CBA Elementary Lion Link 🐾
Your link between home and school | December 1
Hello CBA Families,
Happy December! 🐰 🐰
Welcome to your weekly edition of Lion Link, your link between home and school!
It's concert season and we couldn't be more excited! This morning, our Kindergarten and 1st grade students presented Sweets & Treats, a Kindergarten & 1st Grade Winter Concert. They filled the room with joyful songs about some of the sweetest parts of the holidays, the treats! Our stage was transformed into a gingerbread wonderland and our hears were filled with the warmth of the upcoming holidays. Thank you to all of our students, families, and friends!
This week's newsletter is chock full of upcoming events and reminders. Be sure to bookmark it, or save it to your home screen, to refer back to it throughout the week.
Coming up at CBA Elementary:
- 12/2 - Santa at the Square - Stop by to see us!
- 12/3 - PAC Barnes & Noble Fundraiser begins!
- 12/4 - Holiday Gift Shop begins
- 12/5 & 12/7 - Parent/Teacher Conferences
- 12/6 - Girl Scout Meeting
- 12/8 - PAC Holiday Teacher Luncheon
- 12/9 - Breakfast with Santa
Save the Date:
- 12/15 - Winter Lights, 2nd-5th Grade Winter Concert - 10:00am
12/22 - Classroom Hoilday parties, dress down & noon dismissal!
- 12/25-1/1 - Winter Break - School Closed
- 12/27-12/29- Winter Break Camp - Sign up here!
Just a few reminders for our families:
- The academic day is from 8:30am to 3:30pm. Please do your best to have students at school on time. If you drop off after 8:30am, please understand that teachers have begun their daily routines.
Thank you,
The CBA Team
December Calendar
Winter Clubs & Enrichments
NEW this Winter!
Monument Minecraft (1st - 5th Grade)
Dungeons & Dragons (3rd - 5th Grade)
Abrakadoodle (Pre-K - 2nd Grade)
Shake It Off Dance Club (1st - 5th Grade)
Clubs begin the week of December 11th
Sign ups are due no later than December 8th
*Please double check the details for individual clubs for specific dates & times*
*Please note, Science Explorers begins 11/30*
Nominate a CBA teacher today!
School Uniforms
We require all students to wear a school uniform unless otherwise directed.
- Daily Uniform: Girls and boys should wear a green or blue polo shirt with khaki shorts/pants/skirt.
- PE Uniform: PE t-shirt and mesh shorts or sweatpants with sneakers are required on PE days.
- Shoes & Socks: On Daily Uniform days, students must wear brown shoes with white, green or blue socks. Students should wear sneakers on PE days.
**Lunch Program - NEW**
Lunches are billed to Alma at the end of each month.
Coming up at CBA!
A Message from our PAC
Join the CBA PAC at Barnes & Noble on Sunday 12/3 from 11:30am to 2:30pm at the Exton location!
You'll have a chance to meet & take pictures with the Gingerbread Man, hear some of his stories, and create your own Play-Doh Gingerbread Man!
PAC will receive a percentage of all sales in store from 12/3-12/9, and online from 12/3-12/19.
We will provide free gift wrapping at our event on 12/3 from 11:30-2:30.
If you'd like to volunteer at the event you can sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0F48ABAE2DA3F85-46436370-barnes
You can also help by sharing our flyer with our shopping code with family & friends, and on all your social media outlets!
Holiday Donation Drive - EXTENDED!!
Ciao CBA Famiglia,
As we enter this season of gratitude, we look forward to saying 'GRAZIE' to our CBA crew who are pasta-tively the best!
For the holidays, PAC holds a donation drive to sponsor gifts and a Luncheon for all the teachers and staff. 100% of all funds raised during this time will go towards this.
If you'd like to donate to our CBA holiday drive, you can do so here, or through Venmo: @CBAPAC. Donations can be made through Friday, December 6th.
Per tradition, the Holiday Donation Drive is done annually to support a joint gift from our CBA Families, and is intended to replace individual gifts.
Additionally, we encourage the students to write letters to their teachers, specialty teachers, administrators, and staff to thank them for all they do throughout the year.
Thank you for helping us ‘espresso’ our sincere gratitude to the people who work so hard to make CBA so special… Our community is Prosecco-nd to none!
Ciao & Grazie!
The CBA PAC
Our Week in Pictures
Family Resources
Sick Policy
Families assist us in maintaining a safe and healthy environment for all our Children by keeping sick Children at home. The purpose of our sick child policy is to:
- Reduce the spread of illness from a sick Child to other Children and members of School staff.
- Promote complete recuperation of the sick Child.
- Prevent the constant spread of cold, flu and diarrhea and other communicable diseases that are common among small children.
Children who become ill at school will be made comfortable and families will be notified to pick them up within one hour. Families must keep sick children at home until they have been symptom-free for at least 24 hours* if they display any of the following:
- Fever of 100.4 degrees or more. Children must be free of fever for at least 24 hours, unassisted by fever-reducing medication before returning to school.
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Sore Throat
- Skin Rash
- Head Lice
- Heavy nasal discharge requiring frequent wiping every 3-5 minutes
- Persistent, non-productive or barking cough
- Fussy, cranky behavior unlike the Child
- Symptoms of communicable disease such as pink eye, measles, chicken pox, mumps, or strep throat
Alma - Parent Portal
Payment and contact information can be managed through the online parent portal, Alma. The link to Alma is below.
Please follow the instructions for logging in and contact Miss Jess with any questions or concerns.
1. Click on the link below to access ALMA to set up your account
2. Click “Forgot Password”
3. Username is firstname.lastname of primary account holder
4. Enter Email