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CCA May Board Meeting Highlights

The resignation letter from Ms. Katie Woodhouse was reviewed and accepted.

All staff contracts were reviewed and approved. Staff returning for the 2010-2011 school year are as follows:

• Julie Bull
• Karri Cain
• TerriLynn Carlson
• Erin Carley
• Ginny Cauthorn
• Lisa Cole
• April Dowdy
• Becky Diller
• Joann Eisenman
• Amber Epple
• Robin Erker
• Harry Ewing
• Tena Floryancic
• Sarah Johnson
• Tammy Kester
• Lisa Rupple
• Diane Sauter
• Leticia Schnaak
• Kim Spayd
• Ann Streit
• Stacy Thompson
• Susan Warren

The Kindergarten, PE and Music positions are open until 5/20/2010. Interviews will begin on 5/25/2010.

The board approved the housing of Small Wonders Preschool at CCA. They will be using the Kindergarten room on alternating days.

The board approved the addition of PTO crime coverage to the liability policy.

When students Cora and Tasha Colvin and Seattle Hart discovered that 7th grade teacher Ms. Carley seasons her food with only ketchup, they knew they had to do something. They put their heads together and came up with a plan of action and then carried it with shovel and hoe. Now, outside Ms. Carley’s classroom back door, is a splendid herb garden of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme with basil and oregano as well. Thank you girls and bon appétit, Ms. Carley!

April Character Trait: Perseverance
The April character trait winners are Darin Bone, Ben Swieter, Ariana Madera, Leslie Allen, Matthew Cole, LaRae Wacker, Kaleb Streit, Cody Huwa, Alex Erker, and Micah Angle.

Mini-Relay For Life

Dear CCA Students, Parents, Faculty, and Staff,

Thank you SO much for making Mini-Relay For Life such a success once again! It was so great to see the spirit the kids had during our Cancer Prevention Week.

Through the generosity of everyone at CCA, our school raised $2210.00 for the American Cancer Society!! (Over the 6 years we’ve hosted Mini-Relay, we’ve donated over $10,300 to the ACS!) The money will be donated to Relay For Life of Southern Weld County in CCA’s name. Because CCA raised so much money, we are considered one of the top sponsors, or Diamond-level sponsors, of Relay For Life, and CCA’s logo will be at the top of the Relay For Life t-shirts.

In case you’re not familiar with it, Relay For Life is a 18-hour event that will be held at Schey Park in Keenesburg on June 26th-27th. The children decorated the “filler” luminaria bags during Mini-Relay, and these bags will line the walking track at Relay For Life. “Filler” bags are the decorated bags that supplement the bags with names on them to make the walking track look beautiful when lit up through the evening.

Thank you, CCA families, for all your donations. Together we are making a difference in the battle against cancer! Thanks to PTO for purchasing Relay prizes for the students and the healthy snack that was served. Thanks also to Deep Rock Water for donating the water, the Rigoli Family for assembling the snack bags, the Swieter Family for donating the hair color, and Love’s Travel Stop for donating ice. Thank you to Keene Floral for donating two beautiful bouquets of flowers to our guest speakers.

Small Wonders Preschool will be located at CCA next school year. See the details here.

February Character Honorees

Mrs. Cole's 3rd graders and aide, Ann Streit, perform a skit to illustrate February's Character Trait of the Month; self-discipline. Selected by their peers for best demonstrating self-discipline in their classes, students Brooke Franke, Cheyann Hein, Madison and Brooklyn Unruh, Natasha Zimbelman, Garrett Postle, Bryson Clark, Alex Erker, and Kelly Miller receive award certificates and recognition during the February assembly.

January: Cooperation
Students from each class were honored for being recognized by their classmates for best demonstrating Cooperation, the character trait focused on in Character Education program for the month of January. Congratulations to Dominic Jones, Hailey Jones, Wesley Swieter, Morgan Sydow, Dillon Weigel, Levi Lemons, Jacob Jacobo, Rachel Leet, and Garrett Butler.

CCA Web site gets a FAVICON
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Science Fair!

All 5th-8th graders participated in the CCA 7th Annual Science and Engineering Fair. This year the fair was held in the lunchroom on January 7th. The projects were displayed through Friday morning so both students and parents could take a look at the fair. Many interesting, practical and creative projects were presented to a distinguished panel of judges consisting of Mr. David Pfuhl of WCJH, Troy Dowdy D.V.M, and Mr. Ron Stites, director of research at Range Fuels.

View the Slide Show

Fifth and sixth graders worked individually on projects, while the 7th and 8th graders had the opportunity to work in groups if they so desired. First, second and third places were awarded within each group. Grand and reserve champions were selected from among the first and second place projects. Top honorees were:

Fifth Grade
1st place, Rissa Rigoli, for “The Bubble Olympics” in which she investigated the time it takes for a bubble to burst versus the composition of the bubble mix
2nd place, Levi Lemons, for “Copper Coils” in which he investigated the effect of the length of the coil in an electromagnet
3rd place, Tayler Diller, for “Strength of an Electromagnet”, a project that tested the effect of the gage of the wire on an electromagnet

6th Grade
1st place and Grand Champion, Elizabeth Harrison, for “Is it Preserved or What?” in which she compared the preservation of tissue under several different conditions
2nd place, Molly Cooksey, for “Cleaning Pennies” in which she compared the effectiveness of different liquids for cleaning tarnished pennies
3rd place, Rachel Butler for “Let’s Get Crackin’” in which she studied the relative strength of different chicken bones.

7th-8th grade
1st place and Reserve Champions, Allison Brady and Cheyann Hein for their project “What’s Crackin’?” in which they evaluated different vehicles made from popsicle sticks for the classic “egg drop” experiment. They used extensive mathematics and physics to analyze their results.
2nd place, Jess Nighswanger, Austin Bull, and Alex Erker collaborated on “The Combustion Experience” to determine the flammability of different liquids
3rd place, Micah Angle for “Robotic Maneuverability”, in which he compared photoresistors and whiskers to maneuver a robotic vehicle that he built and programmed

Science fair gives students an opportunity to learn how to apply the scientific method to explore their own world. As they think through their questions and come up with a test to try to answer their questions, perform the experiment or test and analyze their results, they can gain understanding and appreciation for science- and even have fun sometimes! Participation in the science fair also gives students practice writing step-by-step instructions, analyzing and graphing data, as well as experience interviewing with a judge. Even if a child never pursues science as a career, participating in science fair can help them learn how to systematically study a problem in order to trouble-shoot problems throughout life.