David M. Cox Elementary School – Dream It! Believe It! Achieve It! NOT LIMITS!

Cox Cub News

Volume 7, Issue 22 Mrs. Tara Imboden, Principal imbodtr@nv.ccsd.net
Feb. 26-Mar. 16, 2018 Mrs. Erica Silas, Assistant Principal shawel@nv.ccsd.net
When you get the newsletter on Class Dojo – just touch the picture and it will expand and focus on your device. We do have copies in the front office if you would prefer a paper copy.
This Newsletter complies news and information from the past three weeks.

Spring Break begins this weekend! There is no school beginning Monday, 3/26 through Monday, 4/2. Classes
resume on Tuesday, April 3rd.

Cub Cheers: Congratulations to the students in Mrs. Anderson’s Intermediate CLass they did our Friday Announcements and
were fabulous! Congratulations to the following students for receiving Cox Cub of the Week for the past 3 weeks:
Isabella Dizon, Madison Fesel, Alex Spencer, Sophia Corrales, Serenity Henderson, Zoey Cannon, Havok Conley,
Ethan Miller, Bella Gonzalez, Jaslene Hernandez, Kate Russell, Malcolm Smith, Elora Miller, Beau Beranek,
Kennedy Schaefer, Elias Hillstead, Tess Sturley, Robert O’Neal, Adriana Felix, Arya Anilkumar, Carmen Dian,
Dillon Barney, Erwin Peregrina, Jenelly Valencia, Samantha Torrance, Braedon Carpenter, Chloe Gold, Jia Li,
Kate Swanberg, Heaven Live Green, Ethan Ford, Sophia Corrales, Adelina Fritsch, Alanna Weston, Mailee Wachter,
Anthony Rizo, Jacob Partida, Serenity Terasa, McKinzie Deovando, Raelyn Chaytor, Cy Adams, Sophya Jones,
Violet Herandez, Stephanie Guidoux, Isabella Rea, Breandan McDevitt, Ainsley Pender, Khoi An Tran, Makylie Villalovos,
Ian Garcia, Caitlyn Stickley, Tanner Wateman, Devin Batts, Preston Tabak, Zachary Serrano, Saphiera Fierros, and
Lyrica Fierros.

Nevada Reading Week: It was a fun week of reading activities and a very successful book fair in our Library! Thank you
parents for supporting our school and students!

Fifth Grade Musical: The Fifth Grade Musical was so creative! The students did such a
great job of writing and performing their own “zombie pieces!” Thank you to the hard work
of the students, the teachers, parents, and Mrs. Papanek! Also, to our Guitar Club students
and Mr. Papanek! The students really got excited about the “fog!”

Thank you Parents! We celebrated them at our annual “Volunteers Breakfast” on

Friday 3/16: We appreciate everything our parent volunteers do for us each week in our
school! Their help is invaluable!
 PTA News: Tonight is Chick Filet Night for DMC! If you would like to be a Chair for a PTA Committee/Board
for next year please email the Nominating Committee to put your name on the list! You can email Mr. Bollard at
dbollard99@hotmail.com, Mrs. Spencer at rubia_012001@yahoo.com, or Mr. Nash at toddjnash@cox. net. Board
positions/Chair positions include…Yearbook, Legislative, Staff Appreciation, Restaurant Nights, Reflections, Family
Fun Nights, Milers, Communications, Box Tops, Fundraising, and Membership.

Career Week at DMC: This week is Career Week at DMC in which students will be learning about careers from guest
speakers, completing activities on careers, and attending a Life Wax Museum put on by our Third Graders on careers.
Friday is dress up in your career of choice day! Thank you to our school counselor, Ms. Deihl who is in charge of this
event each year!

Nevada Moves Day is Wednesday: This Wednesday, 3/21, is Nevada Moves Day in which we celebrate getting students “up
and moving” throughout the day and making healthy choices for themselves. Our DMC Leadership Team will be outside at all
the gates handing out tickets to students who are walking, riding, or scootering to school and those tickets will be placed in a
raffle to win a new bike! We are giving away a boys and a girls bike for every grade in K-5! Nevada Highway Patrol along
with other city agencies will also be on campus handing out stickers and items for kids who are walking/biking to school.

Did you know that our school has a Facebook page managed by the PTA? Check it out, it’s wonderful! Also, all
newsletters, events, and school messages are posted on our Class Dojo! You can also find our school information
(including our newsletters and SOT minutes) on our school website!

Relay for Life Rummage Sale: This Saturday, Relay for Life will be using our campus to host a Rummage Sale! Stop by and
pick up some amazing treasures from 7 am – 2 pm. Flyers are posted on the school doors and on Class Dojo.

Mid-Year Supply Drive

Parents, some of our grade levels are getting very low in student supplies and our budget is dwindling down to purchase
extras. If you can donate any of the following items to your child(rens) classrooms the teachers would truly appreciate it:

Kinder First Second Third Fourth Fifth

Scissors White Board White Board White Board White Board White Board
White Board Markers Markers Markers (thin tip) Markers Markers Markers
Copy Paper Copy Paper Copy Paper Copy Paper Copy Paper Copy Paper
Small Ziplock Baggies Scissors Klennex
Baby Wipes Ziplock Baggies

Parent News Update: Parents our hiring for 2018-2019 is underway and so far we are happy to announce we’ve hired for our
first and second grade positions which were open. We would like to welcome Mrs. Heather Brown (teaching first next year)
and Ms. Elizabeth Wolfer (teaching second next year). The following is a list of staffing positions (always subject to change
through the summer):

Kinder First Second Third Fourth Fifth Specialists Special Education

Mrs. Ernst Mrs. Anderson Mrs. Blohm Mr. Frank Mrs. Niewinksi Mr. Orth Mr. Hale – PE Intermediate SEC –
Mrs. Froehlich Mrs. Asmundson Ms. Davis Ms. Hannah Mrs. Pisano Mrs. Piccininni Ms. Taylor – Art Open Position
Ms. Swinger Mrs. Brown Ms. Harry Ms. Kirkpatrick Mrs. Stackel Mr. Shafran Mrs. Papanek-Music Primary SEC – Mrs. Bernard
Open Position Mrs. Grenstiner Ms. Lopez Ms. Peters Open Position Open Position Ms. Connor – Library Primary Resource Room –
Ms. Shields Ms. Wolfer Ms. Deihl – Counselor Mr. Tanksley
Mrs. Cole – GATE Intermediate Resource Room –
Open Position – Mrs. Giannantonio
Read by Grade 3 Early Childhood – Mrs. Klein
Strategist Primary Autism –
Mrs. Ball-Aguilar

The week we come back from spring break the annual Parent Survey will come home and we will begin to accept teacher
requests for 2018-2019 (as always, a request does not guarantee placement and if a teacher leaves throughout the summer
classes will not be redistributed for your second choice).

Miler’s Yearbook Picture: This Thursday, 3/22, at 8:40 am will be the yearbook picture for our Milers Students. Everyone
who has participated throughout the year will be in picture. Please come in your Miler’s tee-shirt (if you have one) or a school
shirt (if you have one). The final day for Milers is May 3rd!

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Transitional Academic Night: On April 27th, we will be having a “Transitional Academic Night.” This is an evening in
which you attend the next grade’s presentation to hear about curriculum, supplies, and expectations. We will be distributing
curriculum guides some textbooks (which are no longer adopted by CCSD), and providing a question/answer time for parents.
So…your kindergarten student would attend the first grade presentation, first graders attend the second grade
presentation…and so on. We are reaching out to the sixth grade teachers at Greenspun to see if they’re available to come that
evening and provide a presentation in the MP Room for our exiting 5th graders.

SBAC Testing Coming Up: Parents of students in grades 3, 4, and 5, our students will be beginning to take the state
mandated tests (SBAC) in English language arts, math, and science (for fifth). These tests are given in elementary through
middle school and are required by the state. They are computer adaptive tests which mean that depending on how the student
answers the questions determines the level of questioning given. All students are tested at the grade level to which they are in,
however the tests can provide more rigorous questions to test the ability of students. However, they are only scored for the
school/state purposes on the grade-level questions. Each test has a “CAT” which is the traditional multiple choice and short
answer and a “PT” which is the lengthy writing portion. We will begin with 3rd and 5th grade testing and students will test
from 9:30-11:30 each day. These tests are NOT timed and are ONLY given through the computer. They will take a portion
each day (English Language Arts CAT on one day and the English Language Arts PT on another).

Testing begins April 9th (we test Monday through Thursday and a few Fridays with 3 computer labs)

We are asking that you write positive notes to your child each day they are testing and have paired each intermediate class up
with a primary class to be their “cheerleaders” and give the class positive praise notes as well. We are implementing several
attendance incentives to minimize make-ups and raffling off bikes for attendance.

We also have school-wide quiet hours from 9:30-11:30 and adjust lunches and specialists schedules to give our students the
optimal testing environment. Once a student has begun a test, they cannot leave school and come back into the building to
pick up where they left off (all sections once started must be finished).

We are excited to see how our kids do, they always impress us! Last year we had 7 students score a perfect score and the year
before that we had 12 score a perfect score! Wow!

*These tests do not affect your child’s reportcard grades or next year’s class placement and scores do not come out until July or August.

A Look Ahead:
*All events listed are subject to change.
Mar 19 Family Dinner Night for Cox – Chick Fil-A
Mar 19-23 Career Week
Mar 24 Relay for Life Rummage Sale 7am-2pm
Mar 26-Apr 2 Spring Break – No School
Apr 3 Classes resume
Apr 4 Fifth Grade DREAMS Graduation 2:30 MP Room
Apr 5 Spring Pictures
Apr 6 Ident-A-Kid on Campus
Apr 9-May 18 State Exams for Grades 3-5
Apr 10 SOT Mtg. 5 pm/PTA Mtg. 6 pm Library
Apr 14 PTA Community Rummage Sale
Apr 18 PTA Blood Drive MP Room 1:00 pm
Apr 18 Kindergarten Registration Begins
Apr 19 Vision/Hearing Screening
Apr 27 Mothers & Muffins 8:30 MP Room
Apr 27 Transitional Academic Night 5:30 pm
Apr 30-May 1 5th Grade at Sea World
May 4 Field Day