With the increasing temperatures, we are seeing an increase in visits to the office for heat-related and dehydration concerns. Please remind your student to drink water and bring a water bottle to school. We have two water filtration stations on campus where students can refill their water bottles, along with multiple drinking fountains around campus.

Please help us by not only reminding your student to drink water but also by encouraging them to eat lunch and get a good night's rest. That may help them stay healthy and happy on campus during these hot days!

Be safe, Spartans!

The 8th grade Six Flags trip is on May 26th!

Reminders:

• Check in with your first-period teacher. Once they have taken roll, go to the MP Room and Check in with your chaperone.

• Bring money for lunch. (Six Flags is not taking cash at food places right now but there are machines in the park that will put your money on a card to use).

• Students will be given a school lunch if they requested one on the permission slip form.
• Any student with a phone needs to have the Remind app. They will be provided a class code so they can communicate with Arcade staff members in the park.

• We will be back at Arcade at 7:30pm.

Remind your student to eat and drink lots of water throughout the day!

Have fun at Six Flags!

We celebrated our Student Choice Award winners at a rally on Friday. Students were given awards such as, "Best Dressed" or "Most Likely to be Seen with One Earbud In". See below for the teacher winners!

Students were given permission slips, but additional permission slips are available in the Arcade office or can be downloaded and printed using the PDF below.

Students must have these items in order to be admitted to Skate Night*:

1. a signed permission slip packet (the yellow page must be initialed by a parent/guardian and the white page needs to be filled out and signed)

2. a current school ID

3. $10 in cash

Parents and guardians may also attend this event if they pay the entrance fee of $10, but other family members (i.e., older or younger siblings) may not attend.

*Students who have been suspended during the 4th Quarter, or who have had other serious disciplinary infractions, are not invited to attend.

The last meeting for the 2022-2023 Arcade School Site Council is on Monday, May 22nd in Room 21 from 3:00 - 4:00 P.M.

School Site Council makes important decisions about how we spend our state and federal dollars. Arcade receives over $400,000, which Site Council oversees.

All are welcome to attend, as this is a public meeting.

Below is the agenda for the next meeting:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UBigfTNnUX0KcsZqSzRNP8520U6SzfTI/edit

Starting May 15th, teens between the ages of 14-19 can work out for free all summer long! Don’t wait, pre-register today.

For more information visit, https://www.planetfitness.com/summerpass/pre-registration

Dear Arcade Families,

As shared last month, San Juan Unified will be adjusting middle school boundaries at five middle schools (Arcade Fundamental, Arden, Katherine Johnson, Starr King and Winston Churchill). The proposed map webpage features the ability to toggle between the three options and each features an address look-up where residents can enter their address to see which middle school would potentially be assigned to their address (See link below.)

Three proposed middle school boundary maps are now available and the community is invited to share their feedback (click on the first red button below to view the maps and use the second red button to look up your address with the proposed boundaries).

Only one community feedback session remains! All parents, guardians, community members, and staff members are invited to attend. Register here to attend this feedback session.

• Tuesday, May 16 at 6 p.m. - Virtual meeting option
  

*SJUSD will post a recorded version of the virtual meeting for those who cannot attend. Feedback about the boundary change process can be provided at any time using this form. All feedback collected throughout the process and map recommendations are expected to be shared with the board in August 2023.*

Arcade Middle School has developed a written Title I Family Engagement Policy with School Site Council and it is now available. While Arcade designed this policy with Title I families in mind, the policy supports all families and students.

Below is the updated policy that was revised and approved by Arcade's School Site Council on April 17th. The Title 1 Policy is available, along with Arcade's Staff-Student-Family Compact, on our school website: https://www.sanjuan.edu/Page/53551

Translated versions are now available on our website! Use the link below.

https://www.sanjuan.edu/Page/53551

Our after-school STEAM club will be starting with Scratch, a fun program that lets you make your own games, stories, and animations by using colorful blocks to give commands to characters and objects on the screen. You'll be able to make cool things move, make sounds, and look awesome by adding your own pictures!

We'll also be using Minecraft EDU, which is a special version of Minecraft that helps you learn about things like math, science, and history while you're playing. You'll get to use your creativity to build structures and solve problems, and even learn some coding along the way! With Minecraft EDU, you can explore different worlds, create your own games, and work with other people to build amazing things together.

STEAM Club Dates: on Mondays from April 24th - May 15th and on Tuesdays from May 23rd - May 30th.

Bridges After-School program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 school year. Applications can be picked up at the office or in the MP room after school with the Bridges site facilitator.

Applications can also be downloaded and printed using this link:

https://www.sanjuan.edu/bridgesafterschool

Applications are available in many different languages.

All applications can be turned in at the front office.

Thank you!

*This is not an Arcade Middle School or San Juan Unified Program*

Rio Americano High School is offering a very special summer camp opportunity for current 8th-grade students (incoming freshmen).

The camp will be hosted by the Presidents of the Rio Americano Mock Trial Team, a team that has won numerous times in the 43 years of the Mock Trial Program, most recently in 2021.

Here is a message from the President of the Mock Trial and Speech and Debate team at Rio Americano:

"I am the president of Mock Trial as well as Speech and Debate at Rio Americano, and I'm excited to share what I’ve learned along the way with your students through our Mock Trial Summer Camp! The camp will be three days (August 5-7) and focus on the basics of Mock Trial and public speaking. We will spend two days teaching students the basics of a trial: Direct and Cross-examination, objections, witness portrayal, and opening/closing statements. On the third day, students will have the opportunity to participate in their own Mock Trial and be witnesses and attorneys!

This (completely free!) camp will help students interested in Mock Trial learn more about the program, and perhaps guide curious students to a fun extracurricular. Students can also connect with like minded others from across the district before high school. I love Mock Trial, and am excited to introduce students to my passion! Any incoming freshman can participate!

The case we will be using is the People v. Cobey, a real high school Mock Trial case from the 2021-2022 school year. This case is a first degree murder or voluntary manslaughter case. In the case, Jamie Cobey is accused of killing their landlord, Erik Smith. The prosecution will argue that Cobey killed Smith by putting a Mojave rattlesnake in Smith's mailbox to avenge the death of Cobey's mother."

Any current 8th graders/incoming freshmen, regardless of the high school they are attending, can sign up now!

Click the link below to sign up for this amazing learning experience.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdY5kHrSFf4m7d4j-wQHy7P6ClNOhEl8tciMHa-33TE8Ew1jg/viewform

The UC Davis Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) is excited to invite students to the San Juan Leadership Academy! EAOP has partnered with the San Juan Unified School District to host a 4-week summer program that is aimed to help incoming 9th-grade students transition to their high school career. This program will be hosted at Mira Loma High School from Monday-Thursday, June 26 to July 20 from 8:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. During this academy, students will strengthen their leadership skills, participate in team-building activities, learn about college, and create friendships with their peers. If allowed, there will also be a field trip to a college campus!

This program is free, but there are only 45 spots! To be considered, you must fill out the application listed below. Please note that only complete applications will be considered, so be sure to answer every question! We will notify you if you have obtained a spot and you must confirm your acceptance. If you do not confirm your acceptance, students from the waitlist will be contacted to gain your spot.

**If the student is selected and confirms they agree to attend all program days with a maximum of 2 absences.

Important Information:

Mandatory Parent/Guardian Orientation

• Friday, June 23, 2023 from 6:00 P.M. -7:30 P.M. OR
• Saturday, June 24, 2023 from 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.

Program Dates:

• Monday - Thursday, June 26, 2023 - July 20, 2023 from 8:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
• The program does not run on Fridays

Celebration Dinner:

• Thursday, July 20, 2023 from 5:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
• Parents/Guardians encouraged to attend

Application:

tinyurl.com/Ap_JtlySJLA2023

The deadline to apply is Friday, May 26, 2023.

You can also scan the QR code on the attached flyer or use the registration link above.

Contact us for questions! Email: kcvogt@ucdavis.edu or eaop3@ucdavis.edu.

An updated message from Coach Dwyer:

"The 6th-8th grade league will play games on Saturdays. 1 game per week. 1 practice per week, the coach will pick practice times. The program runs from June 12th to July 29th. We will be off for the week of July 4th. We are hoping to have a boys league and a separate girls league. We need 24 players to have a league. If we don't get 24 boys and 24 girls on one level, it will be a co-ed league. As far as what group you are in, you are the grade you are in right now. So, if you are an 8th grader right now you can play in the 6th-8th grade league. We would like to do a draft this year. If you have some special circumstance schedule-wise, please list it in the comments when you sign up. Such as you can't practice on certain days. You cannot request to be with another kid. We won't be making team changes after the draft. We had a great summer league last year and we want the league to grow in year two. If you are in high school and you want to coach for about 50 community service hours for college or high school community service quota call Elle soon. Any questions Call Elle at (916) 488-2810. We would love to have all of you kids join us soon!"

Registration begins on April 24th, 2023, and ends on June 2nd or once a team is full.

*Registration WILL NOT be accepted at your school site; registration will be accepted online and at the District Office located at 3344 Mission Ave., Carmichael.*

For any further information visit, the Mission Oaks Recreation and Park District website

or please contact us at elippold@morpd.com or 916-359-1604.

Register Here: https://morpd.activityreg.com/REGISTER_PROGRAM_t2.wcs

When calling the school to report an absence or to clear an absence, please choose OPTION 1 from the main menu.

Please avoid picking your student up early from school. It is important that students are only pulled from class when absolutely necessary, so they do not miss valuable instruction.

At Arcade, we receive a lot of early dismissal requests in the last 15 minutes of school, which is very disruptive to individual classrooms and the office. Please do not arrange for an early dismissal within the last 15 minutes of school.

If you must make an early dismissal request during lunch, please allot extra time, as it is very difficult to locate students at lunch. We are unable to make an all-call because other classes are still in session during both lunches. If it is absolutely necessary to pull your student out of school early during the lunch period, please CALL AHEAD so that we can notify your student before lunch, so it won't take as long to find your student.

• May 22- School Site Council Meeting, RM 21, 3:00 P.M.- 4:00 P.M.
• May 26- 8th Grade Field Trip, Six Flags
• May 29- Memorial Day, No school.
• May 31- Skate Night, 3:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. at Foothill Skate Inn.
• June 6- Last Day of School, Minimum Day, 11:10 A.M.
• June 6- 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony, 9:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.

• Monday - Friday from 7:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.
• Attendance Phone Number: 916-971-7300, ext. 1

Email: arcadems@sanjuan.edu
Website: sanjuan.edu/arcade
Location: 3500 Edison Avenue, Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone: 916-971-7300
Facebook: facebook.com/ArcadeFundamentalMiddle