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Vista Verde Middle SchoolVista Verde Middle School

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Issue I — Volume 2 — September, 2015

Hello Vista Verde Cougars! The year at Vista Verde Middle School has started out

amazing! Our back to school night for this year was a hit! We had a raffle, hot dogs prepared by our

amazing staff and a club walk. New for this year we have clubs! For example, the chess club, art club,

newsletter club, theater club, cooking club and travel club. Don’t forget our amazing programs available for

all students at Vista Verde Middle School. This year, we started our Jr. Scholars program led by Mrs. Pram-

schufer. We also have our Gifted and Talented, Education (G.A.T.E) program led Mrs. Lowell. Don’t forget

we also have an excellent Advancement, Via, Individual, Determination (A.V.I.D) program led by Mr. An-

dres. This year, our library is now having eBooks and new titles available for all students. Remember to

return overdue books and keep them nice and clean. Some other accomplishments include that we are a

National Forum Schools to Watch School and we are a California Gear Up School. For our parents, we have

created a parent center where you can check your child’s grades and relax. Also, get involved by helping

our Parent, Teacher, Organization team (P.T.O).

Welcome Back Cougars!

For this year I have three expectations: I

want students to be involved in

something such as clubs and sports. Our

goal is also to get at least a 98%

attendance for the school year. I am also

excited for students competing in different events such as

National History Day, STEAM Night, sports, Spelling Bee,

Geography Bee, and writing contests. These are my expec-

tations for this school and I know we can achieve them!

Big News!!!

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Ms. Farmer went to Cal

State Fullerton and National

University. This year she ex-

pects her students to try their

best. She’s excited to be part of

an awesome school and loves

how welcoming Vista staff is and wants to have an

awesome year.

number #1! Mr. Sparr went to

Cal State Bernardino for his

bachelors and got his Masters

from UCR. He hopes that not only

will students learn, but that they

will also learn too look beyond

themselves. Finally he has been having nothing,

but a great time in this school and is looking

forward to this great year.

Vista also received a new principal’s secretary,

receptionist and DSO’s.

Current Events

This year Vista is having Cross Country! It is on going from Aug 31 – Oct 10. If

you like running come and join us you will have a blast. You must have a 2.0 GPA to

participate and will need to submit a grade check. If you meet all the criteria you can

run at the All Star Meet on October 10th at Lakeside Middle School. Come

out and show that Vista is

Library Information

Library Hours-7:00-7:25

2:05-3:30

Return overdue books !

Take care of our books because we all

love our nice clean books. Students will

be receiving overdue notices and tele-

parent for overdue book. Come check

out our new titles and ebooks.

New teachers here at Vista

Football/Volleyball

Oct 19 – Dec 5

All Star Games are

December 5th @ March MS

Soccer Season

Jan 25 – March 5

All Star Games are December 5th @ March MS

Basketball Season

March 14 – April 30

All Star Games are

April 30th @ Rancho Verde HS

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Get involved here at Vista!

ELD is a program that help students develop the

skills of Language Arts. It is taught by Mrs. Schoenfelder.

This year she is looking forward to having a lot of students

that get reclassified out of ELD. She graduated from

California Baptist University in Riverside. She teaches are

ELD/ELA. Her goal for this year is to help as many students

as possible and be a better teacher. This year she noticed

that the students are more responsible and respectful.

STEAM is a program that stands for Science,

Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. STEAM

helps students learn perseverance, teamwork, or-

ganization, utilize thoughts, and learning failure is

another opportunity for success. Mrs. Ubrun, the

teacher of STEAM for 7th grade, says that the stu-

dents in her class learn these qualities by hands on

projects, the Engineering Design, and collaboration.

Mr. Flores is the STEAM coordinator for 6th grade.

This year in AVID, we have a new group called the AVID

keepers. This club consist of boys that are good enough to be

in AVID who need a little extra help to get into AVID. They

are all lead by the wonderful teacher Mr. Andres. Lexys

Brown, the vice president of AVID, states that this year will

be fun and full of memories and friend making. So for those

not in AVID, I will do all I can to make this year a great one.

For those in AVID we are going to going to Cal Poly Pomona,

Knott’s Berry Farm, and Six Flags. Coming up is a chocolate

fundraiser! See you around cougars.

The purpose of THINK Together is to provide a

safe environment for the students of Vista Verde

Middle School in which they have both and

academic and sport support. The program allows

the students to practice their skills on socializing,

classwork/homework, and exercising. Many of the

students take advantage of their time after school to

finish up their class work and homework.

ASB (room 401) is wanting to make cougars have

more school spirit and make them get involved in the school

activities. Mrs. J. said,” we want students to be more

cougarrific. They want to bring fun activities on campus that

all of the students will enjoy.” ASB students also want to

show leadership in the school.

Mrs. Lowell is running GATE club with many

events planned throughout the school year. GATE

club is going to run toys for tots, a fundraiser at

Chili's on October 7 (anyone is invited), and on De-

cember 3 will be Renaissance Night. There is also

many after school gate enrichment classes and

fieldtrips. So if you're in gate go to gate club on

Mondays.

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Clubbin’ At Vista

LARP stands for live Action

Role Play is that's what it stands for

LARP is going enact many battles like

Greeks against Trojans their will also be a

few LARP wars which is where you pick own

character and powers to enact a war.

Meetings are every Thursday in room 308

with Mr. Prince, hope to see you there.

October 7, 2015: Latino Family Literacy

Class 9:00 AM -- 10:30 AM at the Vista

Parent Center

October 12, 2015: NO SCHOOL- Non Stu-

dent Day—Columbus Day

October 13, 2015: Latino Family Literacy

Class 9:00 AM -- 10:30 AM at the Vista

Parent Center

October 13, 2015: School Site Council

Meeting 2:15 PM -- 3:15 PM at the Vista

Parent Center

October 13, 2015: AAAC (African Ameri-

can Advisory Council) Meeting 6:30 PM --

7:30 PM at the Vista Parent Center

October 20, 2015: Latino Family Literacy

Class 9:00 AM -- 10:30 AM at the Vista

Parent Center

October 23-30, 2015: Red Ribbon Week

October 27, 2015: Latino Family Literacy

Class 9:00 AM -- 10:30 AM at the Vista

Parent Center

October 31, 2015: Daylight Saving time

end—Fall back an hour

Upcoming Events

Cougar!

Mrs. William have interesting plans this year for Cou-

gar Swag are to try to focus on doing different dance genres

this year like jazz, disco, hip hop, and maybe a religious dance.

She would also want to spread good behavior in and out the

school from all the students here at Vista Verde Middle

School. She wish this year would be a great year for Cougar

Swag and the students here at Vista Verde.

Bible Club is a new club here at Vista. The club is

meant to help those who are interested in learning

more about the Bible. The club appears to work in a

way that students will

read different verses and

stories of the bible and

discuss them. For more

information contact Mr.

Jones the club's advisor.

NJHS is an organization that is for the brightest and top

students. This organization invites the top students of the whole

school to make them even greater leaders. Only 64 out of 300 stu-

dents are invited to this organization and only 20 of the 64 actually

make it. The students have to go through an application process to

enter. Mrs. Ornelas hopes that through this organization many stu-

dents take advantage of it and come to tutoring for help. Like this

many students will benefit from it. She also wants all the members

to have fun with this and just overall have a good time.