Coppin Connection
November 28, 2018
NEWS THIS WEEK
- CANCELLED: Parents Night Out is cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience.
- Pancake Breakfast with Santa details below!
- Santa Shoppe Dec 5th - 7th. See flyer and details below. We are in need of volunteers.
- Square One Art Fundraiser packets are going home today! The turn around time for this fundraiser is quick, due by December 4th. In order to get items in time for the holidays, all orders have to be done online. A catalog with your child's artwork will be sent home today. Look through it and go online and order custom gifts with your child's artwork on it! Great gift idea for grandparents, etc.
- Lions Club is collecting food donations for local families in need for Christmas. Collection ends on Decmeber 6th. Please donate canned/non perishable food items to your child's classroom. There is a contest among the classes to see who can collect the most food!
- Attention 5th Grade Parents: You child is invited to participate in the Winter Concert this Tuesday, December 4th at 6:00 PM in the Coppin Cafeteria. The Coppin Choir will perform, and then the 5th graders are invited to come up to play a few songs on ukulele while we all sing along! While it's not required, we hope many will join us for a fun chance to show their ukulele skills!
- CCC Brick Fundraiser EXTENDED!! If you would like to still purchase a brick you can do so by going to: https://www.bricksrus.com/donorsite/cccptc
- School wide behavior: We have weekly lessons focusing on school wide behavior and our school wide rules: BE SAFE, BE RESPECTFUL, BE RESPONSIBLE! You can find the lessons we will be teaching on our school calendar on the website. Students will be taught the weekly lesson on Monday or Tuesday by their teacher. Check it out on the school calendar! In addition to the weekly lessons, students will also be recognized for doing their best by receiving Sparky Tickets or ROAR Tickets. Students are recognized for going above and beyond to be safe, responsible or respectful and can earn special prizes and privileges for their Tickets.
- SCHOOL SHOUT OUTS! Every day we give shout outs to our students staff during our morning announcements. Students and staff can write a special note of appreciation to recognize someone on campus for their support. We have a shout out box for parents in the office if you would like to recognize someone on campus, let us know!
- Attendance Matters: We've noticed an increase in late arrivals and early pick-ups. Please drop-off students on-time and avoid checking them out early, if possible. Late drop-offs and early pick-up causes disruptions in the classroom and to your child's learning. If your child is LATE, you will need to walk them into the office and sign them in
- State Testing Results for grades 3-5 here at CCC are now available to the public through https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/. You can view Coppin's scores here: https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/CompareReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstCds1=00000000000000&lstCds2=31669516085252&lstGrade=13&lstGroup=1&lstCompType=graph. The link provided compares CCC to the overall State averages. I encourage you to explore the website further to dig deeper into additional information you may be interested in. Check it out! Remember these are scores for grades 3-5 from Spring 2018.
Square One Art Fundraiser
Pancake Breakfast with Santa
Come join your friends for a morning filled with holiday cheer!
Professional Photographer with a cute holiday background and Santa! You will get the digital file of the photo so you can replicate it as you wish.
Breakfast consists of: pancakes, sausage, coffee, juice and water.
Breakfast and Picture = $10/per person
Breakfast ONLY = $5/per person
Family Package (includes breakfast and one family picture) = $25
RSVP/purchase tickets by December 5th.
To purchase tickets go to: www.squareup.com/store/carlinccoppin
Saturday, Dec 8, 2018, 08:00 AM
Carlin C Coppin Elementary, 12th Street, Lincoln, CA, USA
Santa Shoppe
To volunteer to help: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080e4dacad2daaf58-santa
Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018, 07:45 AM
Carlin C Coppin Elementary, 12th Street, Lincoln, CA, USA Portable F
Parent Teacher Club
- Pancake Breakfast with Santa December 8th from 8am-10:30am. See flyer being sent home and the one attached.
- Santa Shoppe December 5th - 7th Before, During and After school. See flyer attached and being sent home.
- Brick Fundraiser...EXTENDED!!! We are hoping to sell some more bricks so we can create a large area of legacy bricks. https://www.bricksrus.com/donorsite/cccptc Here is your opportunity to be a part of Carlin C. Coppin's legacy...purchase a personalized brick for just $39! Create your unique brick customized with any three lines of text you'd like. Don't know what to get that certain someone in your life for this upcoming holiday season? Bricks make great Christmas and Hanukkah gifts! Is your baby heading to middle school next year? Buy one to celebrate your graduating 5th grader! Have a multi-generational family of CCC Dragons? Buy a brick to remember all the fun times here! You can buy a brick to celebrate that favorite staff member or teacher! Bricks are also a great way to memorialize a lost friend or loved one. There will be a model brick in the front office for you to view. You can order directly from the website referenced above for your convenience, or if you prefer to order via paper, an order form is attached. For more information, see the attached flyer.
Please visit the PTC portion of our website at:
http://ccces.wpusd.org/Parents/Parent-Teacher-Club-PTC/index.html
You can also "like" them on Facebook!
Upcoming Dates and Calendar Info
- 12/3/18: Early Release Dismissal at 1:40pm
- 12/5-7/18: Santa Shoppe
- 12/8/18: Pancake Breakfast with Santa, 8-10:30am
- 12/17-20: Early Release Days
- 12/21/18-1/6/19: Winter Break School Not in Session
Visit the CCC calendar on our Website:
Music News
Carlin C. Coppin
MUSIC NEWSLETTER
November, 2018
What’s going on in the music room? Our patriotic song of the month is Grand Old Flag, by George M. Cohan, and our composer of the month is Franz Schubert (1797-1828).
1st Grade: The first graders are continuing basic music concepts, such as fast/slow long/short, steady beat, and exploring different vocal sounds. Students have been singing Looby Loo and the Tortoise and Hare songs, and enjoyed many Halloween songs, such as Halloween and Jumpin’ Jack-o-lantern. They will sing A Pumpkin Ran Away and Five Fat Turkeys this month, too.
2nd Grade: The second graders have been doing a lot of rhythm work: quarter notes and rests and eighth notes. In addition to some Halloween songs, they are working on Clickety Clack and Bate, Bate, and Se, Se, Se using not only their voices but a lot of physical movement as well. We have introduced some work on pitched percussion (xylophones, metallophones, etc.) as well.
3rd Grade: The third graders were tested on vocal basics this past month: proper posture and breathing, and singing with confidence. They will continue to work on several songs by adding folk dance movement and percussion instruments. We will also start doing more work on reading the music staff this month as the third graders prepare to start playing recorders in January.
4th Grade: Mrs. Middleton’s/Radtke’s/Collins’ class is continuing their “Mallet Madness” unit and are practicing proper mallet hold while playing Bate, Bate Chocolate and other songs. They will continue to learn how to play accompaniment patterns and short melodic patterns on these instruments.
5th Grade: The 5th graders are continuing their work on ukuleles. They have learned several songs and chords: C, F, G7, and Am. **The 5th graders are invited to participate in the Winter Concert at 6:00 PM on December 4th! At this concert, the choir will sing several songs, and then the 5th graders will play a few ukulele songs for a sing-a-long portion of the concert.
Mrs. Guemmer: jguemmer@wpusd.org
Ms. Harp: rharp@wpusd.org
Ms. Van Hoy: svanhoy@wpusd.org
Good To Know
- BUCKLE UP: We've gotten many reports that our precious students may not be properly buckled in when getting dropped off and picked up from school. Current California Law States:
Children under 2 years of age shall ride in a rear-facing car seat unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds OR is 40 or more inches tall. The child shall be secured in a manner that complies with the height and weight limits specified by the manufacturer of the car seat. (California Vehicle Code Section 27360.)
Children under the age of 8 must be secured in a car seat or booster seat in the back seat.
Children who are 8 years of age OR have reached 4’9” in height may be secured by a booster seat, but at a minimum must be secured by a safety belt. (California Vehicle Code Section 27363.)
Passengers who are 16 years of age and over are subject to California's Mandatory Seat Belt law.
Here is a link to the California Highway Patrol Website for more information:
https://www.chp.ca.gov/programs-services/programs/child-safety-seats
- Dogs on Campus: We love our furry friends but please keep them off campus. If you are walking your children to school with your dogs, please say your good-byes before you step on to campus. Not everyone loves dogs and it can be scary for some. We appreciate you keeping your four-legged babies off of school grounds. Thank you!
- Did you know our Student Handbook has been updated? You can find it on our website here: http://ccces.wpusd.org/Parents/Student-Handbook/index.html
- Choir meets every Monday from 1:50-2:50
- Please remember that supervision for students begins at 7:45am. There is no supervision for students prior to that. Please plan your mornings accordingly, we want our students to be safe!
Support School Safety
Parking & Drop Off
Please note that parking is at a premium, particularly now that we have so many new families who joined us this fall. If you are arriving early and waiting with your child in your car, please consider parking along the street to ensure our staff can find parking when they arrive.
Entering Campus
If you are walking your child onto campus and plan to go past the big, black gate, you must sign in at the front office and obtain a visitor badge to be on campus. Remember to sign out when you leave as well. This helps us to account for everyone that is on campus.
In the Community
- Public Library Resources: Please see flyer below
Science Newsletter
I’m Mrs. Karp, and I’m so excited to be teaching science to your students. Our curriculum is called Mystery Science, and it includes lots of thinking, experiments, and videos to help your students learn. It meets the new Next Generation Science Standards, which include three parts: disciplinary core ideas (content knowledge), science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts (ideas found in multiple subject areas). These standards move away from basic memorization towards the application of learned material.
Hopefully, this will be my only newsletter. I hope to have finished my website by the end of September, and you will be able to check there weekly to see what your student has been doing. Some time this week, your student will be bringing home a scientist of the week sheet for you to work on together. I would love for the center rectangle to be a recent photo of your child. This will be on display in the classroom. If you have any questions, please contact me at jkarp@wpusd.org.
First Grade Observation: Their first mystery is “Why do scientists know so much?” They have been
observing, thinking, writing, and drawing to answer this question.
Second Grade Properties and Phases of Matter: Their first mystery will be “Why do we wear clothes?”
They will figure out the different properties of different materials by observing and experimenting. Be on the lookout for a very unusual hat by the end of September.
Third Grade Forces and Motion: Their first mystery is, “How can you beat a group of grownups at
Tug-of-war?” They are conducting an investigation on balanced and unbalanced forces, also known as “Hopper Poppers.”
Fourth Grade / Chapman
Energy: Moving things get their energy from stored energy, and energy can be stored in different ways. They observed this when they made their rubber band racers and used them to carry out an investigation of the mystery, “How can a car run without gas?”
Fifth Grade Chemical Reactions and Properties of Matter: Alchemists were the scientists of long ago,
and we will be trying to change one material into another with pennies and alchemical solutions. We also are trying to figure out why gargoyles from long ago are so deteriorated.
Funderburgh Sound: They have been learning and experimenting with how cartoons get their sounds.
Mr . Karp
Welcome to the Science Laboratory! Mrs. Karp (Room O)
FOOD SERVICES: What's Cookin in the Coppin Kitchen?
Stay Connected!
Check Us Out!
Email: scoyle@wpusd.org
Website: http://ccces.wpusd.org/
Location: 150 E. 12th Street Lincoln, CA
Phone: 916 645-6390
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carlinccoppin/