The Bergeson BARK – WALK TO SCHOOL DAY Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Bergeson BARK

Friday’s Weekly Newsletter

September 28, 2012

Marian Bergeson Elementary School

Laguna Niguel, CA 92677

School Phone: (949) 643-1540

Call In Sick Line: (949)643-9938

Principal: Barbara Scholl (bscholl@capousd.org)

Bergeson Website: http://bgnes.capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/

WALK TO SCHOOL DAY: International Walk to School Day is on Wednesday, October 3. Join millions of children and adults around the world to raise awareness of pedestrian safety by walking to school on October 3. Walking to school is a win – win – win: It is good for your health, reduces traffic and pollution, and provides positive time to share with family and friends. Walgreens in Laguna Niguel is going to be giving out school supplies and waters as you walk down the road on the way to school. In addition (and here’s the fun part), if you walk to school on Wednesday, you will be escorted by a Laguna Niguel Police Officer! How fun is that? Even if you live outside of the area, feel free to park close to Chick fil A and walk with us! Here are the starting points for Walk to School Day where you can meet the police officer:

1. The Rancho Niguel Club at Moulton and Rancho Niguel: departing at 7:25 AM

2. The corner of Moulton and Nueva Vista: departing at 7:20 AM

3. The corner of Greenfield and Rancho Niguel: departing at 7:25 AM

EARLY DISMISSAL on Thursday, October 4: Thursday, October 4th, is an early dismissal day for our students. Students in grades 1-5 will have a modified lunch schedule. Food Services will be open for those students who plan to purchase a hot lunch.

BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT IS THIS THURSDAY, 10/4! Join us for our annual Back-To-School Night on Thursday, October 4, 2012. This evening is a valuable opportunity for you to meet your child’s teacher and to learn more about your child’s class. The teacher will explain his/her goals for the class. Please remember this is a parents only evening, no students please. Mandarin Math presentation by Dr. Yoram Sagher in MPR from 5 – 6 PM.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR: Book Fair Opens Monday, October 1^st and remains open through Friday, October 5^th. We invite you to visit our Scholastic Book Fair in the library. Reading is so important to your child’s future. Let’s encourage all students to enjoy reading. It’s fun. It can be a challenge. It’s informative. It’s entertaining. Now is the time to show your child how enjoyable reading can be. Questions? Cheryl (cldeacon@yahoo.com) or Janice (janiceruckmick@me.com) Come shop at our Book Fair:

COMMUNITY ED CLASSES (ACE After School Classes): Just a reminder, that there will be NO after school classes next week. The schedule will resume the following week, October 8-12.

BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT: Thursday, October 4th 6pm-8pm, The YMCA will be offering childcare for this event! Space is limited so please reserve your spot before Thursday morning!

$10 per child, $15 for 2 children, Ages 4 and up, To RSVP, call Michelle Phan, Childcare Director at (949) 643-0721 or email: mphan@ymcaoc.org

FAMILY PORTRAIT EVENT: For just $30 you get a 20 minute professional photo shoot on location with Jack Randal Photography and either a 8×10 or 2 5×7’s or 10 4×6’s of one of your poses. You must turn in the form and your check made out to BESF by October 15th. Once you turn it in, the photography studio will call you to make an appointment for a day convenient for you and your family. (While there is NO obligation to order additional photos, Jack Randal will donate a % of the proceeds from all photos you order in addition to the free photo. The more we order, the higher % we earn.). To print flyer, click HERE.

THANK YOU TO DONNA B.’S BAKERY for donating a free cookie coupon to every child at Bergeson on the 25^th Day of the month in celebration of our 25^th anniversary year for Bergeson Elementary School. Our PTA is trying to get a special gift or coupon for the 25^th day of every month during the whole year to celebrate this special anniversary. Donna B.’s Bakery is located right behind the Crown Valley Car Wash off of Forbes Rd.

SNEAKER COLLECTION: Our Bergeson Student Council will hold a shoe drive October 1 through 12 on our campus. Only rubber soled shoes are collected. These rubber soled shoes may be old or torn, as long as they are still repairable. You will need to keep the pairs of sneakers together by either tying the shoelaces together or by zip-tying the shoes (if the shoes do not have laces). Each pound of rubber soled sneakers donated will raise 50 cents, so a pair of shoes may raise $1! At another local school, they were able to raise $600 alone. Our school will receive a check for all the money raised for the shoes after about 8-14 weeks. The Green Sneakers organization will also collect your rubber soled sneakers and restore them so they can be sent to third world countries, where they will be reused. There will be a large plastic bin in the office where you can donate the shoes.

4^th and 5^TH GRADE MUSIC CLASSES: Beginning the week of October 8, 5th graders will be choosing their music class for this school year. A letter will come home with brief explanations of each class. Please discuss these choices and make this decision based on what is best for your individual child and your family. Returning the bottom portion of that letter insures good communication with the music teachers. Thank you from the music teachers, Lisa Gray (strings/orchestra), Doug Jones (5^th band, 4^th strings), Robin Hervey (choral/general music), Quin Thornburg (choral/general music). Our Bergeson Foundation has put together a fundraiser for music instrument rentals. If you rent your instrument through the SMART Foundation in Laguna Niguel, our school will receive a percentage of the rent back to our school. For more information, click HERE for the 4^th or 5^th grade flyer.

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS! Thank you for your purchase of the Entertainment Books! Our sale has ended so if you have not returned the books or the checks, please return them on Monday. We have some extra books in the office in case you need a few more to purchase on Monday, too. The prizes will be distributed to our children in 2 weeks.

PARKING LOT: IF YOU ARE GOING TO WALK IN, PLEASE USE A DESIGNATED PARKING SPOT: If you are in the drive-through lanes before or after school and you would like to walk your child into school, please park in a designated parking spot otherwise, you will block another car from coming through the parking lot. There is plenty of parking in our lot in the morning. You might have to walk a few extra steps but walking is good for us!

JOIN THE BERGESON PTA: ALL classes that reach 100% membership will be winners of a super duper popsicle party. Did you know that the PTA donates $200 for each classroom to purchase classroom supplies? Your donation will also help pay for the science lab, the art program and more. You don’t have to volunteer, just donate your $10 and our kids will benefit. The membership contest ends Friday October 12th.

JOIN THE BERGESON FOUNDATION: Anyone that joins BESF in the month of October will be in a drawing to win $1000 off of braces at Dr. Sayed Orthodontics. (Thank you to Dr. Sayed for donating this fabulous gift, the certificate is good for new patients only) Please support the BESF and join. By joining you helping to keep our K-3 music program, our teacher’s aides for lowered class sizes in reading, new computers, and much much more. For $1 per day for every day your child is in school; $180, you can join the 180 CLUB. The new 180 CLUB will help guarantee our wonderful programs for our children. And, anyone that joins gets free Bergie license plate frame. If you can’t join the 180 Club, please join with whatever donation you can. All of the money goes back to our kids. The Bergeson Elementary School Foundation, with your donations, has already paid $53,000 for the K-3 music program, Two teacher’s aides and new lap tops for your classrooms. We are hoping that all of our families will join the 180 Club. Through the membership and other fundraisers throughout the school year is how we will raise the money to keep Music, Aides and more for next year and the years to come. Check out the BESF website: bergesonfoundation.org

REFLECTIONS ART CONTEST! The PTA Reflections Program is an arts recognition and achievement program for students. The Reflections Program provides opportunities for students to express themselves creatively and to receive positive recognition for original works of art inspired by a pre-selected theme. The theme selected for next year’s Reflections program is “Magic of the Moment”. You can choreograph a dance, write a poem or story, take a photograph, make a movie, or paint or draw a picture related to the theme. Please make a note that the deadline for entries will be in October. The Reflections forms are on this website: http://www.cucptsa.com/index.asp?scid=13 Our students are honored at a very nice Reflections Award Ceremony here at Bergeson and then winners go to the District, County and State Competitions if they are the school winners.

RALPH’S SUPERMARKET: Last year, our school raised $8000 through the Ralph’s Supermarket give-back program. Use your Ralph’s card or enter your telephone number at any Ralph’s store and you receive discounts. Sign up our school as a recipient and Ralph’s will donate a percentage of your purchase to our school. Each year, on September 1, we need to sign up AGAIN otherwise we stop receiving those donations. Please go to www.ralphs.com, sign in, go into “My Account” then click on “Community Rewards” and sign up Bergeson school to be the recipient OR print out the bar code sheet and have the checker scan it next time you go through the Ralph’s check out and our school receives the benefits all year long. It’s free money! For the scan sheet, click HERE.

CARE 4 KIDS RUN: The CARE4kids run/walk will take place on Saturday, October 13 at Aliso Viejo Middle School in Aliso Viejo at 8 a.m. This special event for adults and children support the CARE Foundation. The mission of the CARE Foundation is to strengthen education opportunities for all children in the Capistrano Unified School District community and to build a brighter future for the region. Participants in the run/walk can choose to join one of three races: 10K, 5K or 1K (for children 10 and under). Advance registration is strongly recommended for this event. To register, please go to www.care4kidsrun.com or www.Active.com. For more information, please contact race coordinators (949) 234-9570 or send an email to info@care4kidsrun.com. You can watch Ambuehl Elementary School principal Curt Visca prepare for the race at http://goo.gl/eibhA.

FOOTPRINT FRIDAY: Our recycling competition with Palisades if officially over. Thank you for your wonderful support. We should know the results within a week. The month of October will be our first Grade Level Competition. The grade that brings in the most amount of CRV plastics and aluminum cans will earn a Chick Fil A lunch. Thank you to Chick Fil A for once again supporting our recycling program and our school. Remember, every plastic bottle must have a CA redemption value (CRV) and aluminum cans. Please leave your milk jugs, plastic containers and soup cans at home. NO glass is accepted. We will collect them every Friday and we’ll keep on giving out the Bergeson Best ticket for the kids who bring bags of recyclables. If you can separate your plastic bottles and aluminum cans, it saves lots of work. Thanks!

FREE DENTAL CLINIC: Saturday October 27 from 9 AM – 12 PM at Hidden Hills Elementary School, 25142 Hidden Hills Rd., Laguna Niguel. Donated and organized by the Laguna Niguel Rotary, Hidden Hills Elementary, AYUDA and USC. A Free Dental Clinic for Laguna Niguel 1st grade students and older. You must have an appointment to receive service and appointments are taken on a first-called, first-served basis. Make your appointment now by calling Hidden Hills front office 949-495-0050. Dental service is provided by AYUDA, a nonprofit organization in affiliation with USC School of Dentistry that was formed in 2006. AYUDA has been providing International dental care since 1967 through its core of volunteers. AYUDA provides comprehensive treatment including:

• Digital X-Rays

• Cleanings

• Scaling & Root Planing

• Composite & Amalgam Fillings

• Dental Sealants

• Stainless Steel Crowns

• Pulpotomies

• Extractions

• And Other Necessary Treatments

MANDARIN CHINESE IMMERSION NEWS: If you are interested in fundraising efforts and social events, you can find information on this website: www.friendsofmip.com.

JAMBA JUICE THURSDAYS: Every Thursday at pickup, Jamba Juice will be onsite and selling their 6oz delicious drinks for only $2 and 8oz drinks for $4. Variety of flavors will be on hand and proceeds will go to the Mandarin Immersion Program.

DINE FOR DOLLARS AT SOUPLANTATION ON OCT 11TH: Tired of cooking? Take the family out to dinner and support MIP at the same time. 20% of event sales will be donated so come on out! Please be sure to present flyer which can be downloaded from www.friendsofmip.com.

MOON CAKES WERE A HIT with thanks to everyone who brought them to school or purchased them for our Mid-Autumn Celebration!

SHINING STARS: Donate your time to our community through a service project, helping an elderly neighbor (without pay), beach clean up, etc. and become a Bergeson Shining Star! Fill out a form in the office, receive recognition at our Thursday flag ceremony, receive a blue wrist band that reads “Bergeson Shining Star” and get your STAR on the wall in the MPR all year long!

This week, Ashley Craig worked to clean up the school playground and round up all of her friends to help.

CELEBRATION BOOKS: Do you have a special occasion or birthday and would like to donate a book to our library in your child’s honor? Fill out the form in the office, donate $20, pick out your book from some pre-purchased books in the library and we’ll put a large sticker on the inside cover of the book with your child’s name on it. Everyone who checks that book out will know who donated it!

JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT STUDENT ART CONTEST: Would you like to have your artwork displayed at the airport for everyone to see? Consider this contest, themed “My Favorite Airsports” which offers students the opportunity to creatively express their visions of an aviation related artwork. Artwork can be submitted to any public library by November 1, 4 PM. Kindergarten through 5^th grade are welcome to apply. Applications are in the Bergeson Office.