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<strong>Cache</strong> <strong>La</strong> <strong>Poudre</strong> <strong>Elementary</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Pirate Pages<br />
Page 1 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
<strong>Cache</strong> <strong>La</strong> <strong>Poudre</strong><br />
<strong>Elementary</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
3511 W. Cty Rd 54G<br />
<strong>La</strong>Porte, CO 80535<br />
Principal:<br />
Roxann Hall<br />
Counselor:<br />
Ann <strong>La</strong>wler-Perry<br />
General<br />
Information<br />
Office Hours<br />
8:00am-4:00pm<br />
Phone Numbers<br />
Office<br />
488-7600<br />
Fax<br />
488-7676<br />
Attendance Line<br />
490-3070<br />
*If your child is ill or will not<br />
be at school, please leave a message<br />
on the Attendance line at<br />
490-3070.<br />
<strong>School</strong> Hours<br />
8:55am-3:40pm<br />
Doors Open 8:40 am<br />
1/2 Day Kindergarten<br />
8:55am-12:00pm<br />
Principal’s Note<br />
Dear Parents/Guardians <strong>October</strong> 1, 201 1<br />
What a successful beginning to our school year 2012-2013! Students have<br />
been enthusiastically working in classrooms and beginning their journey of<br />
learning for this year. Teachers report that students are attentive and hard<br />
working.<br />
All our beginning of the year assessments have been given. Teachers have<br />
worked in their grade levels to analyze data and determine small groups for<br />
our I/E (Intervention and Extension) time. Two days a week will be devoted<br />
to literacy and 2 days a week for numeracy. Teachers utilize several bodies<br />
of evidence to construct the groups as well as formulate instructional pieces<br />
for each group. Each grade level will have at least two more professionals to<br />
aid with the I/E groups, making most of our groups smaller than 6 students.<br />
Our SAC (<strong>School</strong> Accountability Committee) meets quarterly. Our first<br />
regularly scheduled meeting will be on Tuesday, <strong>October</strong> 2, 2012, 6:00-7:30<br />
p.m. in the Media Center. Everyone is welcome to attend! Other dates include:<br />
November 13, 2012, February 12, 2013, and May 7, 2013. Current<br />
members of SAC: James Pritchett, Kathy Salazar, Elizabeth Hamlin, Andie<br />
Kirkwood, Ingrid Burnham, Arden/Meg Nelson, Steve Gutting, and Roxann<br />
Hall.<br />
September 17, collaboration day, found all staff members working in collaborative<br />
endeavors. PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention Supports)<br />
seemed to be a hot topic with various discussions<br />
Continued page 2<br />
Preschool<br />
AM: 8:55am-11:40am<br />
PM: 12:20pm-3:40pm<br />
Website<br />
http://<br />
eweb.psdschools.org/<br />
schools/clpe/
Page 2 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
around playground duty and playground expectations. Ann <strong>La</strong>wler-Perry,<br />
Payton Schneider and Lesli Glenn are leading us in this year’s book study,<br />
Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action by Stephanie<br />
Harvey and Harvey Daniels. Every teacher must be evaluated every year<br />
starting this year. You can imagine the amount of time and energy that will<br />
go into these evaluations and observations. Judson Rhoads, our IB Coordinator,<br />
keeps us entertained and fully apprised of where we stand with IB. Our<br />
focus this year on IB should lead to great dividends when we expect to become<br />
an IB World <strong>School</strong> sometime next school year.<br />
Another large portion of our time was spent on Writing, First Quarter Prompt,<br />
Rubrics, and the discussion of Cross Grade Level Grading of writing samples.<br />
As you can see, we spent our time wisely and productively while your children<br />
enjoyed a 3 day weekend!<br />
The CLPE Music Department will benefit from Culver’s Night from 4:00-<br />
7:00 p.m. on Thursday, <strong>October</strong> 4 th . Bring your family and a portion of the<br />
proceeds will help CLPE purchase new risers for performances. The PTO<br />
sponsored Pirate Peg Leg Fun Run on Friday, <strong>October</strong> 12, 2012, is a much<br />
anticipated event for adults and students alike! Prizes will be awarded to the<br />
class who runs the most average laps K-2, and 3-5. Prizes for the most<br />
money raised per class also will be awarded. Along with the class prizes,<br />
there will be individual winners as well. PTO’s goal will be $4,000 for the<br />
second annual Fun Run. We appreciate all the volunteers who will be helping<br />
make this event a success. Parent/Teacher conferences will be conducted on<br />
Thursday, <strong>October</strong> 18 th . Please plan to attend this conference to get to know<br />
the teacher and learn about your child’s progress in academics, behavior, and<br />
social areas.<br />
If you have questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to give us a call. If<br />
we work in partnership and present a united front to our students, they will<br />
understand our expectations and they WILL succeed!<br />
Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers who help in many ways throughout<br />
each and every day. Your expertise helps us accomplish our goals.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
“I can learn. I will learn. If it is to be, it’s up to me. I can do it!”
CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
<strong>October</strong> Count is here. Students attending CLPE on the<br />
count date is the basis for funding for our school. Student<br />
Count Day is <strong>October</strong> 1 st , so please make every effort to<br />
have your student attend on that day. Students are included<br />
in the count if they attend <strong>October</strong> 1st and the five days before<br />
and/or the five days after <strong>October</strong> 1 st . We were able to hire additional<br />
teachers this year to obtain smaller class sizes because of the additional<br />
<strong>School</strong> of Choice students attending CLPE. Every student<br />
counts and we want to be able to continue to have small class sizes<br />
and additional support in every classroom. Again, thank you for entrusting<br />
your children to our school! Our CLPE CREW rocks!<br />
Any email sent by the school goes through our<br />
IT department. In order for families to get<br />
email sent by the school, they must sign up<br />
with the district. Stay up to date with CLPE<br />
Pirate News! Follow these instructions to sign<br />
up for email from our school as well as <strong>Poudre</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> District News.<br />
Sign up at www.psdschools.org > Email Alert Sign up (found on the<br />
slideshow at the top of the page) then click on More. This will also<br />
enable you to receive the CLPE monthly newsletter and other important<br />
information from us. Remember to check your junk email<br />
folder, sometimes our wonderful newsletter ends up in there .<br />
<strong>Newsletter</strong>s are also available on the CLPE website.<br />
Want paper We will be happy to print out a paper copy of the newsletter<br />
for any family that requests it. Please call the office (970)488-<br />
7600 and we will be happy to put you on our list.
Page 4 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
Vision and Hearing Screening<br />
Our vision/hearing screening will be <strong>October</strong> 2, 2012 in the<br />
cafeteria from 9:00-12:00. We screen grades K-3 and<br />
grade 5. Please let us know if you have concerns regarding<br />
your child’s vision or hearing prior to that date. We need 8<br />
-10 volunteers to help with vision and hearing<br />
screening. If you are available, please call the<br />
office to sign up.<br />
What’s happening in the art room<br />
We’re having a great time this fall in art.<br />
We have worked on Olympic medals for all students. Ms.<br />
Zeikus, my student teacher and I, asked students to give themselves<br />
a medal for something they do well. Some students<br />
were using the IB Learner profiles for this.<br />
Original Works art will be coming home around <strong>October</strong> 15th and will need to<br />
be returned to Mrs. Awsumb-Conn by <strong>October</strong> 26 th . A “Look what’s coming”<br />
sheet was sent home the week of September 17. This provides an<br />
overview of the program.<br />
The projects for Original Works are as follows:<br />
The students in Kindergarten and 1 st grade made ROBOTS.<br />
Students in 2 nd and 3 rd created a Name design<br />
Students in 4 th and 5 th worked on Environments using textures.<br />
If you have a special artwork that your student has made that you would rather<br />
use for the OW program, the work must be flat, simple and 8”x10 ½” in<br />
size (NOT a standard copy paper size). When you receive the OW packet,<br />
you can return it with your original artwork.<br />
Current PROJECTS for all grades: Kinder= Kandinsky, 1 st grade = Selfportraits<br />
and Blue Riders, 2 nd grade = Insects, 3 rd grade = color, 4 th grade=<br />
Logos, 5 th grade = caricatures. Ask your students about what they’ve<br />
learned!!<br />
Have a great OCTOBER!! Questions Email me at saconn@psdschools.org.<br />
Mrs. Awsumb-Conn
Page 5 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
Mrs. Cordell, Mrs. Hancock, and Ms. Ryan<br />
Kindergarten News<br />
What’s happening in Kindergarten<br />
We have been very busy the last few<br />
weeks practicing routines and learning<br />
classroom expectations. We have<br />
taken Pirate Pete around the building<br />
and helped him to make good choices.<br />
We’ve had to remind him to keep his<br />
hands to himself, use an inside voice,<br />
and avoid throwing sand on the playground!<br />
We have begun practicing some letters<br />
and sounds. We will be focusing letter<br />
sounds /m/, /n/, /s/ and /p/ for the<br />
month of September and add in /i/ and.<br />
In math we are counting everything<br />
we can find to count forwards and<br />
backwards.<br />
Kindergarten had some wonderful visitors<br />
from the <strong>Poudre</strong> Fire Authority. Fire<br />
fighters Scott, Tim, Joe and Drew from<br />
Station 7 came in to discuss many important<br />
issues about safety including:<br />
Snacks<br />
We still have a few students not brining<br />
a snack to school. Our kindergartners<br />
are working hard and their brains<br />
need fuel every day. We provide a<br />
small handful of animal crackers to<br />
those students who forget, but our supplies<br />
will surely dwindle quickly at this<br />
rate. We would appreciate any snack<br />
donations (pretzels, crackers. etc.)<br />
<br />
<br />
How to behave safely around fire including<br />
stop, drop and roll<br />
What constitutes an emergency<br />
How and when to call 911<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
What is an escape plan and how each<br />
family should have a plan in place<br />
What a fireman wears and why-Mrs.<br />
Hall put on the heavy fire suit, the<br />
mask, hat and oxygen tank to demonstrate<br />
that the fire suit is for protection<br />
and not scary<br />
Families are encouraged to have<br />
smoke detectors and bicycle helmets<br />
and they are available at the fire station.<br />
Ben, Becca, and Kennedy
Page 6 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
S E C O N D G R A D E –2nd GRADE<br />
Second grade recently completed our first planner on Who<br />
We Are-“ Knowing rights and responsibilities helps in the<br />
acceptance of others”. We talked a lot about being good<br />
friends, pirates, and students using the IB attributes.<br />
Currently, we are studying Sharing the Planet-<br />
“Organisms rely on living and non-living elements of their<br />
habitat”. The students will learn about arthropods by<br />
watching them in the Nature Center, on the <strong>Poudre</strong> River<br />
Trail, on our playground, and, even, at home. We will observe<br />
them in their natural habitats<br />
and look for similarities and differences.<br />
As budding entomologists, we<br />
will go to the Butterfly Pavilion early in<br />
November<br />
T H I R D<br />
G R A D E<br />
Third grade is wrapping up their IB planner focusing on rules and<br />
responsibility and learning how to appropriately adapt individual<br />
behavior to be successful in different surroundings.<br />
Wow! The students are learning a lot! Our next IB planner focuses<br />
on geographic features - if you've traveled and would like to<br />
come in and share pictures, knowledge, or artifacts with us we'd<br />
love to include you as an "expert." Please let your child's teacher<br />
know! More IB information coming at you soon!<br />
The Third Grade team-Mr. Devine, Mrs. Sky, Mrs. Bergersen
Page 7 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
What’s Up with Fifth Grade<br />
Fifth grade is filled with learning, fun, and responsibility.<br />
Here are some of our highlights.<br />
IB in the Fifth Grade<br />
We will be inquiring into the central ideas of balance,<br />
conflict, movement, perspective, and choice<br />
while learning the diverse 5 th grade standards.<br />
Eco Week<br />
In late September, we spend two nights and three days up in Estes Park doing<br />
environmental studies, hiking, and team-building. The kids take courses in<br />
Wilderness Survival, Rocky Mountain Geology, Zipline (personal challenge),<br />
and Low Ropes (team challenges).<br />
<strong>School</strong> Wide Recycling<br />
A group of 5 th grade students volunteer to collect, sort, and recycle materials<br />
from all bins in the school. Our group this year has been very conscientious<br />
and careful about separating errant trash from the recyclables. Annually, we<br />
save approximately 175 trees each year!<br />
Peer Mediation<br />
After Eco-Week, select 5 th graders will be trained to help kids solve problems<br />
peacefully. Our peer mediators work during lunch recess to help the younger<br />
students work out issues of sharing, cooperation, and kindness. When<br />
they’re not solving problems, they play games with the younger kids.<br />
Pirate Patrol<br />
Pirate patrol provides a third opportunity for our students to be leaders of the<br />
school. This group works before school to greet their fellow pirates with a<br />
friendly “Good Morning” so they start their day off well. They also make<br />
sure that all the little pirates make their way around the south side of the<br />
building to the playground before school and after lunch.<br />
Community Canned Food Drive<br />
During the holidays, CLPE and CLPMS cooperate with the <strong>La</strong>porte and Bellvue<br />
businesses and the <strong>La</strong>porte firefighters to provide holiday food baskets.<br />
The Fifth Graders count, collect, sort, and box up each classroom’s cans.
Page 8 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
Music Notes<br />
Music has started off the year<br />
with lots of new activities. Fourth<br />
grade classes have been focusing<br />
on learning the D and A chords on<br />
guitars provided to us by the Little<br />
Kids Rock program. Check out<br />
www.littlekidsrock.com for more information and great student resources.<br />
All grade levels have been working on parts of “Ensemble One”<br />
from the World Music Drumming curriculum; visit<br />
www.worldmusicdrumming.com to learn more about this program. First<br />
and third grades are busy preparing for their music programs. Third<br />
grade will perform the first program of the year on Thursday, November<br />
8, at 6:30 p.m. in the CLPE gym. A note will be coming home soon,<br />
but please be thinking about patriotic outfits your third grader can<br />
wear for the program. We will also focus on geographic landforms, so if<br />
you have any posters of the ocean, the mountains, or any other natural<br />
landforms in the U.S., please let Mrs. Flail know!<br />
All fourth and fifth graders should bring back the recorder they received<br />
last year—new students have received a recorder to be kept at<br />
school.<br />
Finally, RiverSong choir has been working hard to prepare for their performance<br />
at CMEA in January. We have been assigned our performance<br />
time, Friday, January 25, 2013, at 4:40 p.m. The choir students will all<br />
ride the bus to Colorado Springs. More logistical information will follow<br />
in a note home as soon as it is available.<br />
Everyone: COME EAT AT CULVER’S on Thursday, <strong>October</strong> 4, from 5-8<br />
p.m. for our music fundraiser. It will be your first chance this year to<br />
hear the choir perform—they’ll sing at 6:30 that night at Culver’s on<br />
Lemay.<br />
Thanks! You can always contact Mrs. Flail at 488-7645 or email<br />
mflail@psdschools.org with any questions or concerns.
Page 9 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
MEDIA CENTER NEWS<br />
The Bookworm Club is a reading program<br />
for all ages at CLPE that encourages students<br />
to read! Kindergarten students can<br />
benefit from having their parents read to<br />
them and having time to spend with books. Pointing out<br />
words and letters and talking about the pictures is perfect<br />
for pre-readers.<br />
The Bookworm Club is set up to encourage reading for<br />
everyone. After recording 1000 minutes (about 16 hours)<br />
of time spent in reading activities, students turn in a<br />
completed reading record.<br />
If your child wants to become a Bookworm Club member,<br />
they need to complete 1000 minutes of reading and fill<br />
out the blue Bookworm reading record. Turn in completed<br />
reading records to the Media Center. Members<br />
receive a ribbon, their name is announced on the Friday<br />
Pirate News, and their name is added to the Bookworm<br />
Club bulletin board. Additional completed reading records<br />
earn bonus prizes from the Pirate's Treasure<br />
Chest.<br />
WE WILL SEND ALL NEWSLETTERS AND MANY COMMUNICATIONS BY EMAIL<br />
AFTER SEPTEMBER. IF YOU WANT A PAPER COPY OF THE NEWSLETTER,<br />
PLEASE SEND A NOTE TO THE OFFICE OR CALL THE OFFICE AND WE WILL BE<br />
SURE TO SEND A PAPER COPY HOME WITH YOUR STUDENT NEXT MONTH!
Page 10 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012
Page 11 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
EASY WAYS TO HELP OUR SCHOOL<br />
Info about Lunch!<br />
Students are only allowed to charge lunch twice. After the second<br />
charge, if the account has not been paid, students will be given an<br />
alternate meal designated by the kitchen manager. Please keep<br />
your accounts up to date. Remember, you can view your child’s<br />
lunch account on line at<br />
https://www.schoolpaymentsolutions.com/login.aspx. Call the office<br />
if you need your student’s id number.
Page 12 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
Activity Zone
Page 13 CLPE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2012<br />
Schedule of<br />
Events<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
2-Vision Hearing Screening<br />
2-Running Club<br />
3-Mrs. Snow Craft Class 1st & 2 Grade<br />
4-Mrs. Snow’s Craft Class 3 & 4 Grade<br />
4-Culver’s Night Fundraiser-5-8 PM River Song Choir performs<br />
9-Running Club<br />
10-Mrs. Snow’s craft class 1st & 2nd Grade<br />
11-Mrs. Snow’s Craft Class 3 & 4 Grade<br />
12-PTO FUN RUN<br />
16-Running Club<br />
17-Mrs. Snow’s craft class 1st & 2nd Grade<br />
18-K-5 No <strong>School</strong>-Parent Teacher Conferences<br />
19-K-12 No <strong>School</strong>-Parent Teacher Conferences<br />
23-Running Club<br />
25-Mrs. Snow’s Craft Class 3 & 4 Grade<br />
31-Halloween Parade-2:30-Parties to follow<br />
November<br />
1-Immunizations must be up to date/exclusion day<br />
8-3rd Grade performance 6:30pm<br />
13 -Running club<br />
21– Thanksgiving recess<br />
26-No <strong>School</strong> –Teacher collaboration Day K-8