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

Cox Cub News

Volume 13, Issue 7
October 2-6, 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: We are in the middle of our Week of Respect and the students are having fun with
their activities! We had an amazing visit from a published author for grades K-2 on Tuesday. We also had a visit
from our Regional Associate Superintendent, Mr. Solomon, who visited classrooms for 2 hours.

Reminders: There is no school Monday, October 9th for Staff Professional Day and no school Tuesday, for parent
teacher conferences. Please sign up for parent teacher conferences, our goal is 100% this year and conferences are
offered both in person and through google meet. No retakes or missing/late work can be turned in after Friday,
10/6.
Cox Cubs of the Week of the Week:
Congratulations to the following
students for being Cox Cubs of the
Week: Nolan Parker, Rowan Simen,
Avery Schmidt, Mateo Grimaldi,
Keeler Donnelly, Harper Huff,
George Bonomo, Arielle Bracey,
Liam Sullivan, Michael Scott,
Emery Washington, Kamora Payne,
Annabella Damian, Madison King,
Boris Pamukchiev,
Dylan Garcia-Schlosser,
Easton Lease, Brielle Moore,
Axl Menasco, Ember Lewis,
Hailey Woodall, Emily Dillavou,
Abrielle Burton, June Wride, Nasra
Sekondo, London Gordon, Raymond Hall, Dylan Ellison, Elijah Gilbert, Kaia Koppelman, Eli Lease, Emily Barbosa,
and Laila Kuwarhara-Flood.

Congratulations to the following Yearbook Cover and Back Cover Artists: For the front cover…Katie
Echeverria and for the back cover…Hailey Sauceda. All the entries were tremendously done and it was such a hard
decision. Thank you to the high school students who were the judges, they really took time deciding and I was proud
that they took it so seriously.

PTA News: Thank you to all the families for supporting our monthly dinner night at Panda
Express, we made over $200 for our school that night. Our next PTA meeting is Tuesday, October
17th at 6 pm in the MP Room. We are currently in our PTA membership drive…please join our
PTA!
Recognizing some WOW Cubs: Let’s recognize Charlotte Williams from Mrs. McLeod’s class for already passing
her grade level AR points twice over and Marcus Eli Santos in Mrs. Galdi’s class who has already passed his AR
grade level goal by 3 times! Wow!!! This is the first ever in our AR history which students have doubled and tripled
their AR goals for the grade level! Way to go Charlotte and Marcus Eli!
 ATTENDANCE NOTICE

Parents we are routinely having over 20% of our students absent each week. This is chronic absenteeism which we are
penalized for from the State of Nevada. After meeting with our Region Association Superintendent, Mr. Solomon, we were
given the “go ahead” to implement Required Parent Conferences (RPCs) to students and parents who have been
chronically absent last year and now on track to be chronically absent this year. At this conference parents will be given a
notice of the absent regulation and policy along with a RETENTION paper to sign. This paper will notice you, the parent, that
if your child(ren) are chronically absent again this year they will repeat their current grade REGARDLESS OF GRADES. We
are also starting paperwork on a number of families regarding EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT as not bringing your child to
school is against the law.

ANY ABSENCE COUNTS TOWARDS CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM: EXCUSED, MEDICAL, PRE-ARRANGED,

UNEXCUSED. THREE TARDIES ALSO COUNTS AS ONE ABSENCE. MISSING 2 DAYS OF SCHOOL PER
MONTH IS DEEMED CHRONICALLY ABSENT (18 DAYS TOTAL).

Administration will begin gathering information regarding past chronic and current chronic absenteeism next week and RPC
notices will begin to go out the following week.

A Look Ahead:
*Dates are always subject to change.
10/2-6 Week of Respect
10/2 School Custodian Day
10/3 Apple Core Author Visit Gr. K-2
10/06 Quarter 1 Ends, Unsats given at conferences
10/9-13 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 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
11/22-11/24 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