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Lancer Lines January 24, 2020John Calandro • 1 minute ago • Friday, Jan 24 at 5:09 PM • Laguna Middle School

The Lancer Lines Jan. 24, 2020

Principal’s Message:

Our students are off to a great start and grades came out via Parentsquaretoday. We apologize for the false start on the grades- please look for the"Semester 1 Report Card CORRECTED" document under your "studentnotices" in the Parentsquare App.

Next week will be a busy one as we have the high school coming onThursday to work on four-year plans with our eighth graders. The counselorswill be visiting us on Thursdays and meeting individually with each 8th gradestudent to answer questions about the high school and help students to startto look ahead to high school and beyond. Each meeting will result in thestudent creating a plan to help guide them over the next four years. We knowa lot can happen in a four year time, so please rest assured these plans areflexible and will be revisited over time as student interests and abilities growand change.

We'll also be doing the California Healthy Kids Survey with our 7th gradersthis week (see below). The information we get from this survey lets us knowhow we're doing with our kids, what they may be struggling with that we maynot know about, and helps us to identify needs so we can respond bydirecting resources to those needs.

And lastly, we have the Principal's Coffee on Tuesday. These informalchats are a way to get to know what is going on at school, ask questions ofthe principal, and hear from other parents what is going on at school and in

Upcoming Events

1.27 Monday Incentive breakfast 9am MPR

Art Club D-1 3-4pmMath Lab G-2 3-4pmFriday Night Live G7 3-4pm

Penny Wars assembly

1.28 TuesdayPrincipal's Coffee 9-10amMath Lab: Rm G-6 3-4pmGSA: E-7 3-4pmMock Trial: Rm E-6 3:15-4:30pmJazz Band: Band Room 3-4pm

1.29 WednesdayGirls Basketball @ Judkins3:30 & 4:30pm

William Harvey BoysBasketball Tournament.Math Lab: Rm G-3 3-4pmFCA H-1 Lunch

the community. We hope you will join us in the staff lounge from 9-10 onTuesday morning.

California Healthy Kids Survey:Next week on Thursday, Jan. 30, we will be asking our 7th graders to takethe California Healthy Kids Survey. This Survey is done every other yearin grades 5, 7, 9, and 11. The survey includes questions about alcohol,tobacco, and other drugs as well as questions about school safety and thelearning environment. Student participation in this survey is voluntary. Wehope you will encourage your seventh grader to participate so theiropinion and knowledge can be used to improve the school.

The survey is anonymous. NO names or any other identifying informationis connected to the answers except for the name of the school.

If you have questions, please contact the school at 805-596-4055 or visitour webpage for samples of the CA Healthy Kids Survey on the school'swebpage. You may also view the survey at the school office.

Wall of Fame:Each week teachers nominate students who exemplify scholarship andcitizenship and their names are added to the “Wall of Fame” for theweek. Congratulations to this week’s Wall of Fame Students! Weappreciate your hard work and your great attitude:

Holly Sullivan, Molly Chase, Estella Eulate, Miles Calandro, AlexDurrant, Ali Schwartz, Nina Moutafov, Chris Johnson, Hayden Boaz, Mackenzie Temple, Joe Bancroft, Simone Karpin,Elizabeth Haight Barron, Samantha Gomez, Kayla Thompson,Ava Van Brash, Rylan Bolivar, Edgar Delgado, Juan ReynaTorres, Chris Stull, Natalie Rojas, Jack Robbins, Issac Jimenez,Gavin Good, Elena Navarro, Justin Fry, Leila Johnson, AbigailTemplin

If a student’s name appears on here more than once or for more thanone week, it means that student is doing great things in severalclasses.

Around School

Nobel Prize

Maker's Club: A-1 3-4pm

1.30 ThursdayGirls Basketball @ St. Pat's 3:30 & 4:30

William Harvey BoysBasketball TournamentStudent Council Meeting 3rdPeriodMock Trial: Rm E-6 3:15-4:30pmBand Board Band room 3-3:45pmFCCLA D-4 3-4pm

1.31 FridayWilliam Harvey BoysBasketball Tournament

Earthquake Drill

Saturday 2.1

William Harvey BoysBasketball Tournament.

Mock Trial v. Judkins 9:30-11:30am County Courthouse

Mock Trial v. Paulding 1-2:30pm County Courthouse

Congratulations to Dawson Sennes whose presentation on PerpetualMotion wowed the judges and took him to be declared the Nobel Prize toppresentation of the 19-20 school year. Dawson will be recognized at the endof the school year during our 8th grade awards assembly and will have hisname added to the perpetual plaque in the front office. Congratulations alsoto the 9 other teams who presented one final time. The dedication andknowledge all of these students showed was impressive!

Cookbook sales benefiting FCCLA will be starting Tuesday, FCCLAstudents will be selling the cookbook "5 Ingredients or Less". thesecookbooks will cost $10 and checks can be made to Laguna FCCLA. Bookswill be in stock, so you should get them the next day. If you aren't approachedby a student to purchase one, feel free to come into the office and pick oneup. (We'll work on setting up a way to buy them online next week!)

FCA continues to meet every Wednesday at both 7th and 8th grade lunch.This week Pastor Mo from the church of the Nazarene shared with us to loveone another and be kind despite all the distractions in this world!

Congratulations to Molly Gard who was selected as one of three winnersfor the recent League of Women Voters essay contest. The League ofWomen Voters of SLO County congratulates her on her excellent essay onthe topic “What does the power to vote mean to you.” The centennialcommittee was most impressed with the final essay submissions they weregiven.

Molly and the other finalists are invited to a luncheon celebrating the 100thanniversary of the founding of the national League. The luncheon will be heldat the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo on Saturday, February 22nd,beginning at 11:30.

Our teachers love lunch asmuch as our students! The "G-core" enjoys some food andconversation during the 7th gradelunch.

We are so fortunate to have anamazing group of teachercandidates who are learningalongside Laguna's best. We are sohappy they are here learningalongside us.

PARENTS NEEDED!On February 15th from 8:00 a.m.to 3:00 p.m. Laguna Middle School will be hosting Family Career andCommunity Leaders of America Region 7 Spring Meeting and Competitions.We need over 30 adult evaluators with work experience in the followingareas :culinary arts, food innovation, interior design,entrepreneurship, job interview, sustainability,fashion and sewing construction, child development,menu planning and table display, and plan of work portfolio.

If you are interested in being a competition evaluator or if you know someonewho would be interested, please have them contact Kristine Carlin, Familyand Consumer Sciences Teacher, Laguna Middle School FCCLA Advisor, email kcarlin@slcusd.org.

PTA News

Please join us for our Next PTA Meeting Monday, Feb. 3 2020 6-7:30 PM

We will start our meeting with "POWER OF PARENTS" -A free 30-40Minute education and prevention presentation targeted towards parents ofmiddle and High school students to help start the conversation about the

dangers of underage drinking and drugs will be presented by StaciBrown, Program Specialist from Mothers Against Drunk Driving of SouthernCalifornia Region-Tri-Counties Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.https://www.madd.org/the-solution/power-of-parents/

If you are not yet a member, Please Join the PTA!Like us on Facebook!

Choose us as your Amazon Smile charity!Pay with Benefit mobile app!

PTA is looking for committed parents to serve as officers in our PTA. Ourcurrent slate of officers is outstanding and has spent the year creatingsystems to make the PTA more effective and easy to manage. We are

looking for parents who would like to be President, Vice President, Secretary,Treasurer, and Historian. if you are interested, contact John Calandro

(principal) at jcalandro@slcusd.org with the position you are interested infilling. Then plan on joining us at our next meeting for more information.

BASEBALL IS BACK... AND BETTER THAN EVER!!!!SLO Youth Baseball is now offering new options for 13 & 14 year olds!

New Pony League with 54' pitching distance and 80' base paths atStockton Field for 13 and 14 year olds as of Aug 31, 2020.Pending draft for limited roster, Babe Ruth is an option for Laguna 8thgraders!!! with 60' pitching distance and 90' base paths at Sinsheimer

Stadium.**

Note: There will be travel to Arroyo Grande, Paso Robles,Atascadero and Morro Bay/Los Osos for Babe Ruth.

Hurry to sign up!

Registration is still open at SLOYouthBaseball.com, but the Spring Trainingassessments are this Saturday and Monday at Cal Poly Baggett Stadium.

SAT 1/25: Majors/Pony**: 3:30 check in, evaluation will start at 4pmMON 1/27: Majors/Pony**: 5:30 check in, evaluation will start at 6pm

All players are REQUIRED to attend one Spring Training evaluation.

**All 13-14 year olds should register under Pony. Players will be "drafted" outof Pony for Babe Ruth. If you would like to be considered for Babe Ruth,please let SLOYB know at check in.

All players should be dressed out and have all gear necessary for batting andfielding. If you do not have the required gear, please emailSLOYouthBaseball@gmail.com

We will also have a gear swap table set up this year, so if you have any usedequipment or clothing you would like to donate please bring it to SpringTraining!

Please contact SLOYouthBaseball@gmail.com for any questions.

Laguna Library Noise

Mindful SLO Do you like to set new year’s resolutions? Prefer to setintentions for the year ahead or pick one thing to work on ortoward? Regardless of how we think about the possibilities,goals, wishes, and dreams for the year ahead, all require usto check-in with and listen to ourselves. And, if listening toyour inner voice and to what your body may be telling you is

challenging, you’re definitely not alone. Both require us to be vulnerable andself-aware, create time and space for ourselves, and be brave enough to listen.Perhaps it’s no coincidence that as our daily lives seem to get busier and louder,many seek to create quiet and cultivate more calm for ourselves (e.g., yoga,meditation, lap swimming, or Tai Chi).

Listening to Our Body and What Our Hormones May Be Telling Us: As chemicalmessengers, hormones, travel throughout our body coordinating complexprocesses like growth, metabolism, and fertility. They can also influence thefunction of the immune system, and alter behavior. Changing hormones don’tonly affect teens. What many women don't know — is that the hormonalchanges of perimenopause can bring changes in mood, and for some, aheightened risk of anxiety and depression. “Women with a history of depressionand anxiety are at a higher risk of having a flare-up during the time leading up tomenopause. And getting doctors to take the issue seriously can be challenging”says Jennifer Payne, who directs the Women's Mood Disorders Center atJohns Hopkins University (As Menopause Nears, Be Aware It Can TriggerDepression And Anxiety, Too, NPR, January 16, 2020). Many women gothrough perimenopause feeling isolated and alone. This is especially tough giventhat this period in one’s life can last over a decade and usually coincides withraising teens who are going through their own hormonal changes. Havingconversations with others experiencing similar things or having been through itcan help us feel understood and validated, and that is a valuable gift (ThinkYou're Too Young For Menopause Symptoms? Think Again, NPR, January18, 2020).

Listening to Our Body and it’s Need for Sleep: According to new research fromThe University of Berkeley, California, “A sleepless night can trigger up to a30 percent rise in emotional stress levels” (Stressed to the max? Deep sleepcan rewire the anxious brain, Science Daily, November 2019). The Berkeleystudy “finds that during deep sleep, or non-rapid eye movement slow-wavesleep, our heart rate, and blood pressure drop exponentially, effectively cooingvarious stressors of the day.” While we may not all feel we need 8 hours, qualityrest “enables our bodies to regulate appetite, conserve energy and mitigatesymptoms of anxiety.” "’We have identified a new function of deep sleep, onethat decreases anxiety overnight by reorganizing connections in the brain,’ saidstudy senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscienceand psychology. ‘Deep sleep seems to be a natural anxiolytic (anxiety inhibitor),so long as we get it each and every night’." Furthermore, “Without sleep, it'salmost as if the brain is too heavy on the emotional accelerator pedal, withoutenough brake," Walker said.

Listening to Our Emotions, Feelings as Sources of Information for Success andWell-being: We’ve recommended Marc Brackett’s Permission to Feel:Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and OurSociety Thrive (2019), but you may not have time to read it now. Given itsimportance, we share a shorter article that explains how “our feelings provideimportant information that can change our lives for the better when we giveourselves permission to feel them” (Permission to Feel, Psychology Today,2019). The important take-away is that listening to and understanding our

emotions is a learned skill requiring both curiosity and practice.

Perfectly imperfect,

Ana O’Sullivan, PhD and Kerri MahoneyCreators of mindfulSLO and REACH club,Founders of Connect Be Well