THE EXPLORER

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Happy New Year CLA Families! 🎉

We hope that your last two weeks have provided quality family time and many days of celebration and joy. As a staff, we have truly missed our scholars and are excited to get back to our regular routines!

Prior to leaving for break, I cannot begin to explain the pride I felt during the Winter Program. Our Explorers (and some High School Navigators) did an absolutely fabulous job performing in front of their families and school community. This event was a joy to be part of and I am so blessed to serve CLA! A special thank you to Mr. Harrington, our CLA Staff, our K12 PTO, and the many families who donated their time and effort to ensure the event's success. This CLA tradition is one that I will look forward to for years to come!

Welcome back Explorers, and welcome to 2024!

Respectfully,

- Elizabeth

Week 1

• 1/1/24 No School- New Year's Day
• 1/2/24 School Resumes
  
• 1/4/24 CLA Career Chat #4
  
• 1/4/24 CLA College & Career Gear Day

Week 2

• 1/9/24 CLA CIP Meeting | 1385 Antelope Rd, White City

• 1/11/24 CLA Spirit Gear Day- Wear Green, Blue or CLA Gear

Week 3

• 1/15/24 No School- MLK Jr. Day
• 1/18/24 CLA Spirit Gear Day- Wear Green, Blue or CLA Gear

Week 4 Bon Jovi "Half Way There" Spirit Week (See flyer below)

• 1/22/24 Backwards/Inside Out Day
• 1/23/24 Red Carpet Day (Dress in your best outfit)
• 1/24/24 Crazy Hair or Adam Sandler Day
• 1/25/24 Rockstar Day (Dress like a Rock Star)
• 1/25/24 CLA K-12 PTO Meeting | K8 Campus
• 1/25/24 CLA Spirit Gear Day- Wear Green, Blue or CLA Gear
• 1/25/24 End of Semester 1
• 1/26/24 No School- Teacher Workday

Week 5

• 2/1/24 Welcome to February!

Explorers of the month are recognized during the monthly assembly. Teachers and staff select scholars who display the monthly character trait and surprise them during the assembly.

We are proud to celebrate our scholars and excited that peers get to celebrate each other in such a positive and encouraging way!

Skylar Harrington has been serving our CLA scholars for the past 3 years. Mr. Harrington spends the majority of his day at the our CLA High School Campus teaching Music, Science, and Physical Fitness. In the afternoon, he will come to engage with our K8 Campus with Music Instruction. Skylar is constantly looking to develop opportunities for scholars to engage with music and other activities to strengthen their skills. We appreciate the fact that Mr. Harrington is part of the CLA family and are excited to for this opportunity of recognizing him!

"CLA is a team that genuinely cares deeply for scholars and their families." - Mr. Harrington

In early February, CLA will host a Middle School Winter Formal. Middle School Staff and the Scholar Leadership Cohort are finalizing details and will be sharing information soon! This will be the first Middle School Dance of the school year and we are excited to provide this opportunity.

Each month CLA will focus on demonstrating a school-identified character trait. Scholars will be selected as "Explorer of the Month" based on these traits and be recognized for their accomplishments.

January character trait highlight is "Perseverance."

Please take time to discuss with your scholar:

• Definition: "Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success"
• Question: "How do you choose to demonstrate perseverance at CLA?"

Not only does CLA provide free breakfast and lunch for all scholars, but here is the January Meals Menu for your viewing!

If your scholar brings a lunch from home, but would still like the menu offering for the day, that is fine as well!

The link to the January Menu is also provided!

Registration for 4th-8th Graders will open January 18th through February 1st.

The Mount Ashland Registration Site will be available soon!

The CLA Guitar Orchestra will be offering acoustic guitar sessions with the goal of a performing in early Spring. By completing this interest form, scholars will be provided the Guitar Orchestra Application to complete. The Guitar Orchestra program was initially developed for 4th-8th graders as developmentally scholars are the typical size to be successful. With that, the exception for 3rd graders to join will be based on providing their own instrument (3/4 Acoustic recommended).

**NOTE: Scholars currently participating in the Guitar Orchestra do not need to complete this process.***

Session Details Include:

• Purpose: To potential performance in Early Spring
• Start Date: 1/9/22
• Time: 3:15-3:45
• Days of the Week: Tuesdays & Wednesdays

If you have a 3rd-8th grade scholar interested in Guitar Orchestra, please complete this interest form. It will be used to determine which scholars are requesting the Guitar Orchestra Application.

We wanted to let families know about the Spirit Weeks we hope to hold in the future. Each month we will still share flyers, but here are the days in advance in case some planning may need to take place!

We will let families know if anything changes!

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Order your K8 2024 Yearbook! Currently $30.00

There's nothing else like your school yearbook. Get your hands on the limited edition collection of our stories from the year. Share it with your friends today and hang on to it for years to come!

The protocol for picking up students early is as follows:

• Emergency Notifications- Please contact the office no later than 1:30pm to provide adequate time for the office to contact the classroom
  
• Please let your student know the after school plans or how they are being picked up early before they come to school to limit interruptions in the classroom throughout the day

With instruction being important, we are asking that families refrain from pulling scholars out of class early (prior to their release time) so they may interact with content as much as possible. Thank you so much for partnering with us to ensure our Explorers receive the most out of their learning time!!!

CLA will be focusing on providing experiences for our scholars by exposing them to different careers. We will have community speakers visit throughout the year and share the path they used to get to their career, whether it was through attending college/university, trade school, or through a different path our scholars will get to engage and ask questions!

With that, on the first Thursday of each month, our Explorers and staff will wear College/University gear (logo t-shirts, lanyards, hats, etc) or wear/dress in the Career they hope to be or would like to highlight. Example: if a scholar is hoping to be a firefighter in the future and they have an outfit, they are encouraged to wear it on this day!

Our hope is that we begin encouraging our Explorers think about their future!

For 6th, 7th or 8th Grade scholars interested in participating in Middle School Athletics through their resident school, please reach out to the front office to provide the information and items needed to play.

Every Student Graduates+

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