This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Sunday Notes.
Our Pawsitive News crew has something special every week for our Sandburg Community. This week the crew focuses on our cultural diversity with our up coming Multicultural Fair, our Lifeskill Mutual Respect, and our Jog-A-Thon. http://www.sandi.net/site/default.aspx?DomainID=14315
Take a Tiger Dinner will be at Island’s this Wednesday from noon to closing. 20% of proceeds come back to Sandburg.
Our Multicultural Fair is Thursday, March 28th from 5:30-7:30. Our PTA is planning an exciting evening to celebrate our cultural diversity. There will be: Displays from 17 countries, Entertainment, Food, a World Kids Zone with face painting, and displays of art work. Please let us know if you can volunteer.
The Taste of Mira Mesa is Wednesday, March 27th.Tickets can be bought online by going to the Mira Mesa High SchoolxFoundation and click on links.Tickets are $25 on line; last day to purchase is March 24th.Sandburg will receive $15 back for each ticket; make sure you click Sandburg as your supporting school.
Our Jog-A-Thon is also approaching. We are looking for sponsors; get your business name on over 1000 tee shirts. See our foundation website for more information.
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Sunday Notes.
A new session of after-school classes starts on Monday.Information is available at the foundation website, http://www.sandburgfoundation.org/ . Registration will be accepted all week long.
Our IXL Learning Upgrade Pizza Party will be this Friday, March 1. Students will have until Thursday to qualify.
Our PTA needs board members for next year, parents that are willing to help shape our school and the experiences we provide for our students and community. Please see Sarah Tappan, Chuck Wrightson or me if you have questions about a PTA position.
Save these dates on your calendar:
March 4-6, Scholastic Book Fair
Thursday March 7, 2013 is Family Reading Night
Wednesday March 27, 2013 is the Taste of Mira Mesa.
Thursday March 28, 2013 is our Multi-Cultural Fair.
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Super Bowl Sunday Notes.
Many people have asked me what the PTA and Foundation do to support students. Last week our PTA funded a Fifth grade field trip to Biz Town. Pawsitive news this week focuses on the Biz Town experience…look for Pawsitive News on our website.
Next Monday, February 11th at 1pm, there will be a Lion dance performance in honor of the Lunar New Year; this event is sponsored by the Foundation.
Shopping card order distribution will take place before and after school Monday, February 4th and Tuesday, February 5th.There will be a limited number of Applebee's, Starbucks, Target, and VONS cards available for purchase as well.
Our IXL - Learning Upgrade Celebration is coming up at the end of February. Keep up the great work. Our Tigers have logged 7370 hours on Learning Upgrade. We have 142 students with Learning Upgrade Gold Certificates and 25 Kindergarten and first grade students have complete over 2000 IXL problems.
Come out to wake up your body and mind every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Running Club. This year our Tigers have run a total of 4665 miles…wow!
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Sunday Notes.
I want to thank everyone for their attention to our end of the day procedures requiring adults to wait off campus until the dismissal bell. Our staff notices a big improvement.
Our IXL - Learning Upgrade Celebration is coming up at the end of February. Keep up the great work. We have 132 students with Learning Upgrade Gold Certificates and 20 Kindergarten and first grade students have complete over 2000 IXL problems.
Many families are thinking ahead and making plans for Spring Break. This year our spring break dates are different. We will be off school Friday, March29th and return Monday April 8th.
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Sunday Notes.
Tomorrow is a National Holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday and his contributions to our world.
The tragic events in Connecticut last month have caused all of us in education to reexamine our safety policies and practices. Beginning Tuesday January 22, 2013, all adults coming to pick up their children at the end of the day will be required to remain off campus until the bell rings at 2:05, or 12:00 for minimum days. Parents will be allowed to walk to classrooms after the dismissal bell. The back gate will remain locked until 2:05.
Take a Tiger to dinner is this Wednesday, January 23rd, at Pho Ca Dao on Mira Mesa Blvd from noon to 9 pm.The restaurant will donate 15% of your check to our fabulous Foundation.
Sandburg students have logged 6655 hours on Learning Upgrade. 116 Students have earned a Gold Certificate. 14 Kindergarten and First grade students have completed over 2000 IXL problems and another 20 are closing in on 2000.
Many families are thinking ahead and making plans for Spring Break. This year our spring break dates are different. We will be off school Friday, March29th and return Monday April 8th.
This is Principal Martin with the first Sunday Notes for 2013.
I hope you have had a great holiday with family and friends. School resumes tomorrow.
Sandburg Students have logged more than 5880 hours on learning upgrade. Over winter break 30 students have completed a course at the gold level bringing the total of Gold Certificates to 92. We have a total of 14 students that have completed courses at the silver Level and 73 students that have completed courses at the bronze level. In February, we will be celebrating students that have completed grade level or above courses at the Gold level.
Students can wake up their body and brain every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:25 with our PAWS Running Club. See the website at www.pawsrunningclub.com or link through the Sandburg website. Our students have run 3627 miles. We know there is a strong learning correlation between mind and body. Running is a life long form of exercise that is awesome for our Tigers.
IXL is an online math practice program available to all of our students. We will use this for Kindergarten and first grade students to qualify for the celebration in February. So far nine kindergarten students have completed over 1000 problems with one of those students completing over 3000 problems. We have set a goal of 2000 problems for our Celebration So far thirteen first grade students have completed over 1000 problems with one of those students over 6000 problems.
I want to thank all the Sandburg volunteers; you make a significant difference in the opportunities for our students. There is always a need for volunteers.
Please be early to school, follow the safety rules of the road, respect our safety patrol, and respect the guidelines in ourTraffic Circle.
Please check Lost and found we will be donating any unclaimed lost and found items at the end of this week.
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Sunday Notes.
As we hear and see the news of the tragedy in Connecticut, our hearts pour out to those families. At Sandburg we understand that our work goes so far beyond such things as test scores, homework, schedules, or meetings.One of the foundations of learning is creating and maintaining a safe nurturing environment. We understand that our work of educating children determines lives. At Sandburg we work very hard to make sure our students feel that sense of security.
I often refer to Sandburg as a community school. It is in times such as these that communities pull together and provide support for each other. I have included an attachment and links to resources to assist students, families and schools below.
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Sunday Notes.
Students have a chance to shop this week at the holiday, Jolly Gift Boutique. The Boutique will be open after school Tuesday through Friday. Please look for the flyer that was sent home.
Our Foundation raises funds that support programs for our students. Shopping cards are a great way to raise funds. Sandburg gets one dollar for every ten dollar Starbucks card. If every family purchased one ten dollar Starbucks card per month. This would bring in $700 per month for our students. Please support the foundation programs.
We have a full rack of lost and found items please check with your children and pick up any lost items.
Technology education is and will continue to be a critical issue in the lives of our Sandburg students. Please take a few minutes to complete an online technology survey. You may take the survey anywhere you have internet access. We will have our Library computer lab open before and after school on Monday and Tuesday. The last day to take the survey will be Tuesday, December 11, 2012. This information can also be found onSandburg’s web page, http://www.sandi.net/sandburg
The survey will provide data as a means to assess Sandburg’s need for technology in specific areas, so that we can make decisions concerning priority targets for technology improvement and guide the development of a technology plan.
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Sunday Notes.
All of us at Sandburg hope you have had an invigorating break and are ready to put your full effort into the last four weeks of school in 2012.
The online software opportunity for students to build skills is amazing.As of today, students have logged more than 3488 hours on Learning Upgrade. Thirty-eight students have completed a Learning Upgrade course at the Gold Level. We will celebrate students spending time, developing skills, thinking, and working with math and language arts concepts. In February, we will celebrate all students that complete a Learning Upgrade course at the Gold Level. I will be working with Kindergarten and First grade teachers to set student goals for an IXL celebration.
We are finishing up our parent –teacher conferences on Monday and Tuesday, these are minimum days. After-school classes resume on Wednesday.
California Education Code requires that children be provided the opportunity for a meal served during the school day; please follow the link on our website to read a letter from our Deputy Superintendent, http://www.sandi.net/site/default.aspx?DomainID=5691 .
Starting on Wednesday November 28th, we will add twenty minutes to our minimum day to allow for all students to eat lunch on our minimum days. Students will be dismissed from lunch at 12:20. Parents wishing to sign their children out early may do so by signing out with your child’s teacher.
This is Principal Martin with our Sandburg Thanksgiving Week Sunday Notes.
Being grateful is so important and hearing our children speaking from the heart about their families, friends, school, and teachers speaks volumes. Please see our Pawsitive News crew with our students getting to the heart of Thanksgiving, http://www.sandi.net/site/default.aspx?DomainID=14315.
California Education Code requires that children be provided the opportunity for a meal served during the school day; please follow the link on our website to read a letter from our Deputy Superintendent, http://www.sandi.net/site/default.aspx?DomainID=5691.
Starting on Wednesday November 28th, we will add twenty minutes to our minimum day to allow for all students to eat lunch on our minimum days. Students will be dismissed from lunch at 12:20. Parents wishing to sign their children out early may do so by signing out with your child’s teacher.
