Make sure to mark your calendars for the following events at Roosevelt this week:
Monday, January 14
Site Council meeting at 6:30pm in the Faculty Lounge (Room 14). On the agenda for this month’s meeting: Student and Staff Safety (gates and drop off) and the School Safety Plan. All are encouraged to attend and Spanish translation is available. (Attendance counts toward your 40 hour time commitment)
Important Dates…
January 14 – Site Council Meeting at 6:30pm
January 21 – Martin Luther King’s Birthday – No School
January 28 – PTA Meeting at 6:00pm
January 31 – Coffee with Principal Girardi at 8:00am
February 1 – Free Dress Friday
Trivia Question…
How many years have schools in San Mateo County been participating in Outdoor Education?
a. 52
b. 47
c. 44
d. 34
Make your guess and find out if you’re right at the bottom!
Science Links for Kids & Adults
Foothill College does an annual Physics Show geared towards kids to make science fun. Tickets for this year’s show are already sold out, but I recommend that you sign up for their email alert for next year’s show. In the meantime, they have a list of links for kids and adults of fun and educational science websites and activities. www.thephysicsshow.com
After School Sports…
The Parks & Recreation Department has some after school winter sports activities that are being offered to Roosevelt students.
Winter Indoor Soccer for ages 8 -14 – Registration Deadline February 8
For more information, go to www.teamsideline.com/redwoodcity/ and select the Winter Sports tab.
Lost & Found…
The Lost & Found in the office is bursting with jackets and sweaters so please take a look in it if your child has lost anything. Also, please make sure to put your child’s name on the tag inside of jackets and sweaters and on lunchboxes so that the item can be returned to his/her classroom.
Roosevelt Snack Shack…
The 5th grade parents are supervising the 5th grade students in the snack shack for the first 30 minutes each afternoon until Mr. Williams or Ms. Novikoff can take over after their classes are dismissed. If you are not a 5th grade parent, but you would like to help out and take on a 30 minute shift on a day that works with your schedule, please contact Mr. Williams at jwilliams@rcsdk8.net All profits made from the snack shack help to fund the 5th graders trip to Outdoor Education in May.
“Like” us on Facebook…
Please be sure to “Like” the Roosevelt page to get school and district updates and pictures from Roosevelt school events in your news feed. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roosevelt-Elementary-School/214259038634327
Trivia Question Answer…
The correct answer is c. 44 years. (But if you answered b. 47 years, you are partially correct)
The beginning of Outdoor Education for San Mateo County Schools dates to the summer of 1965 when Gus Xerogeanes, a natural sciences teacher for the San Bruno Park School District, took a group of 6th grade students on a weeklong summer school adventure to the YMCA Camp at Jones Gulch.
A district-wide program for San Bruno Park Schools was started in the spring of 1966 with only 60 students each week due to limited space at the site. In the fall of 1966, more districts began participating in the program, which continued to be run by the San Bruno Park School District. A pilot Outdoor Education program was approved in 1968 and began with 650 pupils. For more information about the Outdoor Education program, go to www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/outdoored/smoe/001/About.html
It costs approximately $250 per student to attend a week of Outdoor Education. Roosevelt’s 5th graders are scheduled to go the week of May 6 – 10 this year and they have to raise about $15,000 for all of them to go. Please help keep this tradition alive for our 5th grade class by supporting our school’s snack shack! The snack shack (The Roosevelt Canteen) is open for an hour every day after school and is located in the PTA room at the bottom of the main hallway. Snack items are priced at $.50 to $2.00.
Have a great week!
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