Alexander Elementary School

Commerce Lunch Bills - All Lunch bills can be paid at the Superintendent's office from 8am-12pm on Monday through Friday.

Dear Tiger Family/Community, You are invited to help us recognize and congratulate our Seniors this coming Sunday afternoon. Since we have had to postpone your “Traditional Graduation” until June 28th, we would like to honor our Seniors by having a Senior Parade beginning at the High School this Sunday, May 3, at 4:00 p.m. This was the scheduled date and time for our postponed graduation ceremony. The Senior Parade will leave the High School shortly after 4:00 p.m. and follow the following route. Parade Path (led by the Commerce Fire/Police Departments): 1. Starting at Commerce High School traveling East on Doug Furnas Blvd., 2. Turn left/North on Mickey Mantle Blvd., 3. Turn left/West on 6th Street to pass by Alexander Elementary School, 4. Turn left/South on Main Street, 5. Turn left/East on Commerce Street, Seniors will be announced as they pass by the Superintendent’s Office on Commerce Street Continue past Commerce Middle School 6. Ending at the Tiger Stop. Please line the parade route with your signs (optional) to show your support and Tiger Pride for our graduating Seniors.

Parents and Guardians - 2020-2021 Course Requests are now available in PowerSchool for all 5th-11th grade students. Please assist us in getting your students course requests put in as soon as possible. Don't let your student wait and miss out on the electives that fill up first. Thank you for your assistance.

Commerce Schools is reminding parents and students of our virtual office hours service. We're adjusting teacher open office hours this week. All teachers will be available every morning from 10am-Noon, for video conference and other times by appointment. If you have a question or would like to speak with a teacher please use this available service. Your students have the link to every teacher in a document in their Google Drive. If you would like a copy of the links for yourself please email me at smoss@commercetigers.net and I will send it to you.

The Commerce Public School Storm Shelters “WILL” be opened in the event of an imminent threat, such as an issued call to shelter under a tornado/severe storm warning. While utilizing our shelters, existing CDC protocol for the COVID-19 pandemic should be exercised as possible.

Yearbooks are on sale for $35 until May 8. You can order online by going to yearbookforever.com or you can mail a check to the central office, 500 Commerce Street, and writing attention: yearbook on the envelope. Also, senior tribute ads can be purchased for $60 or $90 by contacting Mrs. Rhodes at srhodes@commercetigers.net.

Parents your students were emailed a list of zoom links for their teachers virtual office hours yesterday. All teachers will be available every morning from 9am-11am, for video conference and other times by appointment. High School teachers will also be available 1pm-3pm. If you have a question or would like to speak with a teacher please use this available service. If you would like a copy of the links for yourself please email me at smoss@commercetigers.net and I will send it to you.

Parents and Students - If you're participating in the zoom try out today, 4/4/2020, from 1:00-2:30 please go to the students school email to get the link. Zoom changed some security settings since my message yesterday and they now require passwords for meetings. The link I sent everyone in their email has the password included. Just click the link and you'll be directed to the meeting tryout.

Parents and Students - There will be one last zoom meeting trial window from 1:00-2:30 pm on Saturday, April 4th. If you have not tried your student Chromebook or home device and want to before Monday, please take advantage of this time. It is short, come and go, if you can see and hear me on Zoom when you arrive you're good to go for Monday. You can click around in zoom to become familiar with it and then leave. If you have issues we can work through them at that time. If you have issues and can't talk to me on zoom you can phone my cell at 918-541-0933. The meeting link is - https://zoom.us/j/7846646553 Thanks, Coach Moss Go Tigers!

Mental Health Resources

Coach Moss will be having virtual office hours from 1:30-2:30 today, April 1, 2020, in Zoom. This is for students to try out their chromebook or home device and make sure they're able to access their teachers using zoom next week. Please reboot your chromebook before trying. It is not required, but a chance to make sure it's working well for you. If you tried it yesterday there is no need to go again today. Here is the link - https://zoom.us/j/7846646553

Students/Parents - I will have a zoom virtual office open from 2 pm to 3 pm today if you would like to come in and see if your chromebook is ready to go for next week. Go to this link to try- https://zoom.us/j/7846646553

Commerce Parents and Students - Please assist us in our planning by completing this survey for each student in your household - https://forms.gle/TXswSqLXSuLLAAtS6 Thank you for your assistance!

Commerce Parents and Students - Please assist us in our planning by completing this survey for each student in your household - https://forms.gle/TXswSqLXSuLLAAtS6 Thank you for your assistance!

Commerce schools will be providing free meals for children aged 0-18 during the COVID-19 school closings. Please complete the survey at the following link if you're planning on receiving meals - https://forms.gle/wU1fCY3SszB8bE5f9

Online Academic Resources Available - We have created a website that links to websites Commerce Public Schools subscribes to for our students as well as free academic resources. It's available here - https://www.commercetigers.net/o/cps/page/academic-websites--2

Please visit this page for the COVID19 info and district updates. There's also a link to Frequently Asked Questions and answers that we'll be updated as the situation develops - https://www.commercetigers.net/o/cps/page/covid-19--43

All activities for Commerce students the week of March 16-20 have been canceled. Enjoy spring break and stay healthy.

Oklahoma State Testing Study Guides Now Available - The state of Oklahoma has released their state testing study guides. We have posted all of the study guides to our website here - http://commerceok.apptegy.us/o/cps/page/oklahoma-state-testing-study-guides Parents, your students will benefit from you going over these guides with them. You can also read and follow instructions to get access to your child's state testing scores online.

Alexander Elementary's Students of the Month for February are Daniel Ramirez and Jaylyn Alejandro. Daniel is in Mrs. Moore's second grade class and his parents are Jose "Reyes" Ramirez and Ciarra Millard. Jaylyn Alejandro is in Mrs. Earll's third grade class. Her parents are Clarissa and Angel Alejandro. Congratulations to both of these outstanding students!