Cub Run Elementary School

Our 5th graders sang and cheered at the Spotswood High School football game this evening. Go Blazers! 💙🏈⚔️

After reading the Chinese folktale, The Magic Paintbrush, second graders got a chance to make their own artistic creations with magic scratch off paper! 🎨🖌️

Second grade celebrated the end of one of their CKLA units by traveling around the world. First stop- Ancient China! Students colored rice to make their own sensory bins. 🍚🎨🇨🇳

Fifth grade visited Massanutten Technical Center to learn more about their hands on programs! 🧑‍🍳🧑‍✈️👷🧑‍⚕️

Kindergarten explored the fives senses at the JMU arboretum- can you name all five? 🪶🐿️🍂

Book buddies are underway for Mrs. Linns kindergarteners and Mrs. Eckelman’s 5th graders! 📚🖍️

Fifth graders enjoyed designing their own food trucks while practicing adding and subtracting decimals! 💰🍕🚙

The Cub Run book fairy recently moved in and is making herself at home while currently reading The Wild Robot…just in time for the new movie coming out this week. 📗🧚‍♀️🤖

Here is our October Calendar!

Save These Dates: October 16 is Fall Picture Day and October 24 is our Fall Literacy Night!

Farm to School week is this coming week! Our farm to school menu this year features: locally raised ground beef from Zion’s Farm in Linville, pork from Bakers Pork in Mt. Jackson, freshly harvested potatoes from Valley Farming in Dayton, lettuce from Portwood Gardens in Dayton, apples from Showalter's Orchard in Timberville, and zucchini from Hanover, VA. The Crunch Heard 'Round the Commonwealth is an event held Thursday, October 10, 2024. To celebrate the event, participants across the Commonwealth will take a bite out of a Virginia grown apple, producing the celebratory “Crunch.” Together, we will make some noise for farm to school! All lunch meals on Thursday, October 10, include the choice of a locally grown apple from Showalter's Orchard in Timberville.

Rockingham County Public Schools will be closed on Tuesday, October 1 due to flooding in parts of the county.

Rockingham County Public Schools will be closed on Monday, September 30 due to flooding in parts of the county.

Our PTA Grandparents and Donuts mornings were a hit!

2nd grade had a fun time learning at Shenandoah National Park!

Wednesday, October 2 is National Custodian Appreciation Day! We say thank you to Mr. Norris, Mr. Slye, Ms. Smith, and Ms. Williams for what they do every day!

Thank you to all the local businesses who helped support our 2024-2025 Cub Run T-shirts!

Attention Parents and Guardians-Great Opportunity! The First Lady of Virginia, Suzanne Youngkin, invites communities across the Commonwealth to join in a fireside chat with award-winning social psychologist, author, and researcher Dr. Jonathan Haidt, author of the bestseller The Anxious Generation. Following a live broadcast to participating schools across the Commonwealth, there will be organized community discussions about the risks of technology. Rockingham County Public Schools will make the broadcast available at Mountain View Elementary School. Please join us from 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 19 to take part in this important conversation. Following the live broadcast, Dr. Larry Shifflett, Rockingham County Public Schools Superintendent, will facilitate community conversations with parents, educators, students, and families to create best practices for the use of cell phones and social media both in and out of school.

Upcoming PTA Events!

Happy Monday from some of our cubs! Let’s make it a great week!