCS 96.3 DJ Terry Dorsey (Dorsey and the Gang).
This is the 10th anniversary in Coppell and we would love to see all of our parents, neighbors, kids, friends and most importantly, cancer survivors and caregivers there! With your support and donations, we hope to reach our grand total goal of $1 Million to fight cancer!
Please join us as we CELEBRATE those who have fought this terrible disease as well as their caregivers. . . . REMEMBER those who have lost the cancer battle and . . . . FIGHT BACK against cancer!

Rosa’s Café will be hosting a fundraiser for Coppell Middle School North Thursday, April 5th, 5-9 pm. Be sure to take your hungry family and friends to Rosa’s Café and a % of our total net sales will be donated to the school. Rosa’s Café is at 705 N. Denton Tap Rd., Coppell. It is for dine in or drive through. Bring the attached flyer with you to Rosa’s and present it when you order. Feel free to share the flyer with all of your family and friends!
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We still need a few more volunteers to complete the 2012-2013 CMSN PTO Board. As we all know, joining the PTO is a great way to get involved and know what is happening at your child’s school. The board meets in the school library at 8:30 AM the 2nd Wednesday of each school month. Board meetings inform us all about school events and Dr. Dorhout provides timely updates. Positions still available are: Fundraising – projects include Write-A-Check, Box Tops, Restaurant Nights, Other Fundraising Ideas; Membership – this two-person committee, needs a 2nd volunteer; Socials – this is a five-person committee has one spot still available; and Community Welfare. If you are interested, please email CMSN PTO Parliamentarian Gia Gillis at g.eacono@tx.rr.com.

When most students invite their grandfather to talk to their history classes, the class expects to hear about working at the same company for 40 years or maybe the Vietnam War. However, when CMSN 6th grade student Pearce McFarlane invited his grandfather to speak to his World Cultures class, the former National Security Advisor to President Reagan engaged the students in a discussion of North Korea, China, Japan, Middle East, European Union and even Energy Issues and Energy Independence.

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On Tuesday, April 3rd, the North coaches will host a meeting for all 6th grade parents whose students have enrolled or are wanting to enroll in athletics for the 2012-13 school year. The meeting will be in the cafetorium at 6pm. At the same time, the prospective student-athletes are encouraged to come to the gym where they can meet the coaches, get an introduction to athletics, and play games like volleyball and basketball. We will have athletics information for parents such as UIL paperwork, summer camps, rules and regulations, etc. There will be time for questions after the meeting. The gym will stay open until 7:30pm.