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ALL EAGLE SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECIEVED FRIDAY AT 8:00 A.M.
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For the latest schedule of events, please click
here
. More information on events is offered in the description section of each event on CCA's Master Google Calendar.
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Monday, November 11
- 8:05 – 9:05 a.m.: Fly like an Eagle Committee Meeting
- 8:15 – 8:45 a.m.: K-8th Grade Veterans Day Assembly
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball-Boys Practice
Tuesday, November 12
- 8 – 11 a.m.: Photo Retakes
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball-Boys Practice
- 6 – 7 p.m.: Town Hall
- 7 – 8 p.m.: Board Meeting
Wednesday, November 13
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball- Girls Practice
Thursday, November 14
- 8:15 – 9:05 a.m.: Eagle Honors Assemblies
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball- Girls Practice
Friday, November 15
- 7:30 – 8 a.m.: PTO Event: Pastries with Parents
- 8:05 – 9 a.m.: PTO Meeting
- 9:05 – 10:05 a.m.: Safe Technology and Secret Apps with Dani Diercks
Monday, November 18
- PTO Event: Thanksgiving Basket Donation Collections Begin
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball-Boys Practice
Tuesday, November 19
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball-Boys Practice
Wednesday, November 20
- 8:05 – 9:05 a. m.: Schoolhouse Talk
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball- Girls Practice
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Thursday, November 21
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball- Girls Practice
- 6 – 8 p.m.: Cherry Creek High School Incoming 9th Grade Parent Info Night at Cherry Creek High School
Friday, November 22
- PTO Event: Thanksgiving Baskets Creating & Delivering
Monday, November 25
- 4 – 6 p.m. Basketball Games- Boys Home/Girls @Littleton
Tuesday, November 26
- 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Basketball-Boys Practice
Wednesday, November 27 - Friday, November 29
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The final discount for this year's yearbook ends November 30th! Order your yearbook before then to get a 5% discount!
Go to
www.TreeRing.com
and enter CCA's passcode: 1013808470921971 to get your account today!
You can also download the TreeRing App on Apple Phones!
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On Thursday, November 14th CCA will be teaming up with Speed Stack USA and World Speed Stack Association. This will be allowing our own students at CCA to cooperatively stack in an attempt to beat the world record, and set a new record of 635,000+ stackers from around the world! We will have live feeds throughout the day so that students can see other stackers from around the world as well. Speed Stacking works on not only eye hand coordination, but bilateral cognitive abilities too. This activity can help students with any style of learning abilities.
Ms.Rutz will be setting up a handful of tables in the lobby on this day to allow students to upstack, down stack and cycle stack before heading to recess. This will ensure that each student (and staff) at CCA get the opportunity to be apart of the attempt at the world record.
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Congratulations to Mr. Geltman, CCA's GT Teacher, who was awarded $1,000 from CCSD Grant Foundation for his new program idea, "Schoolhouse Rock: By Students, For Students."
In "Schoolhouse Rock," CCA Students will explore the hands-on, creative experience of making music on guitars and basses, and create their own “Schoolhouse Rock” stzyle songs based on classroom content and emotional expression. Through this process, they personalize their educational experience in dynamic and memorable ways. The creation of handmade pop music helps students develop an array of interpersonal and creative skills. At its best, the experience is a unique mix of immediacy, camaraderie, and innovative collaborative thinking. This program will introduce our students to guitar- and bass-playing, and inspire them to make songs about historical figures, math concepts, creative writing, and a host of other classroom concepts.
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A special congratulations to Cassie Wagner, Student Council Leadership and Reading Aide, who lead CCA in fundraising for the Leukemia Lumphoma Society last year with the Pennies 4 Patients Fundraiser. CCA was awarded one of the Top Fundraising School awards for 2019. As a cancer survivor, Cassie shares her passion by leading our community to raise funds for cancer research. Her strength and courage to continue to fight for others is one of the things that makes Mrs. Wagner so incredibly special.
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Our Fall Sport Season ended strong. Our first season of cross country was incredibly successful and it was amazing to see how our runners progressed through the season. The girls volleyball team and the boys soccer team went to the championships and played hard placed 2nd! We are so proud of them!Please remember to wash and have your child(ren) return all jerseys and athletic uniforms by Friday, November 15th.
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Basketball for students in grades 6 - 8 begins this week
November 11th. To register your child(ren) for basketball, please click
here. The boys basketball team will practice on Mondays and Tuesdays and the girls team will practice on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please click
here for the Athletics Calendar.
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On Tuesday, December 3rd, CCA 8th Graders will take a 45 minute tour of the Cherry Creek Innovation Campus (CCIC). They will learn about job opportunities in manufacturing, health and wellness, construction, culinary, hospitality and tourism, auto technology, aviation mechanics, business services, IT, and STEAM. Plus, they will get some information about how to prepare for these courses in their 9th grade course selection.
The CCIC is one of the few schools in the state of Colorado that offers hands-on training in multiple pathways for career and college readiness. In every class offered at the CCIC, there is an accompanying industry level certification that, for the first time, students in high school have the opportunity to earn. This campus provides a safe environment to put on the shoes of a business person, auto technician, construction worker, health care professional, and many other real world careers. For more information on the CCIC, please click
here.
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Please join the CCA PTO for the November PTO meeting this Friday, November 15th at 8:05 a.m. in the CCA cafeteria. Coffee will be served, and younger siblings are welcomed.
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This quarter's Pastries with Parents event will take place at 7:30 a.m. before Friday's PTO meeting. This is a free event for CCA families. Please remember all students wanting to attend this event must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Please RSVP
here by today, November 11th.
If you would like to volunteer to help with Pastries for Parents, please click
here
.
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Giving our wonderful teachers, staff, and admin a basketful of goodies around Thanksgiving has been a longtime tradition of the CCA PTO. They need your help to fill the baskets and show your appreciation for all the time they give to students!
The CCA PTO will be assembling the baskets, and they're asking that all CCA families help in purchasing the items needed to fill them. For ease of purchasing, they have created an
Amazon Wishlist to purchase from!
The added bonus is that you can shop through CCA's Amazon Smile link and a proceeds will also go to our PTO.
Items will ship to the home of Bailey (Ian) Foley, PTO Secretary, who is then bringing items to the school for assembly.
You may also purchase items outside of Amazon, but please check the
wishlist
to ensure there is still a need. If you would prefer not to have items shipped, students can also bring items with them to school by Tuesday, November 19th.
The PTO will be assembling and distributing the baskets on Friday, November 22nd. If you have any questions, please contact Natalie or Shaden, the PTO VPs of Hospitality at
ptohospitality@cherrycreekacademy.org
.
Please note that parents receive one volunteer hour per $20 spent, as long as it doesn't exceed 1/2 of total yearly hours, per the CCA volunteer policy.
Thank you for all of your support!
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Original Artworks order details have been sent home and the online gallery is open for ordering. Please follow the instructions your students brought home to order the artworks online.
- Enter www.originalworks.com, click on GALLERY
- Enter school code (refer to your student order details sheet)
- In the TITLE box, enter image Title (refer to your student order details sheet)
- Click Search
- Click your Artwork image to view it on products
- Order by clicking the image of the product you want to order
- Enter Student code: (refer to your student order details)
- Complete the ordering process
Payments can be made by credit or debit card
Deadline for online orders is Wednesday, November 20th.
The class with the highest sales will earn a free dress day!
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The first Eagle Honors Assemblies have been rescheduled from November 13th to November 14th.
The Kindergarten - 4th grade assembly will take place between 8:15 and 9:30 a.m. The 5th - 8th grade assembly will be from 9:45 - 11:00 a.m. At the Eagle Honor assembly some of our students are recognized for exemplifying an Eagle Honor character trait of Leadership, Responsibility, Respect, Loyalty, Integrity, Humility, Diligence and/or Compassion. Students receive a certificate from their teacher. We reminded parents that our focus for the Eagle Honor recognition is on our students. We want our students to be notified when they received the award at the award ceremony and not before. We want every student fully engaged in the event and not knowing if they are getting an award causes more to be attentive and focused on the event and in celebrating their peers and their own accomplishments. Although parents are not notified if their child will receive a certificate, all parents are invited to attend every Eagle Honor assembly. When a student receives a Golden Eagle it is because they have in previous years received recognition for all 8 character traits. When a Golden Eagle is going to be awarded, parents are notified.
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Safe Tech & Secret Apps Presentation is Coming Back to CCA!
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Join CCA mom, local attorney, and public speaker, Dani Diercks Farrell as she presents valuable information on how to keep our tech savvy children safe in a technology driven society. This presentation will follow the November PTO meeting on
November 15th at 9:05 a.m.
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Champions will offer half day care from 6:15 a.m. - 3 p.m. on November 27th. Their theme will be “Best Of” featuring some of the most loved lessons this year.
They will also be running a Winter Break program On December 23rd, 26, 27th, 30th, and January 2nd and 3rd from 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
The Winter Program theme will be Disney on Ice which will feature favorite Disney movies, comic book creating, snow flake growing, and other art projects.
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Please remember to log your volunteer hours regularly. This year we are giving a volunteer report at each board meeting that includes data about how many volunteers we have, the services they are performing, and how many hours we have accumulated as a community. It is important that all volunteer hours are logged, even after a family completes their required hours (20 hours for single parent homes and 40 hours for two parent households).
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The Cherry Creek School District's Parent Information Network is hosting presentations titled "The Hardest Workers: Identify Learning Issues, Create Solutions, Improve Results on
November 12th from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Please click
here
for more information.
For a complete list of this year's presentations, please click
here.
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The Cherry Creek School District's Special Education Advisory Committee Meeting will be held on
Thursday, November 14th.
Who: CCSD parents, guardians, and caregivers who have children on IEPs and 504s
When: Thursday, November 14, 2019 from 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Coffee at 9:00 a.m.
Where: Freemont Building: Room 164; 14603 E Freemont Ave., Centennial, CO 80112
For more information, please click
here
.
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The 7th annual Cardboard Challenge was rescheduled to
Saturday, November 16th from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. It is a celebration of child creativity and the role communities can play in fostering it inspired by the short film, “Caine’s Arcade.” Kids are challenged to create and build using cardboard, recycled materials and their imagination. This provides our students a unique opportunity outside of the classroom to innovate, create and shine! For more information, please click
here
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Future Bruins Night
will be held on Nov 21
st
from 6-8 pm. This is a great opportunity for 5
th
-8
th
grade students and families to familiarize themselves with Creek, including visiting classes, touring the school, Activities/Athletics info sessions, etc…For detailed information and to register for a class, click
here
.
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It’s time to nominate individuals for the Golden Heart Awards!
Please click
here
for more information. This prestigious award is for any individual who has “opened their heart” to touch the life of a Cherry Creek School District student with special needs. This includes, but is not limited to, bus drivers, teachers, cafeteria workers, paraprofessionals, specials teachers (media, art, P.E., music), those in support positions, students, and community employers. Each person who receives this award has gone “above and beyond” to support students with special needs who attend Cherry Creek Schools.
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