IN THIS WEEK’S EDITION
• STAR Testing/Grades 2-5
• Upcoming CVES events
• Jog-a-thon/CVES PTA Sponsored event
• AYSO VIP Soccer
• Clothing Drive/Girl Scout Troop 1509 Sponsored Event
• Kona Ice on Thursday afternoons
• Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy Presentation/CUCPTSA Sponsored Event
• Niguel Hills PTSA 2010-1011 Committee Chair Positions
• PTA News
• Featured Articles
• Community Events
• Quote of the Week
STAR TESTING DATES
Crown Valley Elementary will be administering the STAR tests to students in grades 2-5 beginning Monday, May 3. The assessment program takes approximately two weeks, including make up days. Your child’s teacher will be sending home specific information about testing times. Please encourage and support your child to do his/her very best.
UPCOMING CVES EVENTS
Kona Ice (Hawaiian Ice sales) . . .Thursday, April 15
Jog-a-thon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday, April 16
Blood drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday, May 12
Jump Rope for Heart. . . . . . . . . .Friday, May 28
Sock Hop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday, June 18
JOG-A-THON/CVES PTA SPONSORED EVENT
Get your running shoes on; the 2010 CVES JOG-A-THON is coming Friday, April 16. Please return your donation envelopes. This is the CVES PTA’s biggest fundraiser of the year. All donations will go to school functions such as Meet the Masters, field trips, assemblies, upgraded supplies and equipment, and much more. The classroom with the most donations will receive a pizza party. And the child with the single most donations will win a brand new bike donated from Buy My Bikes bike shop in San Juan Capistrano. Thank you to Jim and the crew at BMB for their support of Crown Valley over these several years.
The jog-a-thon is open to all CVES students; pre-k through fifth grade. However, all students must have a signed permission slip to participate.
AYSO VIP SOCCER
AYSO hosts a soccer program exclusively for players with special needs. The program is open to anyone who’s physical or developmental challenges make it difficult to successfully participate on amainstream soccer team. Please down load an informational flyer from the CV website. You can also visit www.eayso.org and create a log-in profile.
CROWN VALLEY CLOTHING DRIVE/GIRL SCOUT TROOP 1509 EVENT
Crown Valley will be hosting it’s first Clothing Drive the week of April 19-23! Please take some time and look through your closets for “gently used” clothing. All items donated will benefit Casa Hogar Belen, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. Casa Hogar Belen currently cares for 77 children. Clothing for babies up through young adults is welcome! Shoes are also welcome! Please do not send in clothing with stains, missing buttons, broken zippers, etc. These kids deserve our very best! Thanks so much for your support! Stay tuned for more details!
(Clothing Drive run by Ally Cease, Grade 5, Girl Scout Troop 1509)
STATE FUNDED PRESCHOOL
If you know of anybody that’s interested in the state funded preschool program for the 2010-2011 school year pleasecontact the Children’s Home Society at (714) 543-2273 so they can place them on the Centralized Eligible List (CEL) or they can go online to https://cel.chs-ca.org . Interested parents should not wait, programs fill quickly then children will be placed on a waiting list.
KONA ICE TO VISIT ON THURSDAYS/CVES PTA SPONSORED EVENT
Kona Ice will be visiting CVES each Thursday beginning April 15. The CVES community will have the opportunity to purchase shave ice and ice cream products for $2-$4 each. Check out Kona Ice at http://oc.kona-ice.com/
YES, YOUR TEEN IS CRAZY PRESENTATION
The Capistrano Unified Council of PTSAs Presents
An Evening with Dr. Michael J. Bradley
Award Winning Author of
Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
Dr. Michael Bradley, Ed.D, is a recognized expert in adolescent behavior and has counseled adolescents and parents for more than 30 years. He has also appeared on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including NBC’s Today Show, CNN World News Tonight, Pure Oxygen and National Public Radio.
Learn the skills, strength and wisdom needed to successfully steer your adolescent through the difficult teenage years. Hear about the explosive growth and rewiring your teen’s brain is going through that results in their sometimes “crazy” behavior, and find out how to emerge from the teen years with your family intact!
o When: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
o Time: 6:45 p.m.
o Where: The Hills Hotel (formerly The Holiday Inn)
Located at the 5 freeway and La Paz Rd.
o Cost: $5.00 advance registration
$10.00 at the door
Spanish translation will be provided
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-Yes! I plan to attend this enlightening seminar!
Name: _________________________________________________
Phone:___________________ Email:_______________________
Please make checks payable to CUCPTSA. The cost of the program is $5.00
Deadline for Advance Registration is April 19. Cost at the door will be $10.00.
Mail payment to: CUCPTSA, 12 Agia, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
For more information contact Gayle Paride at gparide@pacbell.net.
NIGUEL HILLS PTSA 2010-2011 COMMITTEE CHAIR POSITIONS
The Niguel Hills PTSA is now filling Committee Chair Positions for the 2010-2011 school year. If you are interested in serving on the PTSA Board, please contact Cathy Madigan, PTSA President 2009-2010, at cmadigan@cox.net or Kara Ahmann, PTSA President 2010-2011, at karaahmann@aol.com by April 30th.
PTA NEWS
PTA Meeting: The next PTA Meeting is Wednesday, April 21 at 12:30 PM in the site’s Library.
Box Tops: The Crown Valley PTA is continuously collecting Box Tops. Please send your Box Tops to your child teacher.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Capo trustees: Illegal student protests must stop
Capistrano Unified trustees said Friday they understand and respect the sudden groundswell of student activism at two district high schools in response to recent teacher pay cuts, but stressed that the walkouts cannot continue and disruptions to learning will not be tolerated. Reacting to two lively protests in as many days at Aliso Viejo’s Aliso Niguel High School and Dana Point’s Dana Hills High School, school board President Anna Bryson said she supported the students’ free speech rights, but that they needed to follow the law.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-242435-school-teachers.html
Parents should relax while children work through school challenges
Q. My son, who is now 15, was a good math student, but was never able to pass those darn speed tests throughout elementary school. He tried everything. I am happy to report though that he still had a good aptitude for math and ended up getting into algebra in seventh grade. Today, he has an “A” in Algebra 2 as a freshman. Please encourage your reader not to stress. Encourage a love of math and the rest will follow!
http://www.ocregister.com/news/school-242413-schools-children.html
Capo to hire security guards if teachers strike
The Capistrano Unified School District is planning to hire private security guards for all of its campuses if teachers in the district go on strike in the coming weeks. The school district – Orange County’s second largest, with 56 campuses – last month placed open purchase orders totaling $100,000 with two private security firms for an estimated 250 guards. Capistrano officials have stressed that the district has not spent any money yet, that the guards would be unarmed, and that the guards would be deployed on an as-needed basis.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/guards-243232-security-capistrano.html
Capo students, parents to stage 1-day sickout
Parents and students across the Capistrano Unified School District are expected to stage a one-day “student strike” Tuesday in which kids will be kept at home to protest the 10.1 percent pay cuts imposed on teachers by the school board. The sickout is being organized by parents through e-mail and word of mouth to draw attention to the way the district – Orange County’s second largest – has handled contract negotiations with its 2,300 teachers. Hundreds of parents, teachers and students are expected to descend on district headquarters in San Juan Capistrano on Tuesday night for a school board meeting. Capistrano Unified’s teachers union could vote to authorize a strike as early as Thursday.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/school-243735-district-students.html
No longer highest paid teachers
Teachers in California no longer earn, on average, the most of any state in the nation. New York has taken over that distinction. California has the second highest student to teacher ratio in the nation (20.9:1), next to Utah’s 21.4. And its spending per student has fallen two notches to 43rd in the nation.
http://educatedguess.org/blog/2010/04/13/no-longer-highest-paid-teachers/
3,880 Capo students take part in sickout
An estimated 3,880 students across the Capistrano Unified School District, mostly at the elementary level, stayed home Tuesday as families staged a one-day “student strike” to protest a 10.1 percent pay cut imposed on teachers by the school board. Attendance at the district’s 35 elementary campuses was down 16 percent, hovering at an 80 percent attendance rate versus the average 96 percent. Attendance at the district’s nine middle schools and six high schools, meanwhile, was only down about 1 percent below the annual average.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/school-243790-district-teachers.html
900 protest Capo teacher pay cuts
About 900 Capistrano Unified educators, parents and students descended on district headquarters Tuesday night to protest a 10.1 percent pay cut imposed on teachers by the school board, continuing the rallying cry of an estimated 3,880 students who staged a mass sickout earlier in the day. Carrying signs that said “What’s the board’s real agenda?” and “Respect our teachers,” the teachers demanded that the school district return to the bargaining table to hash out a compromise with union leaders. Capistrano’s teachers union could vote to authorize a strike as early as Thursday.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/teachers-243935-percent-board.html
COMMUNITY EVENTS
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City of Dana Point:
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City of San Clemente:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Once you learn to read,
you will be forever free.”
Anthony Bogle
Principal
Crown Valley Elementary School
