We have an award winner on our teaching staff! Fabulous first grade teacher Mrs. Liz Lautner was recently recognized as a Michigan Lottery Excellence in Education award winner. In October, she went downstate to be professionally interviewed. Her segment aired for the first time as part of the 5:00 9 and 10 news. Many of her admirers celebrated with her tonight with some delicious pizza, compliments of Courtade's PTO. For more information, see the press release linked below. Congratulations Liz! This award and recognition is well-deserved!
https://milotteryconnect.com/
https://milotteryconnect.com/
Under the leadership of Ms. Partman and Mr. Boyce, tonight was the first night of the third year of the Creative Explorers Program at Courtade! This free, after school program has 33 Cougars who will be learning all about coding, robotics, and problem solving in a very hands-on way. Tonight, students were introduced to Lego Spike kits. We can't wait to see what these Explorers build!
Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners! And thank you to the GT Metro Fire Department for brining some Chill Out for Winter Safety lessons to our school this year!
It's December! Thanks to our PTO, each student at Courtade will be coming home with two keepsake Christmas ornaments. One can be for home, and one can be a special gift! Want to help? Email ptocourtade@gmail.com. We could use more volunteers. Students will be making these crafts all week!
Huge thank you to City Church for providing Thanksgiving meals for people in the Courtade community! Mrs. Helman celebrated with Friendsgiving and a balloon parade. Mrs. Myers' class reached out to lots of staff at school to express thanks. And some other classes just had some good 'ol turkey fun. Happy Thanksgiving!
Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!
Speaking of ROAR, at last week's ROAR Day, students were given the task to work with a buddy from a different class to come up with some things that they think make Courtade special. Check out what some of them came up with!
It was another busy Friday here at Courtade. Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners! We celebrated thankfulness at our ROAR Day today and had some fun with a pie contest. Check it out by following the link below. And, the students of Mrs. Lautner and Mrs. Gross got to go on a great field trip to the Human Nature School, thanks to a grant! Have a great weekend!
https://youtu.be/LDSR9m0PXaM
https://youtu.be/LDSR9m0PXaM
We partner with JenTees for our school shirts. They give us a very good price on that large order. If you'd like more Cougar gear for you or your child, see the information below.
The Courtade Elementary webstore is now open and will remain available until midnight on November 16th.
To place your order, click the link below and use the access code to enter the store:
Link to store: https://www.storessimple.com/jentees/19526
Access code: 2025
Once your order is submitted, you will receive an automated confirmation email. Please check your spam or junk folder if you do not see these emails in your inbox.
The Courtade Elementary webstore is now open and will remain available until midnight on November 16th.
To place your order, click the link below and use the access code to enter the store:
Link to store: https://www.storessimple.com/jentees/19526
Access code: 2025
Once your order is submitted, you will receive an automated confirmation email. Please check your spam or junk folder if you do not see these emails in your inbox.
Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!
Also, our Blessing Barn has been restocked daily with food and essentials thanks to the incredible generosity of our Courtade Community! ❤️🐾Families, please remember — the Blessing Barn is here for you. If your family could use a little extra support, stop by and take what you need. That’s what it’s there for! Thank you, Courtade staff and families, for continuing to care for one another and keep our community strong. ❤️🐾
Also, our Blessing Barn has been restocked daily with food and essentials thanks to the incredible generosity of our Courtade Community! ❤️🐾Families, please remember — the Blessing Barn is here for you. If your family could use a little extra support, stop by and take what you need. That’s what it’s there for! Thank you, Courtade staff and families, for continuing to care for one another and keep our community strong. ❤️🐾
We have the best neighbor! It's become a fun tradition after Halloween for Mr. Rasho to bring us a couple of crates of gourds. Our kids get to go out and pick one to take home for their Thanksgiving table. It's just another thing that makes Courtade special. Mr. Rasho also lets us take hikes on the trails on his property, has tilled our gardens for us, gives us some of his good pumpkin seeds to plant in our pumpkin patch, and lets us use his property for overflow parking. We've also seen some really cool rescued bird releases on his property. He even brings his tractor to our farmers market every year for kids to sit on!
Our school gets to fill a bus for the Traverse City Light Parade! This event happens in the evening on Saturday, November 22nd. Follow the link below to sign up!
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Because we met our PTO's fundraising goal, Mr. Phillips got to be the car in a human car wash! Check out the video!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fx_vAzDAWTQ?si=pgcI91tiMproCgDX
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fx_vAzDAWTQ?si=pgcI91tiMproCgDX
What a busy day today! Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model Award winners. Being Halloween, some of our staff members were hoping to hide like "Where's Waldo." Thankfully, there were all found and had fun with their students today. And stay tuned for a post later today with a link to watch the Mr. Phillips Human Car Wash!
In the "way to early to think about it" category... Congratulations to Talen and Winnie. They will represent our school as junior royalty at the 2026 National Cherry Festival.
So much news to share today!
1. The rain held off, and our Jog A Thon was a success! Thanks to the PTO, our student athletes from CHS, and all of the parent volunteers that helped!
2. Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!
3. We met our fundraising goal! Mr. Phillips will now be the lucky beneficiary of a human car wash!
1. The rain held off, and our Jog A Thon was a success! Thanks to the PTO, our student athletes from CHS, and all of the parent volunteers that helped!
2. Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!
3. We met our fundraising goal! Mr. Phillips will now be the lucky beneficiary of a human car wash!
Yesterday during all lunches, we were lucky to have Chef Adam (who is also the dad of a Courtade preschooler) join us for what will be monthly taste tests. Our Farm to School friends have done this for the past three years, and we were happy that Chef Adam will continue this as Farm to School programming ends. Chef Adam prepared garlic roasted potatoes for us, with potatoes out of our garden! Check out how many kids loved it!
On Wednesday mornings at the drop off line, fifth graders will be present to accept donations of pop cans to help fund their fifth grade camp trip. If you don't want to bring your cans, but want to donate, we'll also accept the receipts that we can cash in! For those of you who cannot make it during drop off, you can drop off bags of cans in the shed by the garden.
Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!
Every month, we gather as a whole school to talk about positive behaviors and how we all can be ROAR Models. We call these assemblies ROAR Days. Today was our October ROAR Day. We talked about goals. We set goals each month. Last month, some of us met our goals and some of us didn't. To have fun while we learn, we have a fun, assembly activity. Today, that activity was the Whitney Houston Drum Challenge. The GOAL is to hit the drum at the exact time that it sounds in the song after a period of silence. The message is that some goals are hard... this goal was supposed to be one of them. Check out the video. One of our five participants absolutely nailed it. Mr. Rob is a legend.
https://youtu.be/dOsefk4bQg0?feature=shared
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Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners! Also, we had a ROAR Day assembly today. Stay tuned... soon to be posted is how some of our staff and students fared on the Whitney Houston Drum Challenge! You'll never guess who absolutely nailed the challenge!!!
