AN EXTRA LONG MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!
For Memorial Day weekend, our school will be closed this Friday, May 28; Monday, May 31 and Tuesday, June 1. Friday and Tuesday were added about a month ago as a cost-saving measure in the form of furlough days. A five-day weekend! The YMCA will still be opened during their regular hours and if you need assistance with child-care, please call the YMCA at (949) 643-0721 or dcassell@ymcaoc.org. We appreciate the YMCA and their partnership with our school.
OPEN HOUSE
Open House will take place on Thursday, June 3 from 6 – 7 PM here at school. On that day, there is an extra early dismissal at 11:50 AM. We will have the book fair in the MPR all week, too. The Science Camp committee will be selling pizza and drinks. Please plan to join us for this wonderful community event!
GRANDPARENTS DAY
Make sure to invite your grandparents or a special grandparent-type friend to Grandparents Day on Friday, June 4. The book fair will be open and grandparents are welcome to stay and buy a turkey sub lunch from the school cafeteria to eat with your grandchild for $2.75 (student lunches are $2.25). The real, live Marian Bergeson will join us and will visit every class! If you would like to donate some baked goods or treats for our grandparents, please drop them off at school on June 2 or 3. The schedule is as follows:
Kindergarten: classroom visit from 10:15 – 10:45 and lunch at 10:45 AM.
1st Grade: classroom visit from 10:30 – 11 and lunch at 11 AM.
2nd and 3rd Grade: classroom visit from 10:50 – 11:20 and lunch at 11:20 AM.
4th and 5th Grade: classroom visit from 11:25 – 11:55 and lunch at 11:55 AM.
BOOK FAIR
The Bergeson Book Fair will be in town on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The book fair is a wonderful PTA fundraiser and also a great way to get summer reading for your children at very good prices. Classes will sign up for book fair visitations for next week. Thank you to Diane Marshall for her organization of our book fair.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR BERGESON MATH TEAM!
The Bergeson 5th Grade Math Team medaled and won in the category of Geometry for the South OC Math Field Day! Congratulations to Michael Ford, Anya Whitshire, Nick Poese and Ryan Brady. Also a big thanks to their coach, Imelda Ford. We’re proud of you!
SPECIAL “READING IS ELEMENTARY” FUNDRAISER: Be looking for a flyer to come home in your child’s backpack this week announcing an exciting new fundraiser. The Orange County Register is offering parents of elementary students a very special offer. For just 2 cents, you will receive a “Sunday” subscription to The Orange County Register for a year! You’ll get all your Orange County local news, money saving coupons, and the latest information on your community for only 2 cents for the year! You can’t beat the price! And when you sign up, The OC Register will give $10 to our school! You can also get this flyer from our school website by clicking HERE.
There are only a few restrictions:
1. This offer is good only for the first 200 subscribers so get your orders in today!
2. You must not have been a subscriber within the last 30 days.
3. No refunds, service or vacation credits.
4. Allow 3 – 4 weeks for subscription to start.
All you need to do is fill out the information on the flyer, tape 2 cents to the flyer and return it to your child’s teacher or the office!
BERGESON SUMMER ACADEMY
Let’s keep our kids studying during the summer so that they don’t loose their skills! We are pleased to host our 2nd year of the Bergeson Summer Academy for our current Kindergarten through 5th grade students from 9 – 11 AM, Monday through Thursday in two 2-week sessions starting on Monday, June 28. The program will be taught by Bergeson teachers and is a wonderful way to help students keep the great academic skills which they have built throughout the course of this school year. We will send a flyer home next week. The program will focus on Reading and Math. Classes will be kept small so that we can help to individualize instruction. Parents can register online at http://community-ed-capousd-ca.schoolloop.com/. Type “Bergeson” in the search bar to register. If you were interested in doing both the math program and the Summer Academy, you could schedule your math times before and after the academy times to extend the day.
BAKE SALE ON JUNE 10
A group of Bergeson families have organized a bake sale to benefit our Bergeson Science lab. The Bake Sale will take place on Thursday, June 10 after school so please plan to support them. If you would like to donate baked goods for the bake sale, please contact Jamie Warth at 364-5455 with our thanks for helping this worthy cause. All funds will be used to help save our Science Lab.
SHOUT-OUT IN THE BUGLE NEWSLETTER
Please submit your SHOUT OUTS for the last edition of the Bugle. Shout outs can be around 30 words and can be messages of any type that support, encourage, thank, congratulate etc….. to a student, teacher, staff member, friend, pet, etc…. Please submit your SHOUT OUT to ccrebar@gmail.com as soon as possible. First 25 SHOUT OUTS will be included. Thank you!
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
The last day of school is Wednesday, June 23 and the dismissal time will on a half-day schedule where students will be released from school at 11:50 AM. Early Bird Kindergarteners will be out of school at 10:28 AM and Late Birds will be in school from 9:07 – 11:50 AM. Our 5th grade transition ceremony will take place at 10:45 AM on the front lawn. Please mark your calendar.
BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION
CALLING ALL BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION!! Time to get all the Box Tops for Education in to your classroom collection bin. The contest ends May 27th and all Box Tops will be collected that afternoon.
SUMMER ACQUATICS AT ALISO NIGUEL HIGH SCHOOL
Capistrano Community Education Presents: SWIM LESSONS
Registration June 17 5pm – 7pm at the Aliso Niguel High School Pool. Lessons start at only $80!!!
Two week lessons: M/W/F or M –F
Session I: June 28– July 9 Session II: July 12 – July 23 Session III: July 26 – Aug. 6
Three week lessons: Tues. /Thurs.
Session I: June 29 – July 15 Session II: July 20 – Aug. 5
*All lessons will be 20 minutes in length and are offered from 10 am – 12pm and 4pm to 6pm
Also available: YOUTH WATER POLO and PRE-SWIM TEAM STROKE CLINIC
For more information about our programs visit us at:: www.alisoaquatics.com
SUMMER MATH PROGRAM
We win! We have enough students signed up at this point to keep the program here at Bergeson! We are pleased to host a fun and interactive math program this summer for elementary and middle school students. Sign up for any half-hour slot of time between “FASTTMath” & “Fraction Nation” are computer-based programs addressing operations with whole numbers and working with fractions and decimals. This fee-based summer class offers different program/time slot options and runs from 6/28 – 8/12, Monday – Thursdays. The program will be taught by Bergeson teachers Mrs. Terheggen and Mrs. Wiseman. Parents can get an application by clicking HERE. Click on the “Summer Math Program” link on the left side of the page. We are required to have 60 students by May 15 to run this program at Bergeson. Don’t miss out on this great summer learning opportunity for your kids!
AVON BREAST CANCER WALK
Our teacher, Miss Valencia is walking the 2-day Avon Walk for Breast Cancer July 10-11 in San Francisco and trying to raise $1800 for this wonderful cause. The Avon Foundation is a wonderful charity and gives back to not only research but early detection and treatment for all women and men who suffer from breast cancer. If you’d like to sponsor her, click this link: http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk/SanFrancisco?px=1854013&pg=personal&fr_id=1950&et=co99SoNkUXCsczfLapc5wQ..&s_tafId=433066
IN LINE ~ ON TIME
Congratulations to Mrs. Meckel and Mrs. Brewer’s late bird Kindergarten classes who have been In Line ~ On Time for 17 days to spell out the words PERFECT ATTENDANCE (one letter for each day) and received their Popsicle party and new class ball. (Congrats to the parents, too!)
CELEBRATION BOOKS LIBRARY DONATION
Purchasing a book for the Bergeson Library is a great way to honor your child’s birthday, applaud a major accomplishment, recognize good grades or just proclaim your child as an outstanding Bergeson Bulldog. In recognition of your donation to the library, your child is recognized by Principal Scholl during the Friday morning flag salute and a “Book Plate” will be affixed to the inside cover of your book selection announcing, “This book was donated in your child’s honor!” Recognitions of book donations are presented every Friday at 7:45 am. Book Club Forms can be picked up in the office. Donating a book to the Bergeson Library is a wonderful tribute for your child that all Bergeson students can enjoy for many years. What a wonderful gift to give to grow our library. Congratulations to Jacob Sprick on his 11th birthday and thank you to his family for donating to our library!
SHINING STARS
Students have donated their time and given of themselves for a service-learning project called Shining Stars. Applications for these projects are in the office. We will celebrate the students and their accomplishments through our Character Counts program and honor them at our Friday flag ceremony. Congratulations to our Shining Stars for their community service and for “paying it forward”: Congratulations and thank you to: Jenna Mootchnik, Nicolette Reese, Morgan Marshall, Jett Hunter, Baylor Jones, Reagan Lundeen, Elliott Lundh, Max Gonda.
HAPPY MAY BIRTHDAYS TO THE FOLLOWING BERGESON STAFF MEMBERS!
Rose Ann Roso (1), Debi Suttle (16), Karen Lee (18), Andrea Carrillo (28)
Respect, Responsibility and Ready to Learn! At Bergeson School, we learn something new every single day!!
Barbara Scholl
Principal, Marian Bergeson Elementary School
25302 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel CA 92677
bscholl@capousd.org
949.643.1540
http://bgnes.capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/
