Cooks Chronicle
March 2017
It's Time to Move!
We are looking for volunteers to help that week. If you are interested in helping, please complete this google form.
Thank you in advance for your help and patience!
Arts-A-Budding
Congratulations to the following students for having their artwork on display currently in Arts-A-Budding at Valparaiso Universty!
ANIKA ANDERSON, MCKENNA BOGNER, INGRID DANGER, CADE KENNEDY, COE KRISCHKE
Birthday Book Club News
The Birthday book club recently reached a major milestone! We now have over 100 members! And for the first time, a tie was declared for our 100th member to join! 2 forms came in at virtually the same time from the same class! Our co-winners for being the 100th member are Ella Siewin and Tyler Wittmer from Miss Brady’s 5th grade class! Our prize winners were: Leopold Sabec, Miranda Palma, Landon Hall, Kyle Anselm, Sloane Connors, Luke Miller, Maeve Ransom, Grant McFarden, Evan Heise, Emily Cheuk, Jacob Ray, Ella Siewin and Tyler Wittmer! Each received a book to keep and lots of other goodies in their prize bags. Congratulations to all of our winners!
Newest members are: Landon Hall, Araya Hlinsky, Emmy Hlinsky, Mrs. Joy Riggers, Evan Willett, Collin Fisher, Chris Fisher, Zoe Hall, Amelia Nguyen, Mia Mulligan, Kaiya Green, Charlie Blade, Titan Hedrick, Christian Paredes, Leopold Sabec, Emily Golding, Ella Siewin, Tyler Wittmer, Ava Mulcahy, and Lillybel Puls.
Thank you to everyone for joining and adding over 100 new books to our Media Center collection for everyone to check out and enjoy!! Will we get to our next goal of 125 and draw names for another round of prizes?! See Ms. Cox in the Media Center for a form.
Barnes & Noble Book Fair
Thank you Cooks Corners Families for coming to the Valparaiso Barnes & Noble on the evening of February 7th for our Star Wars themed book fair supporting our Media Center! Students participated in lots of fun activities including a Star Wars Costume Contest, a Scavenger Hunt, Star Wars Trivia, Star Wars Bowling, Obstacle Course and a Light Saber Bubble Battle! We Decorated lots of Cookies and Cupcakes, and we Shot the Storm Trooper!
Costume Contest First Place Prize Winners were Kobe Brown as Chewbacca and Marin Anderson as Rey! Other Costume winners were: Jude Tipton, McKenna Bogner, Jack Reichert, Ashley Miller, Devon Alsman, JoAle Thomas, Dylan Glickauf, Lizzie Kwiatkowski, Milo Glickauf and Avery Krischke!
Trivia winners included: Mark Teeple, Matt Hofer, Sarah Miller, Abby Henson, Anika Anderson and Sam Rodgers!
Thanks to all of you, we earned a Barnes & Noble gift card worth over $500 with which to purchase books for our Media Center! Thank you so much!
Ms. Lori Cox
Cooks Corners Librarian
AR Principal & Star Club Members
PRINCIPAL CLUB MEMBERS
STAR CLUB MEMBERS
Emily Golding
Blake Gundrum
Eva Senese
Clara Warren
Kaitie Shideler
Micah Snider
Sophie Norrod
Aidan Taskoff
Matt Milenkoff
Emma Mulcahy
March 13: IRead 3 Testing (3/13 through 3/17)
March 14: PTO Mtg in library @ 6pm
March 16: Board Meeting @ BFMS - 6pm
March 24: End of 3rd Grading Period
March 27-31: No School - Spring Break
April 3: School Resumes
April 4: 5th Grade Band Recruitment Concert @ BFMS
April 5: 4th Grade Orchestra Recruitment Concert @ BFMS
April 7: Firefighter Phil Assembly
April 7: 2nd Grade Field Trip to Tale of Little Mermaid
April 17: No school (make-up day, if needed)
April 14: Kindergarten Round-Up
April 17: ISTEP Testing (4/17 - 5/5)
April 20: Board Meeting @ NV - 6pm
April 28: Wizards @ VHS
May 10: 4th Grade Agriculture Day
May 18: Variety Show
May 18: Board Meeting @ Admin Bldg. - 6pm
May 19: No School (make-up day, if needed)
May 23: Field Day
May 26: No School (make-up day, if needed)
May 29: No School
June 3: Last Student Day
Kindergarten Round Up
Do you or someone you know have a child that will be starting kindergarten in the Fall? Two sessions of Kindergarten Round-Up will be held at Cooks Corners on Friday, April 14th. Prior to round-up, registration should be completed at www.valpo.k12.in.us; select Parents tab, followed by Kindergarten registration, at which time the school the student will be attending in the fall will be selected.