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

Cox Cub News

Volume 13, Issue 5
September 18-22, 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.

DMC Happenings this Week: Today is National I.T. Appreciation Day, Thursday 9/21, is our monthly Family
Dinner Night at Panda Express on Eastern, Friday is our annual Kindergarten Letter Parade. Football Camp began
this week.

Cox Cubs of the Week of the Week: Congratulations to the

following students for being Cox Cubs of the Week: Faith Medina,
Mia Davis, Alex Nguyen, Jae’Sean Pickard, Weston Ransom,
Rowan Simen, Bristol Gordon, Zeoy Gilbert, Axl Menasco,
Leon Rowland, Olivia DiFalco, Pedro Pinheiro, Weston Moore, and
Hailey Woodall!

PTA News: Thank you to all the families for a super fun Family Neon Night last Friday! The
students were really “rocking” out.

Parking Lot Reminders: Parents please remember that the front red
zone is a “Kiss and Go” zone in which you cannot get out of your
vehicle and leave it. We are having persons and vehicles almost
getting hit by trying to go around parked vehicles.

School-Wide Data: Our annual state assessment data and rating have
come in. We are “officially” a 3-STAR school with our lowest
performing categories in science (we implemented the new CCSD
science program last year “Amplify”) and our English Language
Learner subgroups. We also LOST 7 POINTS to Chronic
Absenteeism. We were 7 points shy from maintaining our 4-STAR
status from last year and have been analyzing where we need to make
our instructional changes. We are very proud of the growth our
students made last year and how much higher we performed than
the district!

As a community, what you can do honestly to help our kids the most
is get them to school. If they’re not at school, they cannot learn. As of
Monday, 9/18/23 we had a chronic absenteeism rate of 23% of our
school.
Thank you Students: We had a lot of submissions for our Yearbook Cover and back cover turned in Friday. Judging will take
place this week and winning art covers will be announced on Monday during announcements.

Infinite Campus: Parents, we are 3 weeks away from the first quarter of our semester. All grades, make-up work, and retakes
must be turned in by Friday, October 6th. Parent Conference Week is that following week in which you will be given a current
progress report for your student.

A Look Ahead:
*Dates are always subject to change.
9/21 Panda Express DMC Restaurant Night
9/22 Kindergarten Letter Parade 9:30 am
9/28-29 5th Grade Musical Performance
10/2-6 Week of Respect
10/2 School Custodian Day
10/3 Apple Core Author Visit Gr. K-210/9-13 Parent Teacher Conference Week
(Elementary ONLY)
10/9 Staff Day – No school for CCSD Kids
10/10 No School for elementary students due to conferences
10/13 Quarter 1 Ends, Unsats given at conferences
10/13 No more Make Up/Late Work/or Retakes accepted
10/16 National Boss’ Day
10/16 Soccer Camp Starts
10/18 Chik-fil-A DMC Dinner Night on Eastern
10/19 Great Nevada Shake Out – earthquake practice drill
10/20 Apple Core bookmarks due for first quarter
10/27 No School for CCSD Nevada Day
10/31 Monster March 2:30 Field – costumes
11/1 AR Prize redemption day for points
11/5 Daylight Saving Time Ends – set clocks back an hour
11/7 Election Day
11/10 Veteran’s Day – no school
11/13 Natl. Sch. Psych Week
11/14 PTA Mtg. 6 pm MP Room
11/17 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Holiday Mash Up
11/17 Zuppas DMC Dinner Night off of Eastern
11/12-11/24 Thanksgiving Break – no school
12/1 AppleCore Book Marks Due/AR Prize Week
12/4-8 Teacher Grading Week
12/6 FINAL DAY FOR ALL RETAKES AND LATE/MISSING WORK
12/7-8 4th Grade Performance
12/11-15 Spirit Dress Week, Finalizing Report Cards Week
12/12 Panera DMC Dinner Night off of Eastern
12/15 Report cards and certificates come home, final day of school
12/15 First Semester Ends CCSD
12/16-1/1 WINTER BREAK
1/2 Classes resume/AR Prize Week

Congratulations to the Following AppleCore Winning Classrooms for August: These classes have turned in the
most AppleCore bookmarks for the month of August earning their classrooms a popcorn party! Way to go: Ms.
Swinger’s Kinders, Ms. Anderson’s First Graders tied with Ms. Melz’s First Graders, Ms. Ash’s Second Graders,
Mrs. Fortin’s Third Graders, Mrs. McLeod’s Fourth Graders, and Mrs. Martin’s Fifth Graders.