Cougar Community Connection

Dear CRUNFamily,

We have so much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. What a beautiful school community we have and we feel the love from each of you, especially this time of year. Katie Busch, our Volunteer Coordinator shared with us that you have volunteered over 1,000 hours so far this year in our sweet school. That kind of love is unheard of and we feel so grateful for your commitment and dedication to helping us do what we do best, love and grow your kids every single day. It truly cannot happen without the incredible partnership that we have with our families. We want to say thank you to you all for being our village, our support system and our CRUNFamily on this journey with your kids, our kids. We wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and hope that you spend time surrounded by the people you love and cherishing these moments together. As our sweet first graders reminded us in their performance this week when they sang us the song reminding us that they won't be little for long, we have to hold all of our kids tight because they grow up way too fast and will be all grown up before we know it. Take care and be well and we will see you on Monday, December 2nd.

Hello #CRUNfamily
We have some upcoming events to put on your radar in December:

• December 5th from 5-7 is Art & Cultural Night! Join us as we do crafts and learn about the cultures represented in our school! If you are interested in hosting a table, Follow this link to sign up: https://signup.com/go/DAXPJAd We welcome all cultures!
• December 10-12 will be the Holiday Market 3:15-5pm each day! All profits will be given to CRUN families in need! This is a great opportunity to shop for families and friends! The wonderful ROCKS Council group will be manning our gift and gift wrap stations, but we are looking for some adult volunteers to help pass out shopping bags and monitor our student volunteers. If you are interested, then please check out our sign-up at https://signup.com/go/GCjOjgJ. Thank you so much for your support.

Please feel free to join our next PTA meeting December 13th in person or join on Zoom. We always love seeing new and returning faces! Join the Zoom: HERE

Don’t forget to check out the PTA website for all things PTA, reserve the Rock, and keep up to date on School happenings!
As always, THANK YOU to our business sponsors this year!!! We are so grateful for the community support you provide:

Wanderlust with Laura

AGG Law Firm

Math Tutoring

Dr. Holt Orthodontics

Sunny Party Rentals

Spenga

School of Rock

Bad Boy Boards

Children's Wellness Center of Colorado

Andy's Frozen Custard

McMannis Wealth

Aaron Lebovic, Realtor

Playwell Group

Strive Learning

Master Je Taekwondo

The CRUN PTA wishes you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!

We believe that the strength of our school comes from the people who are within it. Our EA IVs work with the students in our ASD program and move mountains helping our babies learn and grow both in the center and in the gen ed classroom. These ladies have gifts beyond measure and do their work from the heart each and every day moving mountains with our kids. There is so much love in our school in general, but when you walk into our learning center and see the remarkable things going on with our kids or peek into the gen ed classroom when our students from the program are with their peers, you can't help but have a full heart to see how our learning community wrap their arms around our kids, creating the beautiful community that we build and nurture here at Cougar Run. We are grateful for the dedication that these talented educators bring to our school and love the difference that they make in the lives our our kids.

We received great news that our Cougar Run bus route is now fully restored for the rest of the school year. This means that there are no longer canceled routes in the AM or PM for the rest of the year! Bus Driver Buck is so excited to be able to serve our kids every day of the year moving forward. What a great way for us to go into Thanksgiving Break!

It is that time of year where our kids are going outside for recess and are close to becoming icicles when they don't bring appropriate outdoor gear for the Colorado weather. Our kids NEED to play outside. Getting fresh air and exercise, even when it is cold, contributes to their learning brains when they come back inside. We send them out if the actual or "feels like" temperature is above 20 degrees so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remind kids to bring their heavy coats, hats and gloves to school when it is cold. Thank you for your help with this!!!

Let’s Give Thanks to Our Volunteers!!

Thank you to all of our volunteers who have been giving so much of their time. Our Cougar Run Family has thrived since the beginning of the school year because of the 1,022 hours you devoted to our classrooms and kiddos. We have so much gratitude for the commitment and love you demonstrate every week.

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

Thursday, December 5th 5-7pm

Our phenomenal PTA, along with Mrs. Joines is hosting our 2nd Annual Art & Cultural Night. Please use this SIgnUp https://signup.com/go/DAXPJAd to volunteer for Art Night.

December 10th-12th

The PTA is raising funds for CRUN families in need at the Holiday Shop. The PTA could use adult cashiers. Please use this SignUp https://signup.com/go/GCjOjgJ.

From time to time, our kiddos need a change of clothes while at school. We have a stash of kids clothes up in the office for those occasions. If your child has come home in clothes (pants and underwear) from our clinic, please wash and return those items back to the clinic. We had some awesome donations recently, however we found ourselves without anything to lend out this week as they were all taken. Thank you!

We are notifying our community early that we will be doing a "Power of ONE" spirit week the week of December 16th as a CRUNFamily. Our ROCKS Council students are heading up a cause for us as a community to use our Power of One to make a positive difference in the lives of others this holiday season. Please check out the flyer below and get excited for this great opportunity to use your "Power of ONE" to give back to those in need!

Hello Folks,

We have a few choir events coming up so check them out below.

5th and 6th grades interested in DCSD Honors Choir

Rockin Cougar Choir Concert December 19 at 6:30pm in the Gym

Art To Remember

Hi families and friends,

Our school is participating in a creative fundraiser with Art to Remember that allows you to purchase keepsake products customized with your child's art. There are over 60 products and many are less than $20. These make great gifts and a percentage of every purchase goes right back to our school. Click on the link below and enter the online order code shown on your child's order form or to search for your child's artwork. Then, have fun shopping!

https://arttoremember.com/school/4WEEK9

The Open Enrollment window for the 25-26 school year is opening on November 1 - December 2nd. This is only for families who live outside of Cougar Run boundaries and have a NEW student for next school year. IF you have a NEW student who you would like to attend Cougar Run for the upcoming 25-26 school year AND your address is out of the Cougar Run boundaries, then you will need to apply for Open Enrollment for your NEW student. You can go to this link to apply for Open Enrollment.

All current students will be automatically enrolled into the next grade level. No need to enroll your current Cougar Run student for next year.

Dear Families,

We will be having a cultural celebration on December 5th from 5:00-7:00. We would love to have your family participate. In the gym, we will provide a table for you to display your family’s culture. You will present information from your country through dress, food, a drink, a craft, and/or flags. For the food, it would be a bite-size finger food of an item. Please let me know if you are interested or if you have any questions about this event. I will send more details once I hear back from you. Please email me at aakendall@dcsdk12.org.

Thank you,

Allena Kendall

Bellisimo Blu Salon and Academy presents Junior Beauty Night for kids aged 8-13 November 22. See the flyer HERE!

Parents,

We are excited to create a memorable keepsake for students this year, but we cannot be everywhere to photograph every event nor every classroom. We have to depend on YOU to submit photos in order to create this keepsake. Please submit your information and photos to this form. You can fill out the form as many times as you would like! Thank you for being the eyes and the photographers to make this successful!

HERE is the Yearbook Submission Form.

November 25-29- NO SCHOOL THANKSGIVING BREAK

December 2-6- BUSES ARE NO LONGER CANCELED ANYMORE!! YAY!!!!

December 3-17- iReady Mid Year Diagnostic (Specific Dates Per Grade)

December 5- 5:00PM Art and Culture Night at CRUN

December 9-13- CRUN Holiday Shoppe (Hosted by PTA)

December 10-CRUN Restaurant Night

December 12- ROCKS Assemblies 9:00 PK-2nd Grade, 2:15-3rd-6th

December 13- 8:45am PTA Meeting in the LC (All Are Welcome)

December 20-January 6- NO SCHOOL WINTER BREAK-School Resumes January 7th

January 10-8:45 PTA Meeting in the LC

January 14-CRUN Restaurant Night

January 17-No School for Students Professional Development Day for Teachers

January 20-No School DCSD Closed Martin Luther King Jr Day Holiday

January 31-7:30 Muffins with Mentors