Posted February 13, 2025
Message from the Principal
Cory Caregivers,
Tired of the traffic congestion and lines at Kiss and Go? We have a great solution which is the Cory bus route.
Benefits:
Please let us know if you have any questions about the Cory bus.
We hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend!
Joan and Anna
Upcoming Events
Immigration Resources for Families
A Family Resource Toolkit is available in English and Spanish, and contains information and resources about rights, current DPS policies, training, mental health support, DPS resources, community resources and more. To request the toolkit in another language, email office_communications@dpsk12.net.
DPS Release Day-2/14 (No School for Students)
No school for students next Friday, 2/14. We will have a DPS release day. This is a time where all staff come together and grow our practice through professional development, collaborate and take time to plan together. We take time to plan, we better support each and everyone of our students.
New Vocabulary Words for the month:
boundless, gleeful, peculiar, emerge
We are excited to announce the Summer Academy, running from June 9-July 3, for students below and significantly below grade level. This program will enhance math and literacy skills while fostering creativity and social growth. Program Highlights: Math and Literacy focus.
Schools will start at 8 a.m. or 8:30 a.m. with sessions lasting four hours. Some schools may offer all-day sessions based on need. Registration opens later this winter with limited spaces. We will let you know when registration is live, but you will also receive notification from DPS if your student qualifies for this free opportunity. If you have questions, contact the DPS Activities team or email summer-academy-2025.groups@dpsk12.net.
A message from Safe from the Start Program:
This month, a trained Prevention Specialist from the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center will begin teaching the Denver Safe from the Start curriculum in your child’s classroom. This 6-week program teaches children skills that will help keep them safe from dangerous situations.
This program is divided into 6 Lessons:
1. Ways to Stay Safe: General safety- looking both ways before crossing the street, asking before petting a dog, never touching a gun etc. Identifying 5 trusted adults in their lives. Children will learn to recognize, refuse and report.
2. Always Ask Permission First: Always ask the person in charge before going somewhere, doing something, or accepting something.
3. Safe, Unsafe, and Unwanted Touches: Safe touches make us feel loved and cared for. Unsafe touches hurt our bodies. Unwanted touches can be safe but something a child may not want now. Kids are learning they have the right to say, “no”.
4. The Private Body Part Rule: A bigger person should never touch your private body part except to keep you healthy. Children identify the exceptions to this rule (caregivers, nurses, doctors).
We teach that the private body parts are covered by a child’s bathing suit.
5. Never Keep a Secret: Never keep a secret especially if the private body part rule is broken. In this lesson, kids will also learn that it is never their fault if someone else breaks the touching rule and to keep telling if their safe adult does not believe them.
6. Internet Safety: DCAC is an Educational Partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). We utilize NCMEC’s NetSmartz to talk about internet safety to Kinder – 5th grade students.
Selected classes, kinder-5th will complete a pre and post-test. These tests will be verbally conducted by the trained prevention specialist. There will be no identifying information, and tests will be shredded after being scored. The reason for these tests is to collect data that illustrates an improvement in scores from pre to post test.
If you have questions about the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center, or the Denver Safe from the Start
curriculum, please do not hesitate to call us.
Sincerely,
Christa Summers, MA, LPC, NCC
Community Outreach Director
720-974-7232
Julia Urbina, MSW, SWC
Bilingual Prevention Specialist
303-996-8595
Cory TSEAL Daily Lessons
Random Acts of Kindness (RAOK)
We have taken our CASEL approved, highly effective, evidence-based Kindness in the Classroom® social emotional learning curriculum and made it better. By including a focus on equity, teacher self-care, and digital citizenship, we are excited to share a more engaging, relatable, and inclusive curriculum.
Free lesson plans: https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindergarten-grade-5-lesson-plans
Second Step
Parent Restorative Practices Toolbox
DPS SchoolChoice Round 1 for the 2025-26 school year is now open through 4 p.m. on Feb. 18! This annual open enrollment process is for any student who wants or needs to attend a new school next year, particularly incoming ECE-3, kindergarten, sixth- and ninth-grade students.*
To submit your application:
You’ll be notified of your results in late March. In the meantime, find much more information on the SchoolChoice website. If you have any questions, review our FAQs, call 720-423-3493 or email schoolchoice@dpsk12.org.
*Families applying for ECE-3 with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) from the DPS Department of Special Education should submit the Universal Preschool Colorado (UPK) application to apply for funding. Families who are applying for ECE-4 must submit the UPK application. Read below for more information.
DPS’ Extended Learning and Community Schools (ELCS) will be offering three different camp options this summer. Please see below:
For questions, email discovery_link@dpsk12.org, enrichment_extendedlearning@dpsk12.org and elcsports@dpsk12.net.
We hope you have been enjoying our Cory Elementary School’s KHC so far! We are entering our final week, so calling all heart heroes!! So far we have raised $14,483.47 of our $20,000.00 goal!
If you were HOPING to achieve some of our school special incentives.. Here’s how!
Any student who raises $50 will qualify to purchase discounted tickets and get a special ON COURT experience with the Denver Nuggets! The class with the highest percentage of students register gets an EXTRA PE CLASS!! The first 18 students to complete Finn’s Mission will earn a limited-edition Wylie and Bingo!! Any student who completes Finn’s Mission will get to come to the KHC Glow PARTY! Also, every student who raises $250 will get to SLIME Mr. C!!
The class that raises the most will get a special KHC TRIVIA PARTY!!
Congratulations to the following students who have already earned our school’s challenge: Harrison B , Anderson B , Grayson G , Lochlan A , Sawyer S , Calvin P , Parker C , Carter M , Sloane S , Brooke G , Kaylee G , Graeme M , Lawson W , Maddox M , Dylan G , Julia C , Henry A , Boden S , Clara A , Tyler N , Ethan H , Isla H , Emma G , Syla G
If you haven’t had the chance to yet:
