Claremore Public Schools

The critique boards are just a big color hug!! Mrs. Williams is "SOOOOO excited about her Art II class! They are incredibly hard workers and bursting with creativity and personality!" Materials used for the project: book paper, watercolor, sharpie, spray paint, block out shapes, and gold paint pen! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

What is your word for 2022? Mrs. Castle's 3rd-grade class at Catalayah picked a word they want to live by for 2022!!! They chose a word and explained why they decided on it and even told us how they could achieve it!! Mrs. Castle plans to check in with them in a month and see how they are doing with their words. What a great life lesson on living with purpose and goal setting for our students. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

It's another Distance Learning day; teachers will log on and engage students, thanks to the #CPSZEBRABOND2019 1:1 technology that has been distributed district-wide to all our students. Teachers will be logging on from their homes today and will be available during school hours. It's not the optimum teaching/learning situation, but we are glad to be teaching/learning while keeping our staff and students safe. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

100 days just flew by! 100 days and we had a ball! 100 days brighter! 100 days smarter! ICYMI - Head over to our Facebook and check out our 100 Days of School photo album from all our sites. If we missed a photo you'd like to add just send it to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Kindergarten students play with play dough as a part of their center rotations. Play dough is so good for our younger students as it aids in creativity and builds on small motor skills! As a BONUS, it makes learning fun! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Ain't No Party Like A CPSF Party!!! The 2022 Gatsby Brainiac Brawl wouldn't have been a huge success without the hard work of the CPSF Board of Trustees. We are so thankful for this group of volunteers that share their talents and treasures to fulfill the mission of enriching the quality of education in the Claremore Public Schools. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

The first snow of the season and we want to know... ⛄ Build a snowman? ❆ Have a snowball fight? 🛷 Sled at the Will Rogers Memorial? 📕 Read a good book? 🍪 Bake cookies? We want to see what you've been up to today! Post a pic in the comments on our District FB page ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ClaremorePublicSchools ! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼 = 6 little Zebras for the 21-22 school year! Congratulations to Mrs. Bonnie Wiley on the birth of her baby girl, Bella Lynn! She was born on Jan. 26th, weighing 8lbs 9oz and measuring 21". Mrs. Wiley is an English teacher at WRJH and a shoutout to her proud Auntie, Ms. Elizabeth Wickham, a CHS teacher. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

We might have some future architects in Pre-K! Students enjoy the opportunity to work on all kinds of skills during center time - including the skill of building! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

🚀 Roosa students created space themed art in honor of Stuart Roosa Day, January 31. First through fifth graders used crayons, oil pastels and watercolors to implement a wax resist with their art. Kindergarten used Jackson Pollock style splatter painting for the background of their space shuttles and finished up by using their fine motor skills to cut out stars and their space shuttle before they attached it to their painted paper. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

What was your dream in elementary school? It looks like the first female president will be from Catalayah!! We also have a rapper, NFL or NBA player, and several students may have a career in social work or humanitarian aid. Mrs. Desy's 2nd-grade class created this "I Have A Dream" project after their lesson about Martin Luther King Jr. and the dream he had for his kids. Students then shared their dreams for the future. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Mrs. Faught's 2nd grade class at Catalayah completed a mini-unit on Friendship. They read books about friendships and how to be a good friend! They tied it into their language arts lesson on adjectives by brainstorming words to describe "friend"! The students also used adjectives to "sprinkle" in the classroom's cupcake art and writing activity! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Our students have a blast at outside recess when the weather allows, and they come up with all kinds of fun and entertaining games together while outside! Here, they created their own Conga Line! #CPSZEBRAPRID

🤼 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥? 🤼 So many friendships begin in Pre-K and Claremore Public Schools are blessed to be able to be a part of that story! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

What is fact and what is opinion? The 2nd graders got their research books out and determined the difference between Fact and Opinion, and that is a Fact! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Ethan Grimett selected as All-State Defensive Lineman. “I'm so proud of Ethan. Ethan played linebacker for years, but he was willing to switch to the defensive line his senior year because that is where his team needed him. His unselfish attitude paid off in a big way. I look forward to coaching Ethan one last time this summer in the All-State game.” - Coach Hurt The All-State game East vs West will be Jul 29, 2022. Of course, we all know moms are their kids’ biggest fan, and in this family that is definitely true. “This was his first year in the position and to get picked for All-State speaks volumes of his work ethic. Our family is so proud of you Big E! A huge thanks to the coaches who have poured into him over the years. He’s had an amazing career as a Zebra and gets to suit up one more time as an All-Stater!” - Michelle Eaton UPDATE - Ethan has committed to play for the Falcons at Friends University in Wichita, KS. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Mrs. Douthitt's class practices writing their sight words in "snow" (shaving cream, but they are great at pretending.) #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Ruby Quinn at Robson Performing Arts Center was awarded a 2021 Fall Grant for "Embroidery Machine for Costume Shop"! "We are so thankful for the Claremore Public School Foundation and all they do for the students. We appreciate this grant for a sewing/embroidery machine to replace our costume shop's old and broken one. We have the CPSF to thank for all the wonderful tools/machines/equipment they have provided to keep the Robson PAC at its best technically and artistically. Thank you will never be enough."-Ruby Quinn, Robson PAC Twelve grant applications totaling more than $31,000 were received and considered during this grant cycle. To find out more visit the CPSF website: https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Chelsea Mize is the newest member of our CPS Board of Education (BOE). Mize began her service to her alma mater in 2021. Chelsea, born and raised a Zebra, graduated from CHS in 2003. She is the third generation to graduate from CHS, preceded by her father and grandfather; she looks forward to her children being the fourth generation of Zebras. She continued her post-secondary education at NSU, earning a degree in Early Childhood Education from NSU. Mize is the owner of The Cranberry Merchant and Cranberry Estate Sales. Her volunteer efforts have been with the Green Country Chrysalis Board of Directors and currently on the Claremore Main Street Board. She is married to Matt Mize and has two children: Titus and Rosie, both part of this dazzle of Zebras. When asked to reflect on a teacher that made a difference in her life, Mize has a unique story she shared, “ I can remember all of my teachers, and each one left a positive impact on my life and many of them I get to enjoy friendships with still today. (Okay, now that I've sat here and thought about each teacher, some of which are now gone, I'm now teary.) Thinking back over each teacher, I can remember some of the curricula they taught, but their most significant impact on me was the lessons of self-worth. They showed me love, grace, compassion, tough love, steadiness, self-worth, hard work, and a love for learning. Their impact has sculpted me into to person I am today. Being the daughter of a teacher and the stepdaughter of a high school coach, it didn't matter which teacher's classroom I was in; if the teacher was in the school building, they were my teacher! Those teachers and coaches were the village that raised me. I laughed, cried, embarrassed myself, was fed by them, driven home, and got a LOT of life coaching along the way. The Zebra family was MY family. (Okay - I'm teary again!).”

CPS students are 100 days smarter. Today across the district student celebrated their own way. Claremont kindergarteners strutted down the red carpet to show off their 100-day shirts. ▶ https://youtu.be/dIXydSpAg6o #CPSZEBRAPRIDE