Make sure to mark your calendars for the following events at Roosevelt this week:
Tuesday, April 24 – Friday, April 27 — California Standards Testing (CST) for grades 2 – 6
Monday, April 23
Artist Elizabeth Gomez from last month’s Author Night will be teaching art to the 4th grade students in Room 10. (She will be teaching the 4th graders in Room 13 on April 30)
Tuesday, April 24
6th Grade GATE students will have their CST testing in the morning and then will be transported at 10:30 by a PCC van to their GATE class at Selby. Please pick up your child at Selby at 2:30 as usual. The PCC van will not be bringing the students back to Roosevelt at the end of the day.
PTA meeting at 5:30pm in the Faculty Lounge (Room 14). Items to discuss – Upcoming rummage sale, board members for next year, field trips, budget update, etc. All are welcome to attend and Spanish translation is also available. Free childcare is offered in the YMCA room. (Please note: this is an earlier start time due to CST testing)
Wednesday, April 25
Restaurant Fundraiser at Margaritas Mexican Restaurant – 2098 Broadway Street. 15% of the sales from that evening will be donated back to Roosevelt. Flyers went home in last Thursday’s folder. Additional flyers are available in the school office.
After dinner at Margaritas, come to the District Office at 7:00pm to show your appreciation and support for Roosevelt’s Office Manager, Gwen Thomas, as she receives recognition for 25 years of service. There will be a recognition ceremony followed by a reception before the beginning of the regular board meeting.
If you stay for the School Board meeting, Superintendent Jan Christensen will be discussing issues from last week’s special board meeting about grade configuration, enrollment and boundaries.
Important Dates…
April 30 – Artist Elizabeth Gomez teaching art to Room 13
May 4 – Coffee with Principal Girardi at 8:00am in the Library (attending parents will participate in the Fire Drill)
May 4 – Fire Drill at 8:05am
May 4 – RCEF benefit at Pacific Shores Center
May 5 – Cinco de Mayo Celebration / Rummage Sale
May 7 – Last Site Council / ELAC meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14
May 7 – May 11 – 5th graders at Outdoor Education
May 9 – Teachers Appreciation Lunch at 11:00am
May 10 – Parcel Tax Phone Banking – 5:30-8:30pm
May 15 – Last PTA Meetting at 6:00pm in Room 14 (Note: date changed from May 22)
May 21 – Kent Awards Ceremony
May 22 – SMCRA Literacy Award Ceremony for Kinder Team
May 23 – School play “The Effect” at 6:00pm
May 24 – Open House / PBL Fair 5:30-6:30, Bingo 6:30pm
May 28 – Memorial Day – No School
May 29 – 6th Graders Instrumental Music Performance at Sequoia High School
June 6 – Minimum Day
June 7 – Last Day of School! — Super Minimum Day — All grades dismissed at 12:00
CST and Benchmark Testing…
Testing time is here! CST Testing begins this week for grades 2 -6 and other students will be taking Benchmark tests. Please make sure your child is on time each day. Make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast each day as well. They’ll be testing in the morning, so a good breakfast will help them concentrate. Talk about the importance of doing their best and remind them to take their time and check their work. Make sure they go to bed on time – 8:30pm at the latest! Students do better when they are fully rested. Have your child relax each day after school. Finally, give them encouragement to do their best!
Roosevelt Expansion Update…
The district’s Grade Configuration Committee has voted and given their recommendations to the Superintendent and the School Board. The committee voted 20 to 5 in favor of Roosevelt becoming a K – 8 school offering Project Based Learning. Next, Superintendent Jan Christensen will give her recommendations to the school board and then the school board will vote on this as well as other recommendations that were put forth by the grade configuration committee. At last Wednesday’s board meeting, the school board expressed concern over the impact on programs at Kennedy since Henry Ford is requesting to add 6th grade and Taft is requesting K-8. The meeting was heavily attended by Kennedy parents and staff expressing their concern over Kennedy’s future. If you would like to address the board, you may do so at Wednesday’s board meeting. The school board vote is tentatively scheduled for the May 9 board meeting. All are welcome to attend and Spanish translation is available.
Roosevelt Facebook Page…
The district has created Facebook pages for each school in the district. The district wants to use these pages to get important school and district information out to families. The address for the district’s Roosevelt page is www.facebook.com/pages/
Rummage Sale…
Our Rummage Sale will also be a Cinco de Mayo celebration on May 5, 2012! Our PTA president, Aurora Gallardo needs help sorting and pricing the donated items that have been stored in the PTA room and selling booth space. Parents are also needed to help cook food for the festivities. 10×10 foot stalls are also available to rent by anyone that wants to sell at the rummage sale so ask family and friends if they want to rent a stall.
For more information, please contact Aurora at aurora.gallardo@star-vista.org
Box Tops…
We have one more Box Tops Contest running this year – you have raised almost $800 for our school, just by turning in BoxTops!
We are hoping for some small prize donations for our last contest of the year. We are going to offer raffle tickets for every 5 box tops that are turned in, and that raffle ticket will allow the child to win a prize. We are hoping to collect some prizes from our parents – movie tickets, small gift cards to Corner Yogurt or Jamba Juice, Target, Lego sets, cool books in English and Spanish – be creative! If you have a prize you can donate, please send an email to megan.goulden@gmail.com.
Parcel Tax Phone Banking…
The parcel tax committee has assigned Roosevelt to 2 phone bank nights for Measure W (the parcel tax). We need 20 people per night and they are fun and easy. All we do is call people to understand whether they are supporters or not. No convincing required!
RCEF Benefit…
Tickets are now on sale for the RCEF’s Benefit for a Brighter Future to be held on May 4, 2012 at 5:30pm at the Pacific Shores Club. For more information about the event, go to www.benefitforabrighterfuture.
Ballot Initiative…
Elections are coming up and I’ll pass along anything related to education funding as I get information so that we can all make informed decisions.
The first one I’ll pass along is a ballot initiative called Our Children, Our Future. This ballot initiative is supported by the California State PTA. If passed, this measure proposes to raise $10 to $11 billion annually in new revenue through a sliding scale income tax increase that varies with taxpayers’ ability to pay. Organizers are in the process of collecting signatures to put it on the ballot, so take a look at their website for more information — www.ourchildrenourfuture2012.
Have a great week!
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