Monday Folder 10.27.2020
Our Mission: The mission of Crown Pointe Academy is to promote creativity, curiosity, character, and community in a challenging Core Knowledge environment. We hope that everyone had a great fall break! Report cards were sent home today for all students. Please be sure you ask your student for his/her report card. Online only students– report cards can be picked up from the front office at the school, or you can view your student’s report card on the Infinite Campus Parent Portal under Documents. Please contact your student’s teachers or the front office if you have any questions. Important Reminder! The driveline will NOT open until 3:00 p.m. each day for dismissal. If you arrive before 3:00, please park in our parking lot, on the street, or in the parking lot behind the shopping center and wait until 3:00 to approach the driveline. You cannot block the city street waiting for the driveline to open. Please share this information with anyone who may pick up your child(ren). Thank you for your help. If you have not already paid your student’s class fees for this year, please do so as soon as possible. Class fees are $60.00. Also, the deadline to pay for jeans day has been extended. If you would like to purchase jeans for your student for the year on Fridays, the fee is $30.00. All jean funds raised go towards the Spanish Trip fundraiser. Payment for class fees and/or jeans can be made via cash, check or by credit card. To pay by credit card, click HERE. Please contact Sandi MacGregor at sandi.macgregor@crownpointeacademy.org with any questions. We will no longer offer the To Go meal program at CPA; however, if you are interested in meal assistance, children ages 1-18 are eligible for FREE breakfasts and lunches in a drive thru meal pick up from 10:00-11:30 a.m. Monday-Friday at six locations: Westminster High School, Ranum Middle School, Shaw Heights Middle School, Colorado Sports Leadership Academy, Swim & Fitness Rec Center, City Park Rec Center on 104th. Crown Pointe Academy P.E. is Participating in the 2020 Stack-Up!. A challenge to get as many kids sport cup stacking as possible in one day. The event ends on December 2, 2020. Beginning this week we will be practicing sport stacking in P.E. Due to our limited number of Speed Stack sets, we encourage all students to purchase their own set of Speed Stacks to practice with through our Group Order program. Order your set between now and November 20th, 2020. Use this link to order online and your stacking cups will be sent directly to your home! speedstacks.com/go-direct/150821-10346863 . The best part about ordering through our Group Order Program is that the school...
S.E.W. 10.17.2020
Welcome to SEW Saturday! Every Saturday, the social emotional wellness (SEW) committee sends out ideas that we feel can help our community build resilience and stay connected to one another. We are using this SEW Saturday to highlight two wonderful challenges happening at CPA! One challenge is for our CPA community and focuses on our physical health and the other challenge is focused on helping others with their safety needs and finding shelter. Check out our weekly video here: https://youtu.be/sJ1AUunosvs Keep reading for all the great information on how you can get involved! Mr. Varner’s FISH Team and Monthly Darebee Challenge The Fitness Inspired School Health (FISH) Team is going virtual with activities you can do at home. Everyone in the CPA community can be a part of FISH by participating in our monthly Darebee Challenge. It’s easy to get started! Just go to www.darebee.com Monday through Saturday to do the Workout Of The Day. Do it to your fitness level. You can also challenge yourself more by doing the Daily Dare or the monthly 30 Day Challenge. Use the attached calendar to mark the days you complete the fitness activities. In addition, Mr. Varner will be hosting a live Workout Of The Day every Monday @ 12:30 pm on Google Meet. The link will be provided in each class’s Google Classroom stream on Monday (grades 6-8 in the Middle School Electives Google Classroom). Email your calendar to Mr. Varner at the end of each month. Prizes may be awarded! Get everyone in your family involved! ‘Dare to bee’ FISH worthy and have some fun together! Kindness Club Keep the Cold Out This fall, the Kindness Club is on a mission to raise $2000 to help provide shelter that could literally save a life on a below freezing night here in Colorado! We are asking you to join Kindness Club’s Keep the Cold Out by collecting monetary donations of any size from every grade so that we can provide vouchers for people who need shelter this winter. The organization One by One Helping Arvada Homeless and Grace Church of Arvada have partnered with the Severe Weather Shelter Network (SWSN) to provide shelter on severe weather nights to people experiencing homelessness. SWSN has made arrangements with several area hotels to accept vouchers from pre-screened individuals through participating homeless outreach organizations like One By One and others. The County allocated funds to pay for these vouchers but the need from the ever-growing homeless population in the area has depleted the funds before the 2019 season was even over. One by One and Grace agreed to help meet the need that rose above the county budget and Kindness Club...
Monday Folder 10.12.2020
Our Mission: The mission of Crown Pointe Academy is to promote creativity, curiosity, character, and community in a challenging Core Knowledge environment. We hope that everyone had a great weekend! Important Information: Starting next Tuesday, October 20th, the driveline will not be open for dismissal until 3:00 p.m. and the entrance will be blocked. If you arrive at the school before 3:00 p.m., please park in the parking lot, on the street, or behind the neighboring shopping center until the driveline opens. This change is necessary in order for us to maintain our normal dismissal time while not blocking the city streets. Please share this information with anyone who may pick up your child(ren) from school, and contact the office with any questions. The end of the 1st quarter is this Friday, October 16th. Please make sure you check your student’s grades in the Infinite Campus Parent Portal and contact the teachers directly if you have any questions. 1st quarter report cards will be sent home on Tuesday, October 27th. As a reminder, Fall Break is coming up next week. There will be no school for students in person or online on Thursday, October 22nd, Friday, October 23rd, or Monday, October 26th. This week’s documents include: 2nd Quarter Calendar Doodle Club Flyer Have a great week! Nuestra misión: La misión de Crown Pointe Academy es promover la creatividad, la curiosidad, el carácter y la comunidad en un entorno desafiante de Core Knowledge. ¡Esperamos que todos hayan tenido un gran fin de semana! Información importante: A partir del próximo martes 20 de octubre, la línea de conducción no estará abierta para la salida hasta las 3:00 pm y la entrada estará bloqueada. Si llega a la escuela antes de las 3:00 pm, estacione en el estacionamiento, en la calle o detrás del centro comercial vecino hasta que se abra la línea de conducción. Este cambio es necesario para que podamos mantener nuestro horario normal de salida sin bloquear las calles de la ciudad. Comparta esta información con cualquier persona que pueda recoger a su (s) hijo (s) de la escuela y comuníquese con la oficina si tiene alguna pregunta. El final del 1er trimestre es este viernes 16 de octubre. Por favor asegúrese de verificar las calificaciones de su estudiante en el Portal para Padres de Infinite Campus y comuníquese directamente con los maestros si tiene alguna pregunta. Las boletas de calificaciones del primer trimestre se enviarán a casa el martes 27 de octubre. Como recordatorio, las vacaciones de otoño se acercan la próxima semana. No habrá clases para estudiantes en persona o en línea el jueves 22 de octubre, viernes...
S.E.W. 10.10.2020
Welcome to SEW Saturday! Every Saturday, the social emotional wellness (SEW) committee sends out ideas that we feel can help our community build resilience and stay connected to one another. This week we are highlighting the I in our NOURISH program. I stands for: Initiate Movement and Exercise. Our bodies need to move! Study after study shows the benefit of movement on our physical and mental health. In a normal year we see kids moving all the time – when they play and when they run, hop, skip, and jump their way through the day. Since many kids and adults are spending more time in front of screens because of COVID, it is now more important than ever to find ways to move. Our amazing middle school social studies teacher, Mrs. Bonnie Hughes has some great ideas on how we can initiate movement and exercise. She shared her ideas in a video that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/LSyu-d56EoU We’ve also compiled some wonderful resources for activities that encourage kids to move at home. Check out these ideas for movement breaks and exercise. One of the most popular sites used in education is GoNoodle. If you’ve heard about it but never checked it out, it is worth your time! Students really enjoy the activities on Go Noodle. https://www.gonoodle.com/ Some other sites with links to resources and activities to help you get moving at home: Active Schools https://www.activeschoolsus.org/news-and-resources/2019-11-22-resources-for-home/ Child Mind Institute https://childmind.org/guide/family-resources-for-remote-learning/at-home-activities/ Move More https://www.move-more.org/at-home-resources/ We hope that some of the ideas that we shared in this post will be helpful to get you and your family moving more this fall. We would love to hear from you about ways that you are initiating movement and exercise. You can email us at SEW@crownpointeacademy.org To your well-being! – The SEW...
Monday Folder 10.5.2020
Our Mission: The mission of Crown Pointe Academy is to promote creativity, curiosity, character, and community in a challenging Core Knowledge environment. We hope that everyone had a great weekend! Starting on October 20th, we will be combining the cohorts, so students will be able to have 4 days of in person learning each week. The two 2nd quarter learning options are: 1. Remote Monday and In Person Tuesday-Friday 2. Online only Monday-Friday If your student(s) are currently in person, we will plan for them to remain in person. If your student(s) are online only, we will plan for them to remain online only. If you would like to change the learning plan for your student 2nd quarter, please email Mr. O at keith.ouweneel@crownpointeacademy.org AND Mrs. Keyes at erin.keyes@crownpointeacademy.org no later than this Friday, October 9th. For more information, please watch the newest video from Mr. O HERE. Parent-Teacher Conferences will take place today, Monday, October 5th and next Monday, October 12th from 8:00-4:00. All conferences will be held virtually this year. To sign up for ELEMENTARY conference times, please click HERE. To sign up for MIDDLE SCHOOL conferences, please click HERE. Please contact your student’s teacher(s) if you have any questions. CPA will continue to provide To-Go meals to families, however you must sign up. Click HERE. Deadline to sign-up is Wednesday, October 7th at 12:00 pm. Due to the Fall Break schedule, meals distributed will cover the week of October 19th through November 1st. Meal pick up will be held on Monday, October 19th from 3:30 to 5:00 pm. The meals will be for Weekly meal bags include but are not limited to organic brown rice, pasta, organic canned tomatoes, dried pinto beans, healthy snacks, and a selection of fresh fruits and vegetables such as apples, oranges, grapefruit, sweet potatoes, squash and onions. The meal bags include both breakfast and lunch. At this time, there is no charge to families regardless of meal eligibility status. ALL children between the ages of 0-18 can receive breakfast and lunch meals. Please list all children’s names who will be receiving a meal even if they are not a CPA student. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Sandi MacGregor at sandi.macgregor@crownpointeacademy.org. Join the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and help us make sure we are honoring and representing all cultures in our school community. Our first bilingual meeting will be on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 5:00 – 6:00pm via Google Meets: https://meet.google.com/joc-dwhy-yvs?hs=122&authuser=0 or join by phone: (314) 649-9655 PIN: 361 001 574# This week’s documents include: Update 10.5.20 2nd Quarter Calendar Diversity and Inclusion Committee Flyer Doodle Club Flyer Have a great week! Nuestra misión: La misión de Crown Pointe Academy es promover la creatividad, la curiosidad, el carácter y la comunidad en un entorno desafiante de...
S.E.W 10.3.2020
Welcome to SEW Saturday! Every Saturday, the social emotional wellness (SEW) committee sends out ideas that we feel can help our community build resilience and stay connected. This week we are highlighting the R in our NOURISH program. The R stands for replenish and restore ourselves physically and emotionally. Our wonderful staff member, Mrs. Julie Southern created a video about this topic. We hope you enjoy it! You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/fWvQ5qWW8vM When we think about things that restore us both physically and emotionally there are a variety of answers. This is because different people need different things. Some people get energized by going to the mountains, others gravitate to the water. Some people love to challenge themselves physically and others intellectually. Some people need time with others to feel energized, other people need time alone in order to reset. People gravitate to different kinds of music, food, activities, hobbies, and places to restore themselves. While we all have different things that help us to feel replenished or restored, we all need something that helps us do this. We are very human in that way. There is a saying that goes, ‘you can’t fill from an empty cup’ and it simply means that it is hard to keep giving to others when you don’t take time to think about the things you need to fill yourself up. We hope you are able to think about and then act on the things that help to replenish and restore you this week! Talk about what kinds of things you like to do and then ask your family members what they like to do. You might be surprised about what you learn. We would love to hear from you about ways that you replenishing and restoring yourself. You can email us at SEW@crownpointeacademy.org To your well-being! – The SEW...
Monday Folder 9.28.2020
Our Mission: The mission of Crown Pointe Academy is to promote creativity, curiosity, character, and community in a challenging Core Knowledge environment. We hope that everyone had a great weekend! Parent-Teacher Conferences have been moved to Monday, October 5th from 8:00-4:00 and Monday, October 12th from 8:00-4:00. All conferences will be held virtually this year. To sign up for ELEMENTARY conference times, please click HERE. To sign up for MIDDLE SCHOOL conferences, please click HERE. To-Go Meals – WEEKS OF OCTOBER 5th and OCTOBER 12th: CPA is providing To-Go Meals for our families for the week of October 5th and October 12th . Families must sign up to receive the meals. Deadline to sign-up is Wednesday, September 30th at 12:00 pm. Although the sign- up is for a two week period, meals will need to be picked up each week on Monday. Meal pick up will be held on Monday, October 5th from 3:30 to 5:00 pm, and on Monday, October 12th from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Weekly meal bags include but are not limited to organic brown rice, pasta, organic canned tomatoes, dried pinto beans, healthy snacks, and a selection of fresh fruits and vegetables such as apples, oranges, grapefruit, sweet potatoes, squash and onions. The meal bags include both breakfast and lunch. At this time, there is no charge to families regardless of meal eligibility status. ALL children between the ages of 0-18 can receive breakfast and lunch meals. Please list all children’s names who will be receiving a meal even if they are not a CPA student. Click HERE to sign up for the To-Go meals for October 5th and October 12th. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Sandi MacGregor at sandi.macgregor@crownpointeacademy.org. If you have not completed a Free and Reduced Meal Application, we ask that you take the time to complete an application before October 1st. These waivers may end and applications may still be used to waive applicable fees. This is also essential to some of our school’s additional funding. You can apply for meal program benefits online at charter choice.strataapps.com. Crown Pointe PTA has a meeting coming up this week on Thursday October 1, 2020 at 6:00pm on Google Meets. We have included the Google Meet video call information. At this meeting, we plan to confirm whether we can have our Holiday Craft Fair, finalize our Committee Chair Heads (we are still in need of Holiday Craft Fair and Donation & Outreach Chair Head), and verify upcoming meeting dates for all the committees. We will also be receiving an update from Mr.O. If you have difficulty, please text me at 303-589-7174. CPA PTA Meeting on Thursday, October 1·6:00 – 7:30pm Join with Google Meet: meet.google.com/kub-qaan-wwf Our Creative Competition has come to an end....
S.E.W 9.26.2020
Hello Crown Pointe Community, Welcome to SEW Saturday! Every Saturday, the social emotional wellness (SEW) committee is sending out ideas we feel can help our community build resilience and stay connected. This week we are highlighting the U in our NOURISH program. The U stands for: unite with others and create community. So far we’ve had Mrs. Worley talk about N for nature and getting outside and last week Mr. Varner talked about O for observe breath and the power of stillness. This week we’ve got a special guest, none other than Mr. Ouweneel, who made a video about how we can unite with others and create community. Finding ways to unite with others can be difficult in a virtual space. We can see that it takes a lot more effort to feel that human connection in an online world. And at the same time finding ways to stay connected with our friends, family, teachers, and the school is more important now than ever. Creating community means intentionally creating a space where people feel like they belong and that they are connected to something bigger than themselves. We can still do this in an online world where we remember to ask people about themselves, where we contribute to class discussions, where we can show our attention by focusing on the person talking and not multitasking. We can also connect with communities outside of school. These communities have meaning for us, help us feel connected, and help us to enjoy life. For some of us it is our religious or spiritual community, for others it’s our sports community where we are part of a team, and some of us belong to communities that create things together like music or art. We would love to hear from you about ways that you are uniting with others and building community. You can email us at SEW@crownpointeacademy.org We hope you find ways to NOURISH yourself this week! -The SEW team ...
S.E.W 9.19.2020
Hello everyone, Welcome to SEW Saturday! We want everyone in our CPA community to have access to resources that will help them to build resiliency, tools to help them be successful, and ways to meaningfully connect with each other. We are doing this through our NOURISH program. NOURISH stands for: N: Nature and getting outside O: Observe breath and the power of stillness U: Unite with others and create community R: Replenish and what we need to do to restore ourselves physically and emotionally I: Initiate movement and exercise S: Self Care and how to we can live our best lives H: Harness creativity and how we use creativity to solve problems Today our amazing physical education teacher, Mr. AJ Varner has a fantastic message for all of us about the O in NOURISH and how we can observe breath and the power of stillness. You can watch his video here: https://youtu.be/O_HkGhPy-co Mr Varner also found a ton of great websites with easy ideas for how we can practice observing our breath. Mindful Breathing videos for kids www.gonoodle.com/ or vamos.gonoodle.com/ Read about the best meditation apps to find one that might work best for you. https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/top-meditation-iphone-android-apps Alan Watts Guided Meditation Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpUNAFHgxM Guided Meditation for Kids Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1SVHDcQH7o Great Breathing Videos http://www.yomind.com/justme Breath For Change Breathing Exercise https://vimeo.com/285766423/0a1313336a We hope you try some of these exercises this week with your family! Our JAMmin Minute this week is: I for Initiate Movement and Exercise Try to get ‘everyday exercise’ into your schedule, for example cleaning, playing outside, walking, going up stairs. Try to get some cardio exercise too like skateboarding, running, biking, scootering and other sports 3 to 5 times a week. Do fun strength exercise like gymnastics, martial arts, climbing, push-ups/sit-ups and dancing 2-3 times per week. Cut down on TV time, cell phone time and video games. Try to fit some extra movement into your schedule this week and see how you feel. Please reach out to us at SEW@crownpointeacademy.org if you have ideas for how we can NOURISH our amazing CPA community. – The SEW...
Monday Folder 9.21.2020
Our Mission: The mission of Crown Pointe Academy is to promote creativity, curiosity, character, and community in a challenging Core Knowledge environment. We hope that everyone had a great weekend! 1st Quarter progress reports are available today for all students. For students in grades K-2, please look for an email from your child’s teacher with his/her progress report. For students in grades 3-8, the progress reports are available in the Infinite Campus Parent Portal under Documents (menu on the left side of the screen). Please be sure to take a look at your child’s progress report, and contact the teachers with any questions. Calendar Updates: As a reminder, there is regular in person school for the Wednesday/Friday cohort this Friday, September 25th. There will also be regular in person school on Friday, October 9th, which was originally a parent-teacher conference day. Fall break will be held as normal this year, so there will not be school for students on Thursday, October 22nd, Friday, October 23rd, or Monday, October 26th. Please contact the front office if you have any questions about the calendar changes. Parent-Teacher Conferences have been moved to Monday, October 5th from 8:00-4:00 and Monday, October 12th from 8:00-4:00. All conferences will be held virtually this year. A separate email with conference details will be sent later this week. To-Go Meals – Week 3: CPA will continue providing To-Go Meals for our families. Deadline to sign-up is Wednesday, September 23rd. Meals MUST be picked up on Monday, September 28th. Pick up time is from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Weekly meal bags include but are not limited to organic brown rice, pasta, organic canned tomatoes, dried pinto beans, healthy snacks, and a selection of fresh fruits and vegetables such as apples, oranges, grapefruit, sweet potatoes, squash and onions. The meal bags include both breakfast and lunch. At this time, there is no charge to families regardless of meal eligibility status. ALL children between the ages of 0-18 can receive breakfast and lunch meals. However, we ask that families still complete a Free and Reduced Meal Application before October 1st. These waivers may end and applications may still be used to waive applicable fees. This is also essential to some of our school’s additional funding. You can apply for meal program benefits online at charter choice.strataapps.com. Click HERE to sign-up for your weekly meal bag. If you have any questions, please contact Sandi MacGregor at sandi.macgregor@crownpointeacademy.org or at 303-428-1882 ext 105. Be sure to take a look at this week’s Update (attached) for information from your CPA-PTA! This week’s documents include: Update 9.21.20 Creative Exhibition Flyer PTA Membership Form Have a great week! Nuestra misión: La misión de Crown Pointe Academy es promover la creatividad, la curiosidad,...
