Mrs. Bearden's Weekly Update
September 26, 2022
Dear Eagle Canyon Families,
Can you believe it is the last week of September? This week is an important week for your child's success. The teachers are excited to meet with you and share your child's progress and create a plan with you to ensure their success. If you have not scheduled your conference yet, please contact your teacher by Monday afternoon.
REMINDER
Please be respectful of our Eagle Canyon neighbors. We continue to receive calls from residents in our community of parents blocking the entrance to the apartments or driveways. We should not block anyone from being able to access the apartments or their driveways.
TARDY STUDENTS
The number of students arriving late daily has doubled this year. We are averaging 30-50 tardy students each day. As a reminder, students can go to the amphitheater or eat breakfast in the MPR at 7:20 am. Students who arrive after 7:50 a.m. are considered tardy. Please plan to arrive early to avoid missing out on daily instruction.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs. Bearden
"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." ~ John Bingham~
PARENT CONFERENCE WEEK (MINIMUM DAYS)
Monday, Sep 26, 2022, 12:00 AM
Eagle Canyon Elementary School, Eagle Canyon Drive, Chino Hills, CA, USA
Thinknlocal Fundraiser
Baskin-Robbins Scoop Night
Support Local Businesses
PBIS at Home
Greetings to my fellow Eagle Canyon families!
If your household is anything like ours, you may have noticed that the back-to-school jitters have subsided and that everyone has now settled into a comfortable routine. The new shoes have been broken in, the back-to-school clothes are no longer new, and all the unknowns of starting another new school year are now behind us. We, as parents, just want to exhale and applaud ourselves for getting our kids through those first challenging weeks of school. After all, we’ve somehow figured out how to get our kids to school on time and to all of their various after-school activities while also managing our own busy personal and/or professional obligations...
Yay for us! But, again, if your household is anything like ours, this is around the time my kids really start testing the limits. It’s as if all of that energy that was put into figuring out their new teachers and acclimating to their new classrooms has now been converted into trying to figure out ways to cut corners and to test out what they can get away with. The novelty of the new school year’s routine homework assignments had worn off by the end of August and my kids went back to complaining about doing their homework. Sometimes tears have even been involved. I’ve been talked back to and I’ve had eyes rolled at me. And I know we can’t be the only family with kids making bizarre, high-pitched noises that serve absolutely no purpose other than to be totally annoying, right??
It’s always my goal for undesirable behaviors, such as these, to be nipped in the bud. As it turns out, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (“PBIS”) is an extremely effective tool for doing just that. A few ways to implement PBIS at home include: (1) setting forth expectations in a way that uses positive wording; (2) utilizing the 5 to 1 ratio in which five positive comments are given for every one negative comment; (3) being consistent and remembering that no means no and yes means yes; and (4) proactively anticipating situations so that they can be approached from a positive angle. These strategies have been utilized in our home over the last couple of weeks and believe it or not, I’ve seen significant improvement. Just this week, in fact, both my kids walked into the house after school and immediately started quietly working on their homework. For any families looking to improve the behavior of their children, I strongly encourage utilizing PBIS at home. Hopefully you, too, will be pleasantly surprised by the outcome!
TRAFFIC SAFETY CONCERNS
Additionally, there are still cars making a U-Turn in front of the school. If you are dropping off or picking up in the loading zone located in front of the school, please travel further up Eagle Canyon Drive to turn around.
It is important for everyone to follow traffic rules. I want to ensure you are safe and we are treating each other with respect. Thank you for your help!
WEEKLY SPIRIT DAYS
Friday: Wear Eagle Canyon spirit wear
PEACHJAR
Core Essential September - Trust
Please take a moment to read the family letter linked below:
Eagle Canyon Earns Gold!
Support Eagle Canyon
A popular fundraising opportunity all families can support is Box Tops. Download the Box Top app on your phone. All you have to do is scan your receipts on the Box Top app within 14 days of the purchase. The app will let you know if any purchased items qualify to earn 10 cents per product. If there are no items, you will still be able to enter sweepstakes to win 500 bonus Box Tops. Every receipt has the potential to earn our school money.
As of today, our school has earned $55.30. Our goal is to earn $1,000.00. If you also get the coupons, please turn them into the school office. Thank you in advance for your support!
Eagle Canyon Elementary School
Email: barbara_bearden@chino.k12.ca.us
Website: www.chino.k12.ca.us/EagleCanyon
Location: 13435 Eagle Canyon Drive, Chino Hills, CA, USA
Phone: (909) 590-2707
Facebook: facebook.com/EagleCanyonElementaryCVUSD
Twitter: @ECCvusd