Learning math turned into an exciting mystery in Ms. Ward’s 2nd-grade class! 🕵️♂️📐
Yellow caution tape marked off an investigation zone filled with scattered base-ten blocks, flats, and rods. Working through place value word problems, our young detectives tracked down clues to crack the case of the "Petrifying Place Value Puzzlers"! 🔍✨
So proud of our creative teachers and hardworking Hornets! 💜 #TreaklePride
🌟 Big news, Treakle Family! Join us in celebrating our Support Person of the Year, Ms. Taylor! 🎉👏
From being the ultimate laminating pro, to keeping our 3D printers running, and supporting staff across all grade levels, Ms. Taylor does it all with a warm heart and a helping hand! 🖨️💜
Drop a comment below to send Ms. Taylor some love and congratulations! 👇🐝✨
#TreaklePride #CPSCelebrates
Our fourth graders in Ms. Jones’ class turned math into a sweet learning adventure! 🍬
By building arrays with candy corn, students easily uncovered factors and mastered multiplication concepts.
📊 What was your favorite hands-on activity in school? 💭
🐝 #TreaklePride
🇺🇸 Honoring the brave men and women who have served our country! ❤️🤍💙
Today and every day, we are so thankful for the veterans among our Treakle staff members and our amazing Hornet families. 🐝 Your dedication and service mean the world to our school community!
Drop a ❤️ or a 🇺🇸 in the comments to help us thank a veteran today! #TreaklePride #CPSCelebrates
Our Hornets are reaching new heights with our weekly vocabulary rocket trophy competition! 🚀
Classes earn the trophy each week by discovering context clues, synonyms, and antonyms, then counting how many times they can use the featured word correctly! 🏆
So far, our word list includes electrifying, enormous, primary, delegate, curious, and spectacular! ✨
Which of these featured words has your Hornet been using at home? 💜
#TreaklePride
Mark your calendars for an evening of health, fun, and community spirit! Treakle Elementary is hosting Family Fun & Fitness Night on Thursday, November 19, 2026, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM. 💜
Our Hornet families are invited to participate in a wide variety of engaging physical activities, including Jump Rope, Hula Huts, Basketball Shooting, Cornhole, Scooter Speedway, Hula Hoop Hopscotch, and Bay Blade Hoops! 🏀 Families will also have the opportunity to complete Fitness Gram activities and learn about our exciting upcoming fitness initiative, "Jog Across America!" 🏃♂️
In addition to all the energetic games, snacks will be provided for attendees, and our Book Fair will be open for families to browse and purchase books. We cannot wait to see our Hornets there! 💜
#TreaklePride
Our Hornet families are invited to participate in a wide variety of engaging physical activities, including Jump Rope, Hula Huts, Basketball Shooting, Cornhole, Scooter Speedway, Hula Hoop Hopscotch, and Bay Blade Hoops! 🏀 Families will also have the opportunity to complete Fitness Gram activities and learn about our exciting upcoming fitness initiative, "Jog Across America!" 🏃♂️
In addition to all the energetic games, snacks will be provided for attendees, and our Book Fair will be open for families to browse and purchase books. We cannot wait to see our Hornets there! 💜
#TreaklePride
Ms. Schapperts second grade class showed off their green thumbs in our garden beds. 🥦
A few weeks ago, our hard-working Hornets planted cauliflower and broccoli thanks to plants donated by Healthy Chesapeake. 🥦
During a checkup on their plants this week, students discovered a surprise bell pepper growing. 🫑
They were so excited to pick the pepper and give it a taste test. 🫑
#TreaklePride
Our 5th-grade Hornets recently participated in a hands-on kindness activity with guidance counselor, Ms. Gone! 🐝 After watching an engaging video about the power of positive words, students folded paper origami beaks to practice speaking kindly to their peers. 💜 It was a wonderful way for our students to build empathy and share encouragement! #TreaklePride 🐝
Our fantastic 4th graders in Ms. Jones' class had an out-of-this-world experience at the ODU Planetarium! 🌌
They explored our solar system, identified stars currently shining in our night sky, and learned fascinating facts about planet features and moon phases. 🪐
Which planet or constellation is your family's favorite to spot at night? 🔭
#TreaklePride
We are so proud of our October Students of the Month! 💜
These outstanding Hornets showed incredible respect and courtesy all throughout the month. 🌟
We loved celebrating their hard work alongside their families with a special ceremony, fun game time, and delicious snacks! 🍿
Thank you to our amazing families for coming out to share this special moment with us. Go Hornets! 🎉
#TreaklePride #CPSCelebrates
Our first graders returned to our dogwood tree to investigate all the stunning fall changes happening this October! 🍁
From vibrant leaf colors to cooler breezes, our young scientists recorded their observations with so much excitement! 🍂
What is your favorite fall change to observe in your neighborhood❓
🐝 #TreaklePride
Our Trunk or Treat was an absolute success! Huge thank you to all our amazing families and volunteers who donated candy, decorated trunks, and brought so much community joy tonight! We loved seeing all of the trick or treaters showing off their spirit! Which decorated trunk was your favorite tonight? 🎃
#TreaklePride #CPSCelebrates
💜🐝 CHOSEN: Meeting #1! 🐝💜
Our 5 CHOSEN sisters kicked off their first meeting with fun icebreakers and began creating our CHOSEN Promise—a commitment to kindness, encouragement, and respect in and out of our meetings! 💜✨
We can’t wait to watch these girls grow together!
Confident. Honest. Open-Hearted. Strong. Empowered. Noble. We are CHOSEN!
#TreaklePride #FutureLeaders 💜
Spotlight on our amazing first-grade scientists in Mr. Boyd and Ms. Washington's classes! 💜
Our Hornets took their learning outside into the courtyard three times throughout the day to investigate solar power. 🐝
Students observed firsthand how the sun's energy acts as a natural heat source for Earth's land, air, and water. ☀️
We are so proud of our young scholars for bringing classroom concepts to life outdoors! 🌿
#TreaklePride
Treakle Elementary is excited to announce our upcoming Cozy & Creative Spirit Week, taking place from October 26th through October 30th!
📣We invite all of our students and staff members to join in the fun and show off their Hornet pride throughout the week.
Here is the lineup of daily spirit themes:
Monday, October 26: Blast Off Shirts for Staff & Treakle Shirts for Students 🚀
Tuesday, October 27: Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 🩷
Wednesday, October 28: Sweater Weather Day 🧥
Thursday, October 29: Fall Colors Day (Orange, Red, Yellow, Brown, Gold) 🍁
Friday, October 30: School-Appropriate Halloween Costume Day 🎃
Let's make this week full of fun, warmth, and school unity! #TeaklePride #CPSCelebrates💜
📣We invite all of our students and staff members to join in the fun and show off their Hornet pride throughout the week.
Here is the lineup of daily spirit themes:
Monday, October 26: Blast Off Shirts for Staff & Treakle Shirts for Students 🚀
Tuesday, October 27: Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 🩷
Wednesday, October 28: Sweater Weather Day 🧥
Thursday, October 29: Fall Colors Day (Orange, Red, Yellow, Brown, Gold) 🍁
Friday, October 30: School-Appropriate Halloween Costume Day 🎃
Let's make this week full of fun, warmth, and school unity! #TeaklePride #CPSCelebrates💜
Our annual Trunk or Treat is officially one week away, and our Treakle Hornets are gearing up for an exciting celebration! To make sure every student goes home with plenty of goodies, we have a special new helper on our team: Victor the candy monster!
As Victor says, "Big or small, we want them all!"
How You Can Help:
Donate Candy: Drop off bags of wrapped candy at the school main office, or ship items directly to Treakle Elementary using our Amazon Trunk or Treat Wish List.
Decorate a Trunk or Volunteer: We still welcome families who want to host a decorated trunk or help out during the event. Please complete our online volunteer sign-up form to secure your spot.
Thank you for your incredible support in making this tradition wonderful for our school community! 💜 #TreaklePride
As Victor says, "Big or small, we want them all!"
How You Can Help:
Donate Candy: Drop off bags of wrapped candy at the school main office, or ship items directly to Treakle Elementary using our Amazon Trunk or Treat Wish List.
Decorate a Trunk or Volunteer: We still welcome families who want to host a decorated trunk or help out during the event. Please complete our online volunteer sign-up form to secure your spot.
Thank you for your incredible support in making this tradition wonderful for our school community! 💜 #TreaklePride
Learning math is always exciting at Treakle Elementary, but Ms. Schappert’s 2nd grade class took hands-on learning to a whole new level with "Place Value Munchies!"
To help deepen their understanding of base-ten concepts, students transformed everyday snack items into mathematical tools. Cheez-Its represented hundreds flats, pretzel sticks served as tens rods, and mini marshmallows acted as ones cubes. Students were challenged to build and model various multi-digit numbers using their edible manipulatives.
This engaging lesson brought place value concepts to life while keeping our young Hornets fully energized and focused. After successfully demonstrating their understanding of each number, students were able to enjoy their delicious work!
We are so proud of our creative teachers and hard-working 2nd grade mathematicians! Go Hornets! 💜
To help deepen their understanding of base-ten concepts, students transformed everyday snack items into mathematical tools. Cheez-Its represented hundreds flats, pretzel sticks served as tens rods, and mini marshmallows acted as ones cubes. Students were challenged to build and model various multi-digit numbers using their edible manipulatives.
This engaging lesson brought place value concepts to life while keeping our young Hornets fully energized and focused. After successfully demonstrating their understanding of each number, students were able to enjoy their delicious work!
We are so proud of our creative teachers and hard-working 2nd grade mathematicians! Go Hornets! 💜
Our fourth graders in Ms. Jones' class had a fantastic conclusion to Hispanic Heritage Month! Inspired by our new raised garden beds, one thoughtful student brought in a seed from his family's home country to share his culture. Thanks to Ms. Sawyer, Supervisor of Science for Chesapeake Public Schools, the whole class got to taste delicious fresh Rambutan! The students then planted their seeds in our school greenhouse, and our Hornets are so excited to see what grows! 🍇🌱 #TreaklePride
We are beyond excited to announce G. A. Treakle Elementary’s 2026–2027 Teacher of the Year — Stacey Sherrill! 💜🤍
Stacey’s dedication, heart, expertise, and unwavering commitment to our students and school community make her truly deserving of this incredible honor. She goes above and beyond each day to support students, collaborate with colleagues, solve problems, and help make Treakle a better place for everyone.
Your Treakle family is so proud of you and grateful for all that you do!
🐝💜 WAY TO GO, MS. SHERRILL! 💜🐝
#TreaklePride #TOTY2026
🎙️ Season 4 of Amplified is here! We’re starting the new season with Superintendent Dr. Doug Brubaker, who sits down with us to talk about his first weeks in Chesapeake. From what has impressed him about our schools and students to what brought his family to Chesapeake, Dr. Brubaker shares his early impressions and what he’s looking forward to in the year ahead.
Listen today at cpschools.com/amplified or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧