Principal’s Message
Dear Friends and Families of Los Ranchos,
As you know, we are implementing our first year of a new reading curriculum. Most recently students have been developing new strategies to read informational texts. In first grade one strategy that readers are learning is how to study books like writers. This is a beautiful link to the informational writing they are doing. In second grade, students are learning to read across texts, noticing similarities and differences on the same topic. And in third grade, students are taking time to pause and revise their thinking about the main idea. Books in third grade frequently have more than one main idea. The work becomes more difficult as their books grow in complexity.
We hope you are having some opportunities to see these powerful strategies in practice at home!
Have a lovely weekend.
Sincerely,
Marlie Schmidt
Upcoming Dates
- Coffee Talk, Social Media for Parents, Library, Friday, February 3rd at 8:30 a.m.
- Dental Screening for Kindergarten and 3rd and 5th Gr Students, Tuesday, February 7th
- Family Night -Children’s Author Alexis O’Neill - Wednesday, February 8th
(Buy pizza from the PTA at 5:30, Author at 5:45pm)
- No School, Lincoln’s Birthday, Monday, February 13th
- No School, President’s Day, Monday, February 20th
- Minimum Days - Thursday and Friday, February 23-24
Coffee Talk
Please join us for an informal “Coffee Talk” with Eileen Calandro of Calandro Consulting. In this comfortable setting, Eileen will answer your questions, listen to your concerns, and offer solutions for issues you may be having with your students about Social Media. We hope you can join us! Friday, February 3, 2017 8:30-9:30am in the Los Ranchos Library.
YMCA NEWS!!
We are excited to announce that the YMCA will be offering morning care from 7:30-8:30 Tuesday through Friday. The enrollment is officially open and we will have our first morning on Wednesday, February 1st. You can register online by following this link: Los Ranchos YMCA.
If you have any questions about the morning program or the YMCA please feel free to call at 544-7225.
PTA Thank you!
We would like to thank Jeannette Saenz for organizing our first monthly restaurant fundraiser at The Habit. We had 60 tickets and it brought in $253! Thank you to all the families who attended. It was fun to see the restaurant filled with Los Ranchos faces. Please stay tuned for next month's restaurant.
Author’s Visit
We will be having an author visit and literacy night with author Alexis O’Neill on Wednesday, February 8th, sponsored by our PTA. During the day she will be presenting lively, highly interactive assemblies to all grades to engage students in reading and writing with their whole bodies. She will also be presenting writing workshops for some of the upper grade classes. The evening family night will focus on literacy, literature, and the importance of reading together as a family.. She will be available to personally sign any of her books you bring with you to the family night event. We hope you can join us on Wednesday, February 8th from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m..
Sweetheart
Dance
Saturday, February 11th, 5:00-6:30 PM
San Luis Obispo High School would like to invite all elementary school girls and their father-figure to our Annual Sweetheart Dance! This would be a fantastic time for daughters to connect and share a memorable experience with their father-figures. Music and goodies will be provided, as well as a photo booth for FREE priceless mementos.
Tickets:
$10 Per Couple +$2 additional Daughter
*Tickets will be sold at the door of the SLOHS New Gym
