1. Welcome Families!
Please share our Cox Elementary Mission Statement with families and let them know the value of their partnership.

2. Contact Information
Kelsey Faber
Phone:
Victoria Fields
Phone:
Alena Pevey
Phone:
Lisa Reeves
Phone:
Teacher webpages: > select Cox Elementary > Staff Directory > Type in Teacher’s Last Name > Press ‘Find’ and ‘Website’

3. Meet the Specials Team Visit their Websites Sarah Ascher, Art Teacher
Stacie Breckley, PE Teacher
Kayla Gentry, Music Teacher
Christy Savage, Librarian
Welcome to Wayne Cox Elementary. Introduce your grade level to the parents.

4. Cox Elementary Mission Statement
Cox Elementary is committed to creating a culture of high achievement and performance for all learners, both students and staff, while fostering positive relationships within our school community.
Please share our Cox Elementary Mission Statement with families and let them know the value of their partnership.

5. What is Love and Logic?
Love allows children to grow through their mistakes. Logic allows children to live with the consequences of their choices.
The Love and Logic process is as follows: 
Shared control: Gain control by giving away the control you don’t need.
Shared thinking and decision-making: Provide opportunities for the child to do the greatest amount of thinking and decision-making.
Equal shares of consequences with empathy: An absence of anger causes a child to think and learn from his/her mistakes.
Maintain the child’s self-concept: Increased self-concept leads to improved behavior and improved achievement.
To learn more about Love and Logic, please visit their website at:
Love and Logic uses respectful language, and creates a positive, comfortable environment students and staff. Students are trusted to solve a problem they may cause. Our campus follows the NISD Student Code of Conduct; however, the philosophy behind Love and Logic guides our language and how we work with students.
*Encourage parents to visit the Love and Logic website. If interested, parenting materials are available on the L & L website.

6. Wayne A. Cox Elementary Cougars’ Plan for Success
We will treat each other with respect.
If you have or create a problem, you will be asked to solve it.
If you have trouble solving the problem, or choose not to, we will do something.
What we do will depend on each person and the unique situation.
Show parents our Cougars’ Plan for Success and let them know that this is posted in every classroom.

7. Elementary Student Dress Code
According to the NISD Student Handbook and Code of Conduct, students are required to have safe shoes for physical education and recess every day. Sandals must have a strap on the heel; flip flops do not meet dress code. (Page 35-36)
Flip flops, open-toed shoes, platform shoes, crocks, and boots are unsafe for PE and recess.
Elementary dress and grooming guidelines can be found on pages of the NISD Student Handbook and Code of Conduct.
Encourage parents to review the Student Handbook and Code of Conduct on the NISD website under the Parents tab. Pages cover elementary dress guidelines.

8. Grades Online
A letter was sent home for each student with a Home Access Center (HAC) login and password. Progress reports and report cards for students are viewed online through the HAC. If you have not received a HAC letter, please us at:
The HAC letter provides parents directions for logging into the HAC and provides the login and password.
Kinder Teachers: Please let kinder parents know that you will discuss first six weeks progress during the October conferences.

9. Room Parents for Fifth Grade
Faber: Ann York
Fields: Cristina Keucher
Pevey: Heather Frost
Reeves: Angie Conway

10. Planners Task, homework, and upcoming assessments each day
Teacher will initial what students have written
Parents check planner daily
The HAC letter provides parents directions for logging into the HAC and provides the login and password.
Kinder Teachers: Please let kinder parents know that you will discuss first six weeks progress during the October conferences.

11. Mathematics
Focus on Problem Solving- open-ended tasks that teach important habits of mind
Numbers and Operations- multiplication and division- using the standard algorithm along with other strategies and equivalence
Algebraic Reasoning- solve expressions and equations using the order of operations
Geometry and Measurement- classify figures, determine area, volume & perimeter, and use units of measure
Data Analysis- solving one- and two-step problems using data from tables and graphs
Discuss homework procedure for each class

12. Science Processes and Inquiry Matter Force, Motion, and Energy
Earth and Space Science
Life Systems
Outdoor Learning Center (OLC)
To Be Determined

13. English Language Arts Readers Workshop Writers Workshop
Mini-lessons that teach strategies for becoming better readers
Independent reading, partner reading, read-aloud
Reader’s Notebook, Independent Reading Folder
Spelling
Writers Workshop
Mini-lessons that model, encourage, and guide students to become writers
Independent student writing
Celebration, response groups, author’s chair
Writer’s Resource Binder

14. Social Studies United States History 1565- Present
Document Based Question
Use of primary and secondary resources
Early Jamestown: Why did so many colonists die?
Units of Focus
European Colonization
American Revolution
Government
Westward Expansion
Civil War
Reconstruction
Fifty States and Capitals!
Assessment each six weeks

15. Thank You for Your Partnership!
Remember to check district, school, and teacher website for current information.
Be sure to keep your , phone, and address information updated with the front office at Cox Elementary.
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It will be another extraordinary year at
Cox Elementary!
Please allow for a Q and A time. For questions on individual students, you can always ask the parent to you directly. Thank everyone for coming, and we look forward to a great year.