Week 5

A heartfelt thank you to ALL the parents who made the time to join our Coffee with the Principal on the 5th. If you missed it, here is the recording for your review for what's coming up in September.

A big item that I covered at the coffee meeting that I want to make sure I reiterate is the importance of staying on top of the office/school/teacher correspondences. We are all very busy and have multiple calendars to manage. Timely announcements, deadlines and due dates are important because we want our students to not miss out on anything. Multnomah is a wonderful place with great academics paired with fun activities/events. Immerse your family into being a part of this wonderful Multnomah community by being on top of the events/happenings.

I hope that our Grandparents Day celebration brought a bit of happiness to your children's grandparents and they felt the love, warmth and attention that they all so truly deserve. We had about 260 grandparents and great-grandparents RSVP and about 280 showed up. While all are welcome, when you don't RSVP, parents, it makes it very difficult for everyone. Our grandparents are waiting and the children are not sent out of their classroom by their teachers because they were not on the list. Staff then has to run around trying to gather the missing grandchildren to unite with the awaiting grandparents who you did not RSVP for. We would never turn anyone away, but please help us make it efficient and smooth for everyone involved as we hope to keep this tradition going.

Enjoy the video and please accept my apologies if there isn't a photo taken of your grandparent. We tried our best to capture everyone but there was a lot of people.

Happy Grandparents Day to our Grandparents with us and to those watching over us.

A huge THANK YOU to our classified staff for all of their hard work and our parent volunteers: Ms. Susana Dozal, Ms. Benita Vazquez, Ms. Carolina Santiago, and Ms. Britney Jaquez!

Students are provided free meals daily. If you have a picky eater, please doing either of the following:

1. Download the Yum Yummy app for your phone to view menu options.

2. Click on this link for the daily menus (breakfast, lunch, after school.)

If they are not planning to eat any of the free food, please pack something for them. Our children are at their prime development ages and we want to be sure that everyone is getting the right sustenance for their minds and bodies. Avoid packing the lunch box with items with an overload of sugar or sodium. Our school district does have a no junk food policy that Multnomah fully supports and enforces.

The website allows you to select the date and the time of day of the meal. (See image above.)

We are strongly encouraging all of our students to log 50 minutes of reading and 50 minutes of math on the iReady platform each week. Lessons on the platform are connected to grade level goals. While teachers are having students log on during small group time in class, parents should log in each evening to check if students are meeting their goals. Students log into iReady through Schoology.

1. Visit lms.lausd.net

2. Student log in.

3. Click on waffle on upper right hand corner.

4. Select iReady.

5. Select Reading or Math.

6. Complete the tasks: Assignments or My Path.

We need help with the following for all processed volunteers available and willing!

• Classroom support in our Kindergarten classes (ongoing)
• Playground game teachers! (Volunteers for recess and lunch play)
• Cutting and Copying in the Parent Center for small group instruction (ongoing)
• Hanging up college banners (in approximately 1 week)

Students will be taking home a packet on Monday. Please check their backpacks and join us for our Fall Fundraiser. See the bulleted details below.

• 2 weeks from September 9 - September 20.

• Can order directly online this year and/or send order forms with cash to main office.

• If you create an online account at shop.schoolshopping.org, you can send the link to family and friends to order directly online under your child's name. (School ID: SS8851)
  
• Friends/families can order with link you email/text them giving your child the credit for the order.
• Friends/families can pay with a credit card directly to the site. (You won't have to collect money.)
• Friends/families can select 2 shipping options.
• Option A: Ship to school. Delivered to you. You pick up and deliver to them.
• Option B: Ship straight to their home. No won't have to do anything. If they order under $75.00, there is a shipping fee if they select this option. Over $75.00, this option is free. Best part, you won't have to do anything but will still receive credit.
• If using the paper order form, do not include any online order. Only write onto order form what you are physically sending cash for. New orders only.
• Write your name on the paper form EXACTLY the same way you registered your name online.

• Vendor will give Multnomah 45% of the profits.

• If we sell $10,000 worth of merchandise, we get $4,500.

• If we sell $20,000 worth, we get $9,000.
• All profits will benefit the entire Student Body
• Extra Field Trips/Incentives/Recognitions

Beginning September 9th, Ms. Jennifer will be opening our school library for an hour afterschool for various enrichment activities. Because we are just rolling this out, we ask that parents sign up for their students via this Google Form by selecting your first and second choice of activity. Our first round will be from September 9th - October 25th. After the first round, which is 7 weeks long, we will take feedback from the students/parents on continuing activities or bringing in new activities and expand to 1st and kindergarten in the subsequent cycles. Here is the flyer.

Ms. Jennifer will send home a confirmation letter as there is a limit in space capacity for each day.

Round 1: 7 weeks during the weeks of September 9 - October 25. (For example, if you select origami, you will come every Monday for the next 7 weeks once confirmed by Ms. Jennifer.)

• Mondays, 2:30-3:20 Origami
• Tuesdays, 1:30-2:20 Board Games
• Wednesdays, 2:30-3:20 Card Games
• Thursdays, 2:30-3:20 Arts and Craft

Our experts, Mrs. Gonzalez and Ms. Salazar, will be conducting a parent workshop on how to use iReady to support your child at home and school. This week students will be taking home a copy of their beginning of the year diagnostic report. Please go over it with them and set an attainable goal for the middle of the year achievement. Here is the flyer going home on Monday, also shown below.

If you have always wanted to be a part of the decision making team at Multnomah, please join us for the SSC orientation this week as Mrs. Hoffer, our Categorical Program Coordinator, explains the role and responsibilities of this council.

Send water instead of the sugary drinks to combat the heat. We have a water filling station where students are welcome to refill their reusable water bottles.

Weather permitting, morning recess resumes outside for students to run and play. However, if it gets too hot, students will have walking recess or indoor recess. Noon play after lunch will remain in the MPR (multi-purpose room) to ensure students are safe from this heat wave.

Monday: Recess in MPR with Go Noodles and/or Movies, Lunch in MPR with Movie/Student Activity

Tuesday: Recess in MPR with Go Noodles and/or Movies, Lunch in MPR with Movie/Student Activity

Wednesday-Friday, Recess depending on weather at time of break.

International Dot Day encourages us to get our creative juices flowing. Established to celebrate creativity, courage, and collaboration, the celebration is easily one of the most fun days of the year! Celebrated by both children and adults, International Dot Day is a day to connect, collaborate, and create. At Multnomah, we invite you to wear anything with dots! Flyer Here and shown below.

On September 18th, it's our Fall Picture Day! Students are not required to purchase anything but we do photograph every single student for their ID and yearbook picture. Please make sure students are camera-ready! You should have received the photo packets last Tuesday. It's a huge sheet with a plethora of options of what you can purchase should you want to. If you haven't seen it, please check your child's backpack. 😀

I will NOT be sending this flyer home because I want it to be a surprise for the students. We are asking parents to join us and be our "masked singers." You will need a costume and a song. Both must be elementary school appropriate.

I will be posting this now and again next month so you can start thinking about participating. If you are a planner like me, you will want to start to look for music and costume ideas. Your inflatable should HIDE your identity. 😆

If interested, you must complete the Google Form entry by November 1st. I am asking you to log in with an email address to complete the survey so that it can send you a receipt of your entry form. On November 6th we will have an informational meeting and on November 22nd, right before our Thanksgiving break, you will be performing for our student body. (Just planting the seed.)

• Multnomah Monday! Wear your school spirit gear!
• Monday Morning Assembly
• August Perfect Attendance
• White Eagles of the Month
• Fall Fundraiser Kick-Off
• iReady Challenge Kick-Off

• Early Dismissal at 1:28 pm

• Program Day! Wear the colors to proudly represent your program!
• Neighborhood School (Black)
• Environmental Science Magnet (Green)
• Gifted Magnet (Red)
• PAT Meeting (Parent Action Team)
• Room 10
• 8:30-9:30

• iReady Parent Workshop
• Zoom
• 8:30 am - 9:30 am
• School Site Council Orientation
• We need parents to represent our SSC's Decision Making Team!
• 2:45 pm -3:45 pm
• https://lausd.zoom.us/s/84260751763
  

• DOT Day! Wear something with DOTS!
• Parent Mental Health Workshop
• 8:30 am - 10:00 am
• Room 10