Fifth Grade Trip to Ford Field

Recently four 5th grade classes went to Ford Field. Students learned how you should be a team player and especially how to work as a team. Being on a sports team or being a sports player is not just about winning the game. It's about working as a team. Each team player has a certain thing they are best at. They all have a certain job to make a good team. You have to learn to take all these great abilities and teach them to work together as a team. Even though the two teams are technically “against” each other because of being on different teams, it does not mean that the players cannot be friends or even best friends! Both teams have leaders!

OK 2 Say (Online Safety)

Recently, a spokesperson from the attorney general's office came to our school to talk to us about Internet safety and cyberbullying, all part of the Ok 2 Say program. Here are some tips, pointers and guidelines they told us. First things first, you can reach your friends and/or family in many ways, which include Facetime, Skype, Snapchat, and many other popular social networks. That's why it is also important to ask a parent or guardian before getting online. Second thing, Cyberbullying is on the Internet and it can be very hurtful to a person, especially if its consistently (all the time). This could happen daily and can cause a lot of stress to somebody. You have the choice to ignore it or you can do many things to stop this from getting out of hand. You can block, report or even tell an adult. But to prevent any of this from happening you can be sure to only accept family and close friends on any social media accounts and be sure to make your account private. That will definitely help protect you, your friends, and your family. This is a very serious matter and you're putting yourself and others at risk if you're being cyberbullying you need to speak up and tell someone. These could be you’re friends, family, or even your teacher.

Rock Star Savers

Rock star savers is back, come save at the Zeal Credit Union! It’s like a bank for kids. When you join you can put in as much money as you want into your account, even a penny! When you sign up, they give you five dollars to start. Whenever you want to take money out, you just have to ask your parent or guardian to write a note saying that it is ok! An exciting thing this year is that the credit union changed their mascot's clothes to orange, and touched it up a little. So come be a rock star saver today!      

Youth Making a Difference

Cooper student leaders are busy at work with Youth Making a Difference, a program where kids can help the community with different issues or things that they think they should make a difference in the community.

There are lots of different things that students can do. They can help raise money for the homeless. They can work at the soup kitchen. They can do something as simple as shoveling the snow for the lady across the street. So many kids are working really hard on their Youth Making a Difference project. A few groups raised money, so that they can buy presents for foster or needy kids. Isn’t it so amazing that our student leaders have such giant hearts?

Variety Show

We are very pleased to announce that this year's variety show was a big hit! More than 50 people including the stage crew were participants in this amazing event. For those of you who don’t know what the Variety Show is, it's like a huge talent show with 5th and 6th grade children who want to show the school community what they can do, or in other words their talents! To top off this article, we have a few pictures of this year's show that you will hopefully enjoy! 

Our 2014-2015 Blog Team

This year we have a group of new bloggers. We are so excited to get started. The blog team is a group of student leaders that write blog posts weekly for the student blog, Through the Eyes of a Leader. This is our first post and we are really excited! Each member of the team, introduces themselves below.

Hi my name is Hunter  and I am very happy to be on the blog team this year. I wanted to be on the bloggers team because I love writing. Ive been waiting everyday to start the bloggers team and I am very thankful.

Hi my name is Shenandoah and I am very happy to be on the blog team this year. i wanted to be on the blog team because I have seen other bloggers and they say its very fun. I like to write a lot so I decided to try to get into the blog team! I like to draw to. I am so thankful to be on the blog team!   

Hi my name is Jolei. and I’m really happy to be on the blog team this year! I like to write, so I thought this would be fun to do.I enjoy writing about things that are going on in school. It gives me a chance to see what the students in our school would do to make Cooper a better place! Our goal is to post weekly.

Hi my name is Hanna and this year I’m part of the Cooper blog team! I wanted to be a Cooper blogger because I have  experience with blogging at home and I really enjoy it! What I want to get out of being a Cooper blogger is to have a chance to share our news and upcoming events with other students and parents and even other Cooper Leaders!

Hi, my name is Tyler and I’m glad to be a part of the blogger team this year! I wanted to be on this team because I thought it would be fun to blog about how we show leadership here at Cooper! Our blog posts show the community how students at Cooper are becoming great leaders. Our goal is to post blogs weekly.

Hi my name is Lauren, I was on the blog team last year and am very happy to be on the team this year. I absolutely love writing and could write all day. It’s cool getting to explore new writing techniques. We also get to do cool things like report on what’s going on around the school. Blog team is a blast and I’m really excited for a new year of leadership blogging!

Another Fabulous Leadership Year Has Come to a Close

The end of another fabulous leadership year has come to a close. We have learned so much, met so many new people, and learned how to use the 7 Habits. Although the 6th graders are going to become Eagles at Emerson Middle School next year, we hope that they still remember all the fun times that they had at Cooper. With 6th graders moving out, our 4th graders are coming in. They have had the chance to visit Cooper and see what is in store for them in the fall. We have had so many fun opportunities at Cooper like: Career Day, Field Day, Leadership Day, Sixth Grade Camp, The Variety Show, Sixth Grade Musical, and much more. We have learned so much and have gotten so much smarter. We can match pitch with Ms. Danke and Ms. Provencher in vocal music, read musical notes with Ms. Crociata in instrumental, learn new sports with Ms. Kincaide and Ms. Schnettler in physical education, we know the proper way to paint a picture with Ms. Didomenico and Mr. Hicks in art, and we can make our own presentation with Ms. Bowling in library. In math we can find area, volume and perimeter, in social studies we can tell you about Native Americans that lived long ago or which countries have a large amount of population. We can observe animals and their ecosystem in science, and we can write to a prompt in writing. We can all summarize books we read in reading and we can tell you all the 7 Habits in order. Even though we learned so much this year, imagine what we can learn next year and the year after that. We have so much more to look forward to in our future, whether we go to a whole new school or even if we just stay at Cooper. We have really enjoyed writing about our school. It's time to meet the blog members. Emily and Colby will be moving on to 7th grade next year and we hope that Ryan and Lauren will continue to take on the role of being blog leaders. Thanks for checking up on our updates! - Emily, Lauren, Ryan and Colby