School News

Please make sure your child arrives to school on time each day.  Testing can be stressful and being late to school will only add to your child’s stress.  We want all students to have every advantage to do well!  

So that our students may have their best opportunity to succeed and demonstrate all that they’ve learned this year, we ask that you...

• Have your child get a good night’s rest.
• Have your child eat a healthy breakfast and arrive with a healthy snack.  A breakfast which is high in protein and low in sugar is best to build stamina for testing and helps promote focus.
• Make it a priority to arrive on time.  The first bell rings at 8:10 AM and testing will begin right after attendance is taken.
• Schedule all activities and appointments after school hours.
• Make travel plans for the summer, not when school is in session.
• Encourage your child to “do their best”, but do not put any undue pressure on them.

Our Principal’s Coffee that is scheduled on Thursday, April 28^{th @} 8:30AM will focus on what this assessment is and how to support your student. The flier with the zoom link will be shared with parents through Parent Square next week.  In the meantime, you may also want to check out these resources for more information:

• CDE Parent Guide Page
  • https://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/ca/parentguidetounderstand.asp
• Lexile and Quantile Hub
  • https://hub.lexile.com/

All parents of second language learners are encouraged to attend. We will discuss ideas and get input from parents around services, actions, and budgets to meet our ELL students for the 2022-2023 school year. This input will help us with our LPAC   Mrs. Cronne will share what is happening in her ELD classes as well as how ELPAC testing is going.

All students who are identified as second language learners will be tested.  This test helps determine how much growth they have made with English in the areas of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. This assessment helps determine next steps for instruction, as well as reclassifying students who show proficiency in all the domains tested.

Please make it a priority to arrive on time since we start the assessments first thing in the morning. 

So that our students may have their best opportunity to succeed and demonstrate all that they’ve learned this year, we ask that you...

• Have your child get a full night of sleep during this time period.

• Have your child eat a healthy breakfast and arrive with a snack.

• Make it a priority to arrive on time.

• Schedule all activities and appointments after school hours.

This week, Mrs. Ross and three of our fourth grade students have been selling handprints to students for $1. We are very proud of these students since they independently reached out wanting to help and have been eagerly volunteering.

Students are decorating the handprints and displaying them in our library as a way of lending a hand. All proceeds will go to the World Central Kitchen in an effort to provide some aid for Ukraine.  See attached flyer for more details and how you can help.

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