• Teacher Newsletters
• Board Meeting Highlights for October
• Dress Like a Storybook Character Day
• Let CCA Know!
• Monday Munchies Sign Up
• PTO Thanksgiving Baskets
• Eagle Honors Assemblies
• Veteran's Day Assembly
• Attention 8th Grade Families!
• Drone Club Registration
• Boys and Girls (grades 5-8) Basketball Registration
• Red Ribbon Week October 28-November 1 - DONATIONS NEEDED
• Smoky Hill Future Freshmen Night
• Future Bruins Night 5th-8th grade
• Order Your Yearbook Now!
• Community Bulletin Board
• PTO Meetings and More
• Now Hiring
• Theatre Arts Education Classes
• Dennis Uniforms
• Upcoming Events
• PIN meeting information

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

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1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5/6th Grade

7/8th Grade

The Board has committed to sharing highlights from each Board Meeting in the Eagle following the monthly meeting. Select here to read the October Highlights. These are from the meeting held on Tuesday October 8, 2024.

All students are invited to dress like a book character on Thursday, October 31, 2024. 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 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 as a 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 the most book characters. Please fill this form out for each child that you have at CCA so that we can identify each book character!

We want to hear from you! What is going well? What questions, concerns, or comments 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 to Let CCA Know!

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 28, 2024

The PTO Hospitality team is getting ready to prepare our wonderful Thanksgiving baskets that we do for the staff every year. The PTO will be purchasing items and building baskets. We would like to ask if you could please contribute a $5 dollar donation to help make these baskets special. You can send $5 dollars in cash in an envelope to the front office or you are welcome to Venmo Mrs. Sourial, our PTO Hospitality chair at My Venmo @Natalie-Sourial. Thank you in advance for your help in making these special for our staff!

Dear Parents,

We’re excited to announce that we will be partnering with Original Works this Fall, the original art-based fundraising company! Students will create artwork at school and then you can have your child’s art reproduced onto a variety of keepsake products ranging from Mugs to Magnets. Ordering will be done online and will take place in October/November. The products make great holiday gifts for family members as well as wonderful keepsakes for the students. Orders will arrive at school before winter break. And the icing on the cake is our school earns a profit from every order placed! Complete details on how to order will be sent home soon. Thank you for supporting this unique and creative program!

Our first Eagle Honor Award Assembly of the year will be held in the gym on Thursday, October 24th, 2024. Being awarded an Eagle Award is an important part of our CCA climate and culture and allows us to continue to recognize and honor students who display the characteristics of: Respect, Loyalty, Diligence, Responsibility, Compassion, Integrity, Leadership, and Humility.

Eagle Honor Assembly Times will be held at the following times:

• Grades 2-3 is 8:10 am - 9:00 am

• Grades 7 & 8 is 9:05 - 9:55 am

• Grades 4-6 is 9:55 am - 10:55 am

• Kindergarten & 1st Grade is 11:00 am - 11:45 am

Parents are welcome to come and support their kids!

As a part of our Veterans Day Assembly, scheduled for November 11, 2024, 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 here: Veterans to be honored. We invite those Veterans, as well as families of students and members of our community to our school to join us for our assembly. We will be taking submissions until Monday, November 4, 2024.

We are collecting responses for our 8th grade graduation slideshow. Please fill out this 8th Grade Graduation Slideshow Form and submit a baby or young child photo and a current photo of your 8th grader. If you have any questions please contact Rachel Brooks at rbrooks@cherrycreekacademy.org.

Register for Drone Club here

Red Ribbon Week is October 28-November 1 and the Fly Like an Eagle Committee has planned a fun week to promote positive school culture and healthy living. Each day will have a theme that highlights health and wellness.

For more information on Red Ribbon Week, visit www.redribbon.org.

• Students are encouraged to wear RED CCA uniform shirts to highlight being healthy (for our elementary students) and to highlight our commitment to being substance-free (for our middle school students). Middle school students will also have the opportunity to add their signature to the wall as a commitment to making healthy choices and being substance free.

• 7th and 8th Grade Students will attend a presentation on Internet Safety during tutorial time.

Students have the option to wear BRIGHT ACCESSORIES (including socks) to bring focus to cultivating kindness. Students will have the opportunity to visit with Fitz and her fellow therapy dogs over lunch and lunch recess.

Join us for a school wide DANCE PARTY in the Gym from 7:20 - 7:55am to start off our day with movement and fun with friends! Parents are welcome. We will have FRESH FRUIT in the lobby as well to promote healthy snack choices. Students are encouraged to wear their sneakers/tennis shoes.

Celebrate Reading: a positive activity that exercises our minds.

We'd love help and support from our CCA families to make all this happen! There are several donation opportunities (every $20 spent = 1 volunteer hour). Please sign up here: Red Ribbon Week Donations Sign UP

To Purchase and Customize Your Yearbook, Use the QR Code or:

Must be a parent or student 13 years or older

1. Go to www.treering.com/validate

2. Enter your school's passcode: 1013808470921971

Regular price is $27.63 - Get 10% off if you order by October 31!

Create custom pages by March 24, 2025

Cherry Creek Academy is committed to supporting our community. We are creating a bulletin board in our lobby for community involvement. We would like to advertise the various businesses you work at and services you may have to offer. If you would like to share a flyer or information on our bulletin board please send your items to Rachel Brooks at rbrooks@cherrycreekacademy.org. All business/services must be school appropriate and will be at the discretion of administration.

Please join us for our next PTO meeting on:

Friday, October 25, 2024 at 8:15 am in the Innovation Space

The PTO will have the Used Uniforms Open for Shopping after the PTO Meeting.

Please bring in used uniform donations to the PTO meeting or drop off uniforms at the front desk. and receive 2 volunteer hours for donating uniforms!

Below are helpful links regarding PTO:

Click here to access the PTO Agendas/Minutes

Click here to visit the PTO webpage

Click here to access the Master Calendar

We are hiring for the following positions at Cherry Creek Academy:

Substitute

If you are interested in applying, please send your Cover Letter and Resume to careers@cherrycreekacademy.org.

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 the link under the Meeting ID.
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.

Finding Our Feelings: Tools for Exploring & Navigating Emotions

Date November 5, 2024

Time 9:15 am - 11:00 am

Venue CCSD Fremont Building

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