• May 12: Field Day

• May 20: Kindergarten End of Year Celebration

• May 23: Last Day of School; Early Release at 11:45

Teacher's have administered the state required end of year mClass assessments.  Your child's personalized report will come home in their yellow folder next week.  Please be sure to review it and utilize the recommendations provided.

Cox Elementary Field Day will take place on Monday, May 12.

Field day is just around the corner and we are so excited!! Parents are welcome to come and watch their child’s field day activities but will need to pre-register (information below).  Please refer to the schedule below to see when your students will be participating.  

Please note that parents and siblings are not allowed to participate in field day activities.  

Important information about Field Day is listed below:

Pre-Registration

All visitors will need to pre-register by filling out this form by May 7:  Field Day Pre-Registration Form.  Each visitor is required to fill out one form.  Pre-registration will expedite the check in process.  All visitors MUST check in through the front office to receive their visitor sticker.  Please be sure to bring your identification in case it needs to be run through the NISD Raptor system.  

Sunscreen

Students should put sunscreen on their face, arms, and legs before coming to school. Parents may reapply sunscreen to their own students but students may not share sunscreen due to possible allergy issues.

Safe Shoes

Students must wear tennis shoes for field day.  For safety reasons, no sandals, water shoes, boots or Crocs of any type will be allowed. You may send an extra pair of shoes to school for your child to change into after the field day activities have concluded.

Dress Code

Several activities involve water. Do not wear white shirts or shorts as they will quickly become see-through.  Students may wear swimsuits underneath their clothes as they will dry off more quickly.  However, no swimsuits may be visible.  Students may wear swim trunks in place of shorts. Shorts should be at least mid-thigh length. Hats are encouraged as long as there are no inappropriate labels or sayings. Please have your student wear their field day shirt or another orange shirt. If you ordered a Field Day shirt, please keep a look out for it in your child's backpack.  Students are encouraged to bring a change of clothes to change into after field day. 

Students dressed appropriately for field day will be able to participate in the activities.

Towels

Please send students with a towel.  They will leave it in their classroom and use it to dry off after field day.  Be sure to write their name on the towel or the label!

Early Check-Out Procedure

As always, you MUST check your student out.  If you are planning to take them home at any point, please let their homeroom teacher know so the teacher can give you a Golden Ticket.  You will need to give this ticket to the front office staff.  Please be sure to sign it as well.  You will need to leave through the front doors of the school.                                    

Water

While water will be available, we do encourage you to send your child with a disposable water bottle.  Be sure to write their name or initials on anything they bring to help them locate it if they misplace it.

Please click the following link to access the FAQ page. If, after reading through the FAQ, you still have questions, please feel free to reach out to Coach Breckley or Coach Jeffrey.

https://sites.google.com/view/coxelementaryphysicaleducation/field-day-faq  

• Please follow this link to RSVP and expedite your check in process for the Kindergarten Celebration on Tues, May 20th. 

• The ceremony will start at 8:45 am and the doors will open at 8:30 am.  

• We welcome parents, grandparents, friends, and family to join our celebration.  All adults will need their driver’s license/ID for check in. Name tags are not required for younger siblings.  

• We also invite you to join us for a brief reception following the celebration.

• The RSVP will turn off on Friday, May 16th at 3:00, so please RSVP as soon as possible.  

• If you are planning on signing your child out after graduation, please respond to your child's teacher's weekly email and let them know.  You will let your child's teacher know know again after the festivities on Graduation Day, and sign your child out with them.

• Per Administration's guidelines, no grade level siblings will be allowed to attend the Kindergarten Celebration.

Registration for the 2025-2026 school year opened on Tuesday, April 15.

Enrollment is an annual requirement and doesn't roll over from the previous school year, but for returning families, the process is an easy three-step completion. The process is handled through Home Access Center via a guardian’s account, which results in previous registration information being completed. Enrolling your child as early as possible is one way you can help your campus and the district prepare for next school year.

Please visit www.nisdtx.org/enroll to learn more! 

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Click this link to see our Sight Word Page for more information about sight words in Kindergarten.

PurposeFull Pursuit

Review Courage as a family! Remember that Courage is choosing what is helpful, right, and Kind – even when it’s hard or scary. What’s something that you’ve been afraid to discuss with your student? Something that might be difficult to explain about our community or the world. Chances are they will hear about it eventually and it may come from someone who is less informed or less supportive than you. Have a Courageous conversation with your student. It could be about bullying, the environment, uncertainty, etc. Remind them that love and support are 2 tools that we can use to practice Courage. Discuss ways to practice Courage around the issue you discuss.

Conversation Starters

• How do you know if you are showing Courage?

• Can you share a time this week when you were able to follow directions? What did you do well?

Reader's Workshop

We will read and study Mo Willems books.

Phonics

We will learn the sounds for the endings of -ed and -ing. 

Writer's Workshop

We will add bold word and text features to our “All About” Books

Math Workshop

We will learn about financial literacy.

Science

We will describe and compare day and night.

Social Studies

We will understand how historical figures, like Jose Antonio Navarro, helped shape the state and nation.