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Want a great way to help the school without spending anything extra? Please consider purchasing a gift card or two from the school’s gift card program this month. You pay face value for the card and the retailer allows DCE to keep a portion of the sale. For the list of all available retailers and denominations visit www.glscrip.com and go to “Order Scrip”.

Will you be shopping at the Gap, Banana Republic, or Old Navy this year? For this month only instead of the usual 14% rebate they have increased their donation to 16%. So for every $100 Gap gift card you order; DCE gets to keep $16! (this increased donation applies only to the $100 gift card)

Order your gift cards by 3 pm this Tuesday and they will be delivered to you by Friday. Just send the attached order form to school or you can email your order to dentoncreekpto@gmail.com. For emailed orders please have your check in the PTO mailbox by 3pm Tuesday in order for us to process your order. Thanks!

Gift Card Order Form

Our next Box Tops challenge day is on Jan 27th. Send in your clipped Box Tops to school in an envelope or baggie with your child’s name and class. The Box Top collection box is located in the Main Office. Students who turn in 5 or more Box Tops will earn Box Top Pass which entitles them to one of the following choices: a PJ day, extra computer time, crazy hat/sock day, sit at any table at lunch, a library pass, a Friday Live participation pass, or a Be a Box Tops Star pass!

Do you love to shop online? Our school earns eBoxTops when you shop online at over top 175 merchants. This is a great way to earn some money for the school and is easy to do – you still shop at your favorite store website but go through the BoxTops MarketPlace.Click here to shop through the BoxTops MarketPlace and send in the printout of the Marketplace shopping to earn credit for your child. Thanks a lot for your support!

3rd Annual DCE Great Escape
Vegas Style
February 25, 2012
Grapevine Springs Community Center
7:00 – 11:00pm

babysitting available through Coppell YMCA

Do you have a small business? Sponsorship opportunities are available.
For more info. contact Sheila.

We will be having an evening PTO meeting on Tuesday, February 7, from 6-7 pm in the library at DCE. If you have been unable to attend the PTO meetings due to work conflicts, this is your chance to come here what is planned for the remainder of the school year! Put it on your calendar.

This will be in place of our regularly scheduled Friday, February 10th, meeting.

See you soon.

As many of you have noticed, there have been some big changes at Denton Creek.

*Donna Johnson, our beloved secretary, has left to work in the Coppell ISD administrative offices.
*Nan Yeager, who has been working this year with the ABC class, has been hired as our new school secretary. Congrats Nan!
*Liz Romeike, who was with us for years in the ABC class, is now back where she belongs at Denton Creek. Welcome back, Liz!
*John Clark is the acting vice principal while Brenda Craven has gone to visit with her mother, who is ill. Please pray for Brenda’s mom and welcome Mr. Clark, who is FABULOUS!

This week’s blog is about the changes at DCE, I hope you check out the blog

A few of the previous blogs are:
-Barnes and Noble Day
Storybook Parade (with video)
2nd grade play with PICTURES
Technology in the classroom
The great things our children do outside of school
and many more_

Join us this February for a free health and education expo at Coppell High School. This event will feature service learning, wellness, student work and science fair projects, a lecture series: “A New Year, A Better You,” careers in educa- tion and health care, hands-on activities for students and health screenings.

All attendees will receive free screenings and assessments including Cholesterol, Glu- cose*, Body Fat Analysis, Bone Density, Sleep Apnea, Lung Function, Blood Pres- sure and a Blood Lipid Test. (*For the most accurate reading, do not eat or drink anything after midnight before the screening. You may take your regular medications as directed with water.)

Admission is free. Please bring one canned food item per person for the CHS food pantry.

Saturday, Feb 4
9:00-12:00
For more information go to www.coppellisd.com

There will be a petting zoo and the Coppell FD. It is sure to be lots of fun for the whole family!

I received an email this week about another stellar DCE student. Way to go, Lauren!

Lauren Donovan, a 1st grader at DCE, competed in the Texas Winter games on January 15th. She placed 1st and won a gold medal in ice skating in the Girls Beginner 4 Free Skate level.

If your child has done something spectacular, we would love to hear about it!

Spanish Schoolhouse will be holding an after school spanish program on Thursdays from 3:05 PM until 4:05 PM. Classes will begin on 2/9/2012 and the last class will be held on 5/10/2012.

All registration is done online at www.spanishschoolhouse.com and space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. We do close registration 48 hours before the first class in order to finalize our lists and assign teachers. The Spanish classes will be held at Denton Creek Elementary School in Room B106.

If you have any questions, please contact Vicki Williams at 972-345-4210.

CGA will be hosting its winter symposium on

Saturday, February 4, 2012
Coppell Middle School East
400 Mockingbird Lane
8:45 a.m. — 3 p.m.

If you need further information, please click, CGA symposium

Elementary School Night

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012 AT CHS
COPPELL VS. SAGINAW
4:30 p.m. – JV Red vs. Allen
6:00 p.m. – JV White vs. Saginaw
7:30 p.m. -Varsity vs. Saginaw

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NIGHT
Students wear your DCE spirit wear and get in FREE!

All information contained in this newsletter is meant to be helpful. Although we do our very best to give out accurate information, we are human and occasionally we make mistakes. Please always refer to your DCE student handbook or the DCE website if you have any questions.

If you were unable to attend the PTO meeting last Friday, you may view the minutes and the December Income Statement here.

Thank you.

January Minutes
December Income Statement

Our January PTO meeting is this Friday, January 13th at 9:15 am in the science lab (B106).

On Sunday, we will post a copy of the minutes and the financials for everyone to see if you are unable to attend the meeting.

Hope to see you there.

The Fall My School is Cool competition results will soon be tallied and we want to be sure Denton Creek has all of their receipts included in our total. Please send any Vista Ridge receipts that you may have (copies count) that are dated August 1, 2011 – December 31, 2011. Send receipts to school in an envelope marked attention PTO-Vista Ridge by this Monday, January 9th.

The competition continues through the Spring so please keep sending them in.
Thank you for your help!

Before the holidays our wonderful hospitality chairperson, Manisha Kapadia, put together wonderful treats for our teachers as a little thank you to them for all they do for our children. Manisha couldn’t have done this job without the help of all the great volunteers who brought in homemade cookies. Here are a few pics of the treats that were sent home.

Thank you all!

We just received the check for our December DCE Barnes and Noble Day….

$1335.00

Thank you all for your wonderful support. WOW! That money will be used to help fund our gift requests from our teachers, administrators and parents. Wonderful work!

As those of you know who live on my side of town, we are about to undertake major road construction. UGH! Deforest Road will be one way beginning this week and it is going to make a lot of Denton Creek families very sad as they learn to manuever through the new routes. Everyone should probably plan to leave a bit earlier for the new few months…

I was asked to include the below information in the newsletter. If you have any questions please click on the link below.
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To the residents in the Deforest Road area,

I would like to thank those of you that attended our public meeting last month. As promised, I would like to give a quick update. The contractor will begin to place barricades adjacent to the project this week and will commence construction Monday, January 9, 2012. As the project continues please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

I will continue to give updates on the project as it continues. If you would like to be removed from this list please let me know.

Please visit the following website for updates on other City of Coppell road construction projects

Thank You, George

George Marshall, PE
City of Coppell
Engineering
972-304-3562

As many of you know, our dear Kathy Flatt, is in the hospital. Kathy has been a teacher at DCE since the first day it was opened and was a teacher at another Coppell school before that. If you have not had the privilege of getting to know her as a person or a teacher, she is amazing.

We have had several people ask how they can help Mrs. Flatt’s family during this time of recuperation. Mrs. Flatt has said she would appreciate gift certificates to local restaurants and grocery stores, specifically Market Street (no Chipotle). This would be better than preparing food for her at this time. She is going to have to take it easy; so movie theatre gift cards, movies, Barnes and Noble gift cards, books, anything to keep her occupied would be great.

If you would like to donate something, please feel free to send it to school with your child in an envelope marked to the attention of Lisa Johnson or feel free to contact me.

Thank you for all you do,
Lisa

Every Christmas, the PTO presents each teacher with a dozen or so homemade cookies as a thank you to them for all that they do during the year. We are a bit short on bakers this year. If you would be willing to provide 2-3 dozen cookies or brownies, we would very much appreciate your help (as would the teachers). We are asking that the items be dropped off in the copy room in a disposable container by Thursday at 8:30 am. If you can help, please email Manisha.

Thank you

Every year, some of the DCE teachers and staff go around to all the neighborhoods in our district and sing carols. I was able to capture this moment on video for anyone who was unable to make it to hear on their own. I hope you enjoy the video.

Sorry about the low light video. It was taped with my phone. As this went to “press” the video was still being processed by YouTube. If you click on the link and you are unable to watch it, please try again in an hour or so. Sometimes, they are very busy and it takes longer for them to approve the video.

Don’t forget you can still shop online at Barnes and Noble this week!

If you still have items left on your holiday shopping list — please click here to shop online.

At the very END of the checkout process you can enter a bookfair ID of 10631042.

A portion of all on line purchases will go back to our school!

Friday the 16th is the last day of school before the holiday break. The students will be released at 12:30.

This will be the last newsletter until after school resumes.

Happy Holidays!

As we enter December we are currently in 2nd place
1st place: New Tech 42,271
2nd place: Denton Creek 25,874
3rd place: Vickery Elem. 14,173

At the end of December, the top 2 schools will earn prize money (and then top 3 schools end of May). December is a big point accumulation month. Help us hold our ranking for thousands of dollars for our school!

How can you help?
-Turn in any Vista Ridge Mall receipts that you have by December 16th; then turn in any additional receipts when your student returns to school on January 3rd (copies count too if you want your original). Receipts from all mall stores including the food court and movie theatre give us 1 point for every dollar spent (Wednesday’s are double point days).

-Fill out a Join the Club form for 100 points per email address (the Club form deadline is this Friday). Just send it to school with your student by December 16th. The form must be filled out with no blanks and the mall says they will: not share your information, only send out mall event emails no more than once a month, and they will give you a $10 GIFT CARD on your birthday. (Club Form attached)

All receipts and Club forms should be sent to school in an envelope marked attn. PTO – Vista Ridge.

Vista Club Form

On Friday, December 9th our 3rd graders performed at the Vonita White Administration building for administrators, staff and parents. Under the direction of Ms. Harrel, they did a wonderful job singing a fun filled melody of holiday tunes.

Great job 3rd grade!

Denton Creek is forming a team for the annual Coppell Relay for Life, an overnight relay to support the American Cancer Society. The event will be held on April 28-29th. If you are interested in joining the team or getting more information, you may click here or email Martha Brown.

Don’t forget to come to the Barnes & Noble book fair to see your children perform tomorrow!! A portion of all purchases go to DCE. Make sure you mention DCE when you check out!

Saturday, Dec. 10th
Barnes & Noble Lewisville

11:30- Join 1st and 2nd grade for Christmas Carols!
11:45- Story time with Mrs. McCartney and Ms. Emmerich
1:00- Kindergarten adds some holiday cheer!
1:15- Story Time with Mr. Mac and Mrs. Craven!
1:45- 3rd grade will dazzle us with their holiday songs!
2:30- 5th grade will entertain!
4:00- ’Twas the Night Before Texas with 4th grade!
4:30 Holiday stories with Mrs. Alaniz!
And volunteers from DCE will be ready to gift-wrap all your holiday purchases.

Can’t make it that day? It’s okay!
Visit BN.COM/bookfairs to support us online from 12/10/11 to 12/16/11 by entering Bookfair ID 10631042 at the completion of checkout.

Can you volunteer to gift wrap? All donations go to the school! Use the link below to reserve your shift.

The teacher of the year has been selected and it is none other than JANET DICKERSON. Janet is a second grade teacher. She is Colton’s teacher this year and was Macy’s teacher 4 years ago. If you haven’t had the chance to meet her, you should stop by and say hello and congratulations. She is a wonderful woman and a marvelous teacher. Way to go Janet, we are so proud of you!

Thank you to all the teachers, students and families who attended Spring Creek Barbeque Night! Spring Creek wrote our school at check for $1,200!!!!

The class winners were:
- Mrs. Cooper’s First Grade Class
- Mrs. Francis’ Second Grade Class
- Mrs. VanRiper’s Third Grade Class

Thank you again to Spring Creek Barbeque for an extremely successful night of fundraising!

Want a great way to help the school that is easy, doesn’t cost you anything extra, and doesn’t require hours of volunteer time? Our December Order Date for purchasing gift cards is this Tuesday, Dec. 6th. Please have your order in the office by 3pm. Your cards will be delivered to you on Friday, the 9th. American Express gift cards (with no activiation fee) are now available through www.shopwithscrip.com. The American Express option is only available for ordering on-line. Just set up your family account on ShopwithScrip.com (put in the DCE enrollment code: 9335L267263L8), place your order, then make sure your payment is received by 3pm Tuesday in the school office. Thank you!

Gift Card Order Form