Scenes from the week

It's Friday and we are finishing our first full week of school at CES.  Take a look at some of our amazing adventures this week!

The Coleytown teachers learned how to play Gaga at our first faculty meeting.  The gaga pit is new to CES this year and the students love to play at recess.

Coleytown students will continue to chart our feelings using the Mood Meter.  We will be learning new "feelings" words all year long.  Our first word of the year was excited.  Excited is a feeling in the yellow quadrant.  I think we can agree that Mrs. Perry is often excited about CES!

Kindergarten students began to write stories this week.  Their stories contain pictures and words.

Fourth grade students practiced their math facts and learned different ways to make multiplication arrays.

Fifth grade students drew self portraits in their Art classes.

Kindergarten students also learned how to take care of books that they check out of the library.

First graders are building good reading habits.  They enjoyed time reading alone and with partners in Reading Workshop.

In Health, second graders learned about the different food groups.  They looked at this month's cafeteria menus to determine which food groups were represented each day.

Third graders explored place value concepts in math.

Community Time

Friday, August 30, was the first Community Time of the 2019-2020 school year.  On Friday afternoons, the entire CES community participates in activities to build a strong, safe, and inclusive environment.  Sometimes we have whole school meetings during Community Time, other days it will be a time for buddy classes to meet, and some days students will participate in CES Learns.  This Friday was Community Time Choice.  Check out the pictures below to see the Coleytowners in action!

First graders enjoyed popsicles together.

First graders enjoyed choice time in their classrooms.  

Mr. Lawrence's class played Last Person Standing with Mrs. Carothers.

The third graders will be painting kindness rocks.  They learned about this project and enjoyed time outside together.

Second graders enjoyed class games.

Second graders playing North & South.

Kindergarten students made new friends outside.

Back to School!

Welcome to the 2019-2020 school year. The Coleytown community had an amazing first day. Cheers to a great school year!

Students were greeted by staff members as they arrived at school.

There were lots of smiles to celebrate a new year!

Colorful bulletin boards welcomed students back to school.

We will continue to use the Mood Meter to build our emotional intelligence skills.

Mrs. Anderson designed and created our new CES flags.  They look spectacular!  Thank you, Mrs. Anderson!

Mr. Neil put the new Gaga Pit together on the playground.  Students will be learning how to play this week in their P.E. classes.  Thank you, Mr. Neil!

Nurse Pappas and Mrs. Bradley were so excited to see all of the CES students.

Field Day 2019

Field Day 2019 was a huge success! Students, staff, and parents spent the day together playing games and having fun. A special thanks to Mr. Scholz and Ms. Archibald for coordinating this event. Thank you to the all of the parent volunteers who helped support the CES community. Go CES!

CES Learns: Part 2

Today was another wonderful CES Learns! CES Learns is a special event during our weekly Community Time block. Staff members offer different workshops on a range of topics and students choose which workshop to attend. The workshops were:

Grades K-2: Introduction to Irish Step dancing, Juggling, Building Fun, Engineering Challenge (build a bridge), Create a Board Game, Yoga, Introduction to String Instruments, Math Adventures, Design a Spring Mural, and Creation Station.

Grades 3-5: Drawing Cartoons, Board Games, Origami, Modge Podge, Makerspace, Fundamentals of Basketball, Math Adventures, Reader's Theater, First Aid Basics and Scrapbooking.

The excitement in the building was incredible during these classes. Take a look at some pictures below!