School News & Events
Kindergarten Orientation #2
On Wednesday, May 7th, from 2 to 3 p.m., we will have our second Kindergarten Visitation. If you missed our first one, and you have a child who will be entering kindergarten next year – or friends who have an in-coming kindergartner, this is a chance to find out what our Kindergarten program is all about. Our teachers will be presenting a PowerPoint presentation that shows themes, activities, and learning that takes place throughout the year. It’s a great chance to ask questions about social-emotional development, curriculum, etc.
STAR Testing Begins Soon
STAR Testing begins the week of May 5th – our first actual day of testing will be Tuesday, May 6th. Although many people groan when this big event arrives, it can also be an exciting time: our students and teachers have had an excellent chance all year for in-depth learning, thinking, reasoning and exploring new concepts. Now is their chance to showcase all their efforts!
May Menus Now Available Online
April 29, 2008
The May 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 May Menus
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.
Now Accepting Kindergarten Registrations
South Bay School is now accepting kindergarten registrations for the 2008-2009 school year as well as registrations for all other grades. You can pick up a registration packet at the school office.
Children are eligible for kindergarten if they reach five years of age on or before December 2, 2008. To enroll your child we must have all the following items:
- County Certified Birth Certificate or County Recorder’s Certificate of Live Birth.
- Completed Physical Form or Appointment Card.
- Immunization Record.
- Proof of Residence in the appropriate school area
Examples: Rental agreement, Escrow papers, or PG&E bill - Photo identification or some other valid identification of parent or guardian.
- Proof of Oral Health Assessment.
For California School Immunization requirements, please click on this link for the State of California Immunization Requirements For School and Child Care (12/04), for school entry.
Check back often as we will be putting up a page of kindergarten registration information soon. We hope to have links available so that you can dowload and pring registration documents without having to come to the school.
Principally Speaking
It is hard to believe that daylight savings time is already here! This makes it difficult to get up in the morning but wonderful to have light late in the day. Time is passing quickly and we are in a rapid move towards the end of the year. Spring is here and summer close behind.
COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY!
One of our goals for students at South Bay Elementary is for them to learn good communication skills. Families play the most important role in building communication skills. Here are some tips on developing quality communication between yourself and your child:
Listen:
- Let your child now that what he/she has to say is important to you
- Listen to your child daily
- Look, act and be interested without being distracted
- Show respect for your child’s feelings, and opinions without being judgmental
- Ask your child to do all of the above when you are talking
Reflect:
- Make sure you understand what your child means by repeating back what you think you have heard
- Ask your child to do the same when you are expressing yourself
Share:
- Communication is a two-way street, your feelings and opinions and those of your child must be stated without criticizing or lecturing
Discuss:
- Talk about issues and if you don’t agree, you simply can agree to disagree
- Define the problem:
- Set up options
- Look for the pros and cons of each option and possible consequences
- Make a decision
- Plan to reexamine the decision after time has passed
Dell’ Arte Youth Academy
Starting this month until the end of May, all our students are participating in physical theater classes one hour each week. The classes are sequential, standards-aligned performing arts instruction. This is an extraordinary opportunity for all students to learn about creative movement, dynamic physical character development and improvisation as a source for script creation.
SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS
2008
4th Grade
3rd Place - Kelli Scott
2nd Place - Saw Xiong
1st Place - Tianna Darby
5th Grade
3rd Place - Nathan Thomas
2nd Place - Geraldo Manzo, Connor Horn, Haley Russell
1st Place - Roshawn Yehle
6th Grade
3rd Place - Vanessa Manzo
2nd Place - Brooke Pirkle
1st Place - Lorenzo Abeto
Those students going to Humboldt County Science Fair (those who earned the most points by the judges)
Tianna Darby
Lorenzo Abeto
Brooke Pirkle
Roshawn Yehle
Vanessa Manzo
Abby Maxwell-Gift
Asia Scarfia
Austin Emerson
Saw Xiong
E-SCRIP DRIVE—GIVE US YOUR Name, Safeway Card # and Address----We enter you with Power Enrollment. Our school earns money through E-Scrip-when you shop at Safeway! EASY WAY TO SUPPORT SOUTH BAY ELEMENTARY!
Library News
Recently an account has been established at Tin Can Mailman in Arcata, and at Booklegger in Old Town Eureka to benefit each of our school libraries.
If you have too many books at your house and would like to help Pine Hill or South Bay library, please take your personal books to one of the above mentioned book stores and have them preview your stack.
If they agree to purchase any of your treasures please ask them to apply your credit to the school account of your choice. (I recently took a box of books to Booklegger and put $4.00 credit on the South Bay account and then took the remainder of the books to Tin Can Mailman and earned a further $6.00 credit there!)
Many times each year students have their books stolen or damaged in ways completely out of their control. The credit on file at these bookstores will be used to replace those books with something similar.
Thank you for supporting our libraries and our students!
Ms. Weiderman, Mrs. Younger, and Mrs. Wilson
31st Edition of Kindergarten News
Friday, May 2, 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.
Go to the Alphafriends page.
This week's Alphafriend is Yetta Yo-Yo.
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.
With Halloween on the horizon please check with your child’s teacher regarding any questions you might have. Thanks for supporting this change.
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.
