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16-20MAR | NO SCHOOL - Spring Break

25MAR | CEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS DAY - wear green

26MAR-4APR | CHAP WISH WEEK

28MAR | DCSD APPLE AWARDS @ 7:00-10:30pm

30MAR | TIER 2 HEARING SCREENING

14APR | PSP MEETING - LMC @ 5:30pm

14APR | SAC MEETING - LMC @ 6:30pm

17APR | ALL SCHOOL DANCE @ 5:30-7:30pm

24APR | NO SCHOOL - teachers only day

27APR | NO SCHOOL

28APR | SPRING CHOIR CONCERTS

8MAY | HAXATHLON

15MAY | CHAPARRAL SENIOR CLAPOUT @ CTE - 2:45-315pm

25MAY | NO SCHOOL - happy Memorial Day
26MAY | KINDIE FIELD DAY

28MAY | 1ST GRADE MARKET DAY @ 12-1:00pm
29MAY | LAST DAY FOR STUDENTS @ 9-10:30am

YEARBOOKS

Have you purchased your CTE Yearbook?
THE DEADLINE TO PURCHASE IS TOMORROW!
Purchases can be made via MySchoolBucks. Get your order in by March 13th!

CTE ONLINE AUCTION
Sponsored by PSP to support Wish Week - opens 23MAR26.
Look for the link to be sent out via email by the end of Spring Break!

WHAT IS WISH WEEK?

The "BEST WEEK OF THE YEAR" IS COMING! Wish Week is an annual fundraising event held by Chaparral High School and its feeder schools in support of Make-A-Wish Colorado, granting wishes for children with critical illnesses.
We will post all event updates here!
WISH WEEK WEBSITE

WISH WEEK INSTAGRAM

CTE WISH WEEK ACTIVITIES

23-27MAR - Online CTE Auction - bid on (see flyer in PSP section above)

• Breakfast with your Teacher
• Principal for a Day
• Reserved Parking Spot
• more!

26MAR - Wish Week kickoff assembly

30MAR-3APR - Themed Wish Week sales (t-shirts, bracelets, and more!)
6/13/26MAR - FRIDAY HAT DAY - Want to wear a hat on Fridays? 3/6 3/13, 3/26 - Bring $1 each of the Fridays in March to join hat day!

FEEDER ACTIVITIES
4APR - Registration is open for the Wish Week 5k on Saturday, April 4th. Sign up to run, walk, and have some fun!!!! Please pass along to your feeder families! We have a goal to really increase participation for this event!!! REGISTER

BEFORE / AFTER SCHOOL CARE
LINK for registration

FROM DISTRICT IT

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At Cherokee Trail we focus on six traits, teaching and fostering them in our classrooms and school-wide in order to create learners who are strong academically and socially.
They are:

ENTHUSIASM * PERSEVERANCE * INTEGRITY * COURAGE * EMPATHY * RESPECT

Read more on the EPICER page!

In MARCH we will be focusing on the EPICER trait of COURAGE:

5TH GRADE

6TH GRADE

COUNSELING

SPECIALS

GIFTED & TALENTED - new!

ACCESS FLYERS IN PEACHJAR

We have finally made it to Spring Break. I think I say this too much, but it feels like the year has just flown by. Maybe it is because we basically skipped all of winter, but still. Here at school, we are prepping for April, which is basically testing month. We start off with our state mandated testing or CMAS and then nearly right after that, we move into our District mandated testing or iReady. It is a long month and fairly stressful for our students. They will be prepped and ready but it is still a lot of testing all at once.

On the home front, my one and only is coming home for the second half of this week. It will be a great chance for me to light some money on fire and see what she has been up to. It has actually been a minute since we have had a chance to hang out. For her actual Spring break, she is going to her Uncle's (on her Mom's side) wedding in Costa Rica. I am sure she is going to have a good time and I wish I knew someone getting married in Costa Rica. Have you ever noticed that you never get invites to weddings in Mongolia? Speaking of not that, my sister and her husband are going to Mongolia a little later in the Spring. Why are they going to Mongolia, you ask? I have no earthly idea. I don't even know what the attraction might be that would cause someone to say, "Hmm, you know, where would be an awesome place to go? Mongolia". What I do know, is that when they get back, I will have to sit through at least an hour (if not more) of pictures of their trip - not counting the 45 minutes it is going to take for my parents and sister to figure out how to project the slides.

Besides my sister taking a trip to faraway ... My parents are also going to Costa Rica. Yes, these are the same parents who said about five vacations ago that they are not going on vacations anymore. Apparently, they are going to be staying in a cabin that is located in the canopy of the jungle. Yes, a literal treehouse and yes, these are my 81 year old parents who think it is a really good idea to take not one, but three connecting flights as well as a small plane ride. And to top it all off, they are taking a jeep out to this jungle treehouse. How are they getting up to said treehouse? I have no clue as they don't have any stairs in their own house, but they are thinking they are just going to walk up to the top of the jungle canopy? By the way, in case you are not familiar with a jungle canopy, that is where a lot of the wildlife of Costa Rica lives. I would not be surprised if my parents woke up to multiple monkeys just hanging out in their treehouse living room. On top of that, apparently, the entire resort is located up in the trees. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I don't get the emergency phone call that "my parents fell out of a tree" ... because you know that call is coming to ME since I am pretty confident there aren't any phones in Mongolia.

That is it for this week's episode, stay tuned for after Spring break when the Principal Chronicles continue ...

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