Valley View Newsletter: Mr. G Runs the Marathon, Next Year's Music and More

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Matching Funds in March!

Order Your Yearbook Now!

Last year's yearbooks sold completely out. Don't be left without one!

Pre-Order your yearbook NOW!

Basic Price is $20. For front cover personalization of your child's name, add $2 for a total $22.

The deadline for pre-orders is Friday March 23rd.

Turn your check and forms in to the office (more forms available in the office). If you have questions, please email Vicki Nishimura atvicandtosh@yahoo.com.

Thanks for a successful final Family Reader Day of the school year! We had a record number of parents come to the classrooms to read with the students. And Thank you again to our Hospitality committee for the abundant and tasty breakfast provided afterward! If you see Anna Paniagua, Catherine Mead and Aliyah Bielma on campus this week, give them a big thank you for their incredible work all year long. 

Thank you to all who signed the petition so far for Our Children Our Future. We need many more, so please see Bonnie to sign.

We need another volunteer to sell snacks after-school on Fridays. It's a fun job, very rewarding, and much appreciated by our students. Please email Solange atsnacksales@valleyviewelementary.org or see Amber in the PTA room on Friday afternoon.

We need a volunteer to sell Spring Fling tickets before school at least 1 day per week! Please contactinfo@valleyviewelementary.org, or contact Ofelia atsoulwisdom@mac.com, cell 805-850-8067.

The all-committee Spring Fling meeting is coming up on Wednesday 3/14. If you interested in getting involved in the planning of Spring Fling, please come with your ideas and work with the heads of all committees on Wednesday.See list. 

PLEASE BRING HOLLOWED EGGS TO THE OFFICE  

We will have confetti eggs at the festival, and we need to get started making them right away!

How to empty an egg 

We're open to ideas and suggestions to make this work. And again, this is not paid for by PTA funds or LAUSD. And, so we won't take much class time or interrupt academics, the only school time will be during Fall Semester-the rest is all voluntary. 

Look for the songs that were produced and players at the Spring Festival, you'll be impressed!

Congratulations to Angela Bouldin, Valley View 6th grader, for her selection to participate in the 2012 Miss Pre-Teen Los Angeles/Anaheim pageant competition that will take place this Saturday March 17th.

Angela will be competing for her share of thousands of dollars in prizes and specialty gifts that will be distributed to contestants. Angela will be competing in the Miss Pre-Teen division, one of four divisions with young ladies aged 7 to 19 competing in modeling routines, which include casual wear and formal wear. Most importantly, Angela will display her personality and interviewing skills while interviewing with the judging panel. Personality is the number one aspect that each contestant is judged on during all phases of competition.

If Angela wins the title of Miss Pre-Teen LA/Anaheim, she would go to the National Competition in Orlando, Florida. Over $30,000.00 in prizes and awards will be presented at that competition, and each competitor will enjoy a 6-day/5-night expense-paid trip in Orlando, Florida. Community businesses, organizations, and private individuals would assist Angela in participating in the competition by becoming an official sponsor to her, which would provide all the necessary training, rehearsals, and financial support and allow Angela to become a very confident and well-prepared contestant.

GOOD LUCK, ANGELA! WE'RE ROOTING FOR YOU! 

Dear Valley ViewParents,

Thank you for your continued support of me for the LA Marathon and Valley View Family Field Day. Field Day is the culminating event funded by the donations from the Marathon. It is designed to simulate what the Marathon experience has meant for me: taking yourself out of your comfort zone, challenging yourself, and supporting each other to achieve a goal. During Field Day, students are put in groups of all different grade levels and then they work together as they move through the various stations. The stations are designed to be challenging, fun, and to have students build on their teamwork skills. All students who participate in Field Day receive a medal so they can walk away with a feeling of accomplishment. A healthy lunch is provided for our students as we are also trying to promote healthy living. This day cannot happen without your support. Please donate any amount that you can, and we will also be asking for volunteers to help with Field Day, which will be held on a date to be determined in June. Thank you for everything.

Sincerely,

Mr. G

Our adorable Kindergarteners are even more excited this week than usual! This Wednesday 3/14, our K students will get to go on their very first off-campus field trip! A very exciting milestone in their elementary school experience! And one that students in most LAUSD schools will never have. Thank you, Parents, for working so hard all year to give Valley View students this experience in abundance!

This week, when you see a Kindergartener at school, take a moment and smile big, remembering that first feeling of being a big kid and going on an off-campus adventure with your schoolmates.

On Wednesday 3/14, our Kindergarten students will walk to Theatre West to experience Storybook Theatre, an interactive children's theater stage performance based on the story of Aladdin.

This field trip has been paid for by a generous grant acquired by our Enrichment Coordinator, another example of our hard-working PTA benefiting our kids.

Our Children, Our Future is an education initiative supported by many parents and teachers at our school and the California PTA, and we are gathering signatures from legal California voters in order to get on the ballot.

Personal income tax will increase minimally on all but not the lower income bracket. The money will be placed in a separate trust that can only be spent by the provisions of the act, which includes input directly from our school community, and strict accountability for the money on a school-by-school basis from the district. California's governor and legislature are prohibited from using the money.

For Valley View itself, this would mean a per-year addition of:

$220,484    2013-2014

$383,543    2017-2018

$518,872    2023-2024

Click here to see the Fact Sheet and the click here to read more about the petition on Patch. 

CAROLINE PINKEYdiscovered Valley View because her neighbors Tom and Kathleen Whyte sent their children here. She came for a visit, liked the mural, walked around, liked the teachers, and felt like Valley View was a really small, connected school. Her daughter, Scarlett, has been attending since  Kindergarten.

Tues Mar 13th           CHESS CLUB Tuesdays 1:30 to 2:30

Wed Mar 14th           Spring Fling All Committees Meeting 8am in                                               Library

                              Storybook Theater walking field trip                                                         (Kindergarten)

                              Harbor Breeze whale watching bus field trip                                             (3rd grade)       

                                     JR DETECTIVES: SPY KIDS! Wednesdays                                                 2:30 to 3:30

Thurs Mar 15th          GLEE! DANCE CREW Thursdays 2:30 to 3:30pm

Mar 19,21,22 and 23   Parent-Teacher Conferences Scheduled 

                               Minimum Days 12:24pm, after school programs 1hr earlier

Wed Mar 21st            PTA Voting Meeting 8am in Library

                              Leonis Adobe bus field trip (4th grade)

Wed March 28th        Discovery Center of Santa Ana workshop (4th, 5th & 6th grades)

Fri Mar 30                SCHOOL CLOSED for Cesar Chavez Day

PTA will send a weekly printed copy of this newsletter home with your child if you have no access to email; please leave your info at the school office.  

Valley View Elementary * 6921 Woodrow Wilson Dr * Los Angeles * 90068

info@valleyviewelementary.org * www.valleyviewelementary.org * P 323-851-0020 * F 323-851-6185 

Principal: Susan Kim * PTA Co-Pres: Bonnie George & Kelly Cole * Newsletter Editor: Fracaswell Hyman

PTA Meetings each Wednesday 8am in Library * Voting Meetings 3rd Wednesdays of each month