Mrs. Tammi Sani - Teacher of the Year!

Congratulations to Mrs. Tammi Sani - Teacher of the Year! We are so proud to have you represent us.

Talk Like A Pirate Day!

On International Talk Like A Pirate Day - what do you do? Dress like pirates and enjoy Krispy Kremes together!   fun is required when there is tough work to do - ARRRGGGHHH!

First Day of School - Again!

Well, here I am again as a parent of a Creeker.  Baby Girl starts Kindergarten today as the cutest little pirate on the ship!

And Then There Were Ten...

And then there were ten - original faculty members left! Only missing our beloved Mrs. KK in this picture from preplanning!

Not Your Ordinary First Day Mateys - ARGH!!!

This year it's all about DARING to be different, EXPLORING the unknown, DISCOVERING great bounty and ASTONISHING the world! We opened the year with team treasure hunts, STEAM activities and charted the course for the coming year ahead!

Latitude: 30.266852 Longitude: -81.469067

Treasure maps sometimes begin and end closer to home than we think.  The loot is in the walking of the map, not in arriving at the X.

• This year we will DARE to be different – we already are so why not embrace that being different is what makes us so special.
• We will EXPLORE the unknown because you will never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
• We will DISCOVER great bounty by enjoying every leg of the journey, appreciating each new thing uncovered along the way.
• We WILL ASTONISH the world because no cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it – and we will fight for what is right for our students, for ourselves, for our school.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do so Me Hearties...throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails! 

All faculty and staff - chart your course to Chets Creek Elementary on Monday, August 8 at 8:00 AM sharp!

Dare, Explore, Discover and Astonish!

The Adventure Begins…

Small Moment

On Wednesday morning, while walking my sweet language impaired Baby Girl into our school for her language therapy the most wonderfully small but precious thing happened.  She had taken me by the hand, as she does every time, so that we can walk safely across the traffic lane, but held on longer than usual.  Normally when we cross onto the porch she drops my hand and happily races to the door of the greatest school on earth.  In those few extra moments the most extraordinary thing happened. I'm sure what she said was simply something she has heard in a book or movie before but in the context of that moment it was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.  In her lovely little sing songy voice she uttered "you and me forever"...and I have yet to fully recover.  I have no way of knowing whether or not she understood what she said to me meant, but I can tell you it meant the absolute world to me.  I could have easily missed those four little words.  Having a child who struggles to understand or communicate has taught me so much about how to really, really listen, how to focus on the context of every interaction, how to pay the closest of attention to every little small moment. She's absolutely right...you and me forever baby girl...you and me forever.