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

Cox Cub News

Volume 13, Issue 8
October 16-20, 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.

Attendance Tracker: We ended our week last week with 17% students chronically absent…down from the previous
week of 23%. Parents are the only way to help our state school rating for attendance, please make sure your student gets to
school. The state counts ALL absences (excused or not) in their chronically absent rating.

DMC Happenings this Week: We have a full week of school! Tuesday at 6 pm is our monthly PTA meeting in the
MP Room, Wednesday the 18th is our monthly Family DMC Dinner Night at Chik-Fil-A on Eastern, Thursday 10/19
will be participating in the Nevada Great Shake Out; earthquake drill, and Friday our second round of AppleCore
Bookmarks are due.

Thank you Families: We appreciate your support for your child’s education. It was a very successful Teacher Parent
Conference Week. We had so many classes with 100% conference participation.

Cox Cubs of the Week of the Week: Congratulations

to the following students for being Cox Cubs of the
Week: Devin Garcia-Schlosser, Ryder Grau, Melanie
Sauceda, Kate Rodriguez, Melanie Pham, Henry
Theodosis, Alexa Ruiz, Olivia Sosa, Fabrizzio
Uzcategui-Henandez, Ryleigh Bitterman, Paisley
Yaros, Daniel Ross, and Zoey Gilbert.

Congratulations to the following Classes Earning the Specialists Behavior Trophy: Mrs. Galdi’s 5th Graders,
Mrs. Heard’s 4th Graders (second month in a row), Ms. Lopez’s 3rd Graders, Mrs. Gonzalez’s 2nd Graders (second
month in a row), Mrs. Klainer’s 1st Graders, and Mrs. Ernst’s Kinders! Great job Cox Cubs!

PTA News: We are currently in our PTA membership drive…please join our PTA! Please join us for
our October PTA meeting, Tuesday a 6 pm in the MP Room.

HOLIDAY MASH-UP SPONSORSHIPS: Families, our annual Holiday Mash-up Carnival is right around the
corner on November 17th from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. We have already had a lot of businesses donate for our auction
and raffle baskets along with businesses who want to have a table in the MP Room. We have students from
Greenspun Junior High, GreenValley High School, and Coronado High School who are volunteering to help run the
booths. We are looking for families to sponsor the following items for the carnival…

 $100 Ice
 $100 Raffle Basket Wrapping Supplies
 $400 Ahern Light Rentals for the Evening
 $200 Soda, Hotdogs, Chips, Condiments, ServingWare
 All the Halloween Candy we can get for the booth buckets!
 GRADE LEVEL GIFT BASKET DONATIONS

We are asking that the following grade level families donate items to fill our raffle baskets (donated
items may be brought directly to the front office):

Kindergarten: Gift Cards

First Grade: Bath and Body Items (scented candles, spa type items)
Second Grade: Cooking Items
Third Grade: Gift Cards
Fourth Grade: Family Game Night/Toys
Fifth Grade: Gift Cards

ATTENDANCE NOTICE (second post)

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.
10/16 Soccer Camp Starts
10/17 PTA Mtg. 6 pm MP Room
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 worn
11/5 Daylight Saving Time Ends – set clocks back an hour
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- school closed