We had such a lovely field trip yesterday. Thanks to all who came!

A few important reminders- please read all the way through.

 

*All 5th and 7th graders must complete Physical Fitness testing for the state of California. At Arete, our date will be Wednesday, April 25th at 9am. Students need to be dressed in athletic shoes and clothes and be ready to run. Please let me know if you need to schedule a make up day as I have to coordinate with the school nurse to have her complete her part of the test.

 

*Next Tuesday, we are attending Book Fair at Cottage Hill. Please send money if you would like your kiddo to shop!

 

*If you have not already done so, please sign up for your next 20 day meeting. All meetings need to be held by April 9th. 

 

To sign up with Sarah, click here-

 

To sign up with Laura, click here-

 

*Please take our survey for Arete. This is completely anonymous and helps gives us important information that we will need to write our Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). It only take a few minutes!

 

Hope you had a wonderful break! Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 3 is our field trip to the Maidu Museum in Roseville from 11-12 for the tour and then picnic lunch. The address is 1960 Johnson Ranch Dr, Roseville, CA 95661. Arete will pay for student entrance fees and families will need to pay for their own entrance. Hope to see you there.

 A few reminders...

Maidu Museum Field Trip- Please complete Form.

 

*Track and Field Season is coming at Magnolia and Arete students may participate.The season is April 3-May 10 for 6-8th graders and runs Tuesday-Thursdays from 3:30-5pm. Please let me know if you are interested!

Happy almost weekend! A few quick reminders-

*Bring Chromebooks to class next week.

*Spring/Easter party Tuesday at 11:30am. Please remember to bring items you signed up for.

*Monday, April 2 is a Snow Day and Arete will be closed.

*Tuesday, April 3 Maidu Museum in Roseville 11-12 tour and then picnic lunch. All ages welcome! Please email me if you will/will not attend. Arete pays the $5 admission fee for Arete students and families are responsible to pay for themselves.

Hi families!

Here is what is coming next at Arete! If you have not already done so, please complete our School Survey. Here is the link.

 

Monday we have a field trip from 10-12 at the Placer Nature Center. This was the one that had limited space, so if you are coming, you already signed up for. I will meet you out front at the PNC at 9:55am. The directions are a little tricky, so make sure you map it out ahead of time and leave plenty of room.

 

 

Hope you all enjoyed the long weekend! Here are some reminders of upcoming dates.

 

For you field trip to the Madelyn Helling Library this Friday, please meet at the front entrance right at 9:30. They normally start the tours at 9:30, but pushed it back until 9:30 to give our South County teams plenty of time to get there. This will be a fun hands-on science STEAM field trip. Please RSVP so we know who to expect.

 

*Tonight is Future Bruin's Night at Bear River from 6-8pm

*Tomorrow we are attending a choir performance at Cottage Hill and have our Valentine Exchange. Students are welcome to bring Valentine's to exchange with our Arete friends. No library tomorrow, so you can keep the books an extra week.

*We have grown again and have ordered more Chromebooks. They arrive tomorrow. In the meantime, please have your 4th grade or older student bring their Chromebook from home tomorrow.

*This Friday, February 16th and Monday, February 19th are school holidays in celebration of President's Weekend.

 

Friday, February 9th from 1:05-2:20, 7th and 8th graders are invited to a play called Mary Brave Eyes. Here is some information about it. "It’s 1969 and Americas Melting Pot is all a bubble just before the Apollo 11 moon landing, while somewhere in Northern California a new girl in the neighborhood and her friends (on their earthly mission), bravely stand up to the bullies. An adventurous magical tale— where love embraces hate, and goodness triumphs over ignorance as one small step is taken—for humankind"

 

Please email if you would like to attend so we can make arrangements to go with you. Have a great day!

*Tuesday, January 23- Crazy for Kindness- Crazy Hat/Crazy Hair Day

*Thursday, January 25th- Team Kindness-  Wear our favorite sport uniform

 *Tuesday, February 6- 9:05-10:05 Sierra Harvest Chef Demonstration. (Come early that day for the yummy food)

*Tuesday, February 13, 10:3-11:00 Choir Performance at Cottage Hill (No library that day so kids can keep their books two weeks.)

*Tuesday, February 13, 11:30-12:00 Valentine Exchange

Hi there,

We finally have our dates for CAASP testing. It is crucial that all 3rd-8th graders attend all four testing sessions. CAASP testing is the way we show the state that our students are progressing, and it is mandatory for our students. On the four mornings, I will do the testing with the kiddos and a substitute and Mrs. Harrison will be in the Resource Center. Please mark these dates on your calendar. May 2, 3, 7 and 8 from 9:05-10:58 in room A2 at Magnolia. They should be at the Arete Resource Center no later than 9am and we will walk over. Please email me with questions and thanks for your support!

 

*Feb 1st- Love & Logic Parenting Classes 5:30-7:30pm at Cottage Hill

*Feb 6th- 9:05-10:05am Sierra Harvest Chef Visit
*Feb 12th- Future Bruins Night for 8th Graders at Bear River High School
*Feb 13th- Valentine's Exchange at Arete
*February 23rd- 9:30-10:30am Field trip to the Madelyn Helling Library
*March 12- Placer Nature Center Aquatic Lifecycles Field Trip- 10am-12pm
*March 13th- 6-7pm Kindergarten Open House at the Arete Resource Center.
*April 13th- Maidu Museum in Roseville 11-12 tour and then picnic lunch.
*May 1- 9:30-11:30am Community Canvas visits Arete

*May 2- 9:05-10:58 3-8 grades CAASP testing A2

*May 3- 9:05-10:58 3-8 grades CAASP testing A2

*May 7- 9:05-10:58 3-8 grades CAASP testing A2

*May 8- 9:05-10:58 3-8 grades CAASP testing A2

 

So many fun events coming!!

*Feb 1st- Love & Logic Parenting Classes 5:30-7:30pm at Cottage Hill Dinner and childcare provided. Please email us to sign up.

*Feb 12th- Future Bruins Night for 8th Graders at Bear River High School

*Feb 13th- Valentine's Exchange at Arete- Please send in 15 Valentine's Day Cards with the "To" spot left empty and have your child sign the "From" part. Also, we are looking for someone to provide juice, someone else to provide a healthy snack like grapes or mandarians, and someone else to provide decorated cupcakes. Please let us know if you can help in that way.

*February 23rd- 9:30-10:30am Field trip to the Madelyn Helling Library in Nevada City. We will be checking out all kinds of hands-on STEAM activities including coding and robotics. Please return the library card form by Feb. 8th and your child will have a library card waiting for them. All ages welcome! Please RSVP.

*March 12- Placer Nature Center Aquatic Lifecycles Field Trip- 10am-12pm in Christian Valley. We will have signups before we go as we will be paying $10 for each Arete student who attends.

*March 13th- 6-7pm Kindergarten Open House at the Arete Resource Center. Send in your kinder friends!

*April 13th- Maidu Museum in Roseville 11-12 tour and then picnic lunch. All ages welcome. We will pay for each Arete student and additional family members will need to pay $5 at the door. Please RSVP.

*May 2- 9:30-11:30am Community Canvas visits Arete to create a beautiful canvas painting. Please RSVP as we will be paying $15 for each Arete student who attends.

 

Hi there,

Isn't technology amazing? Until it is not? Hopefully you will get this update this evening, Wednesday. I know some of you are getting them on time and some are getting a day late. Our district tech guy sent is a ticket to Edlio to fix it.

 

Also, starting last night the K-12 curriculum went down. So it allows you to log in to Peak, but then you cannot go into any lessons. I'm locked out as well. I was online with Peak last night and today for a long time and they have not resolved the issue. They have escalated the repair and we should have a fix soon. In the mean time, have your kiddos work through any lessons on paper they can. Your parent lesson guide will still tell you the page numbers in hard and soft books that they should be using. Hopefully we will have a resolution soon!

 

Now for the fun news! Next week Arete Charter Academy is taking The Great Kindness Challenge". We will be doing lots of kind deeds around here and on campus. We will also have some dress up days to celebrate,

 

*Tuesday we will be Crazy for Kindness and show off our crazy hats or crazy hair

 

*Thursday we will have Team Kindness and wear our favorite sport uniform

 

Below is the link if you want to see other ways to embrace the challenge!

 

 

Next Thursday, January 25th we will be taking a field trip to Alta Sierra School to participate in their amazing planetarium assembly. I have attended before and it is awesome! They bring a huge bubble in that fills the entire MPR room. we climb inside the the MPR is transformed into a planetarium. We will learn about lots of constellations. Here is the schedule for the day:

 

9:15-11:30 Arete Resource Center Regular Classes

11:30-11:45 bring/eat sack lunch

11:45 Parent pick up and transport to Alta Sierra School MPR. Meet me in front by 12:10.

12:15-1pm Planetarium Assembly

 

Please let us know if you will/ will not be attending. Mrs. Harrison will be staying back at the Resource Center with any students who do not attend.

 

 

 

Good evening! Happy Martin Luther King Day! At the Arete Resource Center this week, we made Peace Doves to symbolize MLK and wrote out our dreams for our world. Your children were very sweet dreaming of a world where all children have food and homes and a world free of cancer and type 1 diabetes. That all sounds great to me!

 

Arete is growing!!! We ordered more Chromebooks before Christmas and have now passed them all out. I ordered even more last week, but they will not be ready for tomorrow. We have four in class and have 12 students scheduled to come in. Unless you are a K-2 student, please bring your fully charged Chromebook/ or charger with you. Our new Chromebooks have different chargers, so we have no Lenovo chargers in class. Hopefully we will have the new Chromebooks ready by Thursday. These are great problems to have!

 

The Arete Resource Center is now open Monday and Wednesdays from 9:30-11:30 for 6-8 students and Tuesday and Thursday from 9:15-12 for K-5 students unless you have made prior arrangements with me. One of the perks of our program is that we can be flexible in how the program meets each child's needs, so it looks a little different for each student.

 

Tomorrow we get to try mandarins for Harvest of the Month. Arete has contracted with Harvest of the Month to provide this for all of our students.

 

Look for the Sign Up Genius email alter this week to arrange our Session #5 meetings at the end of January. Please call or email me if you miss a scheduled appointment.

 

Have a great week!