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Cox Elementary School Achieving Excellence

Cox Cub Weekly News

Volume 4, Issue 20 Mrs. Tara Imboden, Principal imboden@interact.ccsd.net
Feb. 23-27, 2015
Dr. Christine Clayman, Assistant Principal cclayman@interact.ccsd.net
Cub Cheers: Great job to our students from the Fifth Grade Beta Club, they did our Friday Announcements and did fantastic!
Congratulations to the following students for receiving the Cox Cub of the Week award: Brayden Peterman, Patricia Farias,
Ava Shahbazy, Joshua Ramos Cardona, Kaydance Greer, Thiago Cruz, Jocelyn Jung, Eva Powell, Morgan Brooks!
Congratulations to Ms. Galdi for receiving the Cox Teacher of the Week award!
Specialist Trophy Winners for February: Congratulations to the following classes for earning the top behavior
points in all the specialist classes combined to receive the trophy of the month: 1 st Grade: Mrs. Anderson, 2nd Grade:
Ms. Harry, 3rd Grade: Mrs. Husney, 4th Grade: Mrs. Stackel, and 5th Grade: Mrs. Piccininni!
PTA News: Thank you families for supporting our monthly dinner night last Friday at Dairy Queen! Please dont
forget tomorrow, Tuesday, March 3rd, at 6 pm is our monthly PTA meeting. Due to the Book Fair inhabiting the
library, the meeting will be held in the Art Room.

NEVADA READING WEEK IS HERE!

Got Books?...BE a Superhero, Read!

The activities are as follows:
Daily drawings for students to Barnes N Noble Store, Drop Everything and Read, Guest Readers
in the classrooms, Reading Bingo, Reading Redbox, Mystery Readers, and our
Library Book Fair is open!
Dress-up Days:
Monday: Hats off to reading hat day
Tuesday: Cozy up with a good book pajama day
Wednesday: Word-up wear clothing with as many words on it you can find
Thursday: Character Day dress like your favorite character
Friday: Be a HeroRead hero/cape day
Our week finishes up with the Academic Fair on Friday, March 6, 2015 from 5:30-7:00 pm,
with student work being showcased, learning activities from each grade level, our Honor Choir
performing, the Book Fair in the Library, and DMC Club booths to visit!
SAFETY ALERT (2nd Posting): Parents, please follow our campus lot procedures of NOT TURNING LEFT OUT
OF THE PARKING LOT during drop off and dismissal! Every day, we are having people drive INTO the EXIT,
turn left, and park over the sidewalk which prevents us from crossing our kids! We have 623 students to get off of
only 4 exit locations on our property and only one general education bus that means that approximately 500 students
are requiring vehicle drop-off/pick-up. Thats a lot of cars! Please follow our safety standards.
Professional Read Opportunity: Our professional book for this year is called Mindsets in the Classroom,
by Mary Cay Ricci. Our teachers will be reading this through the month of March and implementing the concepts
presented within our classrooms. If you would like to be part of our professional read, please sign up at Academic
Night and the designated table in the hallway. The cost of the book will be $10.00 and the school will cover the
remaining amount. We will be having book discussions, presentations on chapters, and applications to our
classrooms throughout the months of April and May.
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Intermediate State Testing: In April our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students will be taking the newly adopted SBAC tests. These
replaced the CRTs for the state. These tests are MANDATORY for all public educated students in designated grades.
There are two exams; English Language Arts (reading) and Math. Then for fifth grade students, they are still
mandated to take the Science CRTs in May.
These tests are completely on-line and are very intensive in nature. Each ELA and Math test has 3 student
components and can take up to 10 hours to complete just one subject. We do not know what these exams will look
like, what content or expectations the exams will have for students, or the reality of completing a computerized test.
However, our teachers have been working diligently to stick to teaching the CORE Standards as mandated, theyve
been having the students complete practice tests on line, and have increased computer access time.
We do expect our scores to drop but we also know that our students will do their best and our teachers are preparing
them with great efforts. Its challenging to attempt to prepare students for a format of a test which we ourselves have
never experienced, seen, or been trained on. Regardless, we support our students and provide them with outstanding
teaching and instruction.
For testing information, you can view the same information as us by logging into the Nevada State Education site and
searching SBAC.
At the Academic Night, our computer lab is going to be set up for parents to view and take the practice tests. Theyre
quite difficult and very surprising to the amount of computer knowledge a student needs to know in order to take the
tests.
Infinite Campus: Parents, secondary schools infinite campus semesters are very different from elementary schools. Whereas
secondary schools semester 1 grades end at semester 1, elementary schools continue to be averaged into the current semester
Semester 2 is NEVER beginning at zero. When youre looking at your childs infinite campus grades, the Progress is
the current grade your child is earning, Overall is an average of the current and semester 1. Dont forget to refresh your
infinite campus app and it wont always give you the latest grade posting.

A Look Ahead:
3/2-3/6
NV Reading Week
3/2-3/6
Library Book Fair Open
3/3
PTA Mtg. Library 6 pm
3/5
Bookworm Breakfast 8:00 am MP Room
3/6
Academic Fair Night 5:30-7:00
3/13
Fourth Grade Muscial Performance
3/17
Cookie Dough Orders Due
3/18
Final Student Payment Due for SeaWorld
3/20
Fifth Grade Musical Performance
3/26
Paw Redemption Day
3/26
Cookie Dough Deliveries
3/27
Quarter Ends/Unsats come home
3/30-4/3
Spring Break-no school