Almond Thursday Word

TOMORROW, Fri, 1/31, Book Parade, 9:45am, blacktop

TOMORROW, Fri, 1/31, BookWave packet deadline

Tue, 2/4, STEM Career Night, Blach School, 7pm

Wed, 2/5, 5th grade Celebration of Learning, 5:15pm, Multi

Wed, 2/5, "Transitioning to Egan", incoming 7th grade information night, 6:30pm, Egan Multi

Thu, 2/6, DELAC meeting, iLearn studio, LASD District Office, 9am

Mon, 2/10, Design Challenge! Lunchtime on blacktop

Mon, 2/10, LASD Board Meeting, 7pm, District Office Board Room

Thu, 2/13, Strictly Strings Concert, 7pm, LAHS Eagle Theater

2/17-2/21, NO SCHOOL

Wed, 2/26, PTA General Meeting, 8:30am, Conference Room

Wed, 2/26, Walk or Wheel to School Day!

Wed, 2/26, STEM Expo, 5-7pm, Multi

Fri, 2/28, Egan Parent tour, 9:30am, Egan library, parents only

Mon, 3/2, Hearing Screening for grades K, 2, and 5

Thu, 3/5, Minimum Day, 12:15 dismissal, special dismissal time!

Sat, 3/7, Back to the 80's Gala and Auction evening

The Bookwave committee was able to ask for an extension with the publisher for the booklets to be sent back. Please turn the finished packet (backside filled out with order form & check attached if you are ordering extra copies) latest by 9am TOMORROW 1/31/2020 in the front office. There will be NO more extensions after 1/31/20.

Thanks to all the students & parents who were able to submit the booklets already!!! Please mark your calendar for Bookwave Blast which will be on Wednesday, March 25th. Exhibit & refreshments will be served at 6:00pm with our Speaker speaking at 6:15pm and student presentations at 7pm.

Need childcare? The YMCA has generously offered to provide free childcare to the first 50 Almond students! Please contact Macie at macie.villegas@ymcasv.org to register and for more information.

Almond will hold LASD’s 7th Annual STEM Expo on Feb. 26! All students in grades TK-6 to are invited to participate! While engaging in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) projects, students will have an opportunity to design hands-on projects while exploring just how fun STEM can be! This event lends itself to a myriad of learning experiences: within the class or at home, working individually or collaboratively with peers and/or with adults, and amongst a wide range of STEM categories including: Rube Goldberg, Invention/Environmental Innovation, Reverse Engineering, Robotics, Scientific Inquiry and Wearable Designs. Ultimately, students get the chance to showcase their STEM work at the Expo on Wednesday, February 26, from 5:00-7:00 pm in the Multi.

Check out the website at www.tinyurl.com/LASDStemExpo to find out more and sign up! Be sure to click on Almond to get specific school information. Sign up ends on February 12th. Questions? Email STEM IST Alison Gentile at agentile@lasdschools.org

It can't happen without your help--volunteers needed! Please sign up HERE!

We've reached $3M! … well on our way to raising $3.4M for this school year. To everyone who has donated -- Thank You! Generous donations from families like yours enable your school to offer music, PE, STEM, art, computer science, mental health services, and more.

If you have yet to give to LAEF, make a tax-deductible donation today and help us raise the remaining $400K. Gifts of any amount are appreciated and help us reach our goal of 100% participation. One-time donations, monthly donations, and pledges are welcome.

Also, find out if your company will match your donation to LAEF and be sure to apply. Last school year, LAEF received over $840,000 from corporate matches!

Mark your calendar for STEM Career Night on Tuesday evening, Feb 4th @ 7 pm. Find out more about the 3 exciting speakers. LAEF is proud to help fund STEM!

The District Nurses will be doing Hearing screening at Almond School for all Kindergarten, 2nd, 5th grades on March 2, 2020. If your child has a known hearing loss, please notify the Health Services Staff (nurses@lasdschools.org) before the day of the screening. The nurse will mail a referral form and call the parents of students who do not pass the Hearing screening.

Student safety is our top priority in the Los Altos School District. We are taking every precaution to be sure that our students remain healthy as we learn more about the coronavirus.

As public health departments across the nation are working to identify anyone who might be infected to prevent further spread of the outbreak, we encourage all students, parents, and staff to take common-sense precautions to prevent the spread of all infectious diseases, including common illnesses like colds and flu.

To prevent the spread of illness, staff, students, and families are requested follow the below guidelines:

• Encourage students and staff to stay home when they are sick.
• Those who have a fever at school should go home and stay home until at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever without the use of fever-reducing medicine.
• Separate sick students and staff from others, ideally in a separate place, until they can be picked up to go home.
• Promote hand hygiene among students and staff through education, scheduled time for handwashing, and availability of soap and water or hand sanitizer.
• Avoid touching your face, particularly your eyes, nose, and mouth.
• Teach and encourage proper cough etiquette—cough or sneeze into a tissue, sleeve, or arm (do not use hands).
• Perform routine surface cleaning.
• Consider not attending large gatherings, as this is where cold, flu, and other respiratory viruses often spread.

The Santa Clara County is maintaining a website with helpful information and FAQs.

We will keep our community updated with any relevant information as it becomes available.

More influenza information here: https://www.lasdschools.org/District/6315-Flu-Influenza.html

Here are guidelines from the District Nurses:

Keep your child at home when he/she has any of the following symptoms:

Fever

Chills

Vomiting or Diarrhea

Nausea

Sore throat or trouble swallowing

Coughing, sneezing, and/or runny nose

Rash or unusual sores or spots

Headache

Generalized muscle aches and pains

Wheezing or trouble breathing

Unusually red, crusted or burning eyes

Head Lice

Once a student becomes ill, it is imperative and required that the child stay home and not return to school until they are symptom-free for 24 hours without medication (i.e. no fever, etc for a full day after you have stopped giving medications such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen). Children often don’t have a fever first thing in the morning, that is why you must wait a full day to be sure the fever doesn’t return later in the day.

Please join your junior high school principal, teachers and current junior high students at Junior High School Information Night for parents of incoming 7th grade students! Junior high school is an amazing educational journey for your child as they explore their academic independence and prepare for success in high school and beyond.

Transitioning to Egan

When: February 5, 6:30-7:30pm

Where: Egan Multipurpose Room

100 W. Portola Ave.

Parents Only

Parent Information Night at Blach

When: February 5, 7:00-8:30pm

Where: Blach Multipurpose Room

1120 Covington Road

Parents Only

There are many upcoming opportunities for your children to also learn more about junior high school, including presentations from the junior high school principals at their school and the upcoming Elective Faires at each school. We’ll keep you posted on upcoming events.

Tickets are still available for purchase:

https://almondschool.schoolauction.net/walkathon2019/catalog?id=10

Price Listed is Person. Multi Price = $45 per attendee ($90 for father+daughter, $45 per additional daughter)

Any special adult who loves your daughter is welcome to attend!

Feb. 6 – 9am – iLearn LASD District Offices

DELAC is an important advisory committee of parents of English Language Learner (ELL) students from Los Altos School District elementary and junior high schools. The District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC) meets 3 times per year with district administrators and staff to learn about, discuss, and provide input on topics related to English Learners, such as:

• EL student achievement
• ELPAC testing and reclassification criteria
• District programs and services
• District's Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)
• Parent education and involvement

6th Grade Orchestra Students from Almond, Covington, Gardner Bullis and Santa Rita will be featured in a performance with Egan and Los Altos High School Orchestras. Come to see the progression of string students from elementary to high school. It is a free concert, everyone is invited!

Strictly Strings Concert

Thursday, Feb. 13th

7:00 PM

Los Altos High School Eagle Theatre

Please Join us for Walk or Wheel (WoW) to school day on February 26th. Please make a special effort to walk, bike, or scooter to school on this day. Promote less car traffic near our school, better health for our kids and the environment and a sense of community spirit.

Upon arrival at the rotunda, participating children fill out tickets before school with their first names and put them in their teacher’s cans, for two purposes:

• The class that has the highest percentage of participants gets the Golden Shoe award until the next WoW day.
• There will be an ice cream prize raffle drawing which will be awarded to students at the morning assembly later in the week.

We plan to have three stations for taking tickets: the front bike rack, the back entrance to the playground, and the rotunda. We will be handing out Stretch Island Fruit Leather as a small snack to those who walk or wheel to school. If your child has an allergy to certain types of fruit, please remind them to ask for a pencil instead.

Come early so kids aren’t late to class!

For those families who live too far to walk or wheel to school, plan to park about a quarter of a mile away, and walk or wheel the rest of the way to school. It’s fun and feels great!

Thanks for supporting your kids and our community!

Carrie Zeisler, Michael Burgart and Karla Larson (Almond PTA Chairs for WoW days)