IMPORTANT DATES
11/20: SSC Meeting, 7:45am in the library
11/20: High School Fair, 5:30 - 7pm
11/22: Coffee & Tea in the Garden, 8 - 9am
11/22: 6th Grade Field Trip to the Exploratorium
11/25–29: Thanksgiving Break / No School
12/18: 7th Grade Ice Skating Field Trip
From the office
6TH GRADE ASSEMBLY
The 6th grade class met last week and acknowledged students as Students of the Month for the month of October. Congratulations, Knights!
ONE MORE WEEK FOR ITEMS IN THE LOST & FOUND
The Claremont Lost & Found is overflowing with clothes, water bottles and lunch bags. Please remind your students to check the lost & found outside the office for missing items. Anything remaining after 11/22 will be donated.
HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT FAIR
As the High School enrollment process begins we will be supporting our 8th-grade families by having a High School Enrollment fair with representatives from High Schools from throughout Oakland.
Please save the date, 11/20 from 5:30-7pm, and plan to come to get your questions answered and learn more about your high school options. Questions? Contact Mr. Galvan, 8th Grade Dean.
FRIDGE THANK YOU!
Our fabulous T.A.C.L.E. (technology and augmentative communication for learning enhancement) teacher, Santiago Bustamante, was in need of a working refrigerator/freezer. He and his students like to do cooking projects and needed adequate storage. The T.A.C.L.E. team would like to thank Ms. Larson and all the parents, volunteers and staff involved in bringing the refrigerator to their class. "Thank you so much for making this a reality. Our students with special needs now have a refrigerator where they can store their food and ingredients for cooking projects that help them develop independence and daily life skills."
Below is a picture of a personal note of thanks created by CMS student, Gary, using his communication device.
NEED HELP FINDING OUT YOUR KNIGHT'S DAILY HOMEWORK?
Just a reminder that parents can access a daily homework log on our website. Go to www.claremontms.org >> RESOURCES >> CLAREMONT LEARNING CENTER >> CHOOSE GRADE. Then you will see a page similar to the 6th grade page below with a sidebar list of the homework due that week. Voila! If anything doesn't make sense, contact your student's teacher.
From the PTA
STOCK UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
Shop at GoodEggs online for 5% back to Claremont and win Sweet Sidneys Cookies for our Teachers!
Join at schools.goodeggs.com & enter the code: Claremont. New customers get $20 off their first order by using the school code. If 20 new families join the fundraiser, our school gets a $500 bonus.
The fundraiser ends on November 30! Please share our code with friends and family that haven’t tried Good Eggs before — help us earn cookies for our teachers and hit our bonuses! Sweet Sydney’s is a father/daughter gluten free bakery based in San Francisco. They hand-make extraordinary GF cookies, brownies and lemon bars from real butter, cage free eggs and the best ingredients. If 2 new Good Eggs customers join our fundraiser and place their first order by 11/24, we’ll win cookies for our teachers.
CLAREMONT'S ANNUAL FUND — IT'S THE TIME TO GIVE
Claremont's annual fund is doing great- we're at $45,000, well on our way to our goal of $110,000. Now that the auction is behind us, the PTA is asking all Claremont families to give what they can. We're going to do a big push in the next six weeks before the end of the calendar year. You can sign up for a monthly donation or make a one time donation. Please go here to learn more.
AUCTION PARTIES
There are still tickets to some of our upcoming auction parties such as...
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE ON 11/16
Come join us for a short guided Saturday morning walk (no more than 2-3 miles) with Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro and a former Claremont parent. We will talk about what we see out in the wilds of the East Bay (exact park and meeting place will be provided) as well as the social justice issues that have historically kept African Americans and others out of parks. Learn more and buy a ticket here. Saturday, 11/16, 9:30 - 11:30am.
SHOPPING NIGHT AT NATHAN & CO. ON 11/22
Get a jump start on your holiday shopping and earn money for Claremont at the same time! Nathan & Co. has generously offered to donate 20% of all sales to the PTA. Come and enjoy wine, bubbly, and light appetizers as you peruse this fabulous shopping destination on College Avenue. Learn more and buy a ticket here. Friday, 11/22, 2020, 7 - 9 pm.
MOVIE IN THE LIBRARY, DATE TBD - ONE TICKET LEFT!
Sign up your Knight to join Mr. Wash and Ms. Kenny for an after school movie to watch in the library. Teachers will decide on either a Pixar or Harry Potter film of their choice, popcorn and candy is included! Time and date to be determined based on students and teachers availability. Buy a ticket here.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS — COFFEE & TEA IN THE GARDEN ON 11/22
Park your car and come grab donut & a cup of Peet’s coffee or tea on Friday, Nov. 22. This is a great opportunity to meet parents and teachers in the Claremont community. 6th grade parents will also be able to caffeine up before a day chaperoning at the Exploratorium. See you there!
SHOP MINTED TO SUPPORT THE PTA
When buying your Holiday cards this year, use our unique promo code FUNDRAISECLAREMONT at check-out for 20% off of Minted’s holiday cards & gifts. Minted will donate 15% of the sale back to the Claremont PTA at no extra cost to you! Promo code will be valid from now until 12/31/19.
Sports Corner
CLAREMONT GIRLS SOCCER TRYOUTS & PARENT MEETING
Coach Stephanie is back for another season of Claremont Girl Soccer! Please note some updates about tryouts in this message. Tryouts will be next week on
Wednesday Nov. 20 and
Thursday Nov. 21 at Bushrod Park (upper park). 4 p.m. There will also be a parent meeting on Tuesday Nov. 19. 6:30 p.m. (the address will be emailed to those who register, so please register!)
To find out more and to register for the girls soccer tryouts, please go
here.
Community
R4R 2020 KICK OFF PARTY 12/4
Come register and hear about the new schools and small changes coming to Ride 4 A Reason 2020 at the Kick Off/Registration Party on December 4th at Sports Basement in Berkeley from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Our special early bird pricing is only good until December 5th, then prices increase by $20!
Last year, riders helped raise a record-breaking $218,000! Because of our 350 riders, each of our 10 schools received $17,000 to provide much-needed student opportunities such as seeing Hamilton, experiencing California’s outdoor wilderness, and a number of science-focused field trips.
This year's ride is on Saturday, April 25, 2020. There is a 45, 68 and 109 mile route offered. Registration fee includes bus transportation and food during the ride. Register here!
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST
At last week's meeting, the Claremont PTA voted to endorse the Schools and Communities First proposition for the Nov. 2020 election. This measure would bring over $11 billion a year into our schools and local governments, including over $45 million for Oakland schools. Imagine if Claremont had $400,000 more in its budget every year for teacher and staff salaries, activities and electives! This measure will not affect residential property at all, but would require commercial property like skyscrapers, banks and gas stations to pay property taxes on their full market value, instead of being sheltered from reassessment by Prop. 13. Houses, apartment buildings and small businesses would keep their Prop. 13 protections and would be untouched by this measure.
This measure is endorsed by CTA (the state teacher's union) and the California Democratic Party, as well as the League of Women Voters and innumerable local groups. Some parents will be tabling to collect signatures for the measure at the Miles gate during morning drop-off - please stop by and sign the petition! Contact Sam Davis at samdavis9@gmail.com if you want to help table in the mornings, or to gather signatures from your friends and family.
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