Cheetah Chat
November 2025
November is Family Engagement Month
Nov. 3 - NO SCHOOL (Parent/Teacher Conferences)
Nov. 4 - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
Nov. 6
- Picture Retake Day
- PTO Meeting (Zoom)
Nov. 7 - Veterans Day Celebration (1:30 reception; 2:15 assembly)
Wear red, white and blue!
Nov. 11 - NO SCHOOL (Veterans Day)
Nov. 12 - PTO Spirit Night at Red Robin (all day)
Nov. 15 - Robotics Competition at Osbourn Park High School
Nov. 19 - Strings Concert at 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.)
Nov. 21 - Lockdown Drill
Nov. 26 - 28 - NO SCHOOL (Thanksgiving Break)
Cheetah Café is Up and Running
Cheetah Café is a student-run program through which students with special needs prepare and deliver homemade treats and cold drinks to staff. Students participate in all aspects of Cheetah Café, gaining academic and social skills.
Donations allow us to use our profits to provide our students with real world experiences that will also help prepare them for the future. Our greatest needs at this time are cake mix, brownie mix, frosting, vegetable oil and butter sticks. Cheetah Café will gladly accept donations dropped off at the Cedar Point front office. Cheetah Café also has an Amazon Wishlist if you'd like to support this meaningful program!
Checkmate!
Congratulations to Everett Machovec (Mrs. Boyle's 5th grade class) who won first place at the Rippon Middle School Chess Tournament on Oct. 18!
Everett and fellow chess enthusiast Chathun Alishetty (Ms. Sheridan's 5th grade class) also earned Cedar Point Elementary a first place finish! Way to go, Everett and Chathun!
The Great Pumpkin!
Congratulations to Heidi Montgomery in Mrs. Baldwin's 4th grade class who won our Cafeteria's pumpkin weight guessing contest!
The pumpkin weighed 16 lbs. and Heidi came the closest with her guess of 15.5 lbs.! Way to go, Heidi!
In 1st grade, students practice their visual-spatial and problem-solving skills as they completed tangram puzzles. Each student completed a rabbit puzzle (with visible tangram shapes inside) and then moved on to any of the puzzles in the tangram booklet. Students who found success with several animal and object puzzles had the opportunity to move on to silhouette puzzles. Silhouette puzzles show the shape of the puzzle but not the individual tangrams inside. If your child would like to continue to solve tangram puzzles, a digital set of puzzles and tangrams can be found at: https://polypad.amplify.com/tangram
The 2nd grade students sharpened their visual-spatial skills as they learned to solve Q-Bitz puzzles (pictured). Q-Bitz puzzles are composed of 16 cubes that have a different pattern on each face. Students rotate the cubes and place them in the wooden game board to match the pattern on the selected card.
Our Cedar Point 3rd graders were introduced to the world of analogies. They practiced finding the relationship between the words, pictures, or numbers in order to solve verbal, visual-spatial, and number analogies. As part of the lesson, each homeroom class identified and practiced solving analogies with the following relationships: synonyms, antonyms, homophones, part/whole, user/object, and type/description.
Mrs. Brazier updates her Enrichment Padlet each week. All Cedar Point students can access the Padlet via a QR code in their homeroom classroom or from the following website address:
Flu season is still here. Stay healthy and keep illness at bay with these tips:
Stay Hydrated. Drinking enough water helps keep your body functioning at its best by boosting your energy, improving focus and supporting your immune system.
Wash Your Hands. Use soap and water for at least 20 seconds—especially before eating and after using the restroom.
Get Enough Sleep. Aim for 8 hours of sleep each night to keep your immune system strong and your mind sharp.
Eat Nutritious Foods. Eating a balanced diet helps you stay energized and healthy during all seasons!
PTO's annual Costume Dance Party was a smashing success in October! Thank you to our Cedar Point PTO for hosting such a fun event for our Champion Cheetahs and their families!
