September 27, 2019

Dear Walnut Hills Families,

Can you believe it is already the end of September? I adore fall and all it

brings. I love the enthusiasm and excitement around learning! Thank you

all again for your support to ensure all students are on-time to school and

ready to learn. It has been a fantastic start to the school year.

We have three exciting upcoming events at Walnut Hills. I hope to see you

all!

On Friday, October 4th, is Multicultural Night and LAUNCH Night.

Kindergarten through fifth grade students will be launching their cultural

identity projects from 6-6:30pm in their classrooms. After LAUNCH, we will

have different booths that will have authentic food, traditions, apparall,

artifacts, information, and dress which represent many different cultures at

Walnut Hills. We are adding an all school art project in the innovation

space and games as well as songs and dance in the cafeteria. Can’t wait

to see you all there.

On Friday, October 11th, we will have our first RISE assembly. This is a

special assembly to recognize Respect, Intergrity, Safety, and Excellence

(RISE) behaviors of our students. Teachers will be contatcing parents of

children who have been nominated for a RISE award and inviting these

families to the assembly. Remember, not all children will recognized at this

first assembly. However, we have two more RISE assemblies to ensure all

children are recognized for RISE positive behaviors. The theme for the

first assembly is a “GLOW & GROW.”

AND on October 24 from 3:00pm-4:00pm we are celebrating our 50th

Birthday! Please join us for the celebration. I look forward to seeing you all

at this very special occasion.

Recently many of your children received their CMAS (Colorado

Measurements of Academic Success assessment scores in the areas

English Language Arts, Math, and Science. CMAS is the state summative

assessment that measured reading, writing, math, and science based on

Important Dates

Wednesday, October 2 Official State Count Day Please make every effort

to have your child in school to be counted!

Friday, October 4

LAUNCH/Multicultural Night

6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 8 PTCO Meeting

6:00 p.m.

Friday, October 11 RISE Assembly

8:30 a.m.

Attendance Line: 720-554-3895

Cougar Club: 720-554-3821

Snow Delay & Closure Line: 720-554-4701

School Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.

School Grounds Open: 7:45 a.m.

Website:

8195 E. Costilla Blvd.

Centennial, CO 80112

720-554-3800 office

720-554-3888 fax

Cyndi Burdick -

the Colorado Academic Standards. Third through fifth grade students took

the CMAS assessments in ELA and Math. Fifth grade students took the

Science CMAS assessment. Assessments were taken in April of last year.

Please find the 2019-2020 Walnut Hills’ Status results listed below. The

number in each column represents the percentage of students per grade

level that met and/or exceeded in the areas of English language arts and

math. The number in parenthesis represents the percentage point increase

or decrease compared to the 2018/2019 PARCC results for each grade level

and content area.

CMAS ELA/ Math/Social Studies/Science

Grade Level English Language Arts (ELA)

Math Social Studies(SS) Science (SCI)

Third 53% (+4) 48% (-7) NA

Fourth 71% (+1) 53% (+2) 36% SS (N/A)

Fifth 71% (+7) 51% (0) 55% SCI (0)

As there are celebrations, there is still more work to do. We will work to

efficiently and effectively demonstrate incremental growth across content

areas every year. We are committed to moving forward and upward every

year, by providing your children with high caliber instruction, which will lead

each student down a path of success.

On behalf of the entire Walnut Hills’ staff, we are truly looking forward to a

rewarding and successful school year. I know that we will accomplish a great

deal and I appreciate in advance everything you do as parents to support our

schools and our children as we work together to achieve excellence for all.

The increased enrollment, the increased academic growth and achievement,

and the evolution of Innovation at Walnut Hills is amazing! Thank you all for

being a part of hard work and dedication to ensure EVERY CHILD, EVERY

DAY succeeds.

IMAGINE WALNUT HILLS-

Teolyn Bourbonnie

Principal

Important Dates

Monday, October 14-Friday, October 18

Fall Break – No School Thursday, October 24

Walnut Hills 50th Celebration (see invitation below)

Friday, November 1 Report Cards Home

Monday, November 4- Thursday, November 7

Conferences

Friday, November 8 No School

Monday, November 11

Veterans Day Assembly 9:00 a.m.

INCLEMENT WEATHER DISMISSAL Severe rain and or lightning / Severe weather advisory – Inside dismissal (we will make

announcements on the intercom and marquee as time allows)

Kids will be held in classrooms (Children attending Cougar Club is the only exception)

Sign out students in classrooms to authorized parents or guardians only Release Bussers outside when safe Release Walkers outside when safe If the weather lasts a long period of time, send Walkers to the office to call parents for pick up

SNACKS All grade levels have the opportunity to have a snack during the day. Please send snacks with

your children daily.

ANIMALS AT SCHOOL Please do not bring animals to school or on the school grounds during school hours, this includes arrival and dismissal times. Even the best behaved animals can get spooked or alarmed with the noise and commotion taking place at arrival and dismissal time. We have also found that many of our children have allergies and fears of animals.

NEWS FROM THE NURSE The clinic is in need of donations of boy’s undies (size LG) and pants, sweats, leggings for boys and girls (all sizes). Thank you!

Veteran’s Day

Celebration Monday, November 11th

All Veterans are invited to join us for coffee & treats starting at 8:30 a.m. before the

celebration assembly at 9:00 a.m. If you would like to stay, lunch is on us in our cafeteria.

(free lunch is only for veterans)

Please R.S.V.P to the office if you can attend 720-554-3800

STEAM CORNER

Please review with your children the importance of respecting innovation space and caring for the items inside.

No food or drink in the space

No running

No climbing

Respecting equipment, furniture and supplies.

Always being safe in the space with the tools, equipment, etc.

STEAM SUPPLY DONATIONS

Please help us gather supplies for our STEAM projects. Items can be dropped off at the Main Office.

pom pom balls pipe cleaners Velcro tape craft/popsicle sticks sm/lg egg cartons milk cartons cotton balls boxes of all sorts rubber bands aluminum foil trash bags (kitchen size) brown paper lunch bags toilet paper rolls paper towel rolls index cards

masking tape duct tape straws cardboard string/yarn marbles glue/glue sticks hot glue gun glue sticks pop cans/soup cans plastic bottles fabric wood scraps cupcake liners coffee filters plastic bottle caps

playing cards toothpicks buttons ribbon bubble wrap clothes pins paper plates paper cups Items for taking apart: old clocks small machines used electronics (phones, computers, keyboards, monitors,