Fox Tales

Website: https://www.cherrycreekschools.org/foxhollow
Location: 6363 South Waco Street, Aurora, CO, USA
Phone: 720-886-8700
Instagram: @foxhollowpto

Facebook: @foxhollowpto

Happy September everyone!

We have had the most amazing start to our school year! It has been so much fun seeing everyone back in the building and ready to learn. Also getting to meet new friends and welcome our PREK and Kindies into our Fox Family! Our hearts are very full!

We are preparing now for a busy and exciting month ahead. This month we will kick off our first fundraiser. This is the biggest fundraiser of the year! Almost all of the proceeds come right back to school to benefit your students! You will receive your information and flyers this week for RUN TO THE MAX! Our PTO organizes and sponsors our school fun run. It is such a fun day! Plan to come watch your kids run, or new this year... purchase a SHOUTOUT for your kids for their run time! Our staff creates so many fun experiences for the students that raise specific amounts and it really is such a fun time!

Lastly, thank you to everyone that has clicked the list for our teachers and shown them love for their classrooms. It is always so much fun to receive these items to create fun learning spaces! This year we did a STAFF LOVE link and weare loving having the special treats! SO THANK YOU ALL!!!!

Please scroll down for all of the announcements.

Have a great day!

Ashley Gray

9/10: Cold Stone with PTO night!

9/14: Red Bag Unification exercise @ end of school day. Email communication coming this weerk.

9/18: No students! Teacher Professional Development Day

9/21: GHS Spirit Bus at 11:30am

9/21-9/25: SPIRIT WEEK for RTTM

9/24: Run day!

9/28: Fire Drill am

National award recognizes leaders in whole child health policy and practice change

National children’s health organization Alliance for a Healthier Generation today unveiled its 2026 list of America’s Healthiest Schools, celebrating 1,376 K–12 schools nationwide for their commitment to advancing whole child health, including FOX HOLLOW Elementary!

Supported by Del Monte Foods, Kaiser Permanente, and Kohl’s Cares, Healthier Generation’s annual award program recognizes schools for implementing evidence-based policies and practices to support academic success and lifelong well-being. Schools are recognized in nine health-related topic areas. Fox Hollow was awarded in Cultivating Staff Well-Being.

About Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a leading national nonprofit dedicated to advancing equitable whole child health by creating healthier school environments. Since 2005, we’ve partnered with over 57,000 school communities across all 50 states, reaching more than 31.3 million young people. Learn more and join the movement at HealthierGeneration.org.

We know for safety purposes you like to stay connected with your students after school as plans change or checking in on them on their walks home. We understand that. Angel and Donna, in our front office, are amazing at communicating urgent message to our students. We do ask that during the school day, cell phones and smart watches stay in backpacks. Research shows that it takes adults approximately 23 minutes to recover from distraction. Time magazine recently wrote, "The average attention span for the notoriously ill-focused goldfish is nine seconds, but according to a new study from Microsoft Corp., people now generally lose concentration after eight seconds, highlighting the effects of an increasingly digitalized lifestyle on the brain.” You can imagine the possible distractions that crop up during the day when you have 25 students in the room.

***For those students that wear watches with internet capabilities or have cell phones, we ask students to put them in their backpack or leave them at home.***

Please know if your child is sick or needs to call home, Nurse Angie and Ms. LynAnne or another adult in the building will help your child do so. Thank you for supporting our teachers and helping maximize student learning potential. This is one distraction we can control to create a more productive learning environment.

Principal Gray

This month check in with your child about what they are learning about Empathy.

3rd grade: 8:30-9:30

1st grade: 9:30-10:30

4th grade: 10:30-11:30

5th grade: 11:30-12:30

Kindergarten: 12:30-1:30

2nd grade: 1:30-2:30

Fox Hollow Family! Welcome back to a new school year!

Things are already up and rolling in the music room. First, we have the return of Choir Club! If your 3rd-5th grade student wants to give this singing club a chance, please sign up using this link! We meet on Tuesday from 2:45-3:45 and have one planned performance this semester. The now-reduced cost is $30 which helps us buy music and includes a new t-shirt design.

Secondly, I’m introducing our 1st-5th grade students this month to two cross cultural musical experiences. The first is “Ache Kuwwa” an Urdu song from Pakistan. Ask your student what they remember about the story! The second is Emmanuel Kelly, a physically differently-abled musician from both Iraq and Australia.

Tyler Jones

The 2026–2027 school year is off to a great start! It has been such an amazing experience stepping into this role and getting to see our wonderful school from a different perspective. Thank you all for welcoming me—I am so excited to continue growing in this role and getting to know our students throughout the year!

With the daily rotation of the Special schedule, all of us Special Area teachers had the opportunity to meet every student in the building, which was a wonderful way to begin the year and build connections with our school community. In P.E., students were introduced to new warm-up and cool-down routines at the beginning and end of each class period, and we reviewed our three important P.E. expectations: Be Kind, Play Safe, and Work Hard! I am really looking forward to all of the exciting activities we will do in the gym this year. Students will have many opportunities to try different sports and games while developing new skills, practicing teamwork, and building confidence.

Our first rotation with 3rd–5th grade is focused on playground games! We have discussed how recess games are meant to be fun and should not be taken too seriously. Students were also reminded that if a game becomes too intense, they can take a step back or step out of the game, take a few deep breaths, and give themselves time to calm down before deciding whether they are ready to rejoin.

Our 1st and 2nd graders have been focusing on teamwork, cooperation, and playing fairly with one another. Through a variety of relay races, partner activities, and team-building games, students have been practicing how to communicate, work together, encourage one another, and be good teammates.

Our kindergarten students have been busy becoming familiar with all areas of the gym while developing body awareness, spatial awareness, and gross motor skills. They have been moving, exploring, practicing new movements, and playing a few fun games as they learn how to safely navigate and enjoy the gym.

I am so excited for the year ahead and all the fun, learning, and growth that will happen in the gym!

Field Day this year will be Friday, May 14th, 2027! This fun-filled day is a student favorite, and we LOVE to have lots of parent volunteers for it! There will be more information about this in 2027!

Thank you so much!

Brooke Cavey

ART CLUBS (Only 3-5th grade students this year)

Who and When: - Tuesday Group: September 15, 2026- December 8, 2026

OR. - Thursday Group: September 17, 2026- December 10

Please choose ONE session. There are separate sign up links for the specified day, Art Club Sign Up will be available on September 9th, 2026 at 7:00pm.

This is a first come first serve sign up, there will be twenty spaces in each club. Please see the directions below on how to sign up. The Art Club will take place on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 2:45pm-3:30pm. In the Art Room. The cost for the club is $20.00, the link for payment will be sent out prior to our first meeting.

We will explore a variety of Drawing and Painting Techniques. Come join us!!!

HOW DO I SIGN UP

Sign up for a log-in at Eventbrite.com. I recommend making sure you have a log-in set up prior to the registration date and time. On Wednesday Sept. 9th, at 7:00 pm registration will open on Eventbrite.

For Tuesday 3rd-5th grade sign -up:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuesday-fall-art-club-2026-3rd-5th-grade-tickets-1999053878965?aff=oddtdtcreator

For Thursday 3rd-5th grade sign-up:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thursday-fall-art-club-3rd-5th-grade-tickets-1999054587083?aff=oddtdtcreator

The page is live now, so you can bookmark it ahead of time. When registration opens at 7:00 pm, you will be able to click the registration button to sign-up. Eventbrite will send you a ticket to confirm your registration, but you do not need to print out or present your ticket to us.

Registration will close when 20 people have enrolled in each class. I will use the e-mail provided in your Eventbrite registration to send families an official registration form within 48 hours of registering. This form needs to be completed prior to our first meeting on the week of September 23, 2024.

If you have any questions please contact Mrs. Z at lzeman2@cherrycreekschools.org

Art To Remember COMING SOON!!!!

Our school is participating in a creative fundraiser with Art to Remember. Stay tuned for more details.

You can purchase keepsake products customized with your child's art. There are over 50 products to choose from and a percentage of every order goes right back to our school.

Thank you in advance for your continued support!

Ms. Z

Fox Families,

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the check in process at the front door.

Visitors and Volunteers:

• Sign in and scan ID at the tablet
• Pick up your printed name badge at Ms. Donna's window.
• When you leave you will scan your ID again to sign out. or click the QR code sent to you.
• If your child needs to be picked up, please click "sign out student" on tablet.

Please know we are here to help you. Please let us know if you need support or help. Thank you all!

We look forward to seeing you at school.

Our Before and After School Care program ("Discovery Club") runs before school between 6:30-8:00AM and after school between 2:45–6:00PM (1:45–6:00PM on Wednesdays). Please call 720-886-8761 for more information. https://www.cherrycreekschools.org/cms/lib/CO50000184/Centricity/Domain/25/Discovernew.pdf

If you are dropping your student(s) off in the drop-off lane, please pull all the way to the end of the lane, to make room for other cars, and prevent blocking the stoplight and street. Please stay in your car.

• Students will go to their grade level area (as marked on the map) and wait at their door until the door opens at 7:50 am.
• Teachers will be waiting for their students in the classroom.
• There will be an adult at the door to keep it open until 8am.

Grade levels doors will be open until 8:00 every day. If you arrive after 8:00, you will need to use the front door and check in with the office.

School dismissal is at 2:45 (1:45 every Wednesday)

• Car riders will be waiting in their designated area by grade near the parking lot. Please pull up as space comes open (and as far to the end of the lane) to keep the flow and not block the stoplight or road. Please stay in your car.
• Walkers will be dismissed to their grade level areas as designated by their teacher.
• Bus riders will be dismissed by their teacher to walk to their bus.
• Discovery Club will be dismissed by their teacher to proceed to the cafeteria for check in.

English:

Please contact Fox Hollow office for support with this resource in your language.

Amharic:

እነዝህን መረጃዎችን በተመለከተ በቋንቋዎ ዕገዛን ለማግኘት ከፈለጉ እባክዎን ተሊሌን በዝህ እሜይል ያግኙዋት thirpa@cherrycreekschools.org

Arabic:

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Chinese:

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Hindi:

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jrasaily@cherrycreekschools.org पर संपकथ करें।

Korean:

귀하의 언어로 이 자원에 대한 지원을 원하시면 (리아 리) 에게 (llee6@cherrycreekschools.org) 로 문의하십시오.

Nepali:

कृपया जेम्स रसाइथिीिाइथ jrasaily@cherrycreekschools.org मा तपाइथको भाषामा यो संसाधनको सहयोगको िागी सम्पकथ गननहथ ोिा।

Russian:

Пожалуйста, обращайтесь к Ларисе Бака по адресу: lbaca3@cherrycreekschools.org для получения поддержки с помощью этого ресурса на своём языке.

Somali:

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Spanish:

Si necesita ayuda con este recurso en su idioma, póngase en contacto con Ilse Chavez Maldonado en ichavezmaldonado@cherrycreekschools.org, Rosa Han en rhan4@cherrycreekschools.org, Helena Gognat en hgognat@cherrycreekschools.org o Monica Pantoja en mpantoja@cherrycreekschools.org

Vietnamese:

Vui lòng liên hệ với Thuý Ngọc tại Lchung2@cherrycreekschools.org để được hỗ trợ về tài nguyên này bằng tiếng Việt.