The Stallion Scoop: 7Mar19

Posted on 03/07/2019

IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:

STALLION SPOTLIGHT
STAFF CHAT
PSP NEWS
MINDFUL MORNINGS
P/T CONFERENCES / YEARBOOK PHOTOS (deadline 25Mar19)
SPRING BOOK FAIR
COUNSELOR'S CORNER
FROM THE AP
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
NEW FLYERS
GIFTED & TALENTED NEWS

STALLION SPOTLIGHT - get to know more about our amazing activities!

See how the 5th graders of Ms. Levine's, Mrs. Tyler's, and Ms. Ranieri's used their geometry lessons to study our playground!

Read the full story here.

STAFF CHAT - THE PRINCIPAL'S PODCAST Mr. Miller has posted a podcast for his weekly Staff Chat. Each podcast is available on CTE's YouTube channel - please subscribe and never miss any of the fun! Each week he will have a short interview with one of our staff members. Please enjoy the latest episode of season 2 with Jessica Ranieri, 5th grade teacher.

PSP NEWS Yearbook Orders: It's that time of year to order a yearbook if you haven't done so already! Order forms are coming home this week and are due with payment March 5th. Contact us if you have any questions. Box Tops: Way to go, CTE! You clipped enough Box Tops to raise approximately $1000 for our school! Congratulations to Mrs. Reynolds' class for winning the week 4 reward of 10 extra minutes of recess! Congratulations to Mr. Major's class for winning the overall award! Start clipping Box Tops for next year! Restaurant Day: Mark your calendar for the next restaurant day at Papa John's in Parker, March 7th. Order from Papa John's (720-851-6000) anytime that day during their business hours of 10:00am - 11:00pm and we will receive a portion of sales. Make sure you let them know you are ordering to support CTE!

MINDFUL MORNINGS - NOELLE DUNKER
Open to Grades 3 - 6 - SIGN UP HERE! now open to 3rd grade as well! Start your morning with some mindfulness and see your life change (flyer). Tuesday and Thursday Mornings - 8:10 - 8:30 AM
In Mrs. Dunker’s 4th Grade Classroom

FROM TECH - ANNA HYLTON PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES - 11-15Mar19 MyConferenceTime.com/cte - visit this link to sign up for parent/teacher conferences. 1. no log-in required! 2. just click on the teacher's name - use the Register for Multiple Conferences link if you want to find a common time for all of your students 3. chose the date of conference 4. chose the time of conference - click Sign Up 5.fill in the required information 6. click Sign Up for your Conference at the bottom 7. optional - use the Add to my Personal Calendar link

Please contact Anna Hylton with any questions. CALLING ALL PHOTOS FOR THE YEARBOOK!

Please submit any/all photos of CTE events for the 2018-19 yearbook (class parties, assemblies, field trips, etc.)

The deadline for submissions is 25Mar19 - here are 3 easy ways to submit photos: 1. use the HerfJones portal (from your computer or from the app) go to the website: hjeshare.com * use the school code: cteyearbook * complete the form and start submitting! * for iPhone and Droid users, the eShare App! (search: "Herff Jones eShare") 2. email photos to Anna Hylton 3. send a flash drive to school with your student (labeled drives will be returned)

FROM THE LMC - KAREN NOTTINGHAM STOMP, CHOMP & READ!

Our Dino-Mite Book Fair arrives March 11th - 15th! Open During Conferences Late Nights: Tuesday & Thursday until 7:30 pm Find Books for Spring Break and Summer Reading! SILLY STRING STOMPDOWN We will be raising funds for the charity "ALL FOR BOOKS" with a bone-chompin' Silly String Stompdown unlike the Dinosaur Age has ever seen! Donate fifty cents for each raffle ticket for an opportunity to win a spot on the student team. Thanks to the support of our PSP, we have MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO WIN THIS YEAR! We will have 2 teams (K-2 and 3-6) and 36 Winning Student Tickets will be drawn against a staff of 6 per team. The more you donate, the more opportunities to win a spot on the team! A flyer will be coming home in Thursday folders with full details, along with the donation slip with ziploc bag. ROAR, we need you! Be sure to let Mrs. Nottingham know at Karen Nottingham, at 303.387.8136 (library) OR sign up online at our Book Fair Sign Up.
Check out our CTE Dino-Mite Book Fair Home Page for all our event details. So burnish your flame-throwing and stomp on down to our Book Fair. Thanks for helping our students know that Books are Dino-Mite!

MARCH COUNSELOR'S CORNER - JANE STIENER Handwriting Helper Does your youngster have trouble with handwriting? Here’s a way to practice two important skills: controlling a pencil and forming letters. You’ll need a pencil, a small piece of clay, and tracing paper. First, have your child hold a pencil like she does when she writes. Next, put a piece of clay in the area where she grips the pencil. Mold the clay to fit her fingers. The grip will make the pencil feel more comfortable and help keep it from slipping. Then, find or draw pictures of common things, such as a house, bike, car, or tree. Print the names of the items under the pictures. Have your youngster trace the outline of each picture and the letters in its name on the tracing paper. *From 2008 Resources for Educators, a division of Aspen Publishers, Inc. Visit these sites for more information: https://www.ot-mom-learning-activities.com/improve-handwriting-older-kids.html https://www.growinghandsonkids.com/how-to-improve-handwriting-skills-with-kids

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Counselors for Prevention Healthy Teen Series is hosting another fantastic presentation in the Parker area! Dr. Stacey Ludlow is a pediatrician who has had a career-long passion for and over 25 years experience in treating ADHD. During her 20 years in a private pediatrics practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she became the sole provider of the ADHD evaluations and medication management, and received referrals for her services from other providers in the community. After moving to Denver last year, she opened ADHD Specialists of Colorado, a practice 100% dedicated to helping children of all ages and their families with the management of ADHD. Her approach is highly individualized and integrative, combining medication as well as complimentary treatments. She is looking forward to sharing her insights with parents, teachers and students at her upcoming Healthy Teen Series presentation! This event is Wednesday March 16th 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM @ Parker Library. Click here to register! Please see the flyer for details.

FROM THE AP - ROBIN HUNT
Lost and Found All items in our lost and found will be on display in the lobby beginning Monday, March 4th. Anything not claimed by March 15th at 4pm will be donated to a local charity. Happy hunting! CMAS Testing - Colorado’s State-Mandated Test Parents, here is a link to the practice tests for CMAS. All Cherokee Trail students in 3rd-6th grades will take the Math and ELA (English/Language Arts) portions of the test. 5th grade students will also take Science. On April 9th-11th grades 3-6 will take the English Language Arts portion of the assessment in the morning. The following week, April 16th-18th, grades 3-6 will take Math in the morning. During that week, 5th graders will take the Science portion in the afternoons. For more information on CMAS testing here is a link to the Colorado Department of Education. All things CMAS reside on this website. CTE’s CMAS schedules are on our school website. Conferences We are excited for conferences next week. Please be sure to sign up for a conference using your classroom teacher’s link. Teachers take great delight in the successes of our students...students’ success is our success. Our partnership with parents is crucial to the development of productive human beings who make a positive impact on our society. Thank you for that partnership and thank you for attending conferences!

What's Happening at CTE (calendar)

7	MAR	8:10 - 8:30am	Mindful Mornings w/Mrs. Dunker
		3:30 - 4:15pm	Film Club - Library
		4 - 8pm	Restaurant Night: Papa Johns
11	MAR	All day	Conference Week
		All day	STOMP CHOMP & READ Book Fair
12	MAR	All day	Conference Week
		All day	STOMP CHOMP & READ Book Fair
		8:10 - 8:30am	Mindful Mornings w/Mrs. Dunker
13	MAR	All day	Conference Week
		All day	STOMP CHOMP & READ Book Fair
		7:45 - 8:30am	Student Council
14	MAR	All day	Conference Week
		All day	Pi Day! (3.14)
		All day	STOMP CHOMP & READ Book Fair
		8:10 - 8:30am	Mindful Mornings w/Mrs. Dunker
		3:30 - 4:15pm	Film Club - Library
15	MAR	All day	Conference Week
		All day	STOMP CHOMP & READ Book Fair
18	MAR	All day	Spring Break
19	MAR	All day	Spring Break
20	MAR	All day	Spring Break
21	MAR	All day	Spring Break
22	MAR	All day	Spring Break
26	MAR	8:10 - 8:30am	Mindful Mornings w/Mrs. Dunker
		2:15 - 3:15pm	PSP Meeting
27	MAR	7:45 - 8:30am	Student Council
		10:20 - 10:50am	Chap Wish Week Assembly
28	MAR	8:10 - 8:30am	Mindful Mornings w/Mrs. Dunker
		3:30 - 4:15pm	Film Club - Library
		3:45 - 4:45pm	TGA Tennis - Blacktop
29	MAR	All day	Chap Wish Week CTE-Staff Calendar
		2:45 - 3:15pm	Wish Week Reveal

FROM THE PRINCIPAL - JOSH MILLER
The Principal Chronicles continue ... The big news at the Miller ranch this week was the arrival of our new treadmill. As many of my loyal readers know, exercise is a huge deal in our house. In fact, it is such a big deal, we have a large set of barbells and weights in our garage, plus a treadmill, plus a membership at a CrossFit gym, and we frequently enter running races. So when your significant other gets a large bonus from her job, you do what our family does - buy a new treadmill. I know what you are thinking. Do we need a second treadmill? Well, no, but the one we have doesn't work that well (I cannot confirm nor deny whether I broke the other treadmill while running on it at a high rate of speed - shhhh!). Having said that, those advertising geniuses at Peloton conveniently placed a demo location right smack dab in the middle of Park Meadows Mall so, of course, when we were there at Christmas we "had" to stop by and try it out. Of course, it was awesome, of course, my two girls loved it, of course, our bank account hated it, but eventually, we caved and purchased the treadmill. For those of you not familiar with Peloton, think Orange Theory at your house minus those strange water rowers. First thing we had to do was figure out where on Earth we were going to put that beast. We are tall people and the treadmill is big, so really, the only place to put it was in our main family room. For those of you who remember, the main family room is where my oldest's rabbit lives and hops around. Treadmills and rabbits don't necessarily work well together, so we essentially had to rearrange our entire family room. Some families rearrange for couches or decorating, we rearrange for treadmills. So the treadmill came last Friday. Holy Cow it's awesome! There is a huge screen and all kinds of cool classes. In addition, I might have forced my youngest into doing a couch to 5K series. Maybe. Either way, our entire family has been using this thing but I have a sneaking suspicion that I will be the only one using it in a couple of months from now. Just sayin' ... That is it for this week - happy almost Spring. Stay tuned for next time when the Principal Chronicles continue ...

NEW FLYERS (ALL)

Rosie's Ranch - Summer Horseback Riding - flyer
2019 Chaparral Volleyball Summer Camps - flyer
Drawing Classes from Young Rembrandts - flyer
Engineering for Kids Class - flyer
Douglas County Parenting Coalition - free programs flyer
Strategic Kids Chess at CTE
Strategic Kids LEGO at CTE
Chaparral Wrestling Club - flyer
after school Spanish at CTE

GIFTED & TALENTED NEWS

DCAGT [Douglas County Association for the Gifted & Talented]

DCSD Gifted Education News

In compliance with Titles VI & VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and Colorado law, the Douglas County School District RE-1 does not unlawfully discriminate against otherwise qualified students, employees, applicants for employment, or members of the public on the basis of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, religion, ancestry, or need for special education services. Discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on age, genetic information, and conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth is also prohibited in accordance with state and/or federal law. Complaint procedures have been established for students, parents, employees, and members of the public. The School District's Compliance Officer and Title IX Coordinator to address complaints alleging sexual harassment under Title IX is Aaron Henderson, 620 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, [email protected], 303-387-0127.

Outside Agencies

Complaints regarding violations of Title VI, (race, national origin), Title IX (sex, gender), Section 504/ADA (handicap or disability), may be filed directly with the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, 1244 North Speer Blvd., Suite 310, Denver, CO 80204. Complaints regarding violations of Title VII (employment) and the ADEA (prohibiting age discrimination in employment) may be filed directly with the Federal Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 303 E. 17th Ave., Suite 510, Denver, CO 80202, or the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 1560 Broadway, Suite 1050, Denver, CO 80202.

NOTICE OF DESTRUCTION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION RECORDS

Special Education records which have been collected by Douglas County School District related to the identification, evaluation, educational placement, or the provision of special education in the district, must be maintained under state and federal laws for the period of five (5) years after special education services have ended for the student. Special education services end when the student is no longer eligible for services, graduates, or completes his/her educational program at age 21, or moves from the district. This notification is to inform parents/guardians and former students of Douglas County School District's intent to destroy the special education records of students who exited special education services as of June 30, 2016. These records will be destroyed in accordance with state law unless the parent/guardian or eligible (adult) student notifies the school district otherwise. After five years, the records are no longer useful to the district, but may be useful to the parent/guardian or former student in applying for social security benefits, rehabilitation services, college entrance, etc. The parent/guardian or eligible (adult) student may request a copy of the records by requesting the records at this link ( Douglas County School District Transcripts and Records Requests ).