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No images? Click here  January 21, 2024 IN THIS ISSUEPrincipal’s Message: PTA-SCEF Read-a-thon, Forts & Flashlights Day, Great Kindness Challenge and Kindness Spirit Week, San Carlos Week of the Family and Screen-Free Challenge, Weekly Menu PTA: Lunar New Year Volunteers, Read-a-thon, Glow Party Registration and Volunteering Plus SCEF and Community news IMPORTANT DATESMon-Fri 1/22-26: Great Kindness ChallengeTue 1/23: Screen-Free ChallengeFri 1/26: Forts & Flashlights DayWed 2/7: Lunar New Year CelebrationFri 2/9: Glow Party, 7-9 p.m., Mustang HallTue 2/13: PTA meeting via Zoom, 7 p.m.Mon-Fri 2/19-2/23: Midwinter Break, no schoolSun 4/21: Stampede & SoarPrincipal’s MessageDear Arroyo families, This week is one of my favorite weeks of the school year because we get to celebrate three of my very favorite things: Reading, Kindness, and Family! The PTA-SCEF Read-a-thon continues this week. Please encourage your child to read and log their minutes in the online minute tracker. We would love to have 100% of students registered and tracking their minutes (as of Friday afternoon we’re at 86%!), regardless of whether you are collecting donations for SCEF. But the Read-a-thon is also a great time to ask extended family, neighbors, or friends to support our schools by sponsoring your child’s reading. Classes will continue to read throughout the week and track their minutes for students to enter when they get home. I’ve issued a special challenge to Arroyo students: If they can log over 100,000 minutes, I will dye my hair purple! This Friday will be one of our favorite events of the year: Forts & Flashlights Day. Students can bring in books, flashlights, a small stuffed animal, and a sheet or blanket, and classrooms will be transformed into cozy reading spaces for the day. Students will decorate classroom doors with a reading theme, and I’ll be visiting each class with a special read-aloud.  It’s also the Great Kindness Challenge! During this week, students are encouraged to go out of their way to demonstrate kindness at school. Students will be provided with a kindness bingo card and encouraged to complete as many as possible. Our Eagle Council put together a Kindness Spirit Week, with a different theme each day (be sure to click the link for details).
If you want to get in on the action, too, there’s a Family Kindness Challenge Checklist! I encourage you to work together as a family to see how many challenges you can accomplish over the next week! Speaking of families, this week is San Carlos Week of the Family. Whether or not you participate in any of the city-wide events, we hope you’ll spend some extra time together as a family: reading, playing games, or doing other favorite activities. In support of that, we are teaming up with other schools in the district to invite you to participate in our Screen-Free Challenge on Tuesday, Jan. 23. Turn off your cellphones, laptops, video games, and even TVs, and spend time as a family. Teachers will not be assigning homework that afternoon to allow extra family time. If all of that isn’t enough, we’ve got more special events in the next few weeks! Save the dates and see the PTA section below for more information:
Warmly, Breakfast and Lunch This WeekPlease take time to review the menu for next week with your child. If they do not see a breakfast and/or lunch option that they will eat, then please plan to help them pack their own lunch from home (or a hearty snack on Wednesday), and please send your child with a snack for morning recess regardless.   PTA News Lunar New Year Volunteers NeededWe’re excited to bring Lunar New Year activities to Arroyo again this year on Wednesday, Feb. 7! Students will have the opportunity to learn about the holiday at school, attend a lion dance assembly, participate in a dragon parade on campus, and receive a red envelope in honor of the Year of the Dragon. If you’re interested in volunteering or donating items like red envelopes or chocolate coins (that will go in the envelopes), please sign up here.  A Principal with Purple Hair?!Hey, Arroyo readers! We hope you have your registration and pledges signed up for the PTA-SCEF Read-a-thon, because it is underway! Now through Jan. 31, enter all your minutes in the online reading log, and let’s see if we can beat last year’s reading total of 100,000 minutes! If we do, Principal Shelton will dye her hair … PURPLE! See the SCEF section below for details — it’s not too late to join or get those friends and family members signed up for pledges — and let’s make this happen! SAVE THE DATE  Have You Registered for the Glow Party? Plus: Sign Up to VolunteerTell your classmates, your carpool, your after-school buddies! There’s no fee to attend, but we need an accurate count as soon as possible so we can plan for all the fun activities and refreshments. And, registering guarantees your student a swag bag upon arrival! We also appreciate — and rely on — the generous support of parent volunteers. We have designed the shifts to be easy and quick, and since you’ll already be there with your student, you can pop out to help with the activities for a short 30 minutes! We are also looking for help with setup and takedown. It’s fun and makes all the difference for the success of the event. Please check the opportunities and sign up for a slot. Thanks! BECOME A MEMBER, VOLUNTEER, AND CONNECT!    San Carlos Education Foundation News Participate in the PTA-SCEF Read-a-thon!The Read-a-thon is here! Over 2,200 students have already registered. Sign up NOW at pledgestar.com/scef.  Community News New Date for Bike Fair: Jan. 27San Carlos Week of the Family started this past Friday. Please take a look at all of the events and consider participating. It’s a great way to spend time together as a family. Whether at those activities or elsewhere, we hope you’ll set aside a little extra time to spend as a family throughout that week.  The Tour de Family Bike Fair & Fun Ride has been RESCHEDULED to Saturday, Jan. 27, because of the rain. There will be free bike safety checks, repair, maintenance, safe-riding skills education, a practice course, and more. Find details and register online.  Last Show Today at 1 p.m.Today is your last change to catch he annual San Carlos School District musical: The Little Mermaid Jr. Featuring 4th-8th Grade students from throughout the district, this enchanting production is a magical treat the whole family will enjoy. The show is in Mustang Hall, 828 Chestnut St. Tickets are available online only at SanCarlosChildrensTheater.com.  Calling All Superheroes!Registration is open for After School’s midwinter break program. It runs Tuesday, Feb. 20, through Friday, Feb. 23, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Please go to afterschoolkids.net for information or to sign up. All are welcome!  Parent Education Opportunities We welcome bestselling author and journalist Dashka Slater in discussion of her new book, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed (Jan. 25). What do students need to succeed in college? Louis Newman, PhD, former dean of academic advising at Stanford, will discuss his new book, Thinking Critically in College: Essential Tools for Student Success (Jan. 30). We’re proud to join a consortium of Silicon Valley nonprofits to launch the all-new Neurodiversity Speaker Series. The series begins with Barbara Pape, EdM, in A Strength-Based Approach to Learner Variability and Neurodiversity (Feb. 7).   arroyo.scsdk8.orgFind important school information on the Arroyo website, including staff contacts, previous issues of the Eagle Eye, and the daily bell schedule.  @ARROYOSCHOOL
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