Cooper Elementary School

Each month, our counseling team focuses on one core essential value. Cooper’s core essential value for the month of September is trust. Trust will be explored throughout the month of September in our Bronco Breakdown’s and daily morning announcements. This month, we are also exploring classroom safe places. These areas provide students with a space for social emotional learning (SEL) support. Each classroom at Cooper Elementary has a safe place for students. Click the link below to view this week’s Counselor Connection with Mrs. Dumes and to learn about trust and safe places. Have a great evening! -Josh https://tinyurl.com/CES96counselor

Good afternoon, Cooper families! I hope you had a restful three-day weekend. Earlier in the year, I sent some information about Bentonville’s new transportation software, Transportant. Transportant streamlines bus safety, security, and logistics. In the near future, parents will be able to check an app to see when their student gets on and off of the bus. It also updates our routing logistics and camera software. At this point in the year, Transportation is working to use the software to identify and correct bugs in the system. The process students use while on the bus is pretty simple: Students scan a student ID when entering and leaving the bus. That’s it. Most of our students have IDs, so bus riders are bringing them home each evening. Please help make sure these IDs are not lost. I recommend snapping them to your student’s backpack each evening. This keeps IDs available for morning pickup. Students also use their IDs to login to their Chromebook’s via the QR code on the back of the ID, so they will need them at school, too. Click the link below to view a quick Cooper tutorial, “How to Use Your ID on the Bus.” Have a great week! -Josh https://tinyurl.com/CooperBUSid

Tomorrow is our first Round Up of the year. We will host a Round Up celebration the first Friday of each month. Parents are welcome to attend. If you would like to attend, here are some important pieces of information: -All visitors must scan their ID and receive a visitor sticker. -We will start allowing parents into the building at 7:30 when students report to class and leave the cafeteria. -You may pick up your visitor sticker before 7:30. -If you arrive before 7:30 to pick up your visitor sticker, retrieve it and then line up on the sidewalk outside of our front doors. We want to create a welcome wagon for our students. We have to wait until the cafeteria is empty before allowing the influx of visitors in the building, so this would be a fun way for us to use this time and to start the Round Up Friday for our students. -Round Up will likely start a little after 7:40 tomorrow and end after 8:40 (outside of the previously announced times). It’s our first Round Up with parents since before the pandemic, so I am assuming our timing will be a little delayed. Lastly, this week’s Bronco Breakdown featured another Counselor Connection segment with our counselor, Mrs. Dumes (who is rocking it). Visit https://tinyurl.com/BBcounselor829 to view Mrs. Dumes’s message for this week. Have a great evening! -Josh

Good afternoon, Cooper families! Today was another great day at Cooper Elementary. Every year, Cooper has a Student Council, a team of 3rd and 4th grade students who help lead our school. We want to be a student-centered school, and this creates a great pathway for students to have a voice in our decisions and build leadership skills. Mrs. Willis will be sending out applications right after Labor Day. Click the link below for a quick video breakdown of student council. Have a great evening! -Josh https://tinyurl.com/CooperSTUCO

Good afternoon, Cooper families! Mark your calendars: Fall Picture Day is September 15. Packets will go home next week. Also, Mrs. Manus kick started this week’s Bronco Breakdown. Click the link below to view her Bronco Breakdown introduction. -Josh https://tinyurl.com/BBManus

Round Up is back. We will have our first Round Up this Friday from 7:40-8:40. We will celebrate our students and staff during this week’s Round Up, and parents are welcome. In the future, Round Ups will fall on the first Friday of each month, so mark your calendars. This week’s Bronco Breakdown features two spots about Round Up, a quick promo spot and a Round Up procedures spot. Click the link below to view the two Round Up spots. The other items in Bronco Breakdown will be shared throughout the week and include an intro by Mrs. Manus, Student Council information, and Counselor Connection with Mrs. Dunes. -Josh https://tinyurl.com/CESroundup

Good afternoon! It has been another great week at Cooper Elementary. Our 3rd and 4th grade students have been completing NWEA MAP Growth assessments for reading and math. These assessments help us check for student understanding and growth. Moreover, MAP assessments are adaptive which creates opportunities to personalize instruction and intervention. These assessments provide snapshots that help us gain better insight into where students are in their learning and what supports they need to improve and extend their learning. We will give reading and math MAP assessments three times per year (fall, winter, and spring) to track student growth, and students complete MAP assessments through 10th grade, creating a full snapshot of their learning in our schools across nearly all grade levels. Click the link below to learn more about NWEA Map Growth assessments. Today, we would also like to share the last segment of the Bronco Breakdown. This segment is the Counselor Connection and features our all-star counseling team, Mrs. Dumes and Mrs. Mayo. Click the link below to watch this week’s Counselor Connection. Have a great evening! Counselor Connection: https://tinyurl.com/822counselorC MAP: https://www.nwea.org/map-growth/

Good afternoon! Here is our Bronco Breakdown Lunch Procedures video. The last segment, our Counselor Connection, will be sent out tomorrow. Have a great day! -Josh https://tinyurl.com/CESLunch

As promised, here is another segment from the Bronco Breakdown. This segment will help you prepare for this week’s weather. I think this guy has a future in television. Click the link below to view the Bronco Breakdown Weather Report. Have a great evening! https://tinyurl.com/BB822weather

Good afternoon! We had another awesome day at Cooper Elementary. Also, thank you so much for completing last week’s 3 & Out survey. We have had over 200 responses, and we look forward to using the data to improve. This morning, we started the day with something new, the Bronco Breakdown. The Bronco Breakdown is a weekly round of video announcements we will show each Monday morning. Today’s Bronco Breakdown featured the following: Principal Intro “Pledge of Allegiance” “Star Spangled Banner” Minute of Silence Lunchroom Procedures Weather (with Everett this week) Counselor Connection Actor’s Toolbox Focus Five Activity I’ll share the full Bronco Breakdown through snippets this week. Today’s snippet includes the welcome, pledge, and national anthem. I’ll send out the rest this week. We hope this helps communicate school news to our students and our families. Click the link below to view the Bronco Breakdown Part I. Have a great week! -Josh https://tinyurl.com/BroncoBreakdownP1

Good afternoon, Cooper students and families! We have had a great week to start the school year. I hope your student’s week has been awesome. Even though it is Friday afternoon, we are all excited and ready for week two. Your students have made this week so smooth and enjoyable for our team. Pease take a moment to share feedback about your experience at Cooper so far via our 3 & Out Survey. This survey only has 3 questions, so it’s quick and easy for you to complete. Plus, it provides us with great feedback we can use to improve and better support our school community. You may access the survey via the link below or through the link sent to your email address. We are excited to see you all Monday. In the meantime, rest and recharge this weekend! 3 & Out Survey: https://forms.gle/HaeYSzfa7BZqGvwA7

Meet Leslie Andreasen. Mrs. Andreasen is originally from Utah but settled in Bella Vista in 2012. She and her husband have three children ages 24, 20, and 17. She enjoys cooking, walking outside every day regardless of the weather, and watching movies with her family. She also loves dark chocolate! Mrs. Andreasen grew up in a family of educators. Her mom was a 3rd grade teacher, and her grandpa taught 5th grade before becoming a principal for many years. She knew from a young age that she was going to be a teacher. Prior to joining Cooper's team, she taught at Gravette for eight years. Mrs. Andreasen is now a 4th grade teacher at Cooper, and she is excited to work with our staff and join at Bentonville. Our team is thrilled to have Mrs. Andreasen join us because she has a lot of experience teaching math/science, is fun, and is laid back! We are blessed to have her with us at Cooper and excited to learn from her!

We’d like to send a big shoutout to the Bella Vista Police department for their continuous partnership with our school. This week, you might have seen them helping direct traffic, greeting students and parents, and helping kids start their day strong with a welcoming high five. It’s been a highlight of the day for our kids, and we are thankful for the PD’s support!

Good afternoon, Cooper students and families! I just wanted to thank you for a fantastic first day of school. Parents, I appreciate your patience and understanding this morning as we worked to ensure student safety during our parent classroom drop off. We had a great turnout this morning, and it was nice to see you all in our hallways. We will continue to do that each and every first day of school. A big shout out to our awesome PTO for providing parents with donuts and coffee. Thank you, PTO! In addition, for a quick glimpse into our first day of school, please take a moment to view our CES First Day of School video via the link below. I hope you enjoy it. It was a great day. Thank you! -Josh https://tinyurl.com/CES1stday

Today's message was to be awesome in everything you do. This student, Juliette, is a perfect example of this message. She helped decorate the school this summer and even braved the heat to help run the Cooper table at First Friday. Today, she led our first “Pledge of Allegiance" of the school year. It was (as expected) awesome. Thank you for being a part of our school, Juliette!

We are looking forward to tomorrow, the first day of school. We cannot wait to see our students and families. It is going to be a great year, Broncos!

Our team had a great first week back at Cooper. It was a fast and furious week of learning and fun. Click the link below to view some highlights of the week. We are so excited about Monday--the first day of school! https://tinyurl.com/CooperPDweek

Good morning, Cooper families! We are excited to start the new school year with you. Kindergarten Orientation is on Thursday, August 11. We are thrilled to welcome our 2023 kindergartners to the halls of Cooper Elementary. They will love it here! Students with last names A-L will have orientation from 10:30-11:30. Students with last names M-Z will have orientation from 1:00-2:00. In addition, Open House for students in grades 1-4 is from 4:00-6:00 on Thursday, August 11. Our team is ready to welcome back familiar faces and introduce new students to the halls of Cooper Elementary. We look forward to seeing you on the 11th! Have a great weekend!