Join Us for Cherry Creek Reads 2025: “Read Together, Celebrate Together”
Cherry Creek School District is excited to celebrate the joy of reading with Cherry Creek Reads 2025, happening from March 10-14, 2025. This year’s theme, “Read Together, Celebrate Together”, invites students, staff, and families to come together to celebrate the power of books and the joy of reading.
The featured book for 2025 is A Face is a Poem by Julie Morstad, a beautiful children’s picture book that explores the uniqueness of every face. Through playful and imaginative language, the book encourages readers to observe the details that make each face special—such as freckles, scars, or the shape of eyebrows—and consider how these features tell a story about a person’s identity. The book also sparks curiosity by asking fun questions like, “What if faces could change?” or “What if eyelashes were like butterfly wings?” Most importantly, A Face is a Poem promotes a positive message of acceptance, celebrating the beauty in every face, no matter the differences.
During Cherry Creek Reads 2025, we encourage all students, staff, and families to read for 68 minutes or more throughout the week. This represents one minute for every Cherry Creek school and symbolizes our district’s commitment to coming together to build a strong reading community. Whether you read alone, with a friend, or as part of a group, the goal is to inspire each other and share in the joy of reading!
At our school, we will:
● Encourage every staff member and student to read for 68 minutes from March 10-14.
● Create Currently Reading signs and display them outside classrooms to share the books we’re enjoying.
● Read and discuss A Face is a Poem by Julie Morstad, exploring the details of faces and the positive message it sends about appreciating and celebrating our differences.
Thank you to the CCSD Library Leadership Team for organizing this event, and to Cherry Creek Education Association (CCEA) for donating a book to each school library. Let’s come together to read, celebrate, and create a culture of acceptance and inclusion in our community!
100% Homestead Thank You
Thank you so much to everyone who was able to contribute to the 100% Homestead fundraiser. The Tee It Up auction event was a great kick off to the fundraiser and we are grateful to those who donated to the class baskets and/or were able to attend! Between the auction event and your generous donations, we raised $20,912!!! Your support allows the PTCO to continue funding programs, subscriptions, and events that benefit ALL Homestead students.
The family who will receive a parking pass for the 2025-2026 school year is: The Snower Family
We are so appreciative of our amazing community and thrilled for our students to continue receiving more resources, more opportunities, and an even better learning environment at Homestead. GO HAWKS!
Inside Out
The Inside Out summer enrichment program, sponsored by the Office of Neurodiverse Student Services, offers students a learning environment that fosters critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and effective communication skills. Inside Out offers classes with options for half-day or full-day for one or two weeks during June 2025. Registration opens March 24th and closes April 21st. For more information – please click the link below:
https://cherrycreek.revtrak.net/other-programs/rw-ccsd-inside-out-summer/
Inside Out is open to all CCSD students attending grades 1st-8th in the fall of 2025
Homestead Elementary School
Location: 7451 South Homestead Parkway, Centennial, CO, USA
Phone: (720) 554-3700