Cheetah Chat
February 2025 Issue
See our complete school calendar on our website.
* National School Counseling Week is Feb. 3 - 7
* Kindness Week is Feb. 10 - 14
Feb. 4 - Strings Field Trip & Orchestra Pyramid Concert @ 6 p.m. (Patriot High School)
Feb. 6 - PTO meeting @ 7 p.m. (Zoom)
Feb. 7 - Donations due for Backpack Buddies
Feb. 11 - PTO Spirit Night at Chipotle Bristow (4 - 8 p.m.)
Feb. 12 - 100th Day of School!
Feb. 17 - Schools Closed (Presidents' Day holiday)
Feb. 22 - All County Chorus @ 3:30 p.m. (Colgan High School)
Feb. 25 - Boosterthon kick-off
Cedar Point is collecting items to support local foster children through the Department of Social Services. Our student Crew groups will be putting together backpacks for foster children, filled with personal care and comfort items. We have received a generous donation of backpacks and are in need of donated items to fill our backpacks with love.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0845ABAC2EA6F9C70-54117019-cedar#/
We would greatly appreciate your donations and help in making this happen! If you are able to help, please drop off donated items in the Cedar Point front office on or before Friday, Feb. 7.
Thank you for your support of our Cedar Point Backpack Buddies!
Our Gifted Education and Talent Development Teacher, Mrs. Brazier, hosts gifted push-in lessons with kindergarten, first grade and second grade classes.
This month, kindergarten students read "Imogene’s Antlers" by David Small. In the story, Imogene wakes up to find that she’s grown a huge pair of antlers in her sleep. The story shows how the antler’s impact Imogene’s life in both positive and negative ways. After reading the story, each student selected an animal part (elephant ears, giraffe’s long neck, etc.) and illustrated and/or wrote about how this new animal part would impact his/her life.
First grade students have begun to explore tangrams. After learning about the legend of how tangrams were first created, students worked independently to solve tangram puzzles with shape outlines as well as silhouette puzzles. You can access a digital set of tangram puzzles at: https://polypad.amplify.com/tangram
In second grade, students learned the visual-spatial card game Swish! In this game, students flip, rotate and slide transparent cards to match up colored balls and hoops. Students can create two, three and four-card Swish! sets.
Kindergarten
WE'VE MOVED! On Jan. 30, our kindergarten classes relocated to transition classrooms in the building while our regular classrooms undergo renovation. Students put on their (paper) hard hats and got to work, moving their supplies to their temporary classrooms down the hall with the help of parent and 5th grade student volunteers (thank you!). We look forward to seeing our newly-refreshed classrooms again in March!
4th Grade
As part of our Living Systems and processes unit, fourth graders got to dissect a flower to find the petal, sepal, stamen, stigma and pistil during a Science experiment activity.
The students also participated in a Mystery Science activity called, "Why do plants grow flowers?" where they got to create their own bees and flowers. Then, they used coffee grounds and cinnamon with the science partner to simulate how flowers are pollinated. They learned that butterflies, hummingbirds, birds, and even bats are pollinators local to Virginia.
In VA History, the students got to learn about the role of VA in New American Nation including the importance of the Declaration of Rights and the significance of George Mason, James Madison and George Washington.
In Math, students learned all about decimal number sense and computation. They got to learn how to correctly read, write, represent and identify decimals expressed through the thousandths. They also learned how to compare, order and add/subtract within word problems.
5th Grade
Last week, each of our 5th grade classes had the opportunity to visit our Tech Lab for a day-long field trip. Students spent the entire day immersed in the world of electrical, software and mechanical engineering.
With the help our Tech Lab teachers, Mrs. Solomon and Mrs. Brafford, and parent volunteers, students worked with Block code and investigated electromagnets and static electricity; experimented with circuitry, LEDs and actuators; worked with C++ code and then collaboratively built a prototype to solve a problem apply movement using actuators and C++ code.
Thank you to our parent volunteers who came and helped out and to the Cedar Point PTO for providing pizza lunches for each class!
Special Education
Our Speech core vocabulary words for the month of February are "up" and "down." We are also very excited that Cheetah Café is back up and running from winter break, sharing tasty treats with staff throughout the school!
"Kindness is the universal language that can be spoken by everyone."
PTO MEETING FEBRUARY 6
Our next PTO meeting will be via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. We have some exciting events and updates to share and always welcome your feedback and opinions. The Zoom link will be shared via email and on Facebook closer to the event date.
PTO Spirit Night - Chipotle - FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Let someone else do the cooking for you! Join us for a Spirit Night Fundraiser at Chipotle in Bristow Center on Tuesday, Feb. 11 from 4 - 8 p.m. A percentage of the orders will go back to our school community. Please SHOW YOUR FLYER when checking out in person or use code "H8D4CDV" when ordering online.
Calling all 3rd and 4th grade musical enthusiasts!
Sing. Dance. Act. Our *NEW* after-school Broadway Club (for 3rd and 4th grade students only) will cover different musicals and principals of singing and choreography. This club is great for students who may not want to be on the big stage, but who still want to grow and explore their passion. Skills covered will be singing, dancing and acting through the choreography. This program is $60/student and will run for 6 weeks on Thursdays, starting March 13, 2025 (no class on April 3). Broadway Club is limited to the first 15 students who register and complete payment. Sign up here: Broadway Club – Cedar Point PTO