OCTOBER 26, 2009
Good Morning
Every Monday, Email Club members receive important
information regarding upcoming events and communications from The PTA and
Strandwood staff via the Roadrunner. The Roadrunner also provides links to important flyers
and new items on the school website. Do you have any comments about this Roadrunner or suggestions for future Roadrunner articles or features? Drop us a line at strandwood_emailclub@hotmail.com. |
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Read and Dream Reminder
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 All reading logs are due this Friday, October 30. Awards will be given out the following Friday, November 6, to those students who have read their grade level minutes.
For a complete list of due dates and award schedules, as well as information about the Read and Dream Program, check out Strandwood's Website by clicking here! Reading logs are also available on Strandwood's Website by clicking here.
For questions please email Noga at nogakessler@yahoo.com or Suzie at silvacrew@aol.com |
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Student Directory is Finished |
| The 2009 - 2010 Strandwood Student Directory is being sent home today. Thanks to Kelly Gallagher and Orlando Guzman for the great job of producing this valuable resource.
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Box Tops and Webkinz Contest for October
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 The end of the month is quickly approaching! Don't forget to turn in those Box Tops by Friday, the 30th to win the October Webkinz! All bags must have the student's name, teacher and amount of Box Tops. Please turn them into the office.
Log onto http://www.boxtops4education.com to find eligible Box Tops packaging and some great shopping deals. You  can also track our progress and find ways that we can earn even more.
Thanks for your support and we look forward to counting a lot of Box Tops very soon!!! Sophia Harrington and Courtney Turner, 4th Grade.
Questions? Contact Lea Harrington (925)518-5608 |
Computer Labs Start This Week
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The computer lab, serving all students, opens this week. Each class has an assigned day and time for lab use and all students must complete the acceptable use agreement before using district computers. If you haven't signed the form yet click here to view the website forms page.
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After School Computer Class
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Want to learn how to create Web pages or write in a blog?
Students can have fun learning new media skills in the fall after-school
computer class that starts November 10. For details and to sign up, visit: http://www.strandwood.net
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Website News
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Looking for good education websites for your children? Well click here and visit the students page of our website. One of the links is to Ed1Stop which is a very valuable site that lets you work with all the current textbooks and more. Check with your teacher for the user name and password.
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Attention Field Trip Drivers
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Those parents who drive on field trips must provide the office with a completed Transportation Certification and Authorization form and a current copy of their automobile insurance every school year. These documents are thrown away at the end of the year and not carried over from year to year.
There are also insurance minimums that must be maintained. For a list of those, and a copy of the TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS IN PRIVATELY-OWNED VEHICLES form please click here. Fill it out on line, print it and bring it to Gayle in the office along with a copy of your current insurance coverage statement. Do not bring your evidence of liability card unless it shows all your coverage limits.
* Note - The insurance requirements are in addition to the TB and fingerprinting requirements.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Nutcracker News
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Important Nutcracker packet coming home today!
Please be on the lookout for the 14th Annual Nutcracker Show Information Packet, which will be coming home today! Why is it so  important to hang on to this packet? While it may seem a long way off right now, the show will be here in no time! This packet provides information and answers questions you may have about many details of this year's performances. Find out what show your child's class performs in and what their class dance will be this year; dates and time of the Dress Rehearsal and Show Performances; costume and hair basics too! Permission slips will be included in the packets.
K-3rd Parents: be sure to turn in your permission slips on Friday, 10/30!
Permission slips, which are included in the Nutcracker Packets, are due to your teacher by this Friday. All performers need a permission slip in order to perform.
Questions? Please contact Diane Kastell (dikastell@yahoo.com or 686-4943) or May Hanecak (may_hanecak417@yahoo.com or 934-6828). |
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Destination Book Fair |
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Book Fair is here! Don't forget some of our big events coming up!
Monday, October 26th
11:00am-12:40pm (older students shop at lunch)
2:50pm-8:00pm
6:00pm-8:00pm Hot Choc/Popcorn/Raffle
Get a raffle ticket for a chance to win $20 in books! The winner will be announced at 7:00 pm and again at lunch on Tuesday. Need not be present to win. Popcorn and hot chocolate will also be served by Webelos Den #'s 7 & 8.
Tuesday, October 27th
2:50pm-8:00pm
6:00pm-7:00pm Story Time with Mrs. Kim, Mrs. Burns, and Mr. Brown
Wednesday, Oct. 28th
8:10am-9:00am (after drop off)
Shop without Kids Day: Parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles come on in to do some holiday shopping after dropping off the kids!
11:00am-2:00pm
All profits benefit Strandwood Library. |
2009 Red Ribbon Week
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Various activities will be associated with Red Ribbon Week including the following.
Monday, October 26 - "You Gotta Have Heart"
(Wear Red to School)
Tuesday, October 27 - "Don't Let Drugs Sneak Up On You"
(Wear Sneakers to school)
Wednesday, October 28 - "Living Drug Free Is No Sweat"
(Wear sweats to school)
*Bring an especially healthy snack.
Run/walk a mile with us at 12:00 pm - come and join us!
Thursday, October 29 - "Hugs, Not Drugs"
(Bring your favorite stuffed animal to school)
Friday, October 30 - "Say Boo To Drugs"
Thank you for helping us to become more aware of healthy lifestyle choices.
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Halloween Parade
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The annual Strandwood Halloween Parade will be held on Friday, October 30th from 10:00am to 11:00am. Please stop by and see all grades parading around in their costumes. Parking is available on Eloise and Westover (the North entrance) as well as Monti Circle (the South entrance). Parking in front of school is limited. Please show some courtesy when parking and don't block the driveways of our neighbors.
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Free Pizza Slices
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Papa Murphy's, who have worked with us on two fundraisers already this year, will be handing out free mini pizzas on Halloween to any
child under the age of 12 in costume (while supplies last).
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Fifth Grade Outdoor Education
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The outdoor ed fundraisers have ended and here's
what we collected:
Walk-a-Thon $6342.30
Tahoe Joe's 460.00
Jump Start Day Pizza 960.00
Pizza Night 600.00
Total $8362.30
Huge thanks to Tahoe Joe's (20% of sales on Oct. 8), and all who pledged walkers, ate at Tahoe Joe's, bought pizza, and helped out in any way. You have made a huge difference. Our students sincerely appreciate your generosity.
To view more information on Exploring New Horizons and the Sempervirens Outdoor Education program click here.
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4th Grade Parents - This is a good opportunity to get information regarding next year's activity for your student.
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FAME for November
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In November's lesson students are introduced to the art form of ballet. Our wonderful Strandwood website has a page dedicated to FAME and the individual lessons. Click here and view the artwork used in November as well as listen to the music, Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker Suite (by Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893).
For a full length version (6 min) of Waltz of the Flowers and a video history of Tchaikovsky click here.
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Support Strandwood
with eScrip!
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Safeway is proud to partner with eScrip to support the education of our children. Your continued participation in the program can mean hundreds of dollars for Strandwood! But as of today, 64% of our Strandwood families still need to renew their loyalty by the November 1st deadline. Please take a minute to renew today to avoid uninterrupted contributions.
It's Easy to Renew:
1. Have your Safeway Club Card number available
2. Visit www.escrip.com
3. Click on "Yes Renew!"
If your family has not signed up for eScrip yet - Sign Up Today!
1. Have your Safeway Club Card number available
2. Visit www.escrip.com
3. Click on "Sign Up"
4. Present your Safeway Club Card every time you shop and Strandwood earns cash!
Please contact Paula Miller, eScrip Coordinator, at 925-323-6899 with questions.
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Strandwood Dinner Dance Auction
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Planning is well underway for the 13th Annual Dinner
Dance Auction on March 6, 2010 - but we
need your help. The decorations
committee is in need of empty Chianti bottles (the bottles with the raffia) and
corks, so start collecting NOW! Also,
room parents and party planners
- please start taking pictures of class events so that we
may have a wide variety of photos for our auction slide show. Kelly Gallagher will be collecting photos on
disk or flash drive. Check out our
website for more Auction information, include a FAQs page, list of important
dates and class project ideas. If you
have any questions or would like to submit a donation for the auction, please
contact Lea Harrington (harringtonlea@yahoo.com)
or Cindy Turner (pcturner@sbcglobal.net
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It's Movie Night Again
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 Strandwood students and families are invited to attend
a free movie showing of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory starring
Gene Wilder on Friday, November 13th at 6:15 pm in the multi-use room.
Popcorn
and water will be provided. Please bring a blanket, pillow or low chair so that
everyone will be able to see. Space is limited to the first 225 people to sign
up via e-mail to freemovienight@gmail.com. If you are able to
help with set up, sign in, popcorn or clean up, please indicate so in your
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Fall Planting Day
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Sunday, November 8, is Strandwood's Fall Planting Day.
Mark your calender. It will take place at Strandwood, from 1:00-4:00pm.
Come out and join other Strandwood parents in helping plant flowers, shrubs and trees around campus. There will be a number of major projects on Fall Planting Day. If you are interested in finding out more about each project or would just like to come out and volunteer that day, please email Noga Kessler at nogakessler@yahoo.com.
Look for more details about Fall Planting Day in next week's Roadrunner.
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Calling All 4th Grade Parents
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Calling all 4th Grade Parents. Do you know how to rope some cattle? How about trappin' beavers? Anyone up for loading wagons? These and more questions will be answered at the Sutter's Fort meeting.
We are rounding up our 4th grade parents for a parent only informational meeting on November 9th, at 7pm in the Strandwood Library. See y'all there!
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A Message From the Superintendent
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The following are excerpts from the Superintendent's latest memo. To view the entire message please click here.
State Test Scores, Part 2
In my last message, I identified schools with improved or high scores on the
State testing program. The list of schools omitted Westwood Elementary
with an Academic Performance Index score of 805 based on an improvement of 43
points. Congratulations to Westwood.
High School Athletics
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the need to increase fundraising for
competitive high school sports. The plan for funding athletics in the Mt.
Diablo District was not meeting its targets. Since that time, there has
been a tremendous surge of interest in retaining high school sports.
The 5K Run & Walk on October 18 was a huge success. In an unprecedented show of support and unity, athletes, parents, staff,
and community members...
H1N1 Flu Status
So far, we have had a limited number of cases of the swine flu or H1N1
in Mt. Diablo. When probable cases have occurred this year, we notified
parents at the school. The County Health Department now has 7,000 vaccinations.
They have scheduled clinics at some elementary schools.
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| Are You Smarter Than a Ghost or Goblin? |
1st Grade Question - Which is closest to the sun - the Earth or the planet Venus?
2nd Grade Question - What was Peter Cottontail hippity-hopping down?
3rd Grade Question - Is Florida in the eastern hemisphere or the western hemisphere?
4th Grade Question - What number comes just before 99,000?
5th Grade Question - The Aztec empire once flurished in what is now what country?
Answers are at the bottom of the page.
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Dates, Times and Places |
RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES
Monday, October 26 - "You Gotta Have Heart"
(Wear Red to School)
Tuesday, October 27 - "Don't Let Drugs Sneak Up On You"
(Wear Sneakers to school)
Wednesday, October 28 - "Living Drug Free Is No Sweat"
(Wear sweats to school)
*Bring an especially healthy snack.
Run/walk a mile with us at 12:00 pm - come and join us!
Thursday, October 29 - "Hugs, Not Drugs"
(Bring your favorite stuffed animal to school)
Friday, October 30 - "Say Boo To Drugs"
October 26 - Field Trip - Mangini Farm - (B-4 - 8:40a-10:40a) (B-3 - 12:00p-1:45p)
October 26 - 28 - Library Book Fair
October 28 - Field Trip - Mangini Farm - B-5 - 8:40-10:45
October 29 - Vision Screening K-2
October 29 - Field Trip - Mangini Farm - B-2 - 12:00p-1:45p
October 30 - Halloween Parade
November 5 - PTA General Membership Meeting 6:30 pm
November 6 - Spotlight Assembly - 8:15 am
November 8 - Fall Planting day
November 9 - Sutter's Fort Environmental Living Program meeting.
November 9 - Field Trip - 4th Grade to Lawrance Hall of Science - 9:30 am - 2:00 pm
November 10 - School Site Council Meeting - 3:15 pm in the Library
November 12 - Opera-a-la-carte performance - Upper grades - 10:00 am
November 13 - Movie Night
November 16 - 20 -5th Grade Outdoor Education
Holidays
November 11th - Veteran's Day
November 23 - 27 - Thanksgiving Break
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In the Office
Flyers regarding the following items are available in the office this month. You can also click on the link, if there is one, to go directly to that site E-FlyersE-Flyers are ones that you can click on to view. As more and more organizations go to paperless this will become a popular method of getting notices to folks.. Pleasant Hill Youth
Baseball Online Registration through 12/5/092010 Spring Season Baseball and Softball Sign-ups |
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1st Grade - Venus
2nd Grade - The bunny trail
3rd Grade - Western hemisphere
4th Grade - 98,999
5th Grade - Mexico
What is it? Blender
Fact or not?
1. NOT - The heaviest element known to occur in nature is uranium, which contains only 92 protons, putting it 30 places below the putative new element in the periodic table. In the laboratory, physicists have managed to create elements up to 118, but they are all highly unstable.
2. FACT - An amylase is an enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar. Amylase is present in human saliva, where it begins the chemical process of digestion. Foods that contain much starch but little sugar, such as rice and potato, taste slightly sweet as they are chewed because amylase turns some of their starch into sugar in the mouth.
3. NOT - Harry Houdini died of peritonitis secondary to a ruptured appendix. It has been speculated that Houdini was killed accidentally by a McGill University student, J. Gordon Whitehead, who delivered multiple blows to Houdini's abdomen (with permission) while he was in Montreal. These repetitive blows are thought to have been a stunt, in which Houdini displayed his dexterity.
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