Attendance and Check-In

Dec. 2, 2013

Attendance and Check-In Our next Late Start will be this If your child is ill or will not be in school for some reason, please let us Wednesday, December 4, 2013. know by calling the school’s attendance line, (405) 715-9851. If you School will begin one (1) hour later bring your child to school late, please come into the office and check than usual and end at the regular them in. We now have our security check-in computer. It is like those time. Lunch time for our students will th found in the elementary schools. If you plan to visit our school, volunteer, be adjusted to the day. 6 grade th or meet with a teacher or staff member you are asked to check in there lunch will be at 10:50-11:30 and 5 and receive a printed badge. Thank you for your cooperation. grade lunch will be from 11:30- 12:10. We will have one more late Opportunities start this month on December 11, 2013. Honor Chorus Our Honor Choir will be performing in a concert on December 9, 2013 at Traffic Help 6 PM. It will be in our new PAAC to the south of our school. Please You may have noticed that we have a come and support our students as they share their talents with us all. sign designating cars to only turn right upon leaving the school during Band Concert drop off and pick up times. The The DCMS and DCIS bands will be presenting their winter concert this reason we do this is to assist cars in next week on December 10, 2013 at 6:30 in the PAAC. Please see the getting through the line quicker and attached band newsletter for more information. more safely. Please help us by following these rules. Cars are to DCO Wrestling turn right leaving the school until 7:45 am and again until 2:45 pm. When Parents, cars turn try to turn left during the car I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about the DCO line it impedes cars leaving and wrestling program. It's a great program run by Deer Creek alum Kent coming in. Thank you for your Bowman. Wrestling is a sport that not only builds strong character but assistance. also helps improves mental and physical endurance as well as improves self esteem. You can register for the youth wrestling program at Lunch with Students www.deercreekwrestling.com Practices are held on Monday, Tuesday We strongly encourage and welcome and Thursday from 6-8pm. The kids practice at OWA (located on 2nd and you to come and have lunch with Santa Fe next to Homeland). If you have any questions please feel free to your child. We have special areas in give me a call. the cafeteria where you can join your "This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and child. You may bring lunch for your many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant child and yourself, but we cannot regardless of how big you are." allow you to bring food to the other -Carl Albert students. While it is wonderful to share this time with the kids, it can be Kresson Carter very hurtful to those who are not Executive Director included or invited to eat with you. In Team Carter addition we have several students (405) 640-4612 with food allergies. Please help us www.HomesByJarrett.com by abiding by this request.

DCIS Antler Wear Box Top Blowout! Our Antler Wear Store will be open Thank you to everyone for turning in box tops. We submitted over 11,000 on the first Friday of each month box tops for DCIS! The 5th grade homeroom class winner of the during lunch hours. Please stop by cupcake party is Mrs. William's class. The 6th grade homeroom class or send money with your student to winner of the cupcake party is Mrs. Jackson's class. And the OU spirit purchase some of the greatest winner was Rachel Stokesberry and the OSU spirit winner was Minke fashions in Deer Creek wear. We will Compton! We will receive a check for $1.140.20. Thank you again and also have it open during the Parent / still clip those box tops, we will be having our Thunder Up Box Top Teacher Conferences. contest in the spring!

Monica Seibel 405.503.0297 DCIS PTO Our PTO would like to remind you that there is Teacher Wish List in the school’s office if you would like to remember a teacher or staff member during the holidays. In addition there will be a wish list posted at the Antler Wear Store with sizes so you can shop there for teachers. FCA

Are you a 5th or 6th grade student interested in sharing your Samuel Whybark 12/5 faith with others? How about meeting exciting guest speakers who Lexie Davis 12/3 will inspire you to greatness? Are you ready for a good time?? Angelina Johnson 12/3 Mrs. Kidd and Mrs. Coshow are excited to share the FCA Ministry with Jordan Reimer 12/3 you! The next FCA meetings will be December 5, 12, and 19, 2013. We Rahool Barua 12/3 will also be taking a fieldtrip on December 12th and 13th. See Mrs. Kidd Kylee Davis 12/3 for more details. Follow us on Facebook @ DCIS FCA or twitter @ Nicholas Barthalow 12/3 dcISfca! Landon Glunt 12/4 Matthew Holekamp 12/4 DCIS Yearbook Paige Ray 12/4 Maya Qureshi 12/5 My name is Kelli Hau and I am the yearbook sponsor. The DCIS Samantha Torres 12/5 Yearbook will cost $32. You will be getting an order form in the mail from Laurie Cassady 12/5 Jostens. You can order online or mail Jostens a check. Orders will be Ian Mccall 12/5 taken until the end of January for this price. After that, the cost goes up Haley Houk 12/6 to $37. Please order your yearbook as soon as you get the form. If you Benjamin Babb 12/7 have any questions you can email me at [email protected] Lily Tucker 12/7 Kylie Spears 12/8 DCIS Talent Show Miss Ashley Oxley 12/5 Our school will host a school-wide talent school for its students and staff. It will be on December 20, 2013 in our district’s new and beautiful PAAC Parent Portal (Performing Arts / Athletic Center) center. We will have a morning and If you are having difficulty accessing afternoon performance. There are many talented and gifted students at your child’s information on the Parent our school and we look forward to spotlighting this talent. In addition to Portal, Please go to the District’s the show we are having our second ZAP (Zeros Aren’t Permitted) period. main page and under Parents you In order for students to attend this wonderful program we require that they will find the directions for setting up have no zeros for a period of time leading up to the show. Talent Show your account. If you are still having auditions for 5th grade will be Tuesday, December 3rd at 2:45. Auditions trouble, please call our office and one for 6th grade will be Thursday, December 5th at 2:45. All auditions will be of our secretaries will help you. held in the music room. Please see Mrs. Howze if you have any questions. Cell Phones My School’s Cool Program Please remember that we ask all students that bring cell phones to Any receipt or copy of receipt from Quail Springs Mall stores, restaurants, school to please turn them off while movie theater and food court may be turned in to earn points for our at school. Making phone calls or school. We are competing against 9 other schools to win money. You texting without permission may result may turn in the original or a copy dated October 1, 2013 through April 30, in having them taken away and a 2014. Longhorn Steakhouse, T.G.I. Friday and BJ’s restaurants are also parent retrieving them from the included in this program. Receipts from the following retailers at Quail office. If this happens too often, a Springs Mall are worth double points in November: American Eagle, student may not be allowed to bring Bath & Body Works, Buckle, Foot Locker, Forever 21, Francesca’s, Gap, the phone to school at all. Please Hat World, Journey’s, and Victoria’s Secret. Turn in your receipts or help us to use our electronics wisely copies to our locker across from the arcade on the food court level or the and appropriately. box outside the DCIS office.

DCHS Basketball Parent Contact If the phone number you have given DCHS JV and Varsity Basketball begins Tuesday night, Dec. 3rd. We are to us as your contact number is not a very excited about our opening night in the PAAC. Piedmont comes to local number, we request that you town and we are hoping for a large school and community crowd!! Will contact the office with a non-long you please help us today and tomorrow to get the word out and distance number that we can use to encourage our students and community to attend this inaugural evening reach you. If you do not have such a in the PAAC. number, please make sure the office has an email that we can reach you Also, The OKC Thunder Drummers will be in attendance for with. Our current phone system entertainment. They have a great percussion show prepared and are charges for long distance calls and helping us make the PAAC loud and proud for our athletes. Will you it’s important that we have local please make this announcement to the students today and tomorrow numbers to use when needing to during announcements or put in your parent newsletters, etc. They will contact parents. play before the varsity girls game and at half times of the varsity girls and boys. Coming Up

Thanks for helping us PACK the PAAC!! BEAT PIEDMONT!!!!!!!!! JV Girls 3:45, JV Boys 5:00, Varsity Girls 6:30, Varsity Boys 8:00 December 3, 2013 Green Team – Team A 2:30-3:00 Thanks so much! December 4, 2013 Karla O'Hara Late Start President, Booster Club December 5, 2013 FCA – 7 AM December 9, 2013 DCIS Intramurals Classroom Geography Bees The second quarter intramurals have started. If you haven’t signed up, DCIS Honor Chorus Concert 6 PM please have your child see Mr. Winkle. The days are Tuesdays and PAAC Thursdays from 2:45 to 3:45. . December 10, 2013 Green Team – All Members 2:30- 4:00 DCIS Band Performance 6:30 PM PAAC December 12, 2013 FCA – 7 AM December 12 & 13, 2013 FCA Field Trip December 13, 2013 Choir Performance Mall/Epworth Villa FCA Field Trip December 16-19, 2013 Finals Week 16th – Lit / Comp 17th – Science 18th – Social Studies 19th – Math December 17, 2013 Green Team – Team A 2:30-3:00 Honor Assembly December 18, 2013 School-wide Spelling Bee AR Goals Due December 19, 2013 FCA 7 AM Christmas Lunch for 6th grade parents 5th Grade AR Celebrations December 20, 2013 DCIS Talent Show Charity Celebrations December 21, 2013 -January 7, 2014 Christmas Break January 8, 2014 Classes Resume