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Principal’s Update: We’re down to our last two weeks here at Laguna and neither of those weeks has a full 5 days. We have
been reminding students during our morning announcement time to check Powerschool for missing
assignments and to speak with their teachers if they have any tests to retake or make up. Students should
have taken care of these things this. Please take the time this weekend to ask your student what they
need to turn in next week so that they may show their teacher what they know and have it recorded in
the grade book.
Our SBAC testing is mostly finished. We are impressed with the resilience of our students as the testing
schedule can be very challenging. Teachers discussed the testing schedule at our staff meeting on
Wednesday and we are looking at ways of tweaking the schedule next year to ensure we provide ample
time for testing while reducing stress on students. Teachers are collecting anecdotal information from
their students to help guide us in our decision making.
Speaking of information, we also would love to have input from you, our parents. We ask that you fill
out a short survey we will use to craft our goals for next year. There are opportunities to give more
feedback after each question if you wish, or you can just click on your answer. We appreciate you taking
your time to give us feedback on what is working well and on where we can continue to improve.
Thank you to the 100 people who have filled out the survey so far. We would love to have at least 200
more (this newsletter is sent to over 900 people each week) if possible to give us a more comprehensive
sample size.
Click here for the link it the survey in English
Haga clic aquí para el enlace a la encuesta en español.
THE DATE FOR THE 8th GRADE TRIP TO THE RAVINE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO MONDAY, JUNE 3. A NEW PERMISSION SLIP WAS SENT HOME AND CAN
BE FOUND AFTER THE “UPCOMING EVENTS” SECTION OF THIS NEWSLETTER. PLEASE SIGN AND RETURN.
The Lancer Lines…May 24 ,2019
Wall of Fame: Each week teachers nominate students who exemplify scholarship and citizenship and their names are
added to the “Wall of Fame” for the week. Congratulations to this week’s Wall of Fame Students! We
appreciate your hard work and your great attitude:
Ben Otto, Anissa Lopez Guzman, Jecsan Lopez, Kristof Servin, Bradley Quaresma, London
Eddings, Karsyn Diesta, Christian Cuevillas, Aidan Lagnford, Ana Valero, Andy Shen, Bryant
Graciano, Diego Senn, Malea Lewis, Brady Birdsong, Garen Scott, Scott Yoshinobu, Charlie
Fryer, Kimberly Rodriguez, Hari Mistry, Vanessa Alamilla Ceron, Erin Garnsey, Jared
Treichler, Allison Escalera, Aiden Rodriquez, Kaya Garcia, Ava Van Luchene, Angela Beauvais,
Jenna Kelley , Matthew Perje, Angel Mata Gaspar, Mason Casares, Itzel Rios, Danielle Harris
If a student’s name appears on here more than once or for more than one week, it means that student is
doing great things in several classes.
Laguna Middle School John Calandro, Principal 11050 Los Osos Valley Road San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 805-596-4055
Around School:
Thanks to the families who came out for the One Cool Earth and
Laguna Middle School family cooking night. Families learned
about our school garden, nutrition and made lemon hummus!
Our Laguna Middle School Choir with the Concert and Chamber Choirs of SLOHS put on
an amazing show on Tuesday at the Mission in San Luis Obispo. The audience was treated to
a wide variety of songs from contemporary pop to traditional Gaelic pieces. Our Lancer choir
sounded outstanding as always and there were incredible solo performances (one by Andrew
Moersdorf) and beautiful ensemble pieces.
Our 8th grade students visited SLO High this week. Students
Toured the campus and heard from the principals, students and
counselors. They participated in the senior assembly and had a
“full circle” moment for the high school with the outgoing seniors
celebrating their post-high school plans while welcoming in the
incoming class.
The student council recognized its outgoing officers at their final
meeting of the year. Jenson Wright, Mark Rourke and Gia Anselmo
have done a great job of leading our student council this year. We will
miss their leadership, but are excited for them move on to high school!
Congratulations to Mr. Ou! He was recognized at our last school
board meeting as Laguna Middle School’s teacher of the year.
Congratulations also to Ms. Ahearn for receiving the President’s
Award from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. High School Memorial
Scholarship Fund. Ms. Ahearn was a recipient of this scholarship in high
school and was recognized by the foundation for her extraordinary
service to the students and families of SLO.
Thank you to Bonnie Smith who was one of our
volunteers honored at our volunteer tea this week.
Bonnie volunteers in our library and always has a
smile and a kind word for others. We are so
appreciative to all of our volunteers who do so
much for Laguna.
Athletic Physicals Information: SLOHS will be hosting their sports physical night on Wednesday, May 29 from 6-8pm in the big
gym. There is a suggested donation of $20 for the physicals. Students who are hoping to participate in
school athletics are encouraged to attend on this night. The physical will be good for athletic
participation for the 2019-2020 school year.
PLEASE SEE THE FLYER AT THE END OF THE NEWSLETTER FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION.
As this year comes to an end Laguna Is already beginning to organize our athletic program for next
year. Our vision is to offer physicals for our athletes here at Laguna before school starts, however we
need your help. We need doctors to volunteer to administer the physicals. We would like to have
our Physical Night on Thursday August 15th at 6:00 pm. We will also be needing volunteers to do
blood pressure and check their pulse. If you are interested in helping, please contact
[email protected] or [email protected]. Thank you once again for supporting athletics at Laguna.
TRACK AND FIELD REMINDERS: All uniforms should be washed, dried and returned to Mr. Hoyt by June 3rd.
Around School (continued): We had our student recognition lunch on Tuesday. Teacher selected students from their classes
to be honored for their scholarship and citizenship. Students were treated to a lunch from Mr.
Pickles and got to spend some quality time with their teachers.
Kindness ROCKS! Is the message our yearbook is spreading throughout the campus with their
kindness rocks. The decision was made to make individual rocks, with quotes matched, for
every single staff member on campus. They also honored our Lead Custodian Gary Edmonson
by cleaning up the quad for him while he got to sit and enjoy his lunch! We wanted to thank
Gary for all his amazing work here every day, he is the BEST!
PTA News: PARENT HELP NEEDED FOR 8th GRADE END OF YEAR DANCE Parents who would like to help out with the 8th grade dance, we have many opportunities for you to
be helpful without ever leaving the comfort of your home! Our decorating committee is looking for
decorations for this year’s theme (we like to keep it a secret from the kids…) and are asking that
parents use the signup genius linked below to provide decorations to our committee.
As we get closer to our event on June 6, we will need parents to help with setup and teardown- it’ll be
easy and fun, we promise! (ok, maybe more easy than fun, but it won’t take long and our kids will
love it!). We’ll also be sending out a signup genius for food donations later next week. Thank you for
your support! It’s going to be a great night for our kids
Click here to link to the DECORATIONS SIGNUP GENIUS
Click here to link to the FOOD SIGNUP GENIUS
HUNGER AWARENESS DAY-SLO COUNTY FOOD BANK FUNDRAISER Laguna Middle School Student Leadership is encouraging each student to bring in $1 by
Friday, May 31st to help hungry people in SLO County.
There is a match up to $50,000 for this fundraiser, so your dollar will be doubled. Please
encourage your student to support this wonderful community organization headquartered in
SLO. Collection envelopes will be in each home base class. Thank you in advance.
Library Reminders: Students! All library books, textbooks and Chromebooks are due next week!
Start searching and returning, please. Thank you!!!
Last chance for yearbooks! Online sales for yearbooks will shut down this weekend. Please let your students know they can
still purchase next week, but cash or check only to Mrs. Mooney. For more information, take a
look at the video our students made: https://youtu.be/jF1bft9w3As
NEED COMMUNTY SERVICE HOURS THIS SUMMER?? Mountainbrook Church is having a camp this summer the week of June 17-21. Volunteers are
needed to lead groups, help run games, snack stations, etc. Hours are 8:30am-12pm Monday-
Friday that week. Please consider grabbing a friend and volunteering for this great camp. If
interested and to sign up, please email Amy Garrett, [email protected], for info.
EL CELEBRATION POTLUCK TUESDAY
The families of our EL students are invited to a potluck in the MPR at 6pm on Tuesday evening.
Come celebrate our students!
IMPORTANT DATES TO NOTE
Monday, May 27 Memorial Day Holiday. Thank you to all who serve
and have served to protect our country!
Tuesday, May 28 EL Celebration Potluck 6pm MPR
Districtwide Band Concert 7-8:30 MBHS
Love and Logic for parents of Teens 6pm Library
Wednesday, May 29 FCA Lunch H-1
Math Lab 3:00-4:00 G-13
Thursday, May 30 8th grade Awards Ceremony 6-7:30pm
Ganas Club 8th grade lunch G-14
FCCLA 3:00-4:00 D-11
Math Lab 3:00-4:00 G-7
Friday, May 31 Yearbook to KSBY for field trip
Click here for this week’s flyers from around the area. There are activities at Cal Poly, parenting classes, music, sports, religious activities and more!
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