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Monday 1/20:

NO SCHOOL - MLK JR. DAY

Neighborhood Donation Event (Acacia Magnet School), 9am-12pm

Tuesday 1/21:

FULL DAY BELL SCHEDULE

Lunch Detention (Room 23), During Lunch

*Anime Club (Room 8), During Lunch

*Dungeons & Dragons (Room 29), During Lunch

*Study Club (Room 12 & 13), During Lunch

After School Detention (Room D-3), 3:20pm

Wednesday 1/22:

MINIMUM DAY BELL SCHEDULE - 1:55pm Dismissal

Bake Sale Fundraiser (Front of School), Before/After School

Lunch Detention (Room 2), During Lunch

*Builders Club (Room 7), During Lunch

*Guitar Club (Room D4), During Lunch

*The Kandi Club (Room 40), During Lunch

*Musical Theater Club (MPR), During Lunch

PTSA Food Fundraiser - The Habit (Hillcrest Dr., TO), 4:00 - 9:00pm

Thursday 1/23:

FULL DAY BELL SCHEDULE

Bake Sale Fundraiser (Front of School), Before/After School

Lunch Detention (Room 23), During Lunch

*ASL Club (Room 30), During Lunch

*Badminton Club (Gym), During Lunch

*Balloon Making Club (Room 25), During Lunch

*Lucky Humans Club (Room 2), During Lunch

*Study Club (Room 12 & 13), During Lunch

After School Detention (Room 8), 3:20pm

Friday 1/24:

FULL DAY BELL SCHEDULE

Student of the Month Breakfast for Sept.-Dec. Honorees (MPR), 8:00am

*3D Printing Club (Room 11), During Lunch

*Competitive Robotics (Room 11), During Lunch

Jan. 30 - Jazz Band Concert

Jan. 31 - Teen Center Dance

Jan. 31 - Deadline for Entries for Art & Poetry Contest

Feb. 3-7 - Coin Wars Competition

Feb. 7 - Rally Schedule

Feb. 7 - Deadline for Outdoor School Paperwork

Feb. 14 & 17 - NO SCHOOL - Holiday

Feb. 14 - Teen Center Ski Trip

Mar. 17 - Teen Center Ski Trip

Apr. 18-25 - NO SCHOOL - Spring Break

Food collection for Adelante Comunidad Conejo, a local non-profit that supports our community.

Join the Habit Burger & Grill in support of Los Cerritos PTSA on Wednesday, January 22 from 4:00 - 9:00pm. Habit will give back 20% of net sales to our PTSA. Use code GIVEBACK for online or mobile orders. See flyer for more info.

Help support the Wildfire victims in the Pacific Palisades and AltaDena fires by purchaing a muffin, bagels, candy, cookies, brownies and other goodies before and after school. Look for our booths set up in front of the school on Wednesday, 1/22 and Thursday, 1/23. Prices are between $1-$3. CASH ONLY.

Let's help those affected by the Altadena and Pacifc Palisades fires! See flyer for ways to help.

The 2025 Winter League schedules for 7th & 8th Grade Girls Basketball and 7th and 8th Grade Boys Volleyball are now published and available, click HERE to view.

The Student District Advisory Council (SDAC) is looking for current 8th grade students, who are interested in being a representative for SDAC during the 2025-26 school year. If you are someone who wants to share their ideas, have good communication skills, has the capacity to commit, and are looking to better our school, our district, and our community, please complete the following questions and submit this form by February 13th. After February 13th, interviews will be conducted following the preliminary review of all applications. We will notify those selected when interviews will occur. Please check your learn email for application updates.

Application closes on 2/13/25 at 4:00pm.

Your student received the Outdoor School Packet from their Science Teacher. The packet contained the following items:

• General Information Sheet: Provides information including: Location; Fee; Staffing; Supervision; Outdoor School Dates; Packing List; Prohibited Items (Please keep this form to refer to as needed)
• Authorization to Treat Form (White): Must be completed and returned to the Science Teacher.
• Heath Form (Green): Must be completed and returned to the Science Teacher

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Deadline: If your student will be attending Outdoor School, all forms (Authorization to Treat; Health Form) must be returned to their Science Teacher no later than Friday, February 7th.

Fee: No student shall be denied the opportunity to participate due to a lack of funds. Any money that is provided must be turned in by February 7th.

Medication Form: If your student needs to take any medication (includes Vitamins; Melatonin; Aleve) while at Outdoor School, you and your doctor will need to complete a “Authorization for Medication” form. Please have your student get this form from their Science teacher.

• Exceptions: The only remedies that can be provided by camp are listed on the Green Health form (Children’s Tylenol, Tums, Cough Drops, Calamine Lotion, Neosporin Ointment, and Benadryl).
• Medication at School: If your student already has medication in the Nurse’s Office, you DO NOT have to submit additional paperwork. THIS MEDICATION WILL GO TO CAMP AUTOMATICALLY.

Additional Forms: If your student misplaces any Outdoor School paperwork, please have them go the Front Office or their student’s Science Teacher.

Not Attending: If your student WILL NOT be attending Outdoor School, please complete the Google Form below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7FyQIwJRysPMKal3uPUK9xhzVGw-qrcfs0SZy7IyqKEY_zQ/viewform?usp=dialog

More Information about Outdoor School: Click on the banner below.

The Thousand Oaks Teen Center is hosting a Ski Trip to Mountain High during the school holidays on February 14th and March 17th. The trip is $150 per person which covers transportation, lift ticket, supervision included. Permission slip/proof of family medical insurance required to attend. Register by clicking on banner below. See flyer for more info.

Attention 8th graders attending Westlake High School in the fall.

See the flyer for important meeting dates regarding registration.

There will be a Parent/Guardian Virtual Presentation on

March 26th from 5:30 - 6:30pm.

Click on banner below to be directed to the Presentation.

Attention 8th Graders attending Thousand Oaks High School

in the fall.

There will be a Parent/Guardian Virtual Presentation on

March 27th at 6:00pm.

Click on banner below (or QR code on flyer) to register.

Our partner from the California Coastal Commission would like to share these amazing opportunities with LC families.

• California students in kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to submit artwork or poetry with a California coastal or marine theme to the Coastal Art & Poetry Contest, presented by the California Coastal Commission.

For prize information, rules, contest flyer, entry form (and helpful links for teachers and students), please Click on button below.

The instructions, flyer, and entry form are also available in Spanish. (If you need the flyer emailed instead, please let me know.

• California students in 6th through 12th grade are invited to submit a podcast, narrative essay, or photo essay to the Climate Storytelling Contest. Students choose one of the three mediums and answer the following prompt: What are your feelings towards climate change? How can those feelings be turned into action?

Entries can be submitted online by 5pm on May 29th, 2025.

For prize information, rules, contest flyer, entry form (and helpful links for teachers and students), please click on button below.

Help LC earn up to $2,500! Plus, the school with the most dollars logged each month gets a $200 bonus. Submit your receipts from The Oaks Sept. 1 thru April 30. Click on banner below to submit your receipts. See flyer for additional ways to earn points.

Up to Five Key Takeaways...

Family participation and engagement is a key priority of the Conejo Valley Unified School District. Our seven Advisory Councils and Committees meet regularly for vibrant discussions, informative presentations, relationship-building activities and more. These meetings are open to all members of our CVUSD community to attend. However, we understand that attending meetings in-person is not always possible. Click HERE to stay informed on updates and actions from each Advisory Council and Committee, with "Up to Five Key Takeaways" from each meeting.