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Edison Language Academy – Together Through Two Languages (310) 828-0335 www.edison.smmusd.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS PRIMARY MUSIC INFORMANCES – Come and hear what your child has been learning in Spanish music class on Monday December 19 or Friday December 23 – on the day and time of their regular music class (See the flyer in last week’s packet for exact dates and times). Music classes with Maestra Jacqueline are taught in Room 109.
PENGUIN PATCH HOLIDAY SHOPPE December 12-16, the Edison PTA is sponsoring aa small low-cost gift sale designed so that children can purchase holiday gifts for family or friends. The Penguin Patch Holiday Shoppe will be open at drop off (8:00-8:30 am) in the cafecito area. Gifts range from $0.25 to $12.00.
BOARD GAMES AND/OR DVDS – Our students have really been enjoying playing board games, card games and simple puzzles in the morning before school. If you have some childappropriate, simple-to-use games that your family is no longer using, please consider donating them to Edison. We can also use DVDs with children’s movies (Rated G) because there’s nothing quite like a movie when it’s too wet to go outside for recess! HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE DECEMBER 12-20 Can you share a few items of canned or other non-perishable food with those in need this holiday season? Please bring your contributions for the Westside Regional Foodbank to your child’s classroom before December 20. SHOPPING FOR EDISON -- Buy your holiday gifts at Novica (co-founded by Edison parents) before December 25 at https://www.novica.com/edison/and they will donate 40% of what you spend to our PTA. Check out their beautiful gifts made by artisans from around the world.
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK: TRY THE HOUR OF CODE! Did you know that over 70% of all new STEM jobs are in computing and that nearly every industry is trying to hire computer programmers? Unfortunately, only 40% of U.S. high schools even offer computer science. Further, girls and people of color are dramatically underrepresented among computer science students. Computer science is about logic, problem solving and creativity. It is foundational knowledge and technology affects every field. And we want our students to be exposed to and interested in coding! The Hour of Code is a nationwide attempt to expose more children to computer science and to support teachers in directing coding activities. There are wonderful on-line resources to teach coding – appropriate even for very young children. You can check out videos and coding tutorials and games at www.code.org. While officially the Hour of Code coincides with Computer Science Education Week (December 5-11), we decided to extend it through December at Edison. Each year we ask every teacher to expose their students to coding – for an hour or more. Many of the tutorials look like games (Minecraft, StarWars, Frozen, Angry Birds, etc.) but they are teaching the fundamentals of logic and problem solving. This year we invested in a set of programmable robots (Dash) as another fun tool to teach coding, so you may be hearing about our student’s adventures in programming a robot. Hour of Code activities on www.code.org are also fun to do at home and students can go quite far with on-line free resources. If you have access to the Internet at home, sit down with your child and play some coding games together! December is a short but busy month here at Edison. Here are some of our special events and deadlines: December 14 – Ms. Murcia’s class field trip for workshops at Apple Store; 4:006:00 p.m.- Edison Site Council Meeting, Community Room th December 15 – 8:30-9:10 am - 4 Grade Music Informances in music rooms th December 16 – Preschool Applications Due; 5 grade Catalina payment due; 8:30 am Parent Chorus, Room 109; Mr. Morales’ class field trip for workshops at Apple Store; 10:20 am Dance performance for Ms. Boxer’s class (Cafeteria) December 19 – Música en Español Informances, Room 109 – during students’ regular class time; Parent Breakfast for Ms. Jimenez and Ms. Melendez’ classes rd th 10:15-11:00; 3 -4 Grade Chorus, Room 109 December 20 – Donations Due for the Westside Regional Food Bank December 21 – 8:30 am - PTA Association Meeting – Community Room; th 8:30- 9:30 am – 5 Grade Family Breakfast– Cafeteria; th December 23 – Minimum Day; Música en Español Informances; 4 grade family celebration in classrooms 8:30 am. Counting down to Winter Break which begins with a minimum day on 12/23!
December 15 – 5:308:00 pm – International Potluck and PS Arts Family Art Night
December 16 – Seaside Preschool Applications for 2017-2018 are due
December 19 and 23 Music Informances Pre-K, TK, K, 1, 2