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Edison Language Academy – Together Through Two Languages (310) 828-0335 www.edison.smmusd.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS NOCHE DE CESAR CHAVEZ –Save the date for Friday, March 11 when we gather to celebrate the life and work of nd César Chávez, featuring the 2 grade students and the afterschool music program with Maestra Jacqueline Fuentes. APPLICATIONS FOR KINDER 2016-2017 are due by March 7. If you have a younger child ready for Kinder next year (5 years old on or before September 1, 2016) make sure you have turned in your application by March 7 – after that, there is no sibling preference for admission. APPLICATIONS FOR DUAL IMMERSION TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN (children born between 9/2/11 and 12/2/11) and DUAL IMMERSION PRESCHOOL (children born between 12/3/11 and 9/2/13) are due March 8. There will be a language-based lottery for both programs. Applications are available in the office. SPRING CONCERTS -- Kindergarteners will sing for their families on Monday, March 7 at 8:30 am. First Graders will sing on Monday, March 14 at 8:30 am. EDISON LOST AND FOUND – Please check the Lost and Found for your child’s missing jackets, lunchboxes, water bottles, umbrellas and plastic lunch containers. The lunch containers are going to be tossed at the end of this week as many contain food and food waste – so come before Friday if your child is missing those items. We have dozens and dozens of jackets and sweaters. So please come, take a look and pick up missing items! THANKS LIBRARY HELPERS! - We are so appreciative of the many parents who have spent time helping Carol prepare new books for circulation! You make a big difference. If you can give us an hour or two in the library, contact Carol at 310 828-0335 ext 61-310.
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK: TOGETHER WE CAN! It’s the time of the year when the Edison Parent Teacher Association (PTA) begins to work to identify leadership for the next year. So, with next week’s packet, you’ll see a flyer from the PTA Nominations Committee asking for your suggestions of individuals who the Committee should talk to about interest and availability for a Board position. You can also suggest yourself – and we hope you will! I’d like to add my personal request that all parents think ahead to next year and identify some ways that you can be involved as a parent volunteer. We can do so much more for our students when we all pitch in and do a little. And we build a stronger and more representative community when we’re all at the table – Spanish speakers, English speakers, bilinguals, mothers, fathers, grandparents, parents who work outside the home and those work from home or are home raising kids, etc. Our diverse experiences, cultures, ideas, and skills are all needed to create the kind of place we want for our children to thrive and grow. Simply put, everyone has something important to share! Each year when the Nominating Committee starts approaching parents to serve on the PTA Board, people tell me things like, “Ask me to do anything but go to a meeting!” or “I’m just not a PTA parent.” But so many of the things that we have come to think of as important parts of Edison are organized by parents through the PTA. And while being a PTA Board member does involve going to a monthly business meeting, most of the work is done in smaller teams of people working together. PTA is different groups of parents working together to prepare the telephone directory, host a welcome picnic for new Kindergarten families, oversee the Corazon de Vida project, or organize Book Fairs, the Fall Festival, the Valentines Dance, Jogathon, fundraising sales, raffles, Noche de César Chávez and Movie Nights. PTA is people who set up Wednesday morning cafecito, organize and equip Room Representatives, run, school beautification projects, help organize assemblies and field trips, and design and sell school spirit wear. So, please consider what you can do and respond to the Nominations Committee with an offer to help in some capacity. If we all head for the door, and hope that someone else will step up, lots of important things will fall through the cracks. But when we have a big group of diverse volunteers we are so much better and stronger – and so are the programs that we can offer to our amazing Edison students!
March 11 Noche de Cesar Chavez – 6:00 pm.
March 17 th 5 Grade Play Parent Performance 6:30 p.m.
March 18 5th Grade Play – Student Performance – 9:00 am