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Cody Elementary

“Where Everyone is a Winner!”

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I S S U E # 5 C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S :

Janaury 19

No School

K-12

Staff Continuing

Education Day

January 29

Cody PACT

Meeting

7:00 PM

February 2

100th day

Of School

February 13

No School

K-5

6-12 Noon Dismiss

Panther Pride!

Counselor’s Corner By Ms. Kramer

Frustrated parents sometimes ask, “How can I get my kids to help around the house?” Doing chores

around the house is very important because this can carry over to school success in the classroom. All

people have a need to belong and kids are no different. Doing chores can help children know they are

contributing members of the family. And being a contributing family member can fill the basic need to

belong. Parent should not have to pay, argue, or remind their children to do their chores.

Children who learn to do chores and have responsibilities at home are more likely to transfer that habit

and the skills they have learned to the classroom environment. When they fail to complete their chores,

children learn there is a consequence. Failure to complete school work and

homework also have consequences.

Love and Logic suggests that parents try making the following changes:

Once in a while try to catch your children working hard to complete their

chores and offer to help them. This works only if the child is working harder

than you are. Provide for them reasonable deadlines, such as “Just have it

done before supper.” If they don’t do their chores go ahead and do them for

them. Then when it is time for them to do something they want to do, remind

them that that will be possible as soon as they repay you for the time you spent doing their chores. Maybe they will have to stay home instead of being

driven somewhere. Most likely next time they will learn a valuable lesson.

Cody School is lucky to have RSVP volunteers come and

help our students with reading skills. Because of a grant re-ceived by RSVP each 4th and 5th Grade Student received 4 books as a gift just before the

Holiday break.

RSVP Donates Books to Cody

Change for the Marquez Family

Just before Christmas the Marquez family home was destroyed by a fire. Marquez’s were part of the Cody family before their children moved on to upper grades. We’re asking for donations of your loose change to help them with their loss. There is an aquarium by the office that we are try-ing to fill with coins to give the family a little help at a difficult time. Please send your spare change to add to the tank. Thank you!

Mrs. Michaels Kindergarten New Year’s Resolutions Ethan—I will try to shut off my games when I am done.

Conner—I will listen to my mom.

Kadance—I will clean my room with my sister.

Eddie—I will listen better.

Joselina—I will shut off the TV.

Treyton—I will play with my dog more.

Caleb—I will pick up my toys in the house

Janey—I will spend more time with Allie

Caroline—I will stop biting my fingernails.

Andrew—I will wrap up the game cube controllers and clean my room.

Kiana—I will wash my hands before I eat.

Elijah—I will do better with writing my words and cleaning my room.

Langdon—I will be a little tougher on my cousin because she is mean to me. (Stand up for myself)

Bryce—I will clean my room and stand up to my brother.

Carson—I will learn to ride my bike.

Adam—I will learn to ride my bike without training wheels.

Aaron—I will make my bed and do better at swimming lessons.

Cameron—I will do 20 sit-ups before bed.

Skyler—I will make my bed and pick up toys and put the clothes in the dryer.

Rylee—I will listen to my mom and exercise more.

Johnny—I will listen to my mom.

To view Magic Hat stories from Mrs.

Lehmkuhler’s class click this link:

http://www.schooltube.com/video/19032/Mrs--Awtry's-Hat-Stories

http://www.schooltube.com/video/19037/Mrs--Lehmkuhler

Halsey Smith

Leslie Barnett

Kyle Mull

Senses

Winter

Poems

Mrs. Awtry’s

2nd Grade

Math Minute

January math practice will consist

of sorting and grouping items,

along with discussing and compar-

ing plane (flat) and solid (3-D)

shapes. Continue to work with

your little one on memorizing addi-

tion and subtraction with answers

to 10. We will formally assess add-

ing and subtracting in the 4th quar-

ter of school.

REMINDERS:

-No School for students on

the 19th of this month.

-Book Club orders due on the

22nd this month.

-Reading assessments will be

given to students on the week

of the 12th. Getting to bed

early and eating a healthy

breakfast can help your child

perform their best.

The New Year Brings a New

Subject to First Grade

Starting in January, boys and girls will begin their study of science with Mrs. Thompson twice a week. They will be studying proper-ties of matter. This will include solids and liquids, and how each react to movement, mixing, rolling, stacking and so on. While one class will be working with Mrs. Thomp-son, the other will be continuing their study of social science and literature with Mrs. Gribble. Be sure to ask your child what they are learning in each room. We are sure that they will be excited about these opportuni-ties to explore further, these areas of study.

We are halfway through the school year and the Reading is Cool sheets are add-ing up. To be on track for completing 10 sheets by the year’s end, your child should have at least 5 sheets completed. Don’t wait until the end of the year to work on this goal with them. Children who are growing into good readers benefit from routine practice of reading at home throughout the year.

Rocket Math Subtraction will begin in January. Help your child to memorize subtraction facts at home so that they can soar.

The 1st Grade Gazette

Third Graders this month completed their Fire Safety Unit.

The students learned how to “inspect” their homes to check for fire hazards;

learned what to if there was a fire in their homes; drew a fire escape plan;

and went through the Fire Department Fire House. Each student received a

certificate for learning the material presented in the unit. For math, stu-

dents will be learning their multipli-

cation facts/fact families, working

on multiplication word problems

and learn how to skip count. Stu-

dents will begin their next unit in

Science this month on Rocks and

Minerals. Students will begin the

unit by discussing the three rock

classifications. Students will ob-

serve how rocks are the same and

different and also observe minerals

in rocks. Our study of rocks will

continue the remainder of the quarter. Students have new 3rd quarter AR

goals and will continue to work on their independent reading levels. We will

also be reviewing our 6 traits this month and complete narrative writings.

Fourth Graders have been trying out a new form of tech-

nology in the classroom. We have been podcasting with McDonald School 4th graders through the Skype program. We recently con-nected with them over the internet for interviews. Each child intro-duced themselves with a few facts which gave others the opportunity to learn a little about

us. Within the next week we will be sharing our Social Studies marketing projects with our new pals using the web camera. The stu-dents are very excited about Skyping with another school. It gives them a chance to share ideas with others. In the future we hope to become more advanced and take our webcasting further.

Fifth Graders have been working on land and

water models in science. We've been able to get our hands

dirty as we investigated how sediments mix together in our Earth's crust. Other concepts that we experimented with were how streams are formed and how they weather and

erode through our landscape. Fifth graders also made a model of the water cycle in their science teams. Be sure to

ask your fifth grader how to sing, The Water Cycle Boogy!

5th Graders Attend Leadership Conference

On Thursday, January 8, 2009, Tanner Haws, Makenzie Lienemann, Mavigliano, Mason Amweg,

Rylie Cotton, Callie Davidson, Mitch Parish, and Halle Pflughaupt represented Cody school at the Elementary Leadership Conference at Mid-Plains

Community College. There were 134 students from 17 schools registered for this year’s confer-

ence. Cody’s leaders were chosen from input from peers, teachers, counselor, and principal. Students were divided into 6 groups and had an opportunity to meet

students from other schools who also demonstrate positive leadership qualities.

Students were able to attend six sessions with their group and learn about the fol-lowing topics; Neil Hokanson , leadership podcast project; Denise DiGiovanni ,

Digital Citizenship; Margaret Ziegler and Kara Dike,Standing up to Peer Pressure: “How to say NO without losing your friends”; Michael Davis, Characteristics of Great Leaders; Deanna L. Peterson, Self-Leadership: Leading yourself to Excellence;

Jenee Hill and Monica Kramer, Leaders Don’t Tolerate Bullying.”

Students were treated to pizza and pop for lunch

and enjoyed participating in a dance activity with Becky Wagner following lunch. In the afternoon

students convened in the auditorium to listen to community leaders lead a panel discussion. Members of the panel included Mrs. Molly O’Hol-

leran, Mr. Ernie Mehl, Dr. David Engle, and Dr.

Midge Mougey.

We can all be proud of the great leadership of our

Cody students.