Cooper Stallion Star

March 2023 Cooper Stallion Star Volume 7

STALLION STAR

A NOTE FROM THE PRINCIPALS

Greetings Cooper Families,

March is underway and, just like our weather, has been full of surprises!

Last week we celebrated Read Across America with a Reader's Theater put on by Dr. Casteal's 5th grade class. This week we celebrated our February Self-Managers who practiced honesty and learned about March's Self-Manager character trait, cooperation. Students are already showing how they cooperate in class and on the playground. If you get the chance, check out the giant snowballs and snowmen that students work together to make!

Please join us on March 23rd, from 5:30-7:30 pm, for our Cooper Cultural Night. The Cooper Multi-Cultural Club and Cooper PTO have been working hard to put together a great night of learning and celebrating different cultures in our community. More information will be sent coming home with your student next week. You can also RSVP by clicking on the following link: Cooper Cultural Night

Thanks for being a part of our Cooper team!

Katie Stone, Principal

Staci Worth, Principal Assistant

The March Self-manager character trait is Cooperation!

Cooper Stallions will be practicing Cooperation in March. Ask your student how the village in the book Stone Soup worked together. Students were challenged to find ways to cooperate in their classroom and school- how is your student meeting this challenge?

PTO Corner

PTO Meeting: 3/21/23, 5:30 PM, Cooper Library.

Skate Night at Pattison's: March's Skate Night was rescheduled. Look for more information next month.

Cooper PTO is still looking for volunteers that would like to be on the fundraising committee. Please email Jennifer Phothivongsa for more information.

Counselor Corner-

A Note from Mrs. Hansen

Information for HEART Program…

Eligibility for McKinney-Vento Services

If your family lives:

» in a shelter

» in a motel or campground due to the lack of an

alternative adequate accommodation

» in a car, park, abandoned building, or bus or train station

» doubled-up with other people due to loss of housing or economic hardship

your child might be able to receive help through a federal

law called the McKinney-Vento Act.

McKinney-Vento Rights and Supports

Your McKinney-Vento eligible children have the

right to:

» receive a free, appropriate public education.

» enroll in school immediately, even if lacking documents

normally required for enrollment.

» enroll in school and attend classes while the school

gathers needed documents.

» enroll in the local school; or continue attending the school

of origin (the school they attended when permanently

housed or the school in which they were last enrolled), if

that is your preference.

*If the school district believes that the school you select

is not in the best interest of your children, then the

district must provide you with a written explanation of

its position and inform you of your right to appeal its

decision.

» receive transportation to and from the school of origin, if

you request this.

» receive educational services comparable to those provided

to other students, according to your children’s needs.

*Contact Sarah Hansen, School Counselor, if you have any questions or need supports.

Stallion Spotlight

Honesty is the best policy! Congratulations to the Stellar Stallions for the month of February! These scholars won the award for showing honesty and being great self-managers!

Mondays are LATE START!

School starts at 9:30 AM.

Breakfast begins at 8:50 AM.

Outside supervision begins at 9:10 AM.

Please do not drop off students before these times as there is no supervision.

Thank you!

UpcomingMarch Important Dates and Events

		March 1	March 2	March 3
March 6 Late start Monday	March 7	March 8	March 9	March 10
March 13 Late start Monday	March 14	March 15	March 16	March 17
March 20 Late start Monday	March 21 PTO Meeting 5:30 PM	March 22	March 23 Cultural Night	March 24
March 27 Late start Monday	March 28	March 29	March 30	March 31

March is National Reading Month

Literacy gives people access to that information. Literacy plays a significant role in reducing gender, race, nationality, and religious inequality that favors one group over another in access to education, property, employment, health care, legal, and civic participation.

Reading Statistics

Out of people making an average yearly income of $75,000, 86% of them read one or more books every 12 months.
70% of people making less than $30,000 a year admitted to reading one book a year, at the least.
Reading often makes you kinder

Studies have shown that people who read more fictional books

are more likely to be kinder to others than people who don’t.