*Please be sure to read our newsletter through as this is where you'll receive important information and updates as our year continues.

Dear Students & Parents/Guardians,

I want to begin this letter by saying thank you to our PTA for an amazing spirit assembly. Our students had a blast! Please know that we welcome our families to our spirit assemblies and look forward to having you all on campus for future spirit assemblies.

To our Kinder families, we are excited announce we've received approval to now have our kindergarten students join our junior chorus on Fridays from 2:50-3:20 pm. Parents and guardians of kinder students will need to pick them up their kinder students then return them to campus for chorus. If your student attends childcare, childcare will bring the kinder students to the MPR with the 1st and 2nd graders that attend chorus.

Towards the end of this month we will begin hosting our ESL classes on campus, as well as have our first English Learner Advisory Council (ELAC)/Title I meeting. Please look under "Parent/Caregiver Outreach" for those detailed flyers.

Reflections is back! We are looking forward to seeing how our students represent this years theme "Accepting Imperfections". We want to encourage our students to participate in this awesome event. Please read below for additional information. An extra special thank you to Brittany Davila for chairing Reflections. We are grateful for the time you are spending to make this years Reflections one of the best yet.

We are continuing to recruit for openings for representatives to our District Advisory Councils and committees. Our school is in need of a parent representative for our Special Education District Advisory Council (SEDAC). If you are interested in being a representative on this DAC, we would love to have you. Please reach out to Mr. Carter. Linked below is a webpage where you'll be able to find meeting takeaways from all seven of our district advisory councils and committees throughout the year. This is a great place to go to learn about current happenings, topics being discussed, and updates pertaining to each council/committee. Worth checking out!

A draft of Acacia's School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) is now available for your viewing at the link below. Thank you School Site Council for your support, dedication, and hard work on this project.

SPSA link: https://www.conejousd.org/Domain/1375.

During drop-off and pick-up, please ensure that you are not parking in the spots reserved for our staff and teachers. We understand that these times can get crowded, and to help with this, I recommend parking your car and walking to the front gate to pick up your child. Additionally, for the safety of all students, please make sure they exit the car on the passenger side during both drop-off and pick-up. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated!

I strongly encourage every family to consider purchasing accidental damage protection for their students' Chromebooks. These devices are essential tools for learning, and accidents can happen despite our best efforts to protect them. Having insurance ensures that if a device is damaged, it can be quickly repaired or replaced, minimizing disruptions to your child's education.

Please mark your calendars. On Wednesday, September 25th we will have our first Walk & Roll event. We will meet at Dover-Hendrix Park at 7:30 and begin walking to Acacia at 7:45. All families are welcome to join us.

GO CUBS!

Dennis Carter

Principal

Acacia Magnet School for Enriched Learning

Dates to Remember! 📆

September 17th - School Site Council meeting, 3pm in Room 4

September 17th and 18th - Little Calf Restaurant Nights! Flyers are below

September 25th - Walk 'n Roll to School Event, meet at Dover & Hendrix park at 7:30am

September 26th - PTA Association Meeting, 8:20am in the MPR. All are welcome to attend, bring those little Cub siblings!

September 26th - ESL classes begin! 8:30-10am in Room 3 - flyer is below

September 26th - English Learner Advisory Council/Title 1 meeting, 5:30-7pm in the MPR - flyer is below

September 27th - Family Movie Night, featuring "Elemental!" Gates will open at 6pm

Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) is pleased to provide all students with a Chromebook through the District’s 1:1 Program. While at no cost to families, proper use and care of the Chromebook is the responsibility of the student and their parent/guardian. To support this program, CVUSD is offering Chromebook Accidental Damage Protection (ADP) program for parents to eliminate the concern and costs of repairing or replacing damaged, or stolen Chromebooks.

Click for full details: Chromebook Accidental Damage Protection

Thank you to all who have purchased items or signed up to volunteer for our movie night coming up! Our "Elemental" movie night 🎥🍿is at the end of the month, and we hope you will be able to come. Bring your friends and family! It's always a fun night for our families to hang out and have fun together.

September 26th, gates open at 6pm! Several food vendors will be there, and we'll be selling concessions as well.

💝 Ways to help:

Volunteer for Movie Night

Donate items from our Amazon Wishlist

Reflections Arts Program

Calling all of our creative, our art-loving Cubs! We'd love for our students to submit artwork for this fun arts program. This year's theme is "Accepting Imperfections." There are six different art categories they could submit work for, using the theme as inspiration:

• Dance Choreography
• Literature
• Photography
• Film Production
• Music Composition
• Visual Arts

There are five grade-level divisions, as well as the Accessible Artists division that celebrates student artists with disabilities. Please check the Reflections webpage for full details. Submissions will be submitted digitally, students have until October 4th to work on them. We can't wait to see all of their creative work! We will be hosting a showcase of their submissions on November for all to see. 😊

SUBMIT ARTWORK digitally here by October 4th ➡️ Student Art Submissions

Online Silent Auction

Help make our second biggest fundraiser of the year a great one! This event has the most flexibility to volunteer on your own time, outside of school hours. We are also starting to collecting gift card donations towards, services, events, excursions and experiences. If you'd like to help volunteer for this event - be helping secure donations from businesses or helping build the silent auction website platform - or make donations towards it, please email our VP of Fundraising, Nicole Cunningham, nicolioli@aol.com.

Please don't forget to keep scrolling down to see the Reflections flyers and yearbook info!

Please feel free to reach out with any ideas, questions, or just to say hello. 👋🏽

acaciapta@gmail.com

Through our yearbook store you're able to order yearbooks, design, purchase and submit student dedications and upload the photos you've taken throughout the year. Also, an always handy "Did I Already Order?" button if, come May, you can't remembered if you ordered or not!

We are collecting photos from our Cub Picnic and the first day of school, submit your photos soon so they'll be included in the yearbook! The yearbook pages get designed throughout the year so as events happen we will be sending out asks for specific pages being worked on - and the sooner your photos are uploaded, the higher chances of them making it into the yearbook! Each classroom will have their own pages so if you are volunteering in class, during a party etc snap some pics to send in!

Examples of things we will be highlighting:

Passion Pursuits, Enrichment Clusters, PE, library, class pages, PTA events, grade-level events (field trips, parties etc), Unity Day, Inclusive Schools Week, English Learner Advisory Council (ELAC), Walk 'n Roll event, spirit assemblies, our Halloween Costume parade etc. So please keep en eye out for photo requests from us as our year goes!

To alleviate parking lot congestion and to reduce large numbers of students in the same location, we ask that you use grade-level designated gates at drop-off and pick-up. Thank you!

• Specialized Program (Special Education): In front of the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR), teachers and/or paraeducators will meet/walk out with students.
• Drop-Off:

• Pick-Ups:
  

TK - Gate 5

Kindergarten: Gate 4

First-Fifth Grades: Gate 1

*Optional for Fourth-Fifth Grades: Gate 7 (on Dover Avenue)

• Sibling may enter/exit together at the gate that is designated for the youngest student

Parking Lot Reminders:

• Blue accessible parking spaces are only for those with DP placards or license plates
• Please respect our reserved parking spots for principal and school staff
• Please do not stop in red zones for any reason, even to quickly drop off a student or to run into the office
• Do not exit your vehicle in the parking lot unless you have parked in a designated parking spot
• The yellow zone is for loading and unloading only - we will require you to move your vehicle if you are stationary in a yellow zone without a student leaving or entering your vehicle
• Please have students exit and enter the vehicles on the passenger side (sidewalk side) of the vehicles. We do not want students exiting vehicles into traffic.
• Be attentive for pedestrians and courteous at all times

Information & Advertisements

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