Students in Mrs. Proctor's 3rd grade class at Claremont work to identify verb tenses and then record them on a chart.
THE TROPHY FINALLY ARRIVED!!!! This year has thrown some very difficult obstacles our way, but the CHS Dance Team was lucky enough to be able to compete (even if it was virtually) at state this year AND WIN!
"5A hip hop was one of the larger categories at state this year and the we are so proud of the hard work that these girls have put in to fight for this title," Coach Warden.
If you see any of the dancers, please help us in congratulating them!
It’s a GREAT DAY to be a ZEBRA!!!
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👶 SHE'S HERE! 👶 Mrs. Simpson, teacher at WRJH, and her husband just added another 'lil zebra to the family!
Congratulations on the arrival of their baby girl, Treylee.
Your school family is so happy for you!
It's READ ACROSS AMERICAN WEEK Raising Readers: What Parents Can Do
Learning to read takes practice. Loving to read takes enthusiasm. Read with your child often and create a sense of enjoyment, wonder, and a passion for reading.
1. Read together every day. You can read the morning news at breakfast, share a story after supper, or cuddle up for a book at bedtime. A daily reading routine is something everyone can look forward to.
2. Talk and build vocabulary. Interesting conversations build vocabulary, language skills, and knowledge about the world. Talk is a child’s best source of exposure to new words and ideas.
3. Model reading. Kids want to do what the grownups do. Make sure your kids get to see you reading and hear you talk about it.
4. Point out print. Read and talk about the words you see in the world around you. There’s lots to read—signs, recipes, cereal boxes, instruction manuals, bus schedules, news, maps, and menus.
5. Visit the library. Take advantage of all the books, materials, story times, programs, and resources your local library has to offer.
6. Create a reading-rich home. Find books at the bookstore or yard sales. Provide a special shelf or basket for kids to keep their own books and one for library books. Make sure there are quiet, comfortable places to read.
7. Encourage your child’s reading. Praise the efforts of a soon-to-be or beginning reader. Make sure schedules of older readers include time for reading for pleasure.
8. Keep books handy. Stash books in your bag to read aloud when you travel or have to wait at restaurants or for appointments. Or keep eBooks on your phone.
9. Start reading traditions. Beyond bedtime stories, consider a special birthday book, holiday favorites, or a regular family read aloud night.
10. Let kids choose books. Offer titles that explore your child’s interests, expand horizons, and offer exposure to different kinds of writing. Show them there are books where they can see themselves and books where they can see the worlds of others.
11. Make everyone comfortable. Find a spot to read together where you are both comfortable. Sometimes kids have to move around to be comfortable.
12. Be an active reader. Use expressive voices for characters, make sound effects, and point things out in the text and illustrations when you read aloud.
13. Discuss what you read. Give your child enough time to absorb the story and look at the pictures as you read. Think aloud about what you are reading and looking at and encourage your child to do the same.
14. Ask questions when you read. Ask your child to guess what comes next. Ask open-ended questions that help them relate to characters or events in the book. Let your child get involved and ask questions too–interruptions are okay!
15. Encourage re-reading. Repetition helps kids learn. Re-reading favorite books and poems helps kids make meaningful connections between themselves and books.
16. Connect reading and writing. Write your own reading material, like a story about your life, a story featuring your kids, or a story kids make up.
17. Make media matter. Connect kids with appropriate technology—videos, apps, or games that help them learn new words and interesting things about the world.
18. Get help. If you have concerns about your child’s language development, hearing, or vision, see your child’s pediatrician as soon as possible.
19. Make reading an experience. Link life experiences with books, like a trip to the zoo and books about animals, or planting a garden and reading The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin.
20. Have fun. Your idea of fun may differ from your child’s, so appreciate your child’s special joy for learning new things. Try different approaches, such as having them read to you or acting out a favorite story. Even something as simple as a story time outside can make reading together livelier and more memorable for you and your child.
Resource: National Education Association, Published: 01/28/2021
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It's READ ACROSS AMERICA THIS WEEK and PreK/K Enrollment next week so we thought we'd share some toddler tips because it's never to early to start reading to your kids to prepare them for school.
𝒯𝒾𝓅𝓈 𝒻𝘰𝓇 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝘰 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒯𝘰𝒹𝒹𝓁𝑒𝓇𝓈
It’s never too soon to start reading to your children! If your child learns early to associate reading with pleasure, they are more likely to enjoy reading on their own when they are older.
Try these successful reading tips for reading to infants and toddlers:
📚 Snuggle with your child with her favorite blanket or toys as you read.
📚 Read with expression using different voices for different characters.
📚 Emphasize rhythms and rhymes in stories. Give your toddler opportunities to repeat rhyming phrases.
📚 Use pictures to build vocabulary by varying objects and their colors.
📚 Use pictures to develop speaking vocabulary by talking about what is shown.
📚 Encourage your child to repeat what you say or comment on it.
Encourage your child to ask questions. Provide models of interesting questions and examples of possible answers. “I wonder what is going to happen next? I think the rabbit will get lost because he is not paying attention to where he is going. What do you think?”
📚 Look for books that are about things that interest your toddler. For example, does your child like cars, insects, or animals?
📚 Make reading a habit for bedtime, after lunch, or after naptime.
📚 Give your child a chance to choose his own books. If your toddler
chooses a book that is too long to hold his attention, read some and skip some, discussing the pictures and how they relate to the story.
📚 Read stories again and again. Your toddler enjoys repetition and it helps him become familiar with the way stories are organized.
Resource: National Education Association, Published: 01/28/2021
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🎨 Our art teachers have a passion for the art of helping students find their voice in their art. Yes, they teach technique, design, history but it's the ability to inspire the artist within that makes them great!
🎨 These projects are the product of some of our AP Art Studio students preparing for their AP portfolio submissions.
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356 Days. 356 days ago was the last time your Zebs was allowed on the field. 356 days without taking anyone to the woodshed. 356 days of bottled up Claremore tradition. 356 days ends today. New players, new uniforms, same old Claremore. Don’t miss today!
✂Creativity + fine motor skills = students engaged in learning!!
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On the first day of Women In History Month our #MondayMotivation comes from Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady, Diplomat, and Activist.
Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest serving First Lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
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MOSAIC MATH - Can you find the area and perimeter of an object?
Students in Mrs. Smith's math class created mosaics to help them find areas and perimeters.
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Claremore Zebras are #PUBLICSCHOOLPROUD!
We are the 🩺💝 heartbeat of the community. In public schools, all children come first, all students have value, leadership matters, it preserves democracy, and changes lives.
Our staff and parents use words like excellence, family, teachers who care, everyone, diversity, academics, athletics, extracurricular opportunities, whole child, educational options, innovation, accountability, social connection, etc., to describe their #CPSZEBRAPRIDE.
Give us a 🏫 in the comments if you are a product of the public school. Feeling the love - feel free to share why you are #PublicSchoolProud of Claremore on our FB page.
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Thank you to the site communications team members and student contributors: Chet Jenkins & Kolby Smith.
It's READ ACROSS AMERICAN WEEK - Check in with your site to how they are celebrating.
Tips for Reading to Young, School-Age Children
Your child has started school but still needs you to read to him or her at home. Your child will do better in school, and you’ll enjoy the time spent together.
Here are helpful tips for reading to and with young children in school, kindergarten through third grade:
📕 Keep reading to your child even when he can read. Read books that are too difficult or long for him to read alone.
📗 Try reading books with chapters and talk about what is happening in the story. Encourage your child to make predictions about what will happen next, and connect characters or events to those in other books and stories.
📘 Talk with your child about reading preferences that are beginning to develop. Ask whether she likes adventure stories, mysteries, science fiction, animal stories, or stories about other children. Encourage her to explain the reasons for preferences.
📙 Talk with your child about favorite authors and help him find additional books by those authors.
📕 Take turns reading a story with your child. Don’t interrupt to correct mistakes that do not change the meaning.
📗 Talk about the meaning of new words and ideas introduced in books. Help your child think of examples of new concepts.
📘 Talk with your child about stories using the notions of the beginning, middle, and end of the story to organize thinking and discussion.
📙 Ask your child to tell why a character might have taken a specific action. Ask for information from the story to support her answer.
📕 Enjoy yourself and have fun. The most important thing you can do to help your child become a successful reader is communicate that reading is valuable and enjoyable.
Resource: National Education Association, Published: 01/28/2021
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Claremore High School's yearly ZAP (Zebra Advisement Program) will conclude their year-long process with their annual enrollment night for all current 8th - 11th graders on March 25th.
Find out more here: https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/article/192385
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CPS Staff receives COVID vaccines. @RCHD administers the largest number of vaccinations during one day at CHS gym.
Read more or watch the video here:
today.https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/article/410124
Did you know...
55% of CHS graduates enrolled in college in 2019?
153 CHS graduates were able to participate in a college bridge program before their freshman year FREE?
The OK Gear Up Grant is designed to fill in the gap for students that want to go to college. It's purpose is to educate, support, facilitate, and students, parents and staff in this process.
Want to get college updates from Gear Up? Reminders about services, FAFSA, and other updates. Watch this video with our Gear Up College Coach to find out how.
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CPS is committed to raising achievement for ALL students and close the achievement gap.
WIN time is an integral part of our students' day in our elementary and junior high sites. It gives them time to participate in targeted instruction that works to increase student achievement and academic success.
Ask your child what they did in WIN time today.
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Mrs. Brasher's 3rd Grade Google Meet at Roosa was all about idioms.
The class can now say that "Having Cold Feet" during this winter weather will not "Stir Up A Hornet's Nest" learning about idioms because idioms are a "Piece of Cake."
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You're looking at the first ever 127lb Girls Champion and Outstanding Wrestler in the state of Oklahoma!
We are incredibly proud of you Kearanie Johnson!
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THIS JUST IN....
CHS Lady Zebra Swim Team 6A State results!
🥈🥉Sylvia Admire finishes 2nd in the 500 Free and 3rd in the 50 Free and stopped the clock with her personal best in the 50 Free.
🎉 Kaylee Ward finishes 8th in the 100 backstroke and 9th in the 200 IM reaching her personal best in both events.
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Sara Faye Lahr is the Claremore High School Site Teacher of the Year. Mrs. Lahr teaches Sophomore Pre-AP and on-level English. Mrs. Lahr’s teaching style encompasses humility, self-awareness, and authenticity. She strives to use her humanity as an example for students, allowing them a safe place to grow, make mistakes, express themselves, learn…” Put what you know in motion...apply what you’ve learned” (Hill). Mrs. Lahr has a knack for challenging students to take the English text and apply it to their current and future lives. To filter through their biases, challenges, and victories, and identify what they believe - to ignite the fire within. “Each of my students is unique, and I work to individualize methods to help light their drive and passion. To create self-thinkers, who want to be passionate about their futures.” “I don’t want only to unlock a love of literature, but I want to be someone in their life that makes them feel safe, loved, valued, and wanted. The greatest reward is seeing my students having an epiphany about the world, themselves, the deeper meaning, or an applicable lesson in a story.” Mrs. Lahr truly understands the meaning of being part of the Zebra family. She actively collaborates with her fellow teachers (or siblings, as she calls them), coordinates the Zebra Advisement Program (ZAP), and sponsors the Freshman mentoring program (FUZE). “If you want A+ students, you need A+ teachers,” she added. She models that by continually striving to find innovative ways to elicit student understanding, whether through technology, dressing up as a character in a book, or collaborating with her fellow teachers. Bottom line - her #CPSZEBRAPRIDE is apparent to all who know her. https://youtu.be/L76l0zF00F4
