• Teacher Newsletters
• Colorado Sports Day on October 2, 2023
• Dress Like a Book Character Day October 27, 2023
• Penguin and Ollie K-2 Author Visit Salina Yoon
• Traffic Reminder
• 8th Grade Trip Information Night
• Parent Teacher Conference Sign Ups
• Interpreters for Parent Teacher Conferences
• Let CCA Know!
• Monday Munchies Sign Up!
• Scholastic Book Fair Coming Soon: Set Up Your eWallet Now!- Volunteer Opportunities!
• Veteran's Day at CCA
• Photo Retakes October 6, 2023
• Join the Fly Like an Eagle Committee!
• Optional Chromebook Insurance
• Now Hiring
• Next PTO Meeting
• PTO Volunteer Opportunities
• Order your yearbook and save 10%!
• Dennis Uniforms/Champions Information Fall Enrollment
• Upcoming Events
• PIN meeting information

*Bolded sections contain new information while regular text sections contain previous information seen in another Eagle.

Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5/6 Grade

7/8 Grade

Let's celebrate Colorado Sports! Wear your favorite sports gear on Monday, October 2, 2023! Please follow our free dress guidelines outlined in our Parent/Student Handbook

Dear Parents,

All students are invited to dress like a book character on Friday, October 27, 2023. Students must identify what book character they are dressing like by having a copy of their book with them. Book characters chosen cannot be violent or scary. No weapons are allowed to be carried. Book character dress must be appropriate for students to remain in all day. Free dress guidelines must be followed. We will have a literacy parade outside weather permitting or in the gym where all of our K-4 students will show their book characters and books to our middle school students. If your child does not dress up like a book character they can still take part in the literacy parade by showing their favorite book. Our middle school students will actively be looking for different book characters and will be entered into a drawing for identifying different book characters. Please fill this form out for each child that you have at CCA so that we can identify each book character! Dress Like a Book Character and Literacy Parade

Author Visit on Friday, October 6th, 2023 for Kindergarten, First, and Second grades

Time: 10:15 - 11:00 in the Gym

We are very excited to be partnering with Second Star to the Right Bookstore to bring author Salina Yoon to CCA. She will be promoting her new book Penguin and Ollie. Books are available to purchase through this link: Penguin and Ollie book order

Use the discount code: PENGUIN for 10% off the price. Books must be purchased by October 4, 2023 to guarantee they get signed. Books will be delivered to CCA the day of the visit.

Please contact Ms. Lanyi for more information at slanyi@cherrycreekacademy.org

CCA Community, please remember, when in carpool lines at drop-off or pick-up, keep neighborhood driveways clear. Please also be aware of the “No Parking” signs in neighborhood areas. It is extremely important that everyone follow traffic procedures. These procedures promote safety, efficiency, and function.

Parent Teacher Conferences are Thursday September 28, 2023, from 5 pm - 8 pm in person and Friday September 29, 2023, from 8 am - 12 pm in person. Be sure to sign up for a time with your teacher(s) now!

Sign up for conferences here.

Parents! Resources are available for interpreters. If you would like to request an interpreter to assist at your child's conferences, please complete the Parent Interpreter Request Form.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Beth Midolo and Kristen Ryan - ELS Specialists

We want to hear from you! What is going well? What questions do you have? Interested in joining a committee or getting involved some other way? Please let us know here and we will work to address your questions in upcoming newsletters and/or in 1:1 communication. Fill out this form!

Earn volunteer hours by providing snacks to the CCA staff every Monday. Store bought items equal one volunteer hour, and homemade items count as 2 volunteer hours. Sign up one week before you will bring snacks. We love taking care of our teachers and staff!

Sign up here for Monday, October 2, 2023

The Book Fair is here! Classes will be coming in during the week to look around and shop. The fair will also be open during parent teacher conferences. The hours are as follows: Monday - Wednesday 7:30AM - 4:00PM Thursday 7:30AM - 8:00PM Friday 8:00AM - 12:00PM. Check out our Scholastic Book Fair homepage to set up an ewallet for your student. If you have any questions contact Ms. Lanyi at slanyi@cherrycreekacademy.org

Link to our Book Fair homepage

Book Fair volunteer sign up

Parents, each year we put together a slideshow video of our 8th graders and show it at graduation. We are asking that you please fill out this form in order to submit a baby/young child photo of your 8th grader and a current photo of them to be shared at graduation. If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Brooks at rbrooks@cherrycreekacademy.org.

As a part of our Veterans Day Assembly, scheduled for November 10, 2023 at 8 am, we would like to honor the brave people in our community who have served or are currently serving in the military. To include a member of the military to be honored during our assembly please share their name and the branch of the military they served in or are currently serving in, an optional picture, and bio or information about their time serving in the link below. Thank you for your participation. This year we will invite those Veterans, as well as families of students and members of our community to our school to join us for our in person assembly.

Veterans to be honored

Dear Parents,

Below you will find an image of our school’s retake picture day flyer. **Online ordering for retakes ends at 7am DAY OF PICTURES! The image is hyperlinked directly to our schools online ordering event. All that needs to be done to go to our online event is to click anywhere on either page of the below image. This will then take you directly to our schools ordering page. You can also access the online ordering portal by going to www.mymjthomas.com and entering our schools event password (located on the 2nd page of this image). You may also print this order form and attach a check or cash and bring it in on picture day! If you are unhappy with your photos you MUST bring back your picture package and we will be happy to reprint your order with your new photo.

The Fly Like an Eagle committee is a group of parents and staff working together to promote our Eagle Honor character traits at CCA through events and activities. We are looking for additional members to join our committee. Our mission benefits from diverse viewpoints and we welcome your voice. Join us and make a difference! If interested, please plan to attend our October 6 meeting in Meg MacFarland’s classroom or email ptoflae@cherrycreekacademy.org.

Meetings are the following Fridays at 2pm:

• Oct 6, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2 and March 8 (April and May TBD)

FLAE Events

• Red Ribbon Week - Oct 23-27

• Random Acts of Kindness Week - Feb 20-23

• Spring Kindness Flowers - April 15-19

• Earth Day Clean Up - April 20

We are hiring for the following positions for our upcoming school year- if you are interested in applying please apply through Frontline Education on our website.

Substitutes

Please join us for Pastries with the PTO and our monthly PTO meeting on:

Friday, October 27, 2023 at 8:15 am in the Cafeteria - (In person ONLY)

Here are some quick links:

Click here to access the PTO Agendas/Minutes

Click here to visit the PTO webpage

Click here to access the Master Calendar

PTO VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Open Positions for 2023-2024

1. VP Fundraising Co-Chair
2. School Supply Chair
3. Auction Committee Members

• Add CCA Fundraising for King Soopers to your personal account- 1 volunteer hour

• PIN Meetings

• Join a PTO Meeting- 1 volunteer hour

please contact PTO for more information ptopresident@cherrycreekacademy.org

Website: www.treering.com/validate

Passcode: 1013808470921971

As you are likely aware, this year we invested in the future of the service we provide to our partner schools, moving our distribution center operations from Portland, Oregon to Fort Worth, Texas. To support this new facility, we also invested in new computer systems to meet our goal of providing families with a more streamlined customer experience. Regrettably, the implementation of these new systems and capabilities has not met our own expectations during this busy back-to-school season, which has led to delays in the fulfillment of many customer orders.

We’d like to assure you that the causes of these delays are unique to the launch of our new distribution center and computer systems and are not the result of planning or manufacturing shortcomings, as our entire team spent the last year working hard to rectify the supply chain issues we faced in previous seasons.

We knew there might be growing pains with this investment, but we did not anticipate these would be passed on to our partners and customers as they have been during this back-to-school season. For this we are sincerely sorry – we have been serving schools for more than 100 years, and we take the promises we make very seriously. You are more than welcome to visit our new facility in Fort Worth, Texas, so you might see firsthand what we have built to better serve our customers. We are confident that our investments will offer a much-improved customer experience in the coming year. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

Jeff Blade, DENNIS Uniform CEO

Tom Shipley, DENNIS Uniform Board Chairman

Make sure to order from Dennis Uniforms Online Store to get any uniforms you might need on the first Monday of each month. You will receive 15% off when you let them know you are purchasing uniforms for Cherry Creek Academy.

*Not applicable during black out months - July, August, and September.

Welcome To Dennis Information Packet on How to Buy

For the latest schedule of events, please click here. More information on events is offered in the description section of each event on CCA's Master Google Calendar.

1. Please visit CCA's Master Calendar.
2. Click on the event that you would like to attend.
3. Click "click here to join the meeting" underneath the description section.
4. Alternatively, you can join by phone by dialing the meeting number and entering the meeting pin.
5. Please remember to use mute when you are not speaking. This is important and will reduce background noise and other complications.

At Your Wit's End? Helping Kids Cope with Frustration and Challenges

Date October 2, 2023 Time 7:00 pm

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