Crescent Cougar News

We are excited to invite you and your family to our upcoming Trunk or Treat event! This is a fun, family-friendly event where students can enjoy trick-or-treating in a safe and festive environment. Here are the details:

Event Details

• Date: October 11
• Location: School basketball courts

During the event, families will decorate their car trunks with Halloween themes, and families will walk from car to car collecting treats. It’s a great way for the school community to come together and celebrate the spooky season!

How You Can Participate:

• Host a Trunk: Decorate your car and bring treats to hand out to students.
• Donate Candy: If you’re unable to host a trunk, feel free to donate candy or small prizes that can be given out.
• Costumes: Encourage your child to come in costume (nothing too scary, please!) and enjoy a night of fun.

We look forward to seeing everyone there and making this a memorable event for our students.

Phoenix House

We are excited to partner with Phoenix House this year to provide our students with additional intervention support services that will address the following areas:

1. Self Esteem: Feeling good about yourself, making positive choices , being honest with yourself
2. Self-Management: Taking responsibility, managing emotions, goal setting
3. Conflict Resolution: Problem solving, working through disagreements, getting along with others.

This program helps participants learn how to manage themselves & their actions through life skills development & engaging in positive thinking. This is a referral based program and requires parental consent. Referrals to this program can be started by a parent/legal guardian or school staff. Please contact our school counselor for referrals and information regarding this service.

Counselor: Mrs. Kim Hamilton

email: khamilton@orangeusd.org

Parent Conferences are this week. Please check in with your classroom teacher to ensure you have a meeting time. Also this week is minimum day all week long. Please pick up your child on time.

Join us on October 31st as we open our student store. Wear your spooky costume and help our Student Council students manage the store:

Sign Ups: Click Here

We are excited to partner with the Laguna Art Museum and Boys & Girls club for our fall Family Art Night on Tuesday October 29 at 6:00pm. Come and join us and take an art class with your family. All materials are provided.

Registration is required: Click here to sign up for our Family Art Night. We have spots for 275 people.

6th Grade Fundraising
If you are interested in earning $20 towards that cost, please sign-up here and the 6th grade committee will credit your student's account towards your balance. Last year the cost was $125. If you would just like to help out, feel free to also sign up.
Sell Pizza at Trunk or Treat Signup: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4FA5AA28ABFFC61-51603969-sell#/

Please support the 6th Grade Committee and purchase a pizza combo at Trunk or Treat. These orders will be available for pickup between 5:30 - 7:30.

All orders must be in by Wednesday, October 9th at midnight for this purchase price of $5. Purchase your pre-order by filling out the Trunk or Treat Pizza order form.

Individual slices and combos will be sold until all items sell out, combos will be $7. This form is for combos only.

Combo includes 2 slices of pizza, a bag of chips, and a drink.

Book fair Volunteer Sign Up

Click here

Trunk O Treat

Trunks

Each class is asked to host a trunk. You may work with your teacher or class to create a theme, and some will say go for it and pick it. Should you need support with decorations or setting up your trunk the day of the event you may ask your class for help with donations of items and time. A sign up genius is a great tool to help with donations and getting volunteers. Please have fun and be creative. This is a competition and the teachers love to win the trophy. If you would like to host a trunk please sign up using this link and search for your teacher's name. Classes may have more than one trunk if they would like.

This link is for the individual class trunks.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4DA9AD2CABF8C16-51468855-trunk

Trunk Hosts

Checkin will begin at 3:30pm and close at 5:00pm for safety reasons. Once your car is parked you will not be able to move or leave until the event is over for safety reasons. All trunk hosts will be contacted 2 weeks prior to the event to go over all instructions. There will be volunteers to stay and pass out candy so you will not have to stay with your trunk.

Volunteers

Trunk or Treat has a great committee working together to make this the best it can be. However, we will need help the day of the event for setup and breakdown. If you are able to come help we would greatly appreciate the extra hands. If you would like to help volunteer with setup and/or breakdown please use this link.

This is the link for volunteer sign up for setup and breakdown.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4DA9AD2CABF8C16-51471370-trunk

Donations

This event is entirely dependent on donations; specifically, Candy. Without candy we do not have an event. Each class is asked to collect a minimum of 25 to 30 bags of candy. The Costco bags of candy are great in size and price, as well as some of the bulk bags on Amazon. I have created an Amazon wishlist with an assortment of bags of candy to make things easier to donate. Any orders placed will automatically ship directly to the school for convenience. Any and all requests for donations are never mandatory. They are, however; greatly appreciated!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/13PKJD2KCJRY8?ref_=wl_share

Candy Collection

We will have candy monsters out by the kinder gate and the front gate for a fun and convenient drop as well. Candy can also be sent in with your child to their classroom or dropped at the front office as well. The candy collection is a community effort. The Trunk or Treat committee will collect the candy and put it into a community pile. At Trunk or Treat it will be dispersed amongst all of the trunks.

Thank you so much for everyone who has donated. Every donation helps to build our store! We also have an amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/365CMF6MP6E5B?ref_=wl_share

All items can be shipped/ dropped off to our school:

Crescent Elementary

5001 E. Gerda Dr.

Anaheim, CA 92807

Listed below are important announcements from previous newsletters:

• Parent and Student Handbook : Click Here
  
• Follow us on Instagram @ crescentcougars
• Volunteer Process: Please take a few minutes to complete the application using this link: https://bit.ly/ousdvolunteer

• Technology Warranty: If you are in need of purchasing our Technology Warranty insurance, please use the link below. Please note, stipulations apply:

  Link to application

• Lego Robotics registration links: 1st Grade Sign Up 2nd Grade Sign Up 3rd Grade Sign Up 4th-6th Grade Sign Up

• This year Halloween falls on Thursday, October 31. Students can dress up with a costume for halloween as long as they follow our costume guidelines:

  • Do's: Make sure the costume is safe for your child to wear. Leave all props at home.
  • Don'ts: No costume masks. No heels. No scary, vulgar costumes. No weapons. No inappropriate adult-like attire. No blood or gore.