School News & Events
Parent - Teacher Conferences
November 13, 2008
With the end of the first trimester of school, it is time for report cards and parent/teacher conferences. Notes went home from your child's teacher on Thursday, November 13 scheduling a time for your conference. Please take time to complete the bottom of the note and return it to school as soon as possible. If you cannot attend at the scheduled time, please call the school office and the secretary will assist you in making a new appointment.
Parent/Teacher conferences begin on Monday. They will run all next week with the final opportunity to meet on Wednesday, December 3. Make sure that you remember that every day next week is a minimum day with all classes being dismissed at 1:30.
Did you know that California state law allows parents/guardians to take time from work to attend school conferences and events? Use the Internet to find out more about this law by going to CTA’s web page, “Family Involvement Tips”.
Divided into two categories, Parents and the Home and Parents and the School, this section provides you with hands-on activities for family participation outside of the school setting, and tips and ideas for working with teachers on campus. Among other resources, in this section you’ll find the popular brochure Your Child’s Education Begins at Home: Seven Steps to Help your Child Learn in a variety of languages to serve multiple communities.
Parent/Student Handbook Online
September 11, 2008
South Bay School is pleased to announce that the Parent/Student Handbook that went home in booklet form earlier this year is now available on line. You can use the HANDBOOK link to the left or in the Documents pull-down menu above.
November Menus Now Available Online
The menus for school breakfast and lunches is now available online. They are in the pdf format so that anyone with a connection to the Internet can download them onto their computer can use the free program Adobe Reader® to view and/or print them.
Download the October Menus: Breakfast or Lunch
If you do not have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can download it for free by clicking on the link. Download Adobe Reader
Due to the increase in cost to produce our lunches we have increased the cost of student lunches to $1.75 per day. The cost for one week is $8.75. Breakfast cost will remain the same. Adult lunches are $3.50.
Thanksgiving Vacation
November 14, 2008
There will be no school November 24 - 28 in observance of Thanksgiving.
Principal's News
One good parent is worth one thousand school masters. Chinese Proverb
Parents are the single most important variable in a child’s schooling. Parents model both silent and spoken language in front of their children daily. Parents teach their children values through how they spend their time and money.
A good school builds a strong partnership with parents and they work together for what is in the best interest of the children. South Bay Elementary has a strong tradition of supportive, hard-working parents. Parents have the opportunity to develop a partnership in a wide variety of ways. Parents join the PTO, volunteer in the classroom, help at the carnival, participate in the School Site Council meetings, read to their children and help in many other ways. It is important to your child that you are involved in some way at school. It’s a way to let your child know you think his or her school is important.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE! Congratulations to 104 Students who had PERFECT ATTENDANCE during the first month of school. Those students will be honored at the assembly on Friday, October 24th at 8:45 a.m. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
WELCOME TO VICKY ROSSER— our new School and Community Coordinator for Healthy Start. Vicky is on campus every day 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to assist families and students with various needs. Some of the projects she is coordinating include; the Backpack Program, Tooth Americorps, Positive Attendance for Students, Random Acts of Kindness and various other projects to support student school success!
E-SCRIP—SAFEWAY— Fundraising that's Easy and a Proven Success!
South Bay Elementary School participates in the e-scrip program and all you need to do is give us your Safeway Card number and we will power register you for our school. Once this is done every time you shop and use your card money will come directly to our school.
We offer the best vehicle for simple, year-round fundraising. eScrip streamlines the whole fundraising process and puts everyone -- the organization, the kids, their parents, and the community -- in the winner's circle.
Sign Up Now!
eScrip is proven to be a fantastic resource for fundraising where participating business partners contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards, credit card, and debit/ATM card purchases to the school, group or organization of your choice. Visit our family of merchants for a complete list of participants in the program.
Here's How it Works
- You register any one or all of your existing grocery loyalty, debit and credit cards for use in the program.
- Participating merchants will make contributions to your chosen group based on purchases made by you, just using the cards you have registered.
- Your purchses are tracked and available to you online, allowing your to see just how much your are earning on your child's behalf!
About ESI
Electronic Scrip Incorporated (ESI) is a California-based corporation dedicated to establishing relationships between commerce and community -- to provide resources to organizations and projects that support children. ESI introduced the eScrip program in 1999 and has distributed over $120 million to schools and youth organizations across the country.
PARKING LOT SAFETY
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES WHEN DRIVING IN THE PARKING LOT IN FRONT OF OUR SCHOOL
Drive slowly and carefully --- (Some people are going too fast!)
Drop off and pick-up of students at the curb in front of school (Not in the parking stalls unless you are crossing the student)
Drive to the end of the parking lot and turn around there! DO NOT turn around in the middle of the parking lot (We have been lucky that no one has had an accident doing this!)
THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS AND PTO!
On behalf of the entire South Bay Elementary School staff, I want to express our most sincere appreciation for all the delicious treats that were brought for “Apples for Educators Day.” The food was delicious and the arrangement very attractive. We felt so honored!
Celebrations, Rewards, Marketing—Wellness Policy
See the article below
New Site Council Members Needed!
If you want to support your school and help make important decisions that influence programs and impact learning, sign up to be a School Site Council member by returning the bottom portion of this to Hanne Heilmann in the school office. OUR NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, October 28,h , at 3:15 in the Oak Room.
10th Edition of Kindergarten News
Friday, November 7, 2008
Mrs. Lindblom sends a note home with her kindergarten students every Friday during the school year. If your kindergartener did not bring the note home or if you would like to view it now, you can click on the newsletter link on the left side of the page.
All newsletters are saved in .pdf format. You can read them using the free program Adobe Reader. If you do not have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can download it for free by clicking on the link on the right side of the newsletter page.
Each week the kindergarten students are introduced to a new Alphafriend who will teach them about a new letter of the alphabet. The students will learn the name of the letter, the shape of the letter and the sound of the letter. Use the links below to find the Alphafriend song you want to practice.
This week the Benny Bear who is teaching the students the name, the shape, and the sound of letter B.
Go to the Alphafriends page.
Healthy Choices
New Wellness Policy Goes Into Effect
Last year South Bay Union School District adopted a Wellness Policy that is in line with state mandates. The following are the goals of this policy:
- Child Nutrition Programs, comply with federal, state and local requirements and are accessible to all children
- All foods and beverages sold on campus during the school day are consistent with current federal, state and local requirements
- The school environment is safe, comfortable and pleasing with ample time and space allocated for eating meals
- Sequential and interdisciplinary nutrition education and physical education are provided to promote student wellness
- All students are provided the opportunity to be physically active on a regular basis through physical education and physical activity programs designed to meet or exceed the California Department of Education regulations
- All school based activities are consistent with SBUSD Wellness Policy goals
Celebrations, Rewards, Marketing
The school district will encourage the use of healthly foods and/or activities for school celebrations.
- School staff and Parents will be notified of the school’s preference for healthy food or activity based celebrations
- School will inform parents of health alternatives whenever possible
Celebrations should occur after the class’s lunch period - School personnel will take opportunities to model healthy food choices while engaged in school and/or district activities
- The school district will discourage the use of food or beverages as a reward for student accomplishments nor will they withhold food or beverages as punishment
- The school will limit the marketing and advertising of unhealthy food and beverages
- Food or beverages that do not meet the nutrition guidelines stated above will not be heavily promoted.
Standards & Frameworks
Information regarding standards and frameworks designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
Frameworks are blueprints for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education and are developed by the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission.
