Spirit Week

May 21-25 Spirit Week Attire 

M- comfy clothes/PJ’s

T- genre day- dress in a genre of music, history, fashion trends, etc.

W- Sports day (hats are allowed)  

Th- throw it back to the 80’s 

F- Funky socks! Add some fun to your outfit. The crazier, the better! 

*socks required everyday. Attire must be school appropriate.

Field Day Info

Cologne Academy K-4 Field Day

K-4 Field Day is Tuesday, May 29th (rain or shine) If outdoors, Field Day will take place on the city field southwest of the school.  If raining, Field Day will be held in the gym. Students should wear their college t-shirts and may wear their own non-uniform shorts. Sunscreen advised! Parents wanting to attend can get to the field by parking at the school and taking the walking path behind the gym to the field OR by driving west on Village Parkway from the school and taking a left (south) on Naples Avenue. Field Day Schedule is as follows:  K-2nd grades participates from 9-10:45 and 3^rd & 4th grades from 1:00-2:30. If there is inclement weather, families will be notified of the change to indoors around 7:30amthrough Schoolway.

3rd Grade Concert Information: 

A reminder-spaghetti dinner is on Friday from 5-7 at the Cologne Community Center (next door to CA).  This an event you do not want to miss!  

All are welcome to this family event- family-friendly pricing, too.  Tickets are purchased online.

The Silent Auction is open for bidding on many amazing teacher experiences as well as many cool baskets and other items and services.  

Once you have registered, bidding and buying tickets is quick and easy.  Follow the below...  the bidding is exciting.  All money raised goes back to our awesome programs.  Please pass the word! 

https://paveconnect.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/spaghetti-feed-silent-auction/

• This Friday, February 23rd: College T-Shirt and OSA at 2:45. If you are attending the OSA and bringing your child home from the OSA, please let me know by noon on Friday so I can have your child bring their end of day items. If I don't have advance notice, you will simply pick your child up in carline. 

• All next week: Pennies for Patients!  Cologne Academy is running this fundraiser for children with leukemia and lymphoma. Here's "what kind of money" to send each day: Monday-pennies; Tuesday-nickels; Wednesday-dimes; Thursday-quarters; Friday-$3 means you can wear a hat! Classes are competing for the most weight in their jars. Empty out those coin purses and piggy banks!

• Wednesday, February 28th: Spring Photos. Only the students who are ordering pictures will be photographed. Students may change their clothes for the picture, but must be in uniform before and after the photos.

• Friday, March 2nd and Saturday, March 3rd at 7:00 pm: Middle School Musical of "The Music Man"! Come and support the arts and the hard work these students have put in!

Conferences will be held Monday, February 12 from 4:00-8:00 pm and Thursday, February 15 from 4:00-8:00 pm.

Grades K-2:  Please sign up with Homeroom teacher

Grades 3-8:  Please sign up with MUM (Math) teacher and MUR (Reading) teacher

History, Science, Writing teachers will be available in their classrooms. Specialists (art, music, physical education, Spanish) will also be available. 

We look forward to seeing you!  

http://signup.com/go/YFBUEbv

December 4th - 8th

Winter Gear:  Please remember to send coats, hats, gloves, snow pants, and boots to school for recess.

Coming up...

Spanish Expo Performance Schedule - January 25th

Kindergarten will perform 5 short songs on the stage from 5:00pm-5:20pm

1st grade will perform 3 short songs on the stage from 5:30pm-5:50pm

2nd grade will perform 2 longer songs on the stage from 6:00pm-6:20pm

3rd grade will perform 2 longer songs on the stage from 6:30pm-6:50pm

Veteran's Day Program

Cologne Academy's Veteran's Day Program will be held on Friday, November 10 at 2:30 pm in the CA Gym. This is a wonderful program honoring all of our Veterans and we invite all of our CA families to attend.   We need your photos!  If you have a special serviceman/woman that you would like to honor in our Veteran's Day program please click here for a photo submission form (or pick up a form up in the main office) to submit with a photograph. The photo will be included in the PowerPoint presentation during the Veteran's Day program.      Please submit photos with a completed photo form to Carla Riemer at criemer@cologneacademy.org at your earliest convenience*.  *Photo submission DEADLINE is Monday November 6, 2017.* If you had pictures in the slideshow from last year, we will be able to reuse your photos.

 Give to the Max Day is November 16th.  Online giving starts November 1st and continues through November 16th.  

The goal and incentive for Give to the Max is below:

$15,000 - All School Non-uniform Day

$20,000 - Monday after Easter NO SCHOOL! 

Tutoring

Tutoring

If you think that your child would benefit from extra one-on-one help after school, please contact Ms. Gesinger to set up tutoring! 

Ms. Gesinger has a K-6 teaching license. She currently teaches fourth grade, however, has experience teaching kindergarten through sixth grade. 

Ms. Gesinger's contact information-

Email: agesinger@cologneacademy.org

Relay for Life

This week we have a very important event! Cologne Academy Scholars will be given the opportunity this week to help those battling cancer, and also earn a non-uniform day in the process! CA's National Junior Honor Society is raising money for our school's Relay for Life team. All money collected goes directly to the American Cancer Society and is used to fund research and help patients get the care they need.

Here are your child's options for non-uniform day!

Relay for Life Non-Uniform Day

$2 = non-uniform bottoms

$4 = non-uniform bottoms + top

$5 = non-uniform bottoms + top + hat

Please have your child bring their donation to their homeroom teacher this week. The non-uniform day will be this Friday, October 13.

Next Week (September 18th – 22nd):

·              Spirit Week is this week. Students may be out of uniform if the specific theme days is followed (listed below). Please note, students may wear non-uniform bottoms if he/she is following the themed days. 

·                                      Monday: PJ/Comfy Clothes Day

·                                      Tuesday: Dress Your Best!  Be Fancy!

·                                      Wednesday: Sport/Athletic Wear

·                                      Thursday: Throwback Thursday: 80's & 90's attire!

·                                      Friday: Be your 'selfie"- dress like you!

The Following Week (September 25th - 29th):

·              Picture Day is Wednesday, September 27th. Students may be out of uniform this day and do not need to change into uniform clothes after pictures. Forms will be sent home before this week so you can select your photos/photo package, if desired. 

·              Friday, September 29th is College T-Shirt Day and our first OSA. College t-shirts will be distributed at school. 

 April 10th
MUM
 I made a mistake in my last posting.  The fourth grade students will be taking their math MCA test on Thursday and Friday the 20 and 21 of April.  I will spend the three days leading up to the testing reviewing.  Please keep practicing their multiplication and division facts.
MUR
The reading MCA testing will be the following week Thursday and Friday April 27 and 28th.  We will also continue to review.
April 2nd

MUM
The week of April 3-7 our class will be finishing with transformations.  And then start charts and graphs and probability.  We will continue to review skills in preparation for the MCA math test after spring break.  The students will be taking their MCA math test on Wednesday and Thursday April 19th-20th.  Please keep having the students practice their multiplication division facts.

MUR
The class is reviewing everything from different genre such as folktales, fantasy to nonfiction. They will also be reviewing figurative language in poetry and other passages. Identifying main idea and details as well as the theme of a story.  The students will be covering adjectives, adverbs and sentence structure in their grammar books.  Their reading MCA test will be Wednesday and Thursday, April 26-27.  The students will have vocabulary lesson 12 this week but during the two weeks of MCA there will be no spelling or vocabulary homework or test.

March 18th

MUM
Monday, March 19th I will introduce radius and diameter of circles.  Tuesday the students will do a review to prepare for the interim on Wednesday and Thursday.  Friday, the students will not have MUM.  I have started this trimester if a student forgets their homework  they will be staying in during recess Monday thru Thursday to complete the missing assignment.

MUR

Monday and Tuesday the students will be taking their interim.  When all the students are done most likely Thursday we will review the interim.  Friday, is the Read-a Thon so there will not be MUR.  We will continue to read A Wrinkle in Time.  There is no spelling homework or test this week, I will hand out the spelling homework to the students on Thursday.

Sweets and Sweet Cakes

(2nd and 3rd Grade Event Only)

Friday, April 7

2:45 - 3:30 pm

All 2nd and 3rd Graders

are encouraged to invite a ‘Sweet’

(mom, grandma, aunt, neighbor, friend, etc.) to join them!

Enjoy some time exploring the classroom, reading, playing games, etc.  Sweets will be provided.

Guests may arrive at school at 2:45. Please use the center (south) door, not main entrance. Students leaving with their guest will be dismissed at 3:15, others will follow their normal after school routine. 

If your child (or siblings) is getting a ride home with their visitor, please notify the teacher(s) by April 6.

March 4th

MUM
 The students have been working on Geometry for the last few weeks.  Finding the area of a composite shape is very challenging for all students.  We have worked on this for a few days and are going to take a break and go back and review the basic of a lines, angles, triangles, polygons and quadrilaterals.  After reviewing I plan to give a test either Wednesday or Friday.  It depends how much we cover in the review before the field trip on Thursday.  Then I will go back to area and perimeter of square, rectangle and composite shape.

MUR

The students have been reading many stories and determining the text structure of the stories and citing text evidence and key words to support that type of text structure.  Last Monday, Mrs. Peterson came in an observed the class and participated in a card game that I created involving text structure.
We have worked mainly on Chronological order, cause and effect and problem and solution.  This week we will hit hard compare and contrast.  We are continuing to read A Wrinkle in Time , this is a challenging novel for the students.  This being a fantasy with time travel and  taking place in the early 60's when space exploration. 

PLEASE CONSIDER BECOMING A CANDIDATE FOR THE CA SCHOOL BOARD.  ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD ON APRIL 21, 2017.  FEEL FREE TO CONTACT A CURRENT BOARD MEMBER OR LYNN GLUCK-PETERSON IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS

Pennies for Patients February 27^th-March 3^rd

Pennies For Patients Drive

Start saving your pennies (and other coins) for CA's Pennies for Patients Drive February 27 - March 3! For the fourth year in a row, Cologne Academy extends their partnership to Pennies for Patients, a local organization that takes its proceeds to support kids with cancer. Pennies for Patients is a part of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society that teams with schools to ask students to bring in their pennies to save lives. To make it fun, classes will have friendly competitions with other classes during the week.

Goal: To raise $4000 to support kids with Cancer. 

When: February 27 – March 3 

Kindergarten – Grade 2: We will be doing a daily “penny day” challenge. Each student is encouraged to bring in the daily challenge amount. 

Monday: 25 pennies 

Tuesday: 50 pennies 

Wednesday: 75 pennies 

Thursday: 100 pennies 

Friday: As many as you can!!!! *Winning classroom gets a popcorn party! 

Grades 3-8: Weight Wars! This year we will WEIGH each classroom’s bucket daily! The classroom or Village that collects the MOST weight wins! 

*Winning classroom or Village will get a non-uniform day for your entire class! All Students & Staff Friday, March 3 everyone is encouraged to bring $2 if you would like to wear a HAT! Each dollar collected will add ½ pound to the class/Village bucket!

 Conferences are coming up February 16th and 21st 4-8pm.

If you haven't signed up yet please click here.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cologne Academy students will be assembling hygiene kits for an area teen shelter on Monday, January 16, 2017. 

Students are asked to bring the following items based on their grade: 

 Kindergarten: Individually packaged Toothbrush 

 1st Grade: Travel Size Toothpaste 

 2nd Grade: Deodorant 

 3rd Grade: Travel Size Shampoo and Conditioner 

 4th Grade: New Socks, Teen/Adult Size 

 5th Grade: Small Travel Hair Brush 

 6th Grade: Individually Wrapped Bar of Soap 

 7th Grade: Single Pack Chapstick 

 8th Grade: Wet Wipes – Popup Travel Packs 

Please send all items in by Thursday, January 12, 2017. 

All items should be new, and individually packaged and sealed when possible.