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School Phone: 408-252-5414 ~ Absence Line 408-252-5414-6 ~ FAX 408-996-9725

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BoardofEducation

Superintendent:PhilQuon

BoardMembers:AnjaliKausarBenLiao,

JosephineLucey,GaryMcCue,

PhyllisVogel

GARDENGATEELEMENTARY

CUPERTINOUNIONSCHOOLDISTRICT

10500ANNARBORAVENUE

CUPERTINO,CA95014

NancyWood-Principal

KathleenMcCulloch-PTAPresident

AliciaHancock-Shepard-SSCChairperson

SCHOOL CALENDAR OCTOBER 22, 2009

10/19-10/23 RED RIBBON WEEK10/22 7:00-8:00 p.m. BOY SCOUT RECRUITMENT - KINDERGARTEN BENCHES

10/26 STAFF LEARNING DAY - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS10/27 8:00-9:30 a.m. PROJECT CORNERSTONE PARENT GROUP - STAFF ROOM10/27 6:00 p.m. C.U.S.D. BOARD MTG. - DISTRICT BOARD ROOM10/30 8:15 a.m. HALLOWEEN PARADE11/2 & 11/4 7:00-9:00 p.m. GR. 5 - PARENT PREVIEW OF HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

MATERIALS AT MEYERHOLZ SCHOOL11/3 8:00-9:30 a.m. PROJECT CORNERSTONE PARENT GROUP - STAFF ROOM11/4 STUDENT PICTURES - GLC11/5 7:15 p.m. PTA MEETING11/10 8:00-9:30 a.m. PROJECT CORNERSTONE PARENT GROUP - STAFF ROOM11/10 6:00 p.m. C.U.S.D. BOARD MTG. - DISTRICT BOARD ROOM

11/11 VETERANS DAY - NO SCHOOL11/13 FIRST TRIMESTER ENDS11/16 SECOND TRIMESTER BEGINS11/18 3:45 p.m. SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL MEETING

11/20 SCHOOL SPIRIT DAY - TWINS11/25-27 THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO SCHOOL

EVERY TUESDAY IS EARLY DISMISSAL Students are dismissed at 1:30.PRE-PAY FOR CUSD LUNCHES at PAMS (Parent Account Management System) Lunchroom! You can make payments andview your students account balance online by going to http://www.pamslunchroom.com or by calling 1-888-994-5100.TO EMAIL STAFF:[email protected]: If your child will be absent, please call 252-5414. Ext. 6, by 8:30 a.m. to report the absence.HOMEWORK: Homework may be requested for illness absences of three days or more. Please call the office before 9:00 a.mto request the homework forpickup after 3:00 p.m.

Parent Traffic Duty: October 27th - 30th - Parents from Rm. #30
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Garden Gate Elementary School 10500 Ann Arbor Ave., Cupertino CA 95014

MANY THANKS TO . . . FOR . . . Our PTA and staff member volunteers, the Cupertino Sheriffs Department and chairpeople Merav Talmor and VinuthaShettigar for their participation and all of their support to make our Fall Celebration a wonderful event last Friday!

The participants, judges, volunteers and chairpeople Mahalakshmi Rameshbabu and Alicia Hancock-Shepard for their effoto make our PTA Reflections program the success it is by offering our students an opportunity to share their talents with other

The Red Ribbon parent volunteers and chairperson Ramya Vasudevan for all of their work in decorating our campus andhaving daily activities for the students and staff. This includes planting red tulips that will blossom in spring. They will remindus of our commitment to stay drug-free! Thanks, again, to our School Resource Officers, Deputy Pete and Deputy Dain, forpresenting the Red Ribbon assemblies.

Kathleen McCulloch, Catherine Ng and the rest of the PTA Executive Board for always being there for Garden Gate! Ifsomething needs to be done, it gets done with the help of these wonderful people!

C.U.S.D. BOARD MEMBERS PHYLLIS VOGEL AND ANJALI KAUSAR VISIT GARDEN GATE. . .AND THEY

WERE IMPRESSED!We were delighted to have Mrs. Vogel and Mrs. Kausar visit our campus last Friday. Although we were unable to get into all othe classrooms, the ones we visited offered our Board members a glimpse of all of the excellent teaching and learning thattakes place at Garden Gate. Mrs. Vogel and Mrs. Kausar were pleased by what they saw and heard in our classrooms. Theytold me they thoroughly enjoyed their visit!

SUPERINTENDENT QUON VISITS GARDEN GATE. HE WAS IMPRESSED TOO!Our school superintendent, Phil Quon, visited Garden Gate on Wednesday this week. We were able to visit all of theclassrooms and Mr. Quon commented on how actively engaged all of our students were in their learning. He enjoyed havingthe opportunity to interact with students and their teachers. We enjoyed sharing part of our morning with the Superintendent.n addition, our kindergarteners now know that if they need crayons or paper, Superintendent Quon will make sure they have

them!

STAFF LEARNING DAY - MONDAY, OCTOBER 26TH

Please note that next Monday, October 26, is a staff learning day. It is not a school day for students. Our staff will focus mathematics. Teachers will attend mini training sessions of their choice, as well as work together as grade level teams. Oown teachers, as well as some district office personnel, will conduct trainings.

HALLOWEEN PARADE - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 @ 8:15 a.m.We are planning our Halloween Parade for this year on Friday, October 30, starting at 8:15 a.m. All parenare welcome to come, watch and take pictures! Please bring your child to school dressed in their costumover their regular clothes, as there is no appropriate place to change here at school. When the paradeover, the students will return to their classrooms. Please send a bag with your childs name on it so yochild can put his/her costume away after the parade. When helping your child decide on a costume, pleaencourage them to pick one that supports our efforts to promote a positive and fun activity by keeping tfollowing in mind: Costumes should be comfortable, easy to walk in, and should not hamper visioRegular school rules of dress and safety apply. Costumes should be in good taste and non-violent

nature. Remember, no toy guns, swords, knives, martial arts weapons, dyed hair or make-uRollerblades, skates, skateboards, scooters, and bicycles are not permitted on campus.

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PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) NEWS & RESOURCES


HELLO GATOR FAMILIES,

hope you enjoyed the great Fall Celebration that took place last Friday on the field. Im sorry to have missed it, but I heard was a blast! Thank you to Vinutha Shettigar and Merav Talmor for all the behind the scenes work they did in order toeady for this event, and also special thanks to all the teachers and volunteers who made it happen. Your help andarticipation made it a great success!

RED RIBBON WEEK IS IN FULL SWING!ach day the children are continuing to receive a little token emphasizing our Red Ribbon Week theme.

Assemblies took place on Wednesday, and the upper grade classes teamed up and created the Be AHero- Just Say NO To Drugs banner that is hanging in the front of the school. All the students havelanted red tulip bulbs that will come up beautiful and bright in the spring. Thank you to Ramya

Vasudevan, who led this effort, and to all the volunteers that helped prepare the soil and assistedhe children with planting. You make the difference at Garden Gate!

NATIONAL PTA REFLECTIONS ART CONTESThe judging is taking place this week. As soon as the votes are tabulated, we will be making the announcement of the winnersThank you to Mahalakshmi Rameshbabu and Alicia Hancock-Shepard for leading this effort, andall the volunteers and judges that make it possible. We have had a great response this year.Congratulations to all the children who submitted their entries just having submitted your work takes tieffort, and thought. Good Luck to all of our students!

The common thread in this weeks message is a heart-felt Thank You. You have been supporting GardGate and our children and together we make a difference.

Kathleen McCullochLead Volunteer, Garden Gate PTA

HELLO GATORS,We would like to thank all the teachers and parents who volunteered to help last Friday in the Fall Celebration. The students

wonderful time with the activities and the bake goods were all eaten up! Your help made the Fall Celebration a huge success

pecial thanks goes to Colleen Ali-Ahmad for coordinating the bake sale and to Sreejaya Thandayankandy for organizing theumpkin patch. Last but not the least, we are thankful to our sponsors: Whole Foods Market, Milk Pail Market and New Indiaazaar inSunnyvale. Any feedback or ideas for next year? Please email [email protected].

hanks again,Vinutha Shettigar and Merav Talmor

all Celebration Coordinators

P.S. - To everyone who helped make the Bake Sale a success, I give you a big warm thank you! I had many teachers come fo

olunteering their baking talents and parents that baked. We ended up having twice the amount of baked goods than werexpected! There were even students who came to help set up and clean up after the event. I had dedicated sellers at the evenwho made the sale run smoothly. And lastly, I thank all of you who bought and ate the delicious treats. We raised a good amou

or the PTA which inturn will benefit our school!Colleen Ali-Ahmad
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STUDENT PICTURES- NOVEMBER 4THBud White, the schoolphotographer, will be at GardenGate to take your childrensportraits on Wednesday, November4th. Order forms will be sent homenext week. We will need twoparent volunteers to help Mr. Whitebeginning at 8:00 a.m. If you areavailable, please see Linda in theoffice or call (408) 252-5414 ext.103.

AUTHOR TO VISIT GARDEN GATEGennifer Choldenko, author of the Newberry Honorbook, Al Capone Does My Shirts, will visit Garden Gateon Nov. 5th to talk to our students. Four of her booksare now on display in the library. Students and parents

can pre-order any of the books until Oct. 27th. Pleasecome to the library and take a look. She has booksthat will appeal to any age level.

REMINDERS:For the protection of thestudents, please remember thatstudents are not to be on theGarden Gate campus before7:45 a.m. There is no adultsupervision until 7:45 a.m.Please do not congregate outside of the classroomswhile school is still in session. This is very disruptive toboth the teacher and the students and could be a

distraction from valuable learning time.Every Tuesday is early dismissal day. Pleaseremember that all a.m. Kindergarten students aredismissed at 11:10 a.m. and all p.m. Kindergartenstudents along withl students in grades 1-5 aredismissed at 1:30. Please remember to pick up yourchildren promptly.

HOT LUNCHStudent Nutrition Services use a computerized systemto serve hot lunch to the students. In order for thesystem to run smoothly and effectively, it isrecommended that parents/guardians send pre-payment envelopes to the school office no later than9:00 a.m. on the day the child wants toreceive a school lunch. Paying cash at the lunch lineis discouraged because it creates a delay and causesstudents to wait longer for their hot lunch. We aretrying to make our lunch lines cashless, and so werecommend that parents pay via check instead ofcash. Parents can also pay online atwww.paypams.com

by using their debit or credit cards. Please pre-pay for

as many lunches in advance as possible. Parents/guardians may pre-pay for lunches for one or moredays on a weekly basis or, if desired, for a month ormore.

INDEPENDENT STUDY CONTRACTSIf you plan to be away from school for a minimum offive school days and a maximum of ten school days,please contact the school office and your childsteacher at least three weeks ahead of your departuredate to arrange for a special Independent StudyContract. The following guidelines must be followed:

A student must be enrolled for three consecutiveweeks before an Independent Contract can beinitiated.The contract and homework must be returned thefirst day back to school with all the work completed,

so days missed do not count as unexcusedabsences.Students who are absent for more than tenconsecutive days will be dropped from the roster oftheir school. When the student returns, if space isavailable, at his or her school, the student will bereinstated. If no space is available, the student willbe assigned to another school in the district wherespace is available.

EYEGLASS DONATION DRIVECupertino Union School District is excited to partnerwith Vision Service Plan (VSP) to help others see wellthrough the Eyes of Hope program. This program will

run through December of this year. There is acollection box in the school office to drop off any usedglasses including prescription glasses, readers, andsunglasses. Both plastic and metal frames areaccepted. Cases can also be donated with theglasses inside. VSP will ensure that the glasses arerecycled and distributed to children and adultsthroughout the world.

CALLING IN STUDENT ABSENCESWhen calling in your childs absence, please bespecific as to the reason for the absence, i.e.: Mychild (name), has a fever due to cold, sore throat,cough or flu with 100.0 or more temperature. Your

child may return to school when he/she is fever free,without medication or the aid of a fever reducer for atleast 24 hours. When returning to school, the studentmust check in with the office to be assessed andcleared of a fever before returning to class. Please donot give your child a fever reducer and send them toschool. It is necessary to keep them home in ordernot to expose their illness to other students in theclass.
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DISTRICT NEWS SECTIONCUSD BUDGET UPDATE MEETINGSGiven the unprecedented magnitude of the state budget crisis and the uncertainty surrounding Cupertino Union ScDistricts funding, Superintendent Phil Quon will be holding a number of budget update meetings throughout the Disduring October 2009. The Superintendent would like to invite all interested parents and community members to attend hear what steps the district is taking to try and weather the state budget crisis. Please attend any meeting that is convenfor you. Here is a list of meeting schedules and their locations:

Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.Lawson Middle School, Event Center (10401 Vista Drive in Cupertino)

Monday, November 2, 2009 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.Cupertino Middle School, Gymnasium (1650 S. Bernardo Avenue in Sunnyvale)

If you have any questions, please contact Jeremy Nishihara at (408) 252-3000, Extension 323.

MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL INFORMATION NIGHTChrista McAuliffe School is one of the districts four alternative programs. McAuliffe, a K-8 parent-participation school inCupertino Union School District with a whole-child, developmental philosophy, offers a program which advocates for chilto take ownership of their learning, to work collaboratively, to express their opinions, and to explore their interestsinterested parents are invited to the following events:

Middle School Parent Forum - Thursday, Nov. 19, 7-9 p.m., in Room 19Panel of middle school parents will address questions in a casual environment.

Middle School Tours - Nov. 6, Jan. 15 & Jan. 28, 8:45 - 11 a.m.These tours are in conjunction with McAuliffe School tours, join a specialized tour of middle school classrooms led parent guide. Call 253-4696 or sign-up online at www.mcauliffek8.com. CUSD students only.

H1N1 GUIDELINESThe Santa Clara County Public Health Department guidance recommends that, based on current flu conditions, studand staff with flu-like illness stay home until at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever or signs of a fever withouuse of fever-reducing medications (any medicine that contains ibuprofen or acetaminophen).

You can help keep our schools healthy by adhering to the following guidelines:

Continue to enforce proper hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette. The recommendations continue to emphathe importance of the basic foundations of disease prevention: Stay home when sick, wash hands frequently soap and water when possible or alcohol based hand sanitizer, and cover noses and mouths with a tissue wcoughing or sneezing (or a shirt sleeve or elbow if no tissue is available).

Leave accurate information as requested on the schools absence line if you child is sick. This will help the scidentify any potential issues as soon as possible.

Promptly pick up your child from school if they are sent home for being ill. The school will keep ill students separfrom others until they can be sent home. Please make sure that the school office has your updated coninformation.

Any returning students after an illness with a fever will need to have their temperature taken in the school obefore returning to class. Teachers will be sending returning students back to the office to have their temperattaken if they arrive directly to the classroom without being cleared.
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