Parent Newsletter
January 21st, 2020
How to help your child TRANSITION!
This week's article offers simple ways you can help your child move from an event to event throughout the day with easier transitions. Predictability helps alleviate stress for a child. For ideas to reduce challenging behaviors during transitions, please read the article below. These methods are currently practiced and can be seen in your child's classroom.
EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS
In light of recent world events, please check to ensure you have provided an emergency clothing and food bag in your child's class at Crown or Silver Strand Preschool, as well as Extended Care at Crown. Please review this letter regarding required emergency items and please check your child's cubby or ask the teacher to make sure your child is prepared.
Thank you for your cooperation!
US Census Volunteers Needed!
My name is Lisa Mazat, and I am the Recruiting Assistant for the US Census assigned to Coronado and Silver Strand. We currently do not have enough applicants in Coronado and Silver Strand to ensure that we will have enough workers for an accurate count. The Census provides more than a snapshot of a community’s demographics. The Census count determines the allocation of nearly $800 billion among 130+ different programs. Those programs provide funding for schools (Title 1 (Silver Strand Elementary), special education, Head Start, school lunches), medical, roads, SNAP, housing, social block grants, and so much more! It takes a community to get an accurate count, and the Census need Coronado USD’s help!
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Census Takers are needed to make sure that all of our kids and people here on the Island and the Strand are counted so that we can maximize the money our local schools receive. The Census hires people from OUR neighborhoods to be Census Takers in OUR neighborhoods! Coronado and the Strand are divided into about 10 tracts by the Census. The goal of the Census is to adequately staff each tract so that census workers do not need to travel far to talk with their own neighbors — who knows your neighbors better than you? In the 2010 Census, Census Takers were responsible for returning 40% of our census numbers. They are very important jobs!
Benefits include great pay ($21 per hour), flexible hours (part/full time and day/weekends/evenings), weekly pay and paid training! This is a once-in-a-decade opportunity! Basic qualifications: 18 years or older (including students!!); must have a valid email address; U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.
APPLY TODAY: 2020census.gov/jobs
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I can use your help! Can you please help with the following?
A) Sending our info and flyers in e-blasts to your schools’ families? We have had great success with this in the San Diego Unified schools!
B) Posting our flyers in your office for staff members? Before this job, I was a high school math teacher. As much as teachers are told not to spend their own money on their classrooms, we do! This job can be worked around school hours!
C) Inviting the census to set up a booth at any school events that you can have that would be appropriate where we can engage with local families?
D) Allowing us to have a recruiting event with the high school seniors on campus? I would love to schedule a couple of times where a co-worker and I could be available to sign-up Coronado high school seniors who might be interested in the job. I know this job pays more than my 18 year old daughter’s summer job at Forever 21. It actually helps the community too! In San Diego, I would set up a table during lunch and an advisory time for students to ask questions and apply.
E) Help us identifying families that could benefit from this job and passing our information on them?
I look forward to hearing from you soon. I can be reached by phone (619.395.4495) or email (Lisa.M.Mazat@2020census.gov).
Thank you,
Lisa Mazat
Recruiting Assistant
San Diego ACO 3279
U.S. Census 2020
Cell (619) 395-4495
NO LATE START at Crown or Strand
- The preschools will not be affected by the upcoming Late Start Thursday morning, January 30, 2020 and will operate on a regular schedule.
- If you would prefer to bring your child into school late to avoid multiple trips to the sites, please let your child's teacher know.
Thanks!
Silver Strand Corner
Crown Corner
ALLERGY UPDATES AT CROWN
Extended Care Families- PLEASE READ
Effective immediately, do not send your child with any food containing peanuts, or nuts. We have a recently enrolled student with a SEVERE PEANUT ALLERGY. As always, please make sure your child washes their hands upon arrival to Extended Care or Preschool.
Thank you for your cooperation with this sensitive matter.
CORONADO PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNONCEMENTS
Library Applications
Library Books!
Our preschool program hopes each family participates and signs up for an opportunity to bring in LIBRARY books. We strongly encourage families to visit the Coronado or any local library with their child, have them select the books to bring to school, and share these books with their peers for the week. It is not required to participate but if you would like to do so, please send only send in LIBRARY books!
IN OTHER NEWS...
Early Years Article - January
School Calendar and Upcoming Events
- 1/17 Teacher Workday NO SCHOOL
- 1/20 M.L. King Jr. Birthday NO SCHOOL
**Please note that both preschools WILL NOT be participating in the Jan 30th late start and will operate on a regular schedule**
Late Pickup
- Crown Preschool and Extended Care charges $1/min for late pick-ups.
- Silver Strand and all State funded families are not charged late fees but will be given an Infraction Letter that tracks the amount of late pick-ups. 5 or more late pick-ups is a reason to lose your State funded spot.
Please Sign Your Child In Everyday
Don't Forget!
- Please label all outer clothing as cool mornings turn into hot days
- On that note, please dress your children appropriately for the hot weather
- Make sure to check backpacks each night for important communication or classroom work
- Let us know if your child will need a lunch 24 hours ahead of time
- Fill out an absence request form every time your child is out.
- Please label everything…backpacks, water bottles, lunch boxes and any containers inside, and clothing.
- Specify if there are separate meals (breakfast, snack, lunch…please label which is which).
- Please have your child wash their hands upon arrival in the classrooms. THANKS!
Miss Zulya, Miss Eileen & Miss Patty
Annual Check-Ups during the school year?
PLEASE NOTE- Preschool requirements are as follows:
- If an exam has been preformed within one year of our preschool start date, anytime between August 22, 2018 and August 22, 2019, you are up to date.
- Current immunization requirements can be found online and any students who have not completed their full series of shots must have a signed doctor's exemption or explanation of delay.
CONTACT US
Coronado U.S.D. Preschool Program
Lisa Alonso, MS
Director of Preschool & Child Care Services
Coronado Unified School District
(619) 522-6085
Tracy Denault
Office Assistant - Crown
(619) 522-6087
Frankie Guillen
Office Assistant - Strand
(619) 522-4096
frankie.guillen@coronadousd.net
Email: lisa.alonso@coronadousd.net
Location: 199 6th Street, Coronado, CA 92118, USA
Phone: 619-522-6085