David M. Cox Elementary School – A Whole New Year…Infinite Possibilities!

Cox Cub News

Volume 12, Issue 23
March 27th – April 21st 2023
Mrs. Tara Imboden, Principal imbodtr@nv.ccsd.net
Mrs. Andrea Heinlen, Assistant Principal heinlam@nv.ccsd.net
www.davidmcoxelementaryschool.com
*Graphic created by Cox Cub 5th Grade Student Violet Hernandez in Art Class on a Sketchpad 5.1 program.
WEEKLY COMMUNITY REMINDERS:
DO NOT TURN LEFT OUT OF THE PARKING LOT DURING DROP OFF AND DISMISSAL.

We would like to thank the following

Happenings This Week at DMC… friends for their generous contributions
DMC!
Friday – No School – staff day for CCSD Coldwell Banker Premier
First Grade begins rehearsals for their musical Realty, Christopher Huff
Chris, Amanda, and Charlotte
An Easier Way to Report a Student’s Absence: Parents in Henderson
addition to going to our school website at Ms. Sarah and Jacob Taylor
https://davidmcoxelementaryschool.com/student-absences/ or The Antonelli Family
just scan the following QR code: The Vu Family
The Cookie Bar & Hot Corn and
Please follow us on our Instagram pages More Catering Trucks
for both our school and our school PTA…
davidmcox.pta and davidmcoxes are our
handles on Instagram. A Look Ahead: *Dates are always subject to
We also have a Facebook page. change.
4/28 Staff Development Day – no school
CCSD
Appreciation Days Second Semester: 5/1-5 Staff Appreciation Week
4/26 Administrative Assistant’s Day 5/5 ALL MISSING WORK, MAKE-UP
5/1-5 Teacher Appreciation Week WORK MUST BE TURNED IN FOR
5/5 School Cafeteria Workers’ Day FINAL GRADING
5/6 National Nurse’s Day 5/4-5/5 First Grade Musical Performance
5/18 Speech Teacher’s Day 5/8 Final Cox Cubs of Week
5/8-12 Teachers working on grading work,
inputting grades into IC
Staff Appreciation Week is next week (May 1-5)! 5/12 8:30 am Parents & Pastries MP Room
Please help us celebrate our wonderful teachers here at DMC! 5/12 Tcrs vs. 5th Dodgeball Game
5/15-19 Lunches outside all week
Monday: Bring a treat for your teacher. 5/15-17 GATE at AstroCamp
Tuesday: Write a Letter or Draw a Picture for your teacher. 5/18 5th Grade BBQ 12:30 pm
Wednesday: Bring a crazy pair of socks for your teacher.
5/18 1st – 4th Honor Roll Assemblies
5/19 Kindergarten Graduation
Thursday: Send a positive email to your teacher. 5/19 5th Grade Aloha Celebration
Friday: Bring a gift card to your teacher. 5/22 Dance off at 9:30 am BBall courts
5/22 Students out at 12:40 for the year – no
Don’t forget about our wonderful Specialist Teachers.
lunch served, students wear their class shirts
 Wednesday is Administrative Professional’s Day! Which means our Front Office Staff!
Please give a big thank you or a token of appreciation when you come into school on
Wednesday for our amazing staff in our nurse’s and front office! They work so hard!

Drama Club: A huge shout out to our students, Drama Coaches, and parents for another outstanding Theatric
Performance: Beauty and the Beast! There were three performances on top of two student performances and I
hope you got to attend one of them because the show was absolutely fantastic. Our Drama Coaches Mr. Camuso
and Mrs. Dingle work so hard all year with our drama students and it really shows off their talents! We are so
proud of our students, their performances were top notch and they showed such confidence getting up in front of
hundreds performing their parts. Thank you to all the parents who volunteered and supported our production!

Thank you to our PTA: Our PTA has agreed to fund our student supplies for next year! This is truly amazing
and helps our CCSD/State school budget tremendously! A big thank you to the PTA but especially Mrs. Belisle
for running the Read-A-Thon for the month of March and acquiring and scheduling all the wonderful prizes and
activities for our students for reaching their top reading minutes!

SBAC News: A big shout out to our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students! They stayed focused and did an awesome job
during their SBAC testing dates. The tests are extremely challenging and our air even went out a couple of
testing days. They were real troopers for remaining focused on their tests despite the conditions of our buildings.
Our other grades completely supported them too! Our testing for the state is complete and now on to MAPS
testing for the district in all grades K-5.

APPLE CORE Winning Classes: Congratulations to the following classes for turning in the most AppleCore
Bookmarks: Mrs. Brown’s Kindergartners, Ms. Anderson’s First Graders, Miss Ash’s Second Graders, Mrs.
Benton’s Third Graders, Mrs. Stackel’s Fourth Graders, and Mrs. Martin’s Fifth Graders! Way to go! No we are
just waiting to see if our school won Apple Core for Henderson.

Yearbooks are HERE!

We have received our yearbooks, sorted them, and will be delivering them to classes this Wednesday. If you didn’t
order one, we have 40 yearbooks left from our order to sell for $40 (cash only) at our front office until May 19th.

CCSD Registration is OPEN: Registration is open in Infinite Campus for the 2023-2024 school year. Every student
currently sitting in a CCSD seat needs to register (and completed for every sibling attending CCSD). When you go into
your Infinite Campus portal, click on “more,” then click on the “online registration parents only,” then click on “existing
student registration,” and review each of your screens in order to update any needed information. It can be very slow
going from page to page. It’s always a good idea to print your application summary in case something happens –
technology wise and your application/registration is lost.

Teacher Requests: Parents, we have had increasingly more unbalanced classes in regards to behavior and academic
levels the past 2 years. This was due to new enrollments and withdrawals, teacher changes, and parents complaining
that they didn’t get their first choice; this year we have experienced students purposely misbehaving just to get
removed from the class they were assigned to. We support all of our teachers on this campus. It was decided with the
administrative team that we will not be taking parent requests for this upcoming year. The grade level and specialist
teams will sort the students based on test scores, academic grades and levels, special education and GATE, students whose
primary language is not English, behavior, and finally those students who should not be placed together due to behavior
difficulties. After the teams sort then administration is the final determination on class lists.

Parent Surveys for 2023-24: Monday, April 24th was the final day to submit parent surveys regarding systems in our
school and on our campus. Thank you to those who took the time to complete and send in.
New Bell Times for 2023-24: Parents, the district has reassigned our bell times for next year. They are as follows:
 School for students: 9:05 am – 3:16 pm
 Milers (if we continue it next year) opens at 8:30 am We will develop our lunch schedules, school
 Breakfast opens at 8:40 am calendar in June and post to our website.
 Morning Recess/Campus opens for students at 8:45 am
 Line-up Bell is at 8:55 am Your students’ class assignments will be mailed
 Tardy Bell for students is at 9:05 am June 20th unless they are attending summer
 Dismissal is at 3:16 pm school – they will be given the last day of
summer school.

Library Books: All library books must be turned in by Monday, May 8th. The final day to check out books with be this
Thursday. The librarian has sent all the teachers the final dates for their rotation day to turn in books. Library books not
returned will be assigned a fine in Infinite Campus and will follow students until paid from school to school in CCSD.

Cox Cubs of the Week

Week of March 20th: Great Cub behavior to: Alex Nguyen,

Meilani Espinoza, Michael Scott, Kymiyan Logan,
Elliot Salmon, Emilia Conver, Scarlett Estrada, Yandiel Gonzalez,
Hailey Woodall, Asher Warnick, and Sigourney Contreras.

Week of March 27th: Ryder Grau, Avery Schmidt,

Hugo Rueda, Jewel Laragusa, Dylan Mitchell,
Laya Vinay, Izabella Gamarro, Dominick Wheaton,
Mekai Kennedy, Natalie Bozarth, Camil Lopez,
Jasper Melilli-Saladino, Myron Naivi, Deegan Ferrer,
Adilynn King, Malik Sekondo, Madilynn Castrillo,
Parker Reate, Eli Lease, Jade Bracey, Ah’mere Logan, Emilia
Conver, Logan Razo, Ethan Williams, Scarlett Aguilar,
Mia Lawson, Scarlett Martin, Alexander Ramos,
Marie Quionez, Malaysia Kennedy, Lorenzo Sam,
Olivia DiFalco, and Emma Michel.

Week of April 3rd: Tylon Pearson, Ya’nilah McCarter, Laya Vinay,

Cheyenne Rust, Kye Rabuya, Lillie Helmer, Talia Salmon,
Marie Quinonez, Kehlani Edwards, Maxine Fesel, Olivia Fonte,
DeAnthony Gallardo, Na’Lani Victor, Jacob Phillips,
Ali’Yanhu Pangallo, Lilionna Lopez, Evan Veloz-Martinez,
Kingston Sakaria, Josephine Oliveros, and Savannah Coakley.

Continued…
 Week of April 10th: Camden Orth, Daniel Ross,
Charlotte Henderson, Kanoa Bangan, Abigail Brai, Mia Douglas,
Ava Albanese, Aiyanna Gomez, Willow Helmer, Mason Scott,
and Jalyssa Melendes.

Week of April 17th: Anastazia Fetherston, Paityn

Smith, Dominic Santerelli, Adrian Rios, Zoey Salidas,
Wesley Sosa, Joseph Alliyani, Amika Brewton,
Eddie Vardi, Alice Howard, Viridiana Ramirez,
Matthew Vasquez, and Brody Roman.