JOHN S. MALCOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
ALOHA SPIRIT
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
RUMMAGE SALE: December 4-5
CHICK-FIL-A RESTAURANT NIGHT: December 9
PTA GENERAL ASSOCIATION MEETING: Monday, December 13 @ 8 a.m.
SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL MEETING: Tuesday, December 14 @ 2:30 p.m.
WINTER RECESS: Monday, December 20 – Friday, December 31
SCHOOL RESUMES: Monday, January 3
STUDENT DROP OFF: NEVER, EVER allow students to exit cars from the left hand lane!! Students may only be dropped off or picked up from the right hand curb.
RUMMAGE SALE THIS WEEKEND!! Come shop and help raise funds for Malcom! Come to the pre-sale just for Malcom families Friday, December 3rd from noon to 3:30 p.m. Sale opens to the public Saturday and Sunday from 8 am to 2pm. We will also be selling snow cones from 11-1 each day. Volunteers to help sell are still needed – sign up in the school office.
CHICK-FIL-A FUNDRAISER NIGHT: Get dinner at Chick-fil-A between 5 and 8 pm on Thursday, December 9th and earn 20% of your purchase for Malcom. No flyer is required – just be sure to say you are from MALCOM!! Ask for the receipt, write your teacher’s name on the back and turn it in. Your child’s class could win a free Chick-fil-A kids meal for everyone in the class!
FRENCH CLUB: Come learn French at Quinn’s French Club. Class runs from December 8th through February 2nd. The cost is $69.00. Sign up at CUSD Adult and Community Education.
HEAD LICE: Every year, at every school, one or more students is discovered to have head lice. Anyone can get head lice. It has nothing to do with cleanliness, nor is it any reflection on parenting. Like a cold, lice can be passed when children come into close contact with each other. And, like a cold, the responsibility for treatment of head lice rests with the home.
Head lice are grayish-white and only about 1/16 of an inch long. Detection can be difficult because they move quickly, but contrary to what you may have heard, they cannot fly nor jump. Usually, diagnosis is made when lice eggs, called “nits” are evident. They cling to the hair shaft and cannot be washed or brushed out like dandruff. The important thing is to deal with it quickly and effectively with a “pediculicide” (lice killer) to prevent the spread to others.
Symptoms of head lice are itching and redness. When lice are suspected at school, Health staff examines the student as well as any siblings. If lice are found, students are sent home to be treated. Treatment consists of washing the hair with a pediculicide and carefully combing out all the nits. Students may return to school with proof (doctor’s note, written assurance by parent or empty package of an approved pediculicide) verifying treatment. A second treatment must be done seven to ten days later and proof provided to the school.
The school makes every effort to maintain the privacy of any students who are identified as having head lice. An isolated case will be sent home for treatment and notification will be sent to the parents or guardians of all students in that class. If two or more cases are found in a single classroom, all students in the class will be checked.
In addition to using an effective head lice treatment on any affected family members, be sure to do the follow to help prevent re-infestation:
• Wash all clothes, bed linens and towels in hot water and dry on a hot cycle for at least 20 minutes. Items that cannot be safely washed, such as stuffed animals, should be dry cleaned or stored outside for at least two weeks.
• Clean all combs and brushes in hot, soapy water.
• Vacuum carpets, pillows, mattresses, upholstery etc. Discard vacuum bag promptly.
I hope this has cleared up any concerns and/or misperceptions that you may have had. Working together, we can reduce the occurrence of this common, but annoying nuisance.
SOCSA PRESENTS: Little Women: The Musical! Come enjoy the musical based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters: brassy tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and kind-hearted Beth – and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Mass. while the family patriarch is away serving as Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio.
December 2,3,4 Thur, Fri Sat 7:00 p.m.
December 9,10,11 Thur, Fri, Sat 7:00 p.m.
Porthole Theatre on Dana Hills High School Campus
33333 Golden Lantern, Dana Point
Purchase Tickets:
At the door or at www.socsarts.org
Student $10
Adult $12
Faith D. Morris
Principal, John S. Malcom Elementary School
949-248-0542
fdmorris@capousd.org
website: http://jmes.capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/
It is better to build children than repair adults.
