PARENT POST 2/21/20

Posted February 21, 2020

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Happy Friday Cory Community! 

We want to thank all the families who attended Art Night and the PTA for funding this joyful community evening. I would like to send a special thank you to the parents who volunteered their time, the student docent’s, Christine Vongunden, and Angela Alexander for their preparation and organization of a wonderful evening. 

I would like to highlight the 3rd grade team this week for strategically planning intentional opportunities for students to navigate different perspectives to form an opinion.  In 3rd grade’s current literacy unit, we are studying how humans have intervened to help wolf populations return to Yellowstone National Park. As part of this study, we explore the issue from two different perspectives: ranchers who do not want the wolves to return because the wolves will hurt their cattle and sheep and ecologists who believe reintroducing the wolves will help restore balance to elk and deer populations.  The 3rd grade teachers have chosen to extend this unit to include how humans have intervened to both control and reintroduce animal populations throughout the world. 

To kick off this portion of the unit, we brought in two guest speakers both of whom want to control the geese population in Denver City Parks. While both sides agree the geese population is too large for the parks, they disagree on how to best control the population. We heard from the City who shared its opinion as to why culling the geese was a necessary measure, and we heard from Canada Geese Protection Colorado who believes culling the geese is not the best way to control the goose population. We will continue to research the issue in class. Then, the students will form an opinion on whether or not the culling of geese should continue. Once they form their opinion they will learn to write an opinion essay to support their stance. We will end the study by sharing our opinions with both sides and debating the issue in class. You can see the Depredation Permit from CGPC here.
                                         

The final part of our extension on how humans have intervened to control and reintroduce animal populations throughout the world will be for students to research how humans have intervened to reintroduce other species of endangered animals. The students will complete a research project on the reintroduction of the species they choose and form an opinion as to whether or not the reintroduction was/is beneficial or harmful to the area. We hope you enjoyed learning about one of the many ways we extend our units to make them richer and more relevant to our unique Cory students. 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Best, 

Joan Wieser
Joan_Wieser@dpsk12.org 
Principal

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

• PICTURE DAY:  TUESDAY, 3/3
• 5TH GRADE GROUP PIC:  TUESDAY, 3/3, PROMPTLY AT 9 A.M.
• STOCK THE CELLAR:  THURSDAY, 3/19, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
• CMAS TESTING GRADES 3-5: April 8th-17th.  Please make sure that students are back from break on April 7th for review. This schedule may change, but will communicate any changes. 
• CORY AUCTION: 4/24/20, 6PM
• CONCERT ON THE GREEN – 5/29 

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• Cut off time for early release is 3pm.
• Cut off time for changes in pick-up is 2pm.
• There is no adult supervision before 8:30am.  Students should not be dropped off before 8:30am.
• School dismisses at 3:30pm.  All students should be picked up no later than 3:45pm.
• Homework Policy at Cory- When a student is absent from school for 1-2 days, there will be no personalized homework sent home. 

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PICTURE DAY IS COMING
These will be classroom and the yearly 5th grade panoramic group picture.  The 5th grade group picture will take place promptly at 9 a.m.  You will have an opportunity for individual pictures as well.  Students must have a completed envelope or online order receipt to have an individual photo taken.  Not all studesnts will be individually photographed.  

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Box Tops Go Digital

• Download Box Tops for Education app
• Create an account
• Select Cory Elementary as your school
• Buy Box Tops products
• Scan your receipt within 14 days
• Earn money directly to your school
• Continue to clip traditional box tops during the transition to digital

Using the app is easy, fun and your children will love seeing their purchases raise money for their school!

CORY WORKS OUT TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL

Calling the Cory community! Our biggest workout yet! “Cory Works out to support our school”, is headed to Compass Fitness Tuesday March 3rd from 6:30-7:30pm. Grab your friends, or significant others, come get your sweat on and support Cory. 

There will be 10 available FREE spots for childcare, so bring the kiddo’s. Please note on the sign up genius you want childcare. First 10 will receive a spot. The workout is $20 per person and goes directly to our school. There is room for 100 people, so don’t delay, sign up now!! We have also extended this workout free for any and all staff! 

SADDLE UP COUGARS AND COWBOYS

WET YOUR WHISTLE AT STOCK THE CELLAR

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