PVELC December 2025 Newsletter

Holiday Family Resources, PV4PV Education Foundation, Push to the End, & Happy Holidays.

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Giving Thanks: Annual Thanksgiving Lunch
Platte Valley families came to school to celebrate an early Thanksgiving by eating with their students! Thank you to all of the families who came and a huge thank you to our staff for cooking such a delicious Thanksgiving meal!

                              Events

                                    Regular Board of Education Meeting

                                      12/8/2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

                                      Platte Valley School District Re-7

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                                    PTC Meeting

                                      12/9/2025, 6 PM – 6:30 PM

                                      Platte Valley Elementary School; Library

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                                    End of 2nd Quarter

                                      12/19/2025

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                                    No School - Christmas Break

                                      12/20/2025 – 1/4/2026

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12/9: Cookies with Santa 5:00pm-8:00pm at the elementary

12/16: Christmas Lunch at 10:35am

12/17 & 12/18: Classroom Parties 9:00am-10:30am

1/19: MLK Day, No School for Students

Time flies when you’re having fun!
I can’t believe we are almost halfway through the school year. During December and January, we will be learning about holidays, snowflakes, winter, and snowmen. In addition to our themes, we help our students learn skills every day in multiple areas of development. These areas include Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Literacy, Math, Science and Art. See your classroom newsletter and lesson plan for the specific concepts we are focusing on and activities we are doing to help prepare our students for kindergarten.
It has been a great semester! Thank you so much for being such involved families! Your support makes a huge difference to our classroom staff, our center and to your child! Getting to know you all this fall has been a joy, and I look forward to a wonderful spring semester filled with love, laughter and learning. I hope you can enjoy some quality time with family and friends over the holidays and that 2026 is filled with good health, happiness and many blessings!
Barb Moore
Preschool Director

Curriculum Highlight
Every month through the end of the school year I will pick a specific area of development or curriculum to highlight and give a detailed description about. Below you will find information about our math curriculum.

Math: Our preschool uses the same math curriculum as the elementary school. Our math curriculum is called Bridges, and it helps our students learn skills that build a strong foundation in math and aligns with what they need to know in kindergarten. We learn math every day in our classrooms through direct instruction, at calendar time and in small groups. We also learn through play in our math center. Some of the concepts we learn
about include number recognition, counting, problem solving, simple addition and subtraction, patterning and 1 to 1 correspondence.

COMING SOON!: Pre-Register for Universal Preschool
The application for Universal Preschool will open for families to pre-register
In December, if you have a child turning 4 by August 1, 2026 you can apply and reserve a space at Platte Valley Early Learning Center for the 2026-2027 school year. The state will pay for a minimum of 15 hours of preschool per week for every 4-year-old in the state. 15 hours per week in our district pays for 2 full days per week. Some families are qualifying for additional funding through the state and are bringing their child 30 hours per week (4 full days). There will be the option for families wanting to pay and stay additional days as well.
We will have a 3-year-old tuition funded option for families again and there may be some state funding for qualifying families with children turning 3 by August 1, 2026… Stay Tuned! More information to come!
Please spread the word and send families my direction with questions, or for help with the application process. Families can call (970)336-8760, email [email protected] or stop by the center anytime. I will send the link out for the Universal Preschool application as soon as it becomes available.

Holiday Family Resources, PV4PV Education Foundation, Push to the End, & Happy Holidays. 
Cook Center and Family Resources. We want to remind families of the partnership with Cook Center and ParentGuidance.org., a non-profit organization that works to provide resources to families to help guide their children through all of the issues they will be confronted with as the grow up. These issues include dealing with social media, anxiety, body image, grief and loss, divorce, and much more. It is not uncommon for anxiety to increase during the holidays, both for adults and children. The resources are specific to parents and guardians and is being funded for two years through a grant with the Weld Trust. Please see the information below on how to access the resources available to our families.

Mental Health Series Calendar: This month’s calendar includes sessions on motivating your child, social media, substance use and vaping, and many more. Simply go to the link below, selection Colorado in the “state” dropdown followed by “Platte Valley” in the select your school district and go to the monthly calendar. Mental Health Series
How to Sign Up for Parent Coaching: https://cookcenter.info/HowtoRegisterforCoaching. 
How to Use the Mental Health Series: https://cookcenter.info/WelcometotheMentalHealthSeries.

PV4PV Education Foundation. We are pleased to share with our community the creation of a new 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Positive Voices for Platte Valley (PV4PV) Education Foundation. The foundation officially obtained its federal tax-exempt status on August 18^th, 2025. The organization’s mission is to support the students, staff, and community involved with Platte Valley School District. Initially, PV4PV is focused on providing scholarship opportunities for graduating seniors from Platte Valley High School. This May, PV4PV will offer two $1,000 scholarships to graduating Platte Valley seniors.
The organization is a separate operating entity from Platte Valley School District, with a focus on alignment in the vision and mission for supporting the District. PV4PV has an oversight board consisting of five people: President, Dan Buderus; Vice President, Janet Niederkorn; Treasurer, Glenn McClain; Secretary, Christina Decker; and Platte Valley School District Board Representative, Robin Meireis. The Platte Valley Superintendent serves as an ex-offico member and does not have voting rights with the Board. Anyone interested in supporting this new organization may contact Jeremy Burmeister to help be steered in the appropriate direction. Contributions are tax deductible.  
Push to the End. As we enter into December, we have 15 instructional days remaining in the semester. Our district staff and Board of Education know the importance I place on regular school attendance. Simply put, if students are not at school they cannot learn. Additionally, with all of the activities that take place and excitement that comes at the end of the semester it can be easy to lose focus on academics. Please help us ensure we have a strong push to the end. We will do our part to keep expectations high, both academically and behaviorally, all the way to the end. We appreciate our families’ support in this; our strong community partnership is what helps us to maintain our high performing schools. Finally, it should be noted that high school will hold finals Thursday, December 18^th and Friday, December 19^th. These are essential days for school attendance.  
Central Office Ribbon Cutting. It is hard to believe we are approaching the completion of this major capital construction project. The school district will be holding a ribbon cutting celebration on Monday, January 12^th at 5:00 p.m. prior to the start of our regular board meeting. This is an open invitation to anyone in the community that would like to attend the open house and all are welcome to stay for the board meeting following.
Happy Holidays. The holidays, in my humble opinion, provide an opportunity for appreciation and reflection. We are fortunate to live in the community that we do, which is supportive of and believes in the ideals of public education and the Platte Valley School District. Our community is better because of the public education system we have at Platte Valley. I often remind myself the students we serve today will be the individuals who take care of us adults in the future.
In closing, I want to extend my gratitude and appreciation to the Platte Valley community. We are a destination district because of the focus on education we have in addition to having great students and families. I hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday season that you are able to enjoy with family, friends, and loved ones.
Yours in Education,
Jeremy Burmeister, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man”. Benjamin Franklin