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!

 

Quick reminder that all students are back in session tomorrow and should be completing lessons!

 

Exciting news! Arete Charter Academy has grown so much this year, that we hired a new classroom assistant. Mrs. Benifield, will begin tomorrow supporting our students. Also, we are going to the library Tuesday and it should be wet, so please send coats/umbrellas.

 

We have lots of fun activities planned in the Arete Resource Center for January, including studying weather and snowflakes in particular. This will include science and art lessons. These lessons/projects will occur during regular Resource Center hours and are open to all Arete students (even the BIG ones!)

 

The Arete Resource Center is open Tuesday and Thursday from 9:15-12 unless you have made a separate arrangement with us.

 

We cannot wait to have your kiddos back!

Happy New Year! We hope you had wonderful holidays with your families!

 

Tomorrow is a Professional Development Day for teachers, so the Arete Resource Center will be mostly closed and there will be no elective classes for students at Magnolia Intermediate School. I will be in and out of the Resource Center and District Office for meetings and will have my laptop with me if you need anything. If we were unable to meet for our 20 day check in during December, please phone at 268-2805 or email me to set up a meeting for tomorrow or Tuesday.

 

We have missed our Arete kiddos and can't wait to see them soon!

Families,

As we close in on 2017, I cannot believe how much has changed in the last year. It is amazing to me that at this time last Arete Charter Academy was not even in my sight yet. Now we have an amazing school. Thank you for being a part of this dream to bring a flexible, individualized, and well rounded education to our kiddos.

 

DeAnne and I are so thankful to all of you for believing in this vision and trusting us with the education of your little darlings! We now have 19 students aged 5-14. We are so happy with the growth we have seen in our school already. We adore all of our students and are constantly assessing how we can grow and change to better serve our students. I just hired a new instructional aide to support our new growth in the resource center. We are making plans to add a park, play, and snack area and another classroom for next year. We will continue to bring you interesting field trips and hands-on lessons.

 

In this vein, I wanted to send you our updated list of vendors who we contract with where you can spend your instructional funds. As always, please let us know if you would like to see anyone else on this list and we will contract with them.

 

Happy Holidays to you all and enjoy the time with your family. We will see you back at school on Tuesday, January 9th. I know many kiddos are working over the break, so please email me with any questions. Take care and thank you so much for sharing your children with us!

 

 

APPROVED VENDORS:

Bear River Parks and Rec    www.brrpd.org                                                       (530) 268-7275

The Artist Workshop             www.the-artist-workshop.com                              (530) 272-1937

Showtime Equestrian           https://www.facebook.com/Tayler2marie             (818) 292-7404

Bennati’s Martial Arts           www.bennatismartialarts.com                        (530) 820-3232

In-Sync Dance                     insyncdanceofauburn.com                                 (530) 823-6782                    

Gold Country Gymnastics   www.goldcountrygymnastics.com                         (530) 273-3680

Liberty Learning Academy  www.libertylearningacademy.com                          (530) 913-1996

Studio 65 Dance Company  www.studio65dancecompany.com                     (916) 899-6577

South Yuba Fitness Club    www.southyubaclub.com                                       (530) 470-9100          

Miyagi’s Gymnastics           www.miyagigymnastics.com                              (530) 888-6569

 

PENDING VENDORS:

Jaime’s Martial Arts            www.jaimesma.com                                             (916) 771-5500          

Artist Studio in the Foothills www.asifstudios.com                                          (530) 274-7000

Bear River Little League      www.bearriverll.com                                           (530) 334-3150