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

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BoardofEducation

Superintendent:PhilQuon

BoardMembers:AnjaliKausarBenLiao,

JosephineLucey,GaryMcCue,

PhyllisVogel

GARDENGATEELEMENTARY

CUPERTINOUNIONSCHOOLDISTRICT

10500ANNARBORAVENUE

CUPERTINO,CA95014

NancyWood-Principal

KathleenMcCulloch-PTAPresident

AliciaHancock-Shepard-SSCChairperson

SCHOOL CALENDAR FEBRUARY 11, 2010

2/12 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)3/1 8:30 a.m. 2010-2011 GRADES 1-5 SCHOOL REGISTRATION BEGINS3/3 7:15 p.m. PTA MEETING3/4 6:00 p.m. CUPERTINO M.S. INCOMING 6TH GR. PARENT NIGHT3/5 SECOND TRIMESTER ENDS3/8-3/12 SPRING BOOK FAIR3/9 6:00 p.m. C.U.S.D. BOARD MTG. - DISTRICT BOARD ROOM3/11 6:00 p.m. SPRING SOCIAL AND BOOK FAIR3/13 SAT. 7:30 a.m. FISHING IN THE CITY - GRADE 3

3/15 STAFF LEARNING DAY - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

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 9:00a.m. to request the homework for pickup after 3:00 p.m.

Parent Traffic Duty: February 22nd - 26th Parents from Rm. #16B
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Garden Gate Elementary School 10500 Ann Arbor Ave., Cupertino CA 95014

Reminder: Next Week is Our Mid-Year Recess, 2/15/10 2/19/10Next week is our mid-year recess. School is not in session. I hope that everyone enjoys the break and maybe take advantaof the many activity choices available to us in the beautiful Bay Area (and beyond)!

PTA Reflections UpdateThe following five students have been given the "Award of Merit" by the 6th District. There will be a reception to honor winnstudents on March 8th. The honorees are:

Primary LevelMusical Composition Sachita KashyapFilm Production Srivatsa Puranam

Santosh Ravindra Bharathy

Intermediate LevelMusical Composition Anjana Manjunath

Film Production Ranjani Ravindra Bharathy

Literacy Night & Book Exchange A Great Success!We had quite a few attendees at our Literacy Night and Book Exchange on Tuesday evening. There was a wealth of wondebooks for the children to select! Many thanks to the chairperson, Merav Talmor for all of her hard work. Many thanks also goher team including parent volunteers, teacher volunteers, our librarian, Mrudula Gokhale, and special guest reader, DepuPete!

Kids Can't Grow Up Responsibly If Parents Don't Show Them HowYou probably know some people who've never quite grown up. They may have jobs, but never seem to be able to live on thown.

One reason may be that they didn't learn how to take on the responsibilities of adult life. Their parents may not have taugthem the skills they need--to balance a budget or to take care of basic life skills like cooking or doing laundry.

If you want your child to grow up and live as an independent adult, you need to start teaching him those skills today. Here asome ways you can help your child develop the habits that will get him ready for adult life:

* Expect him to get himself up in the morning. Even a first grader can learn to wake up to an alarm.* Teach him to care for his own clothes. Young children can put clothes in the laundry basket. They can fold their oclothes and put them away. Older kids can learn how to do laundry.* Help him manage money. Whether it's an allowance or payment for extra chores, teach your child the value of savin* Enlist his help. Every family member should do something that helps out the family. Young children can set the tabOlder kids can learn how to prepare a simple meal. When they do these things, thank them for making your home rmore smoothly.* Volunteer. Make time for your family to volunteer together. Doing something for others builds responsibility.

Reprinted with permission from the January 2010 issue of Parents make the difference! (Elementary School Editionewsletter. Copyright 2010 The Parent Institute, a division of NIS, Inc. Source: William Damon, The Path to PurposHelping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life, ISBN: 9781-4165-3723-6 (Free Press, www.simonandschuster.net).
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PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) NEWS & RESOURCES


Hello Gator Families!I hope you enjoyed the Book Exchange and Literacy Night on Tuesday. It was a fun night for the kids.Thank you to Merav Talmor, our Family Events Coordinator for creating all the Literacy Night events, fun and prizesMerav, you are a Garden Gate Hero!

Math Night is Thursday, February 25th!Your PTA dollars are hard at work bringing the Laurence Hall of Science Math Night to Garden Gate on Thursday,Feb. 25th. The Art of Math will show students the relationship between math concepts and a variety of art forms.They will engage in a variety of creative, cooperative work, including the ancient art of origami, mind-bending mazeconstruction and the 3-D world of paper sculpture. This year we are asking families to come to one session, based the first letter of your last name. Families whose last name begins with A - L should attend from 6:00-6:55 p.m.Families whose last name begins with M - Z should come from 7:00-7:55 p.m. We are also looking for parents to hlead the activities. Please email Mrs. Patti Wolf at [email protected] if you are available from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. o

Feb. 25th.

Committee Seats FeaturedOver the next several weeks, as we fill our Committee Seats for next year, I will be featuring some of the open PTApositions with information regarding the responsibilities. Hopefully, this will be helpful information and will make iteasier for you to understand what is needed to do the job .

Fall Celebration Chair- The Fall Celebration is a two hour free event with equal parent and teacherinvolvement featuring activity booths, games, a bake sale, pumpkin sale, and lots of fun. It is a bigfavorite for the kids! Primary Role - The Fall Celebration chair time frame is from late September to MidOctober. You will enlist volunteers, organize the teachers, parents and some 5th grade students for thevarious booths. You will have the experience of Merav Talmor, who has run this event for the past few yearsto assist you. Most of the booth activities are ready to go. This position takes about 20-25 hours over a 3-4

week time period. This is a very special event for parents and children alike!

Garden Gate PTA Membership Committee ChairPrimary Role: You will be responsible for all things regarding Garden Gate PTA membership:

Membership goals, promotion of and education about the PTA to parents. Also included is collectingthe completed forms, counting the dues, and reporting membership to our Council level PTA. You willsometimes need to be present at various events when we have opportunities to promote PTA membershipAlong with the treasurer, you ensure that the council portion of the dues get paid to the Council level PTA.Your duties are busiest at the beginning of the year from August through October, but continue throughout tyear. Approximate number of hours annually: 30 hours.

I hope you will give these positions serious thought. The Fall Celebration is too much fun to cancel due to lack volunteers and the PTA Membership is an important position that helps to make the PTA operate so we can bring oassistance to our Gators.

In service to you,Kathleen McCulloch

Garden Gate PTA President(408) 343-1232
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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Class Photo VolunteersBud White will be here Tuesday,February 23rd to take classpictures. Order envelopes will bedistributed to students on Monday,

February 22nd - the day before. If

you wish to order a class portrait,please complete the order envelope

and return it the next day with your payment to yourstudents teacher. We still need an additionalparent to help with pictures. If you are available,please call the school office at 252-5414 ext .103.Thank you.

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.

More News From The Cafeteria. . .Student Nutrition Services is proud to introduce theirnew web page located at the following URL:http://www.schoolnutritionandfitness.com/index.php?sid

=1805092039571289

Please visit the web page if you have questions about thestudent lunch program or your childs account. It is a workin progress dedicated to nutrition, fitness andhealth.

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..

RecyclingOur Garden Gate Recycling

Program is continuing in 2010!Please remember to place all yourrecycling (plastic and cans) intothe blue bins that are located inthe outside hallway by Friday ofeach week. They will not take milkcartons! All proceeds will go to theMarin Headlands Science SchoolFund.
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DISTRICT NEWS SECTION

010 Summer School Updatehe Cupertino Union School District continues to face major budget cuts from the state. As a result, there will be no available

unds to implement the districts summer school program. Starting this year (2009-2010), there will be no regular educationLIP, or ELD summer school. Special Education summer school is not affected and will be available for students currentlyentified and enrolled in Cupertino Union School District Special Day Classes (SDC) whose IEP include summer schoolegistration forms for the SDC summer school will be available from the SDC teachers beginning April 2010.

De Anza College Summer Extended Year Program - 2010e Anza College in partnership with the Cupertino Union School District will offer the Extended Year Program this summer

mornings only, from June 21 to July 16, 2010.

Students entering grades 6 through 10

lasses will be held at Kennedy and Miller Middle Schools, and will include: Java Programming, Geometry, Intro to AlgebraEGO Robotics, Speech and Debate, Fashion Design and many others.

Students entering grades 1 through 5lasses will be held at Eaton Elementary School, and will include: Pre-Algebra Prep, Writing: Paragraphs to Essays, Reading

ntensive, Mandarin Chinese, Math & Art, Mandarin, Journalism/Writing, and more!

rogram brochures will be sent home in early March and will also be available at your school office. More information isvailable at www.extendedyear.deanza.edu . Early registration is by mail only and will begin on March 8, 2010 and ends on

May 21, 2010. There will also be walk-in registration available from June 1 to June 8, 2010.

Elimination of Grade 4 Writing Assessment

he CST for Writing (the writing component of the CST for EnglishLanguage Arts [ELA]), and the CMA for Writing (the writingomponent of the CMA for ELA) will not be administered to students in grade four in the 2009-10 school year. The eliminationf the writing task will have no effect on students' achievement of proficiency because the CST for ELA in grade four and theMA for ELA in grade four will be scaled and equated on the basis of the multiple-choice questions only. Please note that theST for Writing and the CMA for Writing will continue to be administered in grade seven. Next springs administration of those

ests in grade seven will be on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, with makeup testing on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.

he Cupertino Middls School Parent Information Nighthe Cupertino Middle School Parent Information Night for next years 6th, 7th, and 8th graders will be held Thursday, March 4 in

he 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 willover course selection, homework, expectations, extracurricular activities, and other topics. These presentations are open tol families who will have students at CMS next year.

dditionally, at 7:00 pm in the multi-use, our PTA will host an informal gathering so that incoming 6th grade parents can talk

ith CMS parents who have already experienced their students transition from elementary to middle school. This was a veryopular event last year. Due to facility limitations, these presentations are for parents only. An electronic copy of theresentation and any handouts will be made available upon request for any parents unable to attend the March 4 meeting.

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