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Coffee and Diet Coke with the Principal Thurs at 9am

This week's Coffee and Diet Coke with the Principal will include information on Long-Term English Language Learners (LTELS) for those of you with children who are English Language Learners in the upper grades. Thursday at 9am in Dr. K's Zoom room.

El Café y Coca-Cola Light de esta semana con el director incluirá información sobre los estudiantes del idioma inglés a largo plazo para aquellos de ustedes con niños que son estudiantes del idioma inglés en los grados superiores. Jueves a las 9am en la sala Zoom del Dr. K.

STAR Applications Accepted AFTER Thurs @ 8pm

Dear Walgrove Families, 

As promised, here is the fillable STAR (and Beyond the Bell) application for the 2022-2023 school year. (Download and re-open it before filling it out. OR print it out. Then complete it and send it by email to andrea.kittelson1@lausd.net) NO EARLIER THAN THURS NIGHT AT 8.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uQl8NRShtlRogoWgIXMfVJ9okt_yDWlQ/view

We are registering folks electronically again this year for a few reasons:

1. It is easier for those who cannot come in person or who have to travel far

2. It is easy to timestamp since emails are super precise in their display of the time
3. It prevents folks from gathering in person during a pandemic

Please submit your application NO EARLIER THAN THURSDAY NIGHT (MAY 19) @ 8 PM. 

We will only consider electronic applications STARTING THURSDAY AT 8 PM. 

No early applications will be accepted. 

No in-person or hard-copy applications will be accepted.  

Please reach out if you need help with the technology. 

Students will be admitted to STAR in order of receipt (first-come, first-serve).

Hopefully, the District will accept all other applicants into Beyond the Bell (which is less structured than STAR). 

During the 2021-2022 year, the two programs were one-and-the-same. 

But, let's hope that they are bifurcated next year as during previous years (or open to all) and all who need after school care receive after school care. 

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Family Art Night May 31

Sign up here: https://fan53122.eventbrite.com/

Windward/Walgrove Volunteer Day Sunday 05.22

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Summer School 2022

 

NEW COVID GUIDANCE

New LAUSD guidance says that all asymptomatic indoor-close contacts, vaccinated or unvaccinated, MAY come to school but MUST wear a "highly protective" mask for 10 days after exposure. (This starts Wednesday, May 4, 2022.)

Here is this new District info with pertinent parts in yellow: 

LAUSD Guidance

Here, also:

LA County Guidelines for the workplace. 

LA County Guidelines for schools.

So, the guidance is no longer that only unvaccinated household members must quarantine. Now, symptomatic indoor-close contacts must quarantine (and of course positive cases must isolate). Asymptomatic household members, and asymptomatic indoor-close contacts may resume normal activity -- masked. 

And ALL indoor-close contacts of all stripes must wear high-quality-masks indoors for 10 days.

So, if there is a positive case in a class, it is likely that the positive case will stay home and all asymptomatic others, including classmates and siblings in other classes, whether vaccinated or not, will come to school and wear high-quality-masks indoors for 10 days.

Between Day 5 and Day 10 of isolation, positive individuals may visit any symptomatic testing location to have a rapid test administered. 

Sites can be found at https://achieve.lausd.net/covidtestingappt. Appointments are not required.  Students are strongly encouraged to have their rapid test administered and read at the testing site.

ALL students and staff must also test weekly. (This is easy!)

In order to facilitate this new paradigm, I am required to engage in contact tracing -- keep track of cases, keep track of close contacts, keep track of their symptoms if they emerge, and keep watch of their adherence to masking policies. I will do my best. 

While it would be easier to just mandate indoor masking for all, the District (and the County) is having us embark upon this new adventure, most likely to ensure that as many students as possible can attend school.

I thank you for your cooperation. 

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What is UTK?

UTK, or Universal Transitional Kindergarten, is basically (but not quite) an amalgamation of ETK and TK -- but with UTK at all public schools, expanded age criteria, and no limit on family income. 

So now, any student who turns 5 between September 2 of the current academic year and September 1 of the subsequent year qualifies for UTK for the current year. 

So, if you have a munchkin who will turn 5 between September 2, 2022 and September 1, 2023, your munchkin qualifies for UTK during the 2022-2023 school year. (If they turn 5 before then, they qualify for kinder, and currently, we are combining UTK and kinder.)

While both of our UTK classes are currently also combo kinder classes, if enrollemnt surges, we will be allowed to open a new kinder class. (So, let's recruit!)

In the meantime, we will put the youngest among us with Ms. B in what would have been an ETK class. They will be in Rm 1. We will put the older kiddos with Ms. Zeena in Rm 4. However, this is just our initial goal. If 20 kindergarteners walk in and only 10 UTK, then we shall see. Then one UTK class and one K class. It all depends on who walks in the door. We will also take into consideration parent preference based on their knowledge of their child/ren. 

The good news is that both Ms. Zeena and Ms. B are fantastic teachers who will do great regardless. 

(So is Ms. Chin who will be teaching first grade!)

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2022-2023 Matrix

What this will likely look like:

UTK-K - the younger kiddos w/ Ms. Alejandra Biolatto in Rm 1

UTK-K - the older kiddos w/Ms. Zeena Pliska in Rm 4

1 - Ms. Nancy Chin in Rm 5

1 - Ms. Jacqueline Lettieri in Rm 8

2 - Ms. Ana Lima in Rm 11

2-3 - Mr. Ruben Gonzalez in Rm 24

3 - Mr. Doug Merrick in Rm 9

4-5 - Ms. Elvia Perez in Rm 21

4-5 - Ms. Lynn Webster in Rm 20

UTK-1 SDC - Ms. Cindy Mazariegos in Rm 3

2-3 SDC - Ms. Lus Luis in Rm 25

4-5 SDC - Ms. Kathy Elkins in Rm 19

ALT TK-3 - Mr. Matt Stansbury in Rm 2

ALT 4-5 - Mr. Steve Choe in Rm 6

Ms. Nancy Griffin as Primary Promise teacher in Rm 16. 

If more kindergarteners enroll than E-CAST has projected, we will open a Kinder class. Ms. Chin will teach that class, and we will hire a new first-grade teacher. That would happen over the summer or by the first five weeks of school. (Norm Day is the fifth Friday.) If more families enroll during that time - by Norm Day, we will open more classes. With 10 acres, we have the space. We definitely have the love!

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Mark Twain Info

If you plan to send your child to Mark Twain next year, we have some updates and announcements. 

For those of you interested in having your child assessed for the highly accelerated mathematics program, please click on the link and complete the form - https://forms.gle/VY1tUAo1LdnkDGZz6 

We are offering two assessment dates in May: 

Saturday May 14th at 9am

Tuesday May 17th at 3pm

In addition, please know that Saturday, May 14th 9:00 am to 12:30 pm will be our last Saturday enrollment day. 

Thank you so much. Take care and have a great rest of your week.

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