Cedar Hills Elementary School
PBIS Carnival Kick-Off
by: Sarah Sprangers
To kick-off the school year, the Cedar Hills' PBIS team will be engaging students in a variety of lessons to establish clear universal expectations. We will celebrate students' learning with a school-wide carnival at the end of the month. We are seeking small donations ($1-$10) to help offset the cost of the inflatable obstacle course, games, prizes, and snacks we will provide at the event. Any contribution helps! Thanks so much!
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
PBIS Carnival Kick-Off
by: Sarah Sprangers
To kick-off the school year, the Cedar Hills' PBIS team will be engaging students in a variety of lessons to establish clear universal expectations. We will celebrate students' learning with a school-wide carnival at the end of the month. We are seeking small donations ($1-$10) to help offset the cost of the games, prizes, and snacks we will provide at the event. Any contribution helps! Thanks so much!
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
Cedar Hills Diverse Books
by: Coryn Bauer
Did you know that here at Cedar Hills Elementary School ten different languages are spoken among our students? Our school, consisting of about 300 students, is very diverse. While our classroom libraries are full of books, we find that the majority of our books do not reflect the students in our classrooms. As a staff, it is our goal to fill our classroom libraries with books that are culturally responsive and that students can see themselves in. We strive to use text in our instruction that tells stories of different cultures, that bring social justice issues to light, that show actions that create change, and that encourage a positive self-identity. This project will help teachers do just that and will positively impact every single student at Cedar Hills. Please donate to this project to help add diverse books to every classroom library. Thank you for supporting our growth as a school in making equitable learning experiences for our incredible students. And please remember, everyone belongs here!
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
Community Worker Appreciation Project
by: Coryn Bauer
Hello, everyone! We are the 2nd grade teachers at Cedar Hills, Ms. Bauer, Mrs. Breznik and Ms. Weisbrod, and we are extremely excited to begin this project. Students in 2nd grade learn all about workers in our community, including Police Officers, Fire Fighters, Teachers, Public Works employees, Librarians, Postal Workers, and City Hall employees. Through our learning, our students discover the essential role community workers have in making Oak Creek a remarkable city. Our students want to thank our community workers for their hard work and commitment. We would like our students to make yard signs for departments in our community. Students will plan, design, and create a sign that shows gratitude for a department like police officers or fire fighters. Then, our students' designs will be professionally printed on corrugated plastic yard signs by a local business. Finally, we will take a field trip to each department in Oak Creek to hand deliver, meet the workers, and display our signs in front of their buildings for the city to see! This campaign makes students' yard signs 'come to life' by getting them professionally printed in order to present and display them outside at the various departments. This project empowers our students to make a difference and to be a positive force in our community. Thank you for supporting this incredible learning experience for our amazing group of 2nd graders!!
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
Playworks at Cedar Hills!
by: Keith Ruffolo
Cedar Hills Elementary would like to partner with the company, Playworks, to help improve our recess systems and structures to continue to improve student engagement and academic success! The donations provided toward this campaign will help fund the Playworks Team Up program. This level of support would provide a Playworks site coordinator for one week a month for the entire school year. The Playworks site coordinator would be responsible for working with and building the capacity of our recess team to create systems, structures, supervision, and conflict resolution strategies to use with students during recess to increase engagement, safety, and inclusive games. The rationale for this program is that for the past 4 years our office referral data has shown that recess referrals make up for roughly half of our total referrals. Also, this program supports our school district's strategic goals in areas of academics, continuous improvement, and social-emotional learning. The systems and strategies will result in less time transitioning from recess, increased student engagement in recess, decrease learning time lost by the classroom teacher solving minor recess conflicts or administration needing work on more serious safety concerns at recess. The total cost of the Team Up program is $22,000. We have partnered with Oak Creek Foundation to match funds raised up to $7,000.
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
Stools for School!
by: Sarah Esposito
Help give my students new seating options in our classroom! Allowing students to work in different ways helps to meet the needs of all students! The addition of these stools in my classroom will create a change of seating for students throughout the day and make learning more exciting for them. Providing different ways for students to learn will enhance their overall willingness to learn and grow!
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
Community Workers Appreciation Project
by: Coryn Bauer
Hello, everyone! We are the 2nd grade teachers at Cedar Hills, Ms. Bauer and Mrs. Breznik, and we are extremely excited to begin this project. Students in 2nd grade learn all about workers in our community, including Police Officers, Fire Fighters, Teachers, Public Works employees, Librarians, Postal Workers, and City Hall employees. Through our learning, our students discover the essential role community workers have in making Oak Creek a remarkable city. Our students want to thank our community workers for their hard work and commitment. We would like our students to make yard signs for departments in our community. Students will plan, design, and create a sign that shows gratitude for a department like police officers or fire fighters. Then, our students' designs will be professionally printed on corrugated plastic yard signs by a local business. Finally, we will take a field trip to each department in Oak Creek to hand deliver, meet the workers, and display our signs in front of their buildings for the city to see! This campaign makes students' yard signs 'come to life' by getting them professionally printed in order to present and display them outside at the various departments. This project empowers our students to make a difference and to be a positive force in our community. Thank you for supporting this incredible learning experience for our amazing group of 2nd graders!!
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
Care Packages for Soldiers
by: Whitney Paige
Hello everyone, We are the fourth grade teachers at Cedar Hills, Mrs. Paige and Ms. Blaha, and we are very excited about this project! My brother, Trent (Mrs. Paige's brother), was recently deployed overseas for what is looking like at least a year. As the first lieutenant of his platoon, my brother wanted to establish a connection with his men and our fourth grade classes. He brought all of his soldiers to Cedar Hills at the end of last year so that they could meet all of the future fourth graders. They did some getting to know you activities together and began building relationships. Now that those students are in fourth grade, they have the opportunity to be pen pals with his soldiers. Letters will be going back and forth between the soldiers and the students. As it gets closer to the holidays, we know it will be difficult for the soldiers to be away from home. We would like to have students create care packages for the soldiers filled with some essentials and some of their favorite things. We would like to use the money to be able to send those care packages to the soldiers. It is crucial to let soldiers know that they are cared for and thought about while they are gone! We know that this project will make a huge difference and we would greatly appreciate the help! Thank you, Mrs. Paige and Ms. Blaha
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI
Learning How To Read!
by: Olivia Stutz
My students need books! About My Students: A small suburb school making a HUGE difference! In just my class, 11 different languages are spoken, including Arabic, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and more, BUT all my students are eager to learn and communicate through books! Your donation to my incredibly diverse students will help their reading skills improve and help their English language grow. Thank you in advanced for your contribution! My Project: These books will complete our new literacy program this year! Not only will the books expose my students to various genres, they will also learn multiple comprehension and decoding strategies AND it will all be done while HAVING FUN! Help encourage a love of reading for my Kindergartners! I began this program to see how my students' reading can improve. Only a few weeks in, and I can already see a HUGE change in my readers. They are interested in the books and are EAGER to learn more! Completing the collection of this reading program will continue to inspire that love of reading in my young learners.
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Oak Creek, WI