September 16-20, 2019

Happy weekend to all!

Tonight, September 13th,  is movie night!  Hope you plan to come and watch the movie with your Alta Sierra friends!

We started reading our National Geographic magazine this week with "Vanishing Cultures" from remote places in our world. The students were intrigued and amazed! 

Our PTC is once again asking that each family donate $20 for the year to help with the buses for field trips.  If you could please send that in it would help our school so much. Our first field trip is planned in November. We are going to the Maidu Center in Roseville!

We will be doing spelling 1.3 this week. We have four activities on Spelling City to help students prepare for the test. Kids are doing a great job getting the Spelling City routine down! Please have your child practice every night, Monday-Wednesday. Our test is on Thursday. Only students who score below 70% will need to study again Thursday night for a retest on Friday.

Students are also doing a great job with practicing their math facts with our XtraMath fact program.  Congratulations to Adelina for finishing the Xtra Math Multiplication facts and receiving her award!  In order to participate in Mr. Biven’s reward party, students need to pass multiplication by November 15.  We believe that all kids are capable of reaching this goal!  Some students may need to do extra practice, but they can do it.  Thank you for supporting fact memorization.  This really helps with computation and all other concepts covered in math this year!

We read about California Regions this week and we are almost ready to begin our clay map projects. We need a parent volunteer to come in to help prepare the paper plates for this project in advance. If you are able to help in our classroom this week, please email me the day and time you are available. Thank you!

Band started this week. Students are riding a bus from Alta Sierra to Magnolia. If you would like your child to participate, please contact Mr. Richardson at [email protected] for more information about joining band.

We will be visiting the garden on Tuesday! Lori Long is our garden coordinator. Her work is so appreciated! We also need a garden helper! We go the third Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10:00. Please let me know right away if you are available to help with this! Again, we visit the garden this Tuesday, September 17, from 9:30 to 10:00. 

Last week, we had a student council assembly where students learned about having the opportunity to run for classroom representative. Candidates need to have a 1-2 minute speech ready to give the class. The letter of intent to run for classroom representative is due on Wednesday, September 18. Students may also send in a poster to display in class prior to elections. Four students will be voted in by their classmates to become our classroom representative.

Thank you so much for all of your help and support!

Looking Ahead:

Every Friday is early release. School is out at 1:00.

SEPTEMBER

Friday, September 27 End of 1st Mid-Trimester 

Friday, September 27 Rally Round the Flag 7:55

OCTOBER

Tuesday, October 1 PTC Meeting in the Library 6:00-7:00 pm

Friday, October 4 Jog-A-Thon

Monday-Friday, October 7-11 Parent Teacher Conferences: Minimum Days All Week, School Out at 12:00 Noon. Please sign up on the Sign Up Genius sent home on September 12.

Monday, October 21- Friday October 25 Fall Break No School

Thursday, October 31 Halloween Parade and Classroom Celebrations

4:00-7:00 pm Trunk Or Treat In the Alta Sierra Parking Lot

NOVEMBER

Friday, November 1 No School For Students, Professional Development For Teachers

Tuesday, November 5 PTC Meeting in the Library 6:00-7:00 pm

Sunday, November 3 Daylight Savings Time Ends

Tuesday, November 5 Picture Make Up Day

Monday, November 11 Veteran’s Day No School

Friday, November 15 Deadline to Finish Multiplication Section of Xtra Math in order to qualify for reward party with Mr. Bivens.

Friday, November 15 Minimum Day School Out at 12:00 Noon/ End of 1st Trimester

Thursday, November 21 Parent’s Club Dinner Night

Friday, November 22 Rally Round the Flag 7:55

Wednesday, November 27 to Friday, November 29 Thanksgiving Break No School

DECEMBER

Tuesday, December 3 PTC Meeting in the Library 6:00-7:00 pm

Wednesday, December 11 to Friday, December 13 Mistletoe Mall

Saturday, December 14 Pancake Breakfast

Friday, December 20 Minimum Day

December 21- January 6 Winter Break