MVSD Family Engagement Newsletter
October 2020
Text Messaging
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CPAC Meeting
Join us, the link is provided below.
Mental Health Workshop
Please join us on zoom to hear from the LACOE Promoters of Mental Health on some useful information about dealing with Depression and Anxiety in Adults.
Celebrate a healthy halloween
Create new traditions by making good food look ghoulishly delicious! Use Halloween themed
cookie cutters to make sandwiches or fruit more interesting. Have fun dressing up while
decorating tangerines to look like pumpkins. Create banana ghosts with mini dark chocolate
chips and monster fingers with cheese sticks, low-fat cream cheese and bits of green bell
pepper. Above all, focus on enjoying quality time together.
Make some fun Halloween Treats!
Tangerine Pumpkins and Banana Ghosts
Monster Fingers
USDA My Plate Website
Visit our district Website to access information regarding CALFRESH, and additional Health Tips
Language Arts
Self Care
Virtual Calming Room
How to Help kids during virtual learning
EL MONTE PROMISE
CELEBRATE Safely!
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
Many traditional activities can put you at higher risk for exposure to COVID-19. There are several safer, alternative ways to celebrate Día de los Muertos. If you may have COVID-19 or you may have been exposed to someone with COVID-19, you should not participate in in-person Día de los Muertos festivities.
Lower risk activities
These lower risk activities can be safe alternatives:
Preparing traditional family recipes for family and neighbors, especially those at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19, and delivering them in a way that doesn’t involve contact with others
Playing music in your home that your deceased loved ones enjoyed
Making and decorating masks or making an altar for the deceased
Setting out pillows and blankets in your home for the deceased
Joining a virtual get-together celebration
Moderate risk activities
Having a small group outdoor, open-air parade where people are distanced more than 6 feet apart
Visiting and decorating graves of loved ones with household members only and keeping more than 6 feet away from others who may be in the area
Hosting or attending a small dinner with local family and friends outdoors where people are distanced more than 6 feet part
Lower your risk by following CDC’s recommendations on hosting gatherings or cook-outs.
Higher risk activities
Avoid these higher risk activities to help prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19:
Attending large indoor celebrations with singing or chanting
Participating in crowded indoor gatherings or events
Having a large dinner party with people from different households coming from different geographic locations
Pumpkin Halloween -Steps to Take for Other Halloween Activities
Enjoy Halloween activities and take steps to protect yourself from getting or spreading COVID-19.
Remember to always
Wear a cloth mask
Indoors and outdoors, stay at least 6 feet away from others who do not live with you
Wash your hands or use hand sanitizer frequently
Decorate and carve pumpkins
Decorate your home for Halloween.
Carve pumpkins with members of your household or outside with neighbors or friends.
Walk from house to house, admiring Halloween decorations at a distance.
Go on an outdoor Halloween-themed scavenger hunt.
Visit a pumpkin patch or orchard. Remember to wash your hands or use hand sanitizer frequently, especially after touching frequently touched surfaces, pumpkins, or apples.
Go to a one-way, walk-through haunted forest or corn maze.
Visit an orchard, forest, or corn maze. Attend a scavenger hunt.
Other Ideas
Hide Halloween treats in and around your house. Hold a Halloween treat hunt with household members.
Hold an outdoor costume parade or contest so everyone can show off their costumes.
Host an outdoor Halloween movie night with friends or neighbors or an indoor movie night with your household members.