School will be

out on February

12th and 15th

for winter

break!

Valentines Day

Singing Telegrams

will be February

11. Performed by

CRHS Choirs

Cantabile and

Noteworthy. $2

each.

FBLA Valentine’s

Gifts For Your

Crush!! $2- Yahoo I like

you!

$2- -- I have a Crush

(strawberry) on you!

$4-hugs & kisses to

my Crush!

$4-Yahoo hugs &

kisses to you!

Since Valentine’s

Day falls on a

weekend, all

Valentine

deliveries will be

on Thursday,

February 11th.

Cossatot River High School

February 2016

Interesting Facts

1) About 1 billion

Valentine’s Day

cards are

exchanged each

year. This makes it

the second largest

seasonal card

sending time of the

year.

2) In 1537,

England's King

Henry VII officially

declared Feb. 14

the holiday of St.

Valentine’s Day.

National Board Reading Fair Quiz Bowl

2

Co-Op Winners Tutoring Spelling Bee

3

Reading Fair Winners

4

Reading Fair Winners

5

Community Thank You!

6

Calendar 7

Inside this

issue:

February 3, 2016 is FBLA Spring Conference @ Hope, Arkansas.

Congratulations to Shelly

Richardson, Mary Ferguson &

Terry Alexander, teachers of

Cossatot River School district

for attaining their certification

through the National Board for

Professional Teaching

Standards.

National Board Certification is

held by fewer than five percent

of all teachers nationwide. To

receive this certification,

teachers must meet rigorous

standards through intensive

study, expert evaluation, self

assessment and peer review.

Mrs. Richardson teaches 4th

grade Literacy at the Wickes

Elementary campus. Mrs.

Ferguson teaches Math,

Science and Social Studies at

the Wickes Elementary campus.

Mrs. Alexander is the Library

Media Specialist at the Cossatot

River High School.

Congratulations, ladies. A job

well done!

The National Honor Society sent 140 pounds of food and hygiene items to the troops through Project Frontlines

Jr. High Quiz Bowl practice will

be starting soon. This year, we

will be hosting the regional

tournament on February 6th.

Page 2

Cossatot River Teachers Achieve National Board

The winners of the Reading Fair

traveled to the DeQueen

Mena Education Cooperative to

compete on January 28, 2016.

The Cossatot River High School

Reading Fair was held on

January 12-15 for 7th -9

th grade.

Congratulations to the winners!

Winners can be seen on pages 4 and 5.

Reading Fair

7th grade:

1st place Non Fiction Matthew Bone & Bryor Loyd

Best Presentation- Yessica

Vazquez

1st place Technology Nikki

Cusher and Allie Austin

Best Technology Presentation

Nikki Cusher and Allie Austin

8th grade:

1st place Non Fiction Jordan Bailey

Best Presentation- Natalie Wilson

9th grade:

1st place Fiction- Britney Antunez

3rd place Non Fiction-Rhyen

Martin & Faye Wilkinson

3rd place Technology- Shanna

Johnson & Cheyenne Himes

Best Presentation Technology-

Leighton Williams

Sixto Aguilar won first place in the eighth grade Spelling Bee competition and was the overall Polk County Spelling Bee winner. He will be com-peting in the State Spelling Bee. Congratulations Sixto!

Page 3

DeQueen Mena Educational Coop Reading Fair Winners

After School tutoring is available

every Monday and Wednesday

from 3:20pm-4:50pm in Mrs.

Kesterson's room #103. Bus

transportation will not be

provided.

Reading Fair

Winners

Cossatot River High

School

6330 Hwy 71 S

Cove, AR 71937

CRHS

Phone: 870-387-4200

Fax: 870-387-2058

Principal: LaDonna White

Asst. Principal: Mickey Ford

Community Thank You!

Thank you to the following for volunteering your

time to work in the concession stand during ball

games: First Baptist Church of Vandervoort, Tyson

Foods, Union Bank of Mena, Isokenitcs, and

Cossatot River State Park Natural Area. Thank

you to Nick Strother from Tyson Foods and Billy

Driver from Insulation Works for cooking chicken

for the hospitality room during our tournament.

Also, a big thank you to the basketball and

cheerleader parents for providing food for the

hospitality room during the tournament. We hope

not to have missed anyone, but we are so thankful

for all of your time and effort that is put in for our

students/school. We are on the web:

www.cossatot.us