Camanche Elementary Newsletter
NEWSLETTER #20-24
February 27, 2020
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES – NEXT WEEK!
Parent/Teacher Conferences are next week! Conferences will be held on Wednesday, March 4th and Thursday, March 5th from 1:30-7:30 p.m. A notice indicating the time and place of your child’s conference has been sent home with your student. If you haven’t already returned your notice, please return it as soon as possible! Report cards will be sent home with students the day before conferences.
DUE TO CONFERENCES, WE WILL BE HAVING AN EARLY DISMISSAL AT 1:08/1:15 ON BOTH DAYS.
THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6TH.
Our 3rd and 4th grade students will be leading their conferences again. They are preparing for this opportunity over the next few weeks. The students will share their strengths and areas that need growth. They are also setting goals for themselves in each class. This gives our students opportunities to engage in their own growth and play an active role in planning for their own learning.
LOST AND FOUND
Parents, please stop in the hallway outside of our cafeteria to look through the abundance of lost and found items while you are in our building for parent/teacher conferences. Any items that have not been retrieved by the end of parent/teacher conferences will be donated to Goodwill. Thank you!
FROM THE DISTRICT LIBRARIAN – CHECK THIS OUT!
Our Scholastic Book Fair is right around the corner! We will host the book fair in our ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Media Center during our spring conferences (1:30-7:00 p.m.) on Wednesday, March 4th and Thursday, March 5th. Watch for flyers to be sent home early next week for information on how you can order from home and have your order sent directly to school where we will deliver to your children. Can’t wait to see all of you, and watch the students’ faces light up with the prospect of buying books of their own!
“CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA” K-4TH ART EXHIBIT
Students in all grades have created Australian animals to bring awareness to the wildfires that have been so destructive to habitats and wildlife in Australia. We are hopeful that the Australian people and wildlife can rebuild through help and kindness from anyone in the world. Please visit the specials hallway during conferences to see all the wonderful animals the students have created!
PTA NEWS
The PTA will be furnishing treats for CES staff during both nights of conferences. If you would like to provide a treat of some sort, please complete and return the sign up form that was sent home with your student this week!
SUMDOG MATH CONTEST
Congratulations to our school Sumdog teams! They swept the Mississippi Bend AEA Regional Sumdog Math contest. There were 49 teams in the contest. The Camanche Blue team earned first place. The Camanche Gold team earned second place and the Camanche Red team took third place. The top scoring students were all CES students. Both Olivia Steines and Grace Dorsey correctly answered 999 of their 1000 math questions. Jacoby Sampson, Chloe Toler, Owen Thomson, Carsten Toler, Autumn Klahn, Wyatt Ohsann, Jenna Dunlap, and Jackson Loch rounded out the top 10 students out of the 568 students in the contest. Members of the Blue team were: Ben Burken, Grace Dorsey, Autumn Klahn, Jackson Loch, Wyatt Ohsann, Brayden Phillips, Cailee Sullivan, Drew Graves, Miranda Tucker, Kade Varner, and Claire Dunlay. Members of the Gold team are Addison Coffey, Vinnie Duran, Michaela Gendreau, Sophia Johnson, Maci Kibler, Lily Laurion, Olivia Steines, Owen Thomson, Carsten Toler, and Chloe Toler. Members of the Red team were Jenna Dunlap, Madalyn Goddard, Cody Gravert, Luke Gravert, Carter Kennedy, Tyler Lehmkuhl, Ben Overberg, Jacoby Sampson, Vinnie Srp, Quinten Toppert, and Collin VanZuiden. These students generally answered their 1000 math questions outside of the school day. CES is so proud of our dedicated and determined mathematicians!
CRAYOLA COLORCYCLE
Recently, CES sent more than 340 markers to Crayola for recycling. Way to go, CES! The Crayola recycling program is free for our school and an excellent way to keep plastic markers out of the landfill. It takes plastic items many, many years to decompose. Feel free to have your CES student bring dried up, worn out markers from homes, churches, or businesses. Crayola pays the shipping fee. Mrs. Kennedy has her younger students work on their math skills when counting the markers and preparing them to be shipped.
HEALTHY HABITS CALENDAR
March calendars will be sent home tomorrow! We hope that your student is having fun completing the February calendar activities! Just a reminder that students that complete at least 23 days of activities listed on the calendar AND return the calendar to school on Monday, March 2nd will receive an extra recess with Mr. D.!
CES READING GOAL
As a school, we set a goal of reading 109,000 minutes in the month of February. We have read 82,837 minutes. We will celebrate in March if/when we reach our goal. Thank you for helping support this work!
ATTENDANCE
If your student is going to be absent, will arrive late, or needs to leave early, please make sure to call the main office no later than 9 a.m. on the day of the absence, tardy, or early dismissal.
Our attendance is currently 95.96%. As a school, we have set a goal of 96.5%. Thank you for working with us to reach that goal, EVERY DAY matters.
DATES TO REMEMBER
March 1st PTA Ties & Tiaras Dance 2:00-4:00 PM
March 4th & 5th Parent/Teacher Conferences EARLY DISMISSAL both days @ 1:08/1:15
March 6th NO SCHOOL
March 8th SPRING FORWARD – Begin Daylight Savings Time
March 19th 4th grade to Herbert Hoover Museum
April 9th–13th NO SCHOOL - Spring Break
April 24th Regional Battle of the Books
May 12th 3rd Grade to National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
May 25th NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
May 28th Kindergarten to Bettendorf Family Museum
Yours in Education,
Aimee Dohse, Principal