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A Strandwood PTA Publication
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JANUARY 24, 2011
Good Morning
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Last Week of The 10% Goes
Back to Schools program!
|  Strandwood Elementary can earn 10% of your purchase amounts on thousands of participating products from January 2nd through January 25th, 2011. Choose from over 2,000 items! View the participating items and shop until January 25th! |
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Fridays are Roadrunner Days!
By The Student Council
|  Every Friday students are encouraged to wear their Strandwood Spirit Wear! No spirit wear? We consider classroom t-shirts or anything blue and gold as spirit wear on Fridays! The two classes with the highest percentage of students with spirit wear get to display our Roadrunner Friday trophy in their window for the week!
Winners for the week of January 10th - B-5 and B-8.
Winners for the week of January 17th - B-4 and B-5
Who will win this week?
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Read and Dream Reminder
| Read and Dream reading logs are due this Friday, January 29. Awards will be given out the following Friday, February 4, to those students who have read their grade level minutes.
Questions? Please email Noga at nogakessler@yahoo.com or Suzie at silvacrew@aol.com |
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Photo courtesy of the Bargmann family.
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Calendar
Click the image below to go directly to the monthly Strandwood PTA web calendar.
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What is it?
Returned by popular demand: What is the object in the close up photo below?
Find the answer in the Dates, Times and Places section at the bottom of the newsletter.
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Anti-Bulling Week
| This week Strandwood will be participating in an Anti-Bullying-No Name Calling campaign. Each student will make a pledge and be discussing the subject in their classroom. Every morning will begin with a poem read to the school by the student council.
PTA hosted our second parent education speaker last Thursday, Karen Lingenfelter, who led a discussion titled "Bulling In Our Schools and What Parents Need to Know." If you missed the talk and would like the hand-out that she provided, they will be available in the office or by clicking here. For more information visit the school website at www.strandwood.mdusd.org.
For more on last weeks parent education discussion please read the article below.
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Recent Parent Education Series
Focuses on Bullying
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"Approximately 160,000 children miss school every day in the United States for fear of being bullied; more than 50 suicides have been linked to prolonged bullying; and approximately 85 percent of school shootings have revenge against bullies as a major motive, according to Dr. Ted Zeff, a practicing psychologist and author."
Last weeks presentation by Karen Lingenfelter titled "Bullying In Our Schools - What Parents Need To Know" was very well received. Those in attendence were treated to an informative and frank discussion on the problems facing our children today and it tied in great with this weeks "Anti-Bullying - No Name calling" theme. If you missed the presentation you can click here to review the handout and PowerPoint presentation.
The national PTA Newsletter dated January 14th also had a great article, "Six Warning Signs That your child is Being Bullied". To view the newsletter please click here.
The next parent Education Series presentation, "Capable Students" with Kim Kippenhaven-Klute, will be Thursday, February 17th. Set the date aside and look for more information on this presentation in future Roadrunners.
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| Nominating Committee Is Formed | The nominating committee will be formalized at the February PTA General Membership Meeting and will start the search for next years executive board. If you are interested in joining the executive board look for more information in the February 7th Roadrunner.
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Kindergarten Pre-Registration Opens Feb 1st
| Pre-registration of children eligible for kindergarten in August 2011 will be conducted in all Mt. Diablo Unified School District elementary schools on a first-come basis starting Tuesday, February 1, 2011. The hours of registration will be 9:00 - 11:00 am and 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Children who will reach the age of five (5) years on or before December 2, 2011, are eligible for kindergarten in August.
For more information and the necessary forms please click here. |
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No Cooking on Tuesdays!!
| Support the Pleasant Hill public schools by participating in FPHE's Dine Out for Education event every Tuesday from January 18 - March 15. The event includes lunch, dinner, or take-out at the participating restaurants. Restaurants will donate a % of your meal to FPHE. Click here to print the event flier and learn more about the nine-week event. Be sure to present the flier when you dine at the restaurant.
January 25 -Monsoon Masala - 2375 Contra Costa Blvd.
February 1 - Burger Road - 2634 Pleasant Hill Road and Panda Express - 2380 Monument Blvd.
February 8 - Tahoe Joe's - 999 Contra Costa Blvd.
February 15 - Savanh (new name for Bangkok Restaurant) - 1910 Oak Park Blvd. and
Kinder's Deli - 2227 Morello Avenue
February 22 - Back Forty Texas BBQ - 100 Coggins Drive
March 1 - Jack's Restaurant - 60 Crescent Drive
March 8 - BJ's Restaurant - 385 Sun Valley Mall
March 15 - Devino's Pizza & Pasta - 2221 Morello
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Parenting Tip of the Week
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Top 10 Bed Wetting Myths
Five to seven million children in the U.S. wet the bed. About three quarters of these kids will outgrow the habit by the time they're 11- but here are a few ideas, such as rewarding kids for dry nights or limiting bedtime fluids, to end bed wetting sooner than later. Click here for the article.
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| Education News and Information | |
School Closure Study Session: The School Closure Committee presented their 3 closure recommendations to the Board of Education last week. During that meeting, Board member Gary Eberhart wanted to remove option 3, closing the choice schools (Sequoia and Monte Gardens). Mr. Eberhart has released an excellent explanation of why he thought that option should be taken off the field. To read his informational article please click here. Neither of the remaining 2 options has an effect on Strandwood.
The entire presentation is available on the district website or you can view it by clicking here. The ratings for each school starts on page 7. Strandwood received a rating of 83 out of a possible 120. The schools still on the chopping block are Glenbrook Middle (57 points), Silverwood Elementary (56 points), Wren Avenue Elementary (58 points) and Holbrook Elementary (66 points).
The board also asked Superintendent Steven Lawrence to explore consolidating small necessary high schools, look at redrawing boundaries around crowded schools, investigate the possibility of bringing special education students in nonpublic schools to closed sites and to explore the possibility of building a high school in Bay Point with Measure C funds.
The Board of Education will hold its next meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, January 25. To view the agenda click here.
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Dates, Times and Places
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January 24 - Hearing Screening - K-2nd Grade
January 24 - Hearing and Vision Screening - 5th Grade
January 25 - Field Trip - 2nd grade to St. Marys College
January 28 - Principal Pizza Lunch - Turn in your blue slips by Wednesday, January 26th.
February 3 - PTA General Membership Meeting
February 8 - School Site Commettee meeting - 3:15 in the library
February 9 - Student Council Spirit Day - Class Color Day
February 14 - School Holiday - President Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
February 21 - School Holiday - President's Day
View the calendar on the Strandwood PTA website by clicking here.
Visit the Strandwood Elementary School website by clicking here.
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In the Office or On-Line
Flyers regarding the following items are available in the office this month. You can also click on the link, underlined if there is one, to go directly to that site.
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