Landels Latest 12.21.22

Important Dates to Remember

Dec 22-Jan 9  December Break – No School 

Jan 10     Students return to school

Jan 11   6:30 pm - Our School's Info Night for New Students/Kinders Zoom

Jan 12   5:30/6:30 pm - Choice Schools Info Night mvwsd.org/register

Jan 13   3:30 pm Community Check In Zoom

Jan 16   MLK Day - No School 

Jan 18   In-Person Choice Schools Event at Theuerkauf mvwsd.org/register

Roar Recognitions

Jesus A. - Room 11

Lucy S. – Room 1

Michael V. - Room 3

Natalia A. - Room 8

Priyanka J. – Room 14

Samarth P. - Room 2

Vinny M. - Room 17

Landels News

Dear Landels Families,

As this year comes to a close, I want to take a moment to recognize some of our accomplishments in 2022:

  • Students made tremendous gains in both reading (proficiency up 11%) and math (proficiency up 13%)
  • We hired a part-time reading intervention teacher and created a small group reading block to meet students’ diverse reading needs
  • We held multiple events (science night, walkathon, holiday fair and United Against Hate Week) to bring our community together
  • We brought back our LEAP program, ensuring students have access to meaningful after-school experiences
  • We’ve created a more inclusive recess and lunch environment thanks to Playworks, our junior coaches and our recess supervisors
  • We’ve come together to support our community and local groups by organizing clothing and food drives

Thank you to our teachers, staff, parents and students for making it happen! Looking forward to what 2023 will bring!

We will be closed for Holiday Recess from December 22nd to January 9th. Teachers will be spending January 9th participating in professional development and planning for the start of January. We look forward to welcoming our students back to school when we resume on January 10th!

Let the Landels Winter Reading Challenge begin! 

The classroom with the highest participation rate wins a holiday party. Use the Challenge form that came home in your student's backpack (or print your own from e-version attached) to help them keep track of each day they read for at least 20 minutes over winter break. Be sure to check out the mini-challenges too!

Please use your free COVID test after winter break

Last week we sent home free COVID-19 testing kits to families and staff members so that you may test before returning to campus after the winter break. One test should be used on Monday, Jan. 9 before students return to school on Tuesday, Jan. 10 and one test should be used again on Monday, Jan. 16 before returning to school on Tuesday, Jan. 17 (after the Martin Luther King Jr holiday).  Please see this letter for what to do after testing

Five tips to help prevent winter viruses:

  • Get vaccinated, boosted and treated
  • Stay home if you are sick and test for COVID
  • Wear a mask in indoor public spaces to reduce spread
  • Wash your hands
  • Cover your cough or sneeze

Thank you for participating in these measures to help ensure all of our students and staff stay healthy. Wishing all families a happy, healthy and safe winter break. See you in the New Year!

 

Pieter Dolmans

 

Coat Drive

One of our former Landels students is organizing a coat drive to help Ukrainian families. We will be collecting coats until Jan 15th.

 

Thank you Landels families!

Our generous, caring and supportive community never ceases to amaze us! Thank you to everyone who donated gift cards for our families who need a little help during the holidays. I wish you a wonderful holiday season and I hope you have the opportunity to spend time with your families and friends. Have a restful and safe break. See you back on January 10! – Ms. Bea (SCEF)

MVWSD News

Parent University: Living Our New “Normal”: Tips for Families on How to Thrive Post-Pandemic

Date and Time: 2/07/23 5:30pm  Registration Link: https://mvw.sd/pu020723

The last three years have been difficult on parents and children. How do we keep going and continue to show up to support our families?

Together, we will be able to: 

·       Identify what the “New Normal” means to us.

·       Learn tips and strategies to manage stress and navigate our “New Normal”

·       Commit to take one action to address a personal goal

Please use your free COVID test after winter break

MVWSD is providing at-home COVID-19 testing kits for free to families and staff members so that you may test before returning to campus after the winter break. A box containing two tests will be sent home with each student this week so that you can test on Monday, Jan. 9 before students return to school on Tuesday, Jan. 10 and then again on Monday, Jan. 16 before returning to school on Tuesday, Jan. 17 (after the Martin Luther King Jr holiday).  Please see this letter for what to do after testing

Five tips to help prevent winter viruses:

·       Get vaccinated, boosted and treated

·       Stay home if you are sick and test for COVID

·       Wear a mask in indoor public spaces to reduce spread

·       Wash your hands

·       Cover your cough or sneeze

Thank you for participating in these measures to help ensure all of our students and staff stay healthy. 

Next year’s district calendar is available now!

The 2023-24 district calendar is now available online here

School Information Nights are coming up Jan. 11 and 12.

In January, the Mountain View Whisman School District will be opening student enrollment for next fall starting January 24 through February 10. Parents of new and currently enrolled students are asked to register their students for next fall during this period.

To help new families learn more about school options for elementary school students, virtual school information nights will be held on Jan. 11 (neighborhood schools) and Jan. 12 (choice schools). For families with students ages 3- young 5, preschool and transitional kindergarten meetings are on Jan. 19.  Click here for all of the meeting details: http://mvw.sd/meetings. Click here to learn about which program is right for your young learner: https://www.mvwsd.org/kinderready

Please check www.mvwsd.org/register for how to locate your neighborhood school, how to explore school options and the four steps to register during the enrollment period held January 24 to February 10. 

Help MVEF blast past $800k by donating today and earning a match by the MVEF December Challenge Grant !

Thanks to the enthusiastic and generous early support of the community and employers, MVEF has raised almost 60% of the annual goal of $1.2MM. Donate now to have your donation matched by the December Challenge Grant and help MVEF surpass $800k by Jan1. Thank you to the 30+ MVWSD administrators, principals, and staff plus MVEF Board members who spent several hours on Dec 7 calling, texting, and emailing to remind families to capture the value of the December Challenge Grant by donating to MVEF during December.

Throughout the remainder of December, every dollar donated to MVEF will be matched up to $35,000 by generous MVEF donors who are challenging you to join them in supporting MVEF. If your employer or company has a matching gift program, you can even triple your impact by donating this month (click here to learn more). 

Health and Wellness Parenting Tip: Anxiety

Anxiety causes extreme fear and worry, and changes in a child's behavior, sleep, eating, or mood. We must understand their anxiousness and bond with our children to maintain a close connection with them. However, it may be difficult for us to know the indicators and signs of their anxiousness. Initially, it may feel difficult to connect with our child, but we are a part of our child’s treatment. 

Here are some signs that your child may have Anxiety: 

1.     Anxiousness. A parent or teacher may see signs that a child is anxious. For example, a kid might cling, miss school, or cry.

2.     Fearfulness. A child might act scared or upset or refuse to talk or do things. Kids and teens with anxiety also feel symptoms that others can't see. It can make them feel afraid, worried, or nervous.

3.     Physical Symptoms. It can affect their body too. They might feel shaky, jittery, or short of breath. They may feel "butterflies" in their stomach, a hot face, clammy hands, dry mouth, or a racing heart.

These behaviors may seem like the child is “just shy” or “not very social.” But identifying the signs of Anxiety is the first step to understanding our child. 

These tips came directly from the free, online website of Nemours Children’s Health, reviewed by Dr.Hasan, MD. 

To learn more parenting tips click here

MVLA Parent Ed Speaker Series: Raising Body Positive Youth on Jan. 19

Join MVLA Parent Ed on Tuesday, Jan. 19 from 7pm - 9pm (LAHS Eagle Theater) for an evening with Wendy Sterling, Shelley Aggarwal, and Signe Darpinian – co-authors of No Weigh! and Raising Body Positive Teens – as they discuss how to raise confident eaters, in a home free of judgment. Wendy, Shelley, and Signe will discuss down-to-earth ways parents can help their kids take proactive actions in promoting a friendship with food, and preventative actions to minimize the risk factors for the development of eating disorders, particularly when early signs of disordered eating, excessive exercise, or body dissatisfaction have been noticed. Click here to register for the event.

PTA News

Let the Landels Winter Reading Challenge begin! 

The classroom with the highest participation rate wins a holiday party.  Use the Challenge form that came home in your student's backpack (or print your own from e-version attached) to help them keep track of each day they read for at least 20 minutes over winter break. Be sure to check out the mini-challenges too!

Holiday Fair and Year End Wrap Up

The Landels PTA was so excited to see nearly 500 of you come out for the Holiday Fair.  Clean up is complete, door prizes have been awarded, food donations have been delivered to CSA, many books were acquired at the book exchange and many holiday treats were purchased and devoured.  Now its time to take a little break to refresh and get charged up for the second half of the school year.

Fall of 2022 had great energy as we really came back together, in-person, as a school community.  It has been really exciting getting to meet you all in person and helping each other raise up our students and our school. The Landels PTA has been so proud to get Project Cornerstone kicked off right from the beginning of September, have an amazing Book Fair where every student was able to take home a free book as a gift from PTA, provide multiple staff and teacher appreciation events and potlucks, support the Kinder pumpkin patch, and bring our Walkathon and Holiday Fairs back for the first time since 2019!

Your continued financial and volunteer support is what makes activities and events like these possible and we look forward to what's to come for our school community in 2023.

 Happy Holidays and best wishes for an excellent winter break filled with reading,

Sam
PTA President 2021-2023
Mom of 3rd Grader
[email protected]

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