Dear Families,
Every week, I find myself so appreciative of our school community and partnership. We know this has been a challenging time and we want to support all of our students in engaging in learning and having everything they need to be successful during Distance Learning. Our goal is that students will be engaged in learning for 2 hours and 15 minutes every day. If you feel your child is spending a considerable amount of time completing the assigned work, please reach out to your child’s teacher to develop a plan. We want all of our students to find success and help families feel supported.
Our Specialists teachers are sharing lessons for students through the classroom teacher pages. All of those activities can be found on the Arts page of the Parkview website. Each of our specialist teachers (Music, PE, Library, Technology, Art) are creating lessons to interact and engage with our students. Often the weekly lesson includes an audio or videotaped lesson, so students will get a chance to see and/or hear the specialist teachers.
Take a look at Mrs. Herzberg’s Music page for an example of how she is using videos to demonstrate and sharing resources that students can use to extend the concepts. We hope you are able to take some time to explore these specialist activities with your child as we believe it will help them to feel even more connected to Parkview!
Meals continue to be available for pick up. Breakfast and lunch bags can be picked up at Cedar Park Elementary, Dakota Ridge, Echo Park Elementary, Oak Ridge Elementary & Thomas Lake Elementary from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday-Friday. We also have five-day meal kits available for pick up on Monday mornings at 28 neighborhood locations. These kits contain five breakfasts and five lunches. There is a drop off at Parkview on Mondays at 10:30. Please sign up to be part of this program. If you have already signed up, you do not need to sign up again, this simply helps our nutrition services to ensure we have enough meals for the drop off locations.
I am doing a survey to assess if there is a need for meals to be delivered to your home due to transportation, work schedules, or other barriers preventing you from being able to pick up meals. If a delivery need is identified, we will develop a plan to meet this need. Our goal is to provide a weekly meal delivery on Mondays beginning on May 4. Items will need to be refrigerated upon delivery. Please complete the survey if you would like support in having meals delivered to your home. Our current meal services will continue unchanged for those that are able to attend drop-off locations.
There is no school tomorrow, Friday, April 24, due to a Staff Development Day. Teachers will not be posting new learning until Monday morning. We hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Sincerely,
Nicole Garcia, Principal
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No School: Tomorrow
School is not in session on Friday, April 24. Enjoy time with your family. Go outside!
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Book Fair: Open Now
Parkview's first-ever online book fair has begun and it will run through the end of next week, that is Friday, May 1. A portion of sales comes right back to Parkview allowing Mrs. Dean to purchase new books for our library. Please consider passing this information on to your students' grandparents and extended family. This is one book fair that everyone can attend no matter how far away they live!
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Parkview Staff Parade: May 1
Our staff is beginning to plan a distance-learning parade through Parkview neighborhoods scheduled for Friday, May 1. We'll be driving by between 1PM and 2PM. The route map is still being developed, but we plan to distribute the details in this newsletter next Thursday, if not before.
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SACC Registration: Opens May 5
The YMCA / District 196 SACC program provides care for Parkview students before and/or after school. This program always seems to fill, so please register early for the 2020-2021 school year.
[Link to register. | Link to brochure with details.]
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Bridge to School: A 4-day program in August for children who will begin kindergarten in District 196 in September 2020
This program is for children who are enrolled to begin kindergarten in District 196 this September. Classes are held August 17-20 at all district elementary schools. Bridge to School is designed for children to ease transition into kindergarten. Students will become familiar with their new school environment, teaching staff, classmates and routines of the day. Parents are encouraged to join their child on August 17 for the first hour and a half for interaction and an information session on successfully parenting your kindergartner. Placements are made until capacity is reached. Waitlists will be created as space is limited. Registration is open now and closes on May 8.
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NEW Resource – Virtual Calming Room
As we continue with distance learning, we wanted to share a link to our district's Virtual Calming Room. If you are seeking more options to support your family with ways to de-stress and practice self-care, visit this site to listen to calming music, watch visual relaxations, hear mindfulness audios, and engage in creative tasks. This site also includes resource lists for a variety of community and mental health resources. During periods of high-stress like the one we are in, we need higher self-care. A few minutes of deep breathing, a walk in nature, or mindfulness practice scheduled throughout the day can make a difference! We hope you find this site helpful. Also, here is an article that highlights the importance of self-care for parents during coronavirus.
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PTO Corner
We REALLY Need Your Help
It's hard to think about next year already, but PTO needs your help. Elections for next year are held during the May PTO meeting, and we will have positions that need volunteers. There will be open Executive Board positions and a number of committee positions available. We will especially need a volunteer(s) to step up and help run our Parkview Fun Run next fall. This fun run is the main fundraiser each year, and the money raised will fund the majority of the PTO budget.
 The prospect of coordinating the fun run on your own may be daunting. Here is a layout of what needs to be completed for a successful run:
T-shirt coordination: Work with the t-shirt vendor on design for the year. Gain approval of design by PTO board members and Parkview Principal. Determine quantity of shirt order by size utilizing Boosterthon’s shirt estimator program. (start in early-mid August)
Fun Run Marketing: Communicate with parents utilizing Boosterthon created marketing materials. Post to Facebook Run information and marketing items to generate interest and the fund raising link for the run. Highlight t-shirt sponsors on Facebook at regular intervals. (mid-September through October)
Sponsorships: Work to get sponsorships from area businesses to help offset the cost of t-shirts. Solicit / call on / mail request to businesses for sponsorships. Submit info in the Parkview Thursday email asking parents for business sponsorship ideas. (June through August)
Booster team liaison: Work with the Booster team on items they need such as Fun Run time by grade and other. Be the liaison between Booster and the school staff for needed items. Be present the day of the run for any help Booster needs as well as answering parent questions the day of the run. (August through October)
Please sign up via the signup genius link, or email parkviewelempto@gmail.com with questions.
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Plans for Next School Year
As we plan for the next school year, it is very important we know if students will not be returning to Parkview in the fall. If your family will be moving before the end of the summer, or if your child will be attending a different school, we urge you to inform the office as soon as possible so our class lists will accurately reflect our enrollment.
If you have a fifth grade student and are not planning on sending them to Scott Highlands Middle School, please contact us with the new school information.
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Cook together, dance together, be together. Online activities for the whole family.
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