Extra!Extra! Village Families
January 24th-28th
Village News
This week is the Great Kindness Challenge Week! Let's Rock Coronado and see how many acts of kindness we can complete this week! Please see below for ideas!
COVID 19 Vaccination Status:
Our COVID decision tree decision depend on your vaccination status, per SD County Puilic Health. Please share your child’s vaccination record with the health office or email to the Covid team at COVIDteam@coronadousd.net.
Village Kindness Week!
The Great Kindness Challenge, celebrated January 24-28, started very close to home at a school in Carlsbad! The goal is to engage in acts of kindness in support of “creating a culture of compassion, acceptance, unity and respect.” This year, we’ve planned simple classroom-based activities and a campus-wide spirit initiative.
Please see the light blue kindess flyer attached. It will guide our classrooms as we collect our acts of kindess filling our community and campus with love. We encourage you to work with your student to check off as many as possible throughout the week!
We’ve also ordered postcards that will be available to every class. If students want, they can send a kind, loving message or drawing to anyone in their life. Students can hand-deliver the messages or ask their parents to help them mail the postcards to someone special. So families, if you see these postcards come home, you know what they are and why we supplied them.
The final classroom activity we have planned will help carry our focus on kindness beyond this single week. Each classroom will receive a “kindness bucket” kit. The idea is to place a colorful pom pom in the bucket any time a student engages in an act of kindness within their class. Once the bucket is full of poms, the class plans a celebration of their accomplishment. Teachers will work with their students on celebration ideas (special read aloud, extra time for free play or recess, a special trinket, etc) that are exciting to them and feasible for our staff.
Our campus-wide activities include spirit days with opportunities to dress up and celebrate our efforts together. Students will also see kind messages/pictures on our bathroom mirrors to spread cheer. Our counseling team will also be out and about to support our mission!
Happy Kindness Week VIllage Families!
PTO News
Spreading Gratitude and Kindness: Thank you to Emily Foster, our a special Village PTO Board Member, for bringing a special surpise to the COVID team at CHS, on behalf of our Village PTO and families. This special token of appreciation was a heart-felt thank you for all they have done to support our students and families during this difficult time.
PTO Meeting: Village PTO Meeting is on Wednesday at 7:00 PM! Log on to see what's new and exciting at Village! We will be sharing our plan for the rest of the year and details regarding Movie Night, PTO Membership Drive, Yearbook, Jog-a-thon, Principal's Update, Staff Appreciations, Student Headphones, New Village Mural unveiling, new PTO website and financial reports. We have only 4 meetings per year so this will be an important one to attend!
The PTO Meeting zoom link will be sent on Wednesday Night at 5:00 PM, per our website, Konstella, Facebook and per email and text.
Membership Drive and Meet and Greet: Come help us build our membership, sign up for Konstella and meet our PTO Board and other families on Wednesday, January 26th, from 7:45-8:30 AM. Our goal is 100% membership and it's not too late to join. For $25.00/family per year, you make a HUGE difference for our school.
When you sign up for a membership you will receive a "Pay It Forward" magnet, just in time for Spirit Week. This fun activity was started last year by our PTO, and we will continue to have fun with it this year. We will continue our Kindness Challenge all through February and encourage all families to document with a photo, the Act of Kindess completed. Please send the photo to heidi.bergener@coronadousd.net. Pictures will be featured in our bulletin and will have a chance to me memorialized forever in our yearbook! Will this be you? Join in on the fun!
Yearbook Pics: Are you new to Village Elementary and have not taken a yearbook portrait? If this is you, please contact our PTO president Doreen Genmark contact@villagepto.org by February 1st. We will make a special opportunity for you to take a yearbook picture to be included in the yearbook. This is a huge favor and undertaking, and so very much appreciated.
Village Family Movie Night: Save the Date: Thursday, February 17th (February 18th is a hoilday) More details to come soon!
Upcoming Dates
This Week:
Kindness Challenge Week...Its HERE!!!!! How many activities can you check off? Let's fill Coronado with Kindness!!
Monday 1/24: KIND OF WILD
Wear your animal print
Tuesday 1/25 :A HEART FOR KINDNESS!!
Wear Red to represent our CARING HEARTS
DELAC Meeting @ 5:30 PM per Zoom
Wednesday 1/26: WE ARE SUPERHEROS!
Wear your SUPER HERO GEAR to show that we are UPSTANDERS
Minumum Day
PTO Meet and Greet- See Flyer
PTO Meeting 7:00 PM
Thursday 1/27: EXPLORING NEW WAYS TO BE KIND!
Wear our Village Red, White and Blue
End of Semester 1
Friday 1/28-Teacher Workday/No School for Students
NEXT WEEK:
January 31st- Start of Semester 2
February 4th- Report Cards will be SENT home with students in their backpacks. For those on CCD, you can pick up your resport card in the office or wait until your student comes back to school.
Frbruary 17th- Village Movie Night
February 18th-21st Presidents’ Weekend Holiday/No School
March 28th-April 3rd Spring Break/No School. *** IT IS ONLY ONE WEEK***
April 13th-15th Parent Conferences as Needed/Early Release 1:40
April 18th District Holiday/No School
May 30th Memorial Day Holiday/No School
June 16th 5th Grade Promotion/Last Day of School/Early Release
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY AT VILLAGE ELEMENTARY
Interested in Volunteering at Village Elementary?
The volunteer assistance you provide in our schools is valuable. We recognize your experience will enrich the educational program, increase supervision of students and contribute to school safety while strengthening our schools’ relationships with the community.
If you are interested in serving as a volunteer for the CUSD, please contact Kelley Englehart in the Human Resources Department of the district office. We may be contacted by e-mail or by phone.
To become a volunteer the following procedures and documents must be completed. You can access these documents simply by clicking the links below.
- School Volunteer Application
- Verification of a negative Tuberculosis Test (TB) within the past four years
- Must show proof of COVID-19 Vaccination Status
We thank you for your service to our students and school community.
Volunteer FAQs
To volunteer in the public schools, TB test and DOJ/FBI fingerprint documents must be submitted to human resources.
Frequently Asked Questions - Regarding Fingerprints
The attached document contains answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
COVID Protocols- Please Read Carefully
ATTENDANCE:
Absences NOT Related to Illness should be reported via pre-COVID protocols (phone/email/paper absence notes). Contact Attendance Technician, Melinda Clay @ melinda.clay@coronadousd.net
Absences - STUDENT ILLNESS: Student Absence Reporting Form:
- USE THIS Village Absence Reporting Form. A member of our COVID Response Team will review the information you submit and contact you for additional information, if necessary. Students who are sick must be cleared before returning to campus. All students who have been absent from school must report to the office before going to class. If their absence has not been cleared, parents will be notified. Thank you for your support in adhering to this policy.
Student Returning to School After CCD: All students must check in at the front office with Mrs. Clay in attendance to receive their health pass if they did not print thiers out when sent to them.
COVID:
Students Presenting Symptoms of COVID19 (Symptomatic)
Students with Covid-related symptoms must provide documentation of a negative molecular test (PCR, NAAT or LAMP) to return to school. Test results should be emailed to COVIDteam@coronadousd.net. Once the test is accepted, students will receive a “pass” to return to school.
Vaccination Status: The current decision tree allows close contacts who are asymptomatic and vaccinated to remain in school. Please complete this optional form to verify your student’s vaccination status. https://bit.ly/3jBGytn
MASK Protocols: Please take the opportunity to review the district’s mask enforcement protocols and mask guidelines from the CDC with your student. Information can be found by following this link: https://bit.ly/2W2d0MA
Concurrent Curriculum Delivery (CCD) CUSD in collaboration with our teachers, have agreed to provide Concurrent Curriculum Delivery via Zoom to students if they are directed to quarantine or isolate. This program is only available to students directed not to attend in person by the COVID Command Center.
Sample CCD Format for the Elementary Aged Student:
Synchronous:
ELA: 1 Hour of Whole Group Instruction with Benchmark and Writing Instruction
Math: Whole Group instruction for 1 Hour and 15 minutes of Number Corner
Sanford Harmony: 15-20 minutes
Asynchronous:
Specials on Googel Classroom
IXL
Silent Reading
Independent Practice/Homework
Social Studies and Science
COVID Team Center: The center is open daily from 8-3. Parents/staff can leave messages and a team member will follow up. Phone: 619-437-1305 Ext:1040
- Testing: CUSD is making convenient testing available to all students and staff. Please follow the link below to see our testing schedule/locations and to book an appointment:
CUSD Rapid Antigen Testing - Testing Schedule and Appointment Link
SDCPH COVID-19 decision tree
CUSD App is HERE!!
For directions on how to download the CUSD app, please use the following links:
Google: https://bit.ly/3EDdhHt
Apple: https://apple.co/3hLW2Kb
Superhero Tickets
Students earn superhero tickets throughout the week for being safe, respectful, responsible and kind. They can earn them from any adult on campus who sees them exhibiting superhero behaviors.
Each Monday and Friday, after school, students will be able to bring their tickets in to trade for prizes. If they would like to save up their tickets, they can!
15 tickets=1 prize!
If your student has enough tickets to trade in for a prize, they will be escorted to the office before school lets out to pick a prize!
See below for other options.