Acacia Magnet School

*Please be sure to read our newsletter through as this is where you'll receive important information and updates as our year continues.

Dear Students & Parents,

I hope you all are enjoying a restful weekend. After the hot week we had, I encourage everyone to stay hydrated. As we enter into next week, we are looking at another hot Monday. During these hot days, we always encourage our students to stay hydrated. Recess and Lunch will be eaten in the MPR and students will have indoor play time. This is our protocol for any day we have an excessive heat warning.

Reflections is back! We are looking forward to seeing how our students represent this years theme "Accepting Imperfections". We want to encourage our students to participate in this awesome event. Please read below for additional information. An extra special thank you to Brittany Davila for chairing Reflections. We are grateful for the time you are spending to make this years Reflections one of the best yet.

We are looking for a Special Education DAC representative. - Special Education District Advisory Council (SEDAC) representative acts as the official Acacia representative at SEDAC meetings (they meet 6x/year), attend our monthly school site council meetings to report on Special Education updates/topics from the meetings. Please send Mr. Carter an email if you have questions or are interested.

During drop-off and pick-up, please ensure that you are not parking in the spots reserved for our staff and teachers. We understand that these times can get crowded, and to help with this, I recommend parking your car and walking to the front gate to pick up your child. Additionally, for the safety of all students, please make sure they exit the car on the passenger side during both drop-off and pick-up. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated!

I strongly encourage every family to consider purchasing accidental damage protection for their students' Chromebooks. These devices are essential tools for learning, and accidents can happen despite our best efforts to protect them. Having insurance ensures that if a device is damaged, it can be quickly repaired or replaced, minimizing disruptions to your child's education.

Please mark your calendars. On Wednesday, September 25th we will have our first Walk & Roll event. We will meet at Dover-Hendrix Park at 7:30 and begin walking to Acacia at 7:45. All families are welcome to join us.

GO CUBS!

Dennis Carter

Principal

Acacia Magnet School for Enriched Learning

Dates to Remember! 📆

September 13th - PTA Spirit Assembly, 8:30am - on the lower blacktop, families are invited to stay!

September 17th - School Site Council meeting, 3pm in Room 4

September 25th - Walk 'n Roll to School Event, meet at Dover & Hendrix park at 7:30am

September 26th - PTA Association Meeting, 8:20am in the MPR. All are welcome to attend, bring those little Cub siblings!

September 26th - English Learner Advisory Council/Title 1 meeting, 5:30pm in the MPR

September 27th - Family Movie Night! Gates will open at 6pm

🇬🇹🇲🇽🇵🇷HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH is celebrated September 15th-October 15th! 🇦🇷🇨🇷🇸🇻

Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) is pleased to provide all students with a Chromebook through the District’s 1:1 Program. While at no cost to families, proper use and care of the Chromebook is the responsibility of the student and their parent/guardian. To support this program, CVUSD is offering Chromebook Accidental Damage Protection (ADP) program for parents to eliminate the concern and costs of repairing or replacing damaged, or stolen Chromebooks.

Click for full details: Chromebook Accidental Damage Protection

Our ""Elemental" movie night 🎥🍿is at the end of the month, and we hope you will be able to come. Bring your friends and family! It's always a fun night for our families to hang out and have fun together.

September 26th, gates open at 6pm! Several food vendors will be there, and we'll be selling concessions as well.

💝 Ways to help:

Volunteer for Movie Night

Donate items from our Amazon Wishlist

Reflections Arts Program

Calling all of our creative, our art-loving Cubs! We'd love for our students to submit artwork for this fun arts program. This year's theme is "Accepting Imperfections." There are six different art categories they could submit work for, using the theme as inspiration:

• Dance Choreography
• Literature
• Photography
• Film Production
• Music Composition
• Visual Arts

There are five grade-level divisions, as well as the Accessible Artists division that celebrates student artists with disabilities. Please check the Reflections webpage for full details. Submissions will be submitted digitally, students have until October 4th to work on them. We can't wait to see all of their creative work! We will be hosting a showcase of their submissions on November for all to see. 😊

SUBMIT ARTWORK digitally here by October 4th ➡️ Student Art Submissions

Online Silent Auction

Help make our second biggest fundraiser of the year a great one! This event has the most flexibility to volunteer on your own time, outside of school hours. We are also starting to collecting gift card donations towards, services, events, excursions and experiences. If you'd like to help volunteer for this event - be helping secure donations from businesses or helping build the silent auction website platform - or make donations towards it, please email our VP of Fundraising, Nicole Cunningham, nicolioli@aol.com.

Please don't forget to keep scrolling down to see yearbook info and info on PTA memberships and donations!

Please feel free to reach out with any ideas, questions, or just to say hello. 👋🏽

acaciapta@gmail.com

Through our yearbook store you're able to order yearbooks, design, purchase and submit student dedications and upload the photos you've taken throughout the year. Also, an always handy "Did I Already Order?" button if, come May, you can't remembered if you ordered or not!

We are collecting photos from our Cub Picnic and the first day of school, submit your photos soon so they'll be included in the yearbook! The yearbook pages get designed throughout the year so as events happen we will be sending out asks for specific pages being worked on - and the sooner your photos are uploaded, the higher chances of them making it into the yearbook! Each classroom will have their own pages so if you are volunteering in class, during a party etc snap some pics to send in!

Examples of things we will be highlighting:

Passion Pursuits, Enrichment Clusters, PE, library, class pages, PTA events, grade-level events (field trips, parties etc), Unity Day, Inclusive Schools Week, English Learner Advisory Council (ELAC), Walk 'n Roll event, spirit assemblies, our Halloween Costume parade etc. So please keep en eye out for photo requests from us as our year goes!

To alleviate parking lot congestion and to reduce large numbers of students in the same location, we ask that you use grade-level designated gates at drop-off and pick-up. Thank you!

• Specialized Program (Special Education): In front of the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR), teachers and/or paraeducators will meet/walk out with students.
• Drop-Off:

• Pick-Ups:
  

TK - Gate 5

Kindergarten: Gate 4

First-Fifth Grades: Gate 1

*Optional for Fourth-Fifth Grades: Gate 7 (on Dover Avenue)

• Sibling may enter/exit together at the gate that is designated for the youngest student

Parking Lot Reminders:

• Blue accessible parking spaces are only for those with DP placards or license plates
• Please respect our reserved parking spots for principal and school staff
• Please do not stop in red zones for any reason, even to quickly drop off a student or to run into the office
• Do not exit your vehicle in the parking lot unless you have parked in a designated parking spot
• The yellow zone is for loading and unloading only - we will require you to move your vehicle if you are stationary in a yellow zone without a student leaving or entering your vehicle
• Please have students exit and enter the vehicles on the passenger side (sidewalk side) of the vehicles. We do not want students exiting vehicles into traffic.
• Be attentive for pedestrians and courteous at all times

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