Cafeteria at 9:00 and last approximately 1 hour. Please call the office to schedule a tour. These tours are for adults only.  Monday, January 22nd  Thursday, January 25th  Thursday, February 1st  Wednesday, February 7th Elementary Pre-Registration for the 2018-19 school year begins February 5, 2018. Parents and guardians should LOS ALAMITOS LIONS’ P.R.I.D.E. schedule an appointment to enroll their student(s). To P = Problem Solve schedule an appointment visit www.sjusd.org or call 408- R = Respect All 535-6214. The enrollment center is now located at 855 I = I Make Responsible Decisions Lenzen Ave. and is open for information: 8:00 am – 4:00 D = Do Your Best pm. The last appointment for enrollment will take place E = Everyone Cares at 3:30 pm. Please inform any friends or neighbors who have children of TK/Kindergarten age.

Visitors on Campus: First grade parents please note that each year 1st grade Reminder: When coming on to the school grounds during students must have a physical exam and submit the instruction time (8:50 am -3:05 pm) it is required that completed CHDP form verifying that physical. If you have visitors have a pass. Please come to the main office prior not returned your form, please do so as soon as possible to entering any as they were due on December 1st and are now late. Our classroom or being on the playground to obtain a Visitor's school is required to account for each student’s form. If Pass. Persons without passes will be asked to go to the you have questions, or need a new form, please see Mrs. office. Sparks in the Health Office. This is a state mandated requirement. Thank you for your help in this important matter.

Starting in January we will no longer be sending home paper copies of the Lion’s Roar, except by special request. This is one way we can cut our paper expenses and go green! The Lion’s Roar is posted on our website weekly. Letter from the Principal It may be found at losalamitos.org. If you would like to Dear Parents and Guardians, receive a paper copy of the Lion’s Roar, please let the office know. Congratulations to our 5th Grade students who successfully completed this week’s science fair. Their Have a great weekend. It’s a great time to be a Lion! questions were interesting, their experiments were well Warmly, thought out, and their scientific endeavors were Mr. Rousseau researched and documented. We have a wonderful crop of budding scientists in our midst! Thank you to the teachers and parents for their guidance. Thank you to th Karen Brodrick and the other volunteers who shared the Principal’s Pride-December 8 work to be done for this event. Thank you to the judges who patiently conversed with each of our students to Kinder – Colton Merrell and Vinh Do learn about the experiments. It truly takes a village to raise a child! 1st Grade – Emiya Stephens, Abriella Morris,

nd Caleb Samuel, Ben Arreguin, Mollie Verner, Friday, December 22 , the Student Council is organizing Malia Mikami and Excarleth Vargas “Cozy Pajama Day”. Students may wear PJs/Sweats to school. Please make sure that good judgment is used in 2nd Grade – Khadija Khan, Kooshan Assadi, helping your child decide what to wear. Playground shoes/sneakers should be worn. Brian Zheng and Bryan Wells

rd Friday, December 22nd is a full day of school and when we 3 Grade – Emily Roth, Jordan DeFranco, return from New Year Recess on Tuesday January 9th Lauren Chaves, Leo Gonzalez, Kashvi Garg, students have a minimum day/early out Tuesday. Dylan Sweifach and Blaine Rinaldi

If you have a child who will be entering TK/Kindergarten in Congratulations To All! the Fall, please join us! The tours will begin in the Si usted necesita estas noticias escolares traducidas al español, favor de comunicarse a la oficina de la escuela al teléfono 535-6297. Parent Portal Meeting for 5th Grade Parents-December 20 th BUY SCRIP FOR THE If you have not yet set up or used your child's Parent HOLIDAYS! Portal, please attend this informational meeting. Join us in The holiday season is here again! Scrip is a great option the library on Wednesday, December 20th at 8:30 a.m. for all your holiday needs and you will be contributing to Middle school choice forms will be coming out next month fund our SMART programs (Science, music, art, reading and you will need to know how to access and use it for and technology). when they move on to middle school next year. For a head Gift cards for your favorite retailers are available at the count, please RSVP to the front office. Scrip table, through the Benefit app or preorder them sending the Scrip order form inside the white envelope. Los Alamitos’ Annual Second Teachers and staff wish lists are available at the Scrip table. The class with the largest Scrip contribution will get Harvest Food Drive! Dates free dress on December 15th! If you have any questions Extended! contact us at [email protected] December 7th -December 18th Los Alamitos will be holding its annual food drive in YEARBOOK TEAM!!! support of Second Harvest Food Bank from December We are looking for a few good parents to head up next 5nd-December 18th. Please bring your donations of non- year's Yearbook Team! This is definitely one of the most perishable food items to the Media Center, the front office, rewarding and fun jobs at Los Alamitos that gives you the or drop in the valet circle. We hope to fill at least 14 opportunity to get to know pretty much every kid on barrels for those in need this holiday season. campus. Some job details: helping design non-class yearbook pages, taking photos at school events, and If you would like to make a monetary donation, please go working with outside vendor to produce yearbooks. We'd to: really love to get a group together as soon as possible so https://www.shfb.org/page.aspx? they can shadow and learn from the current yearbook pid=1050&FFDDrive=17%20FD crew. Like we said, this takes a TEAM so whatever your %20Holiday&FFDOrg=498807 level of interest, please contact us for more details, we'd love to talk to you!! Please contact Farneez Mody If you have any questions, please contact Fiona Kaufman at [email protected] or text @ 408.821.9228. at [email protected]. Thank you! Label school gear in the New Year! MISSING A JACKET? Did you know that labeled lost items get special There are a lot of Lost and Found items such as water treatment? Green Teamers sort them out into a designated bottles, lunch boxes, and lots and lots of jackets! If you bin daily and return them to their owners’ classrooms have lost an item please go and check in the Lost and within a week. Label your child’s sweaters, jackets, water fFound in the courtyard near the double blue gates by the bottles, and lunch gear lest they get misplaced. Do it for office. your pocketbook, the environment, and the school!

The jackets will be put in storage for donation if they are Instead of buying replacements, simply write your child’s not picked up before school closes for the recess on last name and at least first initial on the item or tag (hint: December 22nd. PLEASE ask your child to look for their silver Sharpie works well on dark colors). items during lunch or before/after school. Thank you. From Raina Goyal (4th Grade) Green Team, Textile As many Green Teamers learn, 700-plus gallons of water, Taskforce not to mention other resources, go into the raw materials, manufacture, and distribution of a typical piece of clothing, so you’ll be doing the earth a favor, too.

Benefit the school at the same time by ordering labels from a company that gives back—funding PTA programs including Green Team. Just select Los Alamitos from the Happy 80 th Birthday Mr. Bob! school-fundraising dropdown menus when ordering from Last week Los Alamitos crossing guard Bob Pfaff the following sites: celebrated his 80th birthday! Mr. Bob has been a crossing www.campaigns.mabelslabels.com guard at Los Alamitos for 8 years and was greeted by students, parents and teachers with cards, gifts and a big https://mightynest.com/shop/lunch-gear/utensils-napkins- “Happy Birthday Bob!” banner on the corner where he more/waterproof-write-on-labels-24-pack crosses kids safely to school. Classes made hand-drawn birthday cards with pictures of him holding his stop sign in 2018 Dates to Remember for his crossing guard vest, sending messages of appreciation to the man they call “Mr. Bob”. Congratulations Mr. Bob! Incoming Middle School Students: January 11th – School Tour Si usted necesita estas noticias escolares traducidas al español, favor de comunicarse a la oficina de la escuela al teléfono 535-6297. John Muir Middle School 6384 Leyland Park Dr. 1260 Branham Lane 6:30 – 8:00 pm, Media Center 9:00 – 10:30 am, Cafeteria 2017-2018 NEW and RETURNING January 12th –School Tour VOLUNTEERS, we are going Castillero Middle School 6384 Leyland Park Dr. paperless! 9:30 – 10:10 am Complete and submit your form electronically – to complete this process visit January 17th – All Middle Schools Parent Information go.sjusd.org/losalamitosvolunteers Night Hoover Middle School MY SCHOOL BUCKS.COM-GO 1635 Park Ave. 6:30 – 8:30 pm Media Center CASHLESS FOR SCHOOL

January 18th – Parent Information Night LUNCHES! Hoover Middle School SJUSD is going cashless. Easily pay for school meals at 1635 Park Ave. myschoolbucks.com. Conveniently pay fees anytime, 6:15 – 7:30 pm Historic Hoover Theater anywhere Create your account today. For students id #s contact the January 20th – Breakfast with a Bear Office. January 23rd – Breakfast with a Bear & School Tour Burnett Middle School 850 North 2nd Street Traffic Safety: 9:00 am, Cafeteria (1/20) & Media Center (1/23) In order to keep everyone safe, we encourage you to report January 23rd –School Tour at 9:45 am Media Center unsafe driving and parking violations to the City of San Jose Traffic Enforcement. You can report violations by January 23rd – Parent Information Night calling Parking Enforcement at 408-534-2900 or submit Bret Harte Middle School your report 7050 Bret Harte Dr. to http://www.sjpd.org/_Forms/TEU_Request_Form.asp. 6:15 -- 7:15 pm, Cafeteria The more reports filed, the better the chance for seeing traffic enforcement to come out to help with traffic issues January 24th – Parent Information Night & School Tour around our school. Willow Glen Middle School 2105 Cottle Ave. Reminders of Violations: 6:00 – 7:00 pm 1. Parking in Bus Zones on Butterfly near the corner of School Tour 10:00 – 11:30 am Firefly. 2. Double parking on Redmond or Firefly. January 25th-School Tour 3. Excessive speeds around the school. Hoover Middle School 4. Parking or dropping off your children at red curbs. 1635 Park Ave. Flag Pole Pick-Up and Drop-Off: 9:30 – 11:30 am This is a drop-off and pick-up location that needs to keep moving before and after school. This includes the entire January 30th – School Tour way along the yellow curb all the way to the exit. There is John Muir Middle School no parking along here while waiting for your child to 1260 Branham Lan. arrive. If you are planning on meeting your child at a 9:00 – 10:30 am, Cafeteria classroom or need to go look for your child, please park on a side street and walk to school. If you are in line and are January 30th & 31st –School Tours waiting for your child to arrive, please pull all the Brett Harte Middle School way forward as other cars leave the line. This helps to get 9:00 – 10:15 am as many cars in off the street as possible. Please follow the RSVP: sjusd.org/bretharte directions of our Safety Patrol Team, they are there to help keep everyone safe. st January 31 – Student Shadow Day You may also be seeing additional San Jose Department of Hoover Middle School Transportation officers out looking at our traffic issues 1635 Park Ave. before and after school. They will be issuing citations and Call (408)-535-6274 for more information can also issue drive away citations for double parking or other violations. January 31st – Parent Information Night Castillero Middle School Thank you for keeping all of our students safe during drop- off and pick-up times.

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