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School Phone: 408-252-5414 ~ Absence Line 408-252-5414-6 ~ FAX 408-996-9725

GATORAID

BoardofEducation

Superintendent:PhilQuon

BoardMembers:AnjaliKausarBenLiao,

JosephineLucey,GaryMcCue,

PhyllisVogel

GARDENGATEELEMENTARY

CUPERTINOUNIONSCHOOLDISTRICT

10500ANNARBORAVENUE

CUPERTINO,CA95014

NancyWood-Principal

KathleenMcCulloch-PTAPresident

AliciaHancock-Shepard-SSCChairperson

SCHOOL CALENDAR FEBRUARY 4, 2010

2/1-2/11 KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION PACKETS DUE2/4 7:00 p.m. KENNEDY M. S. INCOMING 6TH GR. PARENT NIGHT2/4 7:15 p.m. PTA MEETING - GLC

2/5-2/11 OPEN ENROLLMENT & ALTERNATIVE ED. ENROLLMENT REGISTRATION2/9 VISION SCREENING - GRADES 1 & 32/9 6:00 p.m. C.U.S.D. BOARD MTG. - DISTRICT BOARD ROOM2/9 6:30-8:00 p.m. BOOK EXCHANGE AND LITERACY NIGHT2/9 6:30-7:15 p.m. BOOK EXCHANGE - GRADES K-22/9 7:30-8:00 p.m. BOOK EXCHANGE - GRADES 3-52/10 HEARING SCREENING - GRADES 1, 2, AND 52/12 VALENTINE DAY CELEBRATIONS

2/15-2/19 MID-YEAR RECESS - NO SCHOOL

2/23 CLASS PICTURES - GLC2/23 YEARBOOK COVER CONTEST DEADLINE2/23 6:00 p.m. C.U.S.D. BOARD MTG. - DISTRICT BOARD ROOM2/24 3:45 p.m. SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL MEETING2/25 6:00-6:55 p.m. ART OF MATH NIGHT - GLC (LAST NAMES A-L)2/25 7:00-7:55 p.m. ART OF MATH NIGHT - GLC (LAST NAMES M-Z)

EVERY TUESDAY IS EARLY DISMISSAL Students are dismissed at 1:30.PRE-PAY FOR CUSD LUNCHES at PAMS (Parent Account Management System) Lunchroom! You can make payments andview your students account balance online by going to http://www.pamslunchroom.com or by calling 1-888-994-5100.TO EMAIL STAFF:[email protected]: If your child will be absent, please call 252-5414. Ext. 6, by 8:30 a.m. to report the absence.HOMEWORK: Homework may be requested for illness absences of three days or more. Please call the office before 9:00

a.m. to request the homework for pickup after 3:00 p.m.

Parent Traffic Duty: February 8th - 12th Parents from Rm. #27
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Garden Gate Elementary School 10500 Ann Arbor Ave., Cupertino CA 95014

CODE RED DRILLhis past Tuesday a Code Red practice drill was conducted at Garden Gate by our School Resource Officers from the Cuperheriffs Department. Congratulations to the staff and to all of our students for a very successfull drill!

00th DAY OF SCHOOLMonday, February 1st Garden Gate Gators celebrated our 100th Day Of School. Students were veryreative and came up with many different ideas and ways of celebrating 100. Mrs. Butchers 1st andnd Grade students created 100 THANKFUL HEARTS. Stop and see their display and read theirords of gratitude located outside of room 16B. Many Gators also enjoyed dressing up as if they were00 years old!

HE ART OF MATH. . .COMING TO GARDEN GATEawrence Hall of Science brings The Art of Math to Garden Gate for Family Math Night on Thursday, Feb. 25th. This year wesking families to come to one session, based on the first letter of your last name. Families whose last name begins with A - Lhould attend from 6:00-6:55 p.m. Families whose last name starts with M - Z should come from 7:00-7:55 p.m. We are alsoooking for parents to help lead the activities. Please email Mrs. Patti Wolf at [email protected] if you are available from:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Feb. 25th. The Art of Math will show students the relationship between math concepts and a variety of artorms. They will engage in a variety of creative, cooperative work, including the ancient art of origami, mind-bending mazeonstruction and the 3-D world of paper sculpture.

VISION SCREENINGVision problems are a common childhood health problem which, when detected early, can be corrected ominimized. Conversely, failure to identify and treat these problems can lead to significant learningimpairment, developmental delays and failure in school. Vision difficulties are often discovered during theschool vision-screening program, an essential component of the school health program. The district schonurses will be conducting vision screening at Garden Gate School on Tuesday, February 9th. Students ingrades 1 and 3 will be screened. School vision screening does not substitute for a professional eyeexamination by an optometrist or an ophthalmologist. If your child has difficulty with the vision screening, note and a referral to an eye specialist will be mailed to your home.

ARENTS AND VISITORS ON CAMPUSOnce school is in session, please do not go directly to the classroom for any reason! Teachers are very busy and

terruptions distract and affect classroom instruction. If it is necessary during the school day for you to speak to a

eacher or your child, please come to the office first. All visitors or classroom volunteers MUST sign in the schoolffice and obtain a visitors/volunteer badge when school is in session. For the safety of your children, it isecessary for the office to know who is on campus. Also, please remember when picking up your children afterchool, to wait by the lunch tables or the front of school. When you and younger siblings are standing outside theassroom, it is very distracting to the instruction still going on in the upper grade classrooms. Thank you for yourontinued help in this matter.
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PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) NEWS & RESOURCES


Hello Gator Families,

PTA BUDGET MEETING WITH NANCY WOOD - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH!

Come and hear important information on Thursday night regarding the budget and how it will effect next

school year from our Principal, Nancy Wood. The PTA will then discuss how we can fill the gap based on

the information we receive from Mrs. Wood.

BOOK EXCHANGE AND LITERACY NIGHT - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH IN THE GLC

Please join us on Tuesday night, February 9th for our Book Exchange and Literacy Night. Students can

exchange their gently-used books for new-to-you books that they will enjoy and will want to read! Also,come and enjoy the Literacy activities that are also being planned: Word Bingo, Jump Rope Poetry, Puzzl

and More! Simply take your books to our librarian, Mrs. Gokhale, ASAP! She will give you an exchan

ticket for each book, video or DVD that you bring in. No money is involved. To accommodate the flow o

children, we will divide the time schedule into two separate groups, please respect these times:

K - 2nd Grade Students - 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.

3rd - 5th Grade Students - 7:30 to 8:00 p.m.

JUST SO YOU KNOW. . .

There are many wonderful parents eagerly at work at Garden Gate: Merav Talmor is staying busy planninfor a great Literacy Night, Ramya Vasudevan and the Walk-A-Round Team are warming up for our annua

event, Mahalakshmi Rameshbabu is hard at work on plans for International Day, Sanjay Agarwal is at wo

on the PTA Audit, Sumitra Penmetsa is as usual, working to keep our PTA treasury accounts in good order

Carolyn Young is busy at the Scrip table each Tuesday and Friday along with Alicia Hancock-Shepard,

Angelia Kan and Catherine Ng. These volunteers are just the tip of the iceberg! It is easy to be unaware of

the huge amount of effort that parents put in. I feel it is important for our large parent body to know about

and remember, the people behind the scenes and all the work that they do for the children of Garden Gate

They do it out of love and dont expect recognition, but I think it is important to remember our volunteers

by expressing a hearty Thank You! So. . . Thank You to all the parents who put in a great deal of tim

and effort.

I hope to see you all tonight for the very important budget meeting,

Kathleen McCulloch

Garden Gate Lead Volunteer for the PTA

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YEARBOOK COVER CONTESTThe annual Garden Gate Yearbook Cover Contest is here!Put your artistic thinking cap on and your winning artworkcould be showcased on the covers of this year's yearbook.All 3rd through 5th grade students are encouraged toparticipate with their best creative work! Good luck, becreative, and have fun! The sky is the limit for yourmagination and creativity. Please be sure to design both afront and back cover for the yearbook. On the front cover,please include Garden Gate School, 2009-2010 and ourschool mascot - GATOR! Your name and room numbermust be on the back. Be sure to make your work attractiveand bright. All entries are to be submitted to the studentsteacher by February 23rd at 8:00 a.m.

CLASS PHOTOS VOLUNTEERSBud White will be here Tuesday,February 23rd to take classpictures. Order envelopes will bedistributed to students the Thursdaybefore. If you wish to order a classportrait, please complete the orderenvelope and return it with yourpayment to your students teacher.We are in need of two parents tohelp with pictures. If you are available, please callthe office at 252-5414 ext 103. Thank you.

SAVE THE DATE - TUESDAY,FEBRUARY 9TH!This years Book Exchange will be on

Tuesday, February 9th from 6:30 to8:00 p.m. in the GLC (6:30-7:15 forKindergarten - 2nd grade, and7:20-8:00 for 3rd - 5th gradestudents). Remember to bring ingently used books, DVDs and/orvideos to our school librarian, Mrs. Gokhale, between 8:30a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Your child will earn tickets for booksgiven in exchange for the amount of books at the BookExchange. We will be needing a few volunteers theevening of the Book Exchange. If you are interested inhelping, please email Debbie Hsieh [email protected] Also, all Read-A-Thon sheets aredue to Mrs. Gokhale Friday, January 29th.

CUPERTINO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICTLUNCH PROGRAM

Student lunch w/milk....................$2.75Weekly................................ $13.75Monthly.............................. $55.00Milk or juice...................75 (all lunches include milk)

PAMS website: www.pamslunchroom.com or to find outwhat the balance is on your childs lunch account, you cancall this toll-free number: 1-888-994-5100.

UPDATING RESIDENCY INFORMATIONPlease be aware that district guidelines require that any

change of residence must be reported to the school officewithin ten (10) days. This guideline is in place to ensurethat the address and contact information that the schoolhas on file is accurate. This information is crucial and isused to send official school/district correspondence and it isalso used in the case of an emergency. Failure to providecurrent residency information could result in the immediatewithdrawal of your child. If you have any questionsregarding this guideline, please contact the school office.
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DISTRICT NEWS SECTION

THE CUPERTINO MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT INFORMATION NIGHTThe Cupertino Middle School Parent Information Night for next years 6th, 7th, and 8th graders will be held Thursday, March 4

the gym. The 6th grade presentation will be at 6:00 pm and the 7 th/8th presentations will be at 7:00 pm. The presentations wicover course selection, homework, expectations, extracurricular activities, and other topics. These presentations are open all families who will have students at CMS next year.

Additionally, at 7:00 pm in the multi-use, our PTA will host an informal gathering so that incoming 6th grade parents can talkwith CMS parents who have already experienced their students transition from elementary to middle school. This was a verpopular event last year.

Due to facility limitations, these presentations are for parents only. An electronic copy of the presentation and any handoutswill be made available upon request for any parents unable to attend the March 4 meeting.

2010-2011 REGISTRATION & OPEN ENROLLMENT INFORMATION Kindergarten registration: February 1 11, 2010 at the neighborhood school. Parents may pick up a registrati

packet at their neighborhood school beginning January 25, 2010. Registration packets are numbered sequentially.The registration number on the packet is valid for packets returned between February 1 February 11, 2010.Students must be residing in the district at the time of registration and be available for any necessary testin

Open enrollment requests: February 5 - 11, 2010 at the school of desired attendance.

Alternative education program requests (Faria and Murdock-Portal grades K-5, McAuliffe, MandaImmersion and Home Study grades K-8) February 5 - 11, 2010 at the alternative program of your choice.

Registration for new students in grades 1 8 begins March 1, 2010.

Parents may only apply to one school or program other than their neighborhood school.

Detailed registration and open enrollment information is available on the district website www.cupertino.k12.ca.us,

contacting the staff in your neighborhood school office or by contacting the Student Assignment Office, (408) 252-300extension 110.

CUSD BOARD OF EDUCATION BUDGET DISCUSSIONThe Cupertino Union School District Board of Education has placed an informational budget discussion item on the agendathe regularly scheduled board meeting on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. This meeting will be held in the Collins ElementSchool Guided Learning Center and will begin at 6:00 p.m. Collins is located at 10300 N. Blaney Avenue in Cupertino. Aconcerned individual may appear before the Board of Education to comment or ask questions regarding the Districts currebudget situation. This item is for information only and the Board of Education will not be taking any formal action regarding ttopic. Detailed budget information is available on the budget reduction information page on the Districts website. The linkthe site can be found under the "Latest District News" heading at www.cupertino.k12.ca.us.

2010 STAR TESTING DATESSTAR Multiple Choice Testing for grades 2-8 will begin the week of April 26, 2010 and continues for two weeks. The STAProgram is a state accountability measure that helps us assess how we are meeting the needs of our students. You can hprepare your child for the test by ensuring your child goes to bed on time, eats a good breakfast, and leaves for school withpositive attitude. Please do not schedule any family trips or doctor appointments during this time.

2009-2010 DISTRICT CALENDARFebruary 15-19, 2010 Mid-Year RecessMarch 15, 2010 Staff Learning DayApril 12-16, 2010 Spring RecessMay 28, 2010 Staff Learning DayMay 31, 2010 Memorial DayJune 10, 2010 Last Day of School
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