Comet Connection-23
February 5- February 9, 2024
Hi Comet Families,
We hope you had a great week. We are excited about our House Reading Challenge! Thank you for supporting your child with reading and filling out the colored strips. We can't wait to see our chain links growing down the hallways.
More details about the House Reading Challenge...
Each of our six houses are competing to see who can read the most books. Attached is a sheet of 5 chain links in your child’s house color. As your child reads a book, or you read a book together, write your child’s name and the title of the book on one of the links. Cut out the link and return it to school. It will be added to a house chain. The chains will be displayed for everyone to see. Stay tuned to find out which house will win our reading challenge! Good luck,and happy reading!
As of this week, here is the breakdown of the number of books read per House:
Kula-64
Huruma-56
Nukumori-55
Tatonka-51
Balena-48
Ionracas-45
Reminder
PTA Meeting/5th Grade Music Performance
Our montly PTA meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 13th at 5:30 p.m. followed by a music performance featuring our 5th Graders @ 6pm.
R.E.B. Awards for Teaching Excellence-2024
Dear Families, Faculty, and Staff,
The Community Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2024 R.E.B. Awards for Teaching Excellence, a program that recognizes Hanover County Public Schools teachers and others in the Richmond area for their distinguished work in the classroom.
Students, parents, colleagues, school staff, including assistant principals and senior teachers, and community members may nominate an outstanding teacher by visiting the Community Foundation website. The deadline for nominations is Tuesday, February 20 at 5 p.m.
The R.E.B. Awards recognize public school teachers in the Richmond area who have distinguished themselves by their inspiring classroom performance. They will give grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 each to approximately 15 teachers to support professional learning activities. Recipients will need to share educational ideas and experiences with fellow teachers.
Five Hanover teachers were honored as part of the 2023 awards.
Nominees must have served as a teacher for at least three years. The qualities of an outstanding teacher may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Strong knowledge of subject matter;
- Dedication to the teaching profession;
- Inspires students and peers;
- Motivates students to develop skills and form positive habits towards learning and discipline;
- Utilizes creative methods to engage students in the subject matter.
Winners will be announced this fall. Thank you.
Hanover County Public Schools
6th Grade Cotillion Season
2024-2025 6th Grade Cotillion Season
Parents of current 5th graders, if you are interested (or have questions) send an email to one or both of the contacts: Jessica Hildebrand: jessicalynneyoung@gmail.com
Mary Waters: maryrwaters10@gmail.com
with your child’s name, teacher, and contact information.
The deadline to have this information in will be Friday February 9th.
Click on this photo to see a video of a night at cotillion!
Town and Country Cotillion has been a Richmond tradition for over 60 years- teaching ballroom dancing and social etiquette to middle school students. We provide a fun, safe
and well organized program for our students to learn social dancing, rhythm,
confidence and courtesy on and off the dance floor.
Cotillion is a screen free, fun, and age-appropriate activity
for your middle school child!
Program details :
- All evenings are led by our professional dance instructor, Sandy Yeon.
- We have well trained staff that support the students throughout the evening.
- We have formal, semi-formal and nice casual nights at cotillion.
- We offer 7 one-hour instructional classes/dances during the school year Sept.-Feb.
- Classes are held early evenings Fridays or Saturdays
- The students from the same school are grouped together in the same class.
Tuition for the 2024-2025 season is $320
registration and payment is online via emailed invitation
All classes are held at the Tuckahoe Woman’s Club (4215 Dover Road 23221).
The specific class schedules will be posted on our website in early spring
Please visit our website for more information and pictures.
Kid's Heart Challenge!
Hello to all our Heart Heroes!
We are just two weeks into our Kid's Heart Challenge and have already made tremendous progress in our fundraising goals and in completing Finn's Mission.
So far we have raised over $7,000 to help people with sick hearts, which puts us nearly halfway to our goal of $15,000. In addition, we have had 19 students complete Finn's Mission, let's all keep pushing to complete the mission and learn Hands-Only CPR along the way!
Visit heart.org/khc or download the AHA Schools App from the App store to get started on your own personal Kid's Heart Challenge!
The American Heart Association offers programs for the classroom and for the gym to get help kids healthy and performing better in school.
Counselor's Corner
Order your Yearbook!
Order your yearbook!
click on Yearbooks
Enter the password- KCEYBK24
Deadline to order March 28, 2024
Have questions? Call Candid Color 1-800-321-4256
House Competition!!!
Other Documents
(please be reminded to use transportation notes to communicate changes with your child's dismissal plan)
Kersey Creek Elementary
Email: mtownes@hcps.us
Website: https://hanoverkces.ss12.sharpschool.com/
Location: 10004 Learning Lane, Mechanicsville, VA, USA
Phone: (804) 723-3440