April 2013

Cherry Creek Elementary is moving ahead into the 21st century with 12 new Chromebooks for the 5th grade.  That is 4 of them for each classroom.  5th grade is the guinea pig for this new technology.  If everything works out more classrooms will be getting Chromebooks in the future.  These new Chromebooks will allow the teachers to develop more meaningful lesson plans integrating much more technology into the classroom.  This will also help keep the students interest.  Thank you Mr. Duncan for the Chromebooks.

On April 17th, Cherry Creek hosted Area PTA Meeting.  As part of the meeting, Mrs. Alderks' class performed the dance "Magic".  Mrs. Deardeuff also led the school choir in singing "Seize the Day" from Newsies.  Both groups did an amazing job.  Nancy Taylor was presented with the PTA Service Award which was well-deserved.  We love Mrs.

The sixth graders had their final Hershey Track experience. The students performed excellently, enjoyed chilly, but beautiful weather, and placed in multiple categories. Congratulations to all the participants and victors!

Pamela Cervantes, Park Pehrson, Sydney McDaniel, and Ella Unguren in
Mrs. Alderks & Boyers class, won an art contest for the Daily Herald.
Each week for 9 weeks, students illustrated a chapter of a sea turtle
story printed by the Daily Herald.  Their pictures were submitted and
a professional graphic artist chose a finalist for each chapter.
These girls won a summer basket  and their pictures will be displayed

As an end-of-unit celebration, the sixth graders enjoyed a medieval banquet and festival, wearing the attire of the time period. The feast was a menu of chili, toppings, rolls and capri sun. Students provided our entertainment in the form of a talent show. The fifth graders were challenged to a game of capture the flag on the field as the culmination of the day's festivities. Heraldry, full stomachs and celebration was had by all.

The sixth graders were invited to attend the annual program at BYU called Project Youth. BYU student volunteers host 1200 sixth graders from all over the county and introduce them to college life and experiences. Students were able to tour the campus and hear professors talk about their areas of expertise, everything from science to social work to education to anatomy to physical education, etc.  They had a surprise snow storm while touring the campus. Students were rushing to find places of refuge to try to stay dry.

Congratulations to our science fair winners from the CUSEF Science Fair held at BYU in March! Cherry Creek was well represented and 3 of our students received trophies: Dylan Mitchell, Brandon Jepson and Tad Ninomiya.

We have a fabulous PTA and we are thankful for all their hard work on behalf of the students and teachers. Here is the latest newsletter in English and Spanish.