• 12/19: Mendocino Farms Scripps Ranch Dine-Out Fundraiser*
• 12/22-1/3: Winter Break, No School
• 1/6: School Resumes
• 1/9: Team CV (PTO and Foundation) Mtg 6:00 pm - Room 23 and Zoom
• 1/20: No School - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• 1/21-1/24: Great Kindness Challenge Week
• 1/24: Steam Festival 5:00 pm soft start, 5:30-7:30 pm all welcome!
• 1/27: No School for Students - Professional Growth Day

*Participation in fundraising or social events is voluntary and not required.

Dear Coyote Families,

It's been another fantastic week at Canyon View Elementary School! On Monday, our Band and Orchestra delighted us with their parent performance. On Tuesday, kindergarten dazzled us with their choral music performance, on Wednesday, our Westview Ambassadors came to present a Character Counts Assembly and helped us roll out our new slogan for remembering our Coyote Rules... Canyon View C.A.R.E.S. Ask your students if they know our four simple rules, and if they can remember what the letters in "C.A.R.E.S." stand for! Also on Wednesday, our No Place for Hate Club kicked off with their first meeting and began planning activities to support Canyon View's culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. On Friday, student council held a field day on the lower field. Also, this week holiday class holiday parties filled the halls and there was joy and merriment at every turn!

To our CVES families - we wish you a wonderful winter break with your Coyotes! We look forward to seeing everyone back at school in 2025!

Let's Make it a GREAT NEW YEAR!

Erica Edmonston

Principal, Canyon View Elementary School

eedmonston@powayusd.com

858-484-0981

Click on the News and Events link above, or visit the Canyon View Elementary School Website "Announcements" Section on the bottom of the front page for the most up-to-date information about school news and events.

We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who contributed to making the 5th Grade Promotion Committee Fundraiser at the Bingo Night a wonderful success! To our incredible 5th-grade parent volunteers and the students who worked tirelessly to run the concession stand, thank you for your time, effort, and enthusiasm. Your dedication made the evening seamless and enjoyable for all. To everyone who attended and supported the 5th Grade Promotion Committee, thank you for your generosity and encouragement. Your participation helps ensure our 5th graders can enjoy special promotion activities to celebrate their hard work and achievements this year. It’s truly inspiring to see our community come together to support our students. Thank you for being a part of this memorable night!

Planning for our 3rd Annual STEAM Fest is officially underway! The Canyon View Foundation is pleased to host this event on Friday, January 24th. This year's event will be in the evening from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm and will feature hands-on activities and demonstrations. We invite you to save the date for this family-friendly event!

Become a PTO Member, Sponsor an Event, or Volunteer your time! Take a look at the flyers below to learn more about how your membership and sponsorship fees help to support Canyon View Elementary School.

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Even though we reside in sunny San Diego, we can appreciate the changing of the seasons in our own way. The winter months bring us cooler nights and shorter days, and we can vicariously enjoy the pleasures of frozen, snowy weather in books and media, all without the inconvenience of shoveling driveways and scraping windshields! Here are some seasonal picture book selections to get you and your family into a wintry frame of mind:

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Everyone knows yetis love winter! They love snowball fights and hot chocolate and sledding and building snow castles. But even yetis get the shivers, and even yetis get crabby from all the cold. So here’s a secret about yetis: they truly appreciate winter but sometimes they miss summer. Sometimes, they have to bring a little bit of summer to the coldest of winter days. Those yetis, they're just full of surprises!

The beginning of winter is marked by the solstice, the shortest day of the year. Long ago, people grew afraid when each day had fewer hours of sunshine than the day before. Over time, they realized that one day each year the sun started moving toward them again, which was a cause for rejoicing. As a result, many contemporary holiday traditions were borrowed from ancient solstice celebrations. In lyrical prose and cozy illustrations, this book explains what the winter solstice is and how it has been observed by various cultures throughout history.

Mrs. Goldman always knits hats for everyone in the neighborhood, and Sophia, who thinks knitting is too hard, helps by making the pom-poms. But now winter is here, and Mrs. Goldman herself doesn't have a hat–she's too busy making hats for everyone else! It's up to Sophia to buckle down and knit a hat for Mrs. Goldman. But try as Sophia might, the hat turns out lumpy, the stitches aren't even, and there are holes where there shouldn't be holes. Sophia is devastated until she gets an idea that will make Mrs. Goldman's hat the most wonderful of all. Readers both young and old will relate to Sophia's frustrations, as well as her delight in making something special for someone she loves.

The Green Cone Zone: The Green Cone Zone is reserved for students in Ms. Dobson, Ms. Marty, Ms. Morrison or Ms. Ruble's students who need extra assistance loading and unloading. Please keep these areas clear so that our special needs families have a safe place to load and unload their children.

Please read through the information below about Parking. Parking in our school lot is extremely limited and we need everyone's help to ensure a safe and efficient drop-off and pick-up. Please refrain from parking in the lot unless you are picking up a PreK, TK or Kindergarten student, or you have business in the front office. Instead, use our supervised drop-off/pick-up curb to the west of the front office.

• Attention TK/K Families: You are not required to park and walk students to the gate for drop-off. Use our drive-through drop-off instead. We have supervision from the curb to the blacktop from 8:20 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Please continue to park and pick-up from the gate at dismissal.
• Attention Grade 1-5 Families: Do not park in the lot for drop-off or pick-up. Instead, use the supervised drive-through pick-up curb west of the office. This allows sufficient parking for our staff, and TK/Kindergarten families.
• Curbside Drop-off/Pick-Up: Use our designated drop-off/pick-up area to the west of the office only. Do not ask your child to meet you anywhere else in the lot. While this might seem faster for you, it slows down our system for everyone and creates a safety hazard.

Visit the link below for more information. Please reach out to Erica Edmonston, Principal, at eedmonston@powayusd.com if you have any questions.

The Poway Unified School District (PUSD) is an equal opportunity employer/program and is committed to an active Nondiscrimination Program. PUSD prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, national origin, nationality, immigration status, ethnicity, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. For more information, please contact: Title IX/Equity Compliance Officer, James Jimenez, Associate Superintendent of Personnel support Services, Poway Unified School District, 15250 Avenue of Science, San Diego, CA 92128, 1-858-521-2800, extension 2121, jjimenez@powayusd.com. For students, you may contact Title IX Coordinator/504 Coordinator Jamie Dayhoff, Director of Attendance and Discipline, Poway Unified School District, 1-858-521-2840, jdayhoff@powayusd.com.