In these cold, grey days of February, it’s so important to find good forms of celebration throughout the month! This entire month, we are celebrating the accomplishments of Black Americans in all of our classes for Black History Month. This week, we will celebrate the 100th day of school on Wednesday. Next week on Monday, we will celebrate Rolling with Your Sweetheart.  The following week, we will celebrate 2/22/22. The last week in February, we will celebrate school spirit with a CNH Gear Day where students can make their own CNH gear! And then at the start of  March, we will celebrate A-Team Learning with Family Arts Night!  Let’s keep the celebrations going!

If you have ideas for celebrations that we can add to the list, please reach out to me.  Thought partners are the best!

Have a wonderful week, everyone,

–Dr. Shyla.

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Noteworthy Upcoming Dates:

Date(s)

Notes

THIS WEDNESDAY, Feb. 9

100th Day of School Celebration

Monday, Feb 14

Rolling with your Sweetheart (a Board-sponsored event at dismissal)

Friday, February 18

NO SCHOOL – Staff professional development

Monday, February 21

NO SCHOOL – Presidents Day

Tuesday, February 22

This TWOsday, it will be 2/22/22 – Keep an eye out in the next What’s Good for ways to participate (twins day, tutus, etc.) Let’s have a ball with this date!!!

Friday, March 4, 6-7:30

Family Arts Night (Virtual)

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100th Day of School Celebration this Wednesday!

Today, Monday Feb. 7,  is the 100th day of school – Can you believe it?!?

This Wednesday we will celebrate the 100th day of school by wearing pajamas to school.

As well, students will be given a special treat at lunch.  We will have “100s challenges” in different classes and during recess.  It’ll be a fun day!

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Family Arts Night – T2!

 

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Rolling with Your Sweetheart

We have our tradition of Breakfast with Your Sweetheart, where students eat a special breakfast with a loved one(s), free of charge, before school on Valentine’s Day.  There are usually live performances, great food, fun decorations, and simple love to go around.  Last year, during virtual school, we interpreted this tradition as “Rolling with Your Sweetheart” where families were able to drive up and receive a special bag of goodies for the students.  We had a DJ on the outdoor stage (brrrr!) and yard signs for people to profess what they appreciated about CNH.

This year, the CNH Board of Directors is sponsoring Rolling with Your Sweetheart with special goodie bags passed out at dismissal on February 14.  Students in aftercare will receive theirs when they leave aftercare.

Ms. Keara, our Cafe manager, and I are planning the Breakfast with Your Sweetheart tradition right before Spring Break, when the weather is warmer and we can eat outside. We are planning for a leisurely Saturday morning of brunch and yard games.

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NAEP Testing for 4th Grade

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Enrollment Lottery

We will be holding the 2022-2023 Enrollment Lottery this Wednesday at 12:00 via Zoom.  Applicants do not need to be present to get a space – lottery results will be mailed to all applicants after the lottery.  If you would like to join, or know someone who would, the Zoom link is below:

Zoom Information to Join the Lottery:

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2/22/22 is on a TWOsday!

The Care Leadership Team is planning fun activities and themes for 2/22/22 – students might dress up as twins, wear tutus, etc.  We have ideas to get the ball rolling and would LOVE your ideas for this particular TWOsday!!!

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Family Participation Hours

Please see the note below from our new Family Participation Committee Chair.

Good morning, CNH Families!

My name is Kate Funderburk and I am the new Family Participation Committee chair.  I am looking forward to getting to know more of you and working in this new role! I am also very excited that the kids are all back to in-person learning!  With that being said, here is a great opportunity for you to log the hours that you spent assisting and working with your child during virtual school!  You can follow the link below to record these hours.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckDqipbD2BH1PJOO2nooxTPFqv_QtMliV-4mzsavh1cMAjMw/viewform

As a friendly reminder, families are encouraged to log 40 hours per school year.  Logging hours is SUPER easy and can be recorded for the following events:

  • -Teacher conferences
  • -School events
  • -IEP Meetings
  • -Classroom helper
  • -Fundraising events
  • -Committee meetings
  • -Extracurricular activities
  • -Anything else that you do to make CNH a better school community!

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for any questions regarding your family’s participation hours: kfunderburk@cityneighborshamilton.org

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Free At Home COVID Tests

The government is subsidizing four free COVID at-home tests for every house.  Just go to this link and complete the form with your home address!

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Get Your CNH Gear!

 

Show Your School Spirit with CNH Gear!

Help support our school with custom printed merch from the CNH Gear Store!

HOODIES * CAR MAGNETS * MUGS *

AND MORE!

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Donations to the School

If you would like to donate money to the school (for any reason), the easiest way is through our PayPal account. If you want your donation to go to a specific fund or activity (general educational expenses, technology, arts, etc), please note it with your donation.

PayPal Donate Button on Website: http://cityneighborshamilton.org/

If you aren’t able to donate funds to the school right now, we always appreciate your donation of time supporting the general programming needs at our school (all virtual, of course).  If you would like to volunteer for the school, please email our Family Participation Board Director Elisabeth Hyleck at ehyleck@cityneighborshamilton.org.

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