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Thank you to this amazing community for your continued support during these stressful times.  As can be expected, we’ve been short on substitutes and have had to get creative with our solutions as we navigate not having enough staff to cover all of the needs on some days.  We truly appreciate your patience and understanding. 

Welcome to our new SLP! 

I’m excited to share that our new SLP will be starting tomorrow, January 24th.  Her name is Clarissa Stockton and we are lucky to have her.  Lori will be on leave for the remainder of the year.  Clarissa will resume all speech services on their regularly scheduled days starting Monday, January 31st.  Parents have been notified of this change.  If they have any questions, please send them my way.

ELPAC Practice at Home! 

Each spring, our students who are English Learners, take a test called the ELPAC (English Language Proficiency Assessment for California).  This is a summative assessment that serves as an informational tool for our district and our school to determine the current level of proficiency for each child who is learning English.  The purpose of the Summative ELPAC is to determine the level of ELP of EL students and to assess the progress of EL students in acquiring the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English. We are asking you for help!  Please help your child at home by having them practice for the test.  Here is a link where your student can take practice tests and be better prepared for the summative assessment coming up in February. 

COVID reminders

Here are the updates from last week’s blog. 

You can get FREE at-home COVID tests through this website. 

Next Year

Our calendar for next year has been approved and can be viewed here. Note our later start and end dates.  We won’t start school until August 11th and that puts us out in June, not May.  It has also been shared that school will start much earlier for us next year.  We are projected to have a 7:45 am start time.  Yep, you read that right :) That also means a dismissal around 2:00 pm.  I am sharing this now so you are as prepared as can be with childcare.  

Upcoming Fundraiser

Let’s Eat Out fundraiser at Old Spaghetti Factory.  This fundraiser will run February 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.  All orders over those 3 days MUST be placed ONLINE and the code SARGEANT must be entered for us to get credit. Here is the full flyer!