Message from our Co-Presidents
Dear Community Families -
What an honor it was to have 123 Andres to perform at our Hispanic Heritage Assembly on Friday, October 15. We hope your student enjoyed the performance. Cheers to your support of our Pledge Drive which funds our Multicultural Assemblies!
Speaking of Pledge Drive, results are in to wrap up our 6 weeks of Pledge Drive Incentives. MANY THANKS to the 269 Families participating (65.29% participation) with $180,287 pledged -- another record high participation during the first 6 weeks of school compared to previous 6 years. Our work is not done! We still have $159,713 to raise to be able to fund everything next year!
There's a lot going on behind the scenes with the Spirit Store and Parade of Mask this month! Before you know it, November will be here! Book Fair Committee and Readathon Committee are both working hard to bring this year's theme to life!
We will be completing our 6 weeks of AM Check In and PM Supervision Volunteer Rotations this week. THANK YOU to all parent volunteers! Rotation with 5th Grade will restart the week of November 1st.
Until next time ... enjoy the Fall!
Sincerely,
Kate Harrington and Stefania Willens
CFF, Co-President
CMCS's Annual Parade of Masks is almost here!
CMCS’s Halloween Festival, Parade of Masks, is back and it’s this FRIDAY! Below is some
general information about the event:
1. POM will take place on the upper yard after lunch. Due to Covid restrictions and for
the safety of our students, campus will be CLOSED to parent spectators. Hopefully,
later this year, restrictions will loosen and there will be more on-campus events that
we can all enjoy.
2. Unless you’ve heard differently from your teacher, students are being asked to come
to school in their costumes to save time on changing, etc. Costumes must not restrict
the ability to use the restroom without assistance, must not restrict learning, must not
restrict the ability to eat lunch, must allow for the wearing of the covid face mask
underneath. And please remember that we don't allow costumes containing any
weapons or anything too gruesome.
3. There will be an all-school parade and then the children will enjoy the free booths in
2 separate groups. Only half the students will be on the upper yard at a time during
the carnival. K-2nd will engage in booths for 30 minutes and then will switch with
3rd-5th where they will enjoy their 30 minutes.
4. Kids are NOT allowed to eat at the event, therefore, there will not be any food
booths.
5. The fifth grade classes will have up 2 photo areas set up where your child can come
alone or with friends and have their photos taken! Photos will later be available for
purchase! More details to come!
Thank you to our wonderful community for coming together, with little notice, to put on this
event for our kids. Also, thanks to your generosity, every student will be taking home a
Halloween Treat Bag! If you have been meaning to buy one but just didn’t get around to doing
it, please still do. The money raised from this will go towards funding our enrichment
programs next year!
Our school garden was selected to receive a $2,000 Big Green Jumpstart grant!
THANK YOU to our Garden Committee Chair Ana Park for writing this grant. This money is to support outdoor learning opportunities in the garden for our students this Fall. We plan to use the funds to buy seeds & seedlings, kids gloves, pressure regulator, soil and materials to package veggies for distribution to students.
READATHON
Scholastic Book Fair is back and IN PERSON for one week only!
Starting Monday, November 15th your child can visit the Book Fair to purchase items for Read-a-Thon, their classroom, and even gifts for the holidays! 40% of every purchase will go towards earning rewards for our school that will purchase books for our CMCS library and classrooms! Stay tuned for more details!
This will be a student only event and all safety precautions will be in place while children are visiting the fair.
PLEDGE DRIVE!
Check out the latest Participation Leadership Board!
Lower Grades (K-3) - Room 8 (ONLY 3 Families away to reach 100%), Room 5, and Room 7 are neck and neck with 17-20 students participating!
Upper Grades (4-5) - Room 14 is ONLY 4 Families away to reach 100%
55 Yogurtland giftcards were purchased for the Yogurtland Party and ready to pass out to the 1st class in lower grade (K-3) and upper grade (4-5) who reach 100% participation, teacher will get a $100 stipend!
All 264 Families that participated in the Pledge Drive will receive more information about the Pledge Drive Incentive Raffle this week. Check your email!
Let's all come together and reach 100% participation!
Holiday Shopping Made Easy while help raise money for CMCS!
Shop with Scrip is great for gift giving, shopping and dining.
Buy gift cards at face value to hundreds of retailers and the school gets a % (ranging from 1.5% to 14%). Includes grocery stores, restaurants, and many retailers. Makes great gifts for teachers, family and friends while supporting the school. Many e-gift cards can be purchased instantly.
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Volunteer!
CFF asks EVERYONE to volunteer during the year to assist with school events, fundraising, teacher/student support, admin, beautification, etc. There are ways to help from your home or office and volunteering on campus. Please fill out the form below and let us know how you would like to help. Time, Treasure ($$), and Talent... please give one or all three!
If you haven't signed up for any committee - click on the Volunteer For A Committee Button.
Sign-up for AM Check-in and PM Supervision via FreshSchools
To sign up to volunteer, please log into FreshSchools and click on CALENDAR (from either the app or desktop) and then click on the day/time of the shift(s) that you’d like to sign up for. If you are NOT available to volunteer the week of your child’s grade, you can sign up for a different week. We are kindly requesting that volunteers sign up a minimum of 5 shifts. You can complete the 5 shifts in one week or you can choose to do one shift a week for 5 weeks.
Grade Rotation Schedule:
- 5th Grade, the week of 11/1
- 4th Grade, the week of 11/8
- 3rd Grade, the week of 11/15
- Thanksgiving Break, the week of 11/22
- 2nd Grade, the week of 11/29
- 1st Grade, the week of 12/6
- Kinder, the week of 12/13
PLEASE SIGN-UP IF YOU CAN!!!
GENERAL On Campus Volunteer Requirements
Here is simple breakdown of items needed:
1. Upload a photo of vaccination card to your Daily Pass
2. Complete, Print, Sign and bring to school - LAUSD Volunteer Commitment form
3. Complete, Print, Sign and bring to school - LAUSD Volunteer Application Form
4. Take a COVID test and have your negative results upload to Daily Pass
You will need a negative COVID test before you are allowed to volunteer. You are welcome to test on campus on Fridays, in the auditorium between the hours of 1:00 pm-3:00 pm. If you have never tested through LAUSD before, you will need to go into your DailyPass and set up an appointment at another LAUSD test site for any time/date so that your information is there when you arrive on campus. Your information just needs to be in their system. You do not have to test on campus, you are welcome to upload a negative test from another source to your daily pass.
CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Are you following our social media pages? We're looking forward to being able to engage and share more with you through Facebook and Instagram!
CMCS Official Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMagnet
Private Facebook Group- Community Families & Friends (CFF), please provide your family's information to be added
Instagram - @communitymagnetcharterschool
Email: cff@welovecmcs.org
Website: welovecmcs.org
Location: Bellagio Road, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMagnet
Twitter: @cmcsla