Dear CCGS Families,
Although our week was short, it was definitely not uneventful! Thank you to all of the families that joined us for parent teacher conferences this week. The format was different, but it still allowed us to share the great work and growth we have seen with your student during first quarter. We had a wonderful week of great weather, but we know this will not last long. Please make sure you send hats and gloves for your child as the weather cools down. We will still be going outside daily. This week I had a great time teaching Ms. Strait's class a new recess game, listening to Ms. Foster's classroom share their math towers and compare the greater than and less than numbers with me, and hosting Mr. Andres's class morning meeting. Ms. Gambro's students shared their reading and writing goals with me and they were so proud of the progress they have made. We are excited to be celebrating and thanking our Veteran's next week with our virtual Veteran's Day assembly on November 11th. This will be sent out in an email next week for all to watch at a time that is most convenient to you.

Please add any November pictures you take to this album . If you click on the album you can watch the October Learning Video that was created. Thank you so much for sharing your at home pictures with us!

I hope you have a great weekend with your family!
Mrs. Hamm
The above pictures are from some of the fun that took place this week. Below, you will find Ms. Lindner's Classroom highlight photos and news.

Ms. Lindner’s Classroom Highlight

Hi Foxes Families! We have been having so much fun with our learning here at Circle! When I asked the students what their favorite things have been so far, they shared how much they loved seeing their friends and playing at recess, how excited they were to celebrate Halloween with their friends at school and see their families in the parade, and how proud they were that they were starting to read more challenging books and learn new addition and subtraction strategies. I know I’m super proud of their efforts and have loved seeing their faces every day!

This week with conferences approaching, we did some reflecting on our previous goals and looked ahead to quarter 2 for our new goals. Some future goals include working on addition and subtraction fact fluency, which we’re working on in our MobyMax on our chromebooks and through fun math games with partners in class. And they’re looking looking forward to reading even more challenging books as we learn more reading strategies. They’re so motivated!

We finished up some fun holiday activities about bats, spiders, and pumpkins. In Reading this week we read Duck for President and talked about good characteristics of leaders in our community. We then did a vote based on the story of if we’d choose Duck or Farmer Brown as the leader of the farm. In writing we’re diving into narratives and reading examples, and then coming up with our own ideas of exciting stories we’d like to tell about our lives! In math students are now working on addition and subtraction to 20, and it’s great to see this picking up so quickly as they’re using strategies they’ve learned in first quarter of how to add and subtract to 10.

I’m so proud of this class :)!
Warmest Regards, Mrs. Lindner
Check out the latest edition of: Be a Light News by Reese and Mrs. Muth's third grade classroom below.
  • As you know, the cases of COVID-19 are rising in our area. Please be diligent in keeping your student home if anyone in the household has symptoms. Thank you so much for talking to your child about the importance of staying safe and healthy.
  • Hybrid students have work to complete each day after they leave class. Please make sure you are checking your child's SeeSaw and Google Classroom expectations for the other half of the day. Student's not completing work will be marked absent for that portion of the day. Hybrid students also have a PE assignment to complete each week.
  • Our PTO is in need of donations of Christmas lights for the drive through Santa event and the Kendall County Fairgrounds. These will be returned to you after the event. If you any blow up decorations or lights, please email [email protected]
Future Important Dates

Monday, November 9: A Day
  • Board of Education Committee Meeting 7:00 pm

Tuesday, November 10: B Day

Wednesday, November 11: C Day
  • Veteran's Day Virtual Assembly

Thursday, November 12: D Day

Friday, November 13: A Day

Save the Date
November 16th: Pie order pick up at YIS
November 19: Family reading night over zoom- 6:00 pm (Prizes!)
PTO meeting- 7:00 pm over Zoom.


Current active fundraisers:
School Store 
(Send a gift card straight to your student’s teacher!) School code is - 175460


Thank you to everyone who participated in the Dessert Days fundraiser! We will need a few parent and staff volunteers from both schools to help distribute orders at the contact-free pick-up on November 16th at YIS. Please use this link for more information and to sign up. Our sales were a little lower than past years but we still had a very successful fundraiser - just over $11,500 in total sales between both schools!!! We will share the amount raised by CCGS as soon as we get the final invoice total from our sales rep. 






Speaking of the Holidays, let us help you get that visit with the jolly man himself safely and socially distant this year! December 4th and 5th 3pm-9pm! The child who sells the most presale tickets will ride in with the Bristol Kendall Fire Department to officially start the event and have the first visit with Santa! One winner for each night! Get your tickets here:

Thank you parents for the continued support throughout the school year! We will have many more opportunities for you and your family to support our school throughout the year and while we know you cannot possibly do every single one, we hope that a few of them will catch your eye, fulfill a need, or give your family an opportunity to attend a fun event!

Drive thru event - 

Decorating for Santa - Taking place this weekend!

Please note that for decorating parents may bring children if they would like! This is an outdoor event and social distancing will be able to be maintained, bathrooms are available, and they earn a free ticket to the event for helping out! 

As always for more information please follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and thank you for your continued support!



PTO Zoom meeting dates are the third Thursday of every month:

November 19th 7pm
December 17th 7pm (tentative) 
January 21st 7pm
February 18th 7pm
March 18th 7pm
April 15th 7pm
May 20th 7pm
June (TBA)
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