Cowlishaw News

4/26/2024

Battle of the BlueStem Winners!

HUGE congratulations to our 5th grade team, A GLimPSe of Books, who represented Cowlishaw at the district-wide Battle of the Bluestem Wednesday evening at Builta Elementary School! They placed 1st amongst 17 teams. We are INCREDIBLY proud of their teamwork, effort, perseverance, and enthusiasm. Amazing job, koalas!

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Asian Culture Association

A great big thank you to Asian Culture Association (ACA) for the generous donation of books to our school library in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month!

CAMP INVENTION

Indian Prairie is excited to partner with the National Inventor's Hall of Fame to offer Camp Invention and Invention Project, award-winning national programs for K-8 students. These fun, hands-on two (2) week STEM experiences will engage K-5 students in activities including: Let's Glow and Operation HydroDrop and grades 6-8 students with E-Birds and Road Ralley. Camp Invention has taken place for more than 30 years and will be offered in more than 1,000 schools across the country this summer.

STEM Camp will be taught by Indian Prairie certified teachers. Camp hours are 8:30 - 11:30 am and will be held at Granger Middle School, 2721 Stonebridge Blvd, Aurora. The cost is $175 per student for these two (2) week camps. Indian Prairie is pleased to offer the registration fee for $95 less than the national average for Camp Invention!

Grades K-2 Camp

Week 1: June 4-6 and Week 2: June 10-13 (no camp on June 3rd)

Grades 3-5 Camp

Week 1: June 17-20 and Week 2: June 24-27 (no camp on June 19th)

Grades 6-8 (same weeks as grades 3-5)

Week 1: June 17-20 and Week 2: June 24-27 (no camp on June 19th)

Attached is the STEM Camp Flyer. Please see below for video links about the STEM Camp activities:

Let's Glow: https://youtu.be/TKo2dwDPcoI

Operation HydroDrop: https://youtu.be/yDG6bHoQZDE

Invention Project: https://youtu.be/nfFSjJYMjqg?si=JSToT2X6DehG_1-O

To register, please login to the PushCoin webstore at: https://store.ipsd.org and click on the 2024 Summer STEM Camp drop-down.

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Cowlishaw LMC Updates!

Are you looking for a fun way to honor your child’s birthday? Donate a book to the Cowlishaw library! Submit the information at any time during the school year and we will invite your child to choose a book from the Birthday Book Club cart during the month of their birthday (or half-birthday)!

Birthday Book Club Information

Register at the PushCoin Webstore

INTRODUCING AN ALL NEW FAMILY-FRIENDLY SUMMER EVENT FROM ANDERSON’S BOOKSHOPS!

You asked us to make the authors we bring in for educator conferences available for kids and we heard you!

Announcing kidLITapalooza! A mini-book festival for kids in grades 1 - 8

featuring over FIFTY authors!

A kidLITapalooza ticket includes:

Access to the opening ceremony
Keynote speech by Loren Long
Participation in workshops run by the authors/illustrators
Lots of time to shop the onsite bookshop
Book signing session with all 50+ authors!

Tickets are $10 per kid and $5 per accompanying adult!

To see the list of all attending authors and to register, click here.

**Kidlitapalooza is an afternoon of fun for children and a supervising grown up. It is not a drop off event. Everyone, regardless of age, will need their own ticket to be admitted. Hurry - space is limited and we expect this event to sell out!**

PTA UPDATES

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK

May 6th - May 10th is teacher appreciation week! We are asking for food and/or monetary donations. Please check out our Sign-Up Genius for a list of needed items.

Please deliver donations on May 3rd (Friday) from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm.

Donation Sign-Up Link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094EA9AB2CA3FBC34-teacher1#/