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05/25/2018 - Buzz Newsleeter
Field Day is June 1st. Early Dismissal at noon!
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The Springer Buzz! |
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Our Mission At Springer Elementary School, we will provide a safe and supportive environment that engages, inspires, and nurtures all students’ emotional and academic needs in order to become empathetic, productive global citizens and lifelong learners. |
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In This Issue: May 25, 2018:
Quick Dates for your Calendar:
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Principal’s Message |
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Dear Springer Community,
On Wednesday, in recognition for all of this year’s volunteers, we held a volunteer breakfast to show our appreciation. On behalf of the Springer Staff and myself I want to extend a THANK YOU. Your, “Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.” – Author Unknown. The return is endless and far reaching. Your time has benefitted all of our students, and by your example our students see what they too can give back.
Field Day is Friday, June 1st. All of the students will be participating in field games starting at 9am to 12:15pm. Please be sure your child wears sunscreen and brings water for the day. It will be a rainbow of fun seeing all of the students out and about. And of course we will end with the Springer Traditional Hershey Kiss relay.
The Magical Bridge Playground coin drive continues into next week. Thank you in advance for your support. You may make donations online: http://magicalbridges.org/springer or bring coins to school as well. Each of the classrooms have coin collection containers. For more information about Magical Bridge coming to Mountain View: CLICK HERE to see a video about Magical Bridge.
Don’t forget to check the lost and found. There are still lots of treasures to be found.
Have an enjoyable Memorial weekend! Lynn |
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Reading Corner |
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Reading Corner: Looking Back on a Year of Reading
Students have made incredible progress in their reading this year. This week as I visited classrooms, I asked some students to think back on their experience reading this year. Students reflected on what they learned and enjoyed, and it was great to hear their feedback. This is a compilation of comments from students at each grade:
TK I liked reading! We read books. I liked looking at the pictures and the words. Our teacher read a lot of stories to us. It was fun. I love reading.
Kindergarten We learned that reading is fun! You can read with the pictures, and you have pointer power and snap power. Pointer pointer means you point to the words so you don’t miss one. We learn snap words. If it’s a short word, you learn it so you know it in a snap, like “the.” In reading workshop I liked that we did private reading and partner reading. I got to read by myself and also to a friend sometimes.
1st Grade I just like reading, you know? My favorite part is pulling from our book boxes. You get all sorts of different books. I like reading nonfiction books because they give you information. I like the characters in stories. Some of them are funny, and there’s lots of problems in books. I notice when their feelings change, and then I change my voice. I learned a lot, like we should actually pay attention to the words, or we could miss really good details. I like that you can feel like you’re in that place when you read. It’s like you can go on the adventure yourself.
2nd Grade Books bring us to different places and adventures. Sometimes when I’m reading, I use my imagination, and it’s like I’m in the book. When I read A to Z Mysteries, I always think I’m solving the mystery too, and I try to figure it out. I like that we get to read books with our classmates in book clubs and learn their style of reading. We also get to know the characters in our books really well. You get to know how characters solve problems, and I like how the characters and stories surprise you.
3rd Grade I like it when books get harder. You have to use new strategies to understand them fully, like inferring. Our teacher taught us that we can use what we learned earlier in the book to infer and predict what’s going to happen next. It helps us read more challenging books, and I really like that. I also use all the strategies my teacher taught me to figure out words, like breaking words into chunks.
4th Grade We learned how to read, not just reading the words on the page, but to really understand what we read. If I didn’t know a word, I used to just ask my parents. Now I look at the other words around it, or I’ll break it up and sound it out. I understand stories better with the tools we have. It helps me understand what the story is really about, because we’re learning that the story is more than just the words on a page. A book can take you to a different world and teach you lessons.
5th Grade I really liked book clubs. We got to read different types of books, even books you would usually ignore because they’re so thick, but you find out they’re really good. You can challenge yourself, and your club helps you. You might not think you can read all the pages, but you do it. We talked to each other about what we liked about the books. They were self-motivated groups. Nobody was the boss, telling us what to do. It was still organized, and it helped us learn time management. I really liked that we learned about metaphorical dragons in fantasy books.
6th Grade I really liked book clubs because it was fun to talk about our reading. We got to read different genres. Some genres I hadn’t tried out before, but it turned out that I really like them. For example, I thought nonfiction would be all facts, but the book I read was really funny and interesting. I liked talking to people who had the same interests. I never thought setting was anything other than where the book happened. Now I know it’s also about the mood and other things. I learned a lot.
—Tiara Wirkkala, Springer Literacy Instructional Support Teacher |
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Field Day |
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Springer’s 6th annual Field Day will be on Friday, June 1. This is a very fun event that the kids really look forward to. We are looking for parent volunteers to help with various activities that morning. (It’s a minimum day.)
Please click here to signup. Contact Donna Murphy (at jcdrm[at]yahoo[dot]com) if you have any questions. |
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Art Docent Thank You |
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The Los Altos Art Docents are 93 dedicated volunteers who have taught 801 art lessons to the elementary school children in the Los Altos School District. This year at Springer, the docents taught 139 art lessons.
Thank you to Springer parents Setareh Aslani, Sarah Cunningham, Hansook Lee and Lara Rahn who contributed to the success of the Art Docent program this year. Congratulations to our newest docent Sunjung Moon for completing our training, look for her in the class more next year!
New docents are taught the LAAD lessons by experienced docents on Thursday mornings from September through March. The Los Altos Art Docents welcome new members to join the next docent-in-training class in the fall. To learn more, come to our informational coffee on August 30rd at 10:00 in the boardroom of the district office.
For more information, check us out at www.losaltosartdocents.org.
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Cub Scout Bike Rodeo! |
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On June 6, 2018, Springer’s Cub Scout pack will be hosting a Bike Rodeo and Pizza Party for boys and girls K-4 (and parents) on the Springer Blacktop from 6.30 - 8.00pm. Bring your bike, scooter or 3 wheeler and helmet and see how much fun Scouting can be. For more information, please contact Drew Spitteler - cubmaster@springerpack36.org. |
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Junior Olympics Lost & Found |
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Junior Olympics Lost and Found and 6th Grade JO Tshirts If you are missing an item from the Junior Olympics, please contact sharontantan@yahoo.com Also, if your 6th grader would like to donate his/her t-shirt to future Springer Junior Olympians, please leave it in the JO cubby in the front office. We will use these t-shirts as loaners next year. Thank you! |
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Magical Bridge Coin Drive |
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As renovations are taking place at Rengstorff Park, there is great anticipation for a new, innovative playground, created by the Magical Bridge Foundation. The playground focuses on inclusion, creating ways to be accessible to people of all abilities. Springer School is helping to raise funds for the project with a coin drive. There will be bins in the office and classrooms for donations. Of course, bills are happily accepted too! If you’d like to donate online, we have a site at http:// magicalbridge.org/springer |
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School Supplies Collection |
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Hello Springer parents! Since the end of the school year is fast approaching, most of your children will be cleaning out their desks and backpacks of their school supplies. Instead of throwing these away, it would be greatly appreciated if you would drop them in the cardboard box in the office labeled, "Supplying Schools." Supplying Schools is a club at Mountain View high school that collects gently used school supplies from LASD schools and donates them to schools in East Palo Alto whose teachers are taking money out of their own paychecks to buy supplies for their students. Please drop off pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils, crayons, binders, folders, pencil boxes, sharpeners, scissors, backpacks, and any other supplies that are in decent condition. This box will be in the office starting on Tuesday, May 29 through June 13. We really appreciate all that you have to offer. Thank you! |
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LASD Preschool |
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The LASD Preschool Collaborative Program currently has openings for typical peer role models for the 2018-19 school year. A screening will be held in the next few weeks to see if your child will be a great fit for the program!
Requirements at a glance: -Being able to attend 5 days a week M-F is preferred. -Must be potty trained. -Must have/had some sort of group class/play experience. -Must be at least 3 years old.
If interested- please contact Katherine Chang at kchang@lasdschools.org or 650-947-1171. |
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San Jose Giants On June 2! |
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San Jose Giants Pack the Park on Saturday, June 2nd!
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
This year we're closing out the school year with our annual San Jose Giants Springer Packs the Park Day on June 2nd! This is a great community event for our school and fundraiser all in one! The game time is Saturday June 2nd at 6pm. The first 1,000 in attendance will take home a replica of the 1998 California League Championship ring and all will enjoy FIREWORKS after the game! During the game, our very own Springer Singers will perform and two Springer students will throw the first pitch.
Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. You can purchase tickets via cash or check made out to "Springer PTA" in the school front office any day or you can use PayPal and your tickets will be delivered to your home. Student ambassadors will also be on site selling tickets at morning drop-off each Wednesday leading up to the big day: 5/16, 5/23 and 5/30. Detailed instructions below if you would like to purchase via Paypal.
Questions? Contact Kirsten Tashev (tashev@comcast.net)
Go Giants!
PAYPAL INSTRUCTIONS
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Springer Scribes |
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Every Thursday, a dedicated group of writers has been meeting at lunch to craft poems and stories as part of the Project Cornerstone FunVisor Springer Scribes activity. At our final two meetings on 5/10 and 5/17, each author is invited select their favorite work to be published in our fourth annual literary journal. If your child would like their work included, you can also email a copy to SpringerScribes@gmail.com.
This program is a really fun and rewarding opportunity for both the kids and the parent volunteers. It shows the kids another "caring adult" in their lives who can help them find their "spark." Our parent leader is "graduating" this year, so we are looking for parent(s) to keep the program going. If you are interested in volunteering next year, come by Thursday at lunch to learn more and join the fun, or send a message to SpringerScribes@gmail.com. |
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Yearbook |
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As a reminder, the PTA is providing one yearbook to each student and will be distributed in early June. Thank you!
*If you are interested in purchase additional yearbooks, please contact Rachel - michelson.rachel@gmail.com, with the subject line: Springer Yearbook purchase question. |
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A Request From The LASD Nurse |
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Medications will be available for pick up from Thursday June 7th 2018 (last day of school) until Wednesday June 13th 2018. We cannot store medications over the summer. If you are leaving before school ends, please pick up medications early. An adult must pick up the medication.
Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for all that you do! HEALTH SERVICES STAFF |
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LAEF |
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We’re in the home stretch! Help us raise the final $100K to fully fund teachers at your school this year. A gift of $50, $100 or even $300 will make a difference! It's not too late to donate or apply for a corporate match. Donate now. |
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Springer Auction |
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Congratulations Springer! Together we raised $100K for Springer School. Thank you to all who came out and showed their Springer Spirit!
If you couldn't make it, it's not too late! Many community parties, exclusively for Springer students and parents, are still open. Please check out our OPEN PARTY LIST and contact the host listed to join the party. Questions? |
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Parent Education Opportunities |
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Through an enriching presentations from local and national experts on topics of interests to parents, faculty and staff, the MVLA Parent Education Speaker Series seeks to contribute to the academic, physical, and emotional health of our students. All events are free of charge and are for parents, faculty and staff in Los Altos and Mountain View public schools. For a schedule of upcoming presentations, please click here. |
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How Submit an Article to the Springer Buzz |
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