David M. Cox Elementary School – Achieving Excellence

Cub Cheers: Congratulations to the students in Mrs. Bernard’s Class, they did our Friday Announcements and were fabulous! Congratulations to the following students for receiving Cox Cub of the Week: Tori Piccininni, Alani Levesque, Isaac Kordos, Christine Sonoy, Kiana Davis, Carl Lobue, Isadora Jefic, Joes Robinson, Isabella Hernandez, McKenna Fitzpartick, Isaiah Manning, Anastasia Jefic, Jayden Tonthat, Morgan Brooks, Kenzie Hawkins, Ella Swinger, Zakary Bailey, Layla Boren, Dreyson Reed, and Kamren Kennett. Finally, congratulations to Mrs. Ball-Aguilar, one of our Fourth Grade Teachers for receiving the Cox Teacher of the Week.

Bookworm Breakfast: Tomorrow, Tuesday the 22nd at 8:00 am will be our first Bookworm Breakfast!

PTA School Fund Raiser: Friday the 25th will be our FUN RUN at school! It is a really fun event, the kids get “pumped” up to run and earn the prizes and the monies earned from the FUN RUN help fund graduations, Accelerated Reader, Math Facts in a Flash, and Field Trips.

PTA News: Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first-of-the-year PTA meeting. We had a lot of attendees and it was wonderful to see so many new faces!

Library Book Fair is Here: This Friday night from 3:30-6:30 is our EVENING BOOK FAIR SALE! Each year our Library has a fall and spring book fair and it’s time for our fall fair! The book fair (held in the Library) runs from the 18th through the 25th, is open from 8:30 am – 3:45 pm.

Thank you 2015-2016 Sponsors!The following families and businesses have sponsored some of our extra annual expenses

and we appreciate them greatly!

Thank you to the following families:

Mr. Hollis and Family, $500.00 for our student recognition dog tags

Ms. Matyskiel and Findlay Toyota, $300.00 for our student honor roll certificates

Dorian Photography, $700.00 for our Cox Student Folders

Family & Community Sponsorships: We are looking for community businesses to take on “sponsorship” of expenses which are no longer allocated by the district. If you know of a business that would be willing to be a David Cox Sponsor please email me directly (my email is at the top the page). We would recognize their business and all sponsorship items are tax deductible. You can partially sponsor the items below as well.

AR Medals: $1,000.00 Positive Paw Rewards: $600.00 Fifth Grade Closing Trophies: $300.00 Staff Development Days: $800.00 Teacher Recognition: $500.00 Student/Parent Handbook: $700.00 Carnival Kid Prizes: $800.00 Carnival Pizza: $600.00 Carnival Ahern Light Rental: $400.00 Carnival Ice (20, 10 lbs bags): $100.00 Carnival Booth Supplies, Basket Auction: $600.00 CCSD Cafeteria Usage Fee for Carnival: $50.00

Cox Cub Weekly NewsVolume 5, Issue 4 Mrs. Tara Imboden, Principal imboden@interact.ccsd.net

Sept 14-18, 2015 Dr. Christine Clayman, Assistant Principal cclayman@interact.ccsd.net

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Staffing Update: Our district’s student count day took place last week. This is a day in which the district looks at total building student count and determines whether a school loses or gains more teaching positions. Based on our numbers, we have not been granted additional staff. Currently, our third grades are too high in student numbers and we are making adjustments to assist those third grade teachers as “Class Size Reduction” applies to grades K-3, not 4th and 5th. We will be having one of our full-time teachers, Mrs. Perkins, step in to co-teach in the afternoons for all 4 third grade rooms.

Miler’s News: Come join Milers club on Monday, September 28 th at 8:30 am . Milers entrance is through the bike rack gates, gates open at 8:25 am and all fitness begins on the field. We hope to see you there!

Elite Edge Sports: Mr. Hale will be starting our sports classes after school beginning with football on September 28th. Classes are open to students ages 8 to 11 and the cost is $100.00. Registration flyers came home last week and sign-ups are under way. Classes are conducted in the PE Room and the outside campus and run from 3:30-4:30 pm. Parents/Guardians will pick up students from the Bus Loading Zone.

The David M. Cox Elementary Cub Mentors R-For Us Program was established to provide students with individual attention on social and academic support.  The mentors serve as role models for students by demonstrating values such as responsibility, dependability, punctuality, and reliability.  They will help students understand the importance of education to their personal and future goals.

Mentor: One who provides one to one support and is a friend and a role model, boosts a child’s self-esteem, enhances a child’s educational experience.

Mentoring: Meeting regularly over an extended period of time with the goal of enabling a special bond of mutual commitment based on the development of respect, communication and improvement of academic and personal growth

Expected Outcomes: Enhance self-esteem and the students’ positive educational experience.

The mentoring program is new in our school so if you are interested in becoming a mentor, or have any questions about this program, please call the front office. You may also contact Dr. Clayman via email: cclayman@interact.ccsd.net. Or our Academic Guidance Counselor, Ms. Deihl via email: jddeihl@interact.ccsd.net.

A Look Ahead: Sept 18-25 Book FairSept 22 Bookworm Breakfast MP Room 8:00 amSept 25 Evening Book Fair 3:30-6:30 pmSept 25 Fun Run at SchoolSept 25 First Progress Reports Come HomeSept 25 Vision and Hearing Student ScreeningSept 28-Oct 2 Govenor’s Week of RespectSept 28-Oct 23 K-2 Acuity Testing Reading/MathSept 29 Picture DayOct 6 PTA Mtg. 6 pm LibraryOct 14-16 GATE at Astro CampOct 16 Progress Reports Out

Parents – taking awesome pictures of your child at school? Don’t forget, when you visit us or attend school events and take cool pics to send them to your child’s teacher so the pics

can be emailed to our Yearbook Chair!

School Pictures are next week! We always need parent helpers to assist the students and photography company. If you can volunteer please contact

Mrs. Espinoza at 799-5730.