Sinaloa Weekly Update Feb. 11, 2024

Good Evening All Sinaloa Families,

Happy Lunar New Year to all of our families that celebrate this holiday. The Sinaloa Family hopes this new year brings you good fortune, peace and prosperity.

Our 5 week Progress Reports will be available to view through Aeries on Monday 2/12/24. Since these are progress reports Eligibility for Volleyball will be based off of the Semester grades.

We know that there is always a lot of excitement surrounding Valentine's Day, but if a student has balloons, flowers, or stuffed animals which cannot fit in their lockers we will ask them to keep those in the office and they can pick them up afterschool. Large items like balloons, stuffed animals and flowers are distracting to the learning environment. Parents, please help us by encouraging your children to do something simple if they choose to celebrate Valentine's Day.

REMINDER: There is NO SCHOOL Friday Feb. 16th or Monday Feb. 19th for the President's Day Holiday.

REGISTRATION for OUR CURRENT STUDENTS - Our counselors will be going into the students current history classes to explain the registration process during the week of Feb. 20th. They will return at a later date to pick up the students' registration form.

SINALOA MIDDLE SCHOOL STARTS AT 8:00 AM - This is just a friendly reminder that our first period of the day starts at 8:00 AM and our expectation is that all students are on campus with enough time to put the backpacks in their lockers and get to class. We are seeing a large amount of students tardy to their A block on a daily basis. If this continues to be a problem we will hold a parent conference to help find solutions for the tardiness to school.

NEW FENCES & GATES - Our fences and gates are in place and we will be implementing our new procedures with certain gates open at different times of the day. The pedestrian gate by the fire road will not be opened during drop off to encourage parents to drive all the way down to the locker hallway so we can get more cars off of Royal Ave. and into our parking lot. Once the school day starts all of the gates except those by the stairs will be closed and locked. At the end of the day all pedestrian gates will be opened to allow our students to be dismissed in a timely manner.

Incoming Student Course Registration Events:

3/5/24 - Future 6th Grade Families

3/6/24 - Future 7th & 8th Grade Families

Current Student Course Registration:

Counselors will be going into current classrooms starting mid-February. Your student will fill out a Google Form of their choices. This form is EDITABLE. You will get a copy of what they chose to the email your student inputs. (we ask them to input parent email addresses). The parent copy will have instructions for how to edit, due dates, and how to contact the counselor with questions.

To read our course catalog, with course descriptions, math placement information and more, please CLICK HERE.

***Please make sure you have updated ALL Aeries contacts as this is how we email information home.

As the weather gets colder our ASB office wants to remind families that we are selling gray PE sweatshirts/ hoodies for $25.00 and black PE sweatpants for $20.00. Parents can purchase directly from the ASB office or online at our webstore and pick up their receipt to take to PE at the ASB Office. https://simivalleyusd.graystep.com/webstores

PTSA INFORMATION PAGE

Sinaloa PTSA announces proposed updates to our Unit Bylaws. These proposed changes have been approved by the CA State Parliamentarian and will be put for association approval at the March PTSA General Association Meeting.

Change Nominating Committee from 5 and 2 alternates to 3 and1 alternate

Change election meeting from February to March.

General Association meeting Months Aug, Dec, March and May

Reduce Association quorum from 13 to 12

Remove Auditor as Officer

Change delegate Appointment to August

Change Exec Board Mtgs to 2nd Tuesday

Change AG Meetings to 4th Thursday

Change Ways and Means to Fundraising

Standing Committees: Reflections, Dine Outs, Social Media, HSA Volunteer Awards, Volunteer Coordinator, Hospitality

Removal of Standing Rules18-20 completely to follow CAPTA Toolkit

Do you know a parent, Sinaloa staff member, or business owner who has gone above and beyond to support our school and our students?

Please take the opportunity to nominate someone you consider to deserve this special distinction for contributions made to the children and youth of our community. It only takes a couple of minutes and it is a wonderful way to thank someone who makes a BIG difference in the lives of our students. Please complete this simple google form to nominate someone. All nominations are due FEB 29th.

https://forms.gle/YVZ9WrtFuBrkyEXk8

Let’s EAT MOR CHIKIN: Join us for our next Saber Dine Out day at Chick-Fil-A on Friday, Feb 16th. Mention SINALOA and our PTSA will receive a donation of 20% of sales.

Dippin Dots and other treats on sale afterschool every Friday for $5

• FEB. 10TH - Happy Lunar New Year!

• FEB. 12TH & 14TH - Girls Volleyball Practice 3-4PM

• FEB. 13TH & 15TH - Boys Volleyball Practice 3-4PM

• FEB. 14TH - Valentine's Day

• FEB. 16TH - Local Holiday - NO SCHOOL

• FEB. 16th - Chick - Fil - A PTSA Dine out Day

• FEB. 19TH - Presidents Day - NO SCHOOL

• FEB. 26TH - SMS Girls Volleyball v. VVMS @ 3:30 in the SMS GYM

• FEB. 27TH - SMS Boys Volleyball v. VVMS @ 3:30 in the SMS GYM

• FEB. 28TH - SMS Girls Volleyball v. HMS @ 3:30 in the SMS GYM

• FEB. 29TH - SMS Boys Volleyball v. HMS @ 3:30 in the SMS GYM

• MARCH 4TH - SMS Girls Volleyball v. HMS @ 3:30 in the HMS GYM

• MARCH 5TH - SMS Boys Volleyball v. HMS @ 3:30 in the HMS GYM

• MARCH 10TH - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME STARTS - Set your clocks an hour ahead.

• MARCH 13TH - SMS Girls Volleyball v. VVMS @ 3:30 in the VVMS GYM

• MARCH 14TH - SMS Boys Volleyball v. VVMS @ 3:30 in the VVMS GYM

• NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS: Holidays - 2/16 (local holiday) 2/19 (Presidents Day) 3/25 - 4/2 (Spring Break) 5/27 (Memorial Day)
• NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS: Professional Development - 3/01, and 4/02
• MINIMUM DAYS: Fridays: 2/23, 3/15, 4/19, 5/17, 6/4, 6/5, 6/6

SABERS - Let's Remember the 5 A's: Academics, Art, Athletics, Attitude and Achievement

We will have a short week the next two weeks in celebration of President's Day. Please use the time we are at school to learn the concepts you need to be successful. As we get closer to spring we will start ramping up for the Physical Fitness test for our 7th graders and the CAASPP testing for all of our students. Our teachers will start practicing the interim tests with their students so we can help students feel comfortable when they take the CAASPP tests. We encourage all of our students to participate in these tests so they can be prepared for the future standardized test they will be required to take to get into colleges or even to qualify for certain careers.

If we have any families that need assistance with school supplies or other materials please use the two buttons below for assistance.

Sincerely,

Principal Shawn Rumble

Sinaloa Middle School

8th Graders please use the links to the different high schools for School of Choice

Tuesdays and Thursdays

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Households can only receive groceries one day a week, and will need to line up in their vehicle near the St. Francis Assisi church. No ID required. Unhoused individuals can receive groceries twice a week and must come to the front office.

The Samaritan Center | 805-579-9166 280 Royal Ave. Simi Valley, CA 93065

Free groceries every Thursday

2 PM - 6 PM

Donations accepted on Wednesdays, 10 AM - 1 PM

4191 Cochran St. Simi Valley, CA 93065