Claremore FFA President Chason Sisvosky is currently experiencing one of the best leadership opportunities an FFA member can experience, the Washington Leadership Conference (WLC). Chason and many other FFA members from across the state will spend a week in Washington DC honing their leadership skills, interacting with other FFA members from across the nation, participating in community service projects, meeting with members of Congress, and seeing the sights of our Nation's Capitol. It's truly an experience of a lifetime. 🌽💙
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
One of many Claremore Public School's flourishing programs is the Art Program at the High School. Each week we will be featuring an artist from CHS to showcase the talent we have here at CPS!
This is Adele Wilson, a National award-winning artist and Senior at CHS. We met with her to gain insight into the inspiration behind her pieces.
🎨 What was the artistic journey that brought you into art?
"Seeing pieces from other artists was what first inspired me to start creating art. When I took Art 1 in ninth grade, I was in awe at the pieces hung up in Mrs. Hoffer’s classroom, which gave me the spark to improve my skills. "
🎨 When did you first discover your interest in art?
"I first discovered my interest in art when I was in the seventh grade. It started with simple doodles on assignments, which soon turned into a passion. I took an art class in my eighth-grade year, which solidified my love for art and caused me to continue taking art classes in high school."
🎨 What have you learned about yourself through this experience/art?
"Through my art journey, I have learned that I tend to get caught up in the small details rather than the piece as a whole. I struggle with perfectionism which causes me to easily get frustrated with my work. However, my amazing art teachers and friends give me the encouragement I need to persevere."
🎨 How did it feel getting to see people admire your work/talent?
"Seeing the reactions of people viewing my art made me really happy, and it gave me more motivation to continue making art."
🎨 What was the inspiration behind your pieces? (In order of artwork attached)
Her favorite piece, “Not for Sale,” was inspired by the holiday Juneteenth and what it stands for in the history and culture of African Americans.
“Embroidered Cultural Roots” is another piece that she likes. The embroidered headwrap on the lady’s head signifies the intricacy and beauty of African culture.
“From Dust” was inspired by her art teacher Mrs. Hoffer. Who showed different reference photos to choose from for a project, and the movement she felt from seeing the hands on the pottery wheel inspired her to create this piece.
The final piece is a self-portrait.
Congratulations to Jenny Gaylord on receiving a Claremore Public Schools Foundation Spring Grant! This grant will allow them to not only march to the beat of their own drum but play one as well!🥁🦓❤
"I cannot thank you enough for awarding me this grant for steel drums for my elementary students. I fully believe this will be a blessing not only for my music room but for the community of Claremore. I cannot wait to get our steel band started! "
-Jenny Gaylord, Music Teacher, Westside Elementary School - Claremore Public Schools
If you are interested in supporting grants like this one, reach out to Shanna O'Shields at Foundation@claremore.k12.ok.us!
#CPSF #GrantPatrol #TeacherGrants #ExcellenceinEducation #CPSZEBRAPRIDE
To kick this week off, #ZebraTravelDiaries is taking us to Michigan! Breanna Yates at the Michigan state line while visiting family in Muskegon, MI. 🌊🤍
If you are on state lines, wear your Zebra Gear, and look just fine! Send in your #CPSZEBRAPRIDE photos to Jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us!
🥅Soccer camp starts June 19th...
CPS has compiled a webpage for summer camps and resources. We will add them to the list as they are made available.
🎨Art 🏀Basketball ⚾Baseball 🏈Football 🏐Volleyball 👨👨👧👧Zebra Stripes 🏅RSU Sports Camps 🍔Free Summer Meals ➕ the City of Claremore Summer Guide AND MORE...
Go to > https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/page/camps
Going to a camp? Remember to wear your #CPSZEBRAPRIDE!
Share with us a photo of the father figure in your life.
Happy Father's Day to all our "DADS." To our birth dads, adoptive dads, step-dads, and bonus dads. To our work dads, cheer/dance dads, coach dads, tech dads, PTO dads, homeroom dads, teacher dads, and school dads, we appreciate you!
Happy Fathers to whoever makes up your village; all of them play an essential role in nurturing, raising, and supporting the children in our community. We appreciate your commitment to the welfare and personal growth of your children - our students.
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
Future Friday🏫🎓
＄2 , 5 7 8 , 4 8 0 That is the amount of scholarships the Class of 2023 reported receiving this year.
Rotary Club of Claremore has continually poured into our community and its future leaders. Their annual scholarship is proof of their commitment to broadening the opportunities for our graduates and their post-secondary education.
Six CPS seniors received $750 each from the Claremore Rotary, totaling a $4,500 investment.
Here are the recipients:
Jenna Smalygo, Bryar Robinson, Jonah Smoot, Reese Newman (Not Pictured), Grant Evans, and Hailey Pickup.
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
Our Zebras are earning their stripes this summer and putting in the work a Zebra Summer Pride! We had 130 9th-12th graders at 7:00 AM and 60 7th-8th graders at 9:00 AM, the biggest turnout yet! This just fuels the excitement and skillsets we will see this fall on Lantow Field! 🦓🏈❤
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
Today's #ZebraTravelDiaries is all the way from Ontario, Canada! Coach Short is fishing on Rainy Lake, and it clearly has been a "reel" successful trip!🎣🍁
No matter where you go, just show off your ZEBRA LOGO, and send it to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us!
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
It's Thursday, you know what that means... THIS OR THAT! Are you curling up with a couple of good books or watching your favorite movies this summer?📚📽🦓
▶Let us know if the comments!
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE #ThisorThatThursday
Our farthest entry of #ZebraTravelDiaries so far is from our very own Director of Communications, Jamie Brace! She took her #CPSZEBRAPRIDE to Jamaica, where she and her sisters celebrated their mother's 80th birthday. 🏖💛☀✈
You don't have to be going far; you just have to wear your #CPSZEBRAPRIDE and show where you are, and email photos to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us. 📸
Why Wednesday ❓♥
We are starting a new series called "Why Wednesday" featuring our amazing teachers here at Claremore Public Schools and WHY they are passionate about teaching!
LaShell Page is one of our 1st-grade teachers at Roosa Elementary. She has taught for 12 years, with the last 7 of those here at CPS. After shadowing a 1st-grade class in high school, she FELL IN LOVE! She instantly knew teaching was her destiny.
❤WHY STATEMENT:
"What career has the ability to touch so many people’s lives like ours? In my 12-year career, I’ve been blessed to have had over 300 sweet faces in my classroom! They have all changed my life more than I ever could have imagined. They will always have a place in my heart! I can’t imagine myself doing anything else. This is my passion, my blessing, and my calling. My goal in the classroom is to nurture my students through rigorous activities with love, kindness, and compassion!"
Why CPS: "CPS is a family! We are never alone. There will always be a team of coworkers to lift you up! “Together, we are Better!”
"I couldn’t have gotten to this point in my career without the support of so many amazing educators! All of them have poured so much love, time, and energy into me. I’ve been blessed to have the best teammates who have allowed me to borrow and adopt their great methods!"
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE #WHYWEDNESDAY
Today's #ZebraTravelDiaries features a little dazzle, Tristan -WRJH (8th), Kasen (4th), Chance (3rd), and Ryland Peters(kindergarten)- WESTIES! Their family is in Corpus Christi on Padre Island for the week! Tristan is celebrating his 14th birthday today, June 14th, on the beach!!
Near or far, no matter where you are, showcase your ZEBRA GEAR and send in your photos to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us!
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
‼️ATTENTION Families enrolled in Zebra Stripes and Summer School at CLAREMONT ELEMENTARY - Please be advised these programs and the summer free meal service will be moved to ROOSA ELEMENTARY, effective immediately.
Ashley Henry, one of our 5th-grade Teachers at Catalayh Elementary, has spent the last few days in Space, Space Academy Camp for Educators in Huntsville, Alabama! She had the best time getting to do interactive simulation projects and meeting some remarkable people! Here are some of the "out of this world" things she got to experience!🚀👩🏻🚀🌎🌌🛰
🚀 Built Model Rockets
🚀 Experienced 3Gs
🚀 Listened to David Hitt talk about Skylab and got a signed book by him.
🚀 Listened and talked with SpaceX Astronaut Dr. Sian Proctor as an educator herself at the collegiate level; she understood how important it was for us to get pictures for our students. She won her way to space through her art and poetry. She was also the first black female to pilot a s-We had our first mission, I worked in and outside of the ISS. PAYCOM also enjoyed us doing the macarena for them.
🚀 Model Rocket Launch
🚀 We saw Homer Hickam and Dr. Proctor talking, and it was funny because they were both so excited to see each other.
🚀 The planetarium
🚀 Saw Miss Baker’s grave (a space monkey)pace vehicle and the 4th black female in space.
🚀 MAT (Multi-Axis Trainer)
🚀 Orion Mission Control - GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control)
🚀 1/6th chair - aka Moon Walking
🚀 “Helicopter Crash”
🚀 Homer Hickam - Rocket Boys/October Sky
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
This #ZebraTravelDiaries is making a splash! Featuring Kennedy Froman (3rd grade Roosa), who traveled to beautiful Jasper, Arkansas. She spent her time swimming and fishing in the Buffalo River.🎣🌊🏊🏻♀️
No matter where you go, just rep' your Zebra Logo and send your photo to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us!
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
Claremore Public School's very own Head Football Coach, Jarrett Hurt, will be inducted into the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Saturday, July 22nd! We are beyond proud to recognize this accomplishment and Coach Hurt's dedication to Claremore Football and schools. He is always pointing student-athletes in the right direction on and off the field. ♥🦓🏈
To honor his coaching legacy, his wife and Junior High teacher, Laronna Hurt, is asking former and current players, managers, coaches, family, and friends to write a letter to him sharing their favorite memory, his impact on their life, or just a few words to congratulate him. She will be compiling these letters and photos into a scrapbook. If you have a picture, she would love to add it with your letter!
Contact her at lhurt@claremore.k12.ok.us; please send your letter or photo by July 1.
This #ZebraTravelDiaries is on Dolly Time! Mrs. Roach and her daughter Kennedy, took a trip to Dollywood, Tennessee where "life is as peaceful as a baby's sigh"!
No matter where you travel, just rep your Zebra dazzle and send your photo to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us!
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE
Looking for something to do this summer?
CPS has compiled a webpage for summer camps and resources. We will add them to the list as they are made available.
🎨Art 🏀Basketball ⚾Baseball 🏈Football ⚽Soccer 🏐Volleyball 👨👨👧👧Zebra Stripes 🏅RSU Sports Camps 🍔Free Summer Meals ➕ the City of Claremore Summer Guide AND MORE...
Go to > https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/page/camps
Going to a camp? Remember to wear your #CPSZEBRAPRIDE!
Why Wednesday ❓♥
We are starting a new series called "Why Wednesday" featuring our amazing teachers here at Claremore Public School and WHY they are passionate about teaching!
Sara Lahr teaches Sophomore English at CHS, FUZE Mentor, and Assistant Dance Team Coach. She's been teaching for 8 years, all 8 years at CPS. She always knew she wanted to be teacher, " I saw how much influence teachers had, and I wanted to be one of those positive influences."
❔ WHY Statement:
"I teach, because literature and helping are my passions in life, and having that joy in my job has seeped into all facets of my life. I want to help students explore not only their thoughts and feelings about literature, but about life and hopefully help them find their own passion. I believe that we create the life that we want and I want students to see that they create their future and to find something that brings them true happiness. "
"Whenever I tell people what my job is, I get the same reaction of Ehh. And I always think to myself how sad it is, that they see it as a negative when I am beyond blessed to get to smile and laugh every day at my job. I feel so blessed to forge meaningful bonds wit my students who become my kids. I’ve cried with them, celebrated their successes and comforted them and love them as the amazing people they are."
"Be the person you needed growing up" is a motto I live and teach by. Our #1 priority is to be role models for our students so they feel safe, seen, and respected. Additionally, I utilize my passion for teaching to help students explore their thoughts and feelings about themselves. I always ask, "What will make you happy?" Instead of "What do you want to do when you grow up?" I want students to find their passion and live life in whatever way will bring them true happiness and joy! "
"Being a Zebra means treating every student as my own and giving them a sense of safety, importance, and acceptance." She knows CHS is family and is here to support each other. She chose to teach at CPS because of the amazing people who encouraged and helped her through her internship. She knew this was where she could grow and thrive.
#CPSZEBRAPRIDE #WHYWEDNESDAY
