Friday, May 22 - 8:30am in the Auditorium

Please join Ms. Richardson as she presents Every School Safe - Cyber Security, updates our community on school projects and plans for next school year.

Friday, May 22

Student Council is sponsoring our Celebrity Day Spirit Day.  Come dressed as your favorite sports star, actor, or musician.  

Please remember that all clothes and shoes must be school appropriate, as well as props - no weapons.

Student Council will be handing out prizes to the best dressed.

We are beginning to plan for next year.  If you know your student(s) will not be returning, please fill out this google form. This does not apply to our culminating 5th graders.

Thank You!

Please note the following health protocols for school:

Fever/Vomiting-  If your child has a fever over 100 degrees or higher, or is vomiting, they must be fever-free (without any medication) or no vomiting, for 24 hours before returning to school.

Lice- If you suspect your child has lice (eggs or live nits), please bring them to the nurse to have her check.  District policy does not allow the school to exclude students for eggs, but any student with live nits will need to stay home until treated, then cleared by the nurse. 

Hand, Foot, & Mouth Disease- This highly contagious virus, common in children, can cause fevers, painful mouth blisters, hand sores, and a sore throat. Students can return to school when fever free (without medication) and mouth and/or hand sores are cleared up.  For more information, click here.

For all of these, and any health-related questions, 

you can always reach out to our school nurse.  

How to Help Kids Talk About Learning Differences

Whether your child, or a classmate, has a learning difference, helps understand themselves and others.  

Here are some suggestions on how to talk to your child about learning differences:

- be open and answer their questions

- have your child be comfortable with saying the name of their learning difficulty

- encourage your children to share their strengths 

- teach your child to advocate for themselves

- let children know they are not alone

For more information from Child Mind Institute, click here

Past Topics from Dr. Rocky

    -  Go Outside to Play here

    -  Teaching Children to Respect Differences here

    -  How to Help Children Learn to Fail here

    - Teaching Children Conflict Resolution Skills here

    - Teaching Children to Be Upstanders here

    - 2026 Flu Season here

    - All About Pinworms here 

    - My Child Won't Listen to Me here

    - How to Talk to Children About Their Day here

    - New Year, New Beginnings here

    - Creating a Culture of Kindness here and here

    - Anxiety in Children and Teens here

    - The importance of reading here

    - Setting Screen Time Goals here

    - How much sleep is enough sleep? here

    - Tips for preventing the flu from CHLA here 

    - The No-Panic Guide to Head Lice click here

Regular attendance is essential for your child's success! LAUSD expects all students to maintain a 96% or better attendance rate (missing fewer than 7 days in one school year).

Benefits of regular attendance:

• Higher academic achievement
• Use more academic language
• Develop healthy habits for the future
• Demonstrate reliability and confidence
• Make and keep connections with others

Please plan your vacations during school vacation's winter break, spring break, and summer vacation .If your child is absent for three days without a valid excuse, they are truant, and you will receive a truancy letter from the district.

 
Tardiness
School begins at 8:01 am. If your child is not in class by 8:01 a.m., they will be considered tardy. If your child is tardy for 30 minutes or more for three days without a valid excuse, your child will be considered truant.

Tardy students will need to be brought by parent/guardian to office to sign in.  

Attendance Incentive

Each month students can earn incentives if they:

    Come to school on time!

    Come every day!

    Stay the entire day!

This month we will be swimming our way into school on time with classes who have excellent attendance earning a class celebration with Ms. Richardson and Ms. Meyers.  Our bingo game has been so popular, May 20 will be our last one of the year. Please note student MUST be on time to school, in the gate by 8:01, to get a bingo card.

We will also be recognizing our students with excellent attendance throughout the 2025-26 school year.  Those students who have 98% attendance and no more than 3 tardies will attend a karaoke party with Ms. Richardson and Ms. Meyers in June. 

We are so excited to have so many of our students in our Clubs.  As of now, they are all full.  There are waiting lists for most, if a space should open up.  

Here are the times for this week:

Glee/Choir Club-  Over for the year.

Theatre Club - Monday and Tuesday in the auditorium 3:00-5:00pm

Climate Literacy Club - 2:45-4:00 on Monday in room 38

Science Club- 2:45-4:15 on Friday in room 38

Basketball Club- Over for the year

Grand Vision Percussion Club (Bucket Drumming)- 3:00-4:00 on Friday in the auditorium

As a reminder, all students who attend an after school club MUST be enrolled in Team Prime Time.  They will report to TPT before their club begins, but do not need to stay when club is over.  This is a district mandate.  

All students will be dismissed from the Huston Gate.  If you need to pick up your student early, please come to office for us to call the club and then you will meet your student at the Huston Gate. 

Please do not opt out of our communications system. This is an extremely important way for us to communicate with you about emergencies, upcoming events, and information that is important for you to know. 

If you are not signed up for the LAUSD Parent Portal, please do.  Families can access attendance records, Schoology, grades, test scores, and more.  Beginning this year, families will need to digitally sign field trip slips and this can only be done on the Parent Portal or the LAUSD App.  If you need your child's student ID number and parent PIN, please contact the main office at 818-990-4525. 

If you have opted out of text messages, you can go here.  

Once there, scroll towards the bottom to the blue headings.  Open the one "Opting-In Phone and Email Messages" and then follow the directions for "Opting-In to Text Messages".  

If you have opted out of emails, please email the school so we can forward your information to the correct department.

You can also access a job aide here for written directions.

Team Prime Time

Site Director: Coach Madison

Assistant Site Director: Coach Oscar

This year, LAUSD is implementing a One Comprehensive Program model at every school site with a Beyond the Bell program. 

This change means that students who have traditionally participated in the Youth Services (YS) program will now need to be enrolled in our site's grant-funded program —Team Prime Time.

All students must be picked up promptly at dismissal if they are not enrolled in Team Prime Time. If you need afterschool care for your child, please be sure to fill out and submit your Team Prime Time application ASAP. 

STAR Nova Classes - New Classes began April 13th

Please see the flyer below about upcoming STAR classes.  You may also reach out to the STAR Director for Riverside Drive, Miss Caroline, at carolineh@starinc.org with any questions. You can access the flyer here.

STAR Summer Camp - June 15 - July 30

Please see the attached flyer about STAR Summer Camp.  It will be held on the campus of Carpenter Elementary.  If you have any questions, please contact STAR or Ms. Caroline at carolineh@starinc.org