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5th and 6th Grade Honesty and Kindness Presentation |
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5th and 6th grade students participated in an online presentation on kindness and honesty on Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November 20th.
The Kindness presentation was led by Student Council President Sophia E. and Student Council Vice President Ayah A. Sophia and Ayah did an outstanding job sharing the importance of kindness with our 5th and 6th grade students. They also talked about how bullying negatively affects both the victim and the bully. They asked students to commit to being kind to each other all the time. Sophia and Ayah will also be making this presentation to 7th and 8th grade students.
Dean Loomis led the presentation on Honesty and Integrity. He asked students to be honorable and show integrity by incorporating honesty into everything they do. He asked students to develop their integrity, keep their word, and be role models for their peers and for younger students.
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Welcome Our New Director of Communications!
Rachel Brooks comes to us with eight years in education and has her Bachelors Degree in Theatre Performance from UNLV. Rachel is married and has a four and a half year old little girl. She is ecstatic to be part of the Cherry Creek Academy community and looks forward to getting to know all of the students and families when they get to return to school!
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Advice for Screen Time
Be sure your child is following their remote learning schedule. We have a number of breaks built in to daily schedule to help them. Make sure they Take their breaks away from the screen. Sometimes children are staying online during break to socialize and that just increases their screen time. So have them walk away during breaks!
Here are some other options we can suggest:
- Blue light glasses
- Adjust screen brightness
- Allow the screen to be in high contrast mode
- Making sure your child is working in an area with adequate lighting
- Elevate computer screen to be more at eye-level (use books or boxes to prop underneath)
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Open Library Hours for Students
Parents, we would like to provide open library hours to you and your students! Please complete this google form: Open Library Survey so that we can plan to have open hours that work best for you. Thank you so much! If you have any questions, please email our librarian, Sarah Lanyi, at slanyi@cherrycreekacademy.org
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Please click on the links below to access Monday Newsletters from our teachers.
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Social Emotional Learning at CCA |
CCA utilizes the Second Step program for social emotional curriculum. The Second Step program teaches students skills for learning, empathy, emotion management, and problem solving.
To learn more please click on the links below
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Please join us Friday, December 18th for our PTO meeting at 9:05 am. Details to log in can be found on the CCA Master Calendar.
We look forward to ideas and input from many member of our community!
Here are some quick links:
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Online Learning in Action
Here's a snapshot of Mrs. Sandler's 4th grade class this week doing a unit on Landforms. Students practiced note taking skills while using Google Earth to explore landforms around the world! Way to go Fourth Grade Technology!
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Middle School Reflection Day |
On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, our middle school teachers will be hosting a reflection day with their homeroom students. Teachers will have one on one meetings with students in the morning. The goal is to collect data on how students are doing with online learning and to to find what is going well and areas in need of improvement.
Students may use the afternoon to catch up on and submit outstanding work if necessary.
If you have questions, please feel free to email your student's homeroom teacher for help.
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Middle School Pick Up Days
Wednesday December 2nd-
Friday December 4th
7AM-3:30PM
Middle school students can pick up their school photos, unity t-shirts, awards, and other items from their teachers on these days from the front lobby.
Please return any finished materials such as books for reading class.
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CCSD Metrics for Remote Learning |
We follow the Cherry Creek School District's metrics to determine if it is safe for our K-4 learners to return in person. To access the CCSD Covid Tracker, please click here.
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Thank you from our library!
Thank you to everyone who supported the Scholastic Book Fair, both online and in-person. We had a very successful fair! We are able to use the profits to purchase new books for the CCA Library. Everyone who attended made the fair so much fun!
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Breakfast and lunch at no cost!
Monday and Wednesday meals will include 2 breakfast and 2 lunches. Friday will include breakfast and lunch for Friday – Sunday
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Virtual Coding Class for 5th - 8th Grade Students
We are excited to announce a free, virtual computer coding class available to CCA middle school students in November. Steel City Codes is led by a CCA alumnus and current senior at Cherry Creek High School. These lessons are open to all CCA middle school student in grades 5 - 8 and will teach coding in both Java and Python. This class will meet on Mondays from 3:45-4:45. Please click here for more information. You may click here to register. |
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Virtual Youth Art Show
Enter your western lifestyle-themed artwork in the National Western Youth Art Contest! We have gone entirely virtual for the 2021 contest. The contest is free to enter and open to students in grades 1 through 12.
Simply take a picture of your submission to enter. The Reserve and Grand Champion artwork will be displayed
January 9 through January 24, 2021.
Entries will be accepted starting November 17 through December 18, 2020.
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A Message from Our Board of Directors |
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CCA holds monthly Committee meetings, tailor-made to engage our CCA community in conversations about a whole variety of topics...
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Do you have a great idea or a special skill?
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Are you looking to offer your volunteer hours where you have a particular interest or expertise?
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Would you enjoy an open discussion with members of the Parent Board, Administration, and CCA Community about an issue that's important to you?
We'd love to have you join us at a CCA Committee Meeting! CCA Committee Meetings are the BEST way to participate in active discussions about the "big-picture" issues that are near-and-dear to your heart. In addition to Committee-level projects, the work done by CCA Committees refines and prepares those issues brought to the Board as formal Action Items. Parent volunteer hours are available for attending committee meetings, and for participating in committee work.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in Committee discussions!
Anyone interested in participating in Committee Meetings can refer to the CCA Master Calendar for dates and times, or click here for more information.
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Wednesday,
November 25 -
Friday, November 27
- Thanksgiving Break - No School
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Tuesday, December 1
- 7:00 am: Technology Committee
- 8:05am: SAC Committee Meeting
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- Please visit CCA's Master Calendar.
- Click on the meeting that you would like to attend.
- Click "More Details."
- Click "Join Hangouts Meet."
- Alternatively, you can join by phone by dialing the meeting number and entering the meeting pin.
- Please remember to use mute when you are not speaking. This is important and will reduce background noise and other complications.
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Community Events and News |
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PIN Presentation:
Embracing Life's Challenges: Turning 2020 losses into 2021 gains
December 1, 2020: 9:15 am - 11:15 am
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Not all of 2020 was a bust even though the year might have felt that way; in fact, we learned more about ourselves following the shutdown of the world as we once knew it than we realize. No need to rehash the challenges of our changed world, specifically the hardships, the setbacks and the unknown rather let's focus on what we have learned about ourselves, our ability to overcome, our ability to accept and our ability to persevere...thus turning the losses to gains.
Click here to learn more about this event. |
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December OIE Opportunities
The following opportunities will be offered during the month of December by the Office of Inclusive Excellence.
CCSD Educator Community Forums about Race – Thursday, December 3rd, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
A CCSD educator community discussion focused on current events and racialized lived experiences, both personally and professionally.
Register in advance for this meeting:
District P.A.S.S Meeting – Wednesday, December 9th , 6:00 – 8:00 pm Monthly District PASS meeting centering the perspectives and lived experiences of families of color in CCSD.
Register in advance for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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The Parent Connection: CCSD's Newsletter |
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The Parent Connection is sent to parents and community subscribers twice a month with information about student, school and district achievements, financial information, staff, events, board policy and more.
Please click here to read the latest Parent Connection newsletter from CCSD. |
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