Happy Holidays!
A couple of announcements -
THANK YOU for getting your paperwork back to me quickly! Everything's sent!
Our next fundraiser is for the pancake breakfast! It is at CT this year, NOT Applebee's. Every cheer got 10 tickets for pre-sale - adult tickets are $10, kid tickets are $5. Pre-sales give us a good chance to make pure profit off the breakfast, so pre-selling is important. If you need more tickets to pre-sell, please let me know! I also passed out flyers for cheers to put up in neighborhoods, etc.
Yankee Candles will be in the athletics office TODAY immediately after school. Please come and pick them up.
We will be competing one time before nationals on Jan 24. Details to come.
This week:
Thursday: GAME groups 1, 2, 4. Arrive at 6:15.
Tomorrow, Friday, Dec 19: NO PRACTICE.
Have a wonderful and restful holiday!
Coach
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Week of Dec 11 - Dec 19
Hello, Cheer families!
I'm still just over the moon from last week! What a great day.
We all had such a good time at Savie's last night at our holiday party! Special thanks to Sharon and Jeff Marshall for opening up their beautiful home to us for a night of celebration and bonding. It was a great way to end the bulk of our competition season.
Basketball and wrestling is officially in full swing! Remember cheers, if you need a free game, I need notice, and it's not a guarantee that we can accommodate it. Because we cut down so heavily on the number of cheers during basketball season, we can't have more than 2 people take free games at a time because our numbers get too small on the court. Therefore, free games are requests - not guarantees but I will do my best to help accomodate. If you switch a game with someone, I also need to know so that I don't have any surprises when the team shows up at game time. The person who is initiating the switch is responsible for informing Coach.
While we're at it, I'll just re-iterate that there are NO FREE GAMES OR SWITCH GAMES DURING FINALS WEEK. PLAN your studying for finals accordingly. Our Tuesday practice will be shortened to accommodate studying since that afternoon is the shortest period of time between the end of class and start of finals. Practice, as always, is mandatory that week. Ask your teachers for a review before break if you feel like you will need it. With proper planning now, it will not be an issue.
We have some (more) paperwork to sign and medical releases, etc to fill out for Nationals. I will pass these out on Tuesday of next week and I need them back by Wednesday at UE. I only received ONE copy of each of these papers per athlete, so it is imperative that you don't lose it. If you are a cheerleader, plan to get this paper on Tuesday and take it home. If you are a parent, plan to fill it out Tuesday night and return it Wednesday. One form will be an airline information form so I can put the names on the plane tickets as they should appear. Plane tickets and all of the nationals bill has been placed as a loan from athletics as I mentioned at the Nationals meeting, so ignore the cancellation policy verbage from UCA - our deadline for nationals financial commitment passed when we gave the deposit in November.
Friday's game was highlighted in Bold on the basketball calendar (which usually indicates a home game) but then it is listed as away. The game on Friday is away. (We don't typically travel during basketball season until playoffs). So we will ALL be pitching in for Fundraiser Friday. See below for details.
The Pancake breakfast is our next big fundraiser following JV state this weekend! Cheers will get twelve tickets to pre-sell for the breakfast. Tickets are $10 for adults and kids over 10 and $5 for kids under 10. The breakfast is on January 10th in the cafeteria. We will also take walk up guests, but the pre-sales guarantee that we make some money from the event. If you need more pre-sale tickets, we can definitely accomodate.
Please also continue to make contacts with local businesses for website sponsorship! All they have to do is go to the CT athletics website, click on "Support our Athletic Teams" and choose Cheer. Easy as pie. Also, I was contacted by Blackstone to do community babysitting on Friday nights. I'm going to work with them to see if we can get that rolling for cheers on the nights they don't have to do Friday night games as an additional resource. Please also don't forget that Bronco games are a good way to raise money as well.
Friday and Saturday:
Friday night is our second Parent's Night Out event. All cheers will attend - there is no game to cheer that night. Bring games, books, coloring just like last time. Starting at around 7:30, some cheers will go to work with Mia to set up for JV state, some will tie bells on to holly grams, and most of you will be with the kids for PNO. Parent's night out is from 6 - 9. Cheers, please arrive at 5:30 for set up in the lower lecture center like last time.
Saturday for JV State: Cheers, please arrive at 7:30am. Wear a matching CT shirt - get info from Captains as to which one. I don't recommend the State shirt because you'll probably get hot in long sleeves. Each Cheer has a job to do for the full day. Parents, if you haven't signed up for a slot, please do - there are some still left over. If all the slots fill, please come for the two hour time you would have signed up for - there will probably be PLENTY of things that need a hand. There may - don't count on it - be some time between set-up and the start of the competition for cheers to leave and come back again if they want, but if there's stuff to do, we have to get it done, so don't count on that time just in case. We will be done at the conclusion of the competition after all the mats are rolled up, concessions are cleaned up, tables are put back, and CT looks like a school and not a competition venue again. Cheers plan to stay until that's done. The more people who pitch in, the faster it goes and the faster we can be done.
Thanks to everyone for working so hard this week for fundraising, etc and taking on JV State - it's a big undertaking, and it makes us an important part of the spirit community when we help out in this capacity.
This week:
Thursday, Dec 11: NO PRACTICE
Friday, Dec 12: PNO, JV State Set up
Saturday, Dec 13: JV STATE! Parents, arrive at your scheduled time, cheers arrive at 7:30 am and plan to stay all day.
Sunday, Dec 14: NO CONTACT
Monday, Dec 15: UE, 3:30-4:30
Tuesday, Dec 16: Pass out hollygrams during lunches. Practice 3-5:30 - cheers will get more nationals paperwork.
Wed, Dec 17: Pass out hollygrams during lunches. UE, 3:30 -4:30, cheers return nationals paperwork.
Thursday, Dec 18: Bball vs East groups 1, 2, 4. Arrive at 6:15.
Friday, Dec 19: Begin Winter break until Monday, January 5th.
Have a great week! See you all on Saturday and we'll see the cheers on Friday evening!
I'm still just over the moon from last week! What a great day.
We all had such a good time at Savie's last night at our holiday party! Special thanks to Sharon and Jeff Marshall for opening up their beautiful home to us for a night of celebration and bonding. It was a great way to end the bulk of our competition season.
Basketball and wrestling is officially in full swing! Remember cheers, if you need a free game, I need notice, and it's not a guarantee that we can accommodate it. Because we cut down so heavily on the number of cheers during basketball season, we can't have more than 2 people take free games at a time because our numbers get too small on the court. Therefore, free games are requests - not guarantees but I will do my best to help accomodate. If you switch a game with someone, I also need to know so that I don't have any surprises when the team shows up at game time. The person who is initiating the switch is responsible for informing Coach.
While we're at it, I'll just re-iterate that there are NO FREE GAMES OR SWITCH GAMES DURING FINALS WEEK. PLAN your studying for finals accordingly. Our Tuesday practice will be shortened to accommodate studying since that afternoon is the shortest period of time between the end of class and start of finals. Practice, as always, is mandatory that week. Ask your teachers for a review before break if you feel like you will need it. With proper planning now, it will not be an issue.
We have some (more) paperwork to sign and medical releases, etc to fill out for Nationals. I will pass these out on Tuesday of next week and I need them back by Wednesday at UE. I only received ONE copy of each of these papers per athlete, so it is imperative that you don't lose it. If you are a cheerleader, plan to get this paper on Tuesday and take it home. If you are a parent, plan to fill it out Tuesday night and return it Wednesday. One form will be an airline information form so I can put the names on the plane tickets as they should appear. Plane tickets and all of the nationals bill has been placed as a loan from athletics as I mentioned at the Nationals meeting, so ignore the cancellation policy verbage from UCA - our deadline for nationals financial commitment passed when we gave the deposit in November.
Friday's game was highlighted in Bold on the basketball calendar (which usually indicates a home game) but then it is listed as away. The game on Friday is away. (We don't typically travel during basketball season until playoffs). So we will ALL be pitching in for Fundraiser Friday. See below for details.
The Pancake breakfast is our next big fundraiser following JV state this weekend! Cheers will get twelve tickets to pre-sell for the breakfast. Tickets are $10 for adults and kids over 10 and $5 for kids under 10. The breakfast is on January 10th in the cafeteria. We will also take walk up guests, but the pre-sales guarantee that we make some money from the event. If you need more pre-sale tickets, we can definitely accomodate.
Please also continue to make contacts with local businesses for website sponsorship! All they have to do is go to the CT athletics website, click on "Support our Athletic Teams" and choose Cheer. Easy as pie. Also, I was contacted by Blackstone to do community babysitting on Friday nights. I'm going to work with them to see if we can get that rolling for cheers on the nights they don't have to do Friday night games as an additional resource. Please also don't forget that Bronco games are a good way to raise money as well.
Friday and Saturday:
Friday night is our second Parent's Night Out event. All cheers will attend - there is no game to cheer that night. Bring games, books, coloring just like last time. Starting at around 7:30, some cheers will go to work with Mia to set up for JV state, some will tie bells on to holly grams, and most of you will be with the kids for PNO. Parent's night out is from 6 - 9. Cheers, please arrive at 5:30 for set up in the lower lecture center like last time.
Saturday for JV State: Cheers, please arrive at 7:30am. Wear a matching CT shirt - get info from Captains as to which one. I don't recommend the State shirt because you'll probably get hot in long sleeves. Each Cheer has a job to do for the full day. Parents, if you haven't signed up for a slot, please do - there are some still left over. If all the slots fill, please come for the two hour time you would have signed up for - there will probably be PLENTY of things that need a hand. There may - don't count on it - be some time between set-up and the start of the competition for cheers to leave and come back again if they want, but if there's stuff to do, we have to get it done, so don't count on that time just in case. We will be done at the conclusion of the competition after all the mats are rolled up, concessions are cleaned up, tables are put back, and CT looks like a school and not a competition venue again. Cheers plan to stay until that's done. The more people who pitch in, the faster it goes and the faster we can be done.
Thanks to everyone for working so hard this week for fundraising, etc and taking on JV State - it's a big undertaking, and it makes us an important part of the spirit community when we help out in this capacity.
This week:
Thursday, Dec 11: NO PRACTICE
Friday, Dec 12: PNO, JV State Set up
Saturday, Dec 13: JV STATE! Parents, arrive at your scheduled time, cheers arrive at 7:30 am and plan to stay all day.
Sunday, Dec 14: NO CONTACT
Monday, Dec 15: UE, 3:30-4:30
Tuesday, Dec 16: Pass out hollygrams during lunches. Practice 3-5:30 - cheers will get more nationals paperwork.
Wed, Dec 17: Pass out hollygrams during lunches. UE, 3:30 -4:30, cheers return nationals paperwork.
Thursday, Dec 18: Bball vs East groups 1, 2, 4. Arrive at 6:15.
Friday, Dec 19: Begin Winter break until Monday, January 5th.
Have a great week! See you all on Saturday and we'll see the cheers on Friday evening!
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Week of Dec 6 - Dec 14
Hello, cheer families!
What a week!
I don't know about you but I am still over the moon for this team and all of the work they've done this season to perform so well at State. I can't wait to go over score sheets with the team. We owe a HUGE part of our score to the support of the crowd, too! So loud!
And now, on to the next big thing: Nationals!
This is a HUGE fundraising week for us, and there is a lot of important information below - a lot of it is for the cheers to read since we start Hollygrams on Monday and didn't quite get a lot of time to talk about what we need to do to sell them, and since we have a little break this week, we won't all be together all at once again for sure until Wednesday night for the party, and I don't want to talk shop at a celebration.
Parent's Night Out: This Friday. I sent an email to the whole CT Staff about it, and I'll put flyers in staff mailboxes on Monday, as well. It's up on the Marquee at the school entrance, too, for anyone who drives by. Everyone plan to attend - this one is going to have a bigger turn out, I think. At around 8:30, we will go set mats in the main gym for JV invite for Saturday.
JV State: Please, parents, if you haven't signed up for a slot on sign up genius, please do so! There are still a few slots open, and we need all the help we can get. The cut from concessions goes to the girls for Nationals, but we need parents to work some of the other spaces that are geared more toward adults - particularly concessions and spectator management. Here is the link to sign up again in case you don't want to dig through email to find it: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0945aaab23a64-jvinvite
Remember, parents you only have to sign up for one two-hour space. Cheers will work the full day running score sheets, helping with concessions, moving teams from warm up to on-deck to performance area, etc. Mia is working on putting girls in to work spaces this week. Cheers arrive on Saturday at the school at 7:30 - we should be done by around 3:30 or 4 so long as the comp runs on schedule.
HollyGrams: LOTS OF INFO, CHEERS PLEASE READ!
HollyGram sales start this week. We are ready to go with bells and holly message tags. For your lunch, report to the sales table. If you are off on A day during 3rd, work any lunch you would like, we have plenty of even coverage but plan to be there during the transition periods to make sure no one messes with the table. If you are off B day during 3rd, work the second lunch shift - there are only two people there to manage, so we need everyone off on B day to work the second shift, plus the transitions between the lunches so the table isn't unattended.
**I know there is a pretty big gap between first and second lunch - you don't have to sit during the whole time but someone bring me the money and the holly papers after first lunch. If you work second lunch, pick up the money and holly papers from me in room 128 on your way to the lunch table.
Here is how this will work:
FIRST: One cheer come to my classroom (I teach 3rd both days, unfortunately) to pick up the change box.
1. Kids approach the table, pay a dollar per holly gram.
2. Cheers collect money/make change. Give the student the hollygram to fill out.
3. Students MUST include the First AND LAST name of the person they are sending to AND grade level along with their message. They put their message on the BACK of the hollygram.
4. Cheers, record who is receiving the hollygram (first and last name by grade level) on the master sheet.
5. Cheers, double check to make sure the message is nice and appropriate. We will not pass out mean hollygrams - even if they are a "joke" because we can't tell the difference, so we have to assume it's meant to be mean.
6. Collect the hollygram and put it in ABC order by last name according to grade - this will make passing them out so much easier. At the end of your lunch, make sure someone who is off sits with the table during passing period to watch all our stuff. I will be there during third lunch to help out, so I can take the money at the end.
7. We will tie bells on the hollygrams and do a final sort/master list on Friday during Parent's Night Out.
8. We will post the sign for hollygrams on Monday outside the cafeteria windows and then we will work tuesday and wednesday (if needed) to deliver them during lunches.
Cheers - it is extremely important that we make sure this goes well. This could be a huge fundraiser for us and if we don't do everything right, we won't be allowed to do it again. Please make sure you are on your best behavior and be very careful when handling and exchanging money, reading messages, and such. Do not give out hollygrams for free. I think it would be a really nice gesture if you have a unified partner to give a hollygram to your unified partner.
We start this on MONDAY!
Wednesday is our holiday party! 6-8:30pm at Savie's. Parents, come join in the festivities as well! You drew for a secret santa on Thursday Night - bring a $15 gift for your person. Please don't go over on it. Savie/returners, if you want to do white elephant ornaments, please organize!
Basketball starts this week! If your group is scheduled to cheer, arrive for the games at 6:15. We will gradually push this back as we get more comfortable cheering basketball games. Since we didn't go over basketball chants, we gotta do that in warm ups. If you lost your schedule or you need an electronic copy, click here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1mNIjJGLeqkeVhqdnZMMzZCaU0/view?usp=sharing
This week upcoming:
MONDAY-FRIDAY: Hollygrams during your lunch.
Monday, Dec 8: UE 3:30-4:30 (you can miss once this week if you'd like as a break but please let me know which day you are going to miss if you do want a break)
Tue, Dec 9: GAME Groups 1, 2, 3. Arrive at 6:15pm. Do not be late! Savie has the uniform schedule. December cheer payments due.
Wed, Dec 10: UE 3:30-4:30 (if you miss monday, you need to come this day, and vice versa)
Wed, Dec 10: HOLIDAY PARTY/TEAM BONDING/STATE CELEBRATION AT SAVIE'S! 6 - 8:30pm
Thur, Dec 11: NO PRACTICE, NO GAMES! A day off!
Fri, Dec 12: Parent's Night Out #2 in lower lecture center from 5-9pm. Arrive no later than 5:30pm. Remember pizza for team = fewer profits for team, so eat beforehand if you can.
Sat, Dec 13: JV STATE! Parents and Cheers plan for a long day! Parents, if you haven't signed up for a slot, please do!
What a week!
I don't know about you but I am still over the moon for this team and all of the work they've done this season to perform so well at State. I can't wait to go over score sheets with the team. We owe a HUGE part of our score to the support of the crowd, too! So loud!
And now, on to the next big thing: Nationals!
This is a HUGE fundraising week for us, and there is a lot of important information below - a lot of it is for the cheers to read since we start Hollygrams on Monday and didn't quite get a lot of time to talk about what we need to do to sell them, and since we have a little break this week, we won't all be together all at once again for sure until Wednesday night for the party, and I don't want to talk shop at a celebration.
Parent's Night Out: This Friday. I sent an email to the whole CT Staff about it, and I'll put flyers in staff mailboxes on Monday, as well. It's up on the Marquee at the school entrance, too, for anyone who drives by. Everyone plan to attend - this one is going to have a bigger turn out, I think. At around 8:30, we will go set mats in the main gym for JV invite for Saturday.
JV State: Please, parents, if you haven't signed up for a slot on sign up genius, please do so! There are still a few slots open, and we need all the help we can get. The cut from concessions goes to the girls for Nationals, but we need parents to work some of the other spaces that are geared more toward adults - particularly concessions and spectator management. Here is the link to sign up again in case you don't want to dig through email to find it: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0945aaab23a64-jvinvite
Remember, parents you only have to sign up for one two-hour space. Cheers will work the full day running score sheets, helping with concessions, moving teams from warm up to on-deck to performance area, etc. Mia is working on putting girls in to work spaces this week. Cheers arrive on Saturday at the school at 7:30 - we should be done by around 3:30 or 4 so long as the comp runs on schedule.
HollyGrams: LOTS OF INFO, CHEERS PLEASE READ!
HollyGram sales start this week. We are ready to go with bells and holly message tags. For your lunch, report to the sales table. If you are off on A day during 3rd, work any lunch you would like, we have plenty of even coverage but plan to be there during the transition periods to make sure no one messes with the table. If you are off B day during 3rd, work the second lunch shift - there are only two people there to manage, so we need everyone off on B day to work the second shift, plus the transitions between the lunches so the table isn't unattended.
**I know there is a pretty big gap between first and second lunch - you don't have to sit during the whole time but someone bring me the money and the holly papers after first lunch. If you work second lunch, pick up the money and holly papers from me in room 128 on your way to the lunch table.
Here is how this will work:
FIRST: One cheer come to my classroom (I teach 3rd both days, unfortunately) to pick up the change box.
1. Kids approach the table, pay a dollar per holly gram.
2. Cheers collect money/make change. Give the student the hollygram to fill out.
3. Students MUST include the First AND LAST name of the person they are sending to AND grade level along with their message. They put their message on the BACK of the hollygram.
4. Cheers, record who is receiving the hollygram (first and last name by grade level) on the master sheet.
5. Cheers, double check to make sure the message is nice and appropriate. We will not pass out mean hollygrams - even if they are a "joke" because we can't tell the difference, so we have to assume it's meant to be mean.
6. Collect the hollygram and put it in ABC order by last name according to grade - this will make passing them out so much easier. At the end of your lunch, make sure someone who is off sits with the table during passing period to watch all our stuff. I will be there during third lunch to help out, so I can take the money at the end.
7. We will tie bells on the hollygrams and do a final sort/master list on Friday during Parent's Night Out.
8. We will post the sign for hollygrams on Monday outside the cafeteria windows and then we will work tuesday and wednesday (if needed) to deliver them during lunches.
Cheers - it is extremely important that we make sure this goes well. This could be a huge fundraiser for us and if we don't do everything right, we won't be allowed to do it again. Please make sure you are on your best behavior and be very careful when handling and exchanging money, reading messages, and such. Do not give out hollygrams for free. I think it would be a really nice gesture if you have a unified partner to give a hollygram to your unified partner.
We start this on MONDAY!
Wednesday is our holiday party! 6-8:30pm at Savie's. Parents, come join in the festivities as well! You drew for a secret santa on Thursday Night - bring a $15 gift for your person. Please don't go over on it. Savie/returners, if you want to do white elephant ornaments, please organize!
Basketball starts this week! If your group is scheduled to cheer, arrive for the games at 6:15. We will gradually push this back as we get more comfortable cheering basketball games. Since we didn't go over basketball chants, we gotta do that in warm ups. If you lost your schedule or you need an electronic copy, click here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1mNIjJGLeqkeVhqdnZMMzZCaU0/view?usp=sharing
This week upcoming:
MONDAY-FRIDAY: Hollygrams during your lunch.
Monday, Dec 8: UE 3:30-4:30 (you can miss once this week if you'd like as a break but please let me know which day you are going to miss if you do want a break)
Tue, Dec 9: GAME Groups 1, 2, 3. Arrive at 6:15pm. Do not be late! Savie has the uniform schedule. December cheer payments due.
Wed, Dec 10: UE 3:30-4:30 (if you miss monday, you need to come this day, and vice versa)
Wed, Dec 10: HOLIDAY PARTY/TEAM BONDING/STATE CELEBRATION AT SAVIE'S! 6 - 8:30pm
Thur, Dec 11: NO PRACTICE, NO GAMES! A day off!
Fri, Dec 12: Parent's Night Out #2 in lower lecture center from 5-9pm. Arrive no later than 5:30pm. Remember pizza for team = fewer profits for team, so eat beforehand if you can.
Sat, Dec 13: JV STATE! Parents and Cheers plan for a long day! Parents, if you haven't signed up for a slot, please do!
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