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Crownpoint Elementary School Newsletter

Haígo Honeení Béé´ildah (Celebra ting Winter)
CES Native American Week
Crownpoint Elementary cele-
brated Native American week in
December. The theme was called
Haígo Honeení Béé´ildah,
Celebrating Winter. On Moday,
the school opened festivities by
wearing moccasins, Tuesday was
Navajo Clan K‟é day. Students
decorated family trees with
pictures and clans. Students
decorated class room doors and
bulletin boards on Wednesday.
Wedneday evening the
Crownpoint Gym/Cafeteria was
buzzing with excitement with the
Ms. CES Priencess and Young
Brave Pagent. There were a total
of 8 young ladies that ran for the
crown on Ms. Crownpoint
Elementary, and this year there
were 3 boys that ran for Young
Brave of CES. The week
continued on Thursday with
grand parents coming to class
rooms to share Navajo stories. As
a finally to a festive week the
new Miss Crownpoint
Elementary and Young Brave
were crowned at an assembly that
featured as the keynote speaker,
Miss Eastern Navajo, Khrissy
Enditto. Ms. Enddito is the 2009-
2010 Miss Eastern Navajo from
Smith Lake, New Mexico. In her
address, Ms. Enddito offered
words of enouragement and
challenged the students to “read
more books and turn off the
video games”. Also, on Friday
Jamie Ayze (Laguna) performed
a Laguna Butterfly dance at the
assembly. Her Uncles Lincoln
Encino and Harold Kiyate of
Laguna provided the song and
drum, as students and staff
dressed in traditional attire to
round out the week.
The committee would like to
thank all those involved in
putting on a wonderful exibition
of the Navajo Culture as well as
cultures from other tribes.
CES Happenings
Princess Pageant Contestant Adrian
Long Grinds Corn in Traditional
Talent
December 2010
Native American Week Dec. 6-10
CES Eagles Basketball Dec. 14
Winter Bazaar Dec. 15
Student / Parent Appreciation
Awards Dec. 16
CES Parent Goal Team Country /
Western Dance Dec. 17 9 p.m.
featuring Laredo
GMCS Winter Break Dec. 10—
Jan. 3, 2011

Principal’s Message Irowena L. Whitehair Class News:

Ya'at'eeh families, as 2nd
quarter comes to an end our
staff have been working hard
with teaching, fund-raising,
practicing for Christmas pro-
gram, planning for the last
half of the year and also edit-
ing our new school floor
plans. It has been an exciting
first half of the year so far.
Please thank any staff mem-
ber you see at CES because
we are all working together to
ensure our students are safe
and learning! Also we would
like your help in our efforts to
stop bullying at CES. This
week we were fortunate to
have two members, Donna-
leigh Dedman and Roberta
Hanna from Office of Youth
Development help students
complete surveys and presen-
tations on bullying. Please
talk to your children about
bullying. We are in the proc-
ess of developing parent/
guardian workshops as well.
Also, please have your chil-
dren here on time every day.
We will continue to contact
those who have too many
truancies and absentees.
Lastly, January will be our
next testing cycle. Your chil- Kindergarten 2
dren are given another oppor-
tunity to make proficiency on
these tests and receive an 1st Grade 2
award on our next awards
night in February. In order to 2nd Grade 2
do great on these tests our
students need to be here every
day and on time while also 3rd Grade 3
doing their best in their
classes. CES staff wishes all 4th Grade 3
families and the community a
very merry Christmas and
happy new year. Please travel 5th Grade 3
safely to your destinations, we
will see you next year!
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Kindergar ten
At the Christmas Program this year, we
will be singing Deck the Halls and Rudy
La La. We are also reviewing for our
Dibel assessment, which the students
take three times a year. We are getting
ready for our winter parties on Friday
December 17, 2010.
Some things you can work on during the
winter break are having your students
working with numbers, read, and work-
ing with letters sounds. We would like
to continue progressing and not regress-
ing during the break. Have a safe holiday
and New Year.
Second Grade Ms. Ward & Ms. Looman
It is hard to believe that it is almost Winter
Break and the end of the second quarter. In
reading, we have been busy learning how to
find the main idea of a story and how to iden-
tify details. We have been writing fairytales
and discussing what makes a fairytale. In
math, we have been having fun surveying our
classmates and then putting the data we gath-
ered into tally charts, bar graphs and picto-
graphs. We also have been learning to tell time
to the quarter hour. Please help your child
practice telling time using “quarter past, quar-
ter till, half past, etc.” Also, we will be admin-
istering out mid-term math and reading assess-
First Grade Ms. Smith & Ms. Maxwell
Can you believe how quickly the year is
passing by? We have all been so busy
doing math, reading, writing, and our
other work that we have hardly noticed
the time.
The first grade students are continuing to
work on addition and subtraction, word
problems, shapes, counting money, telling
time, and of course, counting and writing
numbers to 100 or more!
We are also trying to learn as many of the
sight words as possible so we can become
excellent readers. We need help from
home to be successful. Remember to have
your child read at least 20 minutes every
day, even during vacation. Practice doing
math problems, too. We want to be pre-
pared for the testing that is coming up
after vacation. We‟ll be doing the Dibels
ments as soon as we return from break, so
please have your child read and work on their
math skills over break! We hope everyone has
a wonderful holiday and a very happy new
year!
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test in reading and the SCA test in math.
The more we practice the better we will
be. So, READ! READ! READ!
Our spelling words go along with our
Reading, so be sure to practice them also.
Many are vocabulary words.
We want to remind the parents of how
important it is for children to be at school
every day unless they are ill. Much of
what we do is as a group and we can‟t
send home that type of work to be made
up. Then the student has missed out on
some of the information needed to con-
tinue when returning to school.
Thank you for your continued support of
our students in having them doing and
returning their homework!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Native American Week Door Decorating
Contest Entry. Mrs. Looman’s Class.
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Third Grade Mrs. Willie & Ms. Sandoval
The Third Grade Christmas Party will be
held on Friday, December 17th from 1:00
pm to 2:45 pm. If you would like to do-
nate any items for snacks, we would
greatly appreciate your contribution. We
will be combining both 3rd grade class-
rooms for our party however; you do not
have to provide snacks for the whole third
grade, just your child‟s classroom.
We realize that many people are strug-
gling this time of the year and if you are
unable to provide gifts for exchange; we
understand. The students have decided to
draw names this year and exchange gifts
with students in their class.
Our class will be singing Frosty the
Four th Grade
Ms. Martin & Ms. Brodie
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
from the 4th Grade classes. We hope you
have safe holidays with families and
friends.
We have completed the first semester
with improvements in all academic areas.
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Snowman and Let It Snow at this year‟s our fundraiser. We will let you know how
Christmas Program. You are welcome to much our class made, thank you for do-
join us for this special event. nating and supporting our students. We
will notify you about our next fundraising
Students will be given extra homework activity. If you have any ideas for fund-
for the Winter Break and extra credit raising; we welcome your suggestions.
grade for returning their completed work. Any questions or concerns please contact
us.
Ms. Sandovals class won 1st place/Pizza
Party and Mrs. Willie‟s class won 2nd Happy Holidays!
place/Root Beer Float Party for Native
American Week Activities. Thanks so
much to all parents / guardians for help-
ing your child complete their clan charts
and family trees.
Finally, the 3-5th grade classes had a Na-
vajo Taco Sale at the Rug Auction, for
Fifth Grade Ms. Forde & Mr. Looman
Over the two and a in third in the Native
half weeks of Decem- American week
ber, the fifth graders point accumulation.
have been working on We would like to
multi-digit multiplica- thank the upper
tion and multiple digit grade parents for
division, along with their donations re-
factoring number and ceived for the Taco
learning the different Sale last Friday
properties of multipli- night at the Rug
cation. Auction.
In reading they have We wish everyone a
covered the differ- happy and safe holi-
ences between fact and opinions, finding day season, and encourage parents to
the main ideas of a selection, along with keep their child up on their reading and
drawing conclusions and making infer- academic skills. We will be sending
ences about a piece. home a study packet for the children to
During this time we have also put in a practice with over the break.
good amount of time with the Native
American week and Christmas activities.
A congratulations goes out to the stu- We‟ll see you “next year”!
dents of Mr. Looman‟s class for coming
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Counselors Message
By Whitney Wolf, CPE Counselor
I have listed some behaviors of
school counselors made by spell-
ing out the word
C-O-U-N-S-E-L-O-R
Counselors are the people in the school
looking out for students.
Offering a place to talk about problems or
concerns you may have.
Understanding and sharing knowledge to
help you: „Be the best you can be!‟
Nice and helpful being your friend: Two
very important qualities of friendship.
Smiling is what I like to do. Try it - I Responsibility is something you have to
think you will like it too! (It takes 4 mus- learn and I will hold you accountable for
cles to smile and it makes you feel good! your choices. By doing so, you will learn
It takes 44 muscles to frown) responsibility, some sooner than others.
Everyone is important! What talents do
you have helping others to be the best that So you see a counselor has a big job to do and
they can be? nothing to me is more important than you!
Listening is a skill I have learned along
with other skills, and I would like sharing
them with you.
Offering help and care to those in need:
Students – Teachers – Parents – Staff –
Principal.