Courtade Elementary School -

The year is young, but we've gone on a ton of field trips already! We've gone to state parks, the Alluvion, the Au Sable Institute, the Conservation District, and we have a couple more field trips already scheduled. Some of these field trips are funded by grants that our teachers are always on the lookout for. Others are covered by our PTO. Field trips are a great way to take educational adventures!

Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!

Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!

Congratulations to this week's ROAR Model award winners!

These students helped to pick tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden and Ms. Sam and Mrs. Don prepped them and put them on our salad bar. Mr. Phillips asked everyone in the cafeteria if they'd like to try our garden tomatoes and cucumbers and many Cougars did! Ask your Cougar if they tried any. Talk about garden fresh!!!!

Happy Constitution Day! We celebrated with our traditional flagpole ceremony. Special thanks to our fifth graders for leading us in the singing of The Start Spangled Banner!

Take the advice from some of our first graders about how we can be ROAR Models! And check out this monarch ROAR Model that we found on our playground today!

Today, we recognized our first ROAR Models of the year! Each week, teachers nominate 1-2 students from their classrooms. Students are recognized for lots of things, but most importantly, if a Courtade student consistently does the right thing, even if they don't think someone is watching, they'll get recognized (and many get recognized more than once). Thanks to our PTO for purchasing the ROAR Model award books!

We also held our first ROAR Day assembly today. Check out this week's newsletter to read more about some of the fun we had. Ask your Cougar about what we talked about at ROAR Day!

Thanks for a great first week of school! It was so cool seeing so many students and staff members wearing our new awesome school shirts. Check out these playground pictures! Speaking of our playground, two short weeks from today, we'll be hosting our first free, family after school event of the year! We hope many families will join us for our annual Courtade/Trojan Homecoming Cookout, which takes place on Friday, September 19th, from 4:30-5:45. Our PTO is sponsoring a hot dog dinner that is free for all who come. Dinner will include a hot dog or hot dogs (grilled by Mr. Phillips), a bag of chips, and a bottle of water. We always have plenty of hot dogs, so come hungry. In order for us to have plenty of food, we are asking families to sign up as soon as possible by filling out this quick form.

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