David M. Cox Elementary School – Achieving Excellence

Cub Cheers: Congratulations to the students in Mrs. Anderson’s Class, they did our Friday Announcements and were fabulous! Congratulations to the following students for receiving Cox Cub of the Week: Ali Perkins, Nick Perkins, Athena Arhontas, Jan Berlinski, Olive Steffener, Gavin Kawaguchi, Leah Maneclang, Brandon Rios, Diego Avelar-Avila, Alina Macandog, Darian Robles, Jaden Manuel, Kaylnn Casanova, Parker Cromwell, Ethan Araki, and Selena Clayton. Finally, congratulations to Ms. Almada, our SEC Teacher for receiving the Cox Teacher of the Week.

Don’t Forget - Pledge Donations Due: Don’t forget now that the Fun Run is over, it’s time to get those pledges into school. You can either pay online or send in a check. All donations are due now through October 9th.

COX Dairy Queen Day: This Friday, October 9th is Dairy Queen Day for our school! Thank you for your support! Our PTA gets around $200-$300 each time we have a Dairy Queen Day! The owner is so generous to our school for giving us the percentage he does!

Thank you 2015-2016 Sponsors! Our List of Families Continues to GROW!!!

The following families and businesses have sponsored some of our extra annual expenses and we appreciate them greatly!

Thank you to the following families:Dijana Jefic, MD; Las Vegas Kidney & Hypertension

Specialists, $500.00 for our Teacher Appreciation

Dr. and Mrs. Fadell, $1,600.00 for our AR Medals & Positive Paw Student Rewards

Mr. and Mrs. Wong & Family, $300.00 for our Great American Trophies

Mr. and Mrs. Zicha & Family, $300.00 Harvest Festival Light Rental and Kitchen Usage Fee

Mr. Hollis and Family, $500.00 for our Student Recognition Dog Tags

Ms. Matyskiel and Findlay Toyota, $300.00 for our Student Honor Roll Certificates

Dorian Photography, $700.00 for our Cox Student Folders

Cox Cub Weekly NewsVolume 5, Issue 6 Mrs. Tara Imboden, Principal imboden@interact.ccsd.net

Sept 28-Oct 2, 2015 Dr. Christine Clayman, Assistant Principal cclayman@interact.ccsd.net

Family & Community Sponsorships: We are looking for community businesses to take on “sponsorship” of expenses which are no longer allocated by the district. If you know of a business that would be willing to be a David Cox Sponsor please email me directly (my email is at the top the page). We would recognize their business and all sponsorship items are tax deductible. You can partially sponsor the items below as well.

Staff Development Days: $800.00 Student/Parent Handbook: $700.00 Carnival Pizza: $600.00 Carnival Booth Supplies, Basket Auction: $600.00 Carnival Kid Prizes: $800.00 Carnival Ice (20, 10 lbs bags): $100.00

Book Fair a Grand Success: Our book fair has ended, thank you to all the volunteers which helped during the week’s event. We sold a lot of books and items and this money stays in our school’s library! Thank you for helping us get great books in our book collections! We are even able to purchase chrome books with profits made from previous book fairs!

2 nd Posting - Free &/or Reduced Lunch Applications Deadline Next Week : Families, if you’ve already filled out the application and/or are currently receiving reduced or free school lunch for your child(ren) the roll-over date is next week, October 6th. The fastest way to renew your child’s application is online at www.ApplyForLunch.com Whether you think you will qualify or not, it only takes a minute to complete the application. Getting free and/or reduced school breakfast and lunch not only helps on your “pocket books” but it helps get our school federal funding as well. Please take the time to complete an application online this week. If you’re already receiving FRL, then get your renewal in quickly because after the 6th all savings ends if you’re application hasn’t been turned in. *You may also get a form from the front office.

A Look Ahead: Sept 28-Oct 23 K-2 Acuity Testing Reading/MathOct 9 Dairy Queen Day for CoxOct 13 PTA Mtg. 6 pm Library-change of date!Oct 14-16 GATE at Astro CampOct 16 Progress Reports OutOct 23 Second Grade MusicalOct 27 DREAMS GraduationOct 27 Bookworm BreakfastOct 29 Unsatisfactory Notes HomeOct 30 No School – Nevada DayNov 1 Daylight Savings EndsNov 2-3 No School CCSD Staff DaysNov 11 No School Veteran’s DayNov 13 Harvest Festival 5:30-7:30 (Carnival) *DATE CHANGED because of CCSD Staff Days

Welcome Ms. Taylor, our new Art Teacher: We were so grateful to have an amazing guest teacher as Mrs. Byrd! She’s done a wonderful job in our art room with all of our students and the student projects have been incredible. Mrs. Byrd has three more days with us to assist in the transition of our full-time Art Teacher.

We are pleased to finally announce that we have hired an Art Teacher, Ms. Rebecca Taylor! She comes with a lot of experience and enthusiasm for the fine arts, was a former Elementary Art Teacher in Maryland and worked here in CCSD as an Art Teacher who was split between 4 different elementary schools! Yikes! We are very fortunate to get our Specialists all to ourselves and we don’t have to share! Ms. Taylor is very passionate about elementary art and believes in integrating art into all subject areas!

Parents – taking awesome pictures of your child at school? Don’t forget, when you visit us or attend school events and take cool pics to send them to your child’s teacher so the pics

can be emailed to our Yearbook Chair!