Craddock's Weekly Update

Happy Friday Craddock Families!

We are so excited to share the final results from our Cruisin' Craddock fundraiser! I put a graphic together and added it below for you to see some of the amazing highlights! With the incredible generosity of our Craddock families (extended and beyond) our school raised over $30, 731!!!!!!! We set an initial goal of $15,000 based on what we have made in previous years and we were completely blown away with our community helping us to more than double it! It truly is difficult to find the words to share our thanks with all of you. This money is going to allow us to do so many wonderful things for our students and our staff. They all deserve the world and this will allow us to bring them pieces and parts of it!

I have already begun meeting with reps from playground equipment companies, as well as pricing other items we plan to buy. I will feature all of our Cruisin' Craddock purchases in the Weekly Update throughout the year to keep you tightly tied to all we were able to do thanks to you!

Our first few exciting celebrations have begun! I have been trading chairs with some of our early registration winners! That has been a lot of fun! My knees and my back are killing me, but it's worth it to see them so excited to have my chair for a day! I included a few pictures below. In addition, I promised the kids a "Jump Party" if we hit our reach goal, so on Wednesday, 10/28 and Thursday, 10/29 I have rented multiple inflatables and our staff and students will have the chance to jump multiple times! It's going to be so much fun! A thank you lunch is also coming for our staff, as well as an assembly where the kids will get to turn me into an ice cream sundae! So much fun to come so stay tuned!

Please be reminded fall school pictures will take place on Wednesday, October 21st. All of the information you need for this is included in the Update. Don't hesitate to reach out with questions!

I hope you have an outstanding weekend! Fall temps seem to be on the way, along with some sunshine after this rainy Friday! Take care and please don't hesitate to reach out with questions, concerns or feedback! Go Guardians!

Sincerely,

Kim Stewart, Principal

Craddock Elementary School

330-562-3175 (office)

216-849-2552 (cell to call or text)

kmstewart@aurora-schools.org

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1st Grade Role Models

Siddharth Baliwada, Blake Papay, J.J. Dodson, Avery Buemi, Madison Smith, Holden Drahuschak, Anvii Jayakumar, Iris Bushway, Mark Sobonya and Izzy Kennedy

2nd Grade Role Models

Beckett Dellosa, Alaina Shively, Annie Streit, Libby Spisak, Nico Rothstein, Rowan Kim, Owen Ezzi, Luna Howell and Andrew Buleski

1st Grade Great Growers

Angelina Howell, Rowan Tomazic, Fletcher Davis, Alex Spansky-Kim, Harper Davis, Charlie Tomei, Max Day, Maddox Strecker, Sophia Stratton and George Liu

2nd Grade Great Growers

Dylan Simcox, Demi Hoover, Tommy Keckan, Reagan Kim, Hannah Leirer, Aryan Vakada, Mia Thornton, Dylan Wozniak and Journie Adams

Fall Festival

First Grade Volunteer Link:

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Fall Festival

Second Grade Volunteer Link:

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We are so excited to begin preparing for our annual celebration of Craddock's Veterans! We will be honoring and celebrating our Veterans on Wednesday, 11/11/26 at 9:30 a.m. at Craddock! Students who are connected to a Veteran are encouraged to invite them to attend. Please click the button below to RSVP for a Veteran connected to your child. Each Veteran may bring one guest. As we get closer to the event, more details will be shared on the celebration! For now, we just want to begin getting an idea of how many Veterans will be in attendance!

The excitement is mounting quickly at Craddock as we get closer and closer to our annual Costume Parade and Fall Festival. This year we will be holding that on Friday, October 30th. Our parade will begin at 2:00 and will be weather-dependent. If it is raining, we will not be hosting a parade for the community to spectate. We are crossing our fingers for sunshine and blue skies! Check out the map below for a general idea of the route our students will follow when parading!

Immediately following the parade will be our Fall Festival in each classroom. Parent volunteers will work with the teachers to organize activities for our students. If you are signed up to volunteer, please make sure to let Mrs. Kerchenski know if you plan to take your child home. We will need to have everyone cleared out in a reasonable time frame to ensure our regular dismissal goes smoothly. Your communication ahead of time helps us greatly! Thank you!

Finally, please review our costume reminders below for this fun day...

• Students are permitted to wear their costume to school all day, as long as it isn't a distraction to learning.
• Costumes should permit students to do all their normal activities, such as sit in a chair, play on the playground, etc.
• Masks cannot be worn throughout the day as part of a costume.
• Students may come in to school with costume makeup already applied, but will not be permitted to apply additional makeup throughout the day.
• Costumes should be in good taste. Please save costumes with gore and violence incorporated into them for home.
• Weapons (fake or real) are not permitted at school, even if they are a part of the costume, i.e. swords, knives. Please save those for home as well.

Finally, if you have any questions at all about your child's costume, don't hesitate to reach out!

We do our best to funnel all communication about our students' transportation and absences through our Google form connected below through the QR code and below through a link. This GREATLY reduces the craziness in the office having to address these calls and/or emails and it also helps us ensure no communication falls through the cracks. If we are receiving it from multiple places, it gets harder to track on busy days!

If you have any need to report your child absent, late or needing an early dismissal, just enter it into our form. If you need to change your child's transportation at any time, just enter it into our form. The responses go right to Mrs. Kerchenski in our main office. If she has any questions at all after reading your entry, she will always reach out!

THANK YOU in advance for helping us streamline our processes and most importantly, for doing all you can to ensure we know where your child is and how they are getting home safely each day!

Welcome Back Families!

I wanted to reiterate a few really important details pertaining to your child's health and wellness while here at school. If your child will require any medication to be administered during the school day, they must have a doctor's note on file. Please be reminded that medication cannot be sent in with students. An adult must drop off any needed medication to Craddock. We are open 8:00-4:00 Monday through Friday. Additionally, if your child has their well-visit or dental exam this summer, you can either upload the medical forms into Final Forms or bring it to school!

New doctors’ orders and new medication will be required for each school year. You can locate all medication forms on our website at: www.aurora-schools.org→departments→nursing services or download the forms from below!

A few additional reminders as we get the year up and running...

• It's super helpful for our students to have extra clothes here at school. Not necessarily for accidents, but for spills at lunch, tears or falls on the playground, etc.
• Please be reminded with the helpful graphic below of when students should remain home from school. Germs spread QUICKLY here and we don't want others at risk of getting sick. Thank you for your diligence with this!

If you have any questions or need anything at all, don't hesitate to contact me a kheyd@aurora-schools.org.

OCTOBER

• Wednesday, 10/21 - Fall School Picture Day
• Friday, 10/30 - Fall Costume Parade and Festival at 2:00 at Craddock

NOVEMBER

• Monday, 11/02-11/06 - Scholastic Book Fair
• Friday, 11/06 - Trimester 1 Ends
• Monday, 11/09 - Trimester 2 Begins
• Wednesday, 11/11 - Veteran's Day Assembly at 9:30 in the Gym
• Thursday, 11/12 - Night One of Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Friday, 11/13 - Trimester 1 Gather Reports LIVE
• Monday, 11/16 - The Giving Tree Begins (more details to come)
• Monday, 11/16 - Wednesday, 11/18 - Gifted Testing for 2nd Grade (CogAT)
• Thursday, 11/19 - Night Two of Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Tuesday, 11/24 - Trimester 1 Rally
• Wednesday, 11/25 - Friday, 11/27 - NO SCHOOL for Thanksgiving Break

DECEMBER

• Tuesday, 12/01 - Last Day to Submit Giving Tree Purchases
• Monday, 12/07 - Friday, 12/11 - Holiday Shop
• Friday, 12/18 - Winter Celebration at 2:15 p.m.
• Monday, 12/21 - Monday, 1/04 - NO SCHOOL for Winter Break

JANUARY

• Tuesday, 1/05 - School resumes from Winter Break
• Monday, 1/18 - NO SCHOOL for MLK Jr. Day

FEBRUARY

• Thursday, 2/04 - Streetsboro Dairy Queen Dine to Donate Event from 5:00-8:00 p.m.
• Thursday, 2/11 - Trimester 2 Ends
• Thursday, 2/11 - Valentine's Day Party at 2:15 p.m.
• Friday, 2/12 - NO SCHOOL PD Day for Staff
• Monday, 2/15 - NO SCHOOL for Presidents' Day
• Tuesday, 2/16 - Trimester 3 Begins
• Tuesday, 2/16 - Friday, 2/19 - Literati Book Fair
• Friday, 2/19 - Trimester 2 Gather Reports LIVE
• Tuesday, 2/23 - Spring Conferences Night One
• Thursday, 2/25 - Spring Conferences Night Two

MARCH

• Saturday, 3/06 - PTO Mother/Son Night Out at the Western Reserve Racquet Club (more to come)
• Monday, 3/08 - NO SCHOOL PD Day for Staff
• Monday, 3/22 - Monday, 3/29 - NO SCHOOL for Spring Break

APRIL

• Friday, 4/16 - NO SCHOOL Conference Compensatory Day
• Saturday, 4/17 - Princess Prom at AHS
• Thursday, 4/22 - Incoming 1st Grade Parent Orientation 6:00 p.m. in the Craddock Gym

MAY

• Monday, 5/03 - Friday, 5/07 - Staff Appreciation Week
• Wednesday, 5/12 - 2nd Grade Performance at AHS (performances at 6:00 and 7:15) More details to follow in winter!
• Friday, 5/21 - Field Day
• Thursday, 5/27 - Lunch on the Lawn for 2nd Grade
• Thursday, 5/27 - Last Day of School and Trimester 3

Hello Craddock Families!

I hope your student’s school year is off to an amazing start! It has been a joy getting to connect with everyone and I can genuinely say that this year has been phenomenal so far. The students have been working hard at learning and practicing our school wide expectations and acclimating to all the new routines of Craddock.

So far this year, I was able to visit every classroom to introduce myself to all of our new and returning students. I taught them about my role at Craddock and discussed some of the ways I can help them this year if they are to need it!

Soon, I will begin my PBIS expectation: re-teach groups. My first focus will be on the expectation, “I can have a safe body”. I ask teachers to refer any students who might need more explicit instruction in this area and then meet with them 1 to 2 times either individually or in a small group. If your student is referred I will email you and send communication home when I meet with them. In addition to re-teach groups I will be visiting all classrooms soon to teach about the zones of regulation. A framework that focuses on feelings and coping skills.

I continue to make myself present and available throughout the building and am getting to know all the students!

Below you will find a google form that allows you to share any important information about your child’s social/emotional needs or any information that would be helpful for me to know so that I can be as helpful as possible. On this form, there is an opportunity to inform me of any other needs your family may have such as clothing or school supply needs.

School Counseling Information Form

As always please reach out to me with any questions or concerns via email or phone and I am happy to help in any way that I can!

Take care,

Mrs. Claudia Schnur

330-562-3175 ext. 1135

cschnur@aurora-schools.org

You are the most important piece to ensuring these very important times of the day run smoothly! All of our procedures are in place to protect the safety of our students, staff and visitors. Thank you in advance for your efforts and patience!

ARRIVAL

• Drop off each morning can take place from 8:40-8:55 a.m. Students are not permitted to exit cars until 8:40. Thank you!
• Car riders need to be dropped off following the route detailed in the map below. It is a single file line formed down Hurd Rd. This is the same line used for pick up in the p.m.
• Students can only exit cars on the sidewalk side of the horseshoe. We ask that you please adjust car seats and/or child locks if needed. Parents stay in cars at all times.
• Staff will be outside daily to help students enter the building and navigate to their classroom.

DISMISSAL

• Car rider dismissal begins each day at 3:10, but will be 5-10 minutes earlier the first few weeks of school. Students will be called down as you arrive in our horseshoe. We do this electronically through a Google Doc that all of the staff are watching so they know when to dismiss each car rider.
• All car rider parents will be issued a tag for the backside of their passenger visor with their child's last name on it. These can be secured at Meet and Greet or throughout the school year.
• Parents remain in cars and students will be escorted to their car by a staff member.
• When everything is up and running after a few weeks, car rider dismissal usually takes approximately 15-20 minutes.

DAF Day was this past week!

A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is a charitable investment account that allows you to personally make a tax-deductible contribution, grow those assets tax-free, and recommend donations to your favorite charities over time.

The Leighton Amphitheater Outdoor Classroom is just one example of what community generosity can make possible for Aurora students.

Have a DAF? Consider recommending a grant to the Aurora Schools Foundation and help fund more innovative and imaginative student opportunities.

Learn more about donating to ASF at

https://auroraschoolsfoundation.org/donate/

Email: kmstewart@aurora-schools.org
Website: www.aurora-schools.org
Location: 105 Hurd Road, Aurora, OH, USA
Phone: 330-562-3175
Twitter: @CraddockSchool