Principal’s Corner Kim Noyes, Principal Kelly Lane, Assistant Principal 1860 S. Chelton Rd., Colorado Springs, CO 80910 (719) 579-2155/56 Fax (719) 538-1383 School Hours: Monday 9:40 am - 3:35 pm Tuesday - Friday 8:10 am - 3:35 pm Important Dates: Oct 02 - Picture Day Oct 07 - No School (Teacher Workday) Oct 10 - Million Father March/Walk to School Oct 16 - PM Conferences Oct 17 - No School (Conferences) Oct 18 - No School (District Closed) October 2019 Centennial Elementary School Dear Centennial Families, We are off to a wonderful start to the school year! We have seen such growth in all students in the 1 ½ months we have been in school so far and plan to see much more growth in the coming months. In each class, our students receive rigorous instrucon ed to Harrison Curriculum Maps and Common Core Standards. Your child/children may be using terms such as objecves and DOLs. Our objecves are what students need to know and be able to do while our DOLS, Demonstraons of Learning, are how the students show their teachers that they have mastered the concept. Ask your child what their objecves and DOLs were for the day and you will be astounded by what they learn each day. We are excited about our implementaon of the 3 Rs. Our schoolwide behavior system uses the 3 Rs and focuses on Centennial Panthers being Ready, Respecul, and Responsible. As part of our behavior system, we are using Panther Passes and offering incenves when students fill up a Panther Pass. It is wonderful to see our students owning their learning, get excited about the posive feedback they are receiving, and they are filling up mulple Panther Passes in a week. We have some very important events this month! We have Picture Day on October 2nd and want to ensure all students are here to get their pictures taken. In addion, our Million Man March and Walk to School Day are on October 10 th . We want to invite all caregivers to come to our Million Father March. Another flyer will be sent home with more details. We look forward to seeing all families at conferences and will send more informaon home about this in a few weeks. We appreciate your support in reaching our mission of “Achievement NOW” – we believe our scholars are capable of the highest expectaons. Please connue to focus on the three things each day that will help your child be successful: 1. Students arrive to school on me. 2. Students read each night. 3. Students do their homework each night. Thank you for your ongoing support! We are off to a great start and look forward to a wonderful year! Achievement NOW, Kim Noyes, Kelly Lane, Principal Assistant Principal Centennial students and staff celebrated the Official Compleon of our Remodel with the Nunn Construcon Team.
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Principal’s Corner
Kim Noyes,
Principal
Kelly Lane,
Assistant Principal
1860 S. Chelton Rd.,
Colorado Springs, CO
80910
(719) 579-2155/56 Fax (719) 538-1383
School Hours: Monday
9:40 am - 3:35 pm Tuesday - Friday
8:10 am - 3:35 pm
Important Dates:
Oct 02 - Picture Day Oct 07 - No School (Teacher Workday) Oct 10 - Million Father March/Walk to School Oct 16 - PM Conferences
Oct 17 - No School (Conferences) Oct 18 - No School (District Closed)
October 2019
Centennial Elementary
School
Dear Centennial Families,
We are off to a wonderful start to the school year! We have seen such growth in all students in the 1 ½ months we have been in school so far and plan to see much more growth in the coming months. In each class, our students receive rigorous instruction tied to Harrison Curriculum Maps and Common Core Standards. Your child/children may be using terms such as objectives and DOLs. Our objectives are what students need to know and be able to do while our DOLS, Demonstrations of Learning, are how the students show their teachers that they have mastered the concept. Ask your child what their objectives and DOLs were for the day and you will be astounded by what they learn each day.
We are excited about our implementation of the 3 Rs. Our schoolwide behavior system uses the 3 Rs and focuses on Centennial Panthers being Ready, Respectful, and Responsible. As part of our behavior system, we are using Panther Passes and offering incentives when students fill up a Panther Pass. It is wonderful to see our students owning their learning, get excited about the positive feedback they are receiving, and they are filling up multiple Panther Passes in a week. We have some very important events this month! We have Picture Day on October 2nd and want to ensure all students are here to get their pictures taken. In addition, our Million Man March and Walk to School Day are on October 10th. We want to invite all caregivers to come to our Million Father March. Another flyer will be sent home with more details. We look forward to seeing all families at conferences and will send more information home about this in a few weeks. We appreciate your support in reaching our mission of “Achievement NOW” – we believe our scholars are capable of the highest expectations. Please continue to focus on the three things each day that will help your child be successful: 1. Students arrive to school on time. 2. Students read each night. 3. Students do their homework each night. Thank you for your ongoing support! We are off to a great start and look forward to a wonderful year!
Achievement NOW,
Kim Noyes, Kelly Lane, Principal Assistant Principal
Centennial students and staff celebrated the Official Completion of our Remodel with the
Nunn Construction Team.
October 2019
Kindergarten News Kindergarten is in full swing and boy are we working hard! We have been learning letters and sounds, sight words and beginning reading skills. Ask your child about the characters and settings in the books that you read at home. Also, we have been working on rhyming, having them practice this at home will help them better understand rhyming. We have also learned the important skill of predicting in a story and checking our guesses. Writing finds us writing letters and using correct letter formation as well as beginning writing skills. A good idea for at home is to give your student a notebook and ask them to draw and write about what they did during the day or about a story. It is okay if things are not spelled correctly as we are encouraging them to write the sounds they hear. Counting, number writing, greater than, less than and equal amounts continue to be our focus in math. As the weather is starting to turn colder, we ask that you please send an appropriate jacket with your child each day. The weather can change very quickly and we don’t want any sick kids. Please also make sure that any jackets, hats or gloves are labeled, with their name, so that if they are misplaced, they can be returned. If you have any questions about anything, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your support! The Kindergarten Team Mrs. Washburn, Ms. Kimsey, Mrs. King, and Mrs. Fisk
First Grade News
We are off to a great start! It has been great working with your child. In reading and writing we are excited to be using a program called Wonders. In reading we are focusing on rhyming, letter sounds, identifying details in a text, and writing the sounds we hear. In writing we are creating a plan from a text and writing a topic sentence and detail sentences. In math we are continuing to practice addition and subtraction fluency through working with number sentences, number bonds, and word problems. We have practiced using multiple strategies including but not limited to 5 group cards, fingers, counting on and drawing a picture. Please keep an eye out for parent tip sheets that may help you understand the Eureka strategies and how you can help your child. In science we will continue learning about the properties of solids, liquids, and gases. In social studies we will continue to explore timelines and events.
**Reminders: Homework packets are due every Monday. Students will spend recess completing them if they are not turned in complete. Communication: Daily Schedule: Office: 579-2155 Monday: 9:40-3:35 Tuesday - Friday 8:10-3:35 Specials: 9:35-10:20 Lunch/Recess: 12:15-12:45 Afternoon Recess: 2:15-2:30
Second Grade News We are excited about 2nd grade! This is what we learned in September in 2nd grade. Math - We just finished our unit on measurement. We learned how to measure different lengths with centimeters, meters, and inches. We also learned to compare two objects that are different lengths. We are moving into our unit on place value. Language Arts - We have been learning about long and short vowels a, e, i, o, and u. We have been practicing expository and informative writing. We have also been studying character, setting, plot, key details, and main idea. Science - We continued to study force and motion.
Third Grade News
4th Grade News
4th grade is now almost done with our first quarter! A couple reminders: Your child’s lunch time is at 11:20. Specials is at 10:15 on Mondays and 8:45 the rest of the week. Class pictures will be happening October 2nd. Students were already sent home with a form to order pictures. There is no school on Monday, October 7th for a Teacher Workday. Student Conferences are coming up on the evening of October 16th. On October 17th and 18th, there will be no school for Parent/Teacher Conferences. Please look out for emails, and reminder papers will be sent home with your child as these dates get closer. In math, we have completed Unit 2. This unit allowed students to review place value concepts while building fluency with decomposing, or converting from largest to smaller units. They learned the relative sizes of measurements units. In Unit 3 students use place value understanding and visual representations to solve multiplications and division problems with multi-digit numbers. Students are beginning to investigate formulas for area and perimeter. (Continued on next page)
We love 3rd grade! Reading is floating right along. We are still working on Module 1 of our Wit and Wisdom curriculum which is all about the sea. Students recently started investigating why and how scientists explore sea creatures. The sea creatures we are currently exploring are sharks and will be moving on to giant squid all while looking into text features and illustrations. Students are able to ask and answer questions, discover main ideas and key details of the text. We will be continuing our sea exploration for another week or two and then we are off into space!
In math, we are getting into our second unit of Eureka. Throughout this unit we will be focusing on Elapsed Time, Measurement, and Rounding to the nearest 10 and nearest 100. Students will learn how to explain how much time has passed, while being able to real time on a number line and analog clock. We will focus on measurement units of mass and volume involving grams, kilograms, milliliters, and liters. Students will develop estimating skills by rounding numbers.
Writing with Mrs. Ginster has started and third grade is doing an amazing job! Together we have started created a notebook to keep all our notes in an organized place. We are starting with expository text – reading about a topic and writing to a prompt. We have gone through the entire writing process together already reading and writing about hurricanes. Students will read and write about a variety of topics – weather, animals, and Colorado history just to name a few! Mrs. Ginster is excited for this change and continues to look forward in teaching writing to all third grade this year! The best way you can support your third grader is to ensure they are working on their homework packet AND turning it in! This includes the reading log on the back of the cover. The third grade expectation is that third graders are reading 20 minutes a night – including the weekends.
October 2019
4th Grade News (continued) This month in ELA students will be continuing with Module 1, but now we will be looking at the figurative great heart. They will explore the ideas of how different characters in poems show great heart by being generous, courageous, and or heroic. They will have the opportunity to look closely at the chapter book Love That Dog by Sharon Creech, which is written in the form of short poems. Students will also be introduced to a variety of different poets and poems that are referred to in Love That Dog. They will be able to identify what a poem is by the end of the module and what the six different elements of poetry are. We will continue to be writing informative paragraphs and then eventually move to an informative essay by the end of this module.
5th Grade News
In the month of October, fifth grade will be wrapping up module one. Throughout this module students built knowledge of American Westward Expansion. While learning about the Nez Perce culture students were expected to explain how cultural beliefs and values guide people. The next upcoming module teaches our students the masterful use of wordplay. Students will get an in depth understanding of homophones, homographs and idiomatic expressions. Understanding the importance of figurative language and the power of words will further student experience in reading, writing, and the brilliant world around them. 5th grade Math is moving along great! Fifth graders are working hard on unit 2 where they are learning about different strategies to multiply. Toward the end of the quarter we will start learning strategies to divide and apply those strategies to real-world problems. Students should be working on their multiplication fluency at home to help them here at school. If you would like to work with your student on arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division that would be a huge help throughout the year!
Special Education News This year is flying by as we begin October already! You can look forward to Picture Day on October 2nd! Parent/Teacher Conferences will be coming the third week of this month. Look for further details as they are solidified. The weather is changing as it does all the time in Colorado! The mornings are cool and the afternoons are warm. Please have your students dress accordingly each day. Always remember, routines are important! Please make sure that you are keeping those bedtime routines in place throughout the year. Ask your student what he/she learned today? You will be amazed at what they tell you.
Ann Ansardi, SSN Teacher - Ryan Sebastian, Mild/Moderate Teacher - Joel Karr, SSN Teacher
The Centennial Food Pantry is now open to serve our families. Stop by the front office on the following days:
Tuesday & Wednesday 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
October 2019
Music Notes Kindergarten is working on how to use their bodies and voices to echo each other to create new sounds and shapes. 1st grade is working on reading rhythms and using those rhythms to improvise on instruments. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade are working on new rhythms and how to incorporate those rhythms into music writing in order to perform on drums and xylophones.
Library News K, 1st, 2nd Students are using good listening skills in order to create a people graph with peers and independently complete an ‘All About Me’ Project. 3rd, 4th, 5th Students are collaborating as a group to research a chosen animal using a Two-Column note taking strategy to record facts found in a book and/or online.
Physical Education News K- 1st grade students are sharing space with others while remaining in their personal space. They are also follow directions and playing safely. 2nd grade students are learning how to be healthy. They will learn ab the importance of sleep, exercise and eating healthy foods. 3rd grade students are learning about the circulatory system. They are tracking their heart rate and learning how to strengthen their heart. 4th and 5th grade students are setting fitness goals. They will participate in fitness stations to reach their goal.
Technology Bytes We have now offered up a new lesson to go along with Code.org. It is called Think Through Math. We will be alternating weeks with these two lessons throughout the rest of the school year. Think Through Math allows the students to use technology while still applying their math skills.
Art News Kinders are learning about colors & shapes and how they can be used. They are making self-portraits with different colors, shapes and feelings and discussing where they see art every day in their lives!
1st graders are also learning about colors and the relationship to feelings and emotions. They are discussing the steps in creating works of art and how to properly use materials.
2nd graders are learning about still life art. They have looks at works by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Wayne Thiebaud. They really understand positive and negative space! Go 2nd graders!!
3rd graders are learning to use a lot of Art Vocabulary: abstract, realism intent, medium and intent just to name a few.
4th graders are researching Landscapes. Especially abstract landscapes. Wait until you see what they make!
5th graders are deep into research about the Nez Perce and their art and homes. What kind of teepee could we make? In the Art Room, we are also about to begin some exploratory work with manipulatives….. Students may earn time with new additions to our room with good behavior.
October 2019
District Corner We hope you are enjoying the 2019-2020 school year in Harrison School District Two. This District Corner News brings you important news from the District Office. • FREE COLLEGE for our D2 graduates is set to start in fall 2020. Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) will provide free college tuition and academic support coaches to every qualifying high school graduate in the school district. The Dakota Promise Scholarship aims to double the number of students attending college within one year of high school graduation and get 80 percent of those students to complete a certificate or degree or transfer to a four-year college or university. PPCC will play a pivotal role in the success of this program by providing participating students with intensive support from professional student success coaches which includes financial, personal, food, transportation, and academic support. To be eligible for the program, students must complete high school with 2.5 or better GPA for their combined junior and senior years, enroll at PPCC within 12 months of graduation, enroll and complete a minimum of 24 credit hours per academic year and apply for financial aid. Tell your friends there is another reason to choose HSD2!
