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January 15, 2019
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In this Edition
  • Upcoming Events
  • Board Meeting: Tonight
  • Free Dress & Pizza Lunch for 2nd and 3rd Graders: Wednesday
  • Geography Bee: Thursday
  • Pastries for Parents: Friday
  • PTO Meeting: Friday
  • CCA Basketball: Come Cheer Us On
  • No Name Calling Week: January 21 - 25
  • Important Reminders
  • Unsupervised Students Sent to Champions After School
  • Reserved Parking Spaces: Coaches ONLY
  • Parking & Traffic Safety: Map
  • News from Student Council: Valograms
  • Yearbook Cover Contest: Due Friday
  • Shark Tank at CCA: 6th grade entrepreneurs
  • Box Tops for PTO
  • Tips from Maverick: Health Informaiton
  • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Winter & Spring Chess Club: Registration Now Open
  • Current Employment Opportunities
  • Upcoming Events in CCSD & Community
  • P.I.N. Presentation: Tonight
  • Cheer Clinic: Saturday
  • Chess Tournament: March 9, 2019
  • Free Camp for Girls Entering 9th Grade: Summer 2019
  • Helpful Links
Upcoming Events
January 15:
Girls Basketball: Home
Boys Basketball: Away
Board Meeting
  • January 16:
Girls Basketball: Home
Boys Basketball: Away
  • January 17:
Geography Bee
Governance Meeting
Girls Basketball Practice
  • January 18:
Pastries with Parents
PTO Meeting
  • January 20:
SAC Survey Closes
  • January 21:
MLK Day: NO SCHOOL
  • January 22:
Academic Awards Assembly
Boys Basketball: Home
Girls Basketball: Away
SAC Surveys:
CCA Wants to Hear from YOU!
CCA is excited to provide an opportunity to collect feedback from you regarding our teachers and the school environment. The Teacher Feedback Survey data is used to provide feedback to teachers and is part of their performance evaluation done by the Executive Director and Assistant Principals. This survey contains only 5 questions. The Climate Survey data contains questions about the CCA administration team, school communication, academic instruction, school safety, and other aspects of the CCA environment. Responses from the Climate Survey are reviewed by the School Accountability Committee, CCA administration, and the CCA Parent Board to guide future improvements to our school. Both surveys are administered at the same time.

The link provided in an email sent on January 8th from noreply@cherrycreekschools.org and the text message from 231-77 will take you to the Teacher Feedback Survey for Parents. At the end of the survey, you will then click another link to go to the Climate Survey. Both surveys should not take longer than 30-60 minutes to complete, depending on the comments you add. You are allowed to enter 2 hours of volunteer time for taking both surveys.

As a parent-involved charter school, this is your chance to help provide both positive and constructive feedback for CCA teachers, the administration, and the Parent Board. Note that both surveys are intended to be filled out by parents, not students. The surveys work best taken from a computer and not a hand-held device, e.g. iPhone. Both surveys will be closed at midnight on Sunday, January 20th.
Board Meeting:
Tonight!
The January Board meeting will be Tonight, January 15, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the CCA Library.
Free Dress & a Pizza Lunch for 2nd & 3rd Graders:
Tomorrow, January 16
CCA's 2nd & 3rd grade classes have done a wonderful job cleaning up the playground. For their exceptional work in the "Adopt the Playground" program, they have earned Free Dress and a Pizza lunch from Black Jack Pizza on Wednesday, January 16.

All special requests and accommodations must be sent to Ms. Yamauchi
by tomorrow morning!

Please provide additional lunch items or place your order through Wholesome Food Services if your child would like food in addition to or instead of pizza!
NOTE: PLEASE ADVISE YOUR CHILDREN WITH FOOD ALLERGIES TO AVOID FOODS THAT MAY POSE A HEALTH CONCERN FOR THEM.
CCA Geography Bee:
Thursday, January 17
Come cheer on 5-8 grade students as they participate in CCA's 2019 Geography Bee, Thursday January 17th at 8:00 a.m.
We hope to see you there!
Pastries for Parents & PTO Meeting:
Friday, January 18
Please join us on Friday, January 18, at 7:30 a.m. in the CCA cafeteria.

Enjoy donuts, juice and coffee with your student while you catch up with other CCA families. Your annual activity fee covers the cost.  

Students must attend with an adult.
 
If you would like to volunteer to help with this event, please contac t  Elizabeth Gold  .
Please join us this Friday, January 18, at 8:05 a.m. in the CCA cafeteria for our January PTO meeting. Coffee will be served, and younger siblings are always welcome.

CCA Basketball:
Come Cheer Us On
CCA basketball players are having a great season. Yesterday, the CCA Girls team celebrated a solid win and had an awesome game. We would love to see you all at the games cheering them on. Please see the links below for game dates and locations.

No Name Calling Week:
Next week, January 21 - 25
In honor of No Name Calling Week, CCA will be holding a quote contest for all CCA students. We are looking for quotes that support our 8 core values of leadership, responsibility, respect, loyalty, integrity, humility, diligence, and compassion, as weel as the concept of no name calling. Chosen quotes will be displayed at CCA and 3 students who have submitted a quote will be chosen for a free dress day.

For more information about No Name Calling Week, please click here.
Important Reminders:
After School Supervision
Please note that ALL students not playing in a sports game or personally attending a after-school club/activity must be supervised by parents or guardians or they will be sent to Champions. This includes younger siblings.

To access Champions, please use the stairs near the front office or the stairs by the gym.
Please do not park in the "Coaches" reserved parking space. Our coaches need this space in order to arrive to games on time.
For more information regarding traffic and safety at CCA,
please click here .
News from Student Council
The CCA Student Council will have Valograms for sale between January 22 and January 28.

  • $1 for a Valogram and Ring Pop
  • $5 for a Valogram, Ring Pop & a Rose

Valograms will be delivered on Valentines Day!
2018 - 2019 Yearbook Art Cover Contest:
Artwork due FRIDAY, January 18, 2019
Dear CCA Students and Families,

Once again, it’s time for the yearbook art cover contest! The winning artwork will be our front cover of the yearbook and both 2nd and 3rd place will be featured in the yearbook.

A few things to keep in mind regarding the contest:
  • The theme this year is “Learning today...Leading Tomorrow.” This theme should guide the creation of the artwork and must be included/written somewhere within the art. Tip: Please make it easy to read!
  • Artwork needs to be completed on regular size (8 ½ x 11), flat printer paper.
  • All artwork must be original hand drawings or paintings by the students (no help from parents).  No digital artwork will be accepted. 
  • Please make sure artwork is completed in color, not black & white. Note that artwork will be scanned for yearbook publication - when considering use of water colors, oil, crayon, colored pencils, etc.
  • For entry into the contest artwork should be given to students’ homeroom teachers or to the front office.
  • The deadline for students turning in artwork is Friday January 18, 2018.
  • The student with the winning artwork (1st place) will receive a free yearbook and will be notified/announced in the Eagle.
  • PLEASE WRITE YOUR NAME, GRADE, AND HOMEROOM TEACHER ON THE BACK OF YOUR ARTWORK. We will return all art and want to be sure the proper credit is given in the yearbook!
  • The artwork will be put in three grade categories for judging K-2nd, 3rd-5th & 6th-8th

We look forward to the students’ continued participation in the creation of the yearbook!

Thank you,
The CCA Yearbook Committee
To purchase and customize your yearbook*
* Must be a parent or student 13 years or older

  1. Go to www.TreeRing.com/validate
  2. Enter CCA's passcode: 1013808470921971
Shark Tank at CCA
On Monday, January 14, 2019, Mr. Mahan and the CCA sixth graders participated in one of CCA’s most anticipated classroom activities, complete with a real life venture capitalist, V. Patel. Mr. Patel is a former CCA parent and has helped create multiple businesses and invested in even more. As students presented their business plans, Mr. Patel and CCA staff acted as Sharks bidding on the students’ business proposals.

This cross curricular activity incorporated math and history in a very exciting way for students and staff alike. The economics unit in sixth grade provides students with an introduction to capitalistic markets, socialist ideology, and communist philosophy. To delve deeper into capitalism, Mr. Mahan, CCA’s history teacher, utilizes a Shark Tank like activity to enhance student understanding and make the curriculum come to life. In Mr. Loomis’ math class, students prepared for their presentations by calculating cost, profit, net worth, and projected expenses.

There is no doubt that many CCA students are future business entrepreneurs! 
CCA students, from left to right, Daley H., Ayah A., Sanvi S., and Hyo Jae L. smile big as they celebrate their deal for Dash, an allergy detecting smart watch, with Mr. V. Patel.
The CCA PTO Needs Your Box Tops!
The CCA PTO collection bins are in the front area at CCA. 

Let’s help our kids earn a free dress day this year!

Keep in mind you can earn Box Tops through the App (available on Apple and Android). 

See below link for how it works.
The More You Know: Tips from Maverick

  • Used Uniform Sale Volunteers Earn Double Hours: Volunteers are needed for the Used Uniform Sale prep on February 26th and during the sale on February 27th. If interested, please email Jessica King, PTO Vice President of Fundrasing, at: PTOfundraising@cherrycreekacademy.org.
  • The Yearbook Committee is looking for volunteers to take pictures for the yearbook, if you are interested, please sign up here.
  • Monday Munchies: Looking for a way to volunteer, but you're short on time? Bring treats for our wonderful teachers on Monday.
Winter & Spring Chess Club at CCA:
Sign Up Available
Please note, the flyer sent home stated K-5, but is open students in K-6
Current Employment Opportunities
  • Substitute Teachers

If you are interested in any of the positions listed above, please click here for more information and email your resume and cover letter to  careers@cherrycreekacademy.org .
Upcoming Events in Cherry Creek School District & the Community
P.I.N. Presentation:
 TONIGHT, January 15, 2019
Cheer Clinic:
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Cherry Creek School District Chess Tournament:
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Entries must be received by March 2, 2019. Sign up early! The tournament will be limited to the first 200 students that sign up!
Free Summer Camp for Girls Entering 9th Grade:
July 15 - August 2, 2019