Week of January 22, 2018
Hi Cannon Parents!
January is School Board Appreciation Month and our students & staff have created cards, letters, posters, and small tokens of appreciate to share with our school board trustees to show our gratitude for their leadership in our district!
Our trustees provide a vital service in our community!! They have helped establish and support the vision for outstanding educational programs in our district, by maintaining the structure to achieve our vision, while providing accountability to the school community. Each member is an incredibly strong advocate for continuous improvement in student learning. They study, discuss and research so that they can make informed decisions on countless complex issues that are presented to them.
Yet, due to the position they hold, it's easy to forget that they are also just ordinary citizens – they are our friends and neighbors – with extraordinary dedication to our community and our children. Our school board leaders are volunteers - they receive no compensation for their tireless work in these positions!
I would love to encourage you to take a moment to show YOUR appreciation to our wonderful school board leaders by sending them a quick email to thank them for their leadership! Our district, as well as Cannon Elementary: A GCISD STEM School benefit greatly from their leadership every day! Click here to access email addresses for each of our school board trustees!
Proud to be your principal,
Mrs. Blizzard
Mark Your Calendars.....
1/23 Cannon Night @ Cici's Pizza
1/25 Play It Safe Program for students @ Cannon during Specials
1/25 Parent Workshop - Stewards of Children 6:00 pm @ Glenhope Elementary
2/01 Gifted & Talented Parent Information meeting - 6:00 pm PDEC - see info. below
2/05 100th Day of School!
2/08 Personalized Programs EXPO @ CTMS 5:00-7:00 pm for incoming STEM students
2/09 Cannon Art Show 5:00-6:15 pm
2/09 Cannon Talent Show 6:00-8:00 pm
2/19 Student Holiday - Professional Learning Day for staff
2/20-2/24 Engineering Week
GIFTED & TALENTED ASSESSMENT INFORMATION GRADES 1st-4th
GT LEAD and Aspire Academy GT Testing for Grades 1-4
The parent information meeting will be Thursday, February 1 from 6:00-7:00 pm at the Professional Development Education Center in Colleyville. Please make plans to attend this meeting to learn more about testing and qualifying for Cannon's GT LEAD program and the Aspire Academy at Glenhope Elementary for the upcoming school year. The parent nomination window for GT LEAD and the Aspire Academy opens February 2-16, and parents need to complete a Parent Inventory/Permission-to-test form found on the district website under Advanced Academics. Testing will begin February 26.
If you have any questions, please email our campus GT specialist at Melanie.Gable@gcisd.net.
NUTRITION SUVEY FOR PARENTS
Our GCISD Nutrition Department wants your feedback! Please take a moment and take this brief survey about food services offered for your child in GCISD. Your input is important! Thanks!
Donations Needed
- 2-liter soda bottles needed - please rinse any bottles you have to donate and deliver these to the office.
- Cleaning out Closets? Nurse Kendra is in desperate need for girl's pants. She will take any sizes and what works best is pants with elastic waistbands!
- Time to get rid of old electronics? One man's trash is a curious STEM cub's treasure! Do you have any old, broken electronics gathering dust? Our Cannon Cubs would LOVE to take them off your hands! Our Makerspace features a reverse engineering station where STEM scholars take electronics apart and discover the systems that make our everyday objects function the way they do. From keyboards to dancing Elmo, our kids want to learn from it!
NOTES FROM NURSE KENDRA
Dear Parents,
The health and safety of all students is important to the staff at Cannon. In an effort to keep our students healthy and in the classroom, I wanted to share a few lifestyle hygiene habits. We can’t keep everyone from getting sick, but we sure can try.
Wash your hands!! Before you eat, after you eat, when you use the restroom, after PE, after you sneeze, anytime you can. When in doubt, wash your hands.
If you cough or sneeze, use your sleeve. (The students can demonstrate this for you;)
Respect personal space. Keep a little distance between you and your friends, and you and your teachers.
Only visit the nurse for things that cannot be taken care of in the classroom. At any time during the day there may be a sick student in the clinic, so the healthiest place to be is in the classroom. Teachers have band aids for little cuts and scrapes.
Wear weather appropriate clothing. If there is snow on the ground, students should wear closed-toed shoes, pants and a jacket.
While we practice these healthy habits at school, we also ask that you do your part in assessing your student’s health at home. If your student has a fever of more than 100.0 degrees, or is experiencing vomit/diarrhea, district policy requires them to stay home. Only when your student has been symptom free without the use of any medication for more than 24 hours may they return to campus.
In the event that your student is staying home from school, please call the front office and let us know. Also, bring to the front office a doctor’s note or parent note. As always, we are here to answer any healthy hygiene habits questions.
Parent Technology Academy Sessions!
GCISD's Technology Department has planned some wonderful parent information sessions for the spring semester! Parent Technology Academy is a free monthly series by GCISD Technology developed to help educate our community about our ever-changing digital world. Check out the dates & topics below! Each session is approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes Q&A.
Thank you to all of the parents that attended the session last week on Internet Safety. Stay tuned for more information coming soon about the following topics!
FUTURE SESSION TOPICS:
February 20 - Top Apps that parents need to know about
Bear Creek Elementary cafeteria - 6 p.m.
March 20- Mobile App and Social Media awareness and branding
Grapevine High School library - 6 p.m.
April 19- Tops Apps that parents need to know about
Colleyville Middle School cafeteria - 6 p.m.
May 22- Internet Safety ( Digital Citizenship) – tools for at home Internet filtering
Colleyville Heritage High School library - 6 p.m.
PARENT WORKSHOPS
- A Conversation about Eating Disorders with Rachel Nash. Join us for an informative evening about recognizing and responding to eating disorders. Rachel Nash is the North Texas Chapter Leader of Project HEAL (Help to Eat, Accept, and Live). Project HEAL is a non-profit organization that delivers prevention, treatment assistance, financing, and recovery support for people suffering from eating disorders. More information about Project HEAL can be found at www.TheProjectHeal.org. Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 6:30-8:00 pm @ the GCISD Administration Building at 3051 Ira E. Woods; Grapevine TX 76051 Click here to view the flyer for this workshop.
- Alliance For Children is providing a training for all GCISD parents on January 25th @ 6:00 pm at Glenhope Elementary School. This session is about how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Due to the sensitive nature of the content, we ask that you do not bring children. Click here to view the flyer for this workshop.
PTA QUICK PICKS!
This week's "quick picks" of reminders & information from PTA:
- We need volunteers to help in Cannon Library. Can you help? Sign up here - https://goo.gl/bgauhV
- Mrs. Mattox needs volunteers to help during the Cannon Art Show on February 9. Sign up here - https://goo.gl/Uz8ihP Additional art show details coming home soon!
Stay connected by following Cannon PTA on social media. Click here to "like" the PTA Facebook page. Follow them on Twitter @CannonPTA.
Cannon Elementary - A Recognized Common Sense Media School!
Common Sense, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids and families thrive in a world of digital media and technology, has recognized Cannon Elementary: A GCISD STEM School as a Common Sense School.
Cannon Elementary has been using Common Sense Education's innovative and research-based digital citizenship resources to create a culture of digital learning and citizenship. This recognition acknowledges our school's commitment to taking a whole-community approach to preparing our students to use the immense power of digital media to explore, create, connect, and learn, while limiting the perils that exist in the online realm, such as plagiarism, loss of privacy, and cyberbullying.
We are honored to receive this recognition! By preparing our students to use technology safely and responsibly, we are providing them with unlimited opportunities to maximize and personalize their learning.
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Cannon Elementary: A GCISD STEM School
Email: tona.blizzard@gcisd.net
Website: http://www.gcisd-k12.org/Domain/1428
Location: 1300 W College St, Grapevine, TX, United States
Phone: 817-251-5680
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Twitter: @canSTEM