W E E K
O F
O C T O B E R
2 , 2 0 1 7
El Semanario
Edison Language Academy – Together Through Two Languages (310) 828-0335 www.edison.smmusd.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS Correction: Make Up Day for School Pictures will be NOVEMBER 3. Pre-School, TK or Kinder for 2018-19? Siblings of students currently in the SMMUSD Immersion Program have a priority in admissions. But admission is not automatic; it requires an application and review. If your younger children meet the age guidelines for Pre-K, TK, or Kinder and you would like to apply for 2018-2019, please see Yoly Gutierrez for an application. To take advantage of the sibling priority, you must submit an application by Friday, October 27, 2017. PTA Fundraisers – This week we’re highlighting three ways your PTA is raising funds to support Edison students and families: Asian Box Fundraiser – Get to know one of the newest restaurants in our neighborhood, have a delicious lunch or dinner and support your PTA! Bring the attached flyer to Asian Box on Pico and Cloverfield on October 12 from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm and 20% of your check goes to Edison. Register your Ralph’s Card –Register your Ralph’s card and each time you shop they donate to our PTA. It costs you nothing! You can register on line, or you can call 1-800-4434438 and ask them to link your rewards card or phone number to the Edison PTA in Santa Monica (they show our address as Kansas Ave). Yogurtland Fundraiser – Purchase a cool treat for after school and raise money for Edison’s Family Support Network! With a few changes from our successful pilot last spring, this fundraiser is back on Tuesday, October 10. For $2.00 students can purchase a cup of frozen yogurt to be picked up at 4:10 pm. To avoid lines and disappointed students, students must prepay for the yogurt on either Monday 10/9 or Tuesday 10/10 at the cafecito table from 8:00 am until 8:15 or 8:30 am. No purchases will be available in the afternoon. Students who have purchased yogurt, can line up at 4:00 pm – after their enrichment and intervention classes are over!
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK: CREATING AN EDIBLE GARDEN We asked the architects who designed the new school campus to give us a space where we could create an edible garden. You’ve probably seen the space behind the cafeteria with fruit trees, a shade structure, and lots of open space. This fall, with support from the Edison PTA and our Stretch Grant from the Education Foundation, we’re turning the garden from a possibility into reality! This summer teachers Lorissa Boxer, Greg Nepomuceno and I spent a week at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, learning the fundamentals of organic gardening and integrating a garden into the academic and social emotional curriculum of a school. In September, parent Steve Sines donated the labor to build eight large raised beds, which we are now filling with organic soil and getting ready to begin planting. Parent Sarah Portnoy arranged a donation of organic planting soil from Kellogg Garden Products, and parent David Kane found another soil company who could supply the rest of the needed soil at a good price! We have a parent committee ready to be trained and help support classes in the garden, and a teacher committee compiling and reviewing garden education curriculum to help us integrate our program with both academic and social emotional curriculum. And we have been able to secure the assistance of two District garden educators, Lucia Burke and Debbie Harding, to help take students and teachers through a “seed to table” sequence of planting, tending, augmenting soil, and harvesting vegetables. Students in grades 1-5 will be working with these garden educators in 9-10 week cycles and students in Pre-K-TK and K will be working with their teachers and parent volunteers. Here are two areas where you can help this week and next: Come to a work day this Friday, October 6 from 1:00-5:00 pm (or any part of that you can manage) with your gloves, spades, wheelbarrows etc. to help us get the great organic soil into the raised beds! Sign in at the front office and come on back to the garden. Donate some marigold seedlings or live potted marigolds to the garden. Many will be potted and used on the Día de los Muertos altars but they will return to the garden to be planted as live natural deterrents to the pests that would love to snack on the vegetables we plant. If you can donate marigold seedlings or plants, please bring them to the garden from Monday through Wednesday of next week.
Stay tuned to watch our garden grow! October 11 – ELAC Meeting 8:30-9:30 am Community Room
October 11 –– Site Council Meeting 4:00-6:00 pm – Community Room
October 19 – Great California Shake Out! Earthquake Drill 10:19 am