Family Cougar Times
Week of February 23, 2020
Contact Information
Email: bacorpuz@bethelsd.org
Website: www.bethelsd.org/cmms
Location: 5108 260th Street East, Graham, WA, USA
Phone: 253-683-8000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cougarmountainms/
Twitter: @CMCougs
Our Vision, Mission and Goals at CMMS
Our Vision at Cougar Mountain:
Is for ALL students to be competent, confident, compassionate and prepared to be successful in the world.
Our Mission at Cougar Mountain:
Is to foster a safe and respectful learning community where equitable opportunities, collaboration, support, and safety promote each student’s success and ability to positively impact our society.
Our Goals at Cougar Mountain:
Equitable opportunities for each student to get what they need to be successful
Engagement of parents and community
Diversity, cultural inclusion, mutual respect, and fairness
All stakeholders accountable for results
Set high expectations with high support
Important Information
Attendance Matters:
I want to take this opportunity to revisit the importance of attendance on student growth and achievement. Please review the image below, and check in with your student on their current rate of attendance. We would like to see our daily attendance rates increase during this critical portion of the school year.
March 20th Family Plarn, Mat Making and Food Truck Night:
CMMS Leadership invites you to a Community Mat Making Night! On Friday March 20th from 6 - 9pm, join us to help create plastic yarn mats to donate to people in our area experiencing homelessness. We will have stations set up for crocheting, weaving and making the plastic yarn. Dinner, snacks and soda will be available for purchase. Mr. Meeks' food truck P and J Waffle Delight will be serving up their amazing chicken and waffles as well, super excited about this community engagement night!
Heritage Night:
Our annual Heritage Night will be held on Thursday, May 28th from 6-8 pm. This event is always a fun and engaging night for our community! At Heritage Night we will have the 8th graders heritage projects displayed, the art classes are creating cultural art to display, we will have cultural performances, access to Ancestry K-12 to research family lineage and food trucks. We are looking for more student performers, if you know any students or groups that would like to perform please email Mrs. Corpuz at bacorpuz@bethelsd.org so we can get them on the lineup. If you have any other ideas to add to Heritage Night let us know those as well.
Lifetouch - Our New Photographer:
We have officially moved to Lifetouch as our school photographer. We are excited about all the options, especially the digital options available because Lifetouch has partnered with Shutterfly. We have a banner on our school website that will serve as a way for families to order their school and/or team picture products, and be a fundraising source for our school as well. There will be much more information to come, but this is an exciting start! www.bethelsd.org/cmms
Second Step Lessons
6th Grade: Values and Emotions
7th Grade: Handling Emotions
8th Grade: Responding to Anger
News Around Bethel School District
Annual Art and Tech Fair:
Join us for our annual BSD Art and Tech Fair at Spanaway Lake High School on Saturday, February 29, 2020 from 10-3. This is always an impressive and innovative experience for staff, students and our community!
Drive Safely! Letter Image Below:
This is a dark and dangerous time of year for driving, with increased risks for our students as they travel to and from school. Our 21,000 students going to school each day, often in areas without sidewalks and street lights, deserve everyone's full attention to safety.
Building Events of the Week
*If you have any questions or believe that any dates or events are incorrect on this list please email bgates@bethelsd.org.
Monday: 2/24
Heritage Club
3:30pm: Varsity Boys' Soccer vs Frontier@ Home
- Afterschool Detention
Tuesday: 2/25
1:45-4pm: Open Academic Support @ Room 817
Girls Who Code Club
Robotics Club
Weight Room Club
3:30pm: Varsity Boys' Bball vs. Frontier (JV/C Team plays after Varsity)
3:30pm: Varsity Girls' Soccer vs. Frontier
Wednesday: 2/26
Late Arrival School Begins at 9:15 am
Student Leadership
7pm: Orchestra Feeder Concert @ BHS
- Afterschool Detention
- 3:30pm: Varsity Boys' Soccer @ Bethel
- 3:30pm: Varsity Girls' Soccer vs. Frontier
Thursday: 2/27
Weight Room Club
Art Club
Friday: 2/28
3:30 pm Varsity Boys' Basketball @ Bethel Middle (JV/C Team plays after Varsity)
3:30 pm JV Girls Soccer vs. Bethel @ Home
Saturday: 2/29
BSD Art and Tech Fair @ SLHS from 10-3
Upcoming Dates:
No School Wednesday, March 11, 2020 for Staff PD Day