San Jose Elementary School Newsletter A Publication for Parents & Students

November 9, 2015 United We Soar!

Principal’s

News… Dear San Jose Families,

November is a month when many people focus on gratitude. At San Jose, there are many things to be thankful for. Each morning as students arrive, they come with smiling faces, eager to see their friends and teachers and ready to learn. As educators, we are grateful to have students who arrive ready to learn. We are grateful for parents who value education and send their children to school ready to learn each day.

The Fall Festival was a successful evening filled with

fun, food, activities and time together celebrating the San Jose community. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this special San Jose tradition. Sincerely, Mrs. Brown

Principal

Help keep our recycling efforts strong each and every day! Continue to bring in your paper, metal and plastic water bottles to support our programming all year long!

11/2 Mentor Recruitment Fair at SPC Clearwater

11/5 Picture Retakes

11/10 PTA/SAC 2:45pm

11/11 Fundraiser Product Pickup (after school)

11/18 Great American Teach In

11/18 Holiday Family Lunch

11/18 Jet’s Pizza Night

11/19 Student of the Month Celebration

11/23-11/27 THANKSGIVING BREAK

CONTACT US AT:

San Jose Elementary 1670 San Helen Dr. Dunedin, FL 34698

Phone: 727-469-5956

Fax: 727-469-5960

Principal Lisa Brown Asst. Principal Angela Heuman

We are on the web!

http://www.pcsb.org/sanjose-es

San Jose Vision: 100% student engagement and

success 100% of the time

San Jose Mission: Create a safe learning

environment which promotes academic excellence through the partnership of students, families,

staff and community.

Take a book,

Leave a book…

Did you know that San Jose has its own Little Free Library? Visit ours in the Picnic Garden and promote

a love of reading in your child. Take a book to read, bring it back to share with others or replace it with another book that you would

like to give.

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P E the Place to BE

We would like to thank all of those who donated to the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart this year. As of October 27th, we have received $640.00. Already that is a good increase from last year. We will be collecting donations until November 6th. If you send money in with your child just mark their name, teacher and amount please. If you would like to participate on line the website is: www.heart.org/jump . Our students are learning heart

facts in their PE classes this month as part of our heart awareness. Thank you again for your generosity.

FUEL UP TO PLAY 60 Our two activity plans are underway for this year. On

Wednesdays we invite students to come out before

school and walk or run for fun. On Thursdays we offer

before school activity time for students to come to the

PE area and get moving. These times allow students a

few minutes before school to be active, which is proven

to be beneficial to learning processes.

Students earn tokens for every mile they

complete during the running club time. We will begin

offering breakfast outside on Thursday mornings to any

students who would like to eat outside during the

activity time.

Ariana G. - Mrs. Bell DJ B. - Mrs. Digirolamo Avonna T. - Mrs. Keidel Gianna W. - Mrs. Orne Dane A. - Mrs. Culverhouse Austin G. - Mrs. Nylund Layla B. - Mrs. Scarritt Da’shari Q. - Mrs. Taylor Cassidy H. - Mrs. Barnett James P. - Mrs. Scott Josie H. - Mrs. Sullivan Bryan B. - Miss Baker

Drew H.- Mrs. Folven Lelyana S. - Mrs. Kucek Roberto I. - Mrs. Cox Nevaeh B. - Mrs. Davis Haylea B. - Mrs. Laughlin Westyn B. - Mrs. Clayton Dillon S. - Mr. Gore Robert N. - Mr. McComber Aliah S. - Mrs. Stewart Carlos D. - Mrs. Blackburn Darwin H - Ms. Corell Anaya J - Mrs. Lumm

News from the SJ

Media Center

Lots of reading is going on at San

Jose, as our 3rd, 4th and 5th graders continue to check out and read the

15 SSYRA Battle of the Books. With the help of our PTA, we were

able to purchase a class set for each of our intermediate

grades in addition to the media center sets. Students read as many of the 15 as they can. The county

test that helps determine teams for our contest

will be coming in December or January.

Copies of the books are also available online through the

MackinVIA site. Kids log into Focus and the

MackinVIA site is listed on the right. They

use their rd.d2 and s.# https://focus.pcsb.org/focus/inde

x.php

The Media Center is also looking for volunteers for the upcoming

Holiday Book Fair that will be running at the same time as our

December PTA Winter Fest. Please contact Bridget Harper,

our volunteer liaison at 469-5956, if you would like to help.

October

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Our first McTeacher Night was a HUGE success! The PTA would like to send a shout out to our AMAZING teachers and staff who worked the event and to ALL the families who joined us

that night!! Thanks to all of you we raised $172! We couldn’t do it without you!

Blast Off With Box Tops!!! Help us rocket past our goal this year!!

Exciting News!! We have collected OVER $1000 in Boxtops already this year! That is over half way to our goal of $2000 and it’s ONLY November!

Keep up the good work and send in your Boxtops. Be sure to label them with your child’s name AND teacher because the classroom with the MOST Box Tops turned in at the end of the month wins our Travelling

Trophy and a special treat for the class!

October’s Boxtops superstars are…

Miss Baker’s 3rd grade class AGAIN! They brought in a whopping 424 Boxtops !!! It was a close race this month with several classes close behind! Way to go San Jose!

Let’s Turn Fun Into Funds!

Join us at Chuck E Cheese’s in Countryside on Wednesday, December 2 and help support San

Jose. Have pizza with families while the kids have a BLAST with their friends playing the great selection

of arcade games. … AND Chuck E. Cheese donates 15% of the sales from this event

back to the school

Get the latest PTA news on our

Facebook page at

www.facebook.com/sanjosepta

Save the Date!

San Jose Winter Fest is coming soon! Bring the family and come out for a night of fun.

The teachers will be reading their favorite HOLIDAY stories & hosting a craft during the

evening. We have lots of surprises in store for you so please come out on December 17 from 5:30-

7:30pm and check it out.

Jet’s Pizza will again be supporting San Jose with Jet’s Spirit Nights. On November 18, they are

donating back 15% of sales when you order dinner. As a BONUS, the class with the highest

participation that night will also get a FREE pizza party!!!

Every Friday is School Spirit Day! Wear your San Jose tshirt to celebrate being a San Jose Hawk! We have a new tshirt design available as well as some old favorites. tshirt order forms are available in

the front hall by the PTA board or email sjepta2013@gmail.com

San Jose is so incredibly grateful for

the generous support and donations from our families, community organizations and business partners.

Working together allows us opportunities to give our students the very best of everything. Thanks to you, San Jose is proud to continue its tradition of teaching

excellence!

Adopt-A-Class Sponsors: The Carragher-Roberts Family, The Dunedin Youth

Guild, National Watersports Inc., The Collard Family, Crissy Kitzul, The Nguyen Family, The Purcell Family,

Lynn Keaton, The Miller Family, The Beaty Family, The Reilly Family, The Hurst Family, The Wooten Family,

Episcopal Church Women, Barbara O’Connell with Knot On Main, Allyn and Debbie Ramker with Team

Oink, The Silverest Family, The Dunedin Kiwanis, Deborah A Bushnell, Attorney, The Calvert Family, Total Building Integrations, The Jacob and Preiato

Family, The Machler Family, The Regan Family, Jet’s Pizza, Linda Hagerman, and Diane Bracy…

THANK YOU for your generous heart!

For more information on how to adopt your child’s class, please contact Bridget Harper at

harperbr@pcsb.org

Paper Partners are needed as well! Copy paper remains a vital school supply for teaching, learning and communicating. Please consider being a

Paper Partner by either dropping off a case of paper to the front office or sending in a donation of $29.

Thanks to our Paper Partners, The Irby

Family and The McGee Family!!!

Special Shout Outs! To all 36 of our 5th grade parents who joined the

classes at Enterprise Village …

To everyone who came out for Walk to School Day…

To McDonalds and our amazing staff who stepped up to work our first McTeacher night of the year…

To everyone who sent in a donation for our Jump Rope For Heart event…

To all of the parents who made the SPIFFS field trip fun and exciting…

To our fantastic PTA board members, staff and parents who worked together to make our Fall

Festival simply great… And to all of our parents who are working in

classrooms and around the school… THANK YOU!!!!!

Fifth Grade parents

We NEED you!

The silent auction at our Winter Fest is a big opportunity to offset the costs of the Graduation Celebration at the end

of the year.

We need you to reach out to friends, family and neighbors who would be

willing to donate “big ticket” items to increase the value of the baskets. We

are looking for gift cards for restaurants, movies, hair salons, event tickets or anything else you can think

of.

We also need parents to help assemble baskets before the event and work the

auction on December 17.

If you are able to lend a hand or donate items, please contact Bridget Harper at

harperbr@pcsb.org

Parents and Friends in our

Community… Please join us for

The Great American

Teach-In Sponsored By Duke Energy

On Wednesday, November 18, 2015, firefighters, dog trainers, cake

decorators, artists, biologists, coaches and more are invited to share what is important to them for an hour, a few class periods or an entire school day.

The Teach-In is a fun and exciting day

of grown up “Show and Tell”! Come and spend time with your child’s

class talking about your job, hobby, or activities that excite you!

to share with students information about their career or hobby, to

organize an activity, to read a story or to teach a class.

San Jose Student Expectations: ABC’s WALK EAT Act Responsibly Walk Quietly Eat Your Own Food Be Respectful Act Responsibly Act Responsibly Cooperate Lead by Example Take Time to Clean Up Keep On Track Compliance Statement

The School Board of Pinellas County, Florida, prohibits any and all forms of discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex,

religion, national origin, marital status, age, sexual orientation or disability in any of its programs, services or activities.

Family & Friends Please Join Us… For our traditional Holiday Luncheon

Wednesday, November 18, 2015!

Do you own a local business? Become a PTA

business member and advertise in our newsletter!

PICK UP AND DROP OFF PROCEDURES

School hours are 8:35am to 2:35pm and there are no teachers and staff on duty before this time. We ask that you not drop your child off before 8:05. Students that come to school later than 8:35am must go to the

office to receive a pass in order to be allowed into class.

If you would like to walk your child onto campus or into breakfast, please park in our upper parking lot that you can enter from San Helen Drive. If you park in this lot, you MUST walk your child across the bus circle

and into the patio area. Students are NOT allowed to walk alone in the parent /visitor parking.

IF you do not want to get out of your car to drop off or pick up, please drive around and use the car circle entrance off of San Jose Drive. The car circle is a quick and easy way to drop off and pick up your child.

When picking up in the car circle, you need to display a “Student Pick Up” card in your car window in order to speed up the process and ensure that your child is entering the correct vehicle. If you do not have this

card, they are available in the front office. IMPORTANT… Do NOT park and walk your child to class from the car circle!!

Adult meals $4.00 Guest children

$2.00

SAC NEWS Our next School Advisory Council meeting is on the calendar for Tuesday, November 10 right

after school and childcare is available. Please join us if you are interested in being a part of

this important team. Rita Sinn, SAC Chairperson

HAVE YOU HEARD?

Walk and Talk is a student favorite here at San Jose. Every day, weather permitting, students in grades 1-5 have the opportunity to head out side for some free play! The last 15 minutes of the class’s lunch time is Walk and Talk time. We have four square, jump ropes, hula hoops, board games and many other things set up outside by the media center to entertain themselves with.

We didn’t forget the younger classes…Both kindergarten and PreK have their own playgrounds just for them and have daily free time to run around and be kids.

Drop off map

News from the Hawk Art Department

Thank you to all the parents of 3rd and 4th grade students that sent in permission slips for the tag art design. Our artists did a great job on their

designs. The sale of the tag art will begin on Nov. 1st. Please check out this site for more information: http://www.taxcollect.com/kids-tag-art/

Two student artists had their artwork accepted into a juried art show, The Creative StART. They are 5th grader, Aidan R. and Kindergartener,

Isabella D. Yay! We’re so proud of our Hawk Artists! The Pinellas County K-5 exhibit will be at the Dunedin Fine Art Center in the Kokolakis Youth Family Gallery from Oct. 30th-Dec. 31st. The reception will be Sunday,

Nov. 14th from 1:00-3:00 pm.

We had a successful turnout at the Administration Building, for our big county wide art exhibit, this past month. I was stationed on the third

floor, helping families find their artworks. I saw a couple of you, but also missed some of you, as your art works were on other floors. If you didn’t get to make it, the art work will be on display for the entire school year.

Check it out at this link https://player.vimeo.com/video/143732925?autoplay=1

Our artists that have their works on display are: Summer D., Jackson H., Ari K., Ezra K., Bogi S., Adrien S. and our prior students Mariam and Nour

H., Austin L. and Avery M.

The tradition, since 2009, of posting artworks on Artsonia is continuing. Every student builds a virtual art portfolio on this site. It’s so

exciting for parents, students, friends and family to see how hard our artists are working. It is encouraged to have students write their own

artist statements, if they didn’t do so in class. Please comment and be sure to compliment your favorite artist, as

well. http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=85366

Artfully, Ms. Stacie Little

Music Room News

Congratulations to the following students for their submission of All State Chorus auditions:

Hannah I. Olivia K.

Peyton O. Trinity P. Daniel P. Jada W. Brooke W.

Congratulations to Olivia K.! Her audition qualified her to participate in the 2015-2016 All State Chorus. She will travel to Tampa to perform with the chorus in January.

UPCOMING CONCERT DATES: Times and Dates will come home on fliers closer to the event!

December 17: 4th and 5th Grade Chorus Winter Concert at the Winter Festival at San Jose February 8: Kindergarten Valentine’s Day Concert at San Jose Elementary Cafeteria

March Date TBA: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade Concert in Pioneer Park, downtown Dunedin. (San Jose’s PTA is still working to secure a date for the park)

Shark! By Ari K.

Nearika by Bogi S.

Alien Invasion by Ezra K.