We had a local author, Kirstine Keel, in our classroom sharing her
experience with her first children's picture book, Marley the Motmot
In the Land of Trees. We enjoyed learning about the writing process
and meeting Marley and his friends!

We enjoyed starting our rock unit today.  Students were able to make observations and sketch the different types of rocks.

On the first day of school, all of the 5th grade classes: Mr. Earl, Mrs. Nielson, Mrs. Peck, and Mrs. Oldroyd's, met outside to do a Get to Know You Scavenger Hunt. Each child had to find different people that filled requirements such as - Have you tried asparagus? What is your favorite book? Is your birthday in January? Do you have 2 older sisters? After that, we got into groups of ten and did the human knot as pictured. Lots of fun so far and that was only the first day!

Cherry Creek Crocs are Unstoppable!!  Today Mr. Duncan introduced the students to our theme for the year: "Unstoppable Me!"  It is based off a book that every teacher has in their classroom. The student body watched a movie about Richie Parker, a man born with no arms, and showed how he didn't let that stop his dreams (driving a car) and ambitions (designing race car parts). A quote by John Wayne was shared that matches this month's theme, courage.

Students at Cherry Creek Elementary held their final Ken Garff Road to Success rewards assembly. The students received tickets for certain numbers of days read at home throughout the school year. At the assembly, Mr. Duncan and Ms. Ferguson drew out tickets from a giant tumbler and MANY students were awarded prizes, from bouncy balls, hackey sacks and books to backpacks, camp chairs, ipods, bikes and $50 savings bonds towards college.  The students were very excited to hear their names read and some students won multiple prizes.