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CELA PRIDE
FAMILY NEWSLETTER
In This Issue: Follett Book Fair
7th Grade Chapel
Grandparents Day
Specials Updates
Elective Feature: ACT
Prep
Letter from Dr. LaFleur
Christian Education Leadership Academy October 18, 2019
Events Calendar
October
19th Conference Volleyball Tournament @ CELA
21st Parent-Teacher Conferences
22nd Fall Sports Banquet
23rd Chess Club
Parent-Teacher Conferences
25th 4K, 5K, 1st Grade Fire Department Visit
30th 6th Grade Chapel
Chess Club
November
4th Progress Reports Sent Home
6th Chess Club
8th Veteran’s Day Chapel
13th Chess Club
14th 3rd & 5th Grade Field Trip to MKE Public Museum
16th Home Chess Tournament
19th Open House 3-6 PM
Our Follett Book Fair was this week at CELA,
and what an awesome book fair it was! Each
group of Book Buddies had time on Monday to
peruse the selections and make a Wish List, and
then each class returned to the fair later in the
week to make purchases. It’s so fun to see how
passionate our students are about reading!
7th Grade Chapel Teachable
CVLD Christian Values & Leadership
Development
Nicole Daniels — Director
———–————-
October 23 Trust
October 30 6th Grade–
Trust
November 8 Veteran’s
Day Chapel–
Courage
November 13 Courage
November 20 Grace
December 4 5th Grade-
Grace
Art with Mrs. Bertling
Kindergarten is learning about mixing colors using water color markers and water. They made a silly monster with their mixed up colors! First grade learned all about the color wheel using concentric circles while learning about the famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. Second grade made ceramic pots that they will take to science class to plant grass. Third grade created pumpkins in the style of the very famous artist Romero Britto using bright colors, patterns and designs. Fourth grade is using jewels and metallic paint to make a tree in the style of Gustav Klimt. Fifth grade is making an ex-plosion book about color theo-ry. The books explode with color! Middle school art class just finished up tie dying fabric and are now learning to hand sew the fabric into a pillow. We have some fantastic designs and they are turning out great!
Physical Education with Mrs. Visconti
The past couple weeks all students have been working on their volleyball skills and striking with their hands. 4K-2
nd grade have
been progressing on striking with different body parts and strik-ing at different levels. 3rd-5th grade has been perfecting their underhand passes and learning what happens when we apply different force to the ball. 6th-8th grade has been learning how to use their serving and volleying skills in a game situation and learning how to pass a ball when they are out of position, or rather sideways or backwards, to their intended target.
Each class has also been working toward more core strength and perfecting their planking technique along with proper pushup form! I ‘ve encouraged them to do as many push ups as possible every day and at home to try to increase their muscu-lar strength and endurance! Coming up shortly will be manipu-latives (bean bags, hoops, scarves) and juggling for the middle schoolers. Put away the apples and oranges if you don’t want bruised fruit!
Music with Mrs. Ausen
Mark your calendars: Friday, November 8: Veterans Day Chapel
Thursday, December 19, 6:30pm: Christmas Concert
In music, we are singing and dancing to “Amen” by Matthew West and “All My Hope” by David Crowder for chapel worship. Students are anticipating Grandparents Day with joyful hearts as they prepare “Tell Me Why” and “Skinnamarink” (4K, 5K, and 1
st grade), “Shout with Joy” (2
nd and 3
rd grade), and “For the
Beauty of the Earth” (4th & 5
th grades and Chapel Choir) for our
celebration. Our youngest musicians are exploring their voices and finding the steady beat in the famous nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle”. 4K and 5K students are learning rhythm instru-ment names and techniques and discovering all the interesting sounds they can make in the music room. 1
st grade students
are beginning to read and write a steady beat with the quarter note symbol. 2
nd grade students are discovering where Do—
Re—Mi—So— La (solfege pitches) can be found on barred in-struments (xylophones) set up on pentatonic scales. 2
nd and 3
rd
grade students are practicing and reading new rhythms. 4th and
5th grade students are studying the treble clef and how notes
travel on the staff, recorder techniques for proper breath con-trol, fingerings, and tonguing rhythms. We are preparing for our upcoming Veterans’ Day chapel and already digging into some Christmas music! In middle school Chapel Choir, our singers are working together to sing in harmony and preparing for up-coming Chapel services.
“Sing to the Lord a new song; Sing to the Lord, all the earth.” Psalm 96:1
Spanish with Señorita Blahnik ¡Hola! CELA PreK, Kindergarten, and elementary students have been very busy lately. The 4K and 5K students have been working hard on stating their names, asking others their names, and stating how they are feeling. They recently brought home their Spanish Books which highlighted their work; such as self-portraits, with an attached polaroid picture of themselves, and the words to Feliz Cumpleaños (Happy Birthday). The 1
st and 2nd graders have mastered the Spanish vowel
sounds. They, too, have brought home their Big Book of Span-ish Vowels. The 3
rd and 4
th graders presented their colorful
works of art in front of class with the Colorful Halloween Spider (3
rd) and the Calabaza Colorida (4
th). Everyone did a fantastic
job! 5th grade has been progressing with their grammar points
such as subject pronouns and SER, the verb TO BE. These points can be challenging, however. The students are doing well and working hard. The middle schoolers just finished mid-trimester exams, part of which entailed maps and capitals of Central America and South America. In the next couple weeks, they will be starting their oral presentations about themselves and their families. Spanish I will be reviewing present tense verbs and eventually moving toward past tense. All Spanish students will be doing pro-jects regarding el Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). Should you have any questions regarding Span-ish, please feel free to contact me.
Contact Us
CELA: (262) 691-4321
W262 N4685 Ryan Street
Pewaukee, WI 53072
Website: www.celaedu.org
Office Staff:
Dr. John LaFleur
Head of School
Laura Jennaro
Director of Curriculum &
Teacher Development
Nicole Daniels
Director of CVLD
Brigette Baudhuin
Director of Community
Relations
Bonnie Wehnes/ Emma
Mogard
Administrative Office Staff
Electives Showcase — ACT Prep Mrs. Andreski & Mr. Hays
This trimester in ACT Verbal, we are able to really go into depth on each of the three verbal sections of the ACT. Af-ter students took the 4 hour test to start the year, we have had the chance to go through tips and skills needed for success on the English and Reading sections so far. We are about to get started on our work on the Essay section. To offer one example, students have learned the difference between and practiced the skills of skimming (quickly reading for main idea) and scanning (quickly looking for one piece of information). Students have also had ample time to revise each of their errors; that meta-cognitive work is so crucial to making progress. I am very enthusiastic to see how much progress the students make on each section on November 14
th!
This year in ACT SteM, Science and Math, we have been able to take two full math and science ACT tests. All scores went up significantly after the second test. Pacing is an issue with 60 math questions in 60 minutes and 40 science questions in 35 minutes. We have had the opportunity to reflect and strategize both individually and in small groups for best practices in approaching both tests. I am very excited as some of the students will definitely get the time and energy they invested into this elective back as they sit for an actual ACT test on December 14
th, just 18 days after finishing this ex-
tensive class. I will be very excited to hear how it went for them and get their feedback.
A Letter from Our Head of School, Dr. John LaFleur
Hello CELA Families,
If you ‘remember’ in our first newsletter this year, I included The Curve of Forgetting. This was
important as I have been asked by parents for many years “how should my son/daughter study?”
The key is frequency like the curve explained; especially in the first 24 hours. This is why many
educators and parents tell students to re-write their notes or re-read their notes and write a summary
of the notes as homework. Many of you may remember seeing other students cramming for a test
only to not do nearly as well as they were capable of doing because they waited too long to revisit the
information. They did not have a plan or a discipline to study early and then regularly for short peri-
ods (10 – 15 minutes) until the test. The Curve however was only part of the story.
Our teachers utilize a tool that can provide quite an advantage to your student, and that tool is Les-
son Capture. Teachers can tell students specifically where to review key concepts, processes or facts
that lead to content mastery. I strongly suggest that you take advantage of this tool. No public school
that I have worked at has this technology and it provides a great advantage to CELA in providing a
world-class education.
When a student is referred to a specific time stamped area on a Lesson Capture video, they are not
being asked to re-watch the entire lesson, but just the part that they need to master or relearn in
achieving mastery. That segment is tied to the quiz or test that is measured against the appropriate
standard on Mastery Connect, which lets the teacher, student and parent all know to what degree
the student has learned. This determination is a part of the student’s report card. Additionally the
student’s MAP scores are positively affected by success shown via Mastery Connect. And now you
know the rest of the story, as my good friend Paul Harvey used to say.
A few items you should know:
Our MAPs testing periods are “windows” during which testing does not occur all day long for
your child. We break testing up to no more than two days during designated time periods for
your child to demonstrate their continuous progress improvement.
Whenever CELA holds a fundraiser of any kind, it is not for the purpose of sustaining the
school. We only fundraise for special events beyond what is provided at the school and all of
the money raised goes directly to offsetting/covering the costs for our CELA students. Our Pan-
cake Breakfast proceeds will go to covering student costs for the annual 8th Grade Washington,
D.C. class trip.