🦃 No school November 25th - 27th for Thanksgiving Break. 🦃
As you celebrate, please make safe decisions to help reduce the spread of COVID-19:
👐 wash your hands,
↔ watch your socially distancing, and
😷 wear a mask when you are around others.
💖 Particularly during this holiday season, we are thankful for the opportunity to serve you, your family, and our community.
#StaySafeStayInSchool - we look forward to seeing students again on Monday, November 30.
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Claremore Public Schools is continually committed to developing an atmosphere of trust among parents and the community in our ability to provide not only a positive and enriching educational experience but a safe place for students to thrive.
That is why we have partnered with @FamilyZoneUSA, a leading provider of cyber safety products and education, to ensure your kids are cyber safe while at school. Claremore Public Schools is already using Family Zone to block inappropriate content and to identify red flag search terms from students. However, students do need access to sites like youtube for institutional purposes. Once on those sites students can be exposed to content that may be questionable. It is important that caregivers monitor students when they are on their devices.
As a parent or caregiver of our school district, you receive free access to the Family Zone Cyber Safety Hub, which includes articles, videos, courses, and more to help monitor and educate on various cyber threats, apps, etc.
This week's #TechTipTuesday is access to this free service. Click “sign up” below to get ongoing materials and education from the platform we trust to manage cyber safety across our entire district.
https://claremorek12.familyzone.com/
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Traditional students that would like Holiday Weekend Meals please place your order by Tuesday (11/24/20).
Pick up will be Wednesday 11/25/2020 from 10:30 AM -12:30 PM at the Enrollment Center located at 101 W 11th St.
https://forms.gle/qx3XdeRL6E4VTZ529
Janna Ragland
Child Nutrition
Claremore Public Schools
Need an extra gallon to take to your Thanksgiving holiday dinner? Go by and grab a gallon of sweet tea and lemonade from Chick-Fil-A!
This month Chick-fil-A will donate $1 to the Claremore Public School Foundation. CPSF funds class and teacher grants district-wide.
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✨Staff Spotlight✨
"My name is Jessica Lee and I teach English Language Arts for 6th and 7th grade at WRJH. My alma mater is South College in Knoxville, Tennessee where I earned a Bachelor's in Science for Elementary Education K-8. Teaching has been my career for 6 years, and this is my first year at WRJH. After many years in the military (GO NAVY!) I realized that I missed my home state of Oklahoma, so I am excited to be back where I feel welcomed, respected, and a part of the WRJH family."
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✨Staff Spotlight✨
I am Andrea Steffey, a wife, a mom, a friend, and teacher. I teach 6th grade science. I went to school at OU-Tulsa campus. This is my 3rd year teaching. I love Claremore because the teachers are friendly and kind and the students truly do value one another as unique and special individuals and they are so SMART!
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What will it stick to next?! Mrs. Tietz’s High School Physical Science class started studying electricity. ⚡ Nothing is more fun than playing with the build up of electrical charges and balloons. ⚡🎈
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Mrs. Smith's Math Class are on a scavenger hunt! What are they searching for? Answers to their math questions! 🕵️♂️
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Forces, Impulse, and Momentum! It is very important to protect the head because the brain controls the whole body. Just like the skull protects the brain, an egg’s shell protects what’s inside: the yolk! Our 8th grade Physical Science classes were placed into teams. Each team got an egg. They pretend the egg is their head. The challenge was to create a container that will protect an egg (head) from cracking or breaking from a high fall. This project teaches students about the relationships between force and momentum.
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To celebrate National School Psychology Week (last week), throughout the day today, we highlight our school psychologists and the critical work they do to help our students and staff thrive and discover “The Power of Possibility.”
Possibility, chance, likelihood, probability - all things that inspire hope, expectation, desire. With their training, tools, and techniques, these staff members empower and equip our Zebra family to not only aspire to succeed but take action steps to accomplish those dreams.
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Meet Bethany Doerksen-Klopp, Ph.D.
Certified School Psychologist
Dr. DK here! I hold a doctorate from OSU in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in School Psychology.
My husband, Dustin, and I were high school sweethearts and have been married for 12 years. We have two human hooligans (8 months old and 3 years old) and two fur babies.
This is my 6th year working with the amazing staff and students at Roosa Elementary and Will Rogers Junior High School. Now that I've been here a few years, I love that I've gotten to see my students grow and develop as they graduate to junior high!
If you visit my office, you'll see the quote, "we can't control the winds, but we can adjust our sails," decorating my wall. For a Type A control freak like me, it's a great reminder that the only things we actually have control over in life are our own thoughts, words, and actions. There will always be some things we can control and some things we cannot. Staying focused on what we can control will help relieve stress and anxiety before it gets too overwhelming.
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Just a reminder Grab & Go Meals CPS offers FREE Meals to all students.
Virtual, Quarantined, and Distance Learning meal need to ordered by by Wednesday: https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/page/child-nutrition
ALL Meals are picked up at 101 W 11th St.
If you have questions please feel free to contact the CN Office at 923-4243 or jragland@claremore.k12.ok.us
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Attention JOM students: WRJH Native American Club WANTS YOU! Students will learn all about Native American cultures through stories, crafts and games! If you are interested in joining our Native American Club, please read the attached information. Students may pick up contracts in Mrs. Boyd's room.
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✨Staff Spotlight✨
My name is Stephen Dark. I am new to Claremore Public Schools. I am really excited about becoming a Zebra. The last seven years I have spent teaching P.E. and coaching at Justus Tiawah. This year I will be teaching 7th and 8th grade computers and coaching football, basketball, and track. I have two children. My son Jax is a 7th grader and Jaylen, my daughter, is a 4th grader. My wife, Heather, is a nurse at Bailey Med Center in Owasso. I enjoy spending time with my family and watching sports. I am looking forward to a great school year exploring computers and technology.
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Mrs. Rice's 6th and 7th grade Geography classes worked on a collaborative project for Veterans Day this year. They discussed the history of the day and why it is still important to us now. Almost all of the students have a family member or know someone who has served, so we wanted to show our appreciation with this project. Thank you to all who have served for our country!
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ICYMI - CHS NJROTC will be conducting a blood drive on TODAY from 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM at the PAC.
Appointments and masks are REQUIRED.
Schedule at obi.org or contact Murry Estabrook directly at 918-519-4605.
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Claremore Parents Make Contributions to Science Classrooms
The Oklahoma GEAR UP Parent Leadership Academy (PLA) Team from Claremore presented science equipment and materials to WRJH science classes. Through their PLA project, “Let’s Have a Moment of Science,” PLA team members Jennifer Craig, Michelle McNelly, and Janie Sisovsky recently contributed 63 pairs of scissors, 15 lbs of glue sticks, and 14 full-size glue guns to our junior high science classes! Our hands-on science classes just got better!
It didn’t take long to put those resources into action as students began putting together their egg drop project. A project student looks forward to every year! A project that allows a student to demonstrate curiosity and show inventiveness, brainstorm in a team to generate ideas, and use problem-solving strategies to build simple structures.
“GEAR UP’s PLA program allowed us to use real-time data to evaluate where our students could use additional support as they prepare for college,” said team members. “After we decided to focus on science, we met with teachers in the science departments to collect information on challenges in the classroom and ways to eliminate student achievement
Barriers.”
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P h y s i c s in Junior High?! Mrs. Tietz's HS Physical Science classes are learning all about physics. These classes visited different stations to review Newton’s Laws of Motion. These laws are three physical laws that describe the relationship between an object, the force against it, and how it reacts to that force.
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Have you ever seen a solar eclipse? A solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is in a shadow cast by the Moon which fully or partially blocks the sun. Mrs. Tietz Science classes used a small marshmallow to represent the moon and a foam ball to represent the earth. They placed them on opposite ends of a ruler. They then held it up to the sun and moved the ruler to see how a solar and lunar eclipse happens.
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✨Staff Spotlight✨
My name is LaRonna Hurt, and I am a certified reading specialist at Will Rogers Junior High. This is my 27th year teaching, 13th year teaching for Claremore Public Schools, and my 5th year teaching reading at WRJH. I received my Bachelors and Masters from Northeastern State University. I was honored to be named district teacher of the year for Claremore Public Schools in 2015. I have been married to Jarrett Hurt for 23 years. Jarrett is the head football coach and an assistant principal for Claremore High School. We have two girls, Jayla (a freshman at Oklahoma State University) and Jarreka (a junior at CHS). I am blessed to get to do what I love everyday with amazing colleagues and students! I also enjoy spending time with family, serving at our church, attending sporting events, reading, and scrapbooking.
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