Leader in Me Symposium Presenters

Some people from our school district were honored to travel to Owensboro this week to share with people from across the South Central United States about how Leader in Me has helped us make huge student growth within the past two years.  Ron Clark was the keynote speaker and he was so motivating!

Sharpen the Saw

Many of our teachers at CCES go to "sharpen the saw" recently when we went to paint and to eat together!  It was a lot of fun!

Super W.I.G.

Fourth grade has a super W.I.G. for every student to get 100 vocabulary words on AR by Christmas and 200 vocabulary words by May.  Our homerooms are in competition with each other to see who can get the most words!  We have it posted in the hall so they can keep up with their status.

Veteran's Day WebQuest

Students in Studio 214 completed a WebQuest last week to learn more about Veterna's Day.

Veteran's Day Celebration

We got to visit Cumberland Valley Nursing Home to celebrate Veteran's Day!  We sung "God Bless America" and passed out special letters we had made for our local Veterans and they sounded amazing.  We are so thankful for their service to our country and for protecting our freedom!

Quizlet

Students have been using Quizlet to study important vocabulary words in science!

Brain Dump

We used a new formative assessment this week called "Brain Dump" where students had two minutes to talk with their should partner and use the thinking stems to guide their discussions.  Then they had sixty seconds to "dump" it all on the paper.  We completed the brain dump after students answered the questions from their anticipation guide that we used with a video we watched in science about systems in our body and how the systems work together.