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At Santa Rita Elementary School, we foster curious, motivated learners who reach their highest potential in a supportive community that appreciates diversity.

Please join to find out about all the exciting events we have planned in the second half of the year!

Here are the slides, minutes, treasurer's report, and check report for review in advance of the meeting.

Free childcare will once again be offered onsite, as well! We hope to see you in person, but if you can’t make it, please join us on Zoom! Meeting ID: 882 4825 6795 Passcode: 087777

As always, please bring all your questions, concerns, feedback, and great ideas!

Warmly,

Kelly Sanders Lo

Jan 15-16- No School- MLK Jr. Day & Staff Development Day

Jan 18- Santa Rita PTA General Meeting- 7pm in the Multi

Jan 25- Mindful Parent Workshop at Santa Rita 6:30--7:45

Feb 9- Junior Olympics Kick Off!

Feb 19-23- No School- Winter Break

March 6- STEM EXPO

March 11- Aladdin Auditions- register below

March 11-15- International Week

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Students created a self watering plant based on what they learned about the water cycle. Then they plated a game where they were a water droplet traveling through the water cycle.

Get excited! Santa Rita has many wonderful events coming soon. January is flying by, February and March will come quickly so I want to make sure you are aware and excited for all the events we have in store for students and families! Here is a list and brief description, see below for more detailed information about many of them.

1/26-2/2 American Heart Association challenge - Santa Rita is looking for at least 200 students to participate (getting donations is desired but optional). Students register online at home, then take on as many challenges as they wish and win prizes for how many challenges they do.

2/2 WOW Polar Bear day - To end AHA Challenge week, Santa Rita will participate in WOW Polar Day and Walk or Wheel to school before the Celebration Assembly

2/12-3/1 Readathon - Read and fundraise for Santa Rita!

3/6 STEM EXPO - Kick off will happen on Jan 24th, more info on how to register coming next week

3/11-3/15 International Week - Learn about many cultures and dances and come celebrate on March 15th evening on the Santa Rita blacktop

3/11 Aladdin Auditions - Sign up Now!

3/18 Aladdin rehearsals begin

3/29 Bobcat Bash Auction

THEME: Coders and Readers and Writers

This upcoming week (January 22-26) is Computer Science Education Week. This week is dedicated to showing students K-12 the importance of computer science education. It is organized by code.org with the goal of getting millions of students of all ages (and adults) to participate in the “Hour of Code”.

According to code.org, most K-12 schools in the U.S. do not teach computer science. Los Altos School District, thanks to funding from LAEF, is fortunate enough to be in the minority of U.S. Schools that are offering every student the opportunity to learn computational thinking. All students, TK-6th receive computer science instruction and are offered opportunities through electives in 7th and 8th grade.

During this week, students will have the opportunity to participate in computational thinking/coding activities. Check out this awesome video and get excited on https://hourofcode.com/us.

Coding ideas you can do at home with an iPad or computer:

Kinder: Bee Bot app and Scratch Jr.

1st and 2nd grade: Daisy the Dinosaur, Scratch Jr, Hopscotch, codeable, code.org

3rd-6th grade: Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/ or, go to code.org for lots of lessons and tutorials for all ages

"Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer…because it teaches you how to think."- Steve Jobs

Let’s get coding!

"The Almond, Covington, Gardner Bullis and Santa Rita 6th grade Orchestras will be performing at the Strictly Strings Concert- Feb 13, 2024, 7pm @ Los Altos High School Eagle Theater. Public is welcome, doors open at 6:30pm"

Santa Rita's International Week (week of March 11th) is coming! It is one of our most beloved traditions at Santa Rita! It celebrates our diversity, makes students proud of their heritage, and brings our community together! We will have a family potluck, country presentations, flag parades, and dances and end with a school-wide evening festival on Friday, March 15nd.

To make this event a success, we need dance teachers and country presenters.

• We are hoping to expand our small group cultural dance this year. If you are interested in teaching a dance to a small group of students during lunchtime in March, please let us know.

• We are bringing back parent presentations this year. We need 16 presentations so we would love to have parent or parent/student teams to present. You can present with your child(ren), or support your child(ren) to present by themselves; or you can also present by yourself. Presentations will be given during school time on Thursday March 14 (K/TK) and Friday March 15 (1st-6th).

  
  

If you are interested in helping or want to know more, contact Yang Liu at daisy_ly99@hotmail.com or Alice Lee at joy268@hotmail.com.

Please join us in the multi next Thursday, January 18th at 7 PM in the multi to find out about all the exciting events we have planned in the second half of the year!

I’ve included the slides, minutes, treasurer's report, and check report for review in advance of the meeting.

Free childcare will once again be offered onsite, as well! We hope to see you in person, but if you can’t make it, please join us on Zoom! Meeting ID: 882 4825 6795 Passcode: 087777

As always, please bring all your questions, concerns, feedback, and great ideas!

Warmly,

Kelly Sanders Lo

Check out this student-produced video interview of Ms. Lee, one of the LASD Music teachers being funded by donations to LAEF.

We still need to raise $440K to fully fund teachers and essential programs this year. If you have yet to give this school year, donate to LAEF today. Gifts of any amount are appreciated.

Computer Engineers of the Next Generation (CENG) will be hosting a FREE virtual hackathon for grades 3 to 8 on Saturday, March 2nd, and Sunday, March 3rd from 1–5 p.m. PST on both days. NO coding experience is needed to join! In small groups of 3–5, participants will have the opportunity to work together and learn to code in Scratch, JavaScript, or Python.

Workshops and games will be interspersed throughout the event to guide students of any experience level through the process. At the end of the Hackathon, students will present their work to a panel of judges in the field based on a rubric consisting of creativity, complexity/functionality, collaboration, and presentation. After the coding portion of the hackathon is over, participants will have the opportunity to listen to our guest speaker who is in the game design field.

Sign up for the hackathon and share it with your friends and family members who might be interested today by visiting cengclass.org. Registration closes on Sunday, February 18, 2024.

Questions? Email Alice Lee at cenghackathon@gmail.com

CENG is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to inspire historically underrepresented minorities to explore and pursue an interest in computer science. Find out more at cengclass.org.

Our Free Universal Meals Program will start on the first day of school. A 'Grab and Go' breakfast will be served before school and lunch from Revolution foods. Here are the current monthly MENUS.

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