Hello Carver Elementary Community!

Just a reminder that there is NO SCHOOL on Monday, November 18th. Our teachers are attending professional development. There is no school during our Thanksgiving Break is from November 25-29. Please continue to read daily with your students and practice math facts-counting, skip counting, and multiplication facts. Zearn for Math and Amplify/Boost for Reading can also be done at home. Library books are also sent home now, please encourage reading!

We had a BUSY week of learning and celebrating Veterans Day, National Kindness Day, and our Culture Family Night! Thank you to those that supported these events and to the families that attended Culture Night! We had a lot of fun! Shout out to Student Council and our Teachers for creating Countries Around the World!

Our Thanksgiving Feast is this Thursday during your student's lunch. The cost is $5 and CASH only. Please be patient as this is a very popular event. Students will have recess the first 15 minutes of the schedule below. Feel free to join your student at recess or bring them in early to the cafeteria for lunch! K-3rd Grade are on the primary playground and 4th-5th grade students are on the intermediate playground. We are excited to have families in the building and students will return to learning after lunch.

Students will have a 15 minute recess, prior to lunch.

10:50-11:10 Kindergarten and First Grade

11:10-11:30 Second and Third Grade

11:30-11:50 Fourth and Fifth Grade

Now that we are in November, the temperatures are even lower in the mornings! Please LABEL your student's belongings with their first and last name. Our lost of found is overflowing and we want our students to be warm before school and at recess. Please send your student with a jacket, hat, and gloves because we send students outside if it is above 17 degrees.

Please continue to mindful of picking up your student at dismissal at 2:50 PM and by 4:00 PM if your student is in an after school club or tutoring. Our staff are at school by 7:30 AM and it is a long day if you are late.

Ms. Kelly Dawson is on a leave of absence until January. We have three consistent substitutes-Ms. Kathleen, Ms. Dixie, and Ms. Yo. Please be patient if they ask for student names and teachers when you call. Mr. Dylan is still here and is also available.

The schedule for sign ups for 2nd-5th grade Activities for second semester are available Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:50-4:00 PM. Basketball begins in January. Please sign up below!

Our School Store is updated! Please click this link to purchase some Carver items to represent our Carver Community!

https://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/colorado/coloradosprings/carver-elementary

When we return in December our Middle of the Year testing will begin. We are excited to see the growth students have made in DIBEL's (Dynamic Indicator for Basic Early Literacy) grades K-5. We will also complete STAR Reading for 2nd-5th and STAR Math for K-5th grade students. Please encourage your student to ALWAYS do their best! Students will be recognized for increased proficiency scores!

We are excited that EYE Love Care is returning on Friday, December 6th!! This a Veteran Sponsored Company that provides a COMPLETE EYE EXAM and Glasses at Carver Elementary. A licensed Optometrist will perform a complete eye exam on students that return the permission slip and offer over 200 frames for the child to choose from. The EYE Love Care information and permission slips will be sent home on Thursday, November 21st. Each classroom that has 100% permission slips returned, will receive a PIZZA PARTY paid for by EYE Love Care! Carver's goal is 100% participation! This an AMAZING opportunity for our students and EYE Love Care also delivers new glasses for students that have broken or lost their glasses! We will include more information in our next newsletter.

Again, welcome to Carver Elementary! If you are a returning family or if this your first year at Carver, we are excited to work with you to achieve great results. Please know that our doors are always open for communication, and we look forward to partnering with you in your child's education. Please look for opportunities to participate in the Parent Teacher Association, the School Accountability Committee, and other volunteer opportunities.

Thank you for your support!

Mrs. Bizzell

Proud Principal of Carver Elementary!

As a quality neighborhood school in D11, the Carver community is supportive and safe as staff, parents, and students are valued and involved in creating engaging, intentional learning experiences that are responsive to student needs and results in a place where everyone wants to be.

Thank you for voting for our new logo and Carver Elementary is proud to be the Heart of Our Community!! Our staff recently attended the Capturing Kids' Heart training and we are excited to build relationships, challenge ourselves and our students, and truly become the Heart of Our Community! We will continue to partner with local businesses, resources, and community members to enhance our identity statement and challenge our students to be the BEST they can be, every day at school. We are providing intentional learning experiences that involve and engage all of our students and our staff. We look forward to this school year and partnering with YOU!!

November 18th No School for Students

November 21st Thanksgiving Feast-Parents Invited!

November 22nd Second Cup of Coffee 8:00-9:00 AM

November 25-29th No School-Thanksgiving Break

December 5th-Band Concert Doherty High School 6:30 PM

December 6th EYE Love Care Exams!! All day!

December 9th Parent Child Partnership Class 5:00-7:00 PM (Dinner and daycare included)

December 10th Skate City Night 5:00-7:00 PM

December 13th Pancakes with the Principal

December 13th Parent Child Partnership Class 8:00-9:00 AM

December 23rd-January 6th-NO SCHOOL Holiday Break

January 7th Students Return-Third Quarter Begins

January 20th NO School-Martin Luther King Day

Breakfast in the cafeteria 7:30-7:45 AM (cold breakfast 7:45-8:10 AM)

Office Hours: 7:30 AM-3:45 PM

Carver School Hours: 7:50 AM-2:50 PM

Tardy bell rings at 7:50

Students will have a 15 minute recess, prior to lunch.

10:50-11:10 Kindergarten and First Grade

11:10-11:30 Second and Third Grade

11:30-11:50 Fourth and Fifth Grade

Under the Healthy School Meals for All program the State of Colorado provides free meals for all D11 students. Please take a moment to fill out our Free and Reduced Meal Application regardless of whether you think you would qualify or not. This program benefits the school as well as your family. Our goal is 100% participation. As a reminder, Carver is a free breakfast and lunch school. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the front office. Carver is currently 85% free or reduced lunch and we receive Federal Funds for this.

https://linqconnect.com/public/meal-application/new?identifier=JX9G3Q

K/1 12:10-1:00

2/4 1:05-1:55

3/5 2:00-2:50

Essentials: Art, Music, PE, Technology

Adaptive PE/Art: Fridays from 9:00-10:05 AM (Selected students)

Band for grades 4th and 5th (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

Orchestra for grades 4th and 5th (Mondays and Wednesdays)

We are still accepting interested students for BAND and ORCHESTRA! Please stop by the front office for a permission slip!

We LOVE having family members in the building! Please complete the link below if you have some time to volunteer to help at school. Some activities include: cutting, tearing out workbook pages, reading to students, testing sight words, and sometimes just helping in class.
Please join us!

Hi everyone

November is full of the season changing and gratitude, and Thanksgiving around the corner. Gratitude means thanks and appreciation, it is a strong feeling for what a person has done to help you or others. We are thankful for our family, the love that surrounds us, our loyal friends, the opportunities we have, and so much more. Teaching kids to say thank you is an important social skill that many parents stress, but helping them understand how to be truly grateful is a bit trickier. Despite the challenges you might face in helping kids feel grateful in a world that seems to value overabundance, it can be worthwhile.

Gratitude has four key parts:

1. Noticing: Recognizing the things you have to be grateful for.
2. Thinking: Thinking about why you’ve been given those things.
3. Feeling: The emotions you experience due to the things you’ve been given.
4. Doing: The way you express appreciation.

Grateful people are happier

Gratitude helps us feel positive emotions. In positive psychology researchers say that gratitude is associated with greater happiness. A grateful person will improve their health, will deal better with adversity, and will build stronger relationships. Being grateful will make you more optimistic. Your life will be more meaningful. Once you start practicing thankfulness, your life will be colorful. People will retribute you with kindness, benevolence, compassion, and so on. During the Holidays we could start practicing gratefulness. The end of the year is a great moment to evaluate what you have achieved and set new goals.

Sometimes we think we need more and more. The clue to meet all our emotional needs lies within us. We are happier by the love we receive, not from the things we stock.

There are many ways to show gratitude to others without needing to buy things. For example: Making breakfast for a loved one. Cleaning the dishes when no one is expecting it. Help someone to cross a street. Check your closet and take out all the pieces you have not used in the past year, once you have them, select the ones that are still useful and find the right person to donate them to. Make eye contact. Talk to a stranger. Make someone laugh for no reason.

Be impeccable with your words, your clothing, your actions, with everything. Keep in mind that if you don’t have anything positive to say, avoid making a comment. If you experience something nice share it. If you could help someone feel better, do it! There are always opportunities to work on promoting gratitude and to be thankful for our blessings.

To practice the art of gratefulness you need calmness. You must connect with your inner voice.

*Here is a video about being Thankful by Kid President : “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA5Qpt1JRE4

Check out and share us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/carver.d11.org/

With kind regards

Mrs. Gio (Giovanny) Franco-Diaz, MA, LPCC

School Counselor - 504 coordinator , Student Council Advisor

Phone # 719-328-2171

What is happening in Random Acts of Kindness?

RAK is delivered throughout the week in each classroom. We will continue to focus on Integrity for the month of November.

We are a PBIS (Positive Behavior and Support School) and we will continue to practice our School Wide PAW expectations.

P- I am Prepared

A-I have a great Attitude

W-I Work hard

S-I am Safe

Field trip to the Colorado Springs Utilities Water Plant Tuesday December 03 !President Alianna C. - 5th

Vice-President: Carmen A. - 4th

Treasurer – Belinda G. - 3rd

Secretary- Eli M. - 4th

5th grade Anamaria T., Liberty P. , Zaleigh M, and Wyatt M.

4th grade Izayiah D.

3rd grade : Nayomie D., Eve P. & Ethan P.

STUDENTS ON STANDBY

Vakayla B. – 4th

Mrs. Gio Franco Diaz & Mrs. Mello – Student Council Advisors

Again, we are super excited to have a Parent Led PTA this year! Please join us at our next meeting in January. We are excited to plan for exciting events for this school year!

Please look for a survey of when you would like to meet as a PTA in your Thursday folder. We need your voice!

Our PTA board is:

President: Brittany Shelly

Vice President:

Treasurer: Betty Barnett

Secretary: Kelly Dawson

All our welcome to attend our meetings!

Safety is our top priority at Carver Elementary School, and we are committed to ensuring the well-being of all students, staff, and visitors. We now have a secured entrance to monitor ALL visitors and a fence that surrounds the back of the school. To this end, we follow the Standard Response Protocol (SRP) to prepare for and respond to various emergency situations. We conduct monthly and quarterly drills to practice these protocols, ensuring that everyone in our school community knows what to do in case of an emergency. Here is an overview of the SRP we follow:

• Hold - In Your Classroom or Area

• Directive: "In Your Room or Area"
• Purpose: This protocol is used when hallways need to be kept clear of occupants. Students and staff remain in their rooms or areas until further notice.

Secure - Get Inside. Lock Outside Doors

• Directive: "Get Inside. Lock Outside Doors"
• Purpose: This protocol is used to safeguard people within the building by securing all exterior doors. Normal activities continue inside the building.

Lockdown - Locks, Lights, Out of Sight

• Directive: "Locks, Lights, Out of Sight"
• Purpose: This protocol is used to secure individual rooms and keep occupants quiet and in place. Doors are locked, lights are turned off, and everyone stays out of sight.

Evacuate - To a Stated Location

• Directive: "Evacuate to [Location]"
• Purpose: This protocol is used to move people from one location to a different location, either within or outside the building. The specific location will be communicated during the drill or emergency.

Shelter - State the Hazard and the Safety Strategy

• Directive: "Shelter [Hazard] and [Safety Strategy]"
• Purpose: This protocol is used for group and self-protection based on the specific hazard (e.g., tornado, hazmat). The safety strategy will be clearly communicated.

Monthly Drills:

To ensure we are prepared, we conduct monthly/quarterly drills for each of these protocols. These drills help students and staff practice the appropriate responses and become familiar with the procedures. Your support in reinforcing the importance of these drills at home is greatly appreciated.

Communication:

In the event of an actual emergency, we will communicate with families promptly. Please ensure that your contact information is up to date in our records so that you can receive timely notifications.

Thank you for your cooperation and support in keeping our school safe. If you have any questions or concerns about our safety protocols, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Together, we can ensure a safe and secure learning environment for all our students.

Carver Elementary is a Title I school.

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.

If you have any questions, please reach out:

https://www.d11.org/TitleI

Email: lisa.bizzell@d11.org
Website: https://www.d11.org/Page/69
Location: 4740 Artistic Circle, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone: 719-328-7100
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carver.d11.org/