A message from the Principal and Assistant Principal
Dear CVE Families,
Welcome back to a new school year! Our Back to School Night was a big success, thank you to all who joined us! We have had a great start to the 2024-2025 school year; staff and students are settling into routines. Ask your child about CHAMPS throughout our school!
Our vision is to develop happy, high achieving students and staff. We are GROWing together this year as we are Grateful, Resilient, Optimistic, and Willing, and it takes all of us to ensure our students learn and grow. We encourage you to have your student(s) wear green the first Monday of every month and join the spirit of Growing to Green! We are confident that our CVE students are in the most capable hands with our CVE teachers and staff! Here are a few reminders about some of our procedures:
Morning:
**Please do not enter the bus loop for drop off until AFTER 7:30 in the morning. Also, if you plan on walking with your child to the back playground, please park in the front parking lot. The back parking in the bus loop is for our employees only. Thank you!
Students will go to the back playground. (If it’s inclement weather, there will be a sign out front indicating Indoor Recess.)
7:20 Students Eating Breakfast will be called to come inside to eat.
7:55 Teachers will go out to the back playground to meet their students and begin going inside. Parents, please say your good-byes before your child gets to the door. This is actually much easier on your child than coming in with them.
8:00 Morning bell rings, all students should be inside going to their classroom. (If you are dropping your child off after 7:55, they will need to go through the front office to make sure they don’t miss their class.)
8:05 Tardy Bell rings, any student entering their classroom after 8:05 will be marked tardy. (A parent needs to bring their child inside to sign them in for the day.)
Lunch Time: Due to our larger class sizes and we have 2 grade levels in the lunchroom at a time, we are unable to accommodate parents/families eating lunch in the lunchroom with their children. If you would like to enjoy lunch with your child, you may check him/her out of the office. Please be sure to have your child back by the start of class.
After School:
3:40 First dismissal of Zones 1-5. This is the ONLY ZONE 5 dismissal! Seal and Lizard Buses are also dismissed at this time.
Zone Pick up Areas:
Zone 1 = Lower Lot
Zone 2 = Grand Avenue & Second Street
Zone 4 = First Street (1st dismissal is Kindergarten and 2nd dismissal is all other grade levels at this zone.)
Zone 5 = Community Center Park (Front of the building if inclement weather. We will do our best to alert these families with an autodialer.)
3:45 PreSchool, Walkers as well as ALL other Bus Riders are dismissed. **Please make sure your child has his/her bus pass!
3:50 Second dismissal of Zones 1-4.
**Parents, please park in your designated zone area. We have had to use spaces in our main parking lot to accommodate Preschool parking as they also dismiss at the same time, and they must park and go to the classroom to check out their child for the day.
SNACKS at CVE: We sent home a note at the beginning of the year about our snack procedure at CVE. We are encouraging you to pack healthy snacks for your student, as well as snacks that are quick to eat to enable students to nibble on as they are continuing to work. While not all students have nut allergies, we ask that you are careful about those items you pack that may have nuts. If your child’s teacher has assured you that there is no one with a nut allergy in their classroom, you may send snacks that contain nuts. We have already had issues with gum on the floor, lunch trays, etc., and we are asking that you please not send your child to school with gum.
Attendance Matters: We look forward to seeing your child at CVE every day. Your student’s attendance has a positive and significant effect on student performance. When students miss school, they miss interactions with friends, development of relationships, making memories, and most of all, valuable learning.
We look to this year as one of learning, growing, collaborating, and celebrating along the way! We will continue to celebrate our students and the 3 B’s with our Positive Cougar Awards and quarterly assemblies. We encourage you to stay connected to your child’s teacher via Class Dojo. Reach out to them if you need help getting that set up!
Parent Volunteers: Please consider volunteering for CVE, we would love to have your help! If you are interested in volunteering please reach out to Kathy Terry in the front office to start the process. She will be the one coordinating our CVE volunteers. Volunteers must be fingerprinted prior to helping at school. If you want to attend a field trip with your child, you must have your fingerprints and paperwork completed through the school district.
Thank you for entrusting us with your children. We love them, and we are so glad to have them at CVE! Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. (970)665-7850.
Sincerely,
Kelly Detlefsen, Principal
Stacy VanHercke, Assistant Principal
Welcome back CVE families! I hope everyone had a relaxing, fun summer! This year Sarah Fleming will be supporting me in teaching Second Step lessons to our students weekly. It is an evidence based social emotional curriculum that teaches emotional regulation, problem-solving and empathy skills. Kindergarten will be focusing on MindUp which teaches the students about their brain and emotional regulation.
This month, I will be sending teachers a menu of potential small groups their students might benefit from joining this year, to give them tools and strategies to navigate their feelings. Some groups might be friendship challenges, self-esteem, impulse/emotion regulation, divorce, loss and stress/anxiety challenges. I will send home a permission form, if a teacher thinks your student might benefit from participating in one of these small groups.
Totes for Hope will begin Wednesday, September 5th, and is a program run through the River Center that gives families 6-7 non perishable food items weekly and is distributed on Wednesdays. If you are a family that could use the supplemental food, please contact me and I can get you signed up.
If your family needs emotional support or other types of assistance, contact me, Amy Chabin, at 970-665-7764 or achabin@garfieldre2.net.
RIVER CENTER INFORMATION
Music News
Welcome back to school, we are ready to make music!
This 24-25 school year is going to be great! Last year was a success with our full grade level musical performances. This year each grade level will be performing and will be asked to participate in an evening performance. These are graded and required. Please add these dates to your calendar. Thursday’s at 6:00pm- 3rd Grade- On the Radio! Oct. 24th, 4th Grade- Go West! Nov. 7th, 5th Grade- Lights, Camera, Christmas! Wednesday Dec. 18th, 2nd Grade-Pajama Party! March 13th,1st Grade- Bada Bing it’s Spring- May 8th. Kinder will be doing a play during school hours towards the end of the school year. Stay tuned TBA! We always need help putting these together, and it does take a village to make this a successful experience.
We have started this year with instruments as we explore rhythm, and using our singing skills to build technique. All of the music standards are being covered and the expectation is to participate in class. It has been a pleasure to have each student in music class and I’m excited to keep discovering how to reach each student through music. I will keep you updated on performances. Please feel free to find your child's teacher in class DOJO to look for additional show information and photos of their progress. My contact information is jhowell@garfieldre2.net
Musically yours,
Jennetta Howell
(970) 665-6831
Library News
Greetings from the Library!
This year we are working on organization and encouraging all of the students to choose books that both entertain and challenge them. In an effort to encourage students to turn in their books on time, I have limited the number of books that they are allowed to check out to one per customer. Each book is checked out for a period of two weeks. No books will be held for students that have a book checked out. This helps ensure that more kids get a chance to read more of the book we offer. If a student does not return a book by the due date, we will send a note home to remind them to return it.
All classes get library time each week. Students start off with a group story, followed by time to browse for a new book and read. They also get time for typing lessons, where they are encouraged to focus on form and accuracy.
The Scholastic Bookfair is scheduled for the week of October 14-17 to coincide with parent-teacher conferences.
Looking forward to a great year!
Mr. Ben
CVE Library Specialist
PE News
Thanks for all your support at home!
Mr. Barth
PE Teacher
