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Alta Mesa Elementary School Weekly Principal Communication
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Sunday Evening Message
Sunday, Feb. 28th, 2021
Hello Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday Update. We are finishing out the month of February with some wonderful weather. This week marks the start of trimester 3, the last trimester of the school year. Teachers should be reaching out to schedule conferences please make sure to reply and schedule a parent-teacher conference for next week. This week also starts "Read Across America" week and our Literacy Month here at Alta Mesa. Our theme for our Literacy Month is "Read Like A Hero." To kick things off we will have a dress-up a week this week. The dress-up days are as follows: Monday is Captain America/Captain Marvel day so wear your red, white, or blue to school. Tuesday is Batman/Batgirl day so wear your cape for the caped crusaders. Wednesday is "Rest Like a Hero Day" which means it time to wear your PJ's to school. Thursday is "Eagle Power" day so wear your Alta Mesa gear or anything navy blue. Friday is dress like your favorite superhero! Tuesday we will be giving out a book to each student during lunch. Finally, through the next 4 weeks, we are encouraging our students to read nightly. This is a great practice to get in the habit of with your kids. Students can either read by themselves, read to a parent, or have a parent read to them. Each night keep track of how much your child has read and logged it on the reading log form that was attached to the parent newsletter this week. Each grade level has a reading goal that will be outlined in the newsletter. If students read the required amount for each grade level they will get a prize on Friday. We will have a list of all the participating students from the submitted read logs. If a reading log isn't submitted a student cannot receive a prize. Read logs need to be submitted on Thursday night each week. We look forward to having fun with "Read Across America" week as well as a great "Literacy Month!" Thank you for your support and have a wonderful rest of your evening.
Hello Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday Update. I hope everyone had a relaxing and safe President's Week off! Until this weekend the weather was a little chilly, but it did offer some great opportunities at higher elevations with the snow. I'm looking forward to getting students back tomorrow and into the swing of things. Here are our announcements for this week. First, I want to remind everyone that this Friday is the end of Trimester 2. Teachers either have already or will be reaching out to schedule parent-teacher conferences so please stay tuned for that. Like Trimester 1, Trimester 2 conferences will be done virtually. I want to thank all of the parents who have provided feedback on our parent surveys. Those surveys can still be taken this week if you are interested. The surveys will be in tomorrow's newsletter. Speaking of our newsletter "Mondays From The Mesa," I will be making a change starting next week and sending the newsletter out on Sunday with our phone call. That way all weekly communication will be sent all at once on Sunday afternoon. When it is sent out it won't contain the video announcement to students on Sunday, but since the newsletter can be edited, I will update it on Monday morning so parents can see our video announcements for the week still. Lastly, I wanted to let parents know that next week will start our month-long "Literacy Incentive Month." This is a month kicked off by Dr. Seuss's birthday where we will focus on nightly reading for our students. Starting next week I will send home a link for a google form that will be a student "reading log." Parents are to fill that reading log out on Thursday night and students who have a reading log turned in with the required minutes read per week will get a prize on Friday. Again, this will start next week. More information will be provided in next week's message and newsletter. That's it for announcements this week Alta Mesa. I am looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!
Hello Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday Update. First off, I hope you are all enjoying the big game in a safe way. This is always a fun day to gather together as a family and either watch a great game or watch some great commercials... in either situation, there's usually some great food. First, I wanted to make sure that all families are aware that next week is our President's Week or February Break. There will be no school from Feb. 15-19. Trimester 2 is coming to a close the week after we come back from President's week. Please connect with your teacher if there is any need from you prior to the end of the trimester. I would like to address the morning drop-off. We have been having more and more students dropped off in the morning well before our gates open. We do not have supervision for these students until 8:10 near gate 1. Please DO NOT drop off your students early. If you need to you can wait with your student in the drop-off line, but do not have them wait by the gate without your supervision. We will be contacting parents individually whose children are consistently dropped off early. Please partner with us on this to ensure student safety. There was a video sent out to all parents on Friday from the district regarding staff vaccinations. Please know this message was regarding staff vaccinations. I will talk a little more about this topic in the podcast version of the weekly message. Remember to check Mondays From The Mesa for in-depth weekly announcements. Thank you all, and I hope you have a great rest of your weekend.
Good Afternoon Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday Update. I hope everyone was able to get outside and enjoy the snow on Wednesday, and that you were able to keep your power, or at least get power back quickly if you lost it. Here are our announcements for this week. First, I want to ask that parents make sure their child comes to school with masks. We have several students who are consistently not coming to school with masks. We do not have enough disposable masks to continually give them out throughout the year. Remember, all students are now required to wear masks throughout the day. This week our Parent, Student, and Teacher surveys will be sent out. I will include a link in tomorrow's newsletter. I encourage parents to take a moment to fill out this survey as it gives us good feedback as a school on how we are doing. Your voice matters and this is a great way us to find out what your thoughts are on Alta Mesa. All surveys are anonymous. We have our monthly booster club meeting on Tuesday. That meeting will be held virtually and the link for the meeting will be on our website in the calendar section. Remember parents that in two weeks we have a week off for President's Week from February 15th-19th. Finally, the Enterprise Elementary School District will be offering student testing starting in the next couple of weeks. More information on that will be provided in this week's parent newsletter. I hope everyone has had a great weekend. Looking forward to another great week here at Alta Mesa. Have a wonderful rest of your evening.
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021
Good Afternoon Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday update. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Many of you are watching the NFC and AFC championship games to see who will play in this year's Superbowl. Some awesome storylines in those games. For announcements this week I want to first review the message that was sent out by the district office on Friday evening. In that message our Asst. Superintendent Heather Armelino announced some changes to our health procedures that was sent down from the state level. I encourage you to watch that video if you haven't yet. It was sent to all parent's email. The California Department of Public Health has changed our mask standards to include all students, and not just students in 3rd-5th grade, it also stated that students must wear masks throughout the entire day. As a school site we will have a lot of grace over the next few weeks as we work to retrain our students on these new protocols. Please send your child to school with a mask tomorrow. We do have some extra masks, but we would like to save those for when students accidentally forget their mask or a mask is lost. Thank you for your cooperation as state health standards change. We are very fortunate that we are able to stay with our current 5-day a week model of instruction. The last announcement for the week is that there is a site council meeting on Thursday. Thank you and have a wonderful rest of your weekend.
Sunday, Jan. 17th, 2021
Good Evening Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday Update. While I will admit that we need more rain in the north state, the weather was beautiful this weekend and I hope that you were able to get outside and enjoy it in a safe manner. I would like to remind everyone that tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day and there will be no school. We will return to school on Tuesday, Jan. 19th. Please enjoy the Monday off and take the opportunity to remember a great man. His lessons are as important today, as they were more than 50 years ago. For announcements this week we have Picture retake day on Thursday the 21st. This was the rescheduled retake day from December. On Tuesday we will have our site English Language Advisory meeting via google meet from 9-9:45. If you are the parents of a student who is an English Learner we welcome you to attend. The link for the meet will be on our school website in the calendar section. Earlier this week you got a message that our campus is considered an outbreak due to 3 positive cases of COVID-19 on our campus. Please do not be alarmed by this. Our precautions of mask-wearing, washing hands, cohorting, and social distancing mitigate the spread of COVID. We do ask that parents to continue to monitor their children for sign or symptoms or COVID. The more we can catch students who may be sick prior to entering school, the better. Please partner with us to make sure that if your child is not feeling well, they stay home. Last but not least we had a text message sign-up incentive. I have been pushing parents to sign-up for text message alerts this last week. We will begin using text messaging this week. The 3 winners of the text message drawing are the parents of Camra Harris who wins a pair of blue tooth headphone, Asher Potter who wins the Science Kit, and Sebastian Evans who wins a $10 Dutch Bros Gift Card. You can still sign-up for text updates. Check our newsletter for more information. I look forward to another great week here at Alta Mesa, thank you and have a great rest of your three-day weekend.
Sunday, Jan. 10th, 2021
Good Afternoon Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday Update. The time has finally arrived. After 7 weeks away, our students are returning back to our campus for physical instruction tomorrow! On behalf of myself and the Alta Mesa staff I would like to say "welcome back, we've missed you all dearly!" Before we come back on campus I want to review some of our procedures and protocols for physical instruction. First, remember when dropping off there is no morning recess. 4th/5th grade drop off at gate 4 and that gate will be open at 8:00, 1st-3rd grade drop off at gate 1 and that gate is open at 8:10. Kinder drop-off is at the kinder gate and that also starts at 8:10. All students are required to wear masks when entering and exiting campus. Once on campus K-2 is encouraged to wear a mask, 3rd-5th are required to wear a mask. I will have more details regarding our physical instruction protocols on the Mondays From The Mesa newsletter tomorrow, please make sure to look them over. For announcements this week, the Booster club is holding its monthly meeting on Tuesday from 6pm-7pm. The link to the meeting can be found on the school website in the calendar. We have added text updates to our communication platform. I am encouraging parents to sign-up for text updates to help with school-wide communication. To incentivize the text sign-ups I will be doing a drawing for three prizes: blue tooth headphones, a magnetic science kit, and a $10 dutch bros gift card. All parents who have signed up for text updates will be eligible, so sign-up! Information on how to sign-up for text updates can be found on the newsletter which is sent through email, posted on our website, and posted on facebook. Alta Mesa Families I can't wait to see everyone tomorrow and start 2021 for real! Thank you and have a wonderful rest of your weekend.
Sunday Jan. 3rd, 2021
Good Afternoon Alta Mesa Families,
This is Mr. Miller with your Sunday update. I want to welcome everyone to a new year! If you are anything like me you can't wait to put 2020 in the rear view mirror. Just a couple reminders for this week. Monday is a staff development day and we will be starting back to distance learning on Jan. 5th. We will be in distance learning for this week, and then starting Jan. 11th we will go back to physical instruction. We will be utilizing text message updates from now on, if you text "yes" to 67587. We will be sending out our important updates through text as well as phone and email starting next week. Please continue to take the safety precautions you have this week so that we can return to physical instruction in the safest way possible. Stay healthy, and welcome back!