🔔 Reminder: No School Dec 22 - Jan 2.
Enjoy the winter break! All TCAPS school offices and the TCAPS Administration Building at Glenn Loomis will be closed during this time.
Buildings and classes will resume on Monday, January 5, 2026.
View the academic calendar here: https://5il.co/3jfx6
9 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
🔔 Reminder: No School Dec 22 - Jan 2.
Enjoy the winter break! All TCAPS school offices and the TCAPS Administration Building at Glenn Loomis will be closed during this time.
Buildings and classes will resume on Monday, January 5, 2026.
View the academic calendar here: https://5il.co/3jfx6
10 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
It's Holiday Headgear and Cougar Pride day today as we wrap up Spirit Week. And Mr. Rob and Mr. Phillips are the only two jolly elves around today. Happy snow day! From all of the staff at Courtade Elementary School, we wish everyone in the Courtade Community a happy and magical Holiday Season. See you in January!
11 days ago, Courtade Elementary
SCHOOL IS CLOSED: All TCAPS schools are closed today, Friday, December 19, 2025 due to inclement weather. Students in Michigan Virtual, Acellus, or Dual Enrollment classes should follow the direction of the instructors for those programs.
For more information on snow days, including how they are communicated and how decisions are made, go to www.tcaps.net.
12 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners! We also had a ROAR Day assembly today. The theme was appreciation. We appreciated having the talented musicians from East Middle School be the main guests at today's ROAR Day!
18 days ago, Courtade Elementary
🌟 Beyond Sounding Out: CKLA Knowledge Units Build Confident Readers! 📚
While learning to sound out words is essential, did you know that CKLA Knowledge Units teach your child about the world (like history and science) and grow their vocabulary by introducing important, academic words? This strong foundation of knowledge and words is how they move beyond simply sounding out letters to actually understanding the meaning of what they read, making them skilled and confident readers.
CKLA Connected—check out the learning adventures happening right now!
Kindergarten: Underdogs and Heroes: Stories
First Grade: Common Threads: Different Lands, Similar Stories
Second Grade: Legends and Heroes: Greek Myths
Third Grade: Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry
Fourth Grade: Meaning and Metaphor: Poetry
Fifth Grade: Visions in Verse: Poetry
20 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
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/21 days ago, Courtade Elementary
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!
22 days ago, Courtade Elementary
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!
25 days ago, Courtade Elementary
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!
29 days ago, Courtade Elementary
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!
about 1 month ago, Courtade Elementary
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!
about 1 month ago, Courtade Elementary
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/LDSR9m0PXaMabout 2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
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/19526Access 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.
about 2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
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. ❤️🐾
about 2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
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!
about 2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
about 2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
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!
2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
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.
2 months ago, Courtade Elementary
