10/20-24	Red Ribbon Week
10/22	CCA Service Day
10/22	Original Artwork Orders due
10/23	Service Award Ceremony 7:30am
10/23	Red Ribbon Week Assembly
10/24	Box Tops due
10/24	Fall Dance/ Haunted House
10/27-31	Fall Break - no school

October 20, 2014
Volume 21, No. 13

Dear CCA Parents:

This week Cherry Creek Academy is participating in Red Ribbon Week. The history of Red Ribbon Week dates back to 1985 when DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) agent Enrique "Kiki" Camerena was kidnapped, tortured and murdered while working undercover in Mexico. His undercover efforts resulted in the discovery of a multimillion dollar narcotics manufacturing operation. After Camarena's murder, citizens in his hometown of Calexico, California wore red ribbons in his honor. The red ribbon became a symbol for prevention in order to reduce the demand of illegal drugs. According to the DEA, approximately 80 million people participate in Red Ribbon events every year.

Along with drug prevention, this week CCA is also bringing awareness to anti bullying and to Breast Cancer awareness by having students participate in Spirit Week. Please see the Student Council News below on how your student can participate in Spirit Week.

Next week is Fall Break (October 27 - 31) and CCA will be closed. I hope that you and your family have a safe and enjoyable Fall Break and that your students return rested and ready to learn.

Sincerely,

Jay Cerny, Principal
Cherry Creek Academy

CCA Service Day

Cherry Creek Academy will be holding their 4th Annual Service Day on Wednesday, October 22nd from 9:00am - 2:00pm.

This is a day to put CCA's Eagle Character Traits into action by giving back to the community. Students will be performing various volunteer tasks depending on grade level. Many of our students will be visiting retirement centers. Some will be visiting young children at day care facilities. Other students will be collecting food items for a local food bank or cleaning around our school and nearby parks.

To make this day run smoothly, CCA needs your help. Drivers and chaperons are still needed to transport students to the various service projects. If you are able to assist in any way, big or small, please contact your student's teacher.

New Pick-up Procedure

Student Council News

Spirit Week is next week! The Student Council is really excited to announce a few fun things students can do to participate in Spirit Week and Red Ribbon Week. Please remember that students still need to be in full uniform, but they can now add some fun and exciting additions to their uniform.

Monday - Crazy Hair Day.
Tuesday - Crazy Sock Day.
Wednesday - Service Day.
Students may wear jeans this day, but will wear their CCA polo shirt.
Thursday - Crazy Glasses/Sunglasses Day.
Friday - wear Pink Day for Breast Cancer Awareness.
Students will need to wear their uniform, but can add pink,
maybe wear pink socks or a pink bow or a pink bandana!

We are hoping everyone will join the Student Council in showing great school spirit throughout the entire week.

Canned Food Drive - Student Council will be collecting canned food from

October 6th - 24th to be donated to the Salvation Army. Please send any canned foods to your student's homeroom teacher. The class the collects the most canned food will receive a prize!

Candy Grams - October 6th - 22nd

the Student Council will be selling candy grams in student's homeroom class. Students can purchase a lollipop for $0.50 or a candy bar for $1.00 to be given to another student or a teacher. The candy grams will be delivered on Friday, October 24th.

Fall Dance and Haunted House - There will be a Fall Dance and Haunted House for students in grades 6th - 8th on Friday, October 24th from 6:00pm - 9:00pm. Students who collect canned food can receive up to $3.00 off the cost of the dance. Each can is worth $0.50.

Volunteers Needed: Parents are needed October 21st - 24th to help set up the Haunted House and then for the evening of October 24th to chaperon the Dance.

Please contact Maureen Lyons or Julie Semin if you would like to volunteer.

Volunteers Needed

PTO Volunteers: The PTO is always looking for volunteers to help with school events and activities! If you would like to volunteer (and start building up those volunteer hours), please click on the link on the CCA website to add your information.

PTO Information

RED RIBBON WEEK: October 20-24 is Red Ribbon Week. On October 23, the Arapahoe County Sheriff's office will be coming out with a presentation teaching students about the importance of staying healthy and drug free. This week students will be receiving a red ribbon and a bookmark reminding them that our school is Drug and Bully Free. October is also National Bullying Prevention month, each K-3 classroom will receive a book that focuses on the importance of preventing bullying and making right choices.

Volunteers are needed for the Red Ribbon Week Assembly. If you are interested in assisting with Red Ribbon Week, please email Julie Borisov.

BOOK FAIR: The Book Fair was a huge success! A big THANK YOU to all the volunteers for making this happen. Thank you Mrs. Amy Larson and Cesaria Miller for organizing the Book Fair and setting up the volunteers. Lastly, thank you to all the parents for your participation.

ORIGINAL WORKS ART PROGRAM: The Original Works artwork was sent home last Monday, October 13. With the help of our talented art teachers, the children produced beautiful artwork! There are several new products this year in the brochure. Be sure to look for them. All orders for products need to be back at school by

Wednesday, October 22. For more info please click on the flyer.

BOX TOPS COLLECTION: October 6th - 24th is the time to bring in those Box Tops that you have been collecting. Please bring them in a baggie with the Homeroom Teacher's name on it and either bring it to the teacher or the front desk. The class with the highest collection will get an ice cream party! You can track your classrooms collection from the Bulletin board posted near the cafeteria. Every 100 boxtops will be represented with an ice cream scoop! You don't want to miss this, so don't forget to turn in your boxtops.

LOG YOUR VOLUNTEER HOURS

With first quarter report cards, each family will receive a report on the number volunteer hours already logged. Please make sure that you have entered the hours you have volunteered. Make your students proud of all that you do to help make CCA great! For information on how to record volunteer hours, please click on the link.

Champions During Fall Break

Fall Break with CHAMPIONS!

Monday 10/27 - Friday 10/31

6:30 am until 6pm

$30 a day with pre-registration online at discoverchampions.com

Come join is for some SPOOOKY fun!

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

shadow creatures

night time painting

prime time slime

skeleton building

marble paint spider webs

cats & bats

creepy creatures

monster tag

marshmallow spiders

mummy wrap challenge

We are hoping for a beautiful day to picnic at Silo Park as well!!

CCA Athletics

Practices and Games for this week:

Monday 20th - Volleyball Game Home vs Parker Core 4:15/5:00
Boys soccer practice 3:30 to 4:45

Tuesday 21st - Volleyball and Soccer Games Away @ American Academy 4:15/5:00

***After Tuesdays games all jerseys are to be turned in before NOV 21st***

Boys and Girls Basketball packets/info/forms can be picked up starting
Thursday Oct. 23rd.

Boys basketball practice starts Nov. 10th - 3:30 to 4:45

Girls basketball practice starts Nov. 11th - 3:30 to 4:45

Yearbook Orders

Order your yearbook by October 31st and receive 10% off! You can order a soft or hard cover, and you can order a custom yearbook with 2 free custom pages. Please click on the link to place your order.

If you would like to vote on the yearbook artwork contest and/or have any questions, please email Hethyr Fouse. If you have photos you are willing to have in the yearbook, please send them to yearbook@cherrycreekacademy.org. Remember, take pictures throughout the year to put into your free custom page!

Dennis Uniforms

Dennis Uniforms will no longer be putting the CCA logo on used uniform polo shirts after November. 25^th. If you would like Dennis to add logo to a Used Uniform shirt, please make any requests prior to November 25^th. CCA will be no longer selling used uniform shirts without logos.

"Fall into savings" at DENNIS School Uniforms!

October 23rd, 24th & 25th, 2014

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FREE SHIPPING on orders of $85 or more!

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National Customer Service: 800.854.6951

Art Department Needs Donations

It is the time of year when the Art Department is in need of donations. If you have color furniture catalogs or magazine such as Architecture, Better Homes and Gardens or Catalogs from Ikea, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Ethan Allen, etc., that you are willing to donate to the art room we would appreciate it. They will be used for collage for 3rd grade "Room with a View" projects.

As always, students get a visit to the treasure chest for bringing in those empty large cardboard cylinders such as Quaker Oats, baby formula and bulk drink mixes come in. We are always in need of these for our 5th grade mask making project.

Thanks in advance for all who are willing to help out our Art Department!"
Mrs. Jodi M.L. Peterson

Teacher Service Awards

Each year CCA celebrates teachers and staff who have reached 5 year milestones of serving at our school. We invite you to a brief award ceremony on Thursday, October 23rd at 7:30am in the library. This year we are celebrating:

Jan Koenig - 10 years
Kalani Waldron - 5 years.

After School Clubs

Do you love to dance? Hip-hop, ballet, jazz, modern, pom? CCA is starting an all-school dance club for boys and girls. Come to the CCA dance club informational meeting on Wednesday November 5^th at 3:30 in Mrs. Hargraeves room. We are going to showcase our dancers at the Multicultural Festival to represent American dancing. All grades and all skill levels welcome. We will choreograph to our dancers abilities. Choreography and feature dance opportunities also available. Join us at our information meeting to share ideas. Any questions, contact Jenny Sunker at jsunker@cherrycreekacademy.org

Middle School Choir - Choir for grades 5-8 is Mondays 3:30 - 4:30 in Mrs. MacFarland's room. If your student is interested in joining Choir contact Johanna Fitt.

Lost and Found

There is a significant amount of items in the CCA Lost and Found. Please check to see if any items belong to your student. All items left in Lost and Found will be donated to charity over Fall Break, October 27th - 31st.

Champions

Champions has generously agreed to provide supervision to any CCA student, who is left without direct adult supervision 15 minutes after their dismissal time, at a discounted rate. The motivation for this policy is to ensure that every student is safe.

If your child is not picked up 15 minutes after their dismissal time or within the agreed upon time for extracurricular activities, they will be supervised by Champions' staff.

The cost of after school supervision is normally $20.00. Champions is offering CCA parents a special discounted rate of $7.50 to accommodate families running late for pick up. This discounted rate is valid for the first 60 minutes after a student's scheduled dismissal time. After 60 minutes, the full afternoon rate applies.

Champions waived this fee at the beginning of the year to allow CCA parents a grace period while adjusting to the drop-off and pick-up procedures. They are
no longer able to waive this fee. Starting today the fee will be applied. Please contact Champions (720-273-9163) with any questions.

School Dismissal Times:
K and 1st grade - 3:05 pm
2nd, 3rd and 4th grade - 3:15 pm
5th and 6th grade - 3:25 pm
7th and 8th grade - 3:35 pm

CCA Foundation

The CCA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization established by CCA founders to provide ongoing financial support to Cherry Creek Academy. All donations are used toward educational, staff, and/or facility improvements so that CCA can carry out it's mission. Donations are tax deductible. If you would like to make a year end donation you can click the CCA paypal link or drop off a check at the front desk. Make checks out to CCA Foundation. Many companies provide corporate matching, check with your company
to see if they provide a percentage of a match to your gift. If you have any questions contact Cyndy Holmes.

Leave Trading Cards Home

Please have your student leave all trading cards at home as they are no longer allowed to trade at school. All trading cards at school will be confiscated. Thank you for your help with this matter.

Parent Information Network

Emotional Intelligence:

A More Accurate Indicator of Success than I.Q.

We all want our kids to be happy, healthy and successful, right? At PIN's last presentation, Diana Thompson explained how a child's emotional intelligence is the key to making that happen.

"Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize, identify and manage emotions in a way so that they can be leveraged for your success," Diana explained. "Emotions are often seen as something bad, but feelings are actually valuable clues-they're a resource we can use to understand what's really going on."

The cycle of a child's emotions begins with an experience that leads to a feeling; the feeling turns into a thought, and then a belief, and then a reaction. Over time, negative thoughts like "I'm stupid" can become reinforced in the mind of a child and can lead to beliefs that create a destructive, self-fulfilling cycle. To help develop emotional intelligence, Diana advises parents to teach their children to:

Recognize Emotions. Emotions can be subtle, and detecting them takes keen awareness. Give your child tools to read their own emotions and to recognize emotional cues in others. Make sure he or she knows that having emotions is okay; they're clues to what's going on inside.
Identify the Feeling. "The more words a child has to define their problem, the better equipped they'll be to solve it," said Diana. "Don't settle for 'happy,' 'mad,' or 'sad.' Dig deeper to find out what's really going on. Does 'sad' mean lonely or overwhelmed? Remind them that what they're going through is normal, and that they're not alone in struggling with these things.
Manage the Emotion. What your child chooses to do with their emotion will determine whether the outcome is good or bad. Anger, for example, can lead to bad decisions. But it doesn't have to. It can be channeled into positive, constructive action instead. The group Mothers Against Drunk Driving is an example of how anger against alcohol-related teenage deaths was turned into determination to raise awareness and bring about positive change in our culture.

"When kids are overwhelmed by their emotions, they enter a fight-or-flight mode I call 'emotional hijacking,' where rational decision-making shuts down," said Diana. When this happens, parents need to help them understand their emotions and show them the choices that can lead them to a better place. Having kids draw a picture of how they feel can help. "The earlier we can get to the root of the problem, the stronger the foundation we can build for happiness, health and success in our kids," she added.

For tips, tools and more information, visit Diana's website: www.dramaticadventures.com.

Mark Your Calendar for Tuesday 11/11 at *6:30-8:00 p.m.*to hear Rod Olson speak about A Parent's Battle Plan for Enjoying Amateur Sports. Appetizers will be provided. Bring your team's parents!

Do you have website management, social media and/or people skills? Call Barb Goettelman at (303) 759-9560 or email PIN@friendsofCCSD.org to find out how you can use your gifts and talents to help PIN.

By Bobbie Turner, CCA PIN Rep.

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