Phoenix Ranch School 2019-2020 School Year Calendar West Campus 4974 Cochran Street, Simi Valley (805) 527-7764 & East Campus 1845 Oak Road, Simi Valley (805) 526-0136
~A Year of Kindness~ “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” August 2019 -John Holmes
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1 2 3 Fall 4th-8th Phoenix Players Uniform Night Sports League Meets Fridays East Campus - Flag Football 3:15-5:00 4:00-7:00 - Girl’s Basketball West Campus
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Camp Week 9 ● Last Camp Day ● Registration Ends for M.S. Electives
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TK-8th Teacher TK- 8th Teacher Campus Closed Campus Closed Campus Closed Training Training All Staff Training All Staff Training All Staff Training ● Preschool Open ● Preschool Open
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 First Trimester School Begins! Back to School ● Phoenix Players First Meeting of Middle School Night 3:15 West Campus Phoenix Players Elective & Schedule Preschool 6:30 ● Players’ Parent Change Week Meeting 5:00
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Back to School Back to School Free Dress Day Night Night 5th-8th 5:00 ● TK, K & 1st 5:00 (Sports League & ● 2nd, 3rd, 4th 6:00 Elective Info) 10 School Days “Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who September 2019 ever have.” -Margaret Mead
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 National Hispanic Labor Day Heritage Month Campus Closed
8 9 10 11 13 14 Grandparents’ Preschool Day at Preschool Family Fun Day
15 16 17 18 19 All School 20 21
S.T.E.M. Day Picture Day Cosmic Bowling Party TK-4th Grade 5th-8th Grade 4:30-6:30
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Family Fun Night 1st Trimester Toppers Progress Reports 3:30 –8:00 Free Dress Day
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Rosh Hashanah Phoenix Players Meets Every Friday 3:15-5:00 20 School Days “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop October 2019
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1 2 3 4 5 Speech Testing West Campus 10:00
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Preschool National Yom Kippur Speech Testing Preschool Closed Health Day East Campus 10:00 for Professional Development
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Great Shake Out Drill 10:18
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Red Ribbon Week Red-Ribbon TK - 4th Red Ribbon School Make –Up Sock it to Drugs! Halloween Carnival Free Dress Day Speaker 5th-8th Assembly – 10:00 Picture Day West Campus 3-6 School Ends at Noon
● Ribbon Posters ● Wear a Red Shirt ● Ribbon Bracelets ● Wear Silly Socks Preschool-8th Grade
27 28 29 30 31 Preschool Pumpkin Carving Diwali Dress-Up Week Contest TK–8th
Preschool Pumpkin P.S. Pumpkin 23 School Days Decorating Today Awards / Parade “When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.” November 2019 -Harold Kushner
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1 2 In November the Winter 4th-8th Parent Conferences school collects food Sports Leagues TK-8th Grade donations for - Boys’ Basketball Month of November Tackle Hunger - Girls’ Soccer
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Daylight Savings Coffee with the Ends –Fall Back Principal 9:00 Prospective TK& K East Campus
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Change of Veteran’s Day S.T.E.M. Day Preschool End of 1st Trimester Electives Week Campus Closed TK-4th Grade Craft Night 6:30 63 Days World Kindness Day
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Report Cards Home TK-8th Grade
Free Dress Day Scholastic Book Fair - Monday –Wednesday
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East 3rd-4th Dessert Day TK-8th
West 5th-8th Thanksgiving Holiday– Campus Closed Preschool Feast Recognition Happy Thanksgiving!
Assembly 2:30 East Campus 17 School Days Assembly 10:00 “Never be so busy as to not think of others.” -Mother Theresa
December 2019
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Spark of Love Toy Drive Faculty Holiday Party Begins
8 9 10 11 12 School 13 14 Holiday Gala Free Dress Day 2:00 T.O. Performing Arts Campus Closed
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Fire Department Preschool All School Picks up Hanukkah Story Pajama Day ‘Spark of Love’ and Snack Santa Claus & Toy Donations Parties
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Winter Vacation – Campus Closed Monday through Friday
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Campus Closed
14 School Days “Do a little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put January 2020 together that overwhelm the world.” -Desmond Tutu
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1 2 3 4 Happy New Year Preschool Open Preschool Open Campus Closed Winter Camp TK-6th Winter Camp TK-6th
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pre K Super Star School Resumes Recognition
12 13 14 15 TK-4th Grade 16 17 18 Geo-Bee 5th-8th S.T.E.M. Day West Campus Preschool 2nd Trimester Progress Reports Preschool Story Information Night Snow Day Go Home TK-8th Time, Pajamas, 4th-8th Grade 5:00
Cookies & Milk
19 20 21 22 23 East Campus 24 25 Martin Luther Information Night Chinese New Year Chinese New Year King, Jr. Holiday 1st-4th Grade 5:00 Parade at Preschool Year of the Rat Campus Closed Evening in TK & K Parent & Child 6:00 Free Dress Day
26 27 28 29 30 31 Scripps Spelling Bee East Campus Pre-Kindergarten & 1st-8th Classroom Assembly 10:00 Information Night Spelling Bees 100 School Days! 5:30 East & West Campus 19 School Days “A smile is the light in your window that tells others that a caring, sharing person is February 2020 inside.” -Denis Waitley
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Groundhog Day Preschool Preschool Closed Preschool Teacher Science Day Conferences TK-8th Science Day Middle School Science Fair
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Valentine’s Store National History Valentine’s Day M-W only 8th Grade Competition Middle School
Friendship Dance
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Presidents Day Pre-K Super Star Father Daughter Dance 4th Grade Visits 5th Campus Closed Recognition Preschool-4th Grade
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 End 2nd Trimester TK-8th Grade 59 Days 19 School Days Free Dress Day “A kind word is like a spring day.” -Russian Proverb March 2020
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Read Across St. Jude’s America Trike-a-Thon Library Activities 2nd Trimester PK– 2nd Report Cards
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Daylight Savings East Campus Assemblies PI Day 5th-8th Begins Recognition West Campus 8:45 Spring Forward Assembly 2:30 East Campus 10:00
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 St. Patrick’s Day S.T.E.M. Day Nowruz Free Dress Day Parties TK-4th Grade
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Preschool Pre-K Super Star Ventura County Puppy Day Recognition Science Fair and STEM Expo 3/27
Spring Break: TK-8th Grade Spring Camp Option Monday-Friday Preschool Open 29 30 31 Math League Testing
17 School Days “Be someone’s sunshine when clouds are grey.” April 2020 - Andrea Reiser
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1 2 3 4 Getty Villa Trip 6th-8th Grade
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Engineering Week Mad Hatter Campus Closed Middle School Parade PS-4th
MS Egg Drop Passover Good Friday
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Easter Sunday Washington D.C. Trip Grades 6-8 April 13-17
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Graduation Pre K Super Star Free Dress Day Annual School Fair Photo Day Recognition & Open House Pre-K & 8th Grade Preschool Closes at 9:00–Noon . Ramadan 12:30 Half Day
26 27 28 29 30 Preschool Teddy Bear Picnic and Pajama Day 20 School Days “One sees clearly only through the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery May 2020
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1 2 3rd Trimester Progress Reports go Home 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Teacher Spring Musicale Mother & Son Dance Appreciation Preschool–4th Grade Preschool Mother’s Luncheon West Campus Day Tea
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 East Assembly Phoenix Players Camp Open House 10:00 Performance 9:00-Noon 1:00 and 5:30 Phoenix Players Performance 1:00
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S.A.T. Testing S.A.T. Testing S.A.T. Testing Studio G 3rd-8th 3rd-8th 3rd-8th Dance Recital
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Memorial Day Sports Banquet PK Graduation Preschool Closed East 5:30 / West 6:45 Campus Closed Shakespeare Fair
Preschool Closes 3:00 5th-8th
Free Dress Day
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20 School Days “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to June 2020 get better. It’s not. -Dr. Seuss
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TK-8th 1 2 3 4 5 6 Report Cards Preschool Camp Eighth Grade Final Assembly Preschool Camp Preschool Camp
Begins! Graduation West-8:45 / East -10:00 Open Open Free Dress School Ends at Noon This Week Field Day East Field Day West
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Camp Week 1 Camp Begins! Big Ranch Little Ranch
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Camp Week 2 Preschool Donuts for Dad
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Camp Week 3
28 29 30 Camp Week 4
3 School Days “Three things in human life are im- portant. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind, and the third is July 2020 to be kind.” -Henry James
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1 2 3 4 Campus Closed Independence Day Holiday Weekend
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Camp Week 5
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Camp Week 6
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Camp Week 7
26 27 28 29 30 31 Camp Week 8 “If you find it in your heart to care for someone else, you will have succeeded.” -Maya Angelou August 2020
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Camp Week 9 Dennis Uniform Last Day of Camp Night M.S. Elective Choice Due Final Day to Register
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Tk-8th Teacher Tk-8th Teacher Campus Closed Campus Closed Campus Closed Training Training All Staff Training All Staff Training All Staff Training Preschool Open Preschool Open
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 School Begins!
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