DECEMBER 18, 2014

Cleveland Elementary School 558-2463

JANUARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS:January 5 ........................................................................................Classes ResumeJanuary 6 ............................................................................ PTA Movie Night 6:15January 6 ......................................................................................Scrip Orders DueJanuary 7 .................................................................... Early Dismissal Day 1:30January 12 ......................................................................................... Popcorn SalesJanuary 12 ..............................................PTA Restaurant Night Out-Pizza Hut-

Edgewood Rd. 5:00-8:00January 13 ..................................... Playground Phase 2 Planning Meeting –

All are Welcome 6:30January 15 .........................Cleveland Night – Ice Skating Arena 6:30-8:30January 19 ................................................... NO SCHOOL-Staff Learning DayJanuary 28 .................................................................. Early Dismissal Day 1:30

WINTER RECESSRecess is a regularly scheduled part

of the school day and students should participate in recess activities. Chil-dren need to be dressed appropriately, i.e. hats, mittens, boots, snow pants, and/or an extra pair of dry socks. If children do not have the proper attire, they will need to refrain from getting wet, which often limits where they are allowed to go on the playground. Cleveland Elementary has recess if we are above 0 degrees, modifying the outside time as necessary. Please be sure to send your children with ap-propriate winter gear for outside play!

WINTER BREAKThe staff at Cleveland Elementary

wishes all of our families a safe and restful winter break. We are seeing some great growth both academically and socially with our students. Be sure to ask them how they are com-ing with their goals and continue to read over break!

Winter Break Building HoursCleveland will be closed Wednes-

day, December 24, through January 2nd. Classes Resume on Monday, January 5th.

CLEVELAND FOOD DRIVEThe Cleveland food drive this

year went to support HACAP and the work they do to provide food to families in the Cedar Rapids area. It is exciting to report that Cleveland donated 379 pounds of food which is 315 meals. Pic-tured is the group of students (PJ Kluth, Carter Bronson, Aubrey Wolf, Madison Bruce, Lilian Ciha, Anyah Stoppelmoor, Makenzie Bruce, Lynnae Bronson, Presley Kluth) along with parent and Girl Scout leader, Nicole Bruce, who helped to deliver the food over break. Thanks to all who helped to make the food drive a success.

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Individuals or organizations wishing to post material on the Virtual Backpack submit items electronically and approved materials will ap-pear online for families to access.

Organizations will � nd a link to submit � yers for consideration on the District homepage at www.cr.k12.ia.us . Families can access th e Virtual Backpack from their school Web site.

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Cedar Rapids Community School District takes your safety seriously and welcomes your input. Please contact your building principal/administrator and report any safety concerns that you may have. Thank you for helping us keep staff and students safe.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIRWe had a great time at our annual Book Fair!Thanks to all who helped… I really appreciated all the

help I had at set up day. We had very little time but were up and running by the time the doors opened at 4PM.

We were able to fill some wish list items for our classroom teachers and we also donated books to our school library. Along with those books we were able to pull books for our DEAR program that the PTA does each year at Cleveland. The DEAR program stands for “Drop Everything And Read”! In the spring each student at Cleveland is able to pick out a FREE book to keep. The kids look forward to this each year.

Once again our custodial staff and cafeteria staff pitched in like always and helped make our Book Fair a big suc-cess. Thanks to those family and friends that took part in the “READ-n-FEED” on Friday. It meant a lot that you showed your support for our PTA Scholastic Book Fair.

The following people need to be thanked for helping me out this year. I hope I do not forget any one!!!

Craig and Gabrielle Bennink helped set up for the Teacher Preview on Tuesday night.The following people helped set up the Book Fair all in an hour! Craig Bennink, Garret Bennink,

Brandon Egger, Maria Overturf-McDonald, Kathy Goedeken, Theresa Egger, Allison Groff, John Bate-man, Ed Bertch, Nicole Foster, Paula Purifoy.

Thursday and Friday Volunteers:Theresa Egger, Garret Bennink, Gabrielle Bennink, John Bateman, Kathy Goedeken, Nicole Fos-

ter, Mr. Suthers, Emily Bateman, Brandon Carothes, Shannon Mullan, Allison Groff, Maria Overturf-McDonald, Jessica Bronson, Maria Canas, Heather Bertch and Paula Purifoy.

Friday Night Take Down… thanks again to Craig Bennink, Garret Bennink, Brandon Egger, Zach-ary Egger, Christina Egger, Theresa Egger, Maria Overturf-McDonald, Gabrielle Bennink.

Thanks to one and all who helped make the Scholastic Book Fair a success!

Hope to see you all next year! We appreciate your support!

Sincerely,Ellisha Bennink, Book Fair Chairman

BOOKFAIR

Non-Discrimination PolicyIt is the policy of the Cedar Rapids Community School District not to illegally discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age (employment only), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socioeconomic status (students/program only) in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. District employees with questions or a grievance related to this policy should contact Jill Cirivello, Director of Human Resources, 319-558-2421; jcirivello@cr.k12.ia.us. Students and others should contact Ken Morris, Manager of Student Equity, 319-558-1504; kmorris@cr.k12.ia.us. The District mailing address is 2500 Edgewood Rd NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405-1015.

SCHOOLS NOW COUNT THE HOURSYou may have seen the recent story on the CRCSD website regarding how the majority of Iowa

schools are now counting the school year in hours rather than days. The change took effect July 1, 2014 and we are now required to provide 1,080 hours of instruction to our students.

Unfortunately parents and students sometimes experience barriers that interfere with receiving those precious hours of instruction. The staff at Cleveland keep a close eye on those barriers and consistently communicate with families who may be experiencing those barriers. A student may be ill, have an appointment, there may be a death in the family or some other barrier that prevents a child from attending school. When this happens communication with the school is critical. Please contact us at 558-2466 if your child will be absent or tardy to school.

This month I will be doing my part to communicate with families when I send attendance letters to families whose children have missed 4 or more days or have been tardy 10 or more times this school year. If you receive one of these letters please feel free to contact me to discuss your child’s attendance and if necessary make a plan for future success in consistent and on-time attendance.

Sha Hall ~ Student Support Liaison ~ 558-2066The following students K-5 students are being celebrated for having PERFECT 1st Trimester at-

tendance (here every day and on-time):

Landon ClassBrock ChapmanBrayden McMickleIzan MichelsShumaker ClassLeeAnn DarrowBrock GlubkaSophia JacobsenYasin MwalimuCorver ClassLynnae BronsonBraxton GroffSkyler MoodyLeis ClassVernon BendaMakenzie BruceTrace BurnhamAustin DarrowCarmen HagmeierZechariah Range

Haars ClassLeo HawkinsEric NyandwiSuthers ClassJohn GraftonNicholas SchmitzJames ClassOdella BizimurenyiAdrian BorregoBraiden GroffClayton McLainKilberger ClassChristina EggerJeremiah RangeEmersyn SecoraFurry ClassAli MwalimuMaiers ClassCamryn ButzKalib Martin

Hailey McRaeWilliam McVay IIZakyra RoutsonWaters ClassSahleh Al-HerzAshlyn EnderErika HawkinsNoor MwalimuNavaeh SmestadLafrenz ClassJayden AlbaughTrevor BoleynFenias HabonimanaMatthew LeMaysea MeyerLaMai RangeWolf ClassAriana ChesmoreBrandon DownerMyKyla Eader

Elizabeth LowderJayden ThigpenBoeckenstedt ClassRyan BeckerTimothy DarrowIsaac FosterLevi HoppenworthJames LeMercedes MeyerIbrahim OsmanBenjamin Vogel Kopecky ClassRyan AdrianAmerica BorregoZachary EggerKelsey KnudsenMadeline McQuistonWilliam Mitchell

Beginning this month the PBIS Team (Chris Lafrenz, AJ Maiers, Halli Sanford-Ryan, Mindy Suthers, Kellie Landon, Sha Hall, Amber Hansen, and Denise Pape) will provide school wide behavioral data here in the PBIS Corner.

PRIDE postcards are earned when a student goes above and beyond following our PRIDE agreements.

Blue tickets are earned by students when they are showing Cleveland PRIDE. The tickets help teachers and other staff members acknowledge kids for doing the right thing.

Office Referrals are earned when student behaviors are too disruptive to the learning environment for them to remain in the classroom.

N Referrals are a tool teachers use to document student behaviors that do not require office intervention.

PBIS CORNER

November Data 2014Grade PRIDE Postcards Blue Tickets Office Referrals N ReferralsK 5 526 7 161st 54 566 15 22nd 5 590 13 303rd 70 561 2 14th 10 152 3 65th 0 287 1 4Totals 144 2682 41 59

PTA CHILDCARE VOLUNTEERS

A big “Thank you” to Maddie and Ashley Davidson for providing childcare for the November PTA meeting and Akira and Jolene So-renson for providing the December childcare!

SETTING GOALSThe month of Janu-

ary is often a month where you hear a lot of people who are setting some personal goals for themselves. Goal setting is a natural part of our daily lives here at Cleveland Elementary as well. In the classrooms you will see and hear students setting both personal goals as well as them working with the class to set classroom goals. This is an important part of learning and our school improvement plan includes this work. When kids know the purpose of their work and have the success criteria clearly stated on how to reach their goals, they tend to learn at higher rates. Don’t forget to ask them about some of the goals they have been setting for themselves!

Special DietsIf your student has a special diet form on file from a previous year

and something has changed, please contact the

Food and Nutrition Office at 558-2305.

BREAKFAST DATE WITH DADThanks to everyone who participated in the Breakfast Date with Dad PTA event held on November

7th in our Cleveland Cafeteria. We had one of our highest turnouts for this event! Students and their guests enjoyed fresh fruit, granola bars and mini muffins as well as great conversation and a chance to meet other members of the Cleveland Community. Door prizes were given to some lucky students. We hope to see you all next year!

As always, this event does not happen without volunteers. THANK YOU to Kristin Boies, Shari Harwood, Angela Breemeersch, Nicole Foster and Al Lauderdale. A special thank you to the Cleve-land PTA for funding this great event. Your time and efforts are much appreciated!

January Calendar

4th and 5th Grade Sports @ Cleveland

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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No School

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No School

5)

Girls 8:05

6) No Sports

7)

Boys 8:05

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Girls 8:05

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No Sports

12)

Boys 8:05

13)

Girls 8:05

14)

No Sports

15)

Boys 8:05

16)

Girls 8:05

19)

No School

20)

No Sports

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No Sports

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No Sports

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No Sports 26)

No Sports

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No Sports

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No Sports

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No Sports

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No Sports ***** Reminder: Be sure to turn in your signed sports permission slip before you come to sports. It is your ticket in for the entire 2014-2015 school year. You must wear gym shoes to participate! If school is delayed there will be no sports.