From the office
IMPORTANT DATES
3/07 – PTA meeting TONIGHT... dinner included!
3/14 – Pi Night. Pizza pie and dessert pie included!
3/19 – Taste of Temescal
3/20 – Latin Heritage potluck
4/01 – 8th grade make up picture day
HAVE STRIKE PTSD? COME TO THE PTA MEETING TONIGHT!
Whether you came to school, a solidarity site or a picket line over the last 2 weeks, the Teachers' Strike has focused the attention of the city, the state, and the nation on the extent to which our communities must better support our public education system. The PTA invites the community to come together in the Claremont Music Room tonight at 6:30 to celebrate the resumption of school and to strategize about how we can most effectively support Claremont's academic success going forward. Please join us! Free community dinner served at 6 p.m. Meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Sports Corner
OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB
Is your Knight interested in learning lacrosse this spring? There are still openings on both the U12 Boys & U12 Girls OLC teams, so CMS 6th graders (or 7th graders that are young for their grade) can still join a team. The Oakland Lacrosse Club practice every Tuesday and Thursday at Laney College from 5 - 7 and play games in the area most weekends during the season (carpools available to all games).
No prior lacrosse experience necessary, the program is FREE and equipment is provided for all players. The League works with families to remove any barrier for OUSD kids to participate.
Questions? Contact
Allison. Learn more info at
oaklandlacrosse.org.
Upcoming Events
PI DAY EXTRAVAGANZA ON 3.14 - includes a pizza pie dinner & pie for dessert!
Science, technology, engineering, arts, and math! Oh my! Claremont Middle School has it all and more at the STEAM Knight and Pi Day Extravaganza. Eggs will be broken, presidents will be flooded, and pies will be thrown and eaten March 14th. Pizza dinner sponsored by the PTA starts at 5 p.m. in the garden followed by the 3rd annual Pi Contest will be back and better than ever with fierce competition! Student run STEAM stations will run until 7 p.m. followed by dessert pies. Come to Claremont Middle School March 14 and get ready to learn, discover, and eat some delicious pizza and pies.
We need parent volunteers to help oversee all the action, food, and cleanup, with more needed for day-of-event help. If you can help, please contact your student's amazing science teacher by email. Thank you all for your continued support.
NO ZUMBA THIS FRIDAY
There will be no Zumba this Friday, March 8 because I will be out of town. We will resume on March 15 at 6:30 in the gym. Bring your people then. Dancing together is community building at its finest!
TASTE OF TEMESCAL
Taste of Temescal is back! The tastiest fundraiser for local public schools is coming again on Tuesday, March 19, 6-8:30 p.m. Buy a $40 ticket for each member of your family here and set them loose to roam Temescal eating gourmet goodies from restaurants including: Asmara, Burma Superstar, Dona Tomas, Hawking Bird, Hawk and Pony, Prima Materia, The Well and more!
Proceeds benefit Claremont Middle School, Oakland Tech, Emerson Elementary, Sankofa Academy, and La Clinica de la Raza. You may choose which organization your ticket sale will directly support! Enjoy fun and delicious good times for a good cause.
Volunteer as a ticket puncher at Taste of Temescal and get a FREE TICKET! Sign up here to volunteer and still have plenty of time to enjoy the evening.
Tickets to the event can be purchased here.
TIKI PARTY AT TOOTSIES ON COLLEGE AVE
Dreaming of warmer weather? Join us for an evening of Tiki drinks and Pu Pu platters to inspire shopping for new spring and summer styles in footwear! Tootsie's owner Liz Taylor will generously donate a percentage of sales from the event to Claremont, so don your finest tropical wear or muumuu and get ready to Luau. Mahalo!
Event time and date: Thursday, April 11, 2019 7:00-9:00pm
Hosted by: Kerri Hurtado, Sheafali Patel and Ruth Woodruff
Tickets still available here.
THE 2019 RIDE 4 A REASON IS COMING UP!
Register for R4R 2019 today! Registration and fundraising for our 11th annual event is going strong. So far, we have over 190 riders registered and more than $40,000 raised to support our 10 participating schools! Register here.
Volunteer Sign-Ups. R4R could not happen without an amazing support crew. If a bike ride to Sacramento is not in the cards for you this year, check out other ways you can participate in the event by volunteering here.
R4R training rides! Gather your friends and family for an upcoming training ride. The next Easy Rider ride is on March 9th if no rain. MOTR (Middle of the Road) rides happen each Saturday until the main event on April 27th! Check out the R4R calendar for more info!
Sponsor a student rider. We have a record number of students who want to participate in the 45-mile course this year but need your help! You can support a student from one of our partner schools for $75, which covers their registration and bus ticket. Click here to sponsor a student cyclist today! Thank you!
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