December 2010

Dingeman Elementary School 11840 Scripps Creek Drive San Diego, CA 92131 858-549-4437

Sponsored by the Family Faculty Connection (FFC)

Principal ’ s Message

Dear Dingeman Families, Community Members and Friends, Seasons greetings! I am excited to share with you the busy happenings around the campus. First, you have to see our amazing musical production of “ Sleeping Beauty ” which will be performed by Mrs. Schwartz ’ s and Mr. Saguil’ s class on Wednesday, December 15th at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium. It will be a night to remember! We are excited to share an incredible opportunity for our school. We have been selected to be a part of a three year grant on building a positive school environment. This grant is called the Positive Behavior Interview System. We are working as a school team collecting data from staff, students and parents on what ’ s working well and where we need to grow. Your input is valuable to us. Be on the lookout for survey materials that will be going home with your child this month. Our staff is reading The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon. If you want a quick read and an inspiring book, pick up The Energy Bus! As a school, we are going to put our positive thinking into action with our students and community. Did you know 110,124 children in San Diego live in poverty? Forty-six percent are fed through Feeding America San Diego. This month, students are going to decorate food bags for the FASD project. What ’ s so wonderful is that our students are doing something to end hunger for children in our city. The possibilities are endless as students and teachers think of ideas to take their positive energy and turn it into action! Our school wide read aloud for our Tiger Rallies continues to be very successful. We are reading The 7 Habits for Happy Kids by Sean Covey. Students have learned about practical applications for the following habits: “ Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First and Think Win-Win ” . We hope your child is coming home explaining these habits and trying on the strategies for success. At the next Tiger Rally on January 10th, we will learn about “ Seek to Understand, Then to Be Understood ” . Please join us if you can! On behalf of our staff, we would like to wish all of you a wonderful, restful holiday season and a very Happy New Year! School resumes on January 3, 2011. See you then! In Partnership for Excellence, Kimie Lochtefeld Principal

A Note from our FFC President Dear Dingeman Families, Welcome back to school! I hope you all had a restful Thanksgiving Holiday with your friends and family. Now it is time to jump into December. We are so fortunate to have such a full December this year. The month began with a western-themed barbeque during lunch. This is a new event that Mr. Beraud organized for us. The following day, December 2nd, we had a special assembly. It took place outdoors because a live cow visited our campus! Yes, I did say a LIVE COW! The Dairy Council offers this unique educational experience for our children. Be sure to ask your child about it. On the evening of December 7th, our wonderful Honor Choir will perform at Barnes & Noble. Some of our very own teachers will be there to read aloud to the children. Thank you, Mr. Saguil and the Honor Choir for sharing such lovely music with us. Thank you to all of the teachers who are spending the evening with us, too. This has become a lovely tradition for Dingeman, and I am looking forward to it. All of Scripps Ranch is invited to participate in the SRCA ’ s 40th anniversary celebration on Sunday, December 12th. We will have the opportunity to travel on foot through scenic Scripps Ranch on a 4-mile course that will be closed to traffic. If you are interested, please see www.srca.org for more information. With so much good fortune for our campus and our children, we also recognize that others may not be as fortunate as us. Therefore, we are partnering with Scholastic Books to collect new pajamas for children who cannot afford them. Between now and December 16th, please bring new, unused pajamas ( in all sizes, from infant to adult ) and drop them in the PJ box on campus. We will deliver them to Scholastic ’ s drop-off site in San Diego at the end of the drive. If you would like to help collect, or have questions, please contact Jen Bremner at jbremner@sbcglobal.net. . Lastly, remember to thank our teachers for the many things they do for our children. Some of the teachers will have wish lists available for parents who would like to purchase supplies or books for classrooms. Enjoy the holiday celebrations on campus and around town, and have a safe Winter Break! Sincerely, Shellie Kalinsky FFC President 2010-2011

Tiger Pause Bulletin

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From the Editor The deadline for the February Tiger Pause Bulletin is Friday, January 28th. It will be posted on www.Dingeman.net on Monday, February 7th. There is no January issue. Please contact me via email regarding submissions. Marla Farias, Tiger Pause Editor fariasohana@gmail.com

YOU Helped Provide Students with Amazing Assemblies

Because of the strong support by Dingeman parents, our assemblies during the 2010-2011school year have never been better. Our students have already seen a New York Theater group perform a rendition of Click Clack Moo and a popular San Diego dance troupe combine sports with dance. This month, Dingeman welcomed the California Dairy Association to our campus as a live cow helped to highlight good nutrition, science and agriculture. From music enrichment and theater arts, to laser shows and bringing agriculture to

our campus, the money that was raised through our pledge drive is providing Dingeman students with some fantastic assemblies this year. Hopefully your student will come home inspired and educated by a fantastic assembly YOU helped provide for them.

December 2 Mobile Dairy Classroom January 19 Grassology February 23 Living Mozart March 23 Imagination Machine May 9 Literature Comes to Life June 6 Science Laser Light Show

Book Drive and Peace Fair a HUGE Success! Every Thursday our third grade students participate in Academy classes . One of the Academies, Building Bridges of Peace, studies peace heroes and conflict resolution. Throughout the session, students plan and implement a project that helps to make the world a better place. Yes! Kids Can Make a Difference! Our students collected over 1,500 books through their project. The books will go to students at Cesar Chavez Elementary School. There is enough so that each student can take at least two books home. Thanks to our school community for your generosity! Anyone who donated was able to spend time in the art booth, participate in the raffle or choose a small gift. Congratulations to Sydney Fillius for winning our raffle. Thanks to Nick, from Mrs. Becker's class who donated two Sea World tickets for the raffle. Thanks to James Buley for his leadership in this project. Suzanne Hagan Dingeman Elementary School

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! You are all invited to this year’s annual musical performed by Mrs. Schwartz’ 5th grade and Mr. Saguil’s 4th grade classes. Adapted and dramatized from the stories of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and the music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Book by Vera Morris and Music and Lyrics by Bill Francoeur. This musical production is directed by Mr. Saguil and Mrs. Schwartz, 2005 recipients of the Bravissimo Award for their dedicated work in elementary school drama. The students have been working hard memorizing and expressing their lines, learning their musical parts, building sets, and learning stage operations. Parent volunteers have also spent many hours on costumes, set designs, props, and publicity. We would like to thank our Dingeman families for their generous donations provided to produce this musical. All performances will take place on Wednesday December 15th. There is also an evening performance at 7:00 p.m. To defray the costs of production, donations will be accepted at the door and Stargrams may be purchased before and after the evening performance. Stargrams are delivered to the actors the next day.

The king and queen of Never Nod have a new baby, Princess Briar Rose. The witch Evilina, who lives with a giant spider and a cat, sets a terrible curse on the poor young princess. Sixteen years later, it's up to Prince Alexander to come to Briar-Rose's rescue and the court's too... for they are all asleep! The prince must fight a Wall of Thorns, a False Princess and, most frightening of all, the exalted Dark Knight! The zany, lovable characters and the score are as enchanting as Briar-Rose, in this family favorite, suitable for all ages.

Michaela Clark (Queen Eleanor), Joanne Wang (Queen Samantha) and Bryn Tannone (Baroness)

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Thanks for Supporting the 2010 Gift Catalog Sale!

Thanks to all students, parents, teachers, and community friends who supported Dingeman's 2010 Signature Gift Catalog Sale during Oct. 27-Nov. 8. As a result of your purchases during this sale, our school will receive over $4,000 in profits, in addition to a generous donation from Signature Corporate! Signature's donation will be put towards the purchase of new playground balls and/or books for our library, and all Gift Catalog Sale profits will go directly back into programs which benefit all of our children here at Dingeman (e.g., Science & Technology, Safety Patrol, Grade-level Educational Assemblies, etc.). "CONGRATULATIONS" to our top 10 selling students (total sales, including Internet orders), whose outstanding efforts have earned them each a Barnes & Noble gift card!

• Thitichon Viengpasertsay (Gr. 5) • Kyle Osowski (Gr. 3) • Aviva Kaufman (Gr. K) • Emily Cutshall (Gr. 5) • Donovan Tran Gr. 2) • Julia Ahern (Gr. 4) • Alyssa Roche (Gr. 5) • Kate Campbell (Gr. K) • Yazmin Pitpit (Gr. 4) • Kyra Robinson (Gr. 5)

The top 5 classrooms (total sales) were: Mrs. Wilson/Mrs. Webb (Gr. 3), Ms. Morioka (Gr. 5), Mrs. Lerma (Gr.2), Mrs. Kris Lee (Gr. 4), Mrs. Trench (Gr. 5) and Mrs. Shear (Gr. 5). The top 5 classrooms with the highest number of students participating in this sale were: Mrs. Hess (Gr. 1), Mrs. Wilson/Mrs. Webb (Gr. 3), Mrs. Shear (Gr. 5), and Mrs. Sandy King (Gr. 1). WAY TO GO, DINGEMAN STUDENTS! We're still awaiting the results from Signature's Corporate office which will confirm our school's top-selling gift wrap via this sale. Once we receive that information, we will be contacting the 10 lucky student winners who submitted entry forms in this year's "Guess the Gift Wrap Contest". Winners' names and prizes WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON…STAY TUNED!!! Thank you to everyone whose outstanding efforts and contributions were instrumental in making the 2010 Gift Catalog Sale so successful..."HAPPY HOLIDAYS!" Mary Hobbib and Nancy Emtage 2010 Gift Catalog Sale Co-Chairs

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Dingeman Elementary School

Tuesday, December 7th, 9am-11pm Barnes & Noble Mira Mesa 10775 Westview Parkway

Come for special teacher storytimes from 5pm to 7pm See your Honor Choir perform holiday tunes at 7pm

Get your holiday shopping done and have your presents wrapped by school volunteers

Visit BN.COM/bookfairs to support us online from 12/7/10 to 12/11/10 by entering Bookfair ID 10293447 at

checkout.

supporting Dingeman Elementary

Tuesday, December 7th, 9am—11 pm Barnes and Noble

10775 Westview Parkway

10293447

supporting Dingeman Elementary

Tuesday, December 7th, 9am—11 pm

Barnes and Noble

10775 Westview Parkway

10293447

Spring Carnival News Attention Dingeman Families! The Spring Carnival is five months away, but we are planning now for our big event! We are looking for families who might work for a company that would be willing to donate items or services for our Silent Auction and Raffle prizes. We are also looking for any vendors who would like to display their company's offerings in our vendor row at the carnival. It's great exposure for your business! If you can assist in either of these areas, please email one of us below: Thank you! Anna Calini, jazcalini@yahoo.com Annette Radogna, annetteradogna@gmail.com Becky Walton,beckywalton@san.rr.com Spring Carnival Co-Chairs

Some Important Dates to Remember: December Nov 29-Dec 16 Scholastic Pajama Drive Dec 7, Tues Honor Choir Performance @ Barnes & Noble Dec 12, Sun SRCA 40th Anniversary Run/Walk Dec 20-Jan 2 Winter Vacation—No School

January Jan 3, Mon Return to School Jan 3, Mon PhotoBin Service Begins Jan 14, Fri Strings Winter Concert Jan 17, Mon Martin Luther King Day Observance—No School Jan 19, Wed Grassology Assembly Jan 20, Thurs Family Art Night #1 Jan 20, Thurs PhotoBin Collection #1 Jan 26, Wed FFC Meeting, 6:30pm Jan 27, Thurs PhotoBin Collection #2