Dear Cunningham Park Families and Friends,
It’s been a week for the arts! As a perfect complement to our ongoing
celebration of poetry (because April is National Poetry Month), Mrs. Karny and young artists
were highlighted in the Madison Pyramid Art Show. Enjoy photos of their beautiful works in this Cardinal’s
Message.
Additionally, Cunningham Park had a record number of
students participate in the Thoreau-Kilmer Area Honors Band this week! Huge congratulations go to Diana Colon, Julia
Ngo, Elora Saha, Sarah Bennett, Sydney Hill, Sofia Bennink, Caroline Fennel, Marina
Josipovic, Lillian Perkins , Eve Sanford, Jackson Bourdeau, Caleb Weiner, Autumn
Giresi, Colton Leimbach, Sofia Marshall, Sierra Rossman, Allison Schumer, and
to our amazing band director, Bethany Thomas for a wonderful accomplishment!
From the art room to the band room, Cunningham Park students
are rising to meet every challenge, and they represent us well!
Shifting gears, a focus for us is to always maintain close communication
with our families. In an effort to
further enhance our process, we are trying a new feature:
texting. Beginning with this newsletter,
we are testing the feature in which parents who noted their preferred form of
communication is text to send out a link for those parents to access the
Cardinal’s Message. We’d love to hear
how you like this new line of communication.
Please email me at KTLe@fcps.edu to
let me know what you think.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Sincerely,
Katie Le, Principal
  Many of our young artists were honored to share their works at the Madison Pyramid Art Show
Project LIFT: Summer Reading Opportunity
Dear Cunningham Park Families,
The fourth quarter starts next
week, and we are in the home stretch of our school year. We are
gearing up for our summer reading program, LIFT. Summer
reading is the only way to combat summer slide, which is the backward step many
students take over the summer if they do not keep their reading muscles
working. We have begun to think ahead to what our readers will be doing
over the summer, and I wanted to share a unique opportunity that you have here
at Cunningham Park.
Our summer reading program is called LIFT (Literacy
is for Tomorrow), and flyers went home in last week’s Friday folders with each
student in grades 1-6. LIFT is an opportunity to have books that are at
your child’s reading level, selected by your child at school with our Reading
Specialist, and then shipped to your home over the summer. There are a
total of 6 books included, two each for the months of June, July and August, as
well as a reading log and the opportunity to participate in the LIFT summer
reading breakfast celebration in the fall.
The sign up sheet for LIFT is at the bottom of this Cardinal's Message. The deadline to register
is April 20th, this coming Friday. Please send in your completed
forms with payment if you would like your child to participate, and please
consider sponsoring other children if you are able to do so.
Last year we
had over 100 students participate, and we saw the benefit to students in our
fall testing, summer slide was kept to a minimum for students who participated.
We hope to surpass that number this year!
Sincerely,
Kelly Carper, Reading Specialist
Have a friend or neighbor with a rising kindergartener? Tell them to register NOW!
 Warm Welcome to Lesley Akofio-Hite
Mrs. Hite is now in the front office every day at 12:00-4:00pm until the end of the school year. We are thrilled to have her! Join us in extending her a warm CPES welcome!
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SOL Schedule Reminder
Friday, May 11th - Grade 5 Reading
Monday, May 14th - Grade 4 Reading
Tuesday, May 15th - Grade 6 Reading
Wednesday, May 16th - Grade 5 Science
Thursday, May 17th - Grade 3 Reading, part 1
Friday, May 17th - Grade 3 Reading, part 2
Wednesday, May 30th - Grade 4 Math
Dates to Remember
Monday, April 16th - Teacher Workday, No School for Students
Tuesday, May 1st - Family Fine Arts Night, 6:30-8:00pm
May 7th-11th - Teacher Appreciation Week (Look for information from the PTA and room parents on ways you can help celebrate your child's teachers)
Tuesday, May 8th - PTA Meeting, 7:00pm
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Register for Project LIFT Summer Reading
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