In This Week's Edition
PCA HAPPENINGS
✦ Literature Inspired Gingerbread Houses
✦ Thanksgiving Card Exchange Update
✦ Winter Wishes Card Exchange
✦ Spanish Parent Workshop
✦ December High School Hangouts
✦ December Workshops
✦ Middle School Spelling Bee
✦ Discovery Day: December
PARENT RESOURCES
✦ Schoolwide Learner Outcomes
✦ Intervention Website Update
✦ Grade Level Tips on Fun Ways to Fill the Learning Gaps This Week Fifth Grade
✦ Social-Emotional Support
HIGH SCHOOL
✦ Scholarship Opportunities
✦ UC Admissions
✦ Counseling Info. Sessions
✦ Important Dates for 2021 Graduates
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The Science of Snowflakes Tuesday, December 8 at 10:30am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up | Directed Draw - Gingerbread House and Story Thursday, December 17 at 10am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up |
The Science of Snowflakes
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Directed Draw - Gingerbread House and Story
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Goody, Goody Gumdrops Tuesday, December 1 at 9am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up | Let’s Make a Sugar Scrub: A Measurement ExplorationWednesday, December 2 at 1:30pm Click the picture for all the details and to sign up | Goody, Goody GumdropsTuesday, December 8 at 9am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up |
Goody, Goody Gumdrops
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Let’s Make a Sugar Scrub: A Measurement Exploration
Wednesday, December 2 at 1:30pm
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Goody, Goody Gumdrops
Tuesday, December 8 at 9am
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The 12 Days of Christmas in CA - Read Aloud and Map Activity Wednesday, December 9 at 10am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up | Hogwarts Hangout Thursday, December 10 at 9am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up | Winter Celebration Mystery Bag and Craft Monday, December 14 at 1:30pm Click the picture for all the details and to sign up |
The 12 Days of Christmas in CA - Read Aloud and Map Activity
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Hogwarts Hangout
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Winter Celebration Mystery Bag and Craft
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Winter Talent Show (Holiday Music) Thursday, December 17 at 10am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up |
Winter Talent Show (Holiday Music)
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Basics of Cooking: Making Chocolate Chip Cookies Wednesday, December 9 at 1pm Click the picture for all the details and to sign up | Hour of Code Dance Party Thursday, December 10 at 1pm Click the picture for all the details and to sign up | Holiday Music Recital Wednesday, December 16 at 10am Click the picture for all the details and to sign up |
Basics of Cooking: Making Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Hour of Code Dance Party
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Holiday Music Recital
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Creating a Vision Board for 2021 Thursday, December 17 at 1pm Click the picture for all the details and to sign up |
Creating a Vision Board for 2021
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Mindset Mondays is changing things up a bit this month. This month’s webinars will both be interactive, offering students a chance to ask questions and put into practice what they are learning. Please bring something to write and/or color with and wear something comfortable!
Mindset Monday November Topic: “Nagging Nerves”
DID YOU KNOW?? Researchers are finding that children and adolescents are experiencing higher levels of anxiety and depression during this time of COVID-19. Join Miss Joy and Miss Rachel on 11/9 and 11/16 for Mindset Mondays sessions where November's topic is Nagging Nerves: Tools For Anxiety. We will be helping students identify what anxiety feels like in our bodies and equipping them with tools to manage it.
Mindset Monday Webinar Dates/Times
Monday, November 9th - Part 1
Monday, November 16th - Part 2
10:00am - TK-5th grade
1:00pm - 6th-12th grade
Additional “Nagging Nerves” Resources
TK-5th Grade Resources:
The Imagine Neighborhood” Podcast (for young children) designed to help children and grown-ups grow their social-emotional skills (covers topics like pandemic with imaginative stories that kids can relate to).
“What to Do When You Worry Too Much” by Dawn Huebner - 30 minute read-a-loud book on anxiety for children to listen to with their parents. Children will learn great tips including setting aside a “worry time” and creating a “worry box”.
Zoom-Out Cards - Help your child shift perspective with these fun facts.
Worry Coping Cards - Print these to have on hand when your child needs a strategy to calm their anxieties.
6th-12th Grade:
Fight Flight Freeze – Anxiety Explained For Teens - Watch this video developed by Anxiety Canada to learn how anxiety keeps us alive, and how worries in your head affect what you feel in your body.
Social Anxiety Safety Behaviors Worksheet - In social situations, safety behaviors are subtle actions people take to avoid anxiety. For example, someone who is anxious about socializing at a party might focus on their phone to discourage others from approaching. Although safety behaviors provide temporary relief, they make anxiety worse in the long-run. The Social Anxiety Safety Behaviors worksheet teaches the basics of avoidance, and how safety behaviors fill the same role.
Worry Exploration Questions - When people worry, they tend to imagine the worst thing that could possibly happen. In reality, these worries may never come true. What could happen isn’t the same as what will happen. In the Worry Exploration Questions worksheet, students are asked to consider their worry versus reality.
Study tips for Anxiety - Study skills help to reduce test anxiety, improve focus, and increase motivation to do well on tests. Good study habits are important for all students, but they are particularly beneficial for those with test anxiety.
Zoom-Out Cards - Help your child shift perspective with these fun facts.
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